Got a much better GPU, I now have worse FPS + constant game crashing and clunkiness.

[rulley]

So I had an r9 380 2GB and my fps was hovering around 75-80 in Rainbow six Siege. I then bought a GTX 1060 6GB, and my FPS is now constantly going to 55fps and max of 80. Sometimes it would spike to ~113 but then goes back down immediately. With this new GPU installation, I've had repeated game crashes, like non stop. This did not happen with my previous GPU. I'm gonna switch back to my bad GPU cuz this is ridiculous. But I was wondering before I do that, do you guys have any suggestions as to what the problem could be. This doesn't make any sense. The moment I launch the game itself, I notice so much roughness, it wasn't like that. It was never smooth but never this clunky.

I should mention that I uninstalled my previous AMD drivers and installed the new NVIDIA drivers and still no effect.


PC Specs:
CPU: FX 6300
GPU: from r9 380 2GB to 1060 GB
PSU: EVGA 500W
Memory: 8GB DDR3
Motherboard: M5A78L-M/USB3 (quite old)

Please help guys..

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

You really need to jump to a new platform to get the most out of that card.

Poor Board
Poor PSU
FX outdated and struggles with new releases

 

[Karadjgne]

The gtx1060 isn't a much better gpu than a R9 380 as far as gaming goes. The 3gb 1060 regularly trades blows right around the 380/380x mark. Some games its better, some worse. The 6gb version bounces around the 380x/390 area. Again, some games do better on the amd cards, some better on nvidia. So the only real advantage is heat output and power draw being consistently lower for the 1060.

The question remains, exactly how did you uninstall the amd drivers. If you went and used windows uninstall, then you basically didn't, those amd registrys are still there and can/will potentially create driver issues as windows is trying to access both. Use the driver deleter utility from guru3d.com instead.
You'll also need toake sure the lan and audio drivers and possibly bios are the last available as windows 10 has issues with legacy drivers. The latest version should be patched for compatability.
Might also need to turn off the Xbox dvr/game bar in windows as they can create issues too.

 

[rulley]

The gtx1060 isn't a much better gpu than a R9 380 as far as gaming goes. The 3gb 1060 regularly trades blows right around the 380/380x mark. Some games its better, some worse. The 6gb version bounces around the 380x/390 area. Again, some games do better on the amd cards, some better on nvidia. So the only real advantage is heat output and power draw being consistently lower for the 1060.

The question remains, exactly how did you uninstall the amd drivers. If you went and used windows uninstall, then you basically didn't, those amd registrys are still there and can/will potentially create driver issues as windows is trying to access both. Use the driver deleter utility from guru3d.com instead.
You'll also need toake sure the lan and audio drivers and possibly bios are the last available as windows 10 has issues with legacy drivers. The latest version should be patched for compatability.
Might also need to turn off the Xbox dvr/game bar in windows as they can create issues too.

I uninstalled the drivers using the guru website. As for the lan and audio drivers I didn't go near them.

Anyway thanks for the responses guys, I think, like Blackbird mentioned, my overall system isn't quite suitable for the GPU to perform at its best.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Look into Ryzen and the New Intel 8400 is a great one to check out too.

 

[Karadjgne]

Are you running the game using DX12 or DX11? Some games respond much better under DX11, especially on older equipment that was primarily designed for 32bit systems.