[SOLVED] My friend can barely reach 144FPS

[DracoB0T]

Dear User,

Hello, my friend recently brought a PC with 8GB of RAM 2666MHz, I5-9400F, and RTX 2060 with a 144Hz Monitor. With these specs, he can barely reach 144FPS in-game Fortnite in 1080P.

Is it normal with these specs or is there something wrong. I had a GTX 1660 Ti, 8GB of RAM and I5-9600K not to long ago. About 4 months ago before I upgraded, and I could get way more FPS. Please help!

 

[sizzling]

Is his RAM 1x8gb or 2x4gb?
Get him to run userbenchmark and share the public link to the results.

 

[ChumP]

Assuming that both of you upgraded to the RTX 2060, the difference might be(check out @sizzling suggestion too) down to the CPU itself.

A 9400f boosts much lower compared to the 9600k. A big part in higher fps at lower resolutions(like 1080) is played by the CPU... both of your CPUs have similar IPC, but yours has a much higher single core turbo(and subsequently all core).

 

[DracoB0T]

Assuming that both of you upgraded to the RTX 2060, the difference might be(check out @sizzling suggestion too) down to the CPU itself.

A 9400f boosts much lower compared to the 9600k. A big part in higher fps at lower resolutions(like 1080) is played by the CPU... both of your CPUs have similar IPC, but yours has a much higher single core turbo(and subsequently all core).

Assuming that both of you upgraded to the RTX 2060, the difference might be(check out @sizzling suggestion too) down to the CPU itself.

A 9400f boosts much lower compared to the 9600k. A big part in higher fps at lower resolutions(like 1080) is played by the CPU... both of your CPUs have similar IPC, but yours has a much higher single core turbo(and subsequently all core).

Dear User,

Well I upgraded to RTX 2060 Super and I have I7-9700K with 32GB of RAM. He still has the same. But he was wondering will the i7-9700K boost his FPS if he upgrades?

 

[alceryes]

Let's have both of you run UserBenchmark and post links to the results. It takes less than 5 minutes to download and run.

 

[jasonf2]

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Nvidia-RTX-2060/Rating/4034
Those are the established benchmarks for that card. I would say that the performance you are seeing is probably normal. While 1080p at 60 hz is easily hit by most low/mid range hardware today pushing high frequency still takes high tier hardware. My son was drooling over a 360hz monitor the other day. Benchmarks are far and few between but reliable 360 fps on all games in 1080 is questionable even on a 3090. These gaming monitors at 120hz and above take some pretty good hardware to reliably push.

 

[DracoB0T]

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Nvidia-RTX-2060/Rating/4034
Those are the established benchmarks for that card. I would say that the performance you are seeing is probably normal. While 1080p at 60 hz is easily hit by most low/mid range hardware today pushing high frequency still takes high tier hardware. My son was drooling over a 360hz monitor the other day. Benchmarks are far and few between but reliable 360 fps on all games in 1080 is questionable even on a 3090. These gaming monitors at 120hz and above take some pretty good hardware to reliably push.

This is true. However I feel an i9-10900K and ASUS RTX 3090 with FPS boosts could reach the potential. However, I'm playing safe and going for ACER 240Hz.

 

[jasonf2]

This is true. However I feel an i9-10900K and ASUS RTX 3090 with FPS boosts could reach the potential. However, I'm playing safe and going for ACER 240Hz.

In some games yes, but not in all which is what I define to be reliable. But my real point was simply that a lot of people think that because 4k is so much more pixel intensive that any entry level video card today can push 1080 at any speed. In real world performance though any 1600 series card you buy will run a 60hz monitor in 1080 in just about any game you buy. But to push a 144hz monitor you are still going to be in a 2070 series card. 1080 is less render intensive, but consistent 144fps is still taking pretty a pretty high end CPU and GPU.