Control

Control is one of the more demanding action-adventure titles in the benchmark database, and the pairing of AMD's Ryzen 5 5600F with Intel's Arc B580 sits in an interesting position for it. The data shows a configuration that handles 1080p comfortably across every preset, clears the 60 FPS threshold at 1440p with room for medium detail, and falls short of that bar entirely at 4K. What follows is a detailed look at how the combination scales, where the bottlenecks sit, and what nearby hardware behaves similarly.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 5 5600F + Arc B580 run Control at 1080p?

A: Yes, and at every preset. Even Ultra averages 62 FPS at 1920x1080, while Low reaches 114 FPS and Medium 81 FPS (with a 69 FPS minimum).

Q: Can this combo run Control at 4K?

A: Not at the 60 FPS threshold. The best result at 3840x2160 is 58 FPS on Low, followed by 41 FPS on Medium, 37 FPS on High, and 32 FPS on Ultra. No preset is classified as playable at that resolution.

Q: What is the best playable preset at 1440p?

A: Medium, at 61 FPS average with a 52 FPS minimum and 70 FPS maximum. Low is also playable at 86 FPS, but High (54 FPS) and Ultra (47 FPS) fall below the threshold.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU more important for this game on this build?

A: The GPU. Frame rates scale sharply with resolution and relatively modestly with settings at higher resolutions, indicating a graphics-bound workload. The Ryzen 5 5600F, in the 85th percentile of all CPUs, is not the limiting factor.

Q: How does this combo rank against other tested pairings in Control?

A: It ranks 2816 out of 3720 tested combinations — a lower-tier position overall, though one that still delivers a fully playable 1080p and 1440p experience.

Q: What GPUs deliver similar performance to the Arc B580?

A: Per the rival data, the AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP (within 0.2 percent), NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 (0.6 percent), RTX 3080 (0.7 percent), and P106-100 (1 percent) cluster within roughly one percent on aggregate benchmark score.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data makes the division of labor clear. Moving from 1080p to 1440p drops the Medium average from 81 to 61 FPS, and moving again to 4K drops it further to 41 FPS — a pattern consistent with a GPU-bound game once the resolution rises. At 1080p, the spread between Low (114 FPS) and Ultra (62 FPS) is wide, which suggests the CPU can feed frames fast enough that the Arc B580's rendering load is the only real constraint. As pixel count increases, the gap between presets narrows: at 4K, Low manages 58 FPS while Ultra still delivers 32, meaning no amount of settings reduction can recover the missing frames to reach 60.

The Ryzen 5 5600F is more than adequate for this role. Its aggregate benchmark score of 36945 places it in the 85th percentile of all CPUs, with a single-thread score of 2872 and a multithread score of 19236 on six cores and twelve threads. The Zen 3 architecture at 7 nm, with a 4.00 GHz boost clock, handles Control's per-frame CPU work without appearing in the results as a limiter. The evidence: at 1440p Medium, the minimum frame rate of 52 sits close to the 61 FPS average, indicating frame-time consistency rather than CPU stutter.

The Arc B580, in the 68th percentile of all GPUs, is the component doing the heavy lifting — and, at 4K, the one running out of headroom. Its passmark G3D score of 15748 and DirectX 12 support align with a mid-range discrete card driving a demanding DirectX 12 title.

Best Settings per Resolution

At 1920x1080, the most demanding preset that stays at or above 60 FPS is Ultra at 62 FPS. Every preset clears the threshold at this resolution, so Ultra is the correct choice — the maximum-quality experience with a small but sufficient margin.

At 2560x1440, the answer is Medium at 61 FPS. This is the tightest call in the dataset: one preset higher, High, averages 54 FPS and misses the bar. Medium's 52 FPS minimum is worth noting for players sensitive to dips, but the average holds.

At 3840x2160, no preset qualifies. Low at 58 FPS is the closest, but it remains below the threshold, and the verdict data explicitly lists no playable settings at this resolution.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the Ryzen 5 5600F's nearest rivals are all but interchangeable with it. The Intel Core Ultra 5 225 averages 36938 — a 0 percent delta. The Ryzen 5 5500X3D sits at 37018, 0.2 percent higher; the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 450 at 37093 is 0.4 percent ahead; and the Core i9-12900T at 37112 is 0.5 percent ahead. Any of these processors would produce an effectively identical Control experience in this GPU-bound configuration.

On the GPU side, the Arc B580's rivals span a wider range of hardware but a similarly tight score band. The Radeon RX 580 2048SP averages 23061 (0.2 percent delta), the RTX 2080 averages 22895 (0.6 percent behind), the RTX 3080 averages 23172 (0.7 percent ahead), and the P106-100 averages 23249 (1 percent ahead). A system pairing the 5600F with any of these GPUs — or one of the listed CPUs with the B580 — should land within a frame or two of the measured results in this workload.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the database, this pairing ranks 2816 out of 3720 tested combinations for Control. That places it in the lower portion of the field, which reflects Control's demanding engine rather than a fundamentally weak build — the game's ray-tracing-heavy visual design punishes mid-range GPUs at higher resolutions. The rank is best contextualized by resolution: at 1080p this combo delivers a complete experience (all presets playable, Ultra at 62 FPS), which many lower-ranked combinations cannot claim, while at 4K it joins the majority of configurations that cannot reach 60 FPS without concessions the settings menu cannot provide.

The GPU's 68th percentile standing against all GPUs, contrasted with the combo's lower in-game rank, indicates Control is a particularly GPU-punishing title in the database's catalog.

The Verdict

Yes — this PC can run Control, with resolution-dependent caveats. At 1920x1080, all four presets clear 60 FPS, with Ultra delivering 62 FPS as the best option. At 2560x1440, the game is playable at Low and Medium, with Medium at 61 FPS representing the best balance of quality and performance. At 3840x2160, the verdict is negative: no preset reaches the 60 FPS threshold, topping out at 58 FPS on Low. The practical takeaway from the data is that this is a 1080p maximum-quality or 1440p balanced-settings machine for Control, and 4K play would require accepting frame rates below the playable threshold.

Measured FPS Breakdown

1920x1080

• Low: 114 FPS average (min/max not recorded)
• Medium: 81 FPS average, 69 FPS minimum, 93 FPS maximum
• High: 72 FPS average (min/max not recorded)
• Ultra: 62 FPS average (min/max not recorded)

2560x1440

• Low: 86 FPS average (min/max not recorded)
• Medium: 61 FPS average, 52 FPS minimum, 70 FPS maximum
• High: 54 FPS average (min/max not recorded)
• Ultra: 47 FPS average (min/max not recorded)

3840x2160

• Low: 58 FPS average (min/max not recorded)
• Medium: 41 FPS average, 35 FPS minimum, 48 FPS maximum
• High: 37 FPS average (min/max not recorded)
• Ultra: 32 FPS average (min/max not recorded)

All figures are measured rather than estimated. The 4K Medium figures are instructive: a 35 FPS minimum with a 48 FPS maximum shows the frame-time range the Arc B580 operates in when fully saturated at that pixel count. At 1440p Medium, the tighter 52–70 FPS band confirms the GPU still has headroom at that resolution, sitting close to but above the playable threshold on average.