Got a new RX 480, getting worse performance than I got with my R9 280

[Sellis53]

Got a new RX 480 recently, since installing it my fps is worse in most games than my R9 280.

So about a week ago, I bought an RX 480. I was super excited to install it and watch to fps in my games shoot up. Except there's a problem. They didn't. In almost every single game I play, the fps I get is either the same or worse than I was getting with the 280. In Skyrim, I never went below 30 fps with the 280. With the 480, I've gone below 30, and I'm consistently hanging around 40-45. In League of Legends, my fps goes below 100 when I have everyone on screen at once. That never happened with the 280. I have no idea what could be causing it. Here's my specs

Mobo: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150
Motherboard

RAM: Team Elite Plus 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory

CPU: Intel i5-4690

GPU: 4GB DDR5 RX 480

Help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Dr Girlfriend]

Did you completely uninstall and reinstall your drivers after upgrading?

 

[SBMfromLA]

Not sure if this will help you or not... but I currently have the R9 280X and thought about upgrading to the RX 480 but after further reseach I learned that buying the 480 wasn't worth it and isn't that much of a jump above my 280X... so I ended up not buying it.

 

[cilliers]

Did you completely uninstall and reinstall your drivers after upgrading?

Yes, what he said

 

[Sellis53]

Did you completely uninstall and reinstall your drivers after upgrading?

Yes I did this probably 2-3 times, it never mad a difference.

 

[KingReZo]

Not sure if this will help you or not... but I currently have the R9 280X and thought about upgrading to the RX 480 but after further reseach I learned that buying the 480 wasn't worth it and isn't that much of a jump above my 280X... so I ended up not buying it.

The RX 480 is around 150% the speed of the R9 280X. I personally have the R9 280X and on most demanding games (Witcher 3, Hitman, Watch Dogs 2, Crysis 3 etc) I get from 30-40 FPS on High/Ultra but according to websites the RX 480 should be able to achieve 60FPS + on those games. So Id personally say its worth upgrading to the RX 480 just to be at the optimal FPS to play games even though its not a big jump in FPS, it still makes a huge difference in gameplay playing at 60fps+ compared to 30-40.

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-RX-480-vs-AMD-R9-280X/3634vs2192

 

[KingReZo]

Also the RX 480 is 75% faster than the R9 280, so it was definitely worth upgrading. Games you'd get 60fps on with the R9 280 would get you 130 FPS with your RX 480

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-RX-480-vs-AMD-R9-280/3634vs2241