Meeting minimum requirements yet never hitting a constant 60/frame dips. Why?

Hi. So I own a Lenovo Y40-80, and honestly, the specs look fine. An i7 5500U, 8 gigs of RAM, 1TB of HDD and 30 Gigs of SSD and an AMD r9 M275X. It has a 1080p monitor as well, and on paper it's a decent laptop.

However, every game I play, even the ones that meet the maximum requirements experience either just bad frame rate or constant annoying dips from the 60-70s to the 15s. I seriously have no idea why. GTA V, a game that I have seen people run 60FPS on this laptop on medium-high settings, simply refuses to get past the first frame. And I mean that literally.

I recently downloaded Splinter Cell Blacklist, and that game is what really made me ask this question. From like 70FPS to 5. And it's like for 2 minutes its 70, fopr 2 it's 5. And same goes for CS: GO. Can someone tell me why?

ebaepvp

I7-5500U is a dual core low voltage i7.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/...u_list.php
At 4005 overall CPU score, it is around a Pentium G4500, and I would not call it "fine" for gaming.
You wanted thin and light, and sacrifice.
AMD r9 M275X is a fancy set of letters.
Rank 151 is the M275, so X a bit better than that.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/...849.0.html
It is between a GTX 940M and 945M placing it lower than a GTX 750 Desktop graphics card.
An R7 250 is number 169, so the graphics processing is also not impressive.

The graphics card is only active available on AC power with the brick. It does NOT run on battery.
Medium settings
Intel Core i7-4702MQ 2.2GHz GeForce GT 750M (967 MHz), 2048 MB (1800 MHz) DDR3
8 GB RAM Avg 77fps, min: 28 fps

Your CPU is weaker. Graphics card a bit stronger.
Dips are expected.

Could get overheating, could be a driver issue.

Andy L

Do you realize and understand that everything has to go through Windows defender or your antivirus and that those programs can only scan the data stream so fast?

Have you tested it with no antivirus at all running? I bet you will find that they are the source of the problem

ari