Without seeing your resource utilization metrics in real time, nobody can answer that.

But the answer is always going to be yes and no, because this is the answer for everything. There's always a bottleneck on every PC, because you have to have infinite performance (which is obviously impossible) to not have one. Sometimes it will be the CPU, sometimes the GPU, sometimes CPU waiting on RAM, sometimes storage, sometimes refresh rate/frame rate caps, you get the idea.

The first generation Ryzen was competing against Sky Lake and Kaby Lake and was marginally slower than them. Pascal (the graphics card architecture of the GTX 1080 Ti) launched a bit later than those Intel CPUs, but you're also generally GPU limited more often than not. One could argue it's not a terrible pairing, and simultaneously that both could use an upgrade for modern and heavier things. Modern CPU demanding games might be heavy on the 1600 and that modern GPU demanding games would be heavy on the GTX 1080 Ti.

Rather than looking at the CPU relative to the GPU as though a "correct" pairing exists, you should be asking "do I want more performance". If the answer is no, there is no problem. If the answer is yes, find out what part is responsible for the less-than-desired performance and upgrade that part.

Being on AM4, you could easily upgrade to a six or eight core Zen 3 (such as a 5600 or 5700X) and see a nice improvement, even on the GTX 1080 Ti. And at that point, you'll be better set to add a faster graphics card too. the only question mark might be if you have much slower RAM. That might push it towards "consider moving to AM5 at this point" although you'll be spending much more to do that, so you can go either way with it.

What games and what settings are you using? Have you tried increasing graphics options and/or using super resolution?

Run CPUz and do the validation and post your result link here so people can see what the hardware you’re using is.

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What games and what settings are you using? Have you tried increasing graphics options and/or using super resolution?

Run CPUz and do the validation and post your result link here so people can see what the hardware you’re using is.

https://valid.x86.fr/31jnx9


Im playing spider man remastered at high settings with xess quality

Ryzen 1st Gen of any of those CPUs holds back a 1080 Ti worse then a 4790K does.

Ryzen 1st Gen WAS NOT that much better then an FX8350. The boost really was something like a Ryzen 2700X; then 3600/3600X/3700X/3800X; then all of those gets stomped hard once you move up to a 5600X

Ryzen 1st Gen anything today is laughable performance; like using Intel 2nd/3rd Gen i5 would be today.

However the days are numbered on your GPU too; since GTX support all ends this year.

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Ryzen 1st Gen of any of those CPUs holds back a 1080 Ti worse then a 4790K does.

Ryzen 1st Gen WAS NOT that much better then an FX8350. The boost really was something like a Ryzen 2700X; then 3600/3600X/3700X/3800X; then all of those gets stomped hard once you move up to a 5600X

Ryzen 1st Gen anything today is laughable performance; like using Intel 2nd/3rd Gen i5 would be today.

However the days are numbered on your GPU too; since GTX support all ends this year.

Should i upgrade my cpu or gpu first, i play warzone and marvel rivals

You basically need a modern Motherboard + CPU + RAM.
There is no good choice to upgrade to for the AM4 CPUs.
And your Motherboard might not support the latest AM4 CPUs.
Especially if you are on X370/B350 board; I wouldn't trust those to be good enough for newer CPUs.

There really us no upgrade path for you that makes much sense at this point, save your money until you can build a whole system atleast that way everything can be built nice and balanced to give a good experience.

If you primarily play warzone above other games, you'll probably want to look at 14th gen Intel cpu's as, while AND can be faster, it's a worse overall experience.

Now, if you do want to go the upgrade path, you could potentially chuck a ryzen 5700x/x3d in your mobo and buy yourself a new gpu, it would notably upgrade your experience, but, you'll still be limited by the older cpu, mobo pcie and memory.

Could you load up CPU-Z and click Vaildate > Submit
Once web browser loads up with the results; share that web url address in a post here as means to share your specs. So we can the exact Motherboard model and such.

Then I can check and see what is available for support via BIOS updates

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Could you load up CPU-Z and click Vaildate > Submit
Once web browser loads up with the results; share that web url address in a post here as means to share your specs. So we can the exact Motherboard model and such.

Then I can check and see what is available for support via BIOS updates

They literally already did that 5 posts ago

ASRock AB350 Pro4

Sorry yes I overlooked that thank you

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Sorry yes I overlooked that thank you

What can i upgrade the cpu to?

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Sorry yes I overlooked that thank you

What can i upgrade the cpu to?

On the ASROCK AB350 PRO4 you have full CPU support once you update the BIOS first. So up to the Ryzen 5xxx series

Good option such as 5600X, 5700X, 5800X3D

It states you have to update the BIOS to v7.0 first before you update it further

https://asrock.com/mb/AMD/AB350%20Pro4/index.us.asp#Support

If you do buy and install better cpu you're going to want a beefy CPU cooler too.

Make sure you update the bios before changing to newer CPU

I have a pc (now retired) with a similar config to OP's. The 1080ti in it is relatively better than the cpu, maybe 2x.

Cpu % usage won't be high anyway because usually the cpu has more threads than games need. The ryzen 5 1600 is a 6 core / 12 thread which is OK. Where it is poor is its single thread speed.at 2 GOps/sec.

Then the big question is which AM4 ryzen - XT or X3D. XT would be my choice. GOps 3.5 but I have no direct experience of AM4.

The rest of the specs need to be looked e.g. memory.

first gen ryzen was alot better than fx, closer to 4-6th gen intel i series
amd has made some pretty big improvements from 1xxx to 5xxx

to see if its cpu limited, lower res and visual settings (and disable gsync/freesync/vsync), if fps does not go up, then its the cpu limiting it

or look at gpu usage, with vsync off, if its not 90+% then the cpu or something else is limiting iit

if you are gaming at 4k then the 1080ti would be holding it back with newer games