I have been running a 3080 ti FTW3 Ultra for a couple of months and all was fine.  I had to remove the video card to address a usb issue on my motherboard.  When finished I re-assembled my rig and re-installed the video card.  All looked fine.  No red lights on video card, computer booted and works fine for mundane usage.  However, when I ran Time Spy I noticed there was a jerkiness rather than a smooth flow.  Also, my score was down a few thousand points.  I have re-seated the video card, turned off game mode in windows 11 and nothing seems to get my card running like it was before. Also, my maximum temps were 69.4 for my gpu and 80 for the memory junction when running 3DMark (so I don't think the temp[s are an issue). I have an MSI Z490 Ace motherboard, 64 gig of ram memory, an i7 10400k CPU and am running windows 11 x64.  According to HWInfo my maximum GPU power draw was 374.5 W.  That seems within the normal range when benchmarking.  I am at a loss since everything worked so well before I removed and re-installed the car.  I even re-installed it twice to make sure it was firmly seated. Any help will be appreciated. 

What did you work on when you removed the card? Did the motherboard have to be replaced?

Motherboard was not replaced.  I unplugged and replugged a double usb cable for the usb ports on the top front of my computer bequiet 900 pro case.  That did not fix the usb issue only 1 of 3 ports working.  As to Cool GTX, nothing seems to have change on my device manager, MS did not sneak a driver as I did a clean install for geoforce 472.12.  GPPU-Z image of max data during 3dmark is attached:
 

 
Sorry image is so small. When I tried to list the link to  it wouldn't let me  

I used 3dMark, Time Spy.  I thought the max numbers would be indicative of what happened during the benchmark.  When I try to capture it live time spy quits.

My problem is I am not sure what all of the numbers mean and which data is not normal.
 

I vaguely remember someone having this issue and the solve was something weird like reseating the CPU and clearing the CMOS was what fixed it, could you have bumped another component loose while doing the usb diagnostic
 

Try restoring your system to a day when everything was working correctly using windows system restore. See if that does anything for you.

https  ://www.  3dmark.com/  3dm/69059354  It was regular Time Spy, not Extreme.

CraptacularOne

lightningfoot
https  ://www.  3dmark.com/  3dm/69059354

Your CPU score is MASSIVELY off for a 10700K. It should be roughly double what you are getting. It's either downclocking and throttling heavily or you limited it's available power in the BIOS to something like 65w. You card is performing just fine from the looks of it. You could have a bad mount on your CPU cooler or perhaps you forgot to apply thermal grease? 
 
That's the root of your issue. If you bring your CPU score up, your graphics score will be where it should be. You could have possible bumped or loosened your CPU cooler causing a bad mount. Start looking there. 
 
Try going into your BIOS and load optimized defaults and before you do anything, even enabling XMP run a test and post the results. (but definitely remount your CPU cooler first) 

Will check the cpu tomorrow afternoon and report back.  Thanks for the input to everyone.

 

Sajin
Looks like a good benchmark result to me considering this is the fastest score for 3dmark time spy with a 3080 ti & 12700k...

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/24573307

Yours...

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/24514414

Well, I wish that were mine, but it is CraptacularOne score. Mine is /69059354
 

Sajin
Looks like a good benchmark result to me considering this is the fastest score for 3dmark time spy with a 3080 ti & 12700k...

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/24573307

Yours...

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/24514414

Thanks man 
 
Jokes aside, I beat that score but my driver is "unapproved" I think because it's a hotfix driver 
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/24325117
 
For everyone else, here is his score since he can't post links yet
 
12,613
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/69059354
 
His CPU score was super low like about half as much as it should be for his 10700K. 

For what its worth I had something very similar whereby started Timespy and it seemed really jerky (1st Graphics test) then would up with an overall score a few thousand pts off what I should have gotten (based on previous scores)....turned out it was my CPU downclocking.
I cant remember for sure but I believe I disabled a bunch of power saving features in BIOS (Speed Step...Speed Shift..C1 States), may even have enabled Performance mode in Windows and it sorted itself out.
 
Also had a time when I left Gsync enabled and that affected my score substantially.

Sajin
Well clearly the cpu is the op's problem, but looks like the cpu didn't get too hot while running time spy cpu test according to his gpu-z screenshot.

Yeah good point, I missed the CPU temp in his GPUZ screen shot. Something is definitely wrong with his CPU settings in his BIOS if that 71C max CPU temp is accurate. He should definitely load optimized defaults in his BIOS or even better reset his CMOS and test agian. 

CraptacularOne

Sajin
Well clearly the cpu is the op's problem, but looks like the cpu didn't get too hot while running time spy cpu test according to his gpu-z screenshot.

Yeah good point, I missed the CPU temp in his GPUZ screen shot. Something is definitely wrong with his CPU settings in his BIOS if that 71C max CPU temp is accurate. He should definitely load optimized defaults in his BIOS or even better reset his CMOS and test agian. 

I agree a bios reset should fix it if it's a bios setting issue. If a bios reset doesn't fix it then I would restore the system to a day when everything was working properly using windows system restore to fix any software issues.

Sajin

rjbarker

Sajin
Well clearly the cpu is the op's problem, but looks like the cpu didn't get too hot while running time spy cpu test according to his gpu-z screenshot.

Yep...I would try removing all the power saving features and run again ..also dont "re-start" the PC but go thru a complete shut down cycle..clear CMOS or Load Optimal Defaults would certainly be my next go to....my problem is I never try "one thing at a time" to narrow it down, but dive all in .....them go thru the "elimination process" ;)

Elimination process is best for me. 

Cause we want immediate results....now ;) ....one of these 5 parameters I just changed should fix it!
 
Funny you mentioned "rolling back to a restore point".....did that after I managed to bork things updating Chipset Drivers.....but it worked !