OP, what speed is your RAM set to in BIOS? AMD CPUs are notoriously sensitive to RAM speeds, so if you didn’t go into BIOS to set speed to a DOCP/XMP preset it can drag your performance down quite a lot.
Regarding the Intel vs. AMD vs. Nvidia stuff… it’s all nonsense. Between my housemate and I, there’s the following hardware combos in the house:
Ryzen 5950X/RTX 3080Ti
Ryzen 5900X/Radeon 6900XT
Core i7-12700k/GTX 3070 Ti
They all handle everything that’s thrown at them quite well. Just take the time to select quality components and don’t be a cheapskate and you’ll be fine.
Also wanted to add that on my main box (the 5950X/3080Ti machine) I can run WoW with everything but antialiasing maxxed (even raytracing) and keep a solid 150FPS+ running at 2560x1440, even in intense zones in Ardenweald. I don’t think I ever changed the engine from DX12 to DX11.
I don’t know why people seem to be obsessed with crapping on AMD still after all these years, it’s not the days of bulldozer anymore and I’ll put my liquid cooled 5950X and 69(nice)00XT at 2780mhz coreclock against anything in pure rasterization at 4k (which is what I run since I play on an LG C1 oled 120hz panel)
I tell you what I am super tempted to get the 7900xt when it launches due to playing 4k 120hz I can certainly use the grunt for it, but I also want to get atleast another 2 years out of this 6900xt it wasn’t cheap and I got it at MSRP
Nope, not the case. Zen 3 is faster at WoW than Intel Alder Lake. I run both side by side, it is no contest. The man shipped a hobbyist custom PC to Alaska. That is a rough and long ride, he probably cracked some thermal paste.
I have that monitor and I had the same issue as you. Once I turned off the screen overclocking on the monitor it went away completely. I think normal is 100hz, and the visual difference is minor.
Not sure if you did this yet:
-Turn off frame limiter
-Turn off V-Sync
-Turn off FreeSync
Let it run un capped from the in-game settings, monitor, and gpu settings. Someone earlier suggested turning on FreeSync, but turning off frame limiter so this is a bit different.
Sounds like thermal throttling to me. On my sexy new 12th gen, it did that right out of the box; my solution at the end was to set a pair of power limit variables to keep in from getting to close to setting off the throttle based on temps. On my intel chip they are routinely called PL1 and PL2.
I had the same exact issue with both this game and Overwatch. I have a rtx 2060. Not the worst graphics card on the market, certainly not the best. But in no way should I be seeing a drop to 34 fps or below running this game yet I did for a long time, till I followed an article about changing my processing power being maxed out. It freaking worked. Like I literally can run at 60fps constantly, with small dips to 50 but constant 60 now. Maybe your processor is being taxed without you realizing by like background apps or something.
I know you said you made sure the monitor was displaying 120, but is the refresh rate set to 120 in the advanced graphics setting of the Windows display settings?
Is the Radeon control panel maybe throttling the performance? Is the v-sync on or set to Adaptive?
How is the CPU temp looking? Is the cooler seated properly on the CPU?
Is the GPU getting good airflow?
Is your monitor a g-sync or free-sync monitor and could that be conflicting with your Radeon GPU control panel software?
the issue isnt you its on blizzards end. their servers cant handle to many people in one area phasing and sharding was created in the game to help solve this problem but again its still an issue they refuse to solve because it requires getting new servers that wont have issues based on the amount of people in them.