Control

Control running on the AMD Ryzen 5 5600F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 is a straightforward case: measured benchmark data shows this pairing clears the 60 FPS playable threshold at every tested resolution, with the GPU doing most of the heavy lifting. At 1080p and 1440p, every preset from Low to Ultra stays comfortably above target, and even at 4K only the Ultra preset slips below it. The game launched as an Action Adventure title in 2019, well before either piece of hardware existed, and the results reflect that headroom: a Blackwell 2.0 GPU paired with a Zen 3 six-core CPU produces frame rates that leave the playable floor far behind at mainstream resolutions.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The benchmark dataset covers three resolutions — 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160 — each tested at four presets: Low, Medium, High, and Ultra. All figures below are measured average frame rates; minimum and maximum values were only recorded for the Medium preset runs.

At 1920x1080, performance scales from 187 FPS on Low up to 146 FPS on Medium and 130 FPS on High, with Ultra still delivering 113 FPS. The Medium run recorded a minimum of 124 and a maximum of 168, meaning even the worst observed frame at this preset sat at more than double the 60 FPS threshold.

At 2560x1440, the averages drop modestly: 156 FPS on Low, 111 FPS on Medium, 98 FPS on High, and 85 FPS on Ultra. The Medium run's minimum of 94 and maximum of 127 indicate tight frame consistency — the floor at 1440p Medium is only slightly below the 1080p Medium average.

At 3840x2160, the picture tightens. Low manages 105 FPS and Medium 75 FPS, with the Medium run ranging from a minimum of 63 to a maximum of 86. High drops to 66 FPS, still above threshold but with little margin. Ultra falls to 58 FPS — the single sub-60 result in the entire dataset.

The consistency of the Medium min/max spreads is worth noting. At 4K Medium, the minimum of 63 sits just above the threshold, which means the GPU is running close to its limit there, whereas the 1440p Medium minimum of 94 suggests substantial reserve capacity.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the Ryzen 5 5600F's average benchmark score of 36945 places it in the 85th percentile of all tested CPUs. Its nearest rivals are remarkably close: the Intel Core Ultra 5 225 scores 36938 (a delta of 0 percent, effectively identical), the AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D scores 37018 (0.2 percent ahead), the AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 450 scores 37093 (0.4 percent ahead), and the Intel Core i9-12900T scores 37112 (0.5 percent ahead). Any of these processors would produce near-identical aggregate CPU performance in Control, since the spread across all four is within half a percent.

On the GPU side, the RTX 5070's average benchmark score of 40377 puts it in the 82nd percentile of all GPUs. Its measured rivals include the AMD Radeon Pro 580 at 40318 (0.1 percent behind), the AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 at 40063 (0.8 percent behind), the AMD Radeon Pro 5300 at 40870 (1.2 percent ahead), and the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile at 39568 (2 percent behind). By aggregate score, these cards bracket the RTX 5070 within a two-point band, so systems built around any of them would be expected to land in the same general performance tier in this game.

It's worth emphasizing that these deltas apply to the composite benchmark scores, not to Control specifically — per-game behavior can diverge — but the closeness of the rivals means the pairing analysis here generalizes reasonably to those alternatives.

Best Settings per Resolution

Using the 60 FPS playable threshold, the most demanding preset that stays at or above target at each resolution is:

• 1920x1080 — Ultra, 113 FPS average. A 53-FPS margin over threshold at the maximum preset.
• 2560x1440 — Ultra, 85 FPS average. Still 25 FPS of headroom at the top preset.
• 3840x2160 — High, 66 FPS average. Ultra at 58 FPS misses the cutoff, so High is the ceiling at 4K, with a 6-FPS margin.

The step from 1440p Ultra to 4K Ultra costs 27 FPS of average headroom (85 down to 58), which is what pushes 4K off the Ultra preset entirely.

The Verdict

Yes — this PC runs Control well. Per the verdict data, all four presets are playable at 1920x1080 and 2560x1440, with Ultra being the best setting at 113 FPS and 85 FPS respectively. At 3840x2160, three of four presets clear the bar — Low, Medium, and High — with High as the best setting at 66 FPS; only Ultra at 58 FPS falls short. For a player targeting 60 FPS, the practical guidance is simple: at 1080p and 1440p, run everything maxed with no compromises; at 4K, drop one notch from Ultra to High. The only scenario requiring settings discipline is 4K at maximum quality, and even there the shortfall is marginal.

CPU and GPU Roles

The data indicates Control is GPU-bound on this configuration at every tested resolution. The evidence is in the scaling: going from 1080p Ultra to 1440p Ultra drops the average from 113 to 85 FPS, and from 1440p Ultra to 4K Ultra from 85 to 58 FPS — large, monotonic declines that track pixel count increases. If the CPU were the limiter, raising the resolution would hold frame rates roughly flat, since the processor workload is independent of output resolution. It does not hold flat here.

Preset scaling reinforces this. At a fixed resolution, each quality step produces proportional frame-rate changes — for example, 4K goes from 105 FPS on Low to 58 on Ultra, a 45 percent reduction driven purely by GPU render load. Meanwhile, the Ryzen 5 5600F brings a single-thread Passmark score of 2872, a multithread score of 19236, and a physics score of 1043, with its six cores and twelve threads. The game's frame delivery at 1080p Low (187 FPS average) suggests the CPU is not the ceiling even at the highest measured frame rates. In short: at 1080p and 1440p the RTX 5070 governs the frame rate, and at 4K it does so even more emphatically. Upgrading the GPU would raise frame rates; upgrading the CPU would likely change little in this title.

How This Combo Ranks

Across the benchmark database, this CPU/GPU combination ranks 809th out of 3720 tested combinations in Control — placing it in the top quartile of tested pairings for this game. That ranking is consistent with the component percentiles: the RTX 5070 sits in the 82nd percentile of all GPUs and the 5600F in the 85th percentile of all CPUs, so a pairing in roughly the low-80s percentile range among combos is exactly what the input percentiles would predict. Roughly 22 percent of tested combinations outrank it, meaning the large majority of pairings in the database deliver a slower Control experience than this one.

FAQ

Q: Can the RTX 5070 and Ryzen 5 5600F run Control at 4K with all settings maxed?

A: Not quite. 4K Ultra averages 58 FPS, two frames below the 60 FPS threshold. Dropping to High raises the average to 66 FPS, which clears the bar.

Q: What is the single fastest measured result for this pairing in Control?

A: 1920x1080 on the Low preset, at 187 FPS average.

Q: How much does raising the resolution from 1440p to 4K cost at the Ultra preset?

A: The average drops from 85 FPS to 58 FPS — a 27 FPS loss, enough to fall below the playable threshold.

Q: Which CPUs would perform nearly identically to the Ryzen 5 5600F?

A: The Intel Core Ultra 5 225 (deltaPct 0), AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D (-0.2), AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 450 (-0.4), and Intel Core i9-12900T (-0.5) all sit within half a percent of its average benchmark score of 36945.

Q: Is the frame rate stable, or does it swing widely?

A: The recorded Medium-preset runs show tight ranges: 124–168 FPS at 1080p, 94–127 at 1440p, and 63–86 at 4K. Every recorded minimum stays at or above the 60 FPS threshold.

Q: How does this combo compare to other tested pairings in Control?

A: It ranks 809 out of 3720 combinations, placing it in the top quartile of tested setups for this game.