My new gaming laptop is underperforming

[TheCenturion]

Hi

I recently bought the ROG Zephyrus GA502DU. Out of the box, I updated the chipset drivers, graphics drivers and bios. I've set it to use the 1660ti and not the integrated gpu.

On metro 2033 I am gettting around 80fps on max settings, around 120 on lowest settings. This game is 11 years old, I should be getting much better performance than this.

I tried some recent games - Civ VI, AOE2 and 3 DE, Dying Light. Similarly I'm getting around 60 fps, at times it's dropping to 30 fps

The laptop gets very loud when gaming but not particularly hot.

All of this is while the laptop is on charge. On battery I get 20 fps on all games, even with 'high performance' enabled in battery settings.

How can I fix this?

Thanks

 

[TheCenturion]

What were you expecting? 60fps on a laptop 1660ti max-q sounds pretty reasonable (https://youtu.be/rCrCV71x8G0?t=319). On battery, gaming performance will be nerfed compared to being plugged in.

Thanks for the reply.

A 2019 £1000 gaming laptop should be able to play a 2010 game and get more than 60-80 fps.

The video you linked showed that the 1660Ti gets 58fps average in Metro Exodus, which was released in 2019.

Something is limiting my laptop's performance

 

[TheCenturion]

Ah thanks, I didn't realise this when I bought it. Performance is probably about right then

Seems like a waste to give this laptop a 144hz screen when it will never be able to hit anywhere near that.