Hi all
I just got a new PC and while this isn’t an issue as such, I feel like the performance in game should be higher than it is given the specs.
The specs are
Intel i9-13900KF
RTX 4080
32gb Ram
With no addons, everything set to good, dynamic spells, 1080 res and 0% render scale im sat in valdraken at around 70/80 fps. Think this seems kind of low given the spec? I’d assumed it would melt through wow.
Sorry if this is perceived as greedy 
Not really. I doubt you’re the only one feeling that. It can be so much better than it is, but also it feels like something must be wrong with it if you have that fps with your configuration. Are you using vsync/is your fps limited? Try removing. Are you using addons? Check if some aren’t bugged/old for the patch
Thanks for the reply.
No addons enabled and vsync is disabled. I do have a max fps set but it is sat at 144.
I ran a benchmarking software on the system and it scored like I’d expect so I’m not sure why the performance in wow is so low?
Considering doing a fresh install. Can I delete the wtf folder to reset all the settings to default?
Having a i7- 10xxx-ish on my PC, i can point the first wow-related problem you have on your config that will not appear in most other games.
Your Intel i9-13900KF is a 24 core processor, and Wow is pretty bad at multi-core management and only use 4 cores maximum, which means you processor is only using 1/6 of it’s power on Wow and is run probably on the same main cores that run your Windows on.
And since Wow is a High CPU usage game and doesn’t rely on your GPU too much aside of recent additions in the game, like RTX shadows or shaders, you get a reduced framerate due to those 4 core runing while the remaining cores does not have any work to do.
Is it the only problem,? 
But it’s something worth to know.
I see. That makes sense. Maybe I should check the clock speed and look into slightly over clocking
Those FPS seem normal to me if this is with many people in one spot, like infront of the AH.
More players means less FPS in this game because of the severe CPU-limit.
So because a new content patch is out and many players are returning to wow, your FPS on average will be lower than before the patch.
With a 5800X3D here, before the patch standing in the middle looking to the AH, i had between 85-105 FPS usually.
Now with noticeably more players, my FPS are more like 70-90.
This is with custom settings (7 but some higher, some lower).
The only gfx settings that will give you an FPS increase when you are CPU limited in WoW is the view distance and the LOD (environmental detail), but only if you are outside (not in raids, unless they are wide open).
Most of the performance issues stem from the game engine struggling to hold up with the new environments. The game is old and has only really ever been added onto, never literally remastered/reworked.
If I go to older places, especially Outlands where there is nothing spectacular going on in the World, I get way above 500 FPS but 70-100 FPS in Valdrakken seems to be the very max the engine can put up for as my GPU/CPU usage is <20% in all of WoW.
This is easily explainable by the increases in mesh density and drawcalls over the expansions.
There is only so many drawcalls a CPU can handle on one thread.
The WoW engine is very limited by a CPUs IPC since it does not multithread well, actually it’s more like 1,5 CPU threads 
This is also the reason why performance in raids is so bad.
The combatlog and all the addons run on one and the same thread.
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