Minimum

The Intel Core Ultra 7 265K paired with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070 makes short work of Minimum, a third-person shooter that dates back to mid-2014. Measured data for this combination shows frame rates that are, in most cases, multiples of the 60 FPS playability threshold, with the only real constraint appearing at 4K Ultra. The CPU sits in the 94th percentile of all tested processors with an average benchmark score of 70879, while the GPU holds the 82nd percentile with an average score of 40377, so neither component is remotely stretched by a title of this age. What follows is a resolution-by-resolution reading of the measured results.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured average frame rates from this exact hardware pairing. Minimum and maximum frame rate data was not captured for these runs, so the averages carry the full analytical weight.

At 1920x1080, the data is emphatic:

• Low: 301.8 FPS average
• Medium: 233 FPS average
• High: 190.8 FPS average
• Ultra: 149.1 FPS average

Even the heaviest preset clears the 60 FPS threshold more than twice over. The drop from Low to Ultra is roughly a halving of frame rate, which indicates the presets carry substantial visual cost, but the RTX 5070's headroom absorbs it entirely.

At 2560x1440:

• Low: 192.6 FPS average
• Medium: 150.6 FPS average
• High: 123.8 FPS average
• Ultra: 95.7 FPS average

The pattern repeats with the whole curve shifted downward. Ultra at 1440p still delivers 95.7 FPS, comfortably above threshold, and Low remains close to the 200 FPS mark. Every preset at this resolution is classified as playable.

At 3840x2160:

• Low: 105 FPS average
• Medium: 82.4 FPS average
• High: 68.3 FPS average
• Ultra: 52.4 FPS average

This is the only resolution where the data shows a limit. High is the highest preset that stays at or above 60 FPS, at 68.3 FPS average. Ultra falls to 52.4 FPS, which sits below the 60 FPS playability threshold and is the single non-playable configuration in the entire dataset for this combo.

One structural observation: moving from 1440p to 4K costs the High preset roughly 45 percent of its frame rate (123.8 to 68.3), while moving from 1080p to 1440p at the same preset costs about 35 percent (190.8 to 123.8). That escalation at 4K is the signature of the GPU becoming the binding constraint as pixel count quadruples from the baseline.

Best Settings per Resolution

Using the 60 FPS threshold as the playability bar, the most demanding preset that holds at or above 60 FPS at each resolution is:

• 1920x1080: Ultra, at 149.1 FPS average. There is enormous margin — more than double the threshold — so no compromise is needed at this resolution.
• 2560x1440: Ultra, at 95.7 FPS average. Roughly a 59 percent cushion above the threshold means Ultra remains the correct choice at 1440p.
• 3840x2160: High, at 68.3 FPS average. High is the ceiling here; stepping up to Ultra drops the average to 52.4 FPS, below threshold, so the data points to High as the best playable preset at 4K.

The playable-settings lists confirm this: all four presets pass at 1080p and 1440p, while only Low, Medium, and High pass at 4K.

CPU and GPU Roles

At lower resolutions this game is far from stressing either component, but the scaling data reveals where the balance sits. From 1080p Low to 1080p Ultra, the average falls from 301.8 to 149.1 FPS — a preset-driven change of roughly half. That is a GPU-side cost, since resolution is held constant. From 1080p Ultra to 4K Ultra, the average falls from 149.1 to 52.4 FPS — a much steeper decline driven purely by pixel count. Both dimensions of load land on the graphics card.

The CPU's role is essentially invisible in this dataset. The Core Ultra 7 265K brings 20 cores and 20 threads on the Arrow Lake architecture, with a 5.50 GHz boost clock, and posts strong synthetic numbers: 35850 in Cinebench R23 multi-core, 23085 in Geekbench multi-core, and 58594 in PassMark multithread. A 2014 third-person shooter has no realistic way to consume that. Even at 1080p Low, where CPU limits typically surface first, the measured 301.8 FPS average indicates the processor is not the ceiling. In short: at 1080p and 1440p the game is GPU-light and CPU-irrelevant; at 4K it becomes a straightforward GPU-throughput question, and the RTX 5070's 672 GB/s of GDDR7 bandwidth and 30.87 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput answer it everywhere except Ultra.

The GPU's supporting benchmarks reinforce this. A PassMark G3D score of 29137, a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 5077, and Vulkan compute results near 179k in Geekbench place the card well above what Minimum demands at any mainstream resolution.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the database's tested combinations for Minimum, the Core Ultra 7 265K plus RTX 5070 ranks 692nd out of 3712 combos. That places it in the top fifth of all tested pairings for this game — a strong position, though not at the extreme top, which is consistent with a game where enormous frame rates are achievable by many combinations and the ranking field is dense near the high end. Given that this combo posts 149.1 FPS at 1080p Ultra and 95.7 FPS at 1440p Ultra, the ranking reflects a pairing that comfortably exceeds playability requirements rather than one fighting for them.

Similar Performance Alternatives

Looking at the CPU's nearest rivals by aggregate score, several processors sit within a fraction of a percent of the Core Ultra 7 265K's 70879 average. The Intel Xeon 6511P scores 71051, just 0.2 percent ahead; the Intel Xeon Platinum 8270 scores 71370, 0.7 percent ahead; the Intel Core i7-14700KF scores 70163, 1 percent behind; and the AMD Ryzen 7 9700F scores 69996, 1.3 percent behind. Any of these would deliver effectively identical behavior in Minimum, since the game leaves the processor with massive headroom at every tested resolution. Differences of one percent or less in aggregate CPU score are meaningless against frame rates that already exceed 149 FPS at 1080p Ultra.

On the GPU side, the nearest rivals cluster similarly tight around the RTX 5070's 40377 average score. The AMD Radeon Pro 580 scores 40318, 0.1 percent behind; the AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 scores 40063, 0.8 percent behind; the AMD Radeon Pro 5300 scores 40870, 1.2 percent ahead; and the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile scores 39568, 2 percent behind. Cards in this scoring neighborhood would be expected to reproduce the measured results here closely — including the same qualitative picture of Ultra being the one preset that dips below 60 FPS at 4K, since that outcome is a direct function of GPU throughput class. The RTX 5070's percentile position, 82nd against all GPUs, frames these rivals as members of the same performance band.

The Verdict

Yes — this PC runs Minimum, decisively. The verdict data shows that at 1920x1080 all four presets (Low, Medium, High, Ultra) clear 60 FPS, with Ultra leading at 149.1 FPS average. At 2560x1440, again all four presets clear the bar, with Ultra delivering 95.7 FPS average. At 3840x2160, Low (105 FPS), Medium (82.4 FPS), and High (68.3 FPS) are playable, while Ultra at 52.4 FPS falls short of the threshold. The practical recommendation from the data is simple: run Ultra at 1080p or 1440p without hesitation, and step down one notch to High if playing at 4K. A launch MSRP of $394 for the CPU and 549 USD for the GPU define the hardware's original market position, and the results here represent a negligible load for both parts.

FAQ

Q: Can the Core Ultra 7 265K + RTX 5070 run Minimum at 4K Ultra settings?

A: No. The measured average at 3840x2160 Ultra is 52.4 FPS, below the 60 FPS playability threshold. High is the best preset at 4K, averaging 68.3 FPS.

Q: What is the highest preset that stays above 60 FPS at 1440p?

A: Ultra. All four presets are playable at 2560x1440, with Ultra averaging 95.7 FPS.

Q: Does the CPU limit this game at 1080p?

A: The data indicates no. At 1920x1080 Low the combo averages 301.8 FPS, and even Ultra averages 149.1 FPS — frame rates far beyond what a CPU bottleneck would allow, and well within the headroom of a processor in the 94th percentile.

Q: How does this combination rank against other tested pairings for Minimum?

A: It ranks 692nd out of 3712 tested combos, placing it in roughly the top fifth of results for this game.

Q: Which CPUs would perform essentially the same in this game?

A: The Intel Core i7-14700KF (1 percent lower aggregate score), AMD Ryzen 7 9700F (1.3 percent lower), Intel Xeon 6511P (0.2 percent higher), and Intel Xeon Platinum 8270 (0.7 percent higher) all sit within a negligible margin of this CPU's average benchmark score.

Q: Which GPUs fall in the same performance band as the RTX 5070 here?

A: The AMD Radeon Pro 580, AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100, AMD Radeon Pro 5300, and NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile, all within 2 percent of the RTX 5070's aggregate score, would be expected to produce similar results in Minimum.