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[GAMEPLAY] Low performance on AMD cards

Mîtsuha··2 votes·3,776 views

In the past, me and my friends who have had AMD cards (Me having an r7 360, others having 270x, 280x, 370) have gotten good performance using mid-low end processors (fx-4xxx, 5xxx, i3. pentium). We would get anywhere from 70 to 140 frames depending on the situation ingame.

We've all gotten better cards (Vega 56, rx 480, rx 580, 1070) and processors (1800x, 7700k, 6700k, 4790k) and the only one who seems to get higher performance is the friend with the 1070, while all of us have actually sunk in FPS, all of us AMD card users averaging around 60-80fps on med-high while the 1070 gets 150+ on high We can play all other games with very nice FPS, but league of legends just hasn't gotten any higher frames despite the 'optimization' of the game and the upgrade of hardware.

We have all tried following the FAQ, uninstall and reinstalled drivers, upgraded bios, overclocked and reinstalled windows fresh but nothing seems to increase FPS in league of legends.

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Best Ekko NA1 votes

I'm using an RX 460 4GB with FX-6300 CPU and I average 199 - 250 FPS running the game on the max settings with frame rate uncapped. I don't think your issues are having anything to do with League of Legends itself.

Do you have a lot of start up programs enabled? Background applications tend to be really hard on processors even when they are doing nothing. I would try turning off anything running that you aren't using and disabling as many start up programs in your Task Manager as you possibly can.

Also, League of Legends (the game itself) is still running on Direct X9 as far as I know. Upgrading your computer should give a fairly significant boost as that's a really ancient engine (dating back to Windows XP era). There's nothing factually that can support the accusations you are making. You really should consider looking into other areas before venting on Riot as there's not even a possibility that any of this is their fault.

As a last note, most modern games support multiple cores and 64 bit operations. League of Legends is a 32 bit application. This means that it favors strong single core speeds more than anything else. An old computer with a higher CPU clock speed, 4.5 Ghz Duo Core for example, will run League of Legends better than even a brand new 12 core CPU running 2.5Ghz. In other games this is often not the case, as they can use more than one core to improve performance. There is nothing Riot can do about this however, without updating to a newer version of DirectX (as DirectX9 only supports the use of a single core at a time).

Mîtsuha1 votes

I tohught it was start programs and background tasks, so I fresh installed windows and disabled all the garbage like OneDrive. Before I made this post, all I had downloaded was League of Legends and the most recent AMD GPU drivers.

I'm running Ryzen 1800x overclocked to 4.1ghz and a Vega56 overclocked to 1550mhz on a fresh W10, so there's no way it's my specs.

I've tried with and without Microsoft's magic 'game mode' and disabled any xbox dvr related things. I can push 160fps at 1440p on doom maxed.

I check CPU and GPU usage during gameplay, CPU hovers around 20% and GPU hovers around 30% so they're not being used to their potential for sure.

I'm getting these low frames on med-high.

I'm not venting, I still like and play league of legends, I just noticed something's causing a huge frame disparity that only seems to be on AMD cards (Like I said in my post, nvidia using friend gets much better frames than we do maxed than we get on med, med-high)

Best Ekko NA1 votes

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I tohught it was start programs and background tasks, so I fresh installed windows and disabled all the garbage like OneDrive. Before I made this post, all I had downloaded was League of Legends and the most recent AMD GPU drivers.

I'm running Ryzen 1800x overclocked to 4.1ghz and a Vega56 overclocked to 1550mhz on a fresh W10, so there's no way it's my specs.

I've tried with and without Microsoft's magic 'game mode' and disabled any xbox dvr related things. I can push 160fps at 1440p on doom maxed.

I check CPU and GPU usage during gameplay, CPU hovers around 20% and GPU hovers around 30% so they're not being used to their potential for sure.

I'm getting these low frames on med-high.

I'm not venting, I still like and play league of legends, I just noticed something's causing a huge frame disparity that only seems to be on AMD cards (Like I said in my post, nvidia using friend gets much better frames than we do maxed than we get on med, med-high)

Nvidia cards usually have more CUDA cores than AMD. That's because Nvidia tailors to businesses more than gamers. Don't get me wrong, they do SUPPORT gaming.. now days more than ever (because it's become more marketable) but in the past (and even currently) their biggest market is aimed towards crowds such as engineers and professional animators.

AMD's market is cheap budget GPU's. It's always been that way, and it still is even to this day. They sacrifice the power in cards that isn't really needed (excessive CUDA cores, RAM, etc.) and keep only what's needed so they can market decent hardware at a cost efficient price. I'm no expert on all the different GPU's available, but I do know that if you are looking for power (in a GPU) Nvidia is always going to outclass AMD simply because AMD isn't marketing to the business class (and doesn't design cards for it).

Seanaanigans1 votes

Best Ekko NA, that might possibly be the dumbest comment I've ever read. The RX Vega 64 has 4096 cuda cores in comparison to the GTX 1080's 2560 cuda cores. They trade blows in games and RX Vega has much high 1% lows than the GTX line.

As for the original post, it has nothing to do with AMD hardware, but something software related on League of Legend's end. I too am experiencing rather low FPS with a 1700x @ 4.0GHz and ASUS Strix RX Vega 64. I get higher FPS in Battlefield 1 on Ultra settings (120+ fps) than I do on League of Legends (80-100 fps). So obviously there is an issue.

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