Struggling to Run PoE on my 5500U laptop

I'm sad because PoE (Path of Exile) runs poorly on my laptop. My main PC has a 13700K processor, and I play on it without any issues. Before that, I had a 6700K, and everything was great then too.

However, because I live in a country with constant power outages, I decided to get a laptop with good battery life, featuring a Ryzen 5 5500U processor (6 cores, 12 threads) and Vega 7 GPU. It has quite good performance, often surpassing my old 6700K in many benchmarks.

And... it's a nightmare. In-game resolution is 1280x720. All settings set to low. I literally get freezes and stutters that last 1-2 seconds sometimes. Vulkan, DX12, DX11—it doesn't matter. At best, on maps (regular, non-juiced ones), I get 25-30 FPS.

On one hand, I'm disappointed. On the other hand, is there a way to improve the situation?

Does your laptop have a video card, or is it relying purely on the CPU's integrated graphics?

Please post a link to the machine's specs on Pastebin;

https://www.poecommunity.help/information/system-info

https://pastebin.com/4y7u7CMw

Yes, it is relying purely on the CPU's integrated graphics

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The_Vladlen#2028 wrote:

https://pastebin.com/4y7u7CMw

Yes, it is relying purely on the CPU's integrated graphics

That's not the entire file, and not all of the information I had been looking for was included.

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The Ryzen 5 5500U is not designed with gaming in mind. The default TDP is only 15 Watts - and that's shared across the CPU cores, the cache, and the integrated graphics when in use.

By contrast, your i7 13700K might pull in excess of 200 Watts, not accounting for your video card.

I really don't think this is something that troubleshooting will meaningfully be able to affect for you; it's just too low-power of a system and too demanding (and inefficient) a game.

It doesn't help that the CPU was launched ~5 years ago now - so not only is the IPC fairly out-dated at this point, but its purported specialty of power efficiency is also not as good as it could be.

Yes, that might be a point, but even Cyberbug 2077 and PoE 2(!) works miles better... Anyway, thanks for the help.