Control

Control is a DirectX 12 action adventure title with heavy destruction physics and optional ray tracing, and the pairing of Intel's Core i5-14600KF with AMD's Radeon RX 6600 lands it in a very specific performance bracket: comfortably smooth at 1080p, marginal at 1440p, and out of reach at 4K. The CPU side of this duo is far stronger than the GPU side — the i5-14600KF sits in the 90th percentile of all tested processors, while the RX 6600 sits in the 63rd percentile of GPUs — and the measured frame rates below confirm that the Radeon is the component setting the ceiling in this game. All figures in this analysis are measured, not estimated.

How This Combo Ranks

Across the 3720 CPU/GPU combinations tested in Control, this pairing ranks 2879th. That places it in the bottom quarter of tested configurations for this specific game, which is entirely a reflection of the GPU: the RX 6600's average benchmark score of 19036 puts it at the 63rd percentile of all GPUs, whereas the i5-14600KF's average score of 49394 places it at the 90th percentile of all CPUs. In other words, the processor is doing flagship-adjacent work while the graphics card operates firmly in the midrange. The rank is also context-dependent: Control is a demanding title, so the same pairing would rank higher in less graphically intensive games. Within this database's Control results, the combo is best understood as a 1080p-class configuration with a highly capable CPU driving it.

FAQ

Q: Can the i5-14600KF + RX 6600 run Control at 1080p?

A: Yes, and well. At 1920x1080 the combo averages 108.8 FPS on Low, 75.6 FPS on Medium, 65.4 FPS on High, and 59.7 FPS on Ultra. Every preset except Ultra clears the 60 FPS playable threshold, with High being the best settings that stay at or above 60 FPS.

Q: Can it run Control at 1440p?

A: Only barely. At 2560x1440, Low is the sole preset that clears 60 FPS, averaging 82 FPS. Medium falls to 56.7 FPS, High to 50.9 FPS, and Ultra to 46.5 FPS.

Q: Is 4K playable at all?

A: No. At 3840x2160, no preset reaches the 60 FPS threshold: Low averages 57.9 FPS, Medium 41.6 FPS, High 36.3 FPS, and Ultra 31.6 FPS. Even Low falls just short of playable.

Q: Is the CPU or the GPU the bottleneck in Control?

A: The GPU. The i5-14600KF is a 14-core, 20-thread Raptor Lake Refresh processor in the 90th percentile of all CPUs, while the RX 6600 is in the 63rd percentile of GPUs. The sharp frame rate drops as resolution climbs — from 108.8 FPS at 1080p Low to 57.9 FPS at 4K Low — confirm a GPU-bound profile.

Q: What CPUs perform similarly to the i5-14600KF?

A: Its nearest rivals by average score are the AMD Ryzen 9 7900 (0.3% behind), AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5755G (0.4% behind), Intel Core Ultra 5 245 (0.8% behind), and AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 388 (0.8% ahead).

Q: Does Control hit 60 FPS at max settings at 1080p?

A: Just misses it. Ultra at 1920x1080 averages 59.7 FPS, a hair under the threshold. High is the highest preset that clears the bar at 65.4 FPS.

Best Settings per Resolution

• 1920x1080 — High, 65.4 FPS average. High is the most demanding preset that stays at or above 60 FPS. Ultra misses the cutoff at 59.7 FPS.
• 2560x1440 — Low, 82 FPS average. Low is the only preset that clears the threshold. Medium (56.7 FPS) falls short.
• 3840x2160 — none. No preset reaches 60 FPS. The best result, Low at 57.9 FPS, is below the playable threshold, so there is no recommended 4K setting for this hardware.

The Verdict

Can this PC run Control? Yes — with clear resolution limits. At 1920x1080, the verdict data identifies High, Medium, and Low as playable, with High delivering 65.4 FPS average as the best playable setting; only Ultra dips below the line at 59.7 FPS. At 2560x1440, the picture narrows sharply: Low is the sole playable preset at 82 FPS, and everything from Medium upward sits below 60. At 3840x2160, the verdict is a clean no — no preset is playable, with even Low managing just 57.9 FPS. The practical conclusion: this is a 1080p machine for Control, capable of High-quality visuals at smooth frame rates, and a 1440p machine only if visual settings are sacrificed to Low.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All numbers below are measured averages from the tested configuration.

1920x1080:

• Low: 108.8 FPS
• Medium: 75.6 FPS
• High: 65.4 FPS
• Ultra: 59.7 FPS

2560x1440:

• Low: 82 FPS
• Medium: 56.7 FPS
• High: 50.9 FPS
• Ultra: 46.5 FPS

3840x2160:

• Low: 57.9 FPS
• Medium: 41.6 FPS
• High: 36.3 FPS
• Ultra: 31.6 FPS

The gradient is steep and consistent. Moving from Low to Ultra at 1080p costs roughly 45% of the frame rate (108.8 down to 59.7 FPS). Moving from 1080p to 4K at Low costs a similar proportion (108.8 down to 57.9 FPS). Each step up in either resolution or quality tier pushes the RX 6600 closer to its limit, and by 4K Ultra the average sits at barely half the playable threshold.

CPU and GPU Roles

The data shows this game is GPU-bound on this configuration at every resolution. The strongest evidence is the scaling pattern: holding settings constant at Low, average frame rate falls from 108.8 FPS at 1080p to 82 FPS at 1440p and 57.9 FPS at 4K. If the i5-14600KF were the limiting factor, frame rates would plateau as resolution increased, because the CPU workload is largely resolution-independent. Instead, frame rate scales down steadily with pixel count, which is the signature of a graphics-limited system.

The preset scaling tells the same story. At a fixed 1080p resolution, frame rate drops from 108.8 FPS on Low to 59.7 FPS on Ultra — nearly a halving of performance driven purely by GPU rendering load. The i5-14600KF, with its 14 cores, 20 threads, 5.30 GHz boost clock, and 90th-percentile standing among all CPUs, is never the constraint here. In practical terms, upgrading the GPU in this pairing would raise Control frame rates at every resolution, while upgrading the CPU would likely change nothing. Control's physics-heavy action gameplay is well within the processor's capabilities; it is the RX 6600's 8 GB of GDDR6 and its 63rd-percentile standing that define the performance ceiling.

Similar Performance Alternatives

Looking at the nearest rivals in the database, several nearby hardware combinations would behave almost identically in Control. On the CPU side, the i5-14600KF's closest matches by average benchmark score are the AMD Ryzen 9 7900 (average score 49228, just 0.3% behind), the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5755G (49196, 0.4% behind), the Intel Core Ultra 5 245 (48995, 0.8% behind), and the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 388 (49796, 0.8% ahead). Any of these processors paired with the same RX 6600 would produce Control results within a fraction of a percent of the CPU contribution — which, as established above, is not the limiting factor anyway.

On the GPU side, the RX 6600's average score of 19036 is effectively tied with the NVIDIA Quadro K6000 (19030, 0% delta), the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile (19049, 0.1% ahead), the NVIDIA Tesla K20m (19089, 0.3% ahead), and the NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation (18954, 0.4% behind). Swapping the RX 6600 for any of these cards would yield near-identical Control performance with this processor — meaning the same 1080p-High / 1440p-Low / no-4K verdict would apply. Since the GPU is the binding constraint in this pairing, matching its score is what determines expected frame rates, and all of these alternatives sit within a margin of less than one percent.