Framerate - G1 Gigabyte RX480 + i5 6600k

[YaroTeru]

Heya.

 

So I recently got my new rig. Like the title says I have the RX 480 G1 Gigabyte 8GB, i5 6600k and 16GB of ram.

 

I ran The Witcher 3 on ultra (should have a steady 60 fps at least, correct me if I'm wrong) and I'm getting high 50s and on places like towns of cities or where there's a lot of trees and stuff somewhere around mid 20s. Today I tried Assassin's Creed III which is a game over 4 years old and at some points when I'm at Boston the game goes from high 70s to low 30s.

 

Is this normal? can't be something about bottlenecking because the i5 6600k should be more than enough.

 

Anybody if this is normal or is there something I can do?

 

 

Cheers,

 

Yaro

[Guest]

What are GPU temps and usage in game?

[YaroTeru]

With the fan at 60% temps are 60C ish. GPU load seems to be 100%.

 

Note that I haven't overclocked anything. Everything is as is from factory.

Also, I have 60fps monitor.

 

[Howitz]

congratz on picking the worst possible rx480... look for the temps with msi afterburner... maybe thermal throttling hardcore...

 

oh well, that's surprising temps coming from the gigabyte rx480... well it is possible some areas of a game are very demanding, i have a rx480 and even skyrim on ultra, when i get close to solitude and look toward it while in the marsh, i will get a noticable fps drop.

[YaroTeru]

9 hours ago, Howitz said:

congratz on picking the worst possible rx480... look for the temps with msi afterburner... maybe thermal throttling hardcore...

I know it's not the best, but it's what I have and currently there is no possibilities for return or refund.

 

Temps are not that high, for example I run Dark Souls 3 at a capped 70fps (monitor capped) and themps with the fan at 60% are high 50s, so yeah.

9 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

What are GPU temps and usage in game?

With the fan at 60% temps are 60C ish. GPU load seems to be 100%.

 

Note that I haven't overclocked anything. Everything is as is from factory.

Also, I have 60fps monito

[Howitz]

2 minutes ago, YaroTeru said:

I know it's not the best, but it's what I have and currently there is no possibilities for return or refund.

 

Temps are not that high, for example I run Dark Souls 3 at a capped 70fps (monitor capped) and themps with the fan at 60% are high 50s, so yeah.

in this case, forget this game and run benchmarks, compare to what your card should achieve in such benchmarks, then you can know if it's your hardware fault or the game's fault. avoid furmark as a benchmark, heard too many bad things to trust it.

[YaroTeru]

1 minute ago, Howitz said:

in this case, forget this game and run benchmarks, compare to what your card should achieve in such benchmarks, then you can know if it's your hardware fault or the game's fault.

 

I'll do that.

 

Do you have any thoughts on what might be the reason of the unstable fps?

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, YaroTeru said:

With the fan at 60% temps are 60C ish. GPU load seems to be 100%.

 

Note that I haven't overclocked anything. Everything is as is from factory.

Also, I have 60fps monitor.

 

What resolution?

Is the CPU usage high too?

Only TW3 and AC? How about other games?

[Howitz]

5 minutes ago, YaroTeru said:

I'll do that.

 

Do you have any thoughts on what might be the reason of the unstable fps?

if your card is fine in the benchmarks, then as i said, it might be this particular area of the game which is more demanding, more things to render in a more compact area, have an fps counter in-game and look around, look at the floor and such, your should see your fps mess around, remove any fps cap to see what happens and what your card can render.

 

also you have surprisingly good temps with that gigabyte card lol, 60c at 100% load is better than my XFX GTR default fan curve haha

[YaroTeru]

2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

What resolution?

Is the CPU usage high too?

Only TW3 and AC? How about other games?

 

1920x1080. The CPU usage is around 60-70%.

 

I've played Dark Souls for over 12 hours with a stable 70fps and 65% fan at at 65C.

[itsmyjobtoknow]

20 minutes ago, YaroTeru said:

I'll do that.

 

Do you have any thoughts on what might be the reason of the unstable fps?

One possibility for unstable FPS would be a dirty driver install.

 

Use DDU to nuke the current drivers and reinstall them to see if that helps.

[YaroTeru]

26 minutes ago, Howitz said:

if your card is fine in the benchmarks, then as i said, it might be this particular area of the game which is more demanding, more things to render in a more compact area, have an fps counter in-game and look around, look at the floor and such, your should see your fps mess around, remove any fps cap to see what happens and what your card can render.

 

also you have surprisingly good temps with that gigabyte card lol, 60c at 100% load is better than my XFX GTR default fan curve haha

 

 

Haha, yeah. I tend to increase the fan manually cause I like to keep the temps low. IDK man, the card got a bad rep and granted it's not the best out there but it does deliver.

 

BTW, I'm benchmarking as I type and I got using heaven 1271. After doing some googling, seems like it's in order.

[AMD Spec]

i call software issue , any recent updates or changes ?

synthetic benchmarks are the best in this scenario , assassins creed is horribly optimized ... 

 

check your power settings 

 

What is your psu btw ( it usually doesnt impact fps but causes instability ). 

 

when things are fixed you should  keep a restore point as a reference so you could get back to it whenever your pc acts up  

 

also keep an eye on process manager for wierd stuff that  might be causing this 

 

 

 

[Nena Trinity]

6 hours ago, YaroTeru said:

I know it's not the best, but it's what I have and currently there is no possibilities for return or refund.

 

Temps are not that high, for example I run Dark Souls 3 at a capped 70fps (monitor capped) and themps with the fan at 60% are high 50s, so yeah.

Actually its worse than the blower version...

[YaroTeru]

5 hours ago, AMD Spec said:

i call software issue , any recent updates or changes ?

synthetic benchmarks are the best in this scenario , assassins creed is horribly optimized ... 

 

check your power settings 

 

What is your psu btw ( it usually doesnt impact fps but causes instability ). 

 

when things are fixed you should  keep a restore point as a reference so you could get back to it whenever your pc acts up  

 

also keep an eye on process manager for wierd stuff that  might be causing this 

 

 

 

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Well, the comp is new, I put everything together and installed windows about a week ago. What drivers you suggest I should reinstall?

 

PSU is a 650W gold EVGA.

[Howitz]

2 hours ago, YaroTeru said:

Well, the comp is new, I put everything together and installed windows about a week ago. What drivers you suggest I should reinstall?

 

PSU is a 650W gold EVGA.

if benchmarks are nominal and you encouter the fps drops in more demanding areas of a game then i would be leaning toward calling it normal, maybe try to have people who have the same games as you and a rx480 go in the same places with the same settings and report their observations.

 

all in all, the card is very capable but it's still not a gtx1080, as i said above even in skyrim with ultra settings i encountered fps drops near the city solitude when i look toward it.

 

so expect the same or worst in more recent games running at max settings in the more demanding areas, even more if the game is poorly optimized.