Control

Control launched in August 2019 as an action adventure built around heavy destruction physics and, at its higher presets, demanding real-time effects. The pairing under analysis here is AMD's Ryzen 7 3700X, an eight-core Zen 2 processor, with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2060, a Turing-based card with hardware ray tracing support. Both components arrived the same year as the game itself, making this a period-appropriate combination whose measured results fill a useful niche in the database: entry-level ray-tracing-era hardware running a title that helped define that era's graphical expectations. The recorded data covers three resolutions and four presets, all measured, and the picture it paints is one of a configuration that handles 1080p comfortably, scrapes past the threshold at 1440p, and falls short at 4K.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measurements span 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160, each tested at Low, Medium, High, and Ultra presets.

At 1920x1080, the results are the strongest across the board. Low delivers an average of 107 FPS. Medium raises visual fidelity while still averaging 76 FPS, with frame times ranging from a minimum of 65 to a maximum of 88 in the recorded interval. High averages 68 FPS, and Ultra sits at 59 FPS, just one frame short of the database's 60 FPS playability threshold. That Ultra result is close enough that casual players may not notice, but by the strict criterion it does not clear the bar, and the min/max data at that preset was not captured, so consistency at Ultra remains unverified.

At 2560x1440, every preset drops meaningfully. Low averages 81 FPS. Medium lands at 58 FPS average with a minimum of 49 and a maximum of 66, which means dips fall well below 60 even though the average flirts with the threshold. High averages 51 FPS and Ultra drops to 45 FPS. Only the Low preset clears the threshold outright at this resolution.

At 3840x2160, the frame rates fall to levels that exclude the game from comfortable play on this hardware. Low manages 55 FPS, Medium averages 39 FPS with a recorded range of 33 minimum to 45 maximum, High sits at 35 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out the table at 30 FPS average. Note the spread at 4K Medium: a twelve-frame range between minimum and maximum indicates substantial frame-time variance, which compounds the already low averages.

Across all twelve configurations, only the Medium preset at each resolution has minimum and maximum frames recorded, so conclusions about frame-time stability at other presets rest on averages alone.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data points clearly to a GPU-bound configuration at every resolution tested. Dropping from Low to Ultra at 1080p cuts the average from 107 to 59 FPS, a loss of 48 frames. The same settings sweep at 1440p costs 36 frames (81 down to 45), and at 4K it costs 25 frames (55 down to 30). When frame rate responds this strongly to preset changes, the graphics card is the limiting factor: the RTX 2060, with its 6 GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus and 336.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth, is being saturated by Control's higher-detail effects.

Resolution scaling tells the same story. At Low settings, moving from 1080p to 1440p reduces the average from 107 to 81 FPS, and moving to 4K drops it further to 55 FPS. At High settings the progression is 68, 51, and 35 FPS. These are the large, roughly proportional declines characteristic of a GPU bottleneck, since render load scales with pixel count in a way that CPU load does not.

The Ryzen 7 3700X shows no indication of holding the game back. Its database standing places it in the 84th percentile of all recorded CPUs, with a PassMark multithread score of 22458, a Cinebench R15 multi-core score of 2092, and a single-core score of 204. That single-thread figure is the more relevant one for a 2019 action adventure, and nothing in the measured results suggests the CPU is the constraint: frame rates that swing this widely with graphics settings and resolution, while the processor remains constant, are the signature of graphics-bound performance. The GPU, sitting in the 58th percentile of all recorded graphics cards, is unambiguously the weaker link in this pairing.

The Turing architecture's 30 RT cores are present on the RTX 2060, but the measured presets here are conventional quality levels, and the recorded frame rates already strain at High and Ultra without ray-traced effects, so the data does not support headroom for enabling them at playable rates.

FAQ

Q: Can this PC run Control at 1080p?

A: Yes. The database shows 1080p clearing 60 FPS at three of four presets: Low at 107 FPS, Medium at 76 FPS average (minimum 65), and High at 68 FPS. Ultra averages 59 FPS, one frame below the threshold.

Q: Can it run the game at 1440p?

A: Barely. Only the Low preset clears the threshold at 2560x1440, averaging 81 FPS. Medium averages 58 FPS with dips to 49, and High and Ultra fall to 51 and 45 FPS respectively.

Q: Is 4K playable at all?

A: No. At 3840x2160 even the Low preset averages just 55 FPS, with Medium at 39, High at 35, and Ultra at 30. No preset reaches the 60 FPS playability threshold.

Q: Which component is the bottleneck?

A: The GPU. Frame rates fall sharply with both higher presets and higher resolutions while the Ryzen 7 3700X stays constant, the classic pattern of a graphics-bound system. The RTX 2060 ranks in the 58th percentile of recorded GPUs versus the CPU's 84th percentile among CPUs.

Q: Is frame delivery stable at 1440p Medium?

A: Partially. The recorded range is 49 minimum to 66 maximum around a 58 FPS average, meaning dips well below the threshold occur during play despite a near-60 average.

Q: What is the single highest frame rate recorded for this combo in Control?

A: 107 FPS average, at 1920x1080 on the Low preset.

The Verdict

Yes, this PC can run Control, with clear conditions. The verdict data identifies 1920x1080 as the resolution where the hardware earns its keep: High is the best playable setting there at 68 FPS average, with Medium (76 FPS) and Low (107 FPS) as safer fallbacks. Ultra at 59 FPS misses the strict threshold by a single frame.

At 2560x1440, the situation narrows. The only playable preset is Low at 81 FPS, so a 1440p player on this hardware is trading nearly all visual fidelity for frame rate, and even then the margin above 60 FPS is comfortable at 21 frames.

At 3840x2160, the answer is a flat no. The playable settings list is empty, the best-settings field is null, and the highest recorded 4K average, 55 FPS at Low, confirms that no combination of presets in the database makes 4K viable on this pairing.

The overall takeaway: target 1080p, run High, and expect a fluid experience. Players wanting more headroom can step down to Medium and gain an eight-frame average cushion plus a verified 65 FPS floor.

How This Combo Ranks

Among all hardware combinations tested in Control within the database, the Ryzen 7 3700X plus RTX 2060 pairing ranks 2950th out of 3720, placing it in the lower portion of the field. That position makes sense given the configuration's profile: a CPU that ranks well above most of the field (84th percentile) paired with a graphics card in the 58th percentile, running a game that leans heavily on the GPU. The measured results confirm the rank is driven by the graphics side rather than the processor.

For context on the CPU's general standing, its aggregate benchmark average of 34260 puts it within a fraction of a percent of several notable rivals in the database: the AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 (avgScore 34222, a 0.1 percent gap), the AMD EPYC 4244P (34220, 0.1 percent), the Intel Core i5-13450HX (34333, 0.2 percent ahead), and the Intel Core Ultra 7 165H (34083, 0.5 percent behind). Any of those processors paired with the same class of graphics hardware would be expected to produce broadly similar Control results.

On the graphics side, the RTX 2060's average score of 15290 sits essentially even with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 (15283, delta 0 percent), marginally ahead of the AMD Radeon 680M (15270, 0.1 percent) and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM (15199, 0.6 percent), and slightly ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 7600 (15171, 0.8 percent). In other words, the frame rates recorded here represent what mid-pack GPU hardware delivers in Control, not a ceiling or floor for the game.

Best Settings per Resolution

Based strictly on the highest preset that holds at or above the 60 FPS threshold:

• 1920x1080: High, averaging 68 FPS. Medium remains the stability pick at 76 FPS average with a verified 65 FPS minimum, but High is the most demanding preset that clears the bar.
• 2560x1440: Low, averaging 81 FPS. Medium's 58 FPS average and 49 FPS floor disqualify it, leaving Low as the only qualifying option.
• 3840x2160: No qualifying preset. Low averages 55 FPS, short of the threshold, so no recommendation is possible at 4K on this hardware.

The practical recommendation from the database is straightforward: play at 1080p High, accept 59 FPS at Ultra only if a single-frame shortfall is tolerable, avoid 1440p unless Low settings are acceptable, and leave 4K to stronger graphics hardware.