Hello, I've had a problem with my 6-month old RTX 3060 since this Thursday when I installed the newest driver 551.23. After playing Battlefield 2043 for a few hours, I noticed a drop from around 140 fps to 30 fps and under. I have not done any overclocking whatsoever to the card. After checking GPU-Z I noticed very strange readings with PWR_SRC as seen in the attached images. I would like to believe this is just some sensor error in the graphics card (not that tech savvy myself) but I noticed the PWR_SRC Power Draw dropping gradually from 12 W to 0 W, which I believe causes a misreading in the PWR_SRC Voltage reading. I've been trying to find a solution but to no avail. I've fully cleared my PC, updated my BIOS, reinstalled drivers using DDU, installed older drivers but nothing seems to work. Every day it works for a couple of hours in different games and then suddenly drops down to weak performance. I don't believe this is a hardware error since it started only after the newest driver, although I did test my old GTX 1060 which worked just fine.
Thanks in advance.
Specs:
ASUS RTX 3060 DUAL OC v2 12GB
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
ASUS PRIME B450-PLUS
16GB 3200MHz
Seasonic Focus GX-550 550W
Samsung 250GB M.2
SanDisk 250GB SSD
Seagate 1TB HDD
Edit: PWR_SRC Power Draw drops from 35-ish W to 0, also it has been dropping to 0 and rising back to 30 a couple of times, but for some reason it will eventually drop and stay at 0, hindering performance.
Edit 2: NVIDIA Prefer Maximum Performance has no effect on the issue.
Edit 3: Also as a side note: Whenever the drop happens, I can just boost the clock speed using MSI Afterburner by +1000 MHz so the clock will be at around 1200MHz, allowing me to play my games at a worse performance than normally. Another point to consider in this not being a hardware issue perhaps.
Edit 4: Looking at NVIDIA Inspector it seems that changing performance state from P8 to P0 also has no effect on clock speed. Still stuck on 210 MHZ without overclocking manually.
Edit 5: Took my RAM out and put it back after a minute, seems to have fixed for now. Will update if goes bad again
Edit 6: Went bad again. For a short second the gpu tried getting back up with a whopping 2.0 W power draw but couldn't quite make it.
Thanks in advance.
Specs:
ASUS RTX 3060 DUAL OC v2 12GB
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
ASUS PRIME B450-PLUS
16GB 3200MHz
Seasonic Focus GX-550 550W
Samsung 250GB M.2
SanDisk 250GB SSD
Seagate 1TB HDD
Edit: PWR_SRC Power Draw drops from 35-ish W to 0, also it has been dropping to 0 and rising back to 30 a couple of times, but for some reason it will eventually drop and stay at 0, hindering performance.
Edit 2: NVIDIA Prefer Maximum Performance has no effect on the issue.
Edit 3: Also as a side note: Whenever the drop happens, I can just boost the clock speed using MSI Afterburner by +1000 MHz so the clock will be at around 1200MHz, allowing me to play my games at a worse performance than normally. Another point to consider in this not being a hardware issue perhaps.
Edit 4: Looking at NVIDIA Inspector it seems that changing performance state from P8 to P0 also has no effect on clock speed. Still stuck on 210 MHZ without overclocking manually.
Edit 5: Took my RAM out and put it back after a minute, seems to have fixed for now. Will update if goes bad again
Edit 6: Went bad again. For a short second the gpu tried getting back up with a whopping 2.0 W power draw but couldn't quite make it.
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