Macbook Retina 15" GPU drop Issues

Hello, first of all sorry for my poor english (i'm spanish, but i use this forum rather than the spanish because here there's more activity).
Here's my question: I have a Macbook Retina 15" mid 2012, i usually play games on it with bootcamp (i know, this isn't a gaming machine but i've been playing on it since now perfectly). I use it connected to a 27" FullHD monitor. The problem is that when i'm playing games (it doesn't matter if they`re very demmanding or not) it shows smoothly but after some minutes suddenly the framerate drops, but later continues to play smooth. I used NvidiaInspector to show temperatures but they seem normal (here is summer, and playing CPU is over 80º celsius and GPU usually is over 70-75ª). The NvidiaInspector also shows constant drops in GPU voltage when start the game fps dropping. What could happen? Thanks!!!
More Information:
In bootcamp i have installed Windows 8 64 bits and the latest drivers. I have up to date the EFI, and i tried te SMC reset with no results.

Bienvenido/a
Does it only happen in Windows? If so, do you notice that fans go faster when temperature increases?
I don't recommend to play games for a long time with a MacBook Pro with Retina display because it overheats quickly and it may cause problems. It's possible that the GPU slows down because of the temperature.
If your Mac is in warranty, simply take it to an Apple Store or reseller and tell them what happens, because it could be a hardware problem

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