GTX 970 - Stuttering and texture pop-in?

[headphonehelp]

Hi guys/gals, I've just upgraded my ASUS HD 7750 to a GTX 970, and the resulting performance increase isn't what I was expecting. I've loaded up Wolfenstein: The New Order and every time I turn the mouse textures load in and there seems to be significant slowdown.

I have all the settings on ultra, but i'm getting maybe 3/40 FPS at best, and to be honest I was expecting more from this card. I've installed new drivers, so i'm not entirely sure whats up with it. Can anyone shed some light on the issue?

Thanks

 

[Sinistercr0c]

Whats the specof the rest of your system? Its possible your CPU bound depending on your processor.

 

[headphonehelp]

Whats the specof the rest of your system? Its possible your CPU bound depending on your processor.

My Processor is an AMD A8-5500 APU 3.20ghz, I have 12gb of RAM too.

 

[Sinistercr0c]

Your processor is a quad core with onboard gfx (Radeon HD 7560D). Given the GTX970 is a mid table, high end GPU (only the GTX980 and 980Ti surpass it) I'd hazard a guess that your CPU isn't capable of providing enough data to the GPU....looking at other posts on the same CPU/GPU combination most responses appear to agree:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2311245/bottleneck.html

I'd suggest looking at a CPU upgrade within the same family otherwise your looking at spending a bunch of money going to a whole new architecture

 

[headphonehelp]

Your processor is a quad core with onboard gfx (Radeon HD 7560D). Given the GTX970 is a mid table, high end GPU (only the GTX980 and 980Ti surpass it) I'd hazard a guess that your CPU isn't capable of providing enough data to the GPU....looking at other posts on the same CPU/GPU combination most responses appear to agree:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2311245/bottleneck.html

I'd suggest looking at a CPU upgrade within the same family otherwise your looking at spending a bunch of money going to a whole new architecture

Thanks for the info.

What CPU would you reccomend?

 

[Sinistercr0c]

Looking on AMD's website, yours is an FM2 processor so the highest A8 CPU in that family is the A8-5600K.

I'm no CPU expert so I don't know for example if FM2+ and FM2 are backwardly compatible (i.e if you can have an FM2+ mobo and fit and FM2 APU into it)

You need to confirm what socket type your motherboard is (fingers crossed its FM2+) as this opens up a whole new generation of APU's, right up to the A8-6600K.

I also don't know if you're able to fit A10 APU's, as if you could then you'd potentially be able to upgrade to an A10-6790K

Post on the motherboards or CPU's forum regarding the above and see what answers you get.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_accelerated_processing_unit_microprocessors

Good luck.