Bad Game Performance on MacBook Pro Retina

I've been getting below average performance on my the 15" Retina (2012) with all sorts of games lately. I did the SMC Reset and nothing works. I tested it out on Bootcamp with Windows 8 and Windows 7 and the gaming performance seems to be lower than what it usually was.
I have a feeling it may be related to the Throttling done on my GPU, I tested it out on windows and it seems that my GPU Clock is usually running at around 500 to 725 it never reaches the 900MHz and the tempratures is always around 95 degrees.
Any ideas ?

If you are serious about games, get a PC. Macs are not good gaming platforms.
Ciao.

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