Minimum

Minimum, a third-person shooter released in mid-June 2014, is an undemanding target for modern flagships, and the pairing of AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 treats it accordingly: measured results show this configuration clearing the 60 FPS playability threshold at every tested resolution and every preset, right up to Ultra at native 4K.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 7 9800X3D + RTX 4090 run Minimum at 4K on Ultra settings? A: Yes. The combo averages 67 FPS at 3840x2160 on Ultra, above the 60 FPS playability threshold. Every other 4K preset also clears it, with Medium at 105 FPS, High at 88 FPS, and Low at 137 FPS.

Q: How fast is this configuration at 1080p? A: Extremely fast. At 1920x1080 the combo delivers 394 FPS on Low, 301 FPS on Medium (with a measured range of 256 to 347 FPS), 253 FPS on High, and 193 FPS on Ultra.

Q: How does the 9800X3D compare to rival CPUs in general benchmark terms? A: Its average benchmark score of 39768 puts it within a fraction of a percent of the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS (39603, 0.4 percent behind the 9800X3D), the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 (40048, 0.7 percent ahead), the AMD Ryzen AI 7 450 (39485, 0.7 percent behind), and the AMD Ryzen 7 7700 (40081, 0.8 percent ahead).

Q: How capable is the RTX 4090 on paper? A: It is an Ada Lovelace card built on TSMC's 5 nm process with the AD102 chip, 16384 shading units, 24 GB of GDDR6X on a 384-bit bus delivering 1.01 TB/s of bandwidth, and 82.58 TFLOPS of FP32 compute.

Q: Where does this CPU/GPU combo rank among all configurations tested in Minimum? A: It ranks 126th out of 3712 tested combinations in this game.

Q: Is the RTX 4090 still in production? A: No. The GPU is listed as end-of-life, sitting between the GeForce 30 series as its predecessor and the GeForce 50 series as its successor.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data indicates that Minimum is overwhelmingly GPU-bound on this hardware at every tested resolution, which is what you would expect when a 2014 title meets a top-tier Ada Lovelace card. The evidence is in the frame-rate deltas between resolutions: at 1080p the Medium preset runs at 301 FPS, dropping to 194 FPS at 1440p and 105 FPS at 4K. That near-halving of performance with each resolution step tracks pixel count almost linearly, a signature of graphics-limited rather than processor-limited behavior.

Preset scaling tells the same story. At 4K, moving from Low (137 FPS) to Ultra (67 FPS) roughly halves frame rates, while at 1080p the same jump takes the average from 394 FPS to 193 FPS — also roughly half. If the CPU were the ceiling, the Low and Ultra numbers at a given resolution would converge toward the processor's limit, and they do not; even 394 FPS at 1080p Low sits comfortably within reach of a chip posting a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2080 and a PassMark single-thread score of 4430.

The 9800X3D's role here is essentially to stay out of the way, and it does. With 8 cores, 16 threads, a 5.20 GHz boost clock, and 96 MB of shared L3 cache on the Zen 5 architecture, it ranks in the 87th percentile of all CPUs in the database, and nothing in Minimum's measured results suggests it is a limiting factor at any preset or resolution tested.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the 9800X3D's average benchmark score of 39768 lands it in a tight cluster of AMD parts. The Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS scores 39603 — within 0.4 percent — while the Ryzen AI 9 365 (40048) and Ryzen AI 7 450 (39485) bracket it from above and below at 0.7 percent deltas in either direction. The Ryzen 7 7700 is the nearest mainstream alternative at 40081, just 0.8 percent ahead. In a game as GPU-bound as Minimum, any of these processors would deliver effectively identical frame rates when paired with the RTX 4090, since the graphics card sets the pace.

On the GPU side, the RTX 4090's average score of 60347 has surprisingly close neighbors: the Intel Arc Pro A60 at 60326 (a dead-even 0 percent delta), the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 at 60140 (0.3 percent behind), the Radeon Pro W6600M at 61896 (2.5 percent ahead), and the Radeon PRO V710 at 58657 (2.9 percent behind). Given that Minimum at 4K Ultra runs at 67 FPS on the 4090 — with over 7 FPS of headroom above the 60 FPS threshold — these statistically adjacent cards would be expected to post broadly comparable results in this title, though the 4090's percentileVsAllGpus of 88 confirms it remains firmly in the upper tier of the database.

The Verdict

Yes — emphatically. The verdict data shows this combination is playable at every single tested resolution and preset: High, Low, Medium, and Ultra all clear 60 FPS at 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160. The best-settings field reads Ultra at all three resolutions, with average frame rates of 193 FPS at 1080p, 124 FPS at 1440p, and 67 FPS at 4K.

The only scenario that approaches the threshold is 4K Ultra at 67 FPS, and even there the margin is comfortable. Everywhere else the combo has enormous headroom — more than double the playability threshold at 1440p Ultra, and more than triple it at 1080p Ultra. For a 2014 third-person shooter running on 2022-flagship and 2024-flagship silicon, that is the expected outcome, and the measured data confirms it.

Best Settings per Resolution

• 1920x1080 — Ultra, 193 FPS average. The most demanding preset stays more than three times above the 60 FPS threshold. Medium manages 301 FPS (minimum 256, maximum 347), High 253 FPS, and Low 394 FPS.
• 2560x1440 — Ultra, 124 FPS average. Roughly double the threshold at maximum settings. Medium delivers 194 FPS (minimum 165, maximum 223), High 163 FPS, and Low 254 FPS.
• 3840x2160 — Ultra, 67 FPS average. The tightest result in the dataset, but still above 60 FPS. Stepping down to High yields 88 FPS, Medium 105 FPS, and Low 137 FPS, giving players a clear ladder of headroom if they want higher refresh rates at 4K.

In short, there is no resolution-preset combination in the measured data where this hardware falls below the playability line, so Ultra is the correct choice at all three resolutions.

How This Combo Ranks

Out of 3712 combinations tested in Minimum, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D + RTX 4090 pairing ranks 126th — placement in the top few percent of the field. That position reflects the character of the game as much as the hardware: because Minimum scales so heavily with GPU power and leaves the CPU largely idle, rankings in this title are effectively a ranking of graphics cards, and the RTX 4090's 88th-percentile standing among all GPUs in the database carries the pairing to its position.

The rank also contextualizes the verdict. A 126th-place finish out of more than three thousand configurations means the overwhelming majority of tested systems run Minimum slower than this one, yet 125 combos run it faster — a reminder that even a 2014 title has enough headroom at 1080p Low (394 FPS here) for even faster configurations to differentiate themselves. For practical purposes, though, at every resolution from 1080p to native 4K and every preset from Low to Ultra, this combination delivers frame rates at or well above the 60 FPS playability threshold, making Minimum comfortably playable end to end.