Minimum

The Intel Core i7-14700F paired with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070 Ti handles Minimum, a 2014 third-person shooter, with enormous headroom. Across all twelve measured configurations — three resolutions from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160, four presets each — the pairing never drops below an average of 58.7 FPS, and only a single data point (4K Ultra) falls under the 60 FPS playability threshold. The combo ranks 380th out of 3712 tested configurations in this game, placing it in roughly the top ten percent of tested hardware for Minimum. What follows is a resolution-by-resolution, preset-by-preset walk through the measured data.

Best Settings per Resolution

The target here is the most demanding preset that holds an average of at least 60 FPS at each resolution.

At 1920x1080, that preset is Ultra, averaging 165 FPS. Every preset clears the threshold, and even the slowest option more than doubles 60 FPS.

At 2560x1440, the answer is again Ultra, averaging 104.6 FPS. The resolution jump costs about 36 percent of the Ultra frame rate relative to 1080p, but the margin over the threshold remains wide.

At 3840x2160, the ceiling drops to High, averaging 75.3 FPS. Ultra at 4K averages 58.7 FPS — close, but measurably under the 60 FPS line, so High is the most demanding preset that qualifies.

FAQ

*Q: Can this PC run Minimum at 4K?*

A: Yes, at three of the four presets. Low averages 116.7 FPS, Medium averages 92.7 FPS, and High averages 75.3 FPS at 3840x2160. Only Ultra misses the cut, averaging 58.7 FPS against the 60 FPS playability threshold.

Q: Which preset should be used at each resolution for the best experience?

A: Ultra at 1920x1080 (165 FPS) and 2560x1440 (104.6 FPS); High at 3840x2160 (75.3 FPS). These are the most demanding presets that stay at or above 60 FPS on average.

Q: How high does the frame rate go with this combo?

A: The fastest measured result is 341.8 FPS at 1920x1080 on the Low preset. The 1080p High preset matches the 1440p Low preset exactly at 220.3 FPS.

*Q: How does this pairing rank against other tested combinations in Minimum?*

A: It ranks 380 out of 3712 tested combos, which places it in approximately the top ten percent for this game.

Q: Is the CPU or the GPU the limiter here?

A: The data points to the GPU. Frame rates fall steeply as resolution rises at every preset — Low drops from 341.8 FPS at 1080p to 116.7 FPS at 4K — while the i7-14700F sits in the 91st percentile of all CPUs and is not a plausible bottleneck for a 2014 title.

Q: Where exactly does the combo miss the 60 FPS target?

A: In exactly one configuration: 3840x2160 on the Ultra preset, at 58.7 FPS average. Every other measured configuration clears 60 FPS, most by a factor of two or more.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured average frame rates; minimum and maximum frame rate data was not captured for these runs.

1920x1080

• Low: 341.8 FPS
• Medium: 262.5 FPS
• High: 220.3 FPS
• Ultra: 165 FPS

The 1080p results show the GPU with room to spare. Even the Ultra preset delivers 165 FPS, nearly triple the playability threshold. The spread between Low and Ultra — 341.8 versus 165 FPS — is a factor of roughly 2.1, which is a large preset-to-preset gap and indicates the render load scales heavily with settings at this resolution rather than hitting a CPU ceiling. A CPU-limited configuration would show the presets compressing toward a common frame rate; that does not happen here.

2560x1440

• Low: 220.3 FPS
• Medium: 166.8 FPS
• High: 141.4 FPS
• Ultra: 104.6 FPS

The 1440p ladder mirrors the 1080p shape at lower absolute values. Notably, 1440p Low lands at 220.3 FPS — identical to 1080p High — an interesting coincidence in the dataset that illustrates how trading resolution for preset quality can be roughly frame-rate-neutral. Ultra at 104.6 FPS still clears 60 FPS by nearly 75 percent.

3840x2160

• Low: 116.7 FPS
• Medium: 92.7 FPS
• High: 75.3 FPS
• Ultra: 58.7 FPS

4K is where the RTX 5070 Ti's margin narrows. Low still clears 116 FPS and Medium holds 92.7 FPS, but each preset step costs roughly 20 percent of the frame rate, and Ultra lands at 58.7 FPS — just 1.3 frames short of the 60 FPS threshold. For players insisting on 4K Ultra, the measured average sits a hair below the line; dropping a single preset tier to High restores a comfortable 75.3 FPS.

Similar Performance Alternatives

For CPUs, the i7-14700F's average benchmark score of 53620 sits in the 91st percentile against all CPUs. Its nearest rivals by aggregate score are the Intel Xeon 6505P at 53701 (0.2 percent apart), the Intel Xeon Phi 7290 at 53469 (0.3 percent), the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X at 53288 (0.6 percent), and the AMD EPYC 7313P at 53206 (0.8 percent). Any of these processors would be expected to behave nearly identically as a driver for this game, since they sit within one percent of the i7-14700F on aggregate benchmark performance. Given that Minimum is not CPU-bound on this hardware, the practical differences between them in-game would be negligible.

For GPUs, the RTX 5070 Ti carries an average benchmark score of 49957 and sits in the 86th percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rivals are the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 at 50001 (0.1 percent), the Intel Arc A550M at 49737 (0.4 percent), the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT at 50951 (2 percent ahead), and the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT at 48477 (3.1 percent behind). Since the measured data shows Minimum scaling with GPU load at every resolution, systems built around these rival cards would be expected to land within a few percent of the frame rates recorded here — meaning the RX 6900 XT would likely nudge slightly above these numbers and the RX 6800 XT slightly below. The 4K Ultra result at 58.7 FPS is close enough to the threshold that a marginally stronger GPU from this rival group could plausibly push that single configuration over 60 FPS.

How This Combo Ranks

Of 3712 hardware combinations tested in Minimum, the i7-14700F plus RTX 5070 Ti ranks 380th. That places it in roughly the top ten percent — consistent with the component-level percentiles: the CPU sits in the 91st percentile versus all CPUs and the GPU in the 86th percentile versus all GPUs. For a game released in 2014, this ranking is less about the pairing being exotic and more about how decisively modern hardware overshadows a title of that era. Only at 4K Ultra does the ranking translate into anything resembling a struggle, and even there the shortfall is under two frames.

The component benchmarks reinforce the picture. The i7-14700F posts 3540 in Cinebench R15 multi-core, 14751 in R20 multi-core, 35122 in R23 multi-core, and 41317 in PassMark multithreaded, alongside single-thread results of 499 (R15), 2082 (R20), 4958 (R23), and 4257 (PassMark single thread). The RTX 5070 Ti contributes a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 6604, a PassMark G3D score of 32974, and Geekbench compute results of 212363 (OpenCL) and 225122 (Vulkan). None of these numbers are being taxed meaningfully by a 2014 third-person shooter outside of the single 4K Ultra data point.

The Verdict

Yes — this PC runs Minimum comfortably at every resolution tested.

At 1920x1080, all four presets are playable, and the best option is Ultra at 165 FPS average. At 2560x1440, all four presets are again playable, best being Ultra at 104.6 FPS average. At 3840x2160, three presets are playable — Low (116.7 FPS), Medium (92.7 FPS), and High (75.3 FPS) — with High as the best qualifying preset, while Ultra at 58.7 FPS average falls just short of the 60 FPS threshold. In eleven of twelve measured configurations the combo doesn't just clear the line, it clears it by large multiples: the lowest passing frame rate anywhere in the dataset is 75.3 FPS at 4K High.

For a 1080p or 1440p display, this pairing makes the game trivially fast at maximum settings. For a 4K display, High is the measured sweet spot, with Ultra sitting a single frame-rate step away from viability.

CPU and GPU Roles

The measured data shows Minimum is GPU-bound on this hardware at every resolution. The evidence is in the scaling pattern.

Take the Low preset: 341.8 FPS at 1080p, 220.3 FPS at 1440p, and 116.7 FPS at 4K. Frame rate falls by roughly 36 percent moving from 1080p to 1440p and by another 47 percent moving from 1440p to 4K — a clean, monotonic decline tied directly to pixel count. A CPU-limited configuration would show nearly flat frame rates across resolutions because the processor's workload barely changes with resolution; that is not what the data shows at any preset. Medium shows the same signature: 262.5, 166.8, and 92.7 FPS across the three resolutions. High: 220.3, 141.4, and 75.3. Ultra: 165, 104.6, and 58.7.

The preset scaling reinforces this. At 1080p, going from Low to Ultra costs 176.8 frames — a 52 percent drop — which means the GPU's render load, not a fixed CPU ceiling, determines the frame rate. If the i7-14700F were the constraint, all four 1080p presets would converge toward a similar number; instead they span from 165 to 341.8 FPS.

At higher resolutions, the GPU's role only grows. At 4K, the gap between Low and Ultra is 58 FPS (116.7 down to 58.7), and it is here that the RTX 5070 Ti — 8960 shading units, 43.94 TFLOPS FP32, and 896 GB/s of GDDR7 bandwidth — is pushed to the point that one preset falls below the playability threshold. The i7-14700F, with 20 cores, 28 threads, and 91st-percentile aggregate performance, is never the limiting component in any of the twelve measured configurations. For this game on this pairing, the practical guidance is simple: CPU choice barely matters, and every frame-rate decision comes down to resolution and preset on the GPU side.