just for reference, Im running a crappy GT1030
I just set it to 10 on settings, then turned SSAO off (its pointless but eats FPS) and cut my view distance back a bit.
Orgrimmar is packed right now and Im staying at my set cap of 60 FPS without a problem.
Even around the fires where my screen is filled with particles the lowest its going is 56 fps.
If this trashy GT1030 can run the game, Im sure what your looking at can assuming your CPU is half decent.
WoW could run on this:
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Short version: RX 570 is probably what you’re looking for; it’s cheaper than a 1650 with better performance.
TL;DR version: There’s no reason a 1650 wouldn’t work in your computer. That said, based on the 1650’s price, I’m going to assume your budget is around $150. The RX 570 4 GB or RX 580 8 GB is what you want if you’re on a budget. If you buy used on ebay, the RX 570 will run you around $90 and the RX 580 around $120. New ones will run about $30-40 more.
I’d suggest the RX 580 if you can fork out a little more money. It’ll help future proof your computer a bit.
Stay away from the 1650. Price to performance isn’t worth it, but more importantly, it’s only a 5% performance upgrade from the GTX 770, while the RX 570 is around 25% (at least). AMD is the king when it comes to budget and mid tier cards without compromising quality, and the RX 570 is cheaper than the 1650.
actually out of curiousity tried it again.
The SSAO on ultra drops the FPS from 60 down to 41.
Turned it off and and the FPS goes back up to my preset limit of 60.
SSAO kills framerates. Far too big a hit and It doesnt really seem to add anything I can see to the eye candy.
What does the SSAO even do. I was playing around in settings yesterday and enabling Vsync helped a bit but haven’t tried SSAO
If you’re just playing WoW you would be ok with a 1050 or 1060
I think I read that it adds like shadow effects to stuff like particles. Not really even useful. Pointless framerate hit.
Um. I’m still using 670 and have no issues. Why do you think your 770 is wearing out?
I run a GTX1060 and never drop under 60 with high settings.
I did this, i run 60 fps in most zones, but high density areas my computer goes down to like 30 fps. Around Boralus in particular
2080 or bust.
im not even sure a good graphics card helps with WoW. I thought there was a patch with 8.1 where the game was going to run better but I noticed little difference
I have GTX 750 Ti and it runs wow just fine.
My 1060 6Gb model benchmarks as a 100% improvement over the 1050 ti.
The difference in performance is staggering when factoring in price on this lower level cards. 1060 1660 are very very good price performance budget cards
OP, do you play any other games other than wow??
I have a gtx 1650 in an msi laptop. 60-70 fps on ultra 88-95fps on high playing wow
Not sure but I think msi OC’s graphics cards a bit compared to stock
Gratz. Looking “forward” to my old HP 24" 1080 monitor finally dying so I can upgrade it and justify a new video card.
Well to give you a reference point, I’m running maxed out on all settings with a GTX1080Ti no problems. I’ll get frame rate loss in a giant battle of 40 v 40 but those days are gone.
OK so WoW is a CPU intensive load on your computer, not a GPU (graphics card) intensive one unless you have every setting in the game on ultra, praticularly the water and lighting/shadow and ground clutter and view distance settings. All those settings I just said will put a much heavier load on both your CPU and GPU.
Also many of us have multi-core CPUs now. Mine has a whopping 8 cores, which really really sucks for wow because before it would only use 1 of those cores. So 1 CPU core would do allllll the work to run WoW and it would get extremely hot and break my liquid cooling CPU fan every 4-6 months and I would need to replace it.
There has since been a DirectX update to help multi-core CPUs run the game much more efficiently but it still can’t run on all 8 cores simultaneously, it’s just not nearly as much of a load on one single core anymore.
I have a 4.0gHz CPU and a GTX 1080 and a WQHD high frequence monitor that also has G-SYNC to work with my GTX graphics card. I run the game on max graphics settings all the time, even in raids, even in epic bgs.
It’s really nice in certain areas like the moonlit forest by the Alliance garrison, but my stupid AMD CPU still gets so hot and I will need to make a couple more upgrades to my gaming rig to get it working at a more optimal, less hot, performance for WoW with ultra settings.
If you want to play this game on High settings, your CPU and GPU should be more than enough. There are only a couple of settings that you might have to lower that will DRASTICALLY improve performance without giving you any real noticeable drop in graphics quality.