Minimum

Minimum, a third-person shooter released in mid-2014, is a light workload for modern hardware, and the measured data for the AMD Ryzen 7 9700F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 confirms that comfortably. Every figure below is drawn from measured benchmark runs across three resolutions and four presets, with a 60 FPS average treated as the playable threshold. The short version: this combination clears 60 FPS at 1080p on every preset including Ultra, at 1440p on everything up to High, and at 4K only on Low. The longer version — how the frame rates scale, what hardware behaves similarly, and which component is the limiter — is laid out in the sections that follow.

Measured FPS Breakdown

Starting at 1920x1080, the progression across presets is steep but never threatening. Low averages 179 FPS, Medium averages 137 FPS with a recorded minimum of 117 and a maximum of 158, High averages 115 FPS, and Ultra averages 88 FPS. Even the heaviest preset leaves a 28-frame margin above the 60 FPS threshold, and the Medium minimum of 117 FPS indicates that frame-time dips stay far above the playability line.

At 2560x1440 the numbers compress as expected. Low averages 116 FPS, Medium averages 88 FPS with a minimum of 75 and a maximum of 102, High averages 74 FPS, and Ultra averages 57 FPS. Ultra is the only 1440p preset that misses the threshold, and it misses by a modest margin — the average sits just shy of 60. The High preset, at 74 FPS average, is the most demanding setting that still clears the bar at this resolution.

At 3840x2160 the picture tightens considerably. Low averages 62 FPS, Medium averages 48 FPS with a minimum of 41 and a maximum of 55, High averages 40 FPS, and Ultra averages 30 FPS. Only the Low preset clears 60 FPS at 4K, and even then the margin is thin. The Medium maximum of 55 FPS is telling: at 4K on Medium, the best recorded frame rate never reaches the threshold, meaning dips below the average are guaranteed.

A pattern worth noting across the dataset: minimum and maximum frame rates were recorded for the Medium preset at each resolution and are absent elsewhere. The Medium figures are nonetheless informative — at 1080p the Medium frame-rate band (117 to 158) sits entirely above the High preset's average of 115, which illustrates how large the preset-to-preset steps are in this game.

Similar Performance Alternatives

For the CPU side, the Ryzen 7 9700F's nearest rivals by average benchmark score are the AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX (average score 69875, 0.2 percent behind the 9700F's 69996), the Intel Core i7-14700KF (70163, 0.2 percent ahead), the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (69515, 0.7 percent behind), and the Intel Core i7-14700K (69355, 0.9 percent behind). All four sit within a single percentage point of the 9700F's aggregate score, so any of them would deliver effectively indistinguishable processor performance in a game this undemanding. The 9700F sits in the 94th percentile versus all CPUs in the database, placing it firmly in the upper tier regardless of rival choice.

On the GPU side, the RTX 5050's nearest rivals are the AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL (average score 21153, 0.6 percent ahead of the 5050's 21035), the AMD Radeon HD 8970M (21237, 1 percent ahead), the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (20713, 1.6 percent behind), and the NVIDIA RTX A4000 Mobile (21379, 1.6 percent ahead). The spread here is also tight — under two percentage points in every case — which means the game results above would translate closely to any of these alternatives. The 5050 occupies the 66th percentile versus all GPUs, a mid-pack position that matches its measured behavior: strong at 1080p, workable at 1440p, strained at 4K.

Best Settings per Resolution

The best playable preset at each resolution, defined as the most demanding option that holds at or above a 60 FPS average:

• 1920x1080 — Ultra, 88 FPS average. The ceiling preset is fully playable, with a 28-frame cushion over the threshold.
• 2560x1440 — High, 74 FPS average. Ultra at 57 FPS falls short; High clears the line comfortably.
• 3840x2160 — Low, 62 FPS average. Medium at 48 FPS is well below the bar, so the drop to Low is mandatory to stay at 60.

The trend is consistent: each step up in resolution costs roughly one preset tier of headroom. What runs at Ultra at 1080p is roughly matched by High at 1440p and Low at 4K in terms of threshold clearance.

The Verdict

Yes — this PC can run Minimum at 1080p and 1440p with settings to spare, and at 4K only in a reduced configuration. The verdict data is unambiguous per resolution. At 1920x1080, all four presets — Low, Medium, High, and Ultra — are playable, with Ultra at 88 FPS as the best option. At 2560x1440, Low, Medium, and High are playable, with High at 74 FPS as the top choice; Ultra at 57 FPS does not qualify. At 3840x2160, only Low is playable at 62 FPS, with Medium's 48 FPS average and its 41-to-55 frame-rate band falling short.

For a 2014 third-person shooter, that is a strong result for a mid-tier pairing: the game is fully exhausted at 1080p, nearly so at 1440p, and only 4K — a resolution demanding over three times the pixels of 1080p — forces compromises.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data points to the GPU as the binding constraint in this pairing. Moving from 1080p to 1440p at any fixed preset costs a large slice of frame rate — Medium drops from 137 to 88 FPS, High from 115 to 74, Ultra from 88 to 57. Moving from 1440p to 4K repeats the pattern: Medium falls from 88 to 48 FPS, High from 74 to 40, Ultra from 57 to 30. Frame rates that fall steeply as pixel count rises indicate a GPU-limited scenario; a CPU bottleneck would instead flatten the curve, holding frame rates roughly constant across resolutions.

The CPU-side evidence supports this. The Ryzen 7 9700F posts a single-thread score of 4691, a multithread score of 36470, and a physics score of 2122 in PassMark testing, placing it in the 94th percentile of all CPUs — far more muscle than a 2014 shooter requires. At 1080p Low, the 179 FPS average is the highest figure in the dataset, showing the RTX 5050 still delivering more frames as load decreases rather than hitting a processor ceiling. The GPU, at the 66th percentile versus all graphics cards with a 21035 average benchmark score, is where the pairing's limits appear, and they appear exactly where expected: at 4K and at the Ultra preset, where only 30 FPS materializes at 3840x2160.

In practical terms, the CPU choice is essentially irrelevant for Minimum — any of the 9700F's nearest rivals, all within a percent of its aggregate score, would behave identically. The GPU decision determines which resolution and preset tiers are reachable.

How This Combo Ranks

Out of 3712 tested hardware combinations in this game, the Ryzen 7 9700F plus RTX 5050 ranks 2274th. That places it in the bottom half of the ranked field for Minimum specifically — a reflection of the game's age rather than the hardware's capability. Minimum launched in 2014, when mainstream GPUs were far weaker than the RTX 5050's 66th-percentile standing suggests today, so the ranking pool skews toward configurations tested for raw frame-rate leaderboards. The measured data shows the pairing is nonetheless fully sufficient for play at two of the three tested resolutions, and the rank should be read as a leaderboard position, not a playability judgment.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 7 9700F and RTX 5050 run Minimum at 4K?

A: Only at the Low preset, where the measured average is 62 FPS. Medium averages 48 FPS with a 41-to-55 frame-rate band, High averages 40 FPS, and Ultra averages 30 FPS — all below the 60 FPS threshold.

Q: What is the best-looking playable setting at 1440p?

A: High, at 74 FPS average. Ultra at 1440p averages 57 FPS and misses the playable threshold.

Q: Is Ultra playable at 1080p?

A: Yes. Ultra at 1920x1080 averages 88 FPS, a 28-frame margin above the 60 FPS threshold. Every preset is playable at 1080p.

Q: Which component limits performance in this game?

A: The GPU. Frame rates fall sharply as resolution rises — Medium drops from 137 FPS at 1080p to 88 at 1440p to 48 at 4K — which is characteristic of a GPU-bound scenario. The 9700F sits in the 94th percentile of all CPUs and is not the constraint.

Q: What CPUs perform similarly to the Ryzen 7 9700F?

A: The AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX and Intel Core i7-14700KF are each within 0.2 percent of its average benchmark score, and the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and Intel Core i7-14700K are within 0.9 percent.

Q: What GPUs would deliver comparable frame rates?

A: The AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL, AMD Radeon HD 8970M, AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT, and NVIDIA RTX A4000 Mobile all sit within roughly two percent of the RTX 5050's average benchmark score and would behave similarly in this game.