https://youtu.be/vTgI6hN1js8
 
 
clean boot / minimal services/apps/utilities running except the game
 

driver: 419.17
2 separate power connectors from the PSU (not daisy chained)
nvidia settings:
vsync ON
max performance
everything else defaults
 

Do you have evga precision running in the background? If yes, turn if off and see if the issue goes away.

No problem. Ok. Is the issue game specific?

Sajin
No problem. Ok. Is the issue game specific?

I tried BFV and that also seemed to stutter.
 

dc8flyer
 
 
Turn vsync off and see what you get. Don't have vysnc and g-sync both enabled at same time.
If monitor at 144 then limit fps to something less than 144 and enable future frame rate rendering. Same if using 120MHz.

 
Thanks, it was happening before I enabled vsync - so I tried vsync and got what you see in the video. Monitor is only 1920x1200 @ 60Hz. Never touched any gsync settings so I believe that's not enabled unless it is by default.
 
I used DDU before removing the previous 980ti, but this windows install is way back from 2016 and has gone through a few "feature updates".
 
I am considering trying a fresh install of windows, because I really hope it isn't hardware related and I don't want to go down the RMA path unless I've exhausted all the software options.
 
Since you guys seem to have some experience on this forum, have there been others who have had this stuttering with the 20x series and ended up having to RMA their card after determining it was hardware related?
 
Thanks for your help.

Thanks guys, nothing has been running in the background (not precision or HWmonitor which I did have at first but I turned it off and still got the stutters). Not running afterburner. The only AV is windows defender.
 
Again, this is the same exact OS/setup as when I had the 980ti, which had no stuttering. So I'm assuming that if it were other software interfering, I would have seen the stutters on the 980ti as well, given that it's half as powerful as the 2080ti. 
 
If you look at the video I posted in the first post, you'll notice that every "stutter" happens almost on a 3-4 second cycle. Almost as if it's stuttering after rendering X amount of frames. That's why i thought it had to do with being a higher FPS than the 60Hz refresh rate of the monitor.  But I still get the stuttering with VSYNC enabled in the nvidia control panel.
 
I have ordered a brand new SSD and it should be here tomorrow. Will put a fresh win10 build 1809 on there and see how it goes.

Haven't tried other drives but a new nvidia driver was released yesterday so I guess I can try that. I'm not holding my breath on that one though. CPU is fine, GPU fans weren't even on when I took that video, it was sitting around 52C.

nice catch! I'll try to uninstall KB4482887 when I get home. 
 
 

What  updates have you done? Just GPU and Windows?  I had a **** ton of problems when i upgraded to the RTX cards. Power being the biggest one.


Try a third party driver updater, you can get a decent one of steam I highly recommend it. OEM's and Windows both suck at updating drivers.  I recommend driver booster 6.   On a fresh install of windows 10 - with all the service packs etc, I still had over 120 drivers out of date.



 When you go into your task manager, what does your performance screen look like in regards to CPU/GPU and memory?  Check this under load.  I recommend using default windows services etc, you might be disabling a scheduler or something that's causing an issue.   




Install a monitoring software HWMonitor pro works wonders for this - and it's free to use - You can start a log file and it'll save everything into a folder for you to view after so many cycles.. I recommend starting it and playing a game for a few minutes to reproduce the problem.



Pay close attention to your "min/max" package temperatures -> check your gpu and memory utilization, and thermal readings to ensure you're not thermal throttling.

Check your event viewer [start] type "event viewer" -> open the application.  Click Windows Logs -> System, are you getting errors in there while playing or in general? If so how often, and what type of error?

Lastly... What Processor, how much ram, peripherals, hard drives, and PSU are you running?

I see that your benchmark is showing 60 fps, are you using v-sync / g-sync? I've had terrible stutter with g-sync... if you're using v-sync i also recommend that you set it to "allow 3d application to decide".. or disable it entirely - you'll get more visual tearing but that you can be worked out after...  Disable it for trouble shooting.

Do you have xbox game dvr disabled? If no, you could try disabling that to see if it makes a difference or not. I would also disable windows defender along with windows smart screen to see if that does anything as well.

Glad to hear you figured out your problem.

No problem. Looks like it's just showing that you currently have the core clock set at +0.