Control

Control launched in 2019 as an Action Adventure title built to punish contemporary hardware, and the pairing of Intel's Core i7-14700KF with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 turns that punishment into a formality. This is a measured-data page: every figure below comes from the benchmark database's own runs of this exact combination, across three resolutions and four presets. The short answer is that the game runs, everywhere, at everything. The interesting question is how much headroom remains — and what the scaling pattern reveals about which component is actually doing the work.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured averages are 282 FPS on Low, 202.6 on Medium, 177.4 on High, and 158.8 on Ultra. At 2560x1440 the numbers settle to 217.2 on Low, 153.3 on Medium, 138.1 on High, and 118.3 on Ultra. At 3840x2160, the RTX 5090 still delivers 145.6 on Low, 101.7 on Medium, 91.1 on High, and 77.8 on Ultra. Minimum and maximum frame rates were not captured for these runs, so the averages stand alone — but with margins this wide, the absence of min/max data does not change the picture. Even the worst cell in the grid, 4K Ultra at 77.8 FPS, clears the 60 FPS playability threshold by a comfortable gap. Every single one of the twelve measured configurations lands above 60 FPS, which is itself a statement: there is no combination of resolution and preset in this dataset where the game becomes marginal.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data tells a clean story about bottlenecks. Moving from 1080p to 1440p on the same preset costs roughly 25 to 30 percent of the frame rate — for example, Ultra drops from 158.8 to 118.3, and Low drops from 282 to 217.2. Moving from 1440p to 4K costs a similar slice again, with Ultra falling from 118.3 to 77.8. That steady, proportional decline as pixel count rises is the signature of a GPU-limited scenario: the Core i7-14700KF is feeding frames fast enough at every resolution that the RTX 5090 is the component setting the pace. At 1080p, where a weak CPU would normally expose itself, frame rates keep climbing past 280 FPS on Low — a level the i7-14700KF's 28 threads and 5.60 GHz boost clock sustain without becoming the ceiling.

Notably, the CPU is no slouch in absolute terms. Its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 44167 and single-core score of 6235 place it in the 94th percentile of all CPUs in the database. But in Control, even that level of CPU performance is simply more than the game demands. There is no resolution here where the frame rate plateaus, which is the pattern you'd expect if the processor were the limiter. The data shows a consistently GPU-driven profile from 1080p through 4K.

Best Settings per Resolution

Using the 60 FPS threshold as the definition of playable, the answer is the same at every resolution: Ultra.

• 1920x1080 — Ultra, 158.8 FPS average. Well over double the threshold; Low would add 282 FPS, but nothing is gained by dropping settings.
• 2560x1440 — Ultra, 118.3 FPS average. Nearly double the threshold, with High (138.1) as an optional step up in frame rate that sacrifices visual fidelity for little practical benefit.
• 3840x2160 — Ultra, 77.8 FPS average. The tightest result in the grid, but still comfortably above 60. Even the most demanding preset at the most demanding resolution holds a roughly 30 percent cushion over the threshold.

The verdict data confirms all four presets — Low, Medium, High, and Ultra — are playable at all three resolutions. The concept of "best settings" here simply means "maximum settings," because nothing needs to be turned down.

FAQ

Q: Can the RTX 5090 run Control at 4K with max settings?

A: Yes. At 3840x2160 on Ultra, the measured average is 77.8 FPS, above the 60 FPS playability threshold.

Q: What FPS does this combo get at 1080p on Low settings?

A: 282 FPS average — the highest figure in the entire measured dataset for this pairing.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the bottleneck in Control with this hardware?

A: The GPU. Frame rates scale down proportionally as resolution increases with no plateau at lower resolutions, indicating the i7-14700KF keeps up at all times and the RTX 5090 sets the pace.

Q: How much performance is lost going from High to Ultra?

A: At 4K, average FPS drops from 91.1 to 77.8; at 1440p, from 138.1 to 118.3; at 1080p, from 177.4 to 158.8. The Ultra penalty is consistent but modest across all resolutions.

Q: Does any resolution or preset in this dataset fail the 60 FPS threshold?

A: No. All twelve measured configurations exceed 60 FPS, with the lowest being 4K Ultra at 77.8 FPS.

Q: What percentage of all tested hardware combos does this pairing outrank in Control?

A: It ranks 50th out of 3720 tested combinations in this game.

How This Combo Ranks

Against the database's full field of tested pairings in Control, the i7-14700KF plus RTX 5090 sits at rank 50 of 3720 — inside the top couple of percent of all configurations measured for this game. That ranking is consistent with the component-level percentiles: the CPU sits in the 94th percentile of all CPUs, the GPU in the 92nd percentile of all GPUs. Neither part is the single fastest in the database, which explains why the combo isn't ranked first — but the combination is fast enough that only a small handful of setups post better numbers in this title. It's worth asking whether higher-ranked combos achieve their edge through GPU throughput or simply through a newer flagship processor; the scaling analysis here suggests that in a GPU-bound title like Control, the GPU is doing most of the differentiating.

The Verdict

Yes — this PC runs Control without compromise. Every preset at every tested resolution clears 60 FPS. At 1920x1080, Ultra averages 158.8 FPS; at 2560x1440, Ultra averages 118.3 FPS; at 3840x2160, Ultra averages 77.8 FPS. The verdict data lists all four settings as playable at all three resolutions, with Ultra flagged as best settings in each case. For a game released in 2019, running on a GPU from 2025 paired with a 2023 CPU, this is as close to a guaranteed maximum-settings experience as the data can show. The only frontier left uncaptured here is minimum frame rate data — the averages leave ample room above 60 that even meaningful frame-time dips would be unlikely to threaten.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the database's rival data shows the i7-14700KF clustered tightly with several AMD parts: the Ryzen 7 9700F averages within 0.2 percent of its score, the Ryzen 9 7940HX within 0.4 percent, and the Ryzen 9 7950X within 0.9 percent. The Intel Core Ultra 7 265K actually scores about 1 percent higher. Any of these processors would behave effectively identically in a GPU-bound title like Control — the measured differences sit well under a single frame per second at these margins. On the GPU side, the listed nearest rivals include the NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB (within 0.3 percent), the Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB (within 0.6 percent), the AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT (within 1.1 percent), and the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X (about 1.4 percent ahead on average score). The overall message from both rival lists is that in this neighborhood of the database, hardware is tightly bunched — swap in any of these parts and Control's outcome would not meaningfully change.