Lower fps with new graphics card

[Torben Lund]

So I just got myself a new sapphire radeon rx 580 8gb nitro+ limited edition. I upgraded it from a 1.5 year old radeon r7 360 2gb and I'm actually seeing lower fps than the previous card. I have installed the correct driver so i don't see why my fps is that low. Even in games like league of legends and cs.go, I often drop below 60fps.

 

Corsair Carbide SPEC-03 Midi Tower

Corsair VS550 550W KPC bulk edition

AMD Athlon X4 840 3.1GHz quad core

ASUS A68HM-PLUS, socket-FM2+

HyperX Fury DDR3 1600MHz 8gb

Sapphire radeon rx 580 8gb nitro+ limited edition

Seagate Barracuda 1TB

HyperX Fury 120GB 2.5" SSD

[MrJarhead]

thats because your cpu is a bottleneck.

 

im not sure if 550 watts is enough for that system either, i could be wrong.

[DrMikeNZ]

Your CPU is going to limit your performance in most games.

[Sir Asvald]

13 minutes ago, Torben Lund said:

So I just got myself a new sapphire radeon rx 580 8gb nitro+ limited edition. I upgraded it from a 1.5 year old radeon r7 360 2gb and I'm actually seeing lower fps than the previous card. I have installed the correct driver so i don't see why my fps is that low. Even in games like league of legends and cs.go, I often drop below 60fps.

 

Corsair Carbide SPEC-03 Midi Tower

Corsair VS550 550W KPC bulk edition

AMD Athlon X4 840 3.1GHz quad core

ASUS A68HM-PLUS, socket-FM2+

HyperX Fury DDR3 1600MHz 8gb

Sapphire radeon rx 580 8gb nitro+ limited edition

Seagate Barracuda 1TB

HyperX Fury 120GB 2.5" SSD

CPU is probably bottlenecking the GPU.

 

5 minutes ago, MrJarhead said:

im not sure if 550 watts is enough for that system either, i could be wrong.

550W is more than enough this build.

[MrJarhead]

1 minute ago, Abdul201588 said:

CPU is probably bottlenecking the GPU.

 

550W is more than enough this build.

wasnt sure what the tdp is on the athlons, just checked and yeah plenty.

[Torben Lund]

On sapphire's webpage they reccomend 500W power supply for that card or more so that shouldn't be an issue

 

[mrzoltowski]

The faster card is trying to render more frames than the cpu can handle so its throttling. The extra overhead is making it slower than an older card.

[Sir Asvald]

Just now, MrJarhead said:

wasnt sure what the tdp is on the athlons, just checked and yeah plenty.

An i7 with 1070/1080 would be enough with 550w. 

[Torben Lund]

So do I have to get a better cpu in order to achieve the gpu's max potential?

[Sir Asvald]

1 minute ago, Torben Lund said:

So do I have to get a better cpu in order to achieve the gpu's max potential?

Sadly, yes. You could get Ryzen 5. That would mean a new Motherboard and ram. 

[mrzoltowski]

I gave my little brother my GTX 970 OC and his AMD FX6300 Black Edition 6 Core (3.5/4.1GHz) just about handles it.

[Torben Lund]

I was planing on planning on upgrading to a ryzen 5 1600 with an asus b350 motherboard but I wont be able to afford it in quite some time

[Torben Lund]

So in the meantime I should use my old gpu?

[Morgan Everett]

31 minutes ago, mrzoltowski said:

I gave my little brother my GTX 970 OC and his AMD FX6300 Black Edition 6 Core (3.5/4.1GHz) just about handles it.

Having owned that CPU and an equivalent GPU (R9 290), I can safely say it doesn't.