Pc Building Simulator

The pairing of Intel's Core i7-14700F with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 is a strikingly lopsided combination for PC Building Simulator, a simulation title released in early 2019. The RTX 4090 sits in the 88th percentile of all tested GPUs, and the i7-14700F sits in the 91st percentile of all tested CPUs, so this configuration brings near-flagship compute to a game whose rendering demands are modest by modern standards. The measured data confirms what those percentiles imply: every preset at every tested resolution clears the 60 FPS playable threshold, and the headroom above it is enormous.

Best Settings per Resolution

Because the benchmark sweep covers Low, Medium, High, and Ultra at all three standard resolutions, the "best settings" question reduces to whether Ultra holds at or above 60 FPS. It does, everywhere.

At 3840x2160, Ultra averages 80.1 FPS — the most demanding preset that stays above the threshold, and comfortably so. At 2560x1440, Ultra averages 158.5 FPS. At 1920x1080, Ultra averages 249.7 FPS. In other words, there is no resolution-and-preset combination in this dataset where the pairing is forced to compromise. Ultra is the correct setting at all three resolutions, and the margin above 60 FPS grows from roughly a third at 4K to more than four times the threshold at 1080p.

Similar Performance Alternatives

Looking at the CPU's nearest rivals by aggregate benchmark score, several processors would behave similarly in this game. The Intel Xeon 6505P carries an average score of 53701 against the i7-14700F's 53620, a delta of only -0.2 percent — effectively identical compute throughput. The Intel Xeon Phi 7290 (53469, 0.3 percent), AMD Ryzen 9 7900X (53288, 0.6 percent), and AMD EPYC 7313P (53206, 0.8 percent) all sit within one percent of the i7-14700F's aggregate score. Given that PC Building Simulator is a simulation game where a CPU in the 91st percentile is vastly overprovisioned, any of these rivals would deliver comparable frame delivery in this title.

On the GPU side, the RTX 4090's average score of 60347 places it in the 88th percentile, and its nearest rivals are an eclectic set: the Intel Arc Pro A60 (60326, 0 percent delta), AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 (60140, 0.3 percent), AMD Radeon Pro W6600M (61896, -2.5 percent), and AMD Radeon PRO V710 (58657, 2.9 percent). Since the game's most demanding tested condition — 4K Ultra at 80.1 FPS average — leaves the 4090 with substantial headroom, GPUs in this performance neighborhood would be expected to produce broadly similar results, though the 2.9 percent slower Radeon PRO V710 would shave the 4K Ultra margin slightly.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The complete measured dataset, all values as average FPS:

3840x2160:

• Low: 173.4
• Medium: 120.1
• High: 87.3
• Ultra: 80.1

2560x1440:

• Low: 326
• Medium: 233.2
• High: 162.8
• Ultra: 158.5

1920x1080:

• Low: 426.4
• Medium: 369.4
• High: 260.4
• Ultra: 249.7

Minimum and maximum frame rates were not recorded in this sweep, so the analysis rests on averages — but with the lowest average in the entire dataset sitting at 80.1 FPS, the absence of min/max figures does not threaten any playability conclusion. Two patterns stand out. First, the preset-to-preset gradient is steep at 4K: dropping from Ultra to Low more than doubles the average (80.1 to 173.4). Second, the resolution scaling is dramatic on the low end of the preset range — Low jumps from 173.4 FPS at 4K to 426.4 FPS at 1080p, a 2.5x increase — while Ultra scales more gently, from 80.1 to 249.7. That asymmetry says something about where the bottleneck migrates as load increases, which the final section examines.

The Verdict

Yes — unambiguously. The verdict-by-resolution data lists all four presets — Low, Medium, High, and Ultra — as playable at 3840x2160, 2560x1440, and 1920x1080. Best settings are Ultra at every resolution, with average frame rates of 80.1, 158.5, and 249.7 FPS respectively. Even the worst single result in the dataset, 4K Ultra at 80.1 FPS, exceeds the 60 FPS threshold by a clear margin. This configuration doesn't just run PC Building Simulator; it runs it maximally configured at every mainstream resolution with room to spare. The only caveat worth stating is that frame-time consistency cannot be verified without minimum-FPS data, but at these averages the risk of dipping below the threshold is low.

FAQ

Q: Can the i7-14700F + RTX 4090 run PC Building Simulator at 4K on Ultra settings?

A: Yes. At 3840x2160 on Ultra, the measured average is 80.1 FPS, above the 60 FPS playable threshold.

Q: What is the highest frame rate recorded for this pairing in the game?

A: 426.4 FPS average, at 1920x1080 on the Low preset.

Q: How much faster is 1440p than 4K on Ultra?

A: Ultra averages 158.5 FPS at 2560x1440 versus 80.1 FPS at 3840x2160 — nearly double the frame rate.

Q: Which CPUs perform similarly to the i7-14700F?

A: By aggregate benchmark score, the Intel Xeon 6505P (-0.2 percent), Intel Xeon Phi 7290 (0.3 percent), AMD Ryzen 9 7900X (0.6 percent), and AMD EPYC 7313P (0.8 percent) are the nearest rivals.

Q: Does any preset fail to reach 60 FPS?

A: No. All twelve measured combinations of resolution and preset exceed 60 FPS average; the lowest is 3840x2160 Ultra at 80.1 FPS.

Q: How does this CPU-GPU combo rank for this game?

A: It ranks 83rd out of 3723 tested combinations in PC Building Simulator.

How This Combo Ranks

Across 3723 tested hardware combinations in PC Building Simulator, the Core i7-14700F and RTX 4090 pair ranks 83rd — a position in the top few percent of the leaderboard. That ranking aligns with the component percentiles: a 91st-percentile CPU feeding an 88th-percentile GPU. The rank also contextualizes the headroom discussion above. This is not merely a playable configuration; it is among the fastest configurations on record for this title, and the 82 combinations ahead of it are chasing frame rates well beyond what the 60 FPS threshold — or most displays — require.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data reveals how the workload shifts between components. At low presets, the game is overwhelmingly GPU-bound and resolution-driven: Low scales from 426.4 FPS at 1080p to 173.4 FPS at 4K, a 2.5x drop that tracks the fourfold pixel-count increase, indicating the RTX 4090's rasterization throughput is the governing factor. At Ultra, the spread tightens considerably — 249.7 FPS at 1080p versus 80.1 FPS at 4K, a roughly 3.1x range — but the more telling figure is the preset gradient at fixed resolution. At 1080p, moving from Ultra to Low gains only 176.7 FPS (249.7 to 426.4), which is a modest sensitivity to visual load, while at 4K the same step gains 93.3 FPS (80.1 to 173.4), a proportional jump of over 100 percent.

The interpretation: at 1080p, frame rates plateau near the low-400s on the lightest preset, which is characteristic of the CPU and game engine ceiling rather than GPU limits — the i7-14700F, with 20 cores and 28 threads and strong single-thread results (a PassMark single-thread score of 4257 and Geekbench single-core score of 2429), is more than the 2019-era simulation engine can exploit. At 4K Ultra, the RTX 4090 does the heavy lifting and still delivers 80.1 FPS. In short, the GPU is the component that matters at 4K, the CPU/engine becomes the limiter at 1080p on light presets, and at 1440p the system transitions smoothly between the two regimes — with neither component ever approaching a bottleneck that threatens playability.