Android Emulator (from Android Studio) lagging

Question

Searched for a solution, didn't find anything helpful.

I have a GTX 970 and an i5 4690k OC 4.2 GHz. The Emulator from Android Studio is lagging as hell and I don't know why.

Intel HAXM is installed, 4G Ram is allocated to the Android Device. I just can't find a solution. Btw. I don't think my processor is too bad since I can run 2 VMs at once and the Emulator works fine on my XPS 15 9560 (i7 7700HQ & GTX 1050)

Does anyone have an idea what to do?

Config:

Also tried using Software for graphics emulation, much more slower. Btw for reference this runs in the background and doesn't seem to resolve:

The SDK used

CPU Usage:

Also, I installed the AVD also on the same system on Hackintosh:

CPU: 10% and works smoothly

Answer 1

Cut the RAM way back. There is no Android device of note that has 8GB of RAM. Something in the 1-2GB range should be fine.

Cut the VM heap way back. For example, my emulator images use 48-128MB, not 8GB.

If those don't help, experiment with a lower-resolution emulator (e.g., Nexus 4 1280x768) and see if that changes your results.