RTX 2060 throttling for no apparent reason

[Martin1994_]

Hi everyone,

for the last few days I've been having a problem when my RTX 2060 would power and thermal throttle for no apparent reason - the throttling starts basically right after turning my laptop on and with temperatures nowhere near the thermal throttling limit. Needless to say that this renders any gaming impossible as the GPU core and memory clock stays at its lowest permanently. Does anyone has a clue as to what might be the cause, and better yet a solution? Also this is something that comes and goes - one day everything works (but with noticeable FPS drops) and the next day I get 20 FPS right after launching a game.

Maybe it's worth noting that I'm having a similar problem with thermal throttling of the CPU even at very low temperatures, though I've been able to solve this (sort of) by disabling BD PROCHOT in Throttlestop. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

 

[ShrimpBrime]

Does having the charger plugged in make a difference?

 

[Martin1994_]

Does having the charger plugged in make a difference?

Thanks for replying, it's basically the same whether the charger is plugged in or not. That being said I don't think it's a faulty charger because I got a new one only three months ago, albeit a pre-owned one. Do you think I should test it?

 

[ShrimpBrime]

Thanks for replying, it's basically the same whether the charger is plugged in or not. That being said I don't think it's a faulty charger because I got a new one only three months ago, albeit a pre-owned one. Do you think I should test it?

I was just curious. Some laptops like the charger and won't throttle as often because it has the necessary power to sustain larger wattage draw.

Have you check different power plans? Does this happen at high performance setting?

Have you tried setting all defaults?

Or just list everything you have tried so we don't suggest stuff you've done already please.

 

[Martin1994_]

I was just curious. Some laptops like the charger and won't throttle as often because it has the necessary power to sustain larger wattage draw.

Have you check different power plans? Does this happen at high performance setting?

Have you tried setting all defaults?

Or just list everything you have tried so we don't suggest stuff you've done already please.

I've tried changing the peformance settings to high performance while plugged in and I've also set the corresponding GPU settings in the Nvidia Control Panel to "Prefer maximum perfomance", but none of this has made any difference. I have also rolled back the 546.33 GeForce driver to the previous version (546.29).

It's behaving really weird, while playing a game it either runs pretty much smooth (but with noticeable FPS drops) or it runs bad from the get-go (I get maybe 20-30 FPS right after launching it) or it runs smooth at first but then a massive FPS drop occurs and does not get back. This FPS drop is always accompanied by a massive drop in GPU core and memory clocks.

 

[core23]

any reasons for this problem? i have desktop rtx 2060 and my graphic card with OpenGL weorks perfect, 170W+ power consuption, a lot of FPS but with DX card fall to powerthrottling due to too high dc power - but in that is power drain max 90w..