Control

Control launched in August 2019 as an Action Adventure title built around heavy use of real-time ray tracing and destruction physics, and it remains one of the more demanding games in benchmark databases. The pairing tested here — AMD's Ryzen 5 7400F and NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4080 — combines a six-core, twelve-thread Zen 4 desktop CPU sitting in the 83rd percentile of all tested processors with an Ada Lovelace GPU in the 86th percentile of all tested graphics cards. This page walks through the measured frame rates for Control on this exact combination, resolution by resolution and preset by preset, and places those results in context against nearby hardware and the full field of tested combos. All figures below are measured data, not estimates.

Measured FPS Breakdown

Starting at 1920x1080, the results show the RTX 4080 comfortably ahead of what Control demands. On the Low preset the combo averages 246 FPS. Medium raises visual fidelity and still delivers an average of 175 FPS, with a measured minimum of 149 and a maximum of 201 — the only preset at this resolution with min/max data recorded. High drops the average to 156 FPS, and Ultra, the top preset, still averages 135 FPS. In other words, even the most demanding setting at 1080p runs at more than double the 60 FPS playability threshold.

Moving to 2560x1440, the added pixel load shaves roughly a quarter off the frame rate at each preset. Low averages 186 FPS, Medium 132 FPS with a minimum of 113 and a maximum of 152, High averages 118 FPS, and Ultra averages 102 FPS. The Medium minimum of 113 FPS is worth highlighting: the worst measured moments at 1440p still run nearly twice as fast as the playability threshold, which indicates a very consistent frame delivery rather than an average propped up by occasional spikes.

At 3840x2160 the picture tightens but does not become concerning. Low averages 126 FPS, Medium 89 FPS with a minimum of 76 and a maximum of 103, High averages 79 FPS, and Ultra averages 69 FPS. Ultra at 4K is the closest any configuration comes to the threshold, sitting 9 FPS above it on average. The Medium minimum of 76 FPS at native 4K suggests that even the dips stay in comfortable territory, and the Ultra result of 69 FPS means the highest preset clears 60 FPS at every tested resolution.

The spread between Low and Ultra is informative. At 1080p the gap is 111 FPS (246 down to 135), at 1440p it is 84 FPS, and at 4K it narrows to 57 FPS. The shrinking spread as resolution rises is classic GPU-bound behavior: as pixels multiply, the preset choice matters proportionally less because raw fill demands dominate.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 5 7400F + RTX 4080 run Control at 4K with ray-traced Ultra settings?

A: Yes. The measured average at 3840x2160 on the Ultra preset is 69 FPS, above the 60 FPS playability threshold. All four presets — Low, Medium, High and Ultra — are playable at 4K on this combo.

Q: What is the highest frame rate this combo achieves in Control?

A: 246 FPS average, at 1920x1080 on the Low preset. The highest recorded instantaneous maximum is 201 FPS, captured at 1080p Medium.

Q: How consistent are the frame rates?

A: The min/max data shows tight ranges. At 1080p Medium the range is 149–201 FPS around a 175 FPS average; at 1440p Medium it is 113–152 around 132; at 4K Medium it is 76–103 around 89. In each case the minimum sits far above 60 FPS.

Q: Is the CPU a bottleneck in this game?

A: The data suggests not. Frame rates scale strongly with resolution — 135 FPS at Ultra 1080p versus 69 FPS at Ultra 4K, roughly halving as pixel count nearly quadruples — indicating the RTX 4080 is the limiting factor. The 7400F's single-thread score of 3072 in Cinebench R23 and 3689 in PassMark single-thread keep it well ahead of what Control requires.

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

A: It ranks 241 out of 3720 tested combos in this game, placing it in roughly the top seven percent of tested pairings.

Q: What CPUs perform similarly to the Ryzen 5 7400F?

A: Its nearest rivals by average benchmark score are the Intel Core i5-14600T (within 0.1%), the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H (0.2%), the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H (-0.2%), and the AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 (0.3%) — all effectively indistinguishable in aggregate performance.

Best Settings per Resolution

The most demanding preset that stays at or above 60 FPS is Ultra at every tested resolution, so the recommendation is simple:

• 1920x1080 — Ultra, 135 FPS average. No compromise needed; the top preset runs at more than double the threshold.
• 2560x1440 — Ultra, 102 FPS average. A 70% margin over 60 FPS.
• 3840x2160 — Ultra, 69 FPS average. Still clears the threshold, though the margin narrows to 9 FPS. Players who want more headroom at native 4K can step down to High for 79 FPS or Medium for 89 FPS.

Across the entire measured matrix, there is no resolution-and-preset combination in this dataset where the combo falls below the playability line. The verdict data confirms all four presets are playable at all three resolutions.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the GPU side, the RTX 4080's nearest rivals by average benchmark score are the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER at 0.1% delta, the AMD Radeon Pro W5700X at -1.1%, the AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB at -2.6%, and the AMD Radeon 8060S at -2.7%. The RTX 4080 SUPER is essentially interchangeable with the 4080 in Control — a 0.1% aggregate difference would be invisible in frame-rate terms. The Radeon Pro W5700X trails by just over one percent in aggregate score, so it should behave very similarly in this title, while the RX 6750 GRE 12 GB and Radeon 8060S, roughly two to three percent behind in aggregate, would land a few frames per second lower at each setting.

On the CPU side, the Ryzen 5 7400F's rivals cluster within a third of a percent: the Intel Core i5-14600T (0.1%), Intel Core Ultra 7 155H (0.2%), AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H (-0.2%), and AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 (0.3%). Any of these processors paired with the RTX 4080 — or with the near-equivalent GPUs above — would produce Control results within a hair of the numbers on this page, since the game is GPU-limited at these frame rates anyway.

The Verdict

Yes — decisively. The Ryzen 5 7400F and RTX 4080 run Control at 60 FPS or better at every tested resolution on every tested preset. At 1920x1080 the best playable setting is Ultra at 135 FPS average; at 2560x1440 it is Ultra at 102 FPS; and at 3840x2160 it is Ultra at 69 FPS. The playability data lists Low, Medium, High and Ultra as playable at all three resolutions, meaning there is no setting in this matrix that fails. The only scenario worth monitoring is native 4K Ultra, where the 69 FPS average leaves a 9 FPS cushion — the tightest margin in the dataset, but a margin nonetheless, supported by a 76 FPS minimum measured at 4K Medium one tier down.

How This Combo Ranks

Out of 3720 hardware combinations tested in Control, this pairing ranks 241st. That places it in approximately the top seven percent of the field — consistent with the components' individual standing: the RTX 4080 sits in the 86th percentile of all GPUs and the Ryzen 5 7400F in the 83rd percentile of all CPUs. The rank also reflects Control's character as a demanding title where a strong Ada Lovelace card with a 48.74 TFLOPS FP32 throughput, 16 GB of GDDR6X on a 256-bit bus, and 716.8 GB/s of memory bandwidth can stretch its legs. Combos ranking above this one would need meaningfully faster graphics hardware; given that the 4080's nearest rival, the RTX 4080 SUPER, differs by only 0.1% in aggregate score, the 241st position is near the ceiling of what this GPU tier achieves in the game.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data makes the division of labor clear: Control on this combo is GPU-bound at every resolution. Going from 1080p to 1440p at Ultra costs 33 FPS (135 to 102), and going from 1440p to 4K costs another 33 FPS (102 to 69) — near-linear erosion as pixel count climbs, which is the signature of a graphics-limited pipeline. If the CPU were the constraint, frame rates would flatten at higher resolutions instead of falling.

The preset scaling tells the complementary story. At a fixed resolution, dropping from Ultra to Low roughly doubles the frame rate at 4K (69 to 126) but only adds about 82% at 1080p (135 to 246). The larger relative gain at 4K shows that when the GPU is most saturated, visual settings buy back the most performance — useful knowledge for anyone chasing higher refresh rates at native 4K.

The Ryzen 5 7400F, for its part, is more than adequate. Its Cinebench R23 single-core score of 3072 and multi-core score of 21765, alongside a PassMark single-thread result of 3689, place it in the 83rd percentile of all CPUs, and its six cores and twelve threads handle Control's simulation load without capping the frame rate even at 246 FPS on Low at 1080p. In practice, any performance question about this pairing in Control is a question about the RTX 4080 — and at every setting and resolution measured here, that GPU answers with frame rates above the playability threshold.