It's a laptop , Legion 5 2021 (RTX 3060 variant) I bought this a few weeks ago and had absolutely zero troubles so far (I heavily gamed on it). but it all changed today , this morning all my games started dropping FPS heavily (into single digits) , happened soon after I started playing them , same thing happens when I run a benchmark. then I opened up the performance monitor and my GPU clocks are going from 1900+ MHz to 210MHz suddenly (memory clock was dropping too , into 500 something? when this drop happens they weren't moving up and down , stayed still at those exact numbers). and it stays like that for about 10-15 seconds before shooting back up , only to come down again in about 30-40 seconds.
The thing I suspected was thermal throttling , so I checked the temps and the GPU is extremely cool (around 67-75c which is extremely cool for a laptop). and the clock drops were happening even when the GPU is under 65c when I turn on the quiet mode. Then I thought it might be a driver issue , so I reinstalled drivers but didn't help. tried turning on and off the mux switch , still no difference.
Then I uninstalled the drivers using DDU , and ran a benchmark and no issues it ran fine. ran it 3 more times and on the 4th run it started happening again.
after about 2 minutes , I rebooted the laptop and ran the benchmark again , looped it for 10 rounds (about 30 minutes) and then it ran without any issue. opened cyberpunk 2077 and played for a while without issues until about the 1 hour mark. I dropped again , to 210Mhz , fps dropped to 5 as usual. stayed that way for about 15 seconds and shot back up , and was fine for 30 minutes more and then I closed the game.
It seems like it's happening less and less frequently , but still happening. any idea what causes this? should I be worried?
The thing I suspected was thermal throttling , so I checked the temps and the GPU is extremely cool (around 67-75c which is extremely cool for a laptop). and the clock drops were happening even when the GPU is under 65c when I turn on the quiet mode. Then I thought it might be a driver issue , so I reinstalled drivers but didn't help. tried turning on and off the mux switch , still no difference.
Then I uninstalled the drivers using DDU , and ran a benchmark and no issues it ran fine. ran it 3 more times and on the 4th run it started happening again.
after about 2 minutes , I rebooted the laptop and ran the benchmark again , looped it for 10 rounds (about 30 minutes) and then it ran without any issue. opened cyberpunk 2077 and played for a while without issues until about the 1 hour mark. I dropped again , to 210Mhz , fps dropped to 5 as usual. stayed that way for about 15 seconds and shot back up , and was fine for 30 minutes more and then I closed the game.
It seems like it's happening less and less frequently , but still happening. any idea what causes this? should I be worried?
