Control

The pairing of an Intel Core i5-10400F with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is a decisively GPU-weighted combination for Control, and the recorded data confirms it clears the 60 FPS playability bar at every resolution tested. At 1080p and 1440p the combo runs the Ultra preset above 60 FPS outright, and even at 4K the High preset stays just above the threshold. This is a configuration that plays Control well across the board, with the only caveat being that 4K Ultra falls short of a smooth 60.

Best Settings per Resolution

The database defines the best setting as the most demanding preset that holds at or above 60 FPS average.

• 1920x1080: Ultra, 105.9 FPS average. The i5-10400F and RTX 3080 Ti push Control past a hundred frames per second at maximum settings, leaving enormous headroom.
• 2560x1440: Ultra, 78.2 FPS average. Ultra remains playable at 1440p, though the margin over the threshold narrows considerably compared to 1080p.
• 3840x2160: High, 61.2 FPS average. At 4K, Ultra drops to 55.6 FPS and falls below the playable line, so High is the ceiling. Medium (72.4 FPS) and Low (96.4 FPS) are the safer alternatives if a user wants breathing room at 4K.

The pattern is clear: this combo scales gracefully with resolution, losing roughly a third of its frame rate going from 1080p Ultra to 1440p Ultra, and another quarter again moving to 4K High.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the Core i5-10400F sits in the 68th percentile of all processors in the database with an average benchmark score of 14185. Its nearest rivals by aggregate score are the Intel Xeon 6756E (14163, within 0.2 percent), the Intel Core 7 160UL (14232, within 0.3 percent), the AMD EPYC 7552 (14115, within 0.5 percent), and the AMD Ryzen 3 7320C (14277, within 0.6 percent). Any of these processors would deliver effectively indistinguishable average compute throughput, and in a GPU-bound title like Control at higher resolutions the CPU choice matters even less than those tight margins suggest.

On the GPU side, the RTX 3080 Ti occupies the 83rd percentile of all GPUs with an average score of 41187. Comparable cards include the AMD Radeon Pro 5300 (40870, within 0.8 percent), the NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB (41707, within 1.2 percent), the NVIDIA Tesla M40 (41897, within 1.7 percent), and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (40377, 2 percent behind). A system built around any of these GPUs would be expected to post Control frame rates within a few percent of the numbers recorded here, provided the CPU is not the limiting factor.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured average frame rates from the database. Minimum and maximum frame rates were not recorded for these runs, so averages are the basis for verdicts.

1920x1080:

| Settings | Avg FPS |

|---|---|

| Low | 169.6 |

| Medium | 138.4 |

| High | 122.5 |

| Ultra | 105.9 |

Even the Low preset is recorded at 169.6 FPS, and Ultra clears 100. Every preset is playable at 1080p by a wide margin.

2560x1440:

| Settings | Avg FPS |

|---|---|

| Low | 146.4 |

| Medium | 104.0 |

| High | 90.2 |

| Ultra | 78.2 |

Stepping up to 1440p costs roughly 25 to 30 FPS per preset relative to 1080p, yet Ultra still lands at 78.2 FPS, comfortably above the 60 FPS threshold.

3840x2160:

| Settings | Avg FPS |

|---|---|

| Low | 96.4 |

| Medium | 72.4 |

| High | 61.2 |

| Ultra | 55.6 |

4K is where the RTX 3080 Ti starts to strain. Low and Medium remain strong, High clings to the playable line at 61.2 FPS, and Ultra at 55.6 FPS is the only recorded result in the entire dataset below 60.

FAQ

Q: Can the i5-10400F + RTX 3080 Ti run Control at 4K?

A: Yes, with one exception. At 3840x2160, Low (96.4 FPS), Medium (72.4 FPS), and High (61.2 FPS) all meet or exceed the 60 FPS playable threshold. Ultra at 55.6 FPS is the only 4K preset that falls short.

Q: What is the best-looking setting combination that stays playable?

A: 1920x1080 or 2560x1440 at Ultra, delivering 105.9 FPS and 78.2 FPS respectively. For a 4K display, High at 61.2 FPS is the most demanding playable preset.

Q: Is the Core i5-10400F fast enough for this game with the RTX 3080 Ti?

A: The data indicates yes. With six cores and twelve threads, a 4.30 GHz boost clock, and a PassMark multithread score of 12115, the processor sits in the 68th percentile of all CPUs, and the recorded frame rates show no CPU-imposed ceiling: performance scales cleanly with resolution and settings, which is the signature of GPU-bound operation.

Q: How does the RTX 3080 Ti compare to other GPUs in the database?

A: It ranks in the 83rd percentile of all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 41187. Its closest rivals, such as the GeForce RTX 5070 and Tesla M40, land within roughly 2 percent of its aggregate score.

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

A: 169.6 FPS average at 1920x1080 on the Low preset.

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

A: It ranks 1038 out of 3720 tested combinations in this game, placing it in the upper third of the field.

CPU and GPU Roles

Control on this pairing is a GPU-driven game at every resolution, and the scaling data makes the case unambiguously. Moving from 1080p Ultra to 1440p Ultra drops the average from 105.9 to 78.2 FPS, a loss of about 26 percent. Moving from 1440p Ultra to 4K High, and even comparing 1080p Ultra (105.9 FPS) against 4K Ultra (55.6 FPS), nearly halves throughput. If the Core i5-10400F were the bottleneck, raising the resolution would produce much flatter frame rates, because the CPU workload does not grow with pixel count. Instead, every step up in resolution extracts a proportional toll, which is textbook GPU-bound behavior.

The preset scaling tells the same story from another angle. At 4K, dropping from High to Medium recovers 11.2 FPS, and from Medium to Low another 24 FPS. These are large, settings-sensitive swings, indicating the RTX 3080 Ti's rendering pipeline is the active constraint rather than the processor's six cores. At 1080p, where CPU limits typically surface first, the combo still reaches 105.9 FPS on Ultra and 169.6 FPS on Low, and the continued climb from Ultra to Low shows headroom remains even at the least demanding resolution.

That said, the Core i5-10400F is no weak link here. Its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 10283 and single-core score of 1451 place it in the 68th percentile of all CPUs, and Control, released in 2019, does not demand more thread throughput than this processor provides. The practical conclusion: at 1080p the CPU contributes meaningfully to frame delivery, while at 1440p and 4K the RTX 3080 Ti does almost all of the work, and any future upgrade should target the graphics card first.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the Control results table, the Core i5-10400F plus RTX 3080 Ti ranks 1038 out of 3720 tested combinations. That placement in the upper third of the field matches what the individual component percentiles predict: a 68th-percentile CPU paired with an 83rd-percentile GPU. The GPU is the stronger half of this pairing by a clear margin, and it is the reason the combo holds 60 FPS at 4K High while many lower-ranked combinations cannot.

The rank also contextualizes the one weakness in the results. Falling below roughly the top quarter of combinations means there are pairings that run 4K Ultra above the threshold where this one records 55.6 FPS, and those pairings almost certainly carry faster GPUs rather than faster CPUs, given the GPU-bound scaling discussed above. Conversely, the combinations this pairing outranks include the majority of the field, and for them Control at 1440p Ultra or 1080p Ultra would be out of reach.

The verdict is straightforward. This combination runs Control well at every resolution, achieves Ultra above 60 FPS at both 1080p and 1440p, and requires only a single-step reduction to High at 4K to stay playable. Within the database's Control leaderboard it is a solidly above-average performer, limited at the very top end only by the graphics card's ceiling at 4K Ultra.