Minimum

Minimum, a third-person shooter released in mid-2014, is a light load for modern hardware, and the pairing of AMD's Ryzen 7 9700X with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3070 demonstrates that clearly across the benchmark database. The data shows this combination clearing the playable threshold at nearly every tested configuration, with 4K Ultra being the only scenario that falls short. What follows is a step-by-step walkthrough of where this combo ranks, what frame rates it produces, and which component does the heavy lifting.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 7 9700X + RTX 3070 run Minimum at 60 FPS?

A: Yes, at nearly every resolution and preset tested. At 1920x1080 and 2560x1440, all four presets — Low, Medium, High, and Ultra — stay at or above 60 FPS average. At 3840x2160, only the Low preset clears the threshold, at 77.8 FPS average; Medium (59.3), High (48.8), and Ultra (39.7) fall below it.

Q: What is the highest setting this combo can use at 1440p in Minimum?

A: Ultra, with an average of 72.6 FPS at 2560x1440. That is comfortably above the 60 FPS playable threshold.

Q: How does the RTX 3070 compare to rival GPUs in the database?

A: Its average benchmark score of 17208 places it in the 61st percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rivals are the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT (0.7% behind), the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 (1% behind), the AMD Radeon HD 7970M (1.1% behind), and the NVIDIA Tesla K40c (1.5% ahead).

Q: How strong is the Ryzen 7 9700X relative to other CPUs?

A: It sits in the 86th percentile of all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 37943. Its closest rivals — the Intel Core i9-14901E, AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, Intel Core 5 211E, and AMD Ryzen AI Embedded P132 — all land within half a percent of its average score.

Q: Where does this CPU/GPU pairing rank among tested combos for Minimum?

A: It ranks 1635 out of 3712 tested combinations, placing it roughly in the middle of the pack — a reflection of how undemanding this older third-person shooter is for most modern configurations.

Q: Is the frame rate data measured or estimated?

A: All figures in this analysis are measured data, with the playable threshold defined at 60 FPS.

How This Combo Ranks

Out of 3712 hardware combinations tested in Minimum, the Ryzen 7 9700X and RTX 3070 pairing ranks 1635. That mid-table position needs context: Minimum dates to mid-2014, and its engine predates both the Ampere architecture of the RTX 3070 and the Zen 5 architecture of the 9700X by many years. As a result, a large share of tested combinations — including far weaker pairings — can run the game well, compressing the rankings and making raw rank a less meaningful signal than it would be in a modern title.

The component percentiles tell a sharper story. The 9700X sits in the 86th percentile of all CPUs, an average benchmark score of 37943 that puts it within half a percent of chips like the Intel Core i9-14901E (0.1% delta) and the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (0.1% delta). The RTX 3070, by contrast, is in the 61st percentile of all GPUs with an average score of 17208. The CPU is the stronger of the two components relative to their respective fields, but for a game of this vintage, both are more than sufficient — the frame rate data below confirms it.

Measured FPS Breakdown

Starting at 1920x1080, the measured averages are: 227.5 FPS at Low, 176.1 at Medium, 147.8 at High, and 110.7 at Ultra. Every preset more than doubles the 60 FPS threshold, and even the most demanding setting leaves over 80% headroom above it. For a fast third-person shooter, where high frame rates translate directly into smoother aim and movement, 1080p Ultra at 110.7 FPS is a strong result.

Moving to 2560x1440, the averages step down to 147.5 at Low, 115.5 at Medium, 95.2 at High, and 72.6 at Ultra. The drop from 1080p is significant but not punishing — Ultra still clears 60 FPS with room to spare, meaning the full visual feature set is available at this resolution without compromise.

At 3840x2160, the picture changes. Low averages 77.8 FPS and Medium 59.3 — a hair under the threshold — while High manages 48.8 and Ultra drops to 39.7. The data shows 4K is where the RTX 3070's limits become visible in this title: only the Low preset remains comfortably playable. It is also notable that 4K Medium at 59.3 FPS sits less than a single frame per second from the threshold, so players sensitive to that boundary may find it effectively usable in practice, though the database verdict classifies it as not playable.

The Verdict

Yes, this PC can run Minimum — decisively at two of the three tested resolutions.

At 1920x1080, every preset clears 60 FPS, from Low at 227.5 up to Ultra at 110.7. The best setting is Ultra, and it holds an average of 110.7 FPS.

At 2560x1440, every preset again clears 60 FPS. The best setting is Ultra, holding an average of 72.6 FPS.

At 3840x2160, only the Low preset is classified as playable, with an average of 77.8 FPS. Medium at 59.3, High at 48.8, and Ultra at 39.7 all fall below the threshold.

In short: for 60 FPS gameplay, players should target 1440p Ultra or 1080p Ultra, and treat 4K as a Low-preset proposition.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling pattern in the measured data points to a GPU-bound game at every resolution, which is typical of a third-person shooter from 2014 running on modern hardware.

The evidence is in the frame rate deltas. At 1080p, dropping from Ultra to Low nearly doubles the average — 110.7 to 227.5 FPS — meaning the CPU can feed frames far faster than the GPU can render them at higher settings. If the CPU were the bottleneck, lowering visual settings would produce little gain, because the processor would already be saturated. Instead, settings changes yield massive frame rate swings at every resolution: at 1440p the range spans 72.6 to 147.5 FPS, and even at 4K it spans 39.7 to 77.8.

Resolution scaling tells the same story. Holding the Ultra preset fixed, the average drops from 110.7 at 1080p to 72.6 at 1440p to 39.7 at 4K — a steep decline as pixel count rises, which is the signature of GPU limitation. Meanwhile, the CPU's own credentials are unambiguous: the 9700X posts a single-thread Passmark score of 4654, a Geekbench single-core score of 3023, and a Cinebench R23 multicore score of 20485, placing it in the 86th percentile of all CPUs. A chip with that headroom is not the limiting factor in a 2014 title.

The practical implication: players chasing higher frame rates in Minimum with this combo should tune GPU-side settings and resolution, not worry about the processor.

Best Settings per Resolution

1920x1080 — Ultra, 110.7 FPS average. The most demanding preset still clears the threshold by a wide margin; there is no reason to drop settings at this resolution.

2560x1440 — Ultra, 72.6 FPS average. Ultra again stays above 60 FPS, making 1440p the resolution of choice for maximum image quality at a stable frame rate.

3840x2160 — Low, 77.8 FPS average. Low is the only preset the database classifies as playable at 4K. Medium at 59.3 FPS falls just under the threshold, so players wanting a 4K experience with this combo must accept reduced visual settings.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the GPU side, the RTX 3070's average score of 17208 places it in a tight cluster of rivals. The AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT sits 0.7% behind, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 is 1% behind, the AMD Radeon HD 7970M is 1.1% behind, and the NVIDIA Tesla K40c is 1.5% ahead. In a game as light as Minimum, any of these would be expected to produce broadly similar frame rates, though the 3070's Ampere architecture, 8 GB of GDDR6, and DirectX 12 Ultimate support give it a clear feature advantage over the older members of that list.

On the CPU side, the 9700X's nearest rivals are effectively interchangeable in aggregate performance: the Intel Core i9-14901E and AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 are both within 0.1%, the Intel Core 5 211E within 0.3%, and the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded P132 within 0.4%. Given that Minimum is GPU-bound with this pairing, a system built around any of these processors paired with an RTX 3070 would likely land in the same measured frame rate territory — and near the same rank of 1635 out of 3712 combos — as the configuration analyzed here.