Hello, I recently started playing again on my new Laptop, but I noticed really low FPS, in Dornogal I get around 30-50 FPS, with GPU and CPU running both on 20-30%, during big world events, I was running on 20-30 FPS, with GPU usage dropping to 15-20%.
I honestly tried everything, or atleast I believe so, my powerplan is set to Performance, I tried the game without addons, I disabled dGPU and many other things that I found on internet featuring this issue. I know Laptop with RTX 4060 isnt really a high end PC, but having 30 FPS during bigger fights isnt normal in my opinion, I had the same amount of FPS on my old laptop with RTX 3050.
I have this issue only with WOW.
You are CPU limited, not GPU.
WoW is mostly a singlethreaded game, thus the low CPU usage, but still limited.
Make sure your CPU is boosting to it’s max speed while playing WoW and is not throttling due to heat e.g.
Like the previous person said, World of Warcraft needs insane CPU single-thread performance.
What are your in-game graphic settings? Some of them cause insane FPS loss, like Liquid Detail and Shadows. Try setting them to the lowest possible option.
Even World First raiders (Echo, Liquid etc), drop down to 50FPS during raids. And they extremely good computers.
Really wish Blizzard would optimize their raids so there aren’t so many events durings boss that causes very bad FPS. And also, Nerubar Palace and this raid have many NPC models that aren’t part of the raid, like really many NPC models that are outside of the raid. It causes very bad FPS because all of them have to be calculated and rendered.
And also, there apparently is a problem with nameplates, i think it was someone who develops the ELV UI addon. And the issue is that Blizzard put the opacity to 0% (invisible), instead of disabling friendly nameplates, so they are “enabled” even if you disable them. Try hiding your UI (default keybind: ALT+Z), and either enable the FPS counter in WOW (I think defualt keybid is CTRL+R or something), and then stand in Dornogal where there are many players, and see if FPS goes up. I gain like 30+FPS when i do this).
And since you had the same FPS on your old laptop, which CPU and other specs did it have? Apparently the RAM configuration can play a role (if it’s jus 1 stick so it uses “single-channel” instead of two sticks for “dual channel”. Maybe your old laptop had dual channel and your new laptop has single-channel?
Sry wall of text, but it’s just really sad that people who don’t have the bestest computers borderline can’t play the game with satisfactory FPS. Blizzard literally loses money and players by not optimizing their game. If I had 30FPS during raid, I would probably just quit or at the very least stop spending money on faction/race changes.
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50? They would be more than happy if that was the case 
I’ve watched some 30man splits and also some 20m mythic prog and they had insane drops on some fights (some due to WAs ofc), like 20ish FPS.
On my 5800X3D, i’ve had drops to the 30s in 30man raids and drops to 40s in 20man still.
Even streamers with a 9800X3D have drops to sub 60 but not as frequent.
So there basically is no way to play WoW with a high refreshrate in raids atm, even on the best hardware.
This will only get worse, as it already did (thus the level squish every couple xcpacs, numbers getting too big). We’re in the million dps already again, like in legion.
Blizz hasn’t improved the multithreading for addons in 20 years, only GPU features upgraded and data streaming, so i don’t have any hope for the next xpac(s).
Also Blizz is very slow in fixing broken tech stuff in general (Diablo 4 too), like the broken renderscale, has been like 9 months now i think.
Yeah nameplates have a high FPS cost if turned on and there are many mobs/players.
RAM is a big factor, especially on non X3D chips. Intel scales well with RAM speed and CPU-limited games obviously benefit alot from fast RAM.
Well unless you have a 7800X3D or 9800X3D or something like a 13900K/14900K, then good luck getting more than 30 in a 20man+ raid grp
I’d say a 5700X3D is like the minimum now to have a “playable” experience in mass encounters.