Control

The pairing of an AMD Ryzen 5 8400F with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER is an asymmetric one: a 2024 Zen 4 desktop CPU sitting alongside a Turing-era graphics card that is now end-of-life. For Control, the demanding 2019 action adventure from Remedy, the recorded data shows this asymmetry matters less than you might expect at lower resolutions, because the RTX 2060 SUPER's 8 GB of GDDR6 and dedicated ray tracing hardware keep the game above the 60 FPS playability threshold at 1080p across every preset, while the Ryzen chip's single-thread performance never becomes the limiting factor below 4K.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 5 8400F + RTX 2060 SUPER run Control at 60 FPS?

A: Yes, at 1920x1080 every preset clears 60 FPS, from Low at 116.9 avg FPS up to Ultra at 65.8 avg FPS. At 2560x1440, Low (90.9) and Medium (62.4) are playable. At 3840x2160 only the Low preset clears the bar, at 62.2 avg FPS.

Q: What is the single best-looking playable configuration?

A: 1920x1080 Ultra, which averages 65.8 FPS. It is the highest preset that stays above the 60 FPS threshold in the entire recorded dataset.

Q: Is the CPU or the GPU the bottleneck in this game?

A: The GPU. Average frame rates drop sharply as resolution rises, from 116.9 FPS at 1080p Low to 62.2 at 4K Low, which is characteristic of graphics-bound scaling. The Ryzen 5 8400F, with a 951 single-thread score and a 77th percentile ranking against all CPUs in the database, has ample headroom.

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

A: It ranks 2643 out of 3720 tested combos in Control, placing it in the lower half of the field but well clear of the bottom tier.

Q: Does the RTX 2060 SUPER support the APIs Control needs?

A: Yes. The card reports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), Vulkan 1.4, and OpenGL 4.6 support, all more than sufficient for Control's DirectX 12 renderer.

Q: How does the 8400F compare to its nearest CPU rivals?

A: It is effectively tied with the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F (0.2 percent gap), the Intel Core i7-11850H (0.3 percent), and the Intel Core i7-13620H (0.4 percent), with the AMD EPYC 9474F marginally ahead at 0.4 percent. Any of these would deliver indistinguishable Control performance.

CPU and GPU Roles

Control at this configuration is a GPU game, and the measured scaling proves it. Moving from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 cuts the Low-preset average from 116.9 FPS to 62.2 FPS, a drop of nearly half for a fourfold increase in pixel count. That pattern, frame rate falling as the rendering load grows while the CPU workload stays constant, indicates the RTX 2060 SUPER is the component setting the performance ceiling at every resolution tested.

The Ryzen 5 8400F is not being stretched. With six cores and twelve threads, a 4.70 GHz boost clock, and a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2943, it delivers more per-thread throughput than Control's engine can consume at the frame rates this GPU produces. The database places the 8400F in the 77th percentile of all CPUs, while the RTX 2060 SUPER sits in the 62nd percentile of all GPUs, and that gap in relative standing is mirrored in the game data: even at 1080p Ultra the frame rate is 65.8 FPS, well below what a stronger GPU paired with this same processor would achieve.

Preset scaling reinforces the GPU-bound diagnosis. At 2560x1440, dropping from Ultra to Low raises the average from 51.3 to 90.9 FPS, a swing of nearly 40 FPS from settings alone. If the CPU were the constraint, preset changes of that magnitude would produce much flatter results, since visual settings burden the renderer far more than the simulation. The conclusion is straightforward: upgrades to this build should target the graphics card first, and the 8400F will comfortably absorb a faster replacement.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the recorded averages are 116.9 FPS on Low, 82 on Medium, 73.6 on High, and 65.8 on Ultra. The important detail here is the High-to-Ultra step: the drop from 73.6 to 65.8 is modest relative to the Low-to-Medium step, which costs almost 35 FPS. Visual quality beyond Medium is comparatively inexpensive at this resolution, and Ultra remains above the 60 FPS threshold, so 1080p players can simply max the game out.

At 2560x1440, the averages fall to 90.9 on Low, 62.4 on Medium, 54.8 on High, and 51.3 on Ultra. Medium is the sweet spot: it clears 60 FPS with a small margin, while High falls roughly five frames short. Players who insist on High at this resolution will be sitting just under the threshold, and Low offers a large cushion of more than 30 frames above it.

At 3840x2160, the averages are 62.2 on Low, 40.6 on Medium, 37.1 on High, and 35.7 on Ultra. Only Low is playable, and even then with a margin of barely two frames over the threshold. The compression between Medium and Ultra at 4K, a spread of fewer than five frames across three preset steps, shows the GPU is saturating: once the card is fully loaded, additional settings barely change the outcome because it is already at its throughput limit. Minimum and maximum frame rates were not recorded for these runs, so the analysis rests on the averages alone.

A note on the hardware itself: the RTX 2060 SUPER brings 2176 shading units, 34 RT cores, and 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus with 448 GB/s of bandwidth, all of which feed Control's demanding particle-heavy scenes and optional ray traced effects. The 8400F contributes a 65 W TDP, DDR5 support on Socket AM5, and PCIe Gen 4 with 20 CPU lanes, so there is no platform-level constraint on the graphics card's PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.

How This Combo Ranks

In Control specifically, this pairing ranks 2643 out of 3720 tested combinations in the database. That places it below the midpoint, in roughly the 71st position from the bottom, which is consistent with the RTX 2060 SUPER's end-of-life status rather than any deficiency in the CPU. The 8400F is a current, actively produced Zen 4 part scoring 25005 on average across its benchmark suite, and its 3DMark max-threads result of 6165 against a 16-thread score of 6091 shows strong scaling even beyond its physical core count via SMT.

The rank also reflects Control's position as a graphically punishing title. A combo that maxes out at 65.8 FPS at 1080p Ultra will naturally rank below pairings built around newer or higher-tier GPUs. What the rank does not capture is consistency: because the CPU has substantial headroom, frame pacing in this configuration should be stable, with the GPU as the sole pacing element.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the nearest rivals in the database are all effectively interchangeable for this game. The AMD Ryzen 5 7500F averages 24964, a 0.2 percent gap from the 8400F's 25005. The Intel Core i7-11850H (24935) and Core i7-13620H (24911) sit 0.3 and 0.4 percent behind, and even the AMD EPYC 9474F, a server part, is only 0.4 percent ahead at 25103. In practical terms, any of these processors paired with the same GPU would reproduce the Control numbers in this dataset, because the game is not CPU-limited here. Swapping between them would change nothing visible.

On the GPU side, the nearest rivals are the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile at 18159, just 0.4 percent behind the 2060 SUPER's 18093 average, the AMD Radeon Pro 5700 at 18189 (0.5 percent behind), the AMD Radeon RX 460 at 18373, and the Intel Arc A770M at 18383. The Radeon RX 460 and Arc A770M are listed 1.5 and 1.6 percent ahead respectively on aggregate scores, but aggregate synthetics do not always translate to matching game performance, particularly in a DirectX 12 title with ray tracing elements where the 2060 SUPER's 34 dedicated RT cores and 272 tensor cores give it hardware the Radeon card lacks. The RTX 3060 Mobile and Radeon Pro 5700 are the closest like-for-like substitutes, and a build centered on either would be expected to land within a frame or two of the results recorded here.

The Verdict

Yes, this PC runs Control, with clear caveats by resolution. At 1920x1080 it is a full success: every preset from Low through Ultra clears 60 FPS, and the best configuration is Ultra at 65.8 average FPS, so 1080p players can enable everything and play without compromise. At 2560x1440 the verdict is qualified: Low (90.9) and Medium (62.4) are playable, with Medium being the best-looking option above the threshold, while High and Ultra fall short. At 3840x2160 the answer is borderline: only Low manages 62.2 average FPS, a thin margin over the threshold, and anything higher drops into the high 30s to low 40s.

The overall picture is that of a GPU-limited pairing with a CPU that is wasted at these frame rates. The Ryzen 5 8400F, tied within half a percent of the Ryzen 5 7500F and several Intel mobile parts in aggregate performance, could drive a substantially faster graphics card in Control before becoming the constraint. Anyone building around this processor for Control and similar action adventures should treat the RTX 2060 SUPER as the interim component, not the destination. For now, the data supports a simple recommendation: play at 1080p Ultra for maximum fidelity, or 1440p Medium for a balance of image quality and headroom, and avoid 4K unless Low settings are acceptable.