Minimum

The pairing of an Intel Core i7-14700F with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER answers the question of whether Minimum, a third-person shooter released in mid-2014, can be run — and the measured data shows the answer is a decisive yes at every common resolution. Across twelve measured configurations spanning three resolutions and four presets, average frame rates never fall below 58.2 FPS, and that figure occurs only at the most demanding combination in the dataset: 4K Ultra. The combo ranks 295 out of 3712 tested hardware configurations for this game, placing it in rarefied company, backed by a CPU sitting in the 91st percentile of all tested processors and a GPU in the 86th percentile of all tested graphics cards.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The benchmark data covers 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160 at Low, Medium, High, and Ultra presets, with average frame rates recorded for each. Minimum and maximum frame rates were not captured in this dataset, so the analysis below rests on averages alone.

At 1920x1080, the results are extravagant. Low settings average 356.9 FPS, Medium climbs down only slightly to 269.8 FPS, High lands at 231 FPS, and even Ultra holds 173.7 FPS. Every preset at this resolution delivers frame rates far in excess of a high-refresh monitor's demands. The spread from Low to Ultra — a drop of roughly half the Low-setting figure — indicates the game still responds to visual quality settings even when the GPU is barely challenged.

At 2560x1440, the numbers compress but remain high: Low averages 229.9 FPS, Medium 172.9 FPS, High 148.9 FPS, and Ultra 114.3 FPS. The Ultra figure is nearly double the 60 FPS playability threshold used by this database, meaning maxed-out settings at 1440p carry no practical penalty here.

At 3840x2160, the dataset shows its only marginal result. Low averages 124.3 FPS and Medium 91.7 FPS, both comfortably playable. High manages 81.6 FPS, still well above threshold. Ultra, however, averages 58.2 FPS — just under the 60 FPS bar. That makes 4K Ultra the single configuration in the entire dataset that fails the playability criterion, and it fails narrowly, by less than two frames.

The stepwise pattern across presets is consistent at every resolution: each quality tier costs roughly 10 to 25 percent of the previous tier's frame rate, with the largest single jump at 4K occurring between Low and Medium, where the average falls from 124.3 to 91.7 FPS.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data makes the role division clear: Minimum on this hardware is GPU-bound at higher resolutions and progressively less so as resolution drops.

Consider the resolution scaling at a fixed preset. At Ultra, moving from 1080p to 1440p drops the average from 173.7 to 114.3 FPS; moving from 1440p to 4K drops it again to 58.2 FPS. That steady, proportional decline as pixel count rises is the signature of a graphics-limited workload — the RTX 4080 SUPER is doing more work per frame while the processor's contribution stays constant. The same pattern holds at High, where the averages step from 231 FPS at 1080p to 148.9 at 1440p to 81.6 at 4K.

At 1080p, the frame rates begin to flatten toward what the platform itself can feed. A 356.9 FPS average at Low is the kind of number at which CPU throughput and engine logic, not rasterization, become the ceiling. The i7-14700F — a 20-core, 28-thread Raptor Lake Refresh processor with a 5.40 boost clock and a 4958 Cinebench R23 single-core score — is more than capable of feeding this game, which dates to 2014 and predates the multi-core expectations of modern titles. Its single-thread Passmark score of 4257 and multi-thread score of 41317 place it in the 91st percentile of all CPUs in the database, so there is no indication the processor bottlenecks any configuration measured here.

In short: the GPU determines which presets are playable at 4K, the CPU is never the limiting factor, and at 1080p the pairing is overkill by a wide margin.

FAQ

Q: Can this PC run Minimum at 4K with maximum settings? A: Almost. At 3840x2160 Ultra the average is 58.2 FPS, slightly below the 60 FPS playability threshold. Dropping one preset to High raises the average to 81.6 FPS, clearing the bar comfortably.

Q: What is the highest frame rate recorded for this combo in the game? A: 356.9 FPS average, at 1920x1080 on the Low preset.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU more important for this game? A: The GPU. Frame rates scale down consistently as resolution rises while the CPU load stays fixed, indicating a graphics-bound profile at 1440p and 4K. The i7-14700F's strong single-core and multi-core benchmark scores suggest it never limits performance in this title.

Q: How does this combo rank against other tested configurations for Minimum? A: It ranks 295 out of 3712 tested combos, placing it near the top of the database for this game.

Q: Which presets are playable at 2560x1440? A: All four: Low (229.9 FPS), Medium (172.9 FPS), High (148.9 FPS), and Ultra (114.3 FPS) all exceed the 60 FPS threshold.

Q: Does the game run at 60 FPS at 1920x1080 on every preset? A: Yes, by a large margin — the lowest average at 1080p is 173.7 FPS on Ultra, nearly triple the threshold.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the Minimum leaderboard, the i7-14700F plus RTX 4080 SUPER combination sits at rank 295 of 3712 tested hardware pairings. That position means fewer than one in twelve tested combos outranks it for this specific game — a reflection of both components' standing: the CPU's average benchmark score of 53620 puts it in the 91st percentile of all processors, and the GPU's average score of 54209 puts it in the 86th percentile of all graphics cards.

The ranking is consistent with what the raw frame rates show. A configuration that holds 114.3 FPS at 1440p Ultra and clears 80 FPS at 4K High is behaving like top-tier hardware for a title of this vintage, and the leaderboard position confirms it. The only blemish — 4K Ultra at 58.2 FPS — is a threshold miss of under two frames, not a structural weakness of the pairing.

Similar Performance Alternatives

For buyers or upgraders seeking comparable behavior, the rival data points to hardware within a few percent of these parts.

On the CPU side, the closest rival is the Intel Xeon 6505P, whose average score of 53701 sits just 0.2 percent above the i7-14700F — functionally identical performance in aggregate. The Intel Xeon Phi 7290 averages 53469, 0.3 percent behind, and the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X averages 53288, 0.6 percent behind. The AMD EPYC 7313P, at 53206, trails by 0.8 percent. Any of these processors would deliver effectively the same frame delivery in a game where the CPU is not the constraint.

On the GPU side, the nearest match is the original NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080, with an average score of 54247 versus the SUPER's 54209 — a gap of just 0.1 percent, meaning the non-SUPER card would be expected to post nearly identical frame rates in Minimum. The AMD Radeon Pro W5700X averages 54828, 1.1 percent higher, while the AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB (55698, 2.7 percent above) and the AMD Radeon 8060S (55757, 2.8 percent above) also cluster nearby. A system built around any of these GPUs paired with a comparable CPU would land within a few frames per second of the measured results at every resolution and preset in this dataset.

The Verdict

Yes — this PC runs Minimum, and runs it well. The verdict data, using the 60 FPS threshold, is unambiguous:

At 1920x1080, every preset is playable, with the best being Ultra at 173.7 FPS average. At 2560x1440, every preset is again playable, best being Ultra at 114.3 FPS average. At 3840x2160, three of four presets clear the bar — Low (124.3 FPS), Medium (91.7 FPS), and High (81.6 FPS) — while Ultra at 58.2 FPS falls marginally short. The recommended best setting at 4K is High.

The practical takeaway: for 1080p and 1440p gaming, there is no decision to make — run everything at Ultra. For 4K, High is the ceiling for a 60 FPS target, and the two-frame shortfall at Ultra is small enough that players sensitive to frame rates may still find it acceptable, though it does not meet this database's threshold.

Best Settings per Resolution

• 1920x1080 — Ultra, 173.7 FPS average. The most demanding preset stays at nearly triple the playability threshold. No compromise is needed at this resolution.
• 2560x1440 — Ultra, 114.3 FPS average. Maximum settings remain comfortably above 60 FPS, clearing the bar by over 54 frames on average.
• 3840x2160 — High, 81.6 FPS average. Ultra drops below threshold at 4K (58.2 FPS), so High is the most demanding preset that stays at or above 60 FPS, delivering a margin of more than 21 frames over the bar.

Across the board, the data shows a pairing with substantial headroom: eleven of twelve measured configurations are playable, and the one exception misses by under two frames per second.