Evolve

FAQ

Q: Can this PC combination run Evolve at 4K with High settings?

A: No. At 3840x2160 with High settings, the Intel Core i7-13700K + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 combo produces an average of 58.8 FPS, which falls just below the 60 FPS playable threshold. The data indicates that High settings at 4K are not viable, while Medium settings at 76.4 FPS are the highest playable preset.

Q: What is the best settings preset for 1440p gaming on this hardware?

A: At 2560x1440, the Ultra preset delivers an average of 76.6 FPS, which is above the 60 FPS threshold. This makes Ultra the most demanding playable setting, as all four tested presets (Low, Medium, High, Ultra) clear the 60 FPS mark at this resolution.

Q: How does the CPU's multi-threaded performance compare to its nearest rivals?

A: The Core i7-13700K has an average benchmark score of 46881, which is nearly identical to the AMD Ryzen 9 5900 (46971, -0.2% delta) and the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375 (47022, -0.3% delta). It is marginally ahead of the AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX (46654, +0.5% delta) and the Intel Xeon w3-2535 (46653, +0.5% delta).

Q: Is the RTX 4070's compute performance significantly different from the RTX 4080 Mobile?

A: The RTX 4070's average benchmark score is 37648, while the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile scores 38135, representing a delta of -1.3%. This places the desktop RTX 4070 slightly behind the mobile RTX 4080 in average score, but the difference is minimal, indicating very similar overall compute capability.

Q: At what resolution does the system hit its highest frame rate?

A: The highest average frame rate recorded is 260 FPS at 1920x1080 with Low settings. This is significantly higher than the 176.3 FPS at 2560x1440 Low and the 101 FPS at 3840x2160 Low, showing a clear scaling pattern with resolution.

Q: What is the system's overall rank among all tested combos for this game?

A: This specific combination of hardware ranks 869 out of 3700 tested combos, placing it in the top 23.5% of all configurations tested for Evolve, which indicates a strong overall performance level.

Best Settings per Resolution

The data reveals a clear hierarchy of playable settings for this system. At the demanding 3840x2160 resolution, the most demanding preset that stays at or above 60 FPS is Medium, which achieves an average of 76.4 FPS. The High preset at 58.8 FPS and Ultra at 40.4 FPS both fall short of the 60 FPS playable threshold, while Low runs at 101 FPS. For 2560x1440, the system can handle the most demanding Ultra preset at 76.6 FPS average, comfortably above the threshold. All lower presets also remain playable, with High at 110.1 FPS, Medium at 135.7 FPS, and Low at 176.3 FPS. At 1920x1080, the Ultra preset is the best choice, delivering an average of 110.5 FPS, which is well above the 60 FPS requirement. The lower presets scale up dramatically, reaching 157.4 FPS on High, 205.9 FPS on Medium, and 260 FPS on Low.

CPU and GPU Roles

The performance scaling data suggests that this game is heavily influenced by resolution, which points to the GPU being the dominant factor in determining frame rates. Looking at the Low preset, dropping from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 reduces the average FPS from 260 to 176.3, a 32% decrease. Moving further to 3840x2160 at Low settings drops the average to 101 FPS, another 43% reduction. This steep decline as pixel count increases is a classic indicator of GPU-bound performance. The pattern holds across all presets; for instance, High settings see a drop from 157.4 FPS at 1080p to 110.1 FPS at 1440p, and then to 58.8 FPS at 4K. The CPU, with its high multi-threaded score of 45887 in Passmark and a 3dmark max-threads score of 12412, appears more than capable of feeding the GPU, as the frame rates at lower resolutions are exceptionally high, suggesting the GPU is the limiting factor. At 1080p, the difference between Low (260 FPS) and Ultra (110.5 FPS) is 149.5 FPS, which is a 135% increase. This large spread due to settings further emphasizes that the GPU's workload, rather than the CPU's processing power, dictates the final frame rate, as the CPU has ample headroom to handle both low and high settings without becoming a bottleneck.

Similar Performance Alternatives

The nearest rivals for the CPU and GPU provide a useful reference for users looking at comparable hardware. The Intel Core i7-13700K's average benchmark score of 46881 is essentially tied with the AMD Ryzen 9 5900 (46971, -0.2%) and the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375 (47022, -0.3%). It is also within half a percent of the AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX (46654, +0.5%) and the Intel Xeon w3-2535 (46653, +0.5%). This means that swapping the Core i7-13700K for any of these CPUs would result in virtually identical gaming performance in Evolve, as the benchmark deltas are negligible. On the GPU side, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 (avg score 37648) is closely matched with the NVIDIA Tesla P4 (37628, +0.1%) and the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (37507, +0.4%). The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile (38135, -1.3%) is slightly faster, while the AMD Radeon PRO W6400 (37157, +1.3%) is slightly slower. For a user with this combo, the performance characteristics would be nearly indistinguishable from a system using an RTX 4070 with any of these CPU alternatives, or a Core i7-13700K with any of these GPU alternatives.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured frame rates for this combination in Evolve show a consistent pattern across all resolutions. At 1920x1080, the system delivers an average of 260 FPS on Low settings, 205.9 FPS on Medium, 157.4 FPS on High, and 110.5 FPS on Ultra. The 1440p results show 176.3 FPS on Low, 135.7 FPS on Medium, 110.1 FPS on High, and 76.6 FPS on Ultra. At 4K, the averages drop to 101 FPS on Low, 76.4 FPS on Medium, 58.8 FPS on High, and 40.4 FPS on Ultra. The data shows no minimum or maximum FPS values, only averages. The margin between the Low and Ultra presets is substantial at every resolution: 149.5 FPS at 1080p, 99.7 FPS at 1440p, and 60.6 FPS at 4K. This indicates that the Ultra preset demands roughly 2.4x more GPU power than Low at 1080p, a relationship that holds true across the other resolutions as well. The progression from 1080p to 4K at any given preset reduces the frame rate by approximately 60-65%, which is a typical load increase for quadrupling the pixel count.

The Verdict

This system is fully capable of running Evolve at a playable frame rate for the majority of common configurations. According to the verdict data, at 1920x1080, all four settings presets—Low, Medium, High, and Ultra—are playable, with the Ultra preset delivering an average of 110.5 FPS. At 2560x1440, the system also handles all presets, including Ultra at 76.6 FPS, which clears the 60 FPS threshold with a comfortable 16.6 FPS margin. The situation changes at 3840x2160, where the High preset (58.8 FPS) and Ultra preset (40.4 FPS) are not playable. However, the Medium preset at 76.4 FPS is the best playable option at 4K, and the Low preset at 101 FPS is also viable. In summary, this PC can run Evolve at 1080p and 1440p with maximum settings, and at 4K with Medium settings, all while staying above the 60 FPS playable threshold. The only scenario where the system falls short of 60 FPS is at 4K with High or Ultra settings, where it averages 58.8 and 40.4 FPS respectively.

How This Combo Ranks

The Intel Core i7-13700K + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 combination ranks 869 out of 3700 tested combos for Evolve. This places the system in the 76.5th percentile of all tested configurations, meaning it outperforms roughly three-quarters of the other hardware combinations tested for this game. The ranking is a holistic measure of the system's ability to run the game across all resolutions and settings. Given that the combo can achieve over 110 FPS at 1080p Ultra and over 76 FPS at 1440p Ultra, the high relative rank makes sense. The system's only weakness is at 4K Ultra, where it drops below 60 FPS, but this is a demanding scenario that many other combos would also struggle with. The data suggests that this particular pairing of a 16-core CPU with a 12 GB GPU is a balanced configuration for Evolve, offering high frame rates at mainstream resolutions while maintaining respectable performance at 4K with reduced settings.