CPU Bottleneck? Ryzen 9 3900x & RTX 3080 Ti

[emzett1]

Hi There,
I am a gamer and am playing cod warzone for a living. I recently bought the KFA2 HOF RTX3080 ti.
My PC specs you can find here:
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor -
KFA2 HOF RTX3080 ti -
NZXT Kraken M22 Liquid CPU Cooler -
Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard -
G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory -
Crucial P2 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive -
NZXT H510 ATX Mid Tower Case -
GAMDIAS KRATOS P1 G 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply -
Samsung LC27G55TQWNXZA 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor

I am playing on 1440p and low settings.

Through the update, I had the hope that I will reach consistently at least 144 fps in the game.
Unfortunately, I still am not and am running at max 120 fps, but with a dropping to 95 on the lower end and having 135 at the top end.

Things I have done so far:
- Watch countless youtube videos to tweak settings to optimal
- Updated Bios and chipset driver
- Enabled DOCP Profil

In Game my GPU is running at about 30% and my CPU at 50% in the task manager.

Then I found a YT video talking about the latency in ms for GPU and CPU in warzone.
GPU time: 3-4 ms
CPU time: 9-11 ms
As I learned there is a relation between these and the FPS I get.
Considering the slower times of the CPU I should get the FPS mentioned above.

Now, I am unsure if the CPU is broken, bad, slow, or whatever as it seems like I am CPU bound and 9-11ms seems to be too slow to me.

Maybe somebody can help me and tell me if these numbers are normal and to be expected or I am missing something vital.

Please help me.

Thank you,
Martin

 

[emzett1]

This thread might help you understand the issue.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...es-gpu-performance-on-nvidia-anyway.18935846/

RTX cards hog system resources and Nvidia don’t scale well across cores…

Thank you man. It starts to make sense. Since I wont switch my new GPU, you think it makes sense to upgrade my CPU to 5950x?

If that's the case then I'd get a 5950X.

Will that improve the performance drastically?

 

[emzett1]

A 5800X would be more than enough for Warzone I'd have thought. He needs the single core IPC mostly.

Which ryzen has the best IPC?

 

[emzett1]

Are you streaming at the same time as playing the game?

I have a dual PC and the only thing I do is run OBS to mirror desktop 1 to my capture card. Preview off. No Recording.

 

[emzett1]

Could also check how hot the cpu gets under load with that cooler and what frequency it sits at, plus check that the ram is actually running at 3200mhz?

I would test it - can you help me how? What program to use?
RAM: My HWiNFO shows that my ram is 32GB DDR4 SDRAM
Clock: 1600 MHz = 16.00 * 100 MHz
Dual Channel

 

[emzett1]

The 5950X is about 20 fps higher than the 5800X and 5900X in warzone when CPU limited.


Yes and overclocking the ram will also improve performance by quite a lot.

The difference between 3200/16 ram and 3800/14 can be up to 30+fps in some sections.

I have never overclocked anything... Any good guides?

 

[emzett1]

When overclocking ram it's good to start with the dram calculator to get a feel for how it works etc.

Thank you!

I am currently using the HOF AI software to overclock my GPU with their automatic detection option.
You know if this is any good?

 

[emzett1]

Task Manager doesn't show accurately what is happening.

You need to display your full GPU and CPU usage in game. A full breakdown of what each core is doing. Then you'll have a better idea where the bottleneck is.

Which programm do you recommend doing that?

 

[emzett1]

anyone ever tried the 1usmus ClockTuner for Ryzen?
Did some research and seems like an "easy" overclock for a beginner like myself