Control

Control on an AMD Ryzen 5 8400F paired with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D is, in short, a rout. The benchmark data for this action-adventure title, originally released in August 2019, shows the combination clearing the 60 FPS playability threshold at every tested resolution and every preset, including Ultra at 4K. This pairing ranks 38th out of 3720 tested combinations in this game, placing it in the top tier of tested hardware for Control. The CPU sits in the 77th percentile versus all tested processors, while the GPU sits in the 92nd percentile versus all tested graphics cards, and both components carry measured in-game FPS data rather than estimated figures.

How This Combo Ranks

The Ryzen 5 8400F plus RTX 5090 D combination holds rank 38 out of 3720 tested pairings for Control. That is a strong placement by any reading of the data: fewer than a few dozen combos out of thousands tested outperform it in this game. Given that the GPU sits in the 92nd percentile of all tested graphics hardware and the CPU in the 77th percentile of all tested processors, the ranking reflects a GPU-dominant configuration — the graphics card is doing the heavy lifting, and the processor is a competent but not exceptional supporting piece. The rank also has to be read against the game's age; Control launched in 2019, and modern flagship-class GPUs trivialize its demands at all conventional settings.

CPU and GPU Roles

The resolution scaling data tells a clear story about which component limits performance. Moving from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 at Ultra, the average frame rate drops from 163 FPS to 83 FPS — roughly a halving of performance as pixel count quadruples. That is textbook GPU-bound behavior: when the graphics card is the limiter, frame rate falls in near-proportion to the rendering load. If the Ryzen 5 8400F were the bottleneck, frame rates would plateau as resolution rises, and they do not.

At 1080p the picture shifts somewhat. The step from Low (247 FPS) to Medium (211 FPS) to High (188 FPS) to Ultra (163 FPS) at 1920x1080 shows diminishing losses per preset, and the Medium run records a minimum of 180 FPS with a maximum of 243 FPS — a tight frame-time envelope for a six-core, twelve-thread processor with a 4.70 GHz boost clock. The data indicates the CPU is capable of feeding the RTX 5090 D adequately at all three resolutions in this title; there is no evidence of a hard processor ceiling even at 1080p Low, where the 247 FPS average is the highest figure in the dataset. In short: the GPU is the component that matters at every resolution here, and the CPU, while mid-tier, never becomes the limiting factor in Control.

Similar Performance Alternatives

Looking at nearest-rival data for each component gives a picture of what nearby hardware behaves similarly. For the Ryzen 5 8400F, the closest match is the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F, which scores within 0.2 percent of the 8400F's average benchmark score — effectively indistinguishable in aggregate performance. The Intel Core i7-11850H trails by just 0.3 percent, and the Intel Core i7-13620H by 0.4 percent; the AMD EPYC 9474F actually scores 0.4 percent higher. Any of these processors would deliver nearly identical aggregate CPU throughput, and given that Control is GPU-bound in this configuration, a swap to any of them would change the in-game result little at these settings.

On the graphics side, the RTX 5090 D's nearest rivals by average score are the AMD Radeon RX 6650M XT (within 1.1 percent), the AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT (1.6 percent ahead), and the NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe variants in 12 GB and 16 GB form (2.1 and 2.4 percent ahead respectively). Note that these rival lists are computed on aggregate synthetic scoring across mixed workloads, not on Control specifically — a mobile Radeon part and a compute-oriented Tesla card will not necessarily translate their aggregate parity into identical gaming frame rates. Still, by the database's own proximity metric, these are the cards whose overall benchmark profiles sit closest to the RTX 5090 D's average score.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 5 8400F + RTX 5090 D run Control at 4K with Ultra settings?

A: Yes. The measured average at 3840x2160 Ultra is 83 FPS, well above the 60 FPS playability threshold.

Q: What is the fastest recorded result in the dataset?

A: 247 FPS average at 1920x1080 on the Low preset.

Q: Does the CPU bottleneck this game?

A: The data shows no evidence of that. Frame rate scales steeply with resolution — 163 FPS at 1080p Ultra versus 83 FPS at 4K Ultra — which indicates the GPU is the limiting component at all tested settings.

Q: How consistent are frame rates?

A: At 2560x1440 Medium the run averages 160 FPS with a minimum of 136 and a maximum of 184; at 4K Medium it averages 108 FPS with a minimum of 92 and a maximum of 124. Minimum and maximum figures were not recorded for every preset, but where captured, the minima stay far above 60.

Q: How does the CPU compare to alternatives?

A: The Ryzen 5 8400F sits in the 77th percentile of all tested CPUs. Its nearest rival, the Ryzen 5 7500F, matches it within 0.2 percent on average benchmark score.

Q: Where does this combo rank among tested pairings for Control?

A: Rank 38 out of 3720 tested combinations.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured averages from the database; min/max were captured on the Medium preset at each resolution.

3840x2160 (4K):

• Low: 152 FPS average
• Medium: 108 FPS average (min 92, max 124)
• High: 96 FPS average
• Ultra: 83 FPS average

2560x1440 (1440p):

• Low: 225 FPS average
• Medium: 160 FPS average (min 136, max 184)
• High: 142 FPS average
• Ultra: 124 FPS average

1920x1080 (1080p):

• Low: 247 FPS average
• Medium: 211 FPS average (min 180, max 243)
• High: 188 FPS average
• Ultra: 163 FPS average

The spread between Low and Ultra is modest in relative terms: 69 FPS at 4K, 101 FPS at 1440p, and 84 FPS at 1080p. Even the worst result in the entire table — 83 FPS at 4K Ultra — sits nearly 40 percent above the 60 FPS threshold. The Medium-preset minima are also instructive: 92 FPS at 4K and 136 FPS at 1440p mean even the slowest recorded moments stay comfortably playable at those settings.

Best Settings per Resolution

Using the 60 FPS playability threshold, the most demanding preset that clears the bar at each resolution is simply the maximum one:

• 1920x1080: Ultra, at 163 FPS average.
• 2560x1440: Ultra, at 124 FPS average.
• 3840x2160: Ultra, at 83 FPS average.

There is no trade-off to make anywhere in the tested matrix. Every preset at every resolution is playable, so the answer to "best settings" is always the highest available option, with double-digit headroom to spare even at 4K.

The Verdict

Yes — emphatically. The verdict-by-resolution data confirms that at 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160, all four tested presets (Low, Medium, High, Ultra) exceed the 60 FPS threshold, and the best settings at each resolution are Ultra, delivering 163, 124, and 83 FPS respectively. The pairing of a Ryzen 5 8400F — a six-core, twelve-thread Zen 4 processor in the 77th percentile — with an RTX 5090 D in the 92nd GPU percentile produces a GPU-bound configuration that handles this 2019 action-adventure title with ease. For anyone asking whether this specific build can run Control, the measured data answers with a clean sweep across the entire settings matrix.