PC Drastically Underperforming

[gea1776]

(PC Specs Below)

 

A couple days ago I purchased a Asus ROG Strix RTX 2080 Ti 11GB in order to have better game performance. I upgraded from an EVGA GTX 1060 3GB. However, after I installed the new GPU, I found my games to be running at speeds that were slower than I expected. There was a small improvement compared to when the 1060 was installed, but it was not nearly what a Ryzen 7 + 2080 Ti combo should run at. I tried overclocking both my CPU and GPU, only to receive a boost of only about 5 FPS max in multiple games. I have tried running a few games set at the highest settings, then comparing performance to the same game run on lowest settings, and there was again only about a 5-7 FPS difference (Avg. frames in GTA V - 70FPS on lowest  settings, 60 on maxed settings; Escape From Tarkov - 75 fps on lowest, 65 on maxed. Frames often drop below 60 in both games). I'm not 100% sure what's wrong or what would be causing this to happen. The only hint I have is that when I purchased my RAM, it came preset at a clock speed of 2133 MHz. When I tried to overclock/change the frequency to the advertised speed of the RAM, my PC would not boot, and I could only get into the BIOS. 
I am only able to get my PC to boot when overclocking my RAM to 2400 MHz or under. I'm pretty new to overclocking, I've only watched a video or two on CPU overclocking. The video I watched also briefly described how to overclock RAM along with CPU, so I'm not sure if I'm just doing something wrong. I might not be giving my RAM enough power when clocking it to 3000 MHz, I'm not sure. I need to do more research on that. 
However, I'm not even sure if the RAM is the reason my PC is underperforming. My friend with an i9 9900k and a GTX 1070 was able to get better performance in Escape From Tarkov (a difficult-to-run game) than me, despite having a CPU with pretty similar specs and a worse GPU. So I don't really understand what's happening. Anyone have any ideas what could be wrong? Any suggestions are welcome. 

 

TL;DR: Bought a 2080 Ti, have a very decent CPU, 32GB of RAM, yet games are not performing as well as they should. :/

 

Specs:
CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 2700x overclocked to 4.1 MHz (cooled with Noctua NH-D15 Single Fan)
GPU - Asus ROG Strix Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti 11GB Vram (overclocked +191 MHz)
RAM - TridentZ DDR4 3000MHz 32GB (4 x 8GB) (each pair of 8GB sticks purchased at different times)
Motherboard - Asus ROG Strix B350-F GAMING
PSU - Corsair RMx Series RM750X 750W

[t0m.-]

Have you tried a complete driver reinstall? 

[DailyProcrastinator]

Use DDU then re-install your Nvidia drivers, that's step 1.

[Uptivuptiz]

As @t0m.- said try and uninstall drivers with DDU and then download the newest drivers from Nvidias website

[glenalz81]

Use DDU as stated above and install drivers fresh.

 

Enable DOCP in bios, this should set your ram to the xmp profile.

[191x7]

Latest motherboard bios and the latest AMD chipset drivers?

[Sir0Tek]

I've just seen the memory qvl of this board. It seems to be almost impossible to find ram that will run on advertised speeds above 2400, let alone with 4x modules. Maybe optimizing per hand will do but that's quite some task sometimes.

But even at DDR4 2400 it should be somewhat faster than it actually is. Did you check with memtest, also check memory-performance generally. 

How's it doing with 2x 8gb inserted?

 

How's the PCIe doing? Do you have 3.0 PCIe x16 in use?