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    What amount of frame rates should I be getting?

    Discussion in 'Desktop Hardware' started by vandexa1, Oct 2, 2016.

  1. vandexa1

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    Here is my rig: Operating system:

    Windows 7 Pro

    Processor: Amd Fx- 8350 Vishera

    Memory: Gskill Ripjaw Series 8gbs
    Ddr3 1600

    Mobo: Msi 970 gaming(Amd)

    Video card: Gigabyte r9-390

    Power supply: Rosewill Glacier 700m, 700w modular

    Optical drive: Asus drw-24b1st

    Hdd- Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB

    Ssd- SanDisk SD8SBAT- 256g- 1122 Z400s

    I've kind of been underwhelmed by my frame-rates in ringtone games like bf4 and Shadow of Mordor. Lowering my graphics doesn't help at all. Power is set to high performance, and I am using the Radeon Crimson 16.1 drivers for my gpu. Please help!

     
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    houstoned Yoga Pants Connoisseur.

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    resolution?

    what are your benchmark scores looking like?
     
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  3. StormJumper

    StormJumper Notebook Virtuoso

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    Anything AMD CPU forget good frame rates that will bottleneck to the GPU.
     
    StormJumper, Oct 3, 2016
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  4. J.Dre

    J.Dre Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Around 70 FPS on Ultra preset in Battlefield 4 at 1080p. The R9 390 is not a very powerful card.

    The GTX 970 will see about 120~ FPS at the same settings. However, your CPU may bottleneck the 970 in certain CPU-intensive games.
     
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  5. Galm

    Galm "Stand By, We're Analyzing The Situation!"

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    That's not right. The R9 390 and GTX 970 should both be getting around 90 fps on ultra. They have nearly identical DX11 performance and the 390 wins in DX12. The 390 is not really a weak card.

    This rig is bottlenecked by the cpu.
     
    Galm, Oct 3, 2016
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    J.Dre Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The videos I've seen show it around 70. With Intel CPU's, too. Maybe you're thinking of the 390X?
     
    J.Dre, Oct 3, 2016
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  7. Galm

    Galm "Stand By, We're Analyzing The Situation!"

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    No. I built a rig with a 390, and another one with a 970 for a couple different friends.

    This vid shows what I mean:

    The 390 literally trades blows. Both the 970 and 390 were reported as 109 and 110 respectively on whatever map that is for BF4. The 970 is certainly no where near 80% faster like you said with 70fps vs 120.

    He literally says he can never recommend a 970 over a 390 and I agree if the price is similar.
     
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  8. J.Dre

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    Hmm, okay. That's interesting. The videos I saw must have had the resolution scale turned up or they were experiencing bottleneck as well.
     
    J.Dre, Oct 3, 2016
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  9. Galm

    Galm "Stand By, We're Analyzing The Situation!"

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    In my experience the 390x is a weird niche in between the 970 and 980.
     
    Galm, Oct 3, 2016
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    Problem here is AMD drivers have had a notorious bad stability history after 12x that they ruined their own GPU driver line. Not to mention AMD cpu are worthless in terms of money and performance against any similar iNtel class CPU. If you want to game iNtel is the game to go-going from AMD to iNtel is night and day.
     
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  11. Galm

    Galm "Stand By, We're Analyzing The Situation!"

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    I never said AMD cpus are good for gaming, as of right now they are definitely not.

    Not sure what you mean by 12X. AMD desktop drivers have been pretty decent for the past year or two I think. I mean Nvidia had one bricking cards lol.
     
    Galm, Oct 3, 2016
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