Minimum

The question of whether the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 can run Minimum, a third-person shooter released in mid-2014, is answered emphatically by the measured data: this pairing clears the 60 FPS threshold at every tested resolution and every preset, including Ultra at 4K. The interesting part is not whether the combo runs the game, but how much headroom it leaves — and what the scaling pattern reveals about where this older title's demands actually sit.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured averages; minimum and maximum frame rates were not recorded for this configuration, so the analysis rests on average FPS alone.

At 1920x1080, the results are far beyond what the playable threshold demands. Low settings deliver 407.8 FPS, Medium delivers 311.1 FPS, High delivers 263.9 FPS, and even Ultra holds 201.8 FPS. Every preset at this resolution sits more than three times above the 60 FPS line, which indicates the game is essentially no challenge for this hardware at 1080p.

At 2560x1440, the same ordering holds with a predictable decline: Low at 261.4 FPS, Medium at 198.4 FPS, High at 170.2 FPS, and Ultra at 130.2 FPS. The drop from 1080p to 1440p at Ultra — from 201.8 to 130.2 FPS — is proportionally steep, hinting that at maximum settings the workload shifts meaningfully toward the GPU as pixels are added.

At 3840x2160, the frame rates finally approach something resembling strain. Low averages 143.6 FPS, Medium 109 FPS, High 93.4 FPS, and Ultra 68.9 FPS. That Ultra figure is the only result in the entire dataset that lands under 100 FPS — and it still clears 60 FPS by a comfortable margin of roughly nine frames per second.

The spread between Low and Ultra is worth noting: at 4K, moving from Low to Ultra costs 74.7 FPS, nearly halving the average. At 1080p, the same settings change costs 206 FPS. In relative terms the pattern is consistent — Ultra costs roughly half of Low's throughput at every resolution — which suggests the preset's heaviest effects scale evenly rather than introducing a fixed CPU-side penalty.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the Ryzen 9 7900X sits at an average benchmark score of 53288, placing it in the 91st percentile of all CPUs in the database. Its nearest rivals by aggregate score are remarkably close: the AMD EPYC 7313P at 53206 (a delta of 0.2 percent), the Intel Xeon Phi 7290 at 53469 (a delta of -0.3 percent), the Intel Xeon 634 at 52974 (a delta of 0.6 percent), and the Intel Core i7-14700F at 53620 (a delta of -0.6 percent). Anyone running one of these four processors alongside an RTX 5090 would expect broadly comparable behavior in Minimum, since the aggregate CPU scores differ by less than one percent in every case.

On the GPU side, the RTX 5090's average benchmark score of 79842 puts it in the 92nd percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB at 79605 (0.3 percent), the NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB at 79396 (0.6 percent), the AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT at 78940 (1.1 percent), and the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X at 80959 (-1.4 percent). By aggregate score, these cards cluster tightly around the 5090 — though aggregate scores blend compute and graphics workloads, so gaming-specific behavior may not track perfectly.

The intriguing implication: given Minimum's age as a 2014 title, even hardware scoring well below these rivals would likely remain playable. But within this performance neighborhood, the data suggests interchangeable results.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data tells a fairly clear story about which component limits performance at each resolution. From 1080p to 4K at Ultra, frame rates fall from 201.8 to 68.9 FPS — a decline of about two-thirds as pixel count quadruples. If the CPU were the bottleneck, that decline would be far flatter, because resolution changes barely affect CPU workload. The steep drop indicates GPU-bound behavior at the higher resolutions, at least at the top preset.

At 1080p, the picture inverts. Even Ultra runs at 201.8 FPS, and Low runs at 407.8 FPS. A frame rate that high on a 2014 game raises a question the data cannot fully answer: is the Ryzen 9 7900X — with 12 cores, 24 threads, a single-thread Passmark score of 4238, and a 3DMark single-thread score of 1093 — capping the ceiling here, or could a faster processor push Low settings even further? The fact that 1080p Low reaches 407.8 FPS while 4K Low reaches only 143.6 FPS shows resolution remains the dominant variable even at the lightest preset, which argues the GPU is still doing the limiting at every tested point.

The preset scaling reinforces this. At any resolution, moving from Low to Ultra roughly halves frame rate, and the penalty grows with pixel count in absolute terms. The CPU's role in Minimum appears minimal for this pairing — its 29300 Cinebench R23 multi-core score and 2016.5 single-core score are never seriously taxed by a game of this era.

The Verdict

Yes — and comfortably. The verdict data confirms that at 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160, all four presets (Low, Medium, High, Ultra) are playable against the 60 FPS threshold. Best settings at each resolution are:

• 1920x1080: Ultra, at 201.8 FPS average
• 2560x1440: Ultra, at 130.2 FPS average
• 3840x2160: Ultra, at 68.9 FPS average

There is no scenario in the measured dataset where this configuration drops below 60 FPS. The tightest result is 4K Ultra at 68.9 FPS — playable, but the closest thing to a limit this combo encounters in Minimum. Players wanting triple-digit frame rates at 4K should step down to High, which averages 93.4 FPS.

FAQ

*Q: Can the Ryzen 9 7900X + RTX 5090 run Minimum at 4K on Ultra settings?*

A: Yes. The measured average at 3840x2160 Ultra is 68.9 FPS, above the 60 FPS playable threshold.

Q: What is the highest frame rate this combo achieves in the game?

A: 407.8 FPS, at 1920x1080 on Low settings.

Q: Which preset should I use at 4K for the smoothest experience?

A: Ultra is technically playable at 68.9 FPS, but High raises the average to 93.4 FPS — a worthwhile trade for headroom, since dips below the average are likely at Ultra given the 8.9 FPS cushion over the threshold.

Q: How much performance is lost going from 1440p to 4K on Ultra?

A: The average falls from 130.2 FPS to 68.9 FPS — roughly a 47 percent decline for a fourfold increase in pixels.

Q: Does this CPU and GPU combination rank highly for this game?

A: It ranks 63rd out of 3712 tested combinations in Minimum, placing it in the top few percent of tested hardware pairings.

Q: Were minimum and maximum frame rates recorded?

A: No. Only average FPS was captured for this configuration at all twelve resolution-and-preset combinations.

How This Combo Ranks

Against the full field of 3712 tested combinations in Minimum, the Ryzen 9 7900X + RTX 5090 pairing sits at rank 63. That position is consistent with the component percentiles: the CPU sits in the 91st percentile of all CPUs and the GPU in the 92nd percentile of all GPUs. A rank of 63 out of 3712 means fewer than two percent of tested combos outrun it in this specific game.

What could sit above it? Presumably combinations with even higher aggregate scores — though notably, the RTX 5090's own rival list shows cards like the Radeon Pro Vega 64X scoring 1.4 percent higher on average, so marginally faster aggregate pairings exist. Whether those translate to higher frame rates in a title this old is an open question the game-specific ranking partially answers: rank 63 is high, but not first, implying measured combos do exist that extract more from Minimum.

Best Settings per Resolution

• 1920x1080 — Ultra, 201.8 FPS average. No compromise needed; even the heaviest preset runs at more than triple the playable threshold.
• 2560x1440 — Ultra, 130.2 FPS average. Again Ultra holds comfortably, more than doubling the 60 FPS line.
• 3840x2160 — Ultra, 68.9 FPS average. Ultra remains the most demanding playable preset, though the margin narrows considerably; High at 93.4 FPS is the safer pick for consistent smoothness.

Across all three resolutions, Ultra is the most demanding preset that stays at or above 60 FPS — a clean sweep for this configuration in Minimum.