Question RTX 3070 + Ryzen 9 5900X underperforming. Can anyone tell me why?

[thexyad]

Hi there! I'm hoping the wise hivemind of Tom's Hardware will help me solve my issue before I reach out to a computer store or whatnot lol.

I have the GeForce RTX 3070 GAMING OC 8G and I have just installed AMD Ryzen 9 5900X with the Zalman CNPS 10X Performa Black cooler.
I upgraded to the Ryzen 9 from a Ryzen 5 3600.
With the Ryzen 5 3600 I was seeing pretty low FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 (for example). My FPS would be at 43-50s when videos on YouTube had it at 60s (obviously with identical specs and settings).
I was told it was likely the CPU that was the culprit so I upgraded to the Ryzen 9
Well, lo and behold, the FPS is LITERALLY the same. So was it the GPU this whole time? I was under the impression 3070 was a pretty high-end GPU?
I'd normally accept my fate but I have compared my FPS to youtube videos of the same CPU+GPU combo and they have yet again more than 10fps on me.

What's worse, I did the Time Spy benchmark in 3D Mark and got over 1000 points below average.
Soooo what gives? What could be the issue? Here's a link to my latest results: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 video card benchmark result - AMD Ryzen 9 5900X,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. TUF B450M-PLUS GAMING (3dmark.com)

Here are my GPU specs:

(I will mention I have made sure to have the GPU at max performance both in Nvidia CP and in power settings.)

 

[Phaaze88]

If you looked at the TechPowerUp link I provided earlier, you'd see that the cores' max frequencies scale depending on how many of them are active at any time.
It should be able to do ~4.5ghz when all cores are active, with frequency going up from there as core activity decreases. 12 cores active, Cyberpunk does not do, so turbo clocks would be higher than that, but if they're set to not go over 4.2ghz...

The base clock being run at 4.2ghz is some setting...

@kurdtnz , does RM override settings like Intel XTU? Would uninstalling it be necessary?

 

[thexyad]

If you looked at the TechPowerUp link I provided earlier, you'd see that the cores' max frequencies scale depending on how many of them are active at any time.
It should be able to do ~4.5ghz when all cores are active, with frequency going up from there as core activity decreases. 12 cores active, Cyberpunk does not do, so turbo clocks would be higher than that, but if they're set to not go over 4.2ghz...

The base clock being run at 4.2ghz is some setting...

@kurdtnz , does RM override settings like Intel XTU? Would uninstalling it be necessary?

I found a different forum where someone posted that the Asus Optimal setting in BIOS did this so I'll change it tomorrow back to default in BIOS and report back.

 

[kurdtnz]

If you looked at the TechPowerUp link I provided earlier, you'd see that the cores' max frequencies scale depending on how many of them are active at any time.
It should be able to do ~4.5ghz when all cores are active, with frequency going up from there as core activity decreases. 12 cores active, Cyberpunk does not do, so turbo clocks would be higher than that, but if they're set to not go over 4.2ghz...

The base clock being run at 4.2ghz is some setting...

@kurdtnz , does RM override settings like Intel XTU? Would uninstalling it be necessary?

To be honest, Im not too sure as I havnt used RM for a while? I think I was having an issue with it so uninstalled but I think it can override some settings.

 

[thexyad]

I finally got it back to 3700Mhz after resetting everything in BIOS. Then activated DOCP.

 

[thexyad]

And the best TimeSpy score so far - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 video card benchmark result - AMD Ryzen 9 5900X,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. TUF B450M-PLUS GAMING (3dmark.com)

 

[Dragos Manea]

Some Asus motherboards have trouble boosting the Ryzen cpu to the right frequency. It might be the motherboard.

 

[derben]

Yo man i got a similar problem here, my 3070 only got 10k score in timespy, how u doing with urs rn?

I scored 10 374 in Time Spy

Intel Core i7-10700K Processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 x 1, 16384 MB, 64-bit Windows 11}

www.3dmark.com