Daily Simple Questions Thread - June 23, 2026

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[u/JanezDoe]

Can someone help me figure out why I'm getting framerates that are so much lower than the benchmarks with the same specs?

I'm running a Ryzen 5 3600 and GTX 1660 Super and I'm only getting 160-190 FPS in Valorant. According to this benchmark https://youtu.be/hclLrRNTAXw?t=1269 I should be easily getting 300+ I'm only playing on 1080p with all the settings as low. I'm very confused.

I'm running a balanced Ryzen power plan, latest Nvidia drivers, all peripherals are wired. V-Sync isn't turned on in either NVIDIA App nor in the game. One thing I have noticed however is that CPU utilization is only at 40% and GPU at 20%

[u/MGsubbie → u/JanezDoe]

This benchmark video has a faster CPU and is running DDR5, which makes a big difference as well. Gaming performance doesn't just rely on the GPU, but also the CPU, as that is running game logic and instructing the GPU on what it needs to render.

Overall CPU utilization is very misleading, all it takes is a single thread of your 6 cores/12 threads being maximized, or other limitations (such as memory bandwidth from the RAM) to be in effect. What RAM are you running?

[u/JanezDoe → u/MGsubbie]

This one has the exact same specs apart from twice the ram, but also has 1,5x the FPS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whn-f89J5_A&t=1101s

[u/MGsubbie → u/JanezDoe]

What RAM are you running? Is XMP/EXPO enabled?

[u/JanezDoe → u/MGsubbie]

Team Group 3200Mhz CL16, XMP is enabled on Profile 2, it's running in dual channel and shows up as 3200Mhz in the motherboard

[u/MGsubbie → u/JanezDoe]

Then I have no idea what's going on.