Am I being bottlenecked??

[ChrisZH]

I have a ryzen 7 1700x and a Radeon VII. The CPU is OC to 3.85ghz and the gpu is OC to 2000mhz/1200mhz. I'm not getting the best performance out of some games like other people with the Radeon VII are. Is there a way to tell if I am being bottlenecked by my CPU? I was wanting to upgrade to the 3700x at the end of January anyways but want to know for sure if that's what going on here.

[Eigenvektor]

Take a look at your CPU and GPU load while gaming. If your CPU or one of its cores is pegged at 100% and the GPU is not, that would indicate a possible bottleneck.

[Fasauceome]

Ram speed matters too

[Midnitewolf]

3 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Take a look at your CPU and GPU load while gaming. If your CPU or one of its cores is pegged at 100% and the GPU is not, that would indicate a possible bottleneck.

Yep this is probably the best way to check to see if you have a bottleneck.  One thing I always caution though is that since each computer is pretty much a special snowflake, with an infinite number of minute differences in terms of software, hardware, etc that is being used at any given time,  especially if you build your own, is that rarely have I seen my numbers match up with most of the reviewers and youtubers numbers.  Generally speaking those guys are testing in ideally control circumstances such as open benches without any airflow restrictions, very minimal software/bloatware loaded on the driver, clean, pristine installs of both OS and game being tested, etc. This means that they almost always will see better performance than someone on their home PC using a computer like a typical user would.