Ever since I purchased the card about a moth ago, I have been getting stuttering in some of my most played games. It is worst in Rainbow Six Siege, stuttering ever few seconds, making my FPS feel like it's in the 10s. Also in some games my GPU's utilization is only 10-15%, and I can't seen to increase it. I have done extensive research and have found nothing that fixes any of my problems. The final straw was Nvdia's latest driver hotfix to correct stuttering in games. The patch did not work for me. I have posted on the steam forums and have no gotten a fix, however, someone said that they had a very similar system (GTX 1080 SC Gaming, Intel 6700k) and did not get stuttering. This leads me to wonder if my graphics card is defective in some manner. Still, my Firestrike and Time Spy scores are up there with the rest of them. I have set a custom fan curve and checked for thermal throttling unsing MSi afterburner, neither of those occur. My temps are in the 60s. If anyone has a suggested fix, I would greatly appreciate it. If not, do I need to request a new card through EVGA, or through the manufacturer of my computer, Cyberpowerpc? The whole system was custom built about one month ago.
Specs:
Intel 6800k
EVGA GTX 1080 SC Gaming
Gigabyte X99 SLI motherboard
Deepcool Captain 360 CPU Liquid Cooler
EVGA 850 GQ power supply
16GB Corsair Vengeance 3000Mhz RAM
Corsair 850D Airflow Edition case.
 
Firestrike/Time Spy Scores: (links don't work)
Firestrike:
19023
18870


Time Spy:
 7464
 6953
 
Would appreciate a fix or a recommendation for my next step greatly.           

#1 Check your cpu for overheating.
 
#2 Perform #5 listed here if you optimized your games with geforce experience.

#5 Getting low fps/low gpu utilization inside your games? Here is the solution to low fps/low gpu utilization if you ever optimized your games with geforce experience...  

• Uninstall geforce experience from your computer.
• Reboot pc.
• Delete game config file from main install directory. Deleting the game config file from the main directory will force the game to rebuild a new config file on next game start which should reset all your graphics settings back to default settings for you to adjust manually.
• Config graphics settings manually.
• Should be good to go now. 

Uninstalled GFE, will reboot and preform other recommendations. Be right back.
 

Firestrike/ Time Spy Scores:
Firestrike:
/fs/9493206
/fs/9478019
Time Spy:
/spy/117161
/spy/145699
 

Phoenix864
Firestrike/ Time Spy Scores:
Firestrike:
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9493206
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9478019
Time Spy:
http://www.3dmark.com/spy/117161
http://www.3dmark.com/spy/145699
 

Phoenix864
Do the scores look normal?

Yep.

Stuttering in games has significanly decreased, thanks for all the tips! One final thing, I previously did some overclocking with EVGA OC Scaner X, and after letting it automatically find the best voltage curve it crashed my computer by freezing the screen. Then after rebooting, I began doing normal things again, however it automatically started again and crashed the computer again, in the same meathod. Could this have possably damaged my card?
 

Great, thanks for all you help.

You shouldn't have the nvidia hd audio drivers installed at all. Remove the nvidia hd audio drivers and perform #1 listed here to see if it helps fix the stuttering. Also make sure windows power options are set to high performance. Change the power management mode inside the nvidia control panel to prefer maximum performance too, reboot pc afterwards and retest.

Phoenix864
Where are the Nivida audio drivers listed? Can't find it under control panel. I will do the clean boot after I uninstall them.
Thanks.

Control panel/uninstall a program.

Phoenix864
Found something for Nivida HD audio under audio in device manager. This is the right one, right?
Thanks.
 

Yep. If you don't see any hd audio drivers listed under uninstall a program inside the windows control panel then the hd audio drivers shouldn't be installed.

Phoenix864
HD audio drivers uninstalled via device manager, and clean boot (no non-Microsoft services) enabled at start up. High performance power plan is enabled, and prefer maximum performance is selected in the Nivida control panel. Not gaming again this evening, but I will test tomorrow morning. By the way, in my MB's BIOS everything is set to load optimized defaults. Would it be alright to set my memory profile from default to an XMP?
Thanks.       

Leave memory at default for now.

Hi 
i had the same problem of sort , i switched the power options to best Performance ans since then i have had no problems with the card.  i hope it fixes your problem.

Sajin

Phoenix864
Found something for Nivida HD audio under audio in device manager. This is the right one, right?
Thanks.
 

Yep. If you don't see any hd audio drivers listed under uninstall a program inside the windows control panel then the hd audio drivers shouldn't be installed.

Under audio, it lists that audio is played through my Dell S2716DG, as my headphones are plugged into it. However, it also say in parentheses (Nivida High Definition Audio.) Does this mean I still have those drivers installed? Nothing is under control panel for Nivida HD audio.
Thanks.