Ark: Survival Evolved: Low fps becaue of UE4 or due to no optimizations?

Out of the box? That’s exactly what I want to point out.
It would not use more CPU out of the box, even if it had to and if it would help. It can be accomplished, for sure, but only if you go into the source code and modify there.
Again, I am only talking about CPU bottlenecks . I am aware of GPU-CPU interplay.