upgrade from gtx560 2gb superclocked to gtx760 low frame rates.

[dbruce1990]

Hi, I just upgraded from a gtx560 2gb gdrr5 superclock to a gtx 760 and I am not noticing ANY difference in frame rates.

I havn't had tons of time to test but in diablo 3 with vsync sitting at 60 fps with the gtx560, in combat I would usually drop to about 20-30 fps. Just a quick test with the 760, and I am getting the same results. It does not feel like an upgrade to me...

With vsync turned off, with the gtx560 I would sit around 105 fps. With the gtx760 I appear to be sitting at 70-80 or so...

 

[damric]

I doubt you will see any improvement. D3 is a very CPU bound game.

 

[dbruce1990]

Hmm. I just tested in WoW as well and I don't see any improvements. On ultra settings in WoW with the 560 flying around outside of the pandarian cities I would get about 30 fps. I'm getting 25-30 as well with the 760. No difference...

 

[Jonathan Tyer]

Whats the rest of your PC?

 

[damric]

WoW is another CPU bound game, even more so than D3.

 

[photonboy]

*Looking at this BENCHMARK, it sounds like you've got a weak CPU that would bottleneck things in many games:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/diablo-iii-performance-benchmark,3195-6.html

Even a Phenom II X2 (dual-core) CPU was averaging 103FPS with a GTX580.

Tell us what CPU you have, but from what you report it sounds like it is so weak that it's completely bottlenecking the GTX760 most of the time.

 

[dbruce1990]

cpu: Amd phenom II x4 945
ram: 16gb ddr3 1600 9-9-9-24
ssd running OS and games, hdd for all documents etc.

 

[damric]

cpu: Amd phenom II x4 945
ram: 16gb ddr3 1600 9-9-9-24
ssd running OS and games, hdd for all documents etc.

If you have a descent enough motherboard and PSU you could try some overclocking on the CPU and CPU-NB. IT would help.

 

[photonboy]

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Phenom+II+X4+945

Your CPU scores less than HALF of a modern CPU. It's also WORSE than this indicates because it's an AMD CPU with weak per-core so game benchmarks would be even LOWER relative to a modern INTEL CPU.

Your CPU scores about 40% of the i7-3770 so in games would likely be closer to a THIRD of the performance (i.e. 20FPS instead of 60FPS).

OVERCLOCKING:
Always helps, but can only help to a maximum of the overclock. For example, a 20% overclock at best raises you to 24FPS from 20FPS.