Minimum

The pairing of an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti delivers a comfortable experience in Minimum, a third-person shooter released in mid-2014. The recorded data shows this combination clears the 60 FPS playability threshold at every tested resolution except one preset: 4K Ultra, which lands at 55.5 FPS. Everywhere else, framerates are high, and the pairing ranks in the top fifth of all tested hardware combos for this title. The short verdict is that the RTX 4070 Ti carries this game easily, while the six-core Ryzen 5 2600 stays out of the way at higher resolutions and becomes the more likely constraint at 1080p.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The database contains average framerate measurements across three resolutions and four presets, twelve configurations in total. Minimum and maximum frametime figures were not captured for these runs, so the analysis below rests on average FPS, which is sufficient to establish clear performance tiers.

At 1920x1080, the numbers are uniformly high. Low settings return 239.3 FPS, Medium climbs the chart at 216 FPS, High sits at 202 FPS, and Ultra still delivers 158.2 FPS. The spread between the cheapest and most demanding preset at 1080p is about 81 FPS, a gap of roughly half the Low-setting result, which indicates the game engine scales well with visual quality at this resolution.

At 2560x1440, Low registers 204.2 FPS, Medium 160.9 FPS, High 137.7 FPS, and Ultra 102.2 FPS. Even the heaviest preset clears the 60 FPS threshold by over 40 FPS. That is a healthy margin for a fast-paced shooter, where headroom above the threshold translates into smoother frame pacing during combat-heavy scenes.

At 3840x2160, the picture tightens. Low reaches 112.7 FPS and Medium 85 FPS, both comfortable. High holds 74.3 FPS, still above the threshold. Ultra drops to 55.5 FPS, the single sub-60 result in the entire dataset. The verdict data reflects this: High is flagged as the best playable preset at 4K, while Ultra earns that designation at both 1440p and 1080p.

Scaling between resolutions is instructive. Comparing Ultra across the board, framerates go from 158.2 FPS at 1080p to 102.2 FPS at 1440p to 55.5 FPS at 4K. Each step up in pixel count produces a substantial framerate drop, which is the signature of a graphics-limited workload rather than a CPU bottleneck.

CPU and GPU Roles

The Ryzen 5 2600 is a six-core, twelve-thread Zen+ processor running a 3.40 base and 3.90 boost clock on the AM4 socket, built on a 12 nm GlobalFoundries process. The RTX 4070 Ti is a different class of hardware: an Ada Lovelace part on TSMC's 5 nm node with 7680 shading units, 12 GB of GDDR6X on a 192-bit bus delivering 504.2 GB/s of bandwidth, and 40.09 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput. The database places the CPU in the 75th percentile of all tested processors and the GPU in the 84th percentile of all tested graphics cards, so the GPU is both the newer and the stronger component in this pairing.

For Minimum, the measured scaling says the GPU does the heavy lifting. Moving from 1080p to 4K cuts the Ultra framerate from 158.2 to 55.5 FPS, nearly a two-thirds reduction, purely from increasing the pixel load. If the Ryzen 5 2600 were the limiting factor, framerates would flatten across resolutions because the CPU workload does not change with pixel count. Instead, every preset shows a steep, monotonic decline as resolution rises, which is textbook GPU-bound behavior.

At 1080p the roles start to shift. The gap between Low (239.3 FPS) and Medium (216 FPS) at 1080p is only 23.3 FPS, much smaller in relative terms than the gaps between higher presets. As settings lighten and framerates climb toward the mid-200s, the CPU's ability to feed the engine becomes the plausible ceiling. The Ryzen 5 2600's single-thread performance, recorded at 157.3 in Cinebench R15 single-core and 2239 in single-threaded testing, is respectable for its generation but modest next to newer parts, so it is the component most likely to cap very high refresh play at 1080p.

For a 2014 title, though, this is largely academic. Even the CPU-sensitive 1080p scenarios stay above 158 FPS at Ultra. In practice, the RTX 4070 Ti dominates this game at 1440p and 4K, and the Ryzen 5 2600 only enters the conversation when chasing maximum framerates at reduced settings.

Best Settings per Resolution

The playability threshold in the database is 60 FPS average, and the best preset at each resolution is the most demanding one that meets or exceeds it.

At 1920x1080, the answer is Ultra at 158.2 FPS. All four presets are playable, and there is no reason to drop below Ultra given the enormous headroom; even the worst-case measured preset exceeds the threshold by more than double.

At 2560x1440, the answer is again Ultra, at 102.2 FPS. The margin over 60 FPS is more than 40 frames, so players can run the game at full visual quality with room to spare for framerate dips in dense scenes. High at 137.7 FPS and Medium at 160.9 FPS are available as fallbacks for high-refresh displays.

At 3840x2160, the answer changes. Ultra falls short at 55.5 FPS, below the 60 FPS bar. High is the correct target, delivering 74.3 FPS. Players who want more fluidity at 4K can step down to Medium at 85 FPS or Low at 112.7 FPS, but High represents the best balance of image quality and assured playability at this resolution.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the game-specific leaderboard for Minimum, this CPU and GPU pairing ranks 690th out of 3712 tested combinations. That places it in approximately the top fifth of all hardware configurations measured for this title. Given that the game dates from 2014 and this GPU launched in early 2023, that positioning is consistent: the pairing beats the large majority of combos in the database but sits behind the elite tier of newer flagship configurations that would push the 4K Ultra result above 60 FPS.

The ranking also contextualizes the one failure case. A 4K Ultra shortfall of 55.5 FPS against a 60 FPS bar is a narrow miss, and combinations ranked ahead of this one are precisely those that close that gap while raising the 1080p ceiling higher than the Ryzen 5 2600 allows.

Similar Performance Alternatives

For the CPU side, the database identifies several processors with nearly identical aggregate scores. The Intel Core Ultra 5 228V sits within 0.2 percent of the Ryzen 5 2600's average benchmark result, effectively indistinguishable in overall throughput. The Intel Core i9-11900H is within 0.5 percent, the Intel Xeon D-1746TER is within 0.7 percent, and the AMD EPYC 9454 is within 1.2 percent. Any of these would be expected to behave similarly as the host processor for this game, though the laptop and server-derived parts carry their own platform considerations.

For the GPU side, the closest matches are equally tight. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile scores within 0.8 percent of the RTX 4070 Ti's average, the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT within 1.3 percent, the NVIDIA RTX A6000 within 1.6 percent, and the Intel Arc A730M within 1.7 percent. Substituting any of these graphics cards should produce framerates within a small band of the numbers reported here, meaning the 4K Ultra result would remain near the 60 FPS line and the 1440p Ultra experience would stay comfortably above 100 FPS.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 5 2600 and RTX 4070 Ti run Minimum at 4K Ultra?

A: Not at the 60 FPS threshold. The measured average at 3840x2160 Ultra is 55.5 FPS, which falls just short. Dropping to High raises the average to 74.3 FPS, clearing the bar.

Q: What is the best settings choice for 1440p?

A: Ultra, at 102.2 FPS average. All four presets are playable at 2560x1440, so there is no need to compromise on visual quality.

Q: Is the game CPU-bound or GPU-bound with this pairing?

A: GPU-bound at 1440p and 4K. Framerates drop steeply as resolution rises at every preset, the signature of a graphics-limited workload. The Ryzen 5 2600 only becomes relevant at 1080p, where framerates approach the mid-200s at lower settings.

Q: How high do framerates go at 1080p?

A: The highest recorded result is 239.3 FPS at 1920x1080 Low, followed by 216 FPS at Medium, 202 FPS at High, and 158.2 FPS at Ultra.

Q: Where does this hardware combination rank for this game?

A: It ranks 690th out of 3712 tested combinations, placing it in roughly the top fifth of configurations in the database for Minimum.

Q: Is the RTX 4070 Ti a strong card overall?

A: Yes. The database places it in the 84th percentile of all tested GPUs, with a passmark G3D score of 31624 and 12 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 504.2 GB/s bus.