I recently bought a external monitor for the holidays, and when I plug it in my laptop it drops my frames to 30 fps and my gpu spikes.

 

External Monitor (Spectre) Specs: 

27In

1080p

240Hz

 

Laptop Specs (MSI) Specs: 

 

RTX 3050 Ti

12 Gb Ram

Intel GPU Graphics

11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz