RTX 2070 CPU Bottleneck?

[Lazarus Creed]

I've been wanting a GPU upgrade after usng my GTX 1060 6GB for a year now, so I purchased an RTX 2070 by EVGA. However after installing the latest drivers through GeForce Experience, I'm not really seeing much of a difference in terms of higher framerate, especially since the GPU upgrade should be fairly substantial. Could it be that my Ryzen 1600 is bottlenecking my new GPU? And if this is the case, what would be a good upgrade? I've been recommended Ryzen 2600, 2600X, and 2700X, but I'm not sure at what point I'm overkilling it. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Specs (all are using out-of-box settings):

CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 1600

GPU - EVGA RTX 2070

Memory - 16GB DDR4 G-Skill 2400MHz

Motherboard - ROG Strix B350-F

PSU - EVGA 800W Gold

Display - Acer KG240 144Hz 1080p

[Skiiwee29]

did you DDU the drivers before installing the new ones?

[RobFRaschke]

What's your CPU usage during gaming? "BottleNecking" can vary from game to game.

 

But with barely over a month to Ryzen 3rd Gen launch and a possibility that your rmotherboard will work with the Ryzen 5 3600(X) I would definitely wait till you can at least know if it will or not before upgrading.

[Lazarus Creed]

To all helping: I'm really sorry for the super delayed response.

On 6/6/2019 at 9:20 PM, Skiiwee29 said:

did you DDU the drivers before installing the new ones?

I uninstalled the drivers again using DDU this time instead of just overwriting them, but it had little impact on my performance.

On 6/6/2019 at 9:24 PM, RobFRaschke said:

What's your CPU usage during gaming? "BottleNecking" can vary from game to game.

 

But with barely over a month to Ryzen 3rd Gen launch and a possibility that your rmotherboard will work with the Ryzen 5 3600(X) I would definitely wait till you can at least know if it will or not before upgrading.

After some testing in Borderlands 2 (I know it's not the best choice for benching games, but it's what I had and play frequently) using MSI Afterburner's monitoring tools, I found that my GPU almost never goes above 60% usage. However, there is one core (#4) that is almost always at at least 80% usage. There was even an area where I was looking out but only getting about 31 FPS. 

 

[RobFRaschke]

18 hours ago, Lazarus Creed said:

To all helping: I'm really sorry for the super delayed response.

I uninstalled the drivers again using DDU this time instead of just overwriting them, but it had little impact on my performance.

After some testing in Borderlands 2 (I know it's not the best choice for benching games, but it's what I had and play frequently) using MSI Afterburner's monitoring tools, I found that my GPU almost never goes above 60% usage. However, there is one core (#4) that is almost always at at least 80% usage. There was even an area where I was looking out but only getting about 31 FPS. 

 

Something odd is definitely happening. Open up something that can monitor CPU clock speed and see if it's scaling properly or not. I suspect it's at the very least not turboing up properly, which especially in Borderlands titles, will hurt AMD.

[Mister Woof]

At 1080p, if you're chasing 144fps, yes, it's likely your CPU and your slow RAM is a bottleneck.

[Lazarus Creed]

Here's a screenshot I took in-game of the area I mentioned earlier using MSI Afterburner monitoring. There are two things I noticed from doing this:

1) The spikes across all logical cores was from when I was alt-tabbing in and out of the game.

2) The one logical core that has high usage changed whenever I alt-tabbed. If you look a bit at it, the first logical core being demanded was "CPU5", then "CPU3", then "CPU11". I don't think this would have any influence on whether the CPU as a whole is bottlenecking it, since [I would expect] each logical core to perform nearly as well as every other one (although I could be mistaken).

[gbergeron]

6 hours ago, Lazarus Creed said:

Here's a screenshot I took in-game of the area I mentioned earlier using MSI Afterburner monitoring. There are two things I noticed from doing this:

1) The spikes across all logical cores was from when I was alt-tabbing in and out of the game.

2) The one logical core that has high usage changed whenever I alt-tabbed. If you look a bit at it, the first logical core being demanded was "CPU5", then "CPU3", then "CPU11". I don't think this would have any influence on whether the CPU as a whole is bottlenecking it, since [I would expect] each logical core to perform nearly as well as every other one (although I could be mistaken).

Did you try clean format reinstall windows ?