CSGO GeForce 940MX

[DanielPangz]

I have an ASUS X556U Laptop with
i5-7200U @2.5GHz, ~2,7GHz
4GB DDR4 RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 2GB DDR3
Windows 10

I am playing csgo averaging 50 fps at low setting and 1080p resolution.
I think thats a bit low. Whats wrong with my laptop?

 

[dalauder]

While the 940MX is a weak discrete card, CSGO is a very lightweight game.

There's a possibility the DDR3 memory bandwidth is too low to play anything well on 1080p though. I'd have to look up benchmarks that other people report with that card. I'm nearly certain that it's designed for 720p gaming: http/www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-940MX.156033.0.html

It says the DDR3 384-shader version is about equal to the 940M: http/www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-940M.138027.0.html

Download and install GPU-Z to see which version you have as well as your memory bandwidth. 2GB is not enough at 1080p for new games, but it should work for CSGO.

 

[DanielPangz]

While the 940MX is a weak discrete card, CSGO is a very lightweight game.

There's a possibility the DDR3 memory bandwidth is too low to play anything well on 1080p though. I'd have to look up benchmarks that other people report with that card. I'm nearly certain that it's designed for 720p gaming: http/www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-940MX.156033.0.html

It says the DDR3 384-shader version is about equal to the 940M: http/www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-940M.138027.0.html

Download and install GPU-Z to see which version you have as well as your memory bandwidth. 2GB is not enough at 1080p for new games, but it should work for CSGO.

Thank you. I saw that DDR3 is weaker than the DDR5. Heres the screenshot of the GPU-Z.

 

[dalauder]

The bandwidth of 14.4 GB/s isn't enough to play any modern games. Even in 2008, you'd expect over 50 GB/s bandwidth from a good graphics card. I'm sure your GPU is your bottleneck. Here's a couple ideas though:

1. Try fiddling with CSGO settings a bit and see if there's a way to select lower quality textures or shadows.
2. Go into the NVidia Control Panel (not the NVidia Experience) and change settings for the specific game of CSGO. Change all of the settings for maximum performance (instead of "quality").

 

[dalauder]

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