I just built a new gaming PC and I'm experiencing some frustrating performance issues. Here are my specs: 9070xt GPU, 7800x3d CPU, Kingston Fury 32 GB RAM at 6000 MHz, Kraken Plus 240 RGB cooler, NZXT Flow H7 RGB 2024 case, Gigabyte B850 Eagle WiFi 7 ICE motherboard, and a couple of SSDs (a Kingston SA2000M81000G 1TB and Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB, both from my old PC). After formatting the Kingston SSD and doing a fresh Windows install, I added the Samsung SSD for my games. When playing titles like BG3, Cyberpunk, and FF7 Rebirth, I'm getting far lower FPS than I anticipated— I mean, only about 90 FPS at 1440p without ray tracing in Cyberpunk. Plus, there are huge frame drops during scene changes, sometimes dropping to 40 FPS or lower. My CPU and GPU temps are both under 60°C, and I've updated all drivers and the BIOS. My RAM is set to EXPO and working in dual channel. I also disabled x3d boost, and both CPU and GPU usage typically hover under 90% and 80%, respectively. I noticed some 'system interrupts' in Task Manager with around 2% CPU usage, but I'm unsure how much this affects performance. Any ideas on what might be behind these issues? Also, I found that the micro-stutter percentage in Adrenaline was consistently between 60 and 80% while playing FF7 Remake. Thanks for your help!
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Have you made sure to include the latest chipset drivers? I assume you’re using Windows 11 build 25H2? That might help with performance issues.
Your Cinebench CPU score looks good at around 1033, and your Furmark 1440p score at 13652 points also seems fine. Still, I’m a bit concerned that your Cyberpunk benchmark only shows 108 FPS under those settings. Do you run any programs while gaming? That might be causing some interference.
No heavy programs while gaming, just MSI Afterburner, NZXT CAM, and Adrenaline.
I wonder if there's an issue with how the games were installed. If they were originally set up on an Nvidia GPU with an Intel CPU in your old rig, there might be leftover shaders messing things up. Did you clean install the games on your new PC after formatting?
Yes, I'm on Win 11 25H2. I updated the chipset drivers through Adrenaline. I just noticed that when I opened Ryzen Master, it said EXPO Mode was disabled and my memory clock was at 4800 MT/S. But in BIOS, it's set to 6000 MHz.