Control

The pairing of an Intel Core i5-12400F with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is an unusual one — a mid-range, six-core Alder Lake CPU from the 12th Gen Core series bolted to a flagship Blackwell 2.0 graphics card — but for Control, the data shows the combination is decisively capable. Measured results indicate every preset at every tested resolution, from 1920x1080 up to 3840x2160, clears the 60 FPS playable threshold. This is a GPU-driven conclusion: the RTX 5080 sits in the 87th percentile of all tested GPUs with an average benchmark score of 56083, and Control's engine responds well to raw rasterization and ray-tracing hardware of that caliber. The i5-12400F, while the weaker half of the duo at the 73rd percentile of all CPUs, never drags the results below the bar at any setting.

Best Settings per Resolution

The most demanding preset that holds at or above 60 FPS is Ultra at all three tested resolutions — there is no compromise required anywhere in the matrix.

At 3840x2160, Ultra averages 70.8 FPS, a margin of more than ten frames above the playable threshold. At 2560x1440, Ultra averages 109.2 FPS. At 1920x1080, Ultra averages 145.2 FPS. In other words, the answer to "what settings should I use?" is simply the highest the game offers, regardless of whether the display is 1080p, 1440p, or 4K.

That headroom matters beyond the raw averages. A 70.8 FPS average at 4K Ultra means the framerate rarely, if ever, dips into unplayable territory during demanding combat sequences, and the 1440p and 1080p numbers are high enough to satisfy high-refresh displays. Players chasing framerates above 144 FPS at 1080p can drop to Medium (189 FPS) or Low (234.7 FPS) without meaningful visual loss in a game where the art direction carries much of the load.

FAQ

Q: Can the i5-12400F + RTX 5080 run Control at 4K?

A: Yes, and comfortably. At 3840x2160, even the Ultra preset averages 70.8 FPS — above the 60 FPS playable threshold. Medium averages 94.2 FPS and Low averages 132.1 FPS, so 4K players have the full preset range available.

Q: Is the Core i5-12400F a bottleneck for the RTX 5080 in Control?

A: The data indicates no practical bottleneck. All twelve measured resolution-and-preset combinations are playable, and the combo ranks 193rd out of 3720 tested combinations in this game — a strong placement that suggests the CPU is feeding the GPU adequately. The i5-12400F posts a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 12380 and a single-core score of 1680, which is sufficient for Control's CPU demands at these framerates.

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

A: 234.7 FPS average, at 1920x1080 on the Low preset. At the same resolution, Medium reaches 189 FPS and High reaches 164.5 FPS.

Q: How much performance is lost going from 1440p to 4K on Ultra?

A: The average drops from 109.2 FPS at 2560x1440 to 70.8 FPS at 3840x2160 — a substantial decline in absolute terms, but both figures remain above the 60 FPS threshold, so the choice between them comes down to desired refresh rate rather than playability.

Q: What CPU benchmark scores does the i5-12400F bring to this pairing?

A: The measured scores include 5912 in 3DMark max threads, 909 in 3DMark single thread, 12380 in Cinebench R23 multi-core, 1680 in Cinebench R23 single-core, and 19433 in PassMark multithread.

Q: How does the RTX 5080 compare to rival GPUs?

A: Its average benchmark score of 56083 places it marginally ahead of the AMD Radeon 8060S (55757, 0.6% behind) and the Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB (55698, 0.7% behind), slightly ahead of the Radeon Pro W5700X (54828, 2.3% behind), and slightly behind the Radeon RX 9070 GRE (57367, 2.2% ahead).

Similar Performance Alternatives

For the CPU side, the nearest rivals to the i5-12400F cluster remarkably tightly. The AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS averages 19047 against the i5-12400F's 19039 — a 0% effective delta. The Intel Core 3 201E sits at 19056 (-0.1%), the Core i5-1335U at 18982 (0.3% behind), and, oddly, the AMD EPYC 7773X also lands at 18979 (0.3% behind) in aggregate benchmark terms. Anyone running one of these processors alongside comparable graphics hardware should expect broadly similar overall system behavior in Control, since the game's measured results here show no CPU-side cliff.

On the GPU side, the RTX 5080's neighborhood includes the AMD Radeon 8060S (55757 average score, 0.6% behind the 5080's 56083), the Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB (55698, 0.7% behind), the Radeon Pro W5700X (54828, 2.3% behind), and the Radeon RX 9070 GRE (57367, 2.2% ahead). These five cards are effectively interchangeable in aggregate scoring terms. A system pairing the i5-12400F with any of these GPUs would likely deliver Control framerates within a narrow band of what is measured here — which is to say, playable at every preset at every resolution, with 4K Ultra landing near or above 70 FPS.

The Verdict

Yes — this PC runs Control without qualification. The verdict-by-resolution data confirms that at 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160, all four presets (Low, Medium, High, Ultra) are playable, and Ultra is the best setting at each resolution: 145.2 FPS at 1080p, 109.2 FPS at 1440p, and 70.8 FPS at 4K.

The headline conclusion is that 4K Ultra is not merely playable but comfortable, with more than ten frames of headroom over the 60 FPS threshold. For 1440p and 1080p players with high-refresh monitors, the numbers climb into ranges where the display, not the hardware, becomes the limiting factor — Medium at 1080p averages 189 FPS, approaching the ceiling of a typical 144 Hz panel and exceeding it on Low at 234.7 FPS.

The asymmetry of the pairing deserves a note. The RTX 5080 is a 360 W, dual-slot, 16 GB GDDR7 card on a 5 nm TSMC process with 10752 shading units, 84 RT cores, and 960.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth, whereas the i5-12400F is a 65 W, 10 nm, six-core/twelve-thread processor. In many modern titles that imbalance would invite CPU limitation, but Control's measured profile here shows the combination ranking 193rd of 3720 tested combos — the pairing punches well above what the CPU's 73rd-percentile standing might suggest on paper.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured average framerates from this exact combination. Minimum and maximum values were not recorded in this dataset.

3840x2160 (4K UHD):

• Low: 132.1 FPS
• Medium: 94.2 FPS
• High: 86.6 FPS
• Ultra: 70.8 FPS

The 4K ladder tells a story of remarkable consistency. Dropping from Ultra to Low nearly doubles the average (70.8 to 132.1), yet even the most demanding preset stays above 60 FPS. The gap between High (86.6) and Ultra (70.8) is the largest single-step decline in the 4K column, indicating Ultra's additional effects carry a real cost — one this GPU absorbs without falling below the threshold.

2560x1440 (QHD):

• Low: 200 FPS
• Medium: 138.8 FPS
• High: 124.9 FPS
• Ultra: 109.2 FPS

At 1440p the RTX 5080 clears 100 FPS on every preset, and Low reaches a flat 200. The High-to-Ultra penalty shrinks to about 15 frames here, showing the resolution reduction gives the card breathing room for Ultra's heavier effects. Every preset serves high-refresh play.

1920x1080 (Full HD):

• Low: 234.7 FPS
• Medium: 189 FPS
• High: 164.5 FPS
• Ultra: 145.2 FPS

At 1080p the framerates are extreme. Even Ultra averages 145.2 FPS — more than double the playable threshold — and Low pushes past 234 FPS. At these levels, the CPU becomes the more plausible constraint, yet the i5-12400F's single-core figures (1680 in Cinebench R23, 1964 in Geekbench single-core, 909 in 3DMark single thread) hold the line, and no measured configuration drops below threshold.

Across all twelve data points, the pattern is uniform: no setting, at any resolution, falls below 60 FPS. The smallest margin is 4K Ultra at 70.8 FPS; the largest is 1080p Low at 234.7 FPS.

How This Combo Ranks

Within Control specifically, this CPU-plus-GPU combination ranks 193rd out of 3720 tested combinations — placing it in roughly the top five percent of configurations benchmarked for this game. That ranking aligns with the component-level percentiles: the RTX 5080's 87th percentile among GPUs and the i5-12400F's 73rd percentile among CPUs combine into a pairing that is elite in this title despite the CPU being merely upper-mid-tier in the broader landscape.

The context matters. Control, released in August 2019 as an Action Adventure title, predates both the i5-12400F (released January 2022) and the RTX 5080 (released January 2025) by years. The result is a generational mismatch in the player's favor: hardware that arrived well after the game's engine was finalized, running it at settings and resolutions that were aspirational at launch. The rank of 193 out of 3720 quantifies exactly that — among everything tested in this game, from older budget builds to modern flagships, this combination sits near the front of the field, and the measured framerates at every resolution and preset back the placement up.