I do try and play on ultra settings
spec is…
Asus be quiet! Dark Base 900 Full Tower Gaming Case
Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero Wi-Fi (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard
AMD Ryzen 9 5900x CPU
AMD RADEON RX6900 XT 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Noctua NH-D15S chromax.black CPU cooler
Kingston Fury Beast 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual Channel
be quiet! Straight Power 11 850W 80 Plus Platinum Modular Power Supply
Alienware AW3423DW 34" monitor
I am regularly below 60 fps. Other games are all well over 110 fps.
Is wow not good with AMD?
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You don’t have a CPU?
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What monitor do you have?? Your fps could be restricted by your refresh rate
holy moly that computer is a mess no wonder u only get 100 fps from games …
ur suposed to have 150 fps in games so u can use a 144 montor
Low FPS can be caused by a ton of things, you need to be more specific when exactly it happens.
If it happens even when you’re alone or in valdrakken, then it’s most likely GPU related. If it happens once you enter combat in a raid, it’s most likely CPU.
Even a single bad addon or weakaura can easily nuke your FPS.
You need to open windows resource manager (ctrl+shift+escape) and keep an eye on which one is maxed when the fps drops.
We still don’t know your CPU and GPU specs.
Anyway, I use an R7 5800X with an RX 6900 XT, and have no problems, game runs well over a 100 FPS at 2K resolution. Except in valdrakken, and around world bosses where a lot of people are crammed together in a tight space. WoW’s engine is very old, and despite the constant updates it gets, it still performs terribly when it needs to handle tons of NPCs and / or player characters. In those situation it doesn’t matter what kind of hardware you throw at the game, it’s not going to give you good performance.
Added now I must have left it off spec
Double check raytracing option isn’t on.
Maybe worth to ddu and reinstall recent recommended driver (22.11.2 (took them long enough)) rather than any optional.
If you do end up going for a clean WoW install backup your interface & wtf folder. If you go in to wtf folder in to all your saved variables under each character, addons you dont use anymore also leave files behind in there which you can delete.
Dragonflight dungeons are severely unoptimized, you realise that when you do some timewalking and get into something like the everbloom, a dungeon that i would argue looks just as good as current dungeons, and there is 200 mobs and plants all over your screen, yet i maintain almost perfect 120 fps ( my limit due to 120hz) throughout the entire dungeon no matter what happens.
meanwhile in dungeons like brackenhide hollow i dip down to the 45-55 range quite often eventhough in my opinion the dungeon looks bad and shouldnt require much effort for my pc to render.
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Unfortunately even the new Ryzen tech doesn’t hold up. I was using a Bulldozer CPU (also AMD, before Ryzen existed) and that one was even worse, upgrading to Ryzen 7 didn’t do it either. Runs great on other games but not with World of Warcraft.
I have now changed back to Intel (i7 12700k) and the problem is solved. I had lag in Ashran, Valdrakken and even Wintergrasp. Also World Bosses and anything raid group related tanked my fps very hard.
FPS hits really came from those huge fights/a lot of things going on which the CPU just couldn’t handle, clearly.
Swapping it out for Intel did the job.
Im on a 5800x and still running my old GTX1080 @2k 165hz gsync monitor and my game runs perfectly, ive also tried an RX6700 gpu in there and it runs even better ofc but it was just an experiment to see what gpu im gonna buy if it was enough to handle it. Its probably most likely a setting such as ray tracing and lets face it, even 3090ti’s couldnt truely handle ray tracing. Sounds to me like you had a setting wrong or something because i ran a 6700k when it was new out along with the gtx 1080 and at the time it was the best gaming hardware money could buy out with adding a second or third 1080, (1080ti didnt come out for about 6 months later) and i feel 0 difference in smoothness just because im on an AMD CPU even when i coupled it with an AMD GPU.
P.S been overclocking for a long time as well, way back when the interconnect was coupled with the ram frequency so I know hardware pretty well, even studied it at college.
Try disabling SMT, SMT is basically like having a big mouth (1 core) and splitting it into 2 small mouths that have the same volume as the 1 big mouth but split in half. WoW’s engine uses a single core so if you have SMT enabled it could be restricting the bandwidth on your single cores. You see this in many games where single thread performance still trumps there’s a lot of info on youtube about it, benchmarks with on and off etc.
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Dont listen to anyone telling you to swap to intel, AMD CPU’s perform right up there along with intel CPU’s and their high end GPU’s also the same. Take advice from someone like Gamers Nexus on youtube. They deep delve into hardware like nobody else and they are more than happy to call out bad products when they come across them.
I dont see anything wrong with his settings.
His monitor is also fine.
His CPU cant be compared to your bulldozer. Your bulldozer CPU is MUCH worse.
His CPU outclasses your CPU even in many games
He may not jsut have proper CPU chipset driver installed and its energy settings.
I wasn’t comparing my Bulldozer. I said it was even worse, then i upgraded to Ryzen 7 and it was much better but still not “perfect” (keep in mind this is over the years not in a week)
l2read.
AMD CPU’s single core performane is nowhere near Intel i got many sources for you if you want.
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Clock for clock yeah?
I think you are perhaps making the mistake of reading the data wrong. Clock for clock ie, put both architectures on the same frequency. Regardless, I never said AMD’s single core performance is better, I only stated that there is zero issue on a new gen AMD CPU in WoW, so something was afoot with your settings if you were feeling any issues in game with a new gen AMD CPU
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Is the fps low all the time or just in specific moments?
I was referring about my Ryzen 7 1800x so that is quite behind on the latest ones, i have no input on newer version(s) as i already swapped back. And i’ve been running AMD from Bulldozer to Ryzen. Maybe the newer ones 5800x and such are much better but i haven’t touched those. Back then the benchmarks between a Ryzen 7 1800x and i7 7700k regarding single core performance was quite much. If that’s less now, well great for AMD 
My pc history:
AMD FX8350 - AMD R9 280x
AMD Ryzen 7 1800x - AMD R9 280x (later swapped for RTX 2070 super)
Current: i7 12700k & RTX 2070 super
Overall, and again this is in my instance - game runs way smoother now then before. Haven’t swapped RAM, still the same 3200 mhz 16gb and only 700W psu.
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