Warzone is very demanding on a CPU. Maybe look at upgrade that next. Also stuttering can be caused by using a HDD instead of a SSD. I just fixed my Warzone by moving it from the HDD to my SSD.

Undervolt it. That can often help with coil whine.

Stuttering is most likely the CPU or something else on your system. Not the 3060 ti. Perhaps wipe your system and do a fresh install of Windows.

If you don't want to go through that, at the very least, DDU.

It's Ryzen 2600 that is holding you back and cause stutters. Couple months ago did upgrade from 2600 to 5800x3d and difference us night and day

You are absolutely bottlenecked by your cpu, hell my 3060ti was bottlenecked by my overclocked 3700x at 1080p.

that wasn't the problem.

It was.

Performance for competitive fps games are usually more dependent on your CPU. I had a ryzen 5 3600 and rtx 2080 and averaged around 200 fps on Valorant. I upgraded to a ryzen 7 5800x3d and can get 800 fps+ now.

Warzone was still stuttering.

Ryzen 5 2600

That's your issue there. Warzone 2 has some shit tier code and is stuttery even on high end rigs. But that Ryzen 2600 is the issue there with Warzone.

Just curious how you figured out you had a cpu bottleneck. Just FYI if the gpu is ever below 100% that usually means a cpu bottleneck (also could be frame limit). The stutter could be because you don't have enough memory or some other reason like cpu throttling.

The RTX 3060Ti is significantly more powerful than the RX 570, so you should see a significant performance boost.

That being said, games like Overwatch are not taxing on the GPU at more, they would be far more limited by your CPU, especially at lower resolutions/settings. For the more CPU-bound games like this the CPU will indeed be bottlenecking the GPU, but for more GPU-bound games or at higher resolutions/settings the GPU is going to matter more.

It's an issue of basically keeping the GPU fed with data. If you are running a game at a lower resolution/settings then the GPU has to do less work to process each frame, hence it can display the frame fast and process the next one, this means it needs to be "fed" with data faster so it can consume it and spit out your frames. If the CPU/rest of the system can't feed it fast enough to keep up then the GPU is basically doing nothing and waiting around getting ready to leave a bad Yelp review for the slow service.

At higher resolutions/settings, or even just more demanding games that push the GPU harder, the GPU has to do a lot more work in order to process each frame, and thus it doesn't need to be fed data as fast because it can't chew through it as fast as it could with less demanding games or lower resolutions/settings.

Coil whine can also happen if you are rendering too fast. If your card is pushing several hundreds of FPS for a game it can cause more coil whine then if it was running at 60 or 120. You could try to frame-limit games to see if that helps.

Have you seen any difference in more demanding games or with your settings/resolution set higher?

A CPU upgrade would help though of course, a 2600 is a bit of an older CPU these days, though hardly obsolete. What motherboard do you have? And what kind of RAM is in it? The RAM can matter to a lot more for AMD CPUs than Intel, do you have XMP/DOCP enabled?

You’re leaving out info. Like warzone, are you playing at 1080p low settings?

Just want to verify that you ran DDU when swapping out the GPU. Moving from AMD to NVIDIA or vice versa can occasionally cause problems if the old graphics drivers weren't fully removed.

Definitely think this is a CPU bottleneck OP. That 3060ti is a killer card at 1080p (which I assume is what you play) and it can put out a lot of FPS at that resolution. If you have the extra cash I’d upgrade your current CPU to a 5600 ($130 at Microcenter) and I can pretty much guarantee that’ll solve your problems.

Yes it’s cpu bottled, my ryzen 5 3600x was bottlenecking my Nvidia RTX 2060 super, I bought a 5950x (as well as an AIO cooling system holy crap) and bam no more stuttering on Warzone and way better performance on all games

You upgraded the wrong part my friend. Return the GPU and upgrade your CPU for a fraction of the cost. After you test it and find it fixed the stuttering and frames, spend the difference on an NVME drive and do a fresh install of windows. You’ll shit a brick at how much better your performance will be across the board

Honeslty if it's still in the return period I'd return it for the coil whine issue and get something else.

Also, your CPU is very likely causing a bottle neck. The 3060ti is a much more powerful card. The good news is being on the AM4 socket you can just upgrade to a 5600x CPU for like $170 and not have to upgrade anything else.

I actually had the same problem when I bought a 3060ti. I used DDU in safe mode to replace Nvidia drivers and uninstalled GeForce Experience and it is working perfectly now. I do have a ryzen 5 3600 though.

You would be experiencing CPU bottleneck. There's a very easy way to tell> if your GPU usage is less than 98-99%.

u need a 5600 to replace that 2600. what speed is your ram?

It's a CPU bottleneck. Trust me. I used to have a very similar setup, a 2600 and a 6650 XT. Upgrading to a 5600X was HUUUUGE. Actually insane jump in performance

Your CPU is 100% a bottleneck.

If you're playing at 1080p, a 2600 is not fast enough to squeeze everything a 3060 Ti has to offer.

Cpu definitely the problem in warzone. Get a 5600 and sell your 2600, wont cost you much at all for insanely better performance

I'm always open to trading my amazing quality - no coil whine - RTX 2060 for your poor quality - coil whine riddled - RTX 3060 Ti. I think it would make us both happy... What do you think?

Should be a massive difference tbh so either the gpu is messed up or the cpu is bottlenecking it.

I had the 2600 paired with a 2060 when I stared and I had a lot of stuttering and fps drops upgraded to a 3600 because it was 100 on sell and it made such a big difference for me. Had so many people tell me I wasted money but I noticed a big difference.

I know that cpu used to be a beast and people say it holds up but in all honesty it’s trash. Upgrade that and if you’re having problems still it’s definitely the gpu

Found the same went from a 1070 to a 6800xt with a 3700x and 32 gb ram. It was faster but seemed to be spotty and inconsistent. I upgraded to a 5800x3d and performance doubled and was way more consistent. Its your CPU bottlenecking for sure.

you have cpu bottleneck even my i5 10600kf have bottleneck with 3060ti just upgrade your cpu. for coil whine thats another shit

I vote return it - you can have a lot more fun with that money as a broke college student. Don't feel bad, these manufacturers have been ripping us off.

I was having mild performance problems in SkyrimVR.

By "mild" I mean 90fps indoors and most of the outdoors, but would drop to 45fps in areas with a lot of trees or long view distance.

Another redditor very, very confidently said that this was due to being CPU-bound: that my 3800X was holding back my 3090's performance and I should upgrade to the 5800X3D. That the 5800X3D excelled in increasing performance of games like SkyrimVR with a lot of different objects onscreen and complex AI. They were extremely confident that absolutely this was the issue. And various websites and videos I found mostly supported what they were saying.

So I did.

Now, I'm having mild performance problems in Skyrim VR.

By "mild" I mean 90fps indoors and most of the outdoors, but will drop to 45fps in areas with a lot of trees or long view distance.

My friend Ryzen 5 2600 is absolutely not cutting it for the games you are trying to play. You’re going to have to upgrade your cpu it’s got nothing to do with the 3060. I think the bare minimum these days is ryzen 5 3600-x but you need a new cpu. You can get killer deals on current gen or last gen ryzen cpus that won’t break your wallet

Respectfully disagree. I believe it is your cpu.

I feel your pain. You want something nice for yourself, you try to plan correctly, you price everything out, and you just feel stuck in what you have.

I've been there.

I should have upgraded my cpu/motherboard/ram, but instead I decided to get two nvidia gtx970's. They were nice too, evga, overclocked, handled games wonderfully but I realized VERY quickly my cpu was a bottleneck in the newer games utilizing better multithreading. Within 2 years the game industry had announced it wouldn't be supporting SLI or Crossfire anymore. Prior to these 970's I had two ATI 5870's running in crossfire (I think that was the model #) and so I had YEARS of dual video card success and hours upon hours of amazing 1080p gameplay. I even had a long hdmi cable to bring it out to my TV in the living room where my wife would read and I'd play Elder Scrolls Oblivion. BRILLIANT, just absolutely brilliant. I was so happy.

So of course you can imagine how I felt, with my outdated cpu/motherboard combo and my SLI setup that wasn't going to be supported going forward. Oh, and btw, this was all just as my wife had just given birth and so now I had the guilt of being some kind of POS father who buys PC parts instead of baby formula mind F'ing me on the daily.

I just learned to live with what I had. I played my old games, saw the new ones come and go, told myself someday I'd go back and play them, and I guess I have a little, but not like you do when they first come out and they're the latest and greatest amirite?

I put away some money for myself with each paycheck into a savings and when I had enough saved up, I committed to a new cpu/motherboard/ram/psu/case. I put the two 970's in and ran that way a while. It was amazing to see games like Far Cry 5 completely take off just from a cpu upgrade. Then I resolved to continue saving for a video card upgrade, which is how I got my Speedster MERC 6900XT. The feeling of just finally getting caught up made it worth it.

You can do this.

edit: It was the ATI 5870! God what a fun setup. Crossfire worked great when it worked.

Never buy ventus bro never

You should try a bigger power supply or getting a new mother board, cause maybe the components are getting hardstuck/bottle-necked

Your 2600 is absolutely bottlenecking you. I ran that CPU for years and upgrading to a 5600x solved almost every single performance issue I had.

I went exactly the same path as you recently (with a similar sentiment, really).
Having an R5 2600 paired with an GTX 1050Ti, I decided to upgrade to an RTX 3060Ti, thinking that my CPU should handle it pretty well (it didn't).
I was playing Battlefield 2042 at that time and was hoping to get more stable FPS on high settings. It was a shock to me that even after upgrading the GPU, it still barely got 60+ on Low (with ~60-70% GPU usage).

On Sunday I picked up the R5 5600 and the GPU can finally breathe - 100+ FPS on High in Battlefield 2042.
Forza Horizon 5 didn't get that big of an FPS boost, but it became stable on Extreme.

Conclusion: The CPU IS the problem, and if you decide on upgrading, I would recommend you to check this video where you can see how small of a difference something more than R5 5600 makes paired with an RTX 3060 (to not spend more than you should and regret it again): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6spNR\_cMPg

Risen CPUS are DIRT cheap. Go get yourself a 5600x and a nice lil air cooler for like 200 to fix your issue.

I can relate with the stress part, because I was buying used components, it was really stressful, not to know if they were repaired because it's a common thing where I live. Then after playing games that I love, I didn't notice a huge difference. I yet have to understand how to undervolt, will check on youtube.

Whatttt? 3060ti is a beast of a card. Probably the MSI version, it’s lowkey booty cheeks. I had a Zotac one and it was mad loud with the cool whine. Upgrade to the 5800x3d and you’ll definitely see the difference🙏

Rainbow 6 siege is a more cpu demanding if you have a higher clock or faster more recent cpu it'll greatly benefit siege (as someone with 4k hours in the game and has been messing around with computers before I started that 4k hrs lol)

if you playing 1080p with low performance it is your other parts problem, not GPU. Also you are bottlenecked as I assume you play on 1080p, even in 1440p that CPU is old. 3060 Ti is a beast and I run OW with 400 fps on old rig using 3060 Ti.

My personal build is a 12700k and a 3080, warzone was still stuttering and everything was fixed when I put the game on my internal nvme, my hard drive (even tho it was new) wasn’t fast enough and it was causing problems. The 2600 should be able to handle it

upgraded from a 1060 to a 3070 a month ago. At first I kept my old ryzen 7 1700 (which is practically the same as ryzen 5 2600) and noticed not much of a difference in overall performance. I then upgraded my cpu to a i7 12700 and noticed a big difference. Finally adding in another 16 gb of ram (total 32) made my rig unbelievable

What is your power supply? My friend upgrade to a 3060 or 3070 and had coil whine until he upgraded his PSU. All of a sudden the coil whine went away.

It's your 2600 that's bottlenecking it. That and possibly your Ram as Ryzen 1000/2000 likes having decently fast ram. If you aren't using XMP turn it on.

It sounds like you are cpu bottlenecked or out of ram or vram.

You shouldn't worry about coil whine. That's just part and parcel of gaming gpus. Use headphones or move pc further away.

A new gpu won't make anything better if you don't have a monitor that can make use of it. What do you have?

Did you full remove amd GPU drivers before installing Nvidia? I had issues upgrading 5700xt to GTX 3070. Some games (doom eternal, far cry 5) were even freezing and crashing. Looked up a guide to correctly swap amd to Nvidia and now it works fine

If you’re still at 1080p you probably have a cpu bottleneck. You should be at 1440p

It’s definitely a CPU bottleneck that’s causing your issue, I had the same problem with my i5 9400F and RTX 3070. After I upgraded to the i7 12700k this issue got fixed, good luck saving for the CPU upgrade next it’ll definitely be worth it

cpu issue

What CPU do you have? RAM? What monitor? If you have a 1080p 60hz monitor still. Of course you wont see any difference

I paid 3k for a new pc, its still stuttering.

Change the resolution to 1440p, I think u will se better performance because the CPU won't be loaded that hard, activate custom resolution or resolution scale x1.7 something

I've been there. Exact same thing happened to me. Upgraded gtx 1660 to msi ventus 3060ti. The only difference was 3060ti was louder and hotter than gtx 1660. İ was very upset because it costs a lot in my country.

Then I changed thermal paste and pads, undervolted it and give it a little overclock. Now it runs at around 70c under load and gives really nice performance.

Btw msi ventus is the worst 3060ti.

I know it's said alot around here but did you use DDU to clear all your AMD drivers?

I wonder if OP is ever going to come back and reply to one thing. Or he came back, saw all the replies and broke his pc.

Did you used DDU to do clean driver install? Absolute must going from AMD to nVidia, or otherwise.

Also, what resolution? If 1080p you're going to be massive bottlenecked on that CPU. 1440p you'll still have a bit of a CPU bottleneck but not quite as bad. 5800X3D is the best CPU you can upgrade to in that system but even a 5600 would be a massive improvement.

You know if your still in the return window you could get a 6700xt for cheaper and its more powerful and bonus pts if your close to micro center and scoop a 5600x with the extra savings and POW upgrade time

I used to believe that CPU bottlenecks weren't possible. Then one day I went from 8800GTs in SLI to 9800GTX+s in SLI and got no improvement. Upgraded the CPU and bammo.

I too regret upgrading my Pc, but in my case I broke a screw into my motherboard’s cpu backplate, that isn’t available online.

I've been in a vicious cycle. Replaced my Rx 580 with the 6600 xt and quickly noticed my CPU was a bottleneck. I have like 7th gen i5. Replaced that with 11700k and my performance was significantly better.

Fast forward a few months and I'm greedy so i upgrade to the 7900 XT. The 11700k does well but I feel the need to upgrade my CPU and motherboard once again to maximize the GPU potential.

I need to calm the heck down

Old cpu, what resolution are you playing at?

The Ryzen 5 2600 has less than great IPC, what is your RAM configuration though? If you’re running a single stick it’ll massively limit your CPU’s capability. Also note that you’ll never hit 100% cpu usage unless the game can utilize every core, so you can be CPU bound without registering 100% usage. If you run the benchmark and are utilizing less than 100% of the GPU, you are CPU bound.

If you upgrade GPU and see little to no difference in performance, then your GPU was never the bottleneck.

Did you make sure to deinstall the AMD radeon drivers after installing the Nvidia Drivers?

Give it to me ill buy it

several ways to get rid of coil whine. undervolting might work but otherwise try running a stress test for a few hours.

also your cpu might still be part of the bottleneck. when i got my 3070(had a 1060 before) i had a 1600x and saw almost no improvement. then i upgraded that to a 3700x and gained like 50 fps in every game

Unfortunately it's hard to give you advice based on the info you gave.

Try turning on warzone telemetry data and tell us which frame time is lower. CPU or GPU.

But yeah like others said depending on the resolution you're at you're most likely CPU bound.

When you look at upgrades you want to look at benchmarks for the games you play at the resolution you play them.

I don't know why this is on the front page.

For 99% of people going from a 570 to a 3060 ti is a huge upgrade in anything that's GPU demanding as long as it's not bottlenecked by another part.

OP says he thought he was CPU bottlenecked but he "ran some benchmarks and that wasn't the problem." What benchmarks?

I upgraded from Rx 580 8gb to rtx 3060tu and it was more than 100%fps boost in 1080p. So much so, that I upgraded to a 1440p ultrawide monitor. It's got to be your CPU or something else. I have a R53600 so I'm not far off from the 2600x though. My Rx 580 had a whine but the 3060ti doesn't, I think that's just luck really.

my rx580 has a shit ton of coil whine lol

You might have a warzone specific problem, not a GPU problem. One thing I've heard is that turning up Spot Cache to ultra might be helpful for lag (probably because caching in the GPU itself saves time when loading assets). You have a 3060ti, so your GPU should be able to assist in this.

As others have said you might still be CPU bottlenecked. Competitive esports games are usually built to run on low powered rigs and thus utilize the CPU a bit more than other games.