ps3-sales! said:
Pemalite said:
First question is first.
What type of Radeon 480 do you have? There is a fairly large performance delta between the vanilla 4Gb RX 480 and and say... An 8Gb RX 480 Overclocked edition from like every manufacturer.
As for your games...
1) Black Flag is a Ubisoft game. Enough said. - Disable V-Sync or download Radeon Pro and use adaptive V-Sync, turn off HBAO+/SSAO and TXAA.
The RX 480 should be more than capable of hitting and maintaining 60fps in this title. So something is up with your rig, try fixing the problem instead of throwing money away on a new GPU which might not fix the issue.
Skyrim and the Witcher are CPU heavy. Skyrim was never a well optimized game anyway and uses an abundance of scripting. - Are you running the Special Edition which uses the Fallout 4 engine?
There are mods which can increase the amount of DRAM Skyrim can use (If you aren't using the special edition), optimize the scripting etc'.
Witcher 2 is older. Disable Ubersampling, edit the configuration file to set the FPS limit at 60 and increase the render ahead count to 2.
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With that said, Polaris, Aka. The Radeon RX 480 was never supposed to be a high-end card, people had unrealistic expectations. (Mostly because of the flops.)
It was priced and targeted as a mid-range card, so your expectations need to be aligned to match.
As for upgrading to a Geforce 1080, utterly pointless.
Your motherboard is low-end, your CPU is average... So one must assume you are only gaming at 1080P and lower anyway, so a Geforce 1080 is a waste.
You would be better served with the Geforce 1070 or upgrading the rest of your rig.
Or better yet. Upgrade none of it and get an SSD. - Using a 5400rpm must suck hardcore, how do you handle having to wait for everything to load?
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i have the vanilla 4 gb version lol.
i edited OP. i have the 7200rpm sorry heh. still bad though. a lot of people have been recommeded an ssd for windows/games. but honestly my load times aren't really terrible.
i've asked a coupple others but is it possible for me to just upgrade my cpu on my current build? the only things are would my psu and motherboard support it...
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That's probably your problem right there. The 4GB is probably bottlenecking the performance in certain games that require more VRAM.
You might be able to improve performance if you can turn down VRAM heavy settings like texture quality and render distance. Also be careful which anti-aliasing settings you choose as some are far more RAM heavy than others. Most other settings (with a few exceptions) can probably be turned up to max, althought they will all have a small contribution to VRAM usage. Resolution, textures, render distance and anti-aliasing are the main culprits to VRAM usage though.
Games like Skyrim also have pages full of ways to optimise them to Oblivion...
