No performance boost after overclocking

[Nika_YT]

So I overclocked my R7 260x 2GB to 1250/1660 and no performance boost what so ever. I coundn't get even 1 fps more, can you advice me why?

 

[Dunlop0078]

What cpu are you using?

 

[Nika_YT]

What cpu are you using?

AMD Athlon X4 760K overclocked to 4.0GHz.

 

[Dunlop0078]

What game? Have you tried a bunch of different games to see if their is any difference in performance?

 

[Nika_YT]

What game? Have you tried a bunch of different games to see if their is any difference in performance?

I only tried GTA 5 because that's the only game thats struggling to get a performance boost. Doesn't matter what settings I run it on it keeps being at 30 fps with annoying drops to 24-27 fps.

 

[Dunlop0078]

What game? Have you tried a bunch of different games to see if their is any difference in performance?

I only tried GTA 5 because that's the only game thats struggling to get a performance boost. Doesn't matter what settings I run it on it keeps being at 30 fps with annoying drops to 24-27 fps.

Well gta v is very cpu heavy I would guess its your cpu thats holding back your performance not the gpu and if thats the case an overclock to the gpu will do little to nothing. If you have msi afterburner or something, monitor your cpu and gpu usage while playing gta v if cpu usage is on average higher than gpu usage or gpu usage is just low thats your problem.

 

[Nika_YT]

What game? Have you tried a bunch of different games to see if their is any difference in performance?

I only tried GTA 5 because that's the only game thats struggling to get a performance boost. Doesn't matter what settings I run it on it keeps being at 30 fps with annoying drops to 24-27 fps.

Well gta v is very cpu heavy I would guess its your cpu thats holding back your performance not the gpu and if thats the case an overclock to the gpu will do little to nothing. If you have msi afterburner or something, monitor your cpu and gpu usage while playing gta v if cpu usage is on average higher than gpu usage or gpu usage is just low thats your problem.

I monitor it all the time and GPU is always at 99-100% load while CPU is only at 70-80% sometimes even at 50-60%

 

[geofelt]

You are cpu limited.
Most games are limited by the performance of the single master thread.
Task manager utilization can be very misleading.
Windows spreads cpu activity from one thread among all the available threads.
Your games are likely only using 2 or at most 3 threads.
X4-760K has a single thread passmark rating of 1437. Virtually all amd processors, including FX-6 and FX8 have single thread ratings in the 1500 range.

If you want to do better, plan on changing to a Intel cpu.
The I3-6100 would be a nice boost, it has a single thread rating of 2102.