Battletoad08

The 2070 and especially the 5700XT are much faster, 15 to 30 frames extra in games. Thats 1080ti performance. I might buy the 5700XT when the board partners release them.

Actually the 3700x is way faster than my 1700x was, the whole pc just fly's now. Single core and multi core is massively faster. I was hoping it would raise the frames some, but my gtx 1080 is out dated I guess lol. What I am gather I could put the fastest gaming CPU in the world in my setup and the frames would stay exactly the same at the same settings because the GPU is maxed.....

What this is telling me since I never seen my 1700x get over 30% usage in games that it would never be a bottleneck in this system... When I see intel CPU's during gaming they are up near 90%

In Rise of the Tomb Raider it averaged 76 FPS Wildlands Averaged about 52 FPS, GTA 5 I would have to guess would be around 90 FPS. All in ultra at 2560x1080.

Every game I own it puts nearly a 100% load on the GPU. I just tested borderlands 2 which is 7 years old and my GPU was at 95%.... at 2560x1080.

I agree it could be a GPU bottleneck but in nearly almost all games a GPU runs near its max to put out the most frames possible. All the tests I did were at 2560x1080 all the highest graphics settings the games would go. Rise of the tomb raider, Resident Evil 2, Wildlands, GTA5, BF5, HellBlade...

GPU's are almost always near 100% in game or they are being utilized correctly. The new CPU should have removed a little of the work the GPU does and raise the FPS some, but it didnt. I would be more concerned if the CPU said close to 100%.

performance target? I just wanted to gain some frames and got nothing basically. I expected to see some nice gains in FPS in games. I understand that GPU's give the biggest bump but I didnt expect to see no gain at all.

I switched out my Ryzen 1700x for a new Ryzen 3700x, I did not change any other thing in my pc. I did a bunch of benchmarks and saved the results to test them again with the new cpu in. The tests are within 4-5 frames of the old CPU. My GPU is always 98-99% in all the tests and my cpu is around 20% Ive always been stuck at 2933 on the ram, if I try to put it at 3200 it wont post even with the new cpu. All the new benchmarks that came out it seemed like I would have got anywhere from 10 to 30 FPS increase yet I got essentially nothing extra. Specs: Ryzen 3700x GTX 1080 16bg Ripjaws DDR 3200 Asus x370 prime pro Samsung M.2 main drive.