Evolve

The Intel Core i7-12700K paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti clears Evolve at every resolution the data covers, and it does so with headroom to spare. At 4K the combo holds a 70.4 FPS average on the High preset; at 1440p and 1080p it runs the Ultra preset at 89.8 and 129.8 FPS respectively. This is a measured result, not an estimate, and it places the pairing at rank 449 out of 3700 tested combinations for this game — comfortably in the upper tier. Evolve launched in early 2015, and its engine demands simply do not stress hardware of this generation: a 12-core Alder Lake CPU sitting in the 84th percentile of all tested processors, feeding an Ada Lovelace GPU also in the 84th percentile, turns a demanding asymmetric shooter into an easy workload.

Best Settings per Resolution

The data defines the playable threshold as 60 FPS average, and the most demanding preset that clears that bar differs by resolution.

At 1920x1080, the answer is Ultra, and it is not close: 129.8 FPS average, more than double the threshold. Medium runs at 238.7 FPS and Low at 306.8 FPS — the latter approaching refresh rates only high-end monitors can display.

At 2560x1440, Ultra again clears the line with 89.8 FPS average. High delivers 126.2 FPS, Medium 160.1 FPS, and Low 205.6 FPS, so even stepping down one preset from Ultra buys a roughly 40 percent frame-rate gain.

At 3840x2160, Ultra is the one preset that falls short at 50.5 FPS average. High is the most demanding playable preset, averaging 70.4 FPS. Medium sits at 92.7 FPS and Low at 115.4 FPS, meaning even at full 4K the pairing never drops below a 115 FPS average on the lowest preset.

The pattern is consistent: only 4K Ultra escapes the 60 FPS rule, and even that miss is modest — a drop from High's 70.4 to Ultra's 50.5 represents the single largest settings-induced decline at any resolution, reflecting the jump in render cost between High and Ultra texture and effect quality at 8.3 million pixels per frame.

FAQ

Q: Can this PC run Evolve at 4K?

A: Yes, at three of the four presets. High averages 70.4 FPS, Medium 92.7 FPS, and Low 115.4 FPS. Only Ultra falls below the 60 FPS threshold, at 50.5 FPS average.

Q: Can it run Evolve on Ultra settings?

A: At 1920x1080 and 2560x1440, yes — 129.8 FPS and 89.8 FPS respectively. At 3840x2160, no: Ultra averages 50.5 FPS, short of the 60 FPS playable bar.

Q: What is the single fastest measured result for this combo in Evolve?

A: 1080p Low, at 306.8 FPS average. The scale of that figure shows the 2015-era game engine is effectively GPU-limited only at the highest resolutions and presets on this hardware.

Q: How does this combo rank against other tested pairings in Evolve?

A: Rank 449 out of 3700 combinations. That puts it in the top tier of tested hardware for this title, well ahead of the median pairing.

Q: Is the CPU or the GPU more likely to limit performance here?

A: The data points to neither being stressed at playable settings. Frame rates scale strongly with resolution and preset — from 306.8 FPS at 1080p Low down to 50.5 FPS at 4K Ultra — which indicates the RTX 4070 Ti's render load dominates behavior, while the i7-12700K's single-thread score of 1043 in 3DMark and 2308 in Geekbench provides far more CPU throughput than the game engine requests.

Q: Does the minimum frame rate data exist?

A: The recorded entries contain average FPS only; minimum and maximum values were not captured. All verdicts here rest on average frame rates against the 60 FPS threshold.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the i7-12700K's nearest rivals sit almost exactly at its average benchmark score of 35287. The Intel Core i5-13600T averages 35305 — a deltaPct of -0.1, meaning it is marginally faster in aggregate. The Core i7-12700KF averages 35365 (-0.2), and the Core i7-13700T averages 35403 (-0.3). The Core 5 213PE rounds out the list at 35428 (-0.4). All four are within half a percent of the 12700K's aggregate score, so any of them would produce effectively identical Evolve behavior — the game simply does not exploit the differences between these parts. Notably, the list spans both higher and lower tierings within Intel's range, which tells you the 12700K's 12 cores and 20 threads on the 10 nm Alder Lake-S die compete with parts positioned both above and below it in aggregate throughput.

On the GPU side, the RTX 4070 Ti's average benchmark score of 44795 has neighbors in unexpected places. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile averages 45152 (-0.8) and the Intel Arc A730M averages 45592 (-1.7) — both marginally ahead in the aggregate database. The AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT averages 45384 (-1.3), and the NVIDIA RTX A6000 averages 44075 (1.6), meaning the workstation A6000 trails the 4070 Ti slightly in the composite metric. For Evolve specifically, any of these would land within a similar frame-rate neighborhood, though the composite scores mix compute and graphics tests, so per-game behavior can diverge. The takeaway: the 4070 Ti's 7680 shading units, 12 GB of GDDR6X on a 192-bit bus with 504.2 GB/s of bandwidth, and 40.09 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput place it in a performance cluster where substitutions barely change the Evolve experience.

The Verdict

Yes — this PC runs Evolve, and it does so at every resolution tested. The verdict by resolution is unambiguous:

• 1920x1080: playable on all four presets; best is Ultra at 129.8 FPS average.
• 2560x1440: playable on all four presets; best is Ultra at 89.8 FPS average.
• 3840x2160: playable on High, Medium, and Low; best is High at 70.4 FPS average. Ultra fails the 60 FPS threshold at 50.5 FPS.

In practical terms, a player using this pairing should simply max the game out at 1080p or 1440p and not think about it again. At 4K, dropping one step from Ultra to High restores a playable 70.4 FPS while retaining the bulk of the visual upgrade. There is no resolution-and-preset combination in the data below 1080p Low's 306.8 FPS ceiling where the hardware feels constrained, and no playable configuration where the frame rate dips near the threshold — the closest call, 4K High, still holds a ten-FPS-plus cushion over 60.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured average FPS for the i7-12700K + RTX 4070 Ti pairing in Evolve; minimum and maximum values were not recorded.

3840x2160 (4K):

| Preset | Avg FPS |

|---|---|

| Low | 115.4 |

| Medium | 92.7 |

| High | 70.4 |

| Ultra | 50.5 |

The 4K ladder shows a steep but even descent: each preset step costs roughly 20 FPS, until the High-to-Ultra drop, which removes nearly 20 FPS on its own and pushes the average under the threshold. Low at 115.4 FPS means even the most conservative 4K configuration runs at nearly double the playable minimum.

2560x1440:

| Preset | Avg FPS |

|---|---|

| Low | 205.6 |

| Medium | 160.1 |

| High | 126.2 |

| Ultra | 89.8 |

Every preset clears 60 FPS with wide margins. Ultra's 89.8 FPS is nearly 50 percent above the threshold, and Low's 205.6 FPS more than triples it. This resolution is arguably the sweet spot for the pairing: full visual quality with a frame rate suited to high-refresh displays.

1920x1080:

| Preset | Avg FPS |

|---|---|

| Low | 306.8 |

| Medium | 238.7 |

| High | 187.1 |

| Ultra | 129.8 |

At 1080p the game is effectively saturated. Ultra at 129.8 FPS more than doubles the playable bar, and Low at 306.8 FPS pushes into esports-refresh territory. The compression of the ladder relative to 4K — 306.8 down to 129.8 across the full preset range versus 115.4 down to 50.5 — shows how pixel count, not settings, dominates the cost at this resolution on the 4070 Ti.

Across all twelve measured configurations, only one (4K Ultra) falls below the playable threshold. Eleven of twelve run at or above 60 FPS, and eight of twelve exceed 100 FPS.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the Evolve benchmark database, this CPU/GPU pairing ranks 449th out of 3700 tested combinations. That placement matters for context: fewer than one in eight tested combos outrank it, putting the i7-12700K + RTX 4070 Ti firmly in the elite band for this particular title. Given that both components individually sit in the 84th percentile versus all tested CPUs and GPUs respectively, the combo's in-game rank is consistent with — and slightly better than — what the component percentiles alone would predict.

The reason is straightforward: Evolve's 2015-era engine rewards the strong single-thread performance the 12700K delivers (a 3DMark single-thread score of 1043 and a Geekbench single-core score of 2308) more than it punishes any weakness, while the 4070 Ti's Ada Lovelace architecture — 7680 shading units, 60 RT cores, 240 tensor cores on the 5 nm AD104 die — has render throughput far beyond what the game's assets can request. The CPU's multi-thread credentials (19784 in Cinebench R23 multi-core, 34404 PassMark multithread) go largely unused here, which is typical for a title of this vintage.

For ranking purposes, the data supports a clear statement: a player choosing hardware for Evolve specifically does not need anything faster than this. The combo already saturates the playable range at two of three resolutions, and the only sub-threshold result — 4K Ultra at 50.5 FPS — is one preset adjustment away from a 70.4 FPS average. Combos ranking above 449th would gain headroom this game cannot meaningfully use, while the pairing's nearest hardware equivalents on both CPU and GPU sides would rank within a hair of it.