First - Before anyone says something stupid like "get a new computer"
CPU: FX 8350 overclocked to 4.8ghz on all 8 cores. GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 FTW RAM: 32GB
Why can I push out 60FPS on all AAA title games on ultra ... yet dip down in the 50's at times while playing league?
Please optimize your game. This never happened prior to season 8.
Modl Ryden l2 votesHas v-sync enabled Has a 59 Hz monitor
Ýisus1 votesmonitor is a 120hz - I will check v-sync enabled... but even with vsync I should be hitting way above my current. ( in season 6 / 7 my league FPS count was in the 350+ range. It is something to do with the new client I think.
Chibi Bronzlife1 votesit is not the "new client" I'd suggest defrag, running virus checking software, and a bunch of hardware related options.
MagicFlyingLlama1 votesYour computer is broken/damaged or you have serious driver issues, you should never fall below 60 on that on max settings in any conditions.
You do have a shit CPU, but it is still overkill for league and would only be an issue going for over 150 fps.
An iGPU 5% of the power of your dGPU can do 60 fps in league.
Ýisus1 votesI will admit the CPU isn't amazing. But with the overclocking done up to 4.8ghz - it competes with the mass majority of intel chips. I am sure we will both agree that the fx8350 @ 4.8ghz is an overkill for any gaming application ( maybe not rendering applications ) but for raw gaming it is a well above any game on the market currently.
MagicFlyingLlama1 votesIt is not, actually. Barely sufficient for a lot of modern games at 60Hz and cripplingly bad if trying to target 120/144Hz.
The IPC difference between Piledriver and Ryzen is over 40%, and there is another 5% (roughly) between that and Skylake / Intel 14NM IPC, clock speed is only a useful metric when comparing chips in the same architecture, but clockspeed * IPC gives a rough idea of how fast they actually are, before worrying about latency and other oddities.
TL;DR a 4.8Ghz Piledriver CPU is about as fast as a 3.2Ghz Skylake or Ryzen.
As a comparison, a lot of newer games require a 4.8-5.2Ghz Kaby/Coffee Lake (Skylake with minor tweaks) to reach 120 fps with any GPU. Some games simply cant due to being too limited by single-core speed.
Definitely better for rendering than gaming - in fact that is the only reason anyone well-informed in hardware ever bought one, in an age where other 8-core simply did not exist remotely close to the same price.
Totally fine for LoL and other e-sports at 60Hz, which is the vast majority of gaming, though.
Current games are rapidly shifting towards 6 threads (or even 8/12/16 for a few), due to how popular the R5 1600 was last year and the release of Coffee Lake. And as CPU speeds have not increased meaningfully for over 5 years, while games continue to get more complex and use higher polycounts (animation/physics load), CPU and RAM threads/speed are becoming more and more important; "only GPU matters for games" was true 10 years ago (and for 10 year old games), but not anymore.
need a namexD1 votesi close explorer just to make league playable [zombie-nunu-bummed]