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[jadharvey]

Hi, I have Acer Nitro 5 - AMD Edition and I tried playing on all games and yes the laptop manage to play the game I want somehow

but it gave me kinda bit disappointing FPS on all settings (LOW OR HIGH) I have no idea how but my drivers are all up to date.

Here's my laptop specs:

OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)

Processor: AMD FX-9830P RADEON R7, 12 COMPUTE CORES 4C+8G 3.00GHz

RAM: 4.00GB DDR4 2400MHz

GPU: RADEON RX 550 4GB GDDR5

System Overview:

Radeon Software Version - 18.2.1

Radeon Software Edition - Adrenalin

Graphics Chipset - AMD Radeon R7 Graphics

Memory Size - 80 MB

Memory Type - DDR4

Core Clock - 900 MHz

Windows Version - Windows 10 (64 bit)

System Memory - 4 GB

CPU Type - AMD FX-9830P RADEON R7, 12 COMPUTE CORES 4C+8G

The games I tried with their Unstable FPS:

- League of Legends (30 ~ 55 fps) (Same on Very Low or Ultra High Settings)

- Dota 2 (30 ~ 55 fps) (Same on Very Low or Ultra High Settings) [1080p]

- CS:GO (30 ~ 52 fps) (Same on Very Low or Ultra High Settings) [1080p]

- Minecraft (30 fps) (Same on Very Low or Ultra High Settings) [1080p] [Optifine | ON :: Shaders | ON]

- GTA V (30 ~ 50 fps) (Same on Very Low or Ultra High Settings) [1080p]

- Paladins (25 ~ 55 fps) (Same on Very Low or Ultra High Settings) [1080p]

- Rules of Survival (30 ~ 60 fps) (Same on Very Low or Ultra High Settings) [1080p]

- Borderlands 2 (30 ~ 52 fps) (Same on Very Low or Ultra High Settings) [1080p]

- Fortnite (30 ~ 52 fps) (Same on Very Low or Ultra High Settings) [1080p]

Here's my only settings available on my Radeon Settings..

Global Settings:

- Anti-aliasing Mode: Use application settings

- Anti-aliasing Method: Multisampling

- Morphological Filtering: Off

- Anisotropic Filtering Mode: Use application settings

- Texture Filtering Quality: Standard

- Surface Format Optimization: On

- Wait for Vertical Refresh: Off, unless application specifies

- OpenGL Triple Buffering: Off

- Shader Cache: AMD Optimized

- Tessellation Mode: AMD Optimized

- GPU Workload: Graphics

- Chill: Off

Other Windows/Acer Settings:

Cool Boost Technology: ON

Processor Power Management: 100% (Minimum & Maximum)

Switchable Dynamic Graphics: Maximize Performance

AMD Graphics Power Settings: Maximize Performance

I really have no idea how to fix my problem.. as you can see the games I played there's low graphic games and still unstable fps

maybe because I got 4GB Ram only?

I run games and its having unstable fps already from first to last so im not sure if its my temperature...

Please help..

[darijo · Accepted solution]

Well for gta 5 you definetly are bottlenecked by ram, I have a i3 3220 rx 560 4gb, but have 4gb ram just like you. Out of thoose games you named I only played fortnite and it runs at 50 fps mostly with some drops to low 30s/high 20s in busier areas

[jadharvey]

should I upgrade it to 8gb kit (4x2) 2400mhz ddr4 ram?

[black_zion]

Are you sure those games are using the dedicated RX 550 and not the integrated R7?

[jadharvey]

I have no idea, the settings says its running on Radeon 500 Series and it's on High Performance.

[lukeamoguis]

I have the same laptop with the same problems. Please tell me if you've found a solution. It's very frustrating on my part as even my mac can handle dota 2 better than this laptop. Maybe a software problem with amd?

[cosmin1985]

Hello, I have the same laptop with 8 GB RAM, I tried everything, I came to the conclusion that the video card is very weak (Starcraft 2 Medium 1080 20-35 FPS, Ultra 12-28 FPS). Battle for Middle earth 2 runs better with HD 630. I bought this laptop to play some old games, games that I was playing with a laptop with hd 4650 & Core 2 Duo (Low/Med Settings).  Rx 550 Mobile is a very weak card.

[lukeamoguis]

Nah bro it's not the video card. It's the processor, it's bottlenecking the

GPU. Acer didn't think this through when making this laptop. It's sad

because I saved up for a gaming laptop and the results I got was that of a

low end laptop.