What's your FPS? Needs some thoughts on why my game might be dragging like hell

I feel like with your specs you should be getting noticeably higher frame rate, especially on the blank project.
I truly feel like there might be something else wrong with your system?

like bad drivers or malware or something. Have you investigated much external to UE4 much to see if maybe the problem stems from somewhere else?

e.g. reinstall drivers, ‘fix windows’, scan for malware, do performance and diagnostics checks, etc…