Worse Performance with new GPU

[TamatiNZ]

So I just purchased a new Rx580 GPU to upgrade from my older GTX 950, and have found that the performance is worse than the 950. The currents specs of my computer is an intel i5 6500 @ 3.2ghz, 8gb ram, RX580, 1tb hdd and 240gb ssd. The motherboard is a Gigabyte B150M-D3h-CF LGA 1151 socket. I had downloaded Cinebench, where in the OpenGL test my 950 had 106.68 FPS, and after a lot of tinkering I have only managed to get the RX580 to 105.11 FPS. 

I was expecting this card to be a huge upgrade, but instead I feel like I have downgraded and a return is imminent. 

Is there anything I can do to fix this issue, or is this just how the card will be?

Cheers

 

[Jurrunio]

run sth else instead for benchmarking, say a game

[TamatiNZ]

Playing games like world of warcraft and league of legends I have similar FPS as the 950, in League of Legends I suspect it is significantly lower, as I was sitting at around 100 FPS, which seems far lower than what I usually see with my 950. I will be testing this further but it could become annoying since id have to reinstall drivers back and forth

 

[glenalz81]

Use Heaven, Firestrike or Superposition for GPU benching, or even games. Cinebench OpenGL is no good for comparison.

 

 

[glenalz81]

GTX 950 to an RX 580  you should be seeing a 40% ish  boost in performance.

[EPPHO]

You did not clear old drivers properly I guess.

[KarathKasun]

" Cinebench "

 

There is your problem.  Cinebench is a poor GPU bench.

 

It seems that you are CPU bound in some instances as well.

[TamatiNZ]

1 hour ago, frozeNNN said:

You did not clear old drivers properly I guess.

I did go back and uninstall old NVIDIA drivers but I may have missed something, not 100% sure. 

[EPPHO]

1 minute ago, TamatiNZ said:

I did go back and uninstall old NVIDIA drivers but I may have missed something, not 100% sure. 

Use DDU

[TamatiNZ]

So I've just run 2 identical tests in Heaven benchmark, where the RX580 scored 2533, and the 950 scored 1329, however the RX580 crashed once to desktop, so I had to tab back into the benchmark, and was a bit choppy, dropping to 9 and 10 FPS quite a few times. Overall, the RX580 had double the FPS of the 950, with 100.5 FPS.

 

In game, I tested my FPS and found these results, however these were all just eyeballed and not accurately collected.

 

GTX 950 

 

FPS League of legends 
Platform 250
In lane 160
2v2 130    
1v1 140
Teamfight 120
Jungle 135

World of Warcraft
Suramar: Idle 36.5 
Suramar: Moving 35-42
Class Hall: Idle 45
Class Hall: Moving 46
 

RX580

 

FPS League of legends 
Platform 210
In lane 130
2v2 120    
1v1 130
Teamfight 120-125
Jungle 160

World of Warcraft
Suramar: Idle 31.6
Suramar: Moving 34-38
Class Hall: Idle 49
Class Hall: Moving 50-54

 

This shows me that my RX580 is not performing up to the standard of my GTX 950, although Heaven benchmark gives it almost double the score, Please help me!

[KarathKasun]

8 hours ago, TamatiNZ said:

This shows me that my RX580 is not performing up to the standard of my GTX 950, although Heaven benchmark gives it almost double the score, Please help me!

Your games look to be CPU limited, not GPU limited.

 

WoW is especially CPU limited.

 

You could put a 1080 in your system and not see much better performance.

[TamatiNZ]

3 hours ago, KarathKasun said:

Your games look to be CPU limited, not GPU limited.

 

WoW is especially CPU limited.

 

You could put a 1080 in your system and not see much better performance.

Even if this is the case is it really something to be expected that the RX580 will give me worse FPS too? so confusing

[KarathKasun]

AMD cards are a bit more demanding on the CPU.  Thus, if you were already CPU limited FPS will be slightly lower.

 

Crank up detail settings or use virtual super resolution under the display tab in Radeon Settings, it lets you set a resolution higher than your monitor.  This will make things look better and will likely not have a huge impact on performance.