Graphics Cards

[DamNo7]

I recently bought a RX550 off of amazon from maxsun, and it hasn't been preforming as well as it should despite having better specs than my previous graphics card. I tried playing Yakuza Kawami 2 off steam and I get 20 fps on medium and 14 on high, even though with my previous graphics card I got around 40-45. I've even tried formatting my PC to see if it was corrupted drives and no luck. Here are my builds specs

PC model: Dell Inspiron 3847

OS: Windows 10 home 64x

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10GHz

RAM: 2x8 GB DDR3 (16 GB total)

GPU: RADEON RX 550 4GB GDDR5

Software

Drivers: 22.20.26-220823a-383491C-AMD-Software-PRO-Edition

AMD software: Adrenalin Edition Version 22.Q3

Useable Memory Size: 4096 MB

Core Clock: 1071 MHz

Memory Type: GDDR5

Memory Clock: 1500 MHz

Global Settings

Anti-Lag: Enabled

Radeon Chill: Disabled

Radeon Boost: Disabled

Radeon Image Sharpening: Enabled

Sharpness: 80%

Radeon Enhanced Sync: Disabled

Wait For Vertical Refresh: Off, unless application specifies

Anti-Aliasing: Use application settings

Anti-Aliasing Method: Multisampling

Morphological Anti-Aliasing: Disabled

Anisotrophic Filtering: Disabled

Texture Filtering Quality: Standard

Surface Format Optimization: Enabled

Tessellation Mode: AMD optimized

OpenGL Triple Buffering: disabled

10-bit pixel format: Disabled

GPU Workload: graphics

One thing for me to note is that my computer is from 2017 and I've been jacking it with ram and graphics. I don't know if there for there is a problem with the motherboard or what not but it's been fine in every other department besides graphics.

If someone can help me find a solution to this I'll be forever grateful.

[Shinii · Accepted solution]

The rx 550 is an old graphics card, your lucky to get 15 fps

[DamNo7]

Maybe so, but it should do better than 15 fps anyway. My previous graphics card was a 2gb and ran the game at 40. I figured out the issue anyway. Turns out the graphics card was either faulty or the sale was a scam because the ram came up as only 1 million bytes. I accepted for a return and luckily got a refund. Also age doesn't mean power, the thing still is pretty alright judging from the benchmarks.

[goodplay]

Out of curiosity, what was your previous card?

[DamNo7]

It was a Radeon R7 200 series. It was a little power house and ran most things pretty well which blew my mind, but I gave over to a friend since he was in need of graphics card and I was already gonna get a new one; so much for that though. I'm currently using a Radeon HD 7770 Series which isn't as good, but it's all I got at the moment.

[goodplay]

You would need a rx560 to beat some of the r7 200 series on performance.