apex legends rtx 3070 ti frame drops

@LightningGodZeus As to the nature of a faulty card. If you don't experience a lot of errors, crashing, artifacts, temperatures issues. It's very unlikely your card is faulty. I have never ran into a graphics card that is underpowered if all the specs checkout. Also, if you're saying in-game in any situation you don't reach 90 or 100% GPU usage at any point in time that would be a strange issue I will speculate on later. But if you do, then it is the game engine or driver that is the likely cause. I can see players with a 3070ti in-game reaching about 100% GPU 1440P high settings with that card, but those players have a PCI 4.0 CPU, maybe GPU usage with the 3070ti having PCI 3.0 vs 4.0 is more pronounced. You could go into your bios to make sure it is set to PCI 3.0, so you get the highest performance. Things that tend to limit performance are settings like V-sync settings or frame-rate limit options in another program you may be running. You can set "+fps_max unlimited" in the launch options. But you may experience stuttering if your frame-rate is too high. Also make sure your GPU is in the correct PCI EXPRESS X16 slot. You could have it in a slower slot of the same size causing performance issues. Other than all those issues you have to check your game and GPU settings etc. We can only speculate and go back and forth. But it is easier on your end.