Control

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X and AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT combination lands at rank 699 out of 1636 tested combos for Control. This places the pairing in the upper-middle tier of the database, outperforming more than half of all recorded configurations. The percentile data reinforces this position, with the CPU sitting at the 78th percentile and the GPU at the 73rd percentile among their respective component pools. This is a balanced pairing where neither component dramatically overshadows the other, which is reflected in the measured frame rates across the board.

How This Combo Ranks

At rank 699 of 1636, this combo sits comfortably in the second quartile of all tested systems for Control. The ranking suggests that while this configuration is not at the current-generation, it delivers a consistently playable experience that outpaces a significant portion of the field. The CPU's average benchmark score of 20680 places it within a narrow competitive band; its nearest rivals include the AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT with a delta of -0.3 percent and the Intel Core i7-10700 at -0.3 percent. The Intel Core i5-12490F trails by 0.5 percent, while the Intel Xeon 6325P edges ahead by 0.7 percent. These margins are all within a single percentage point, confirming that the 5600X is positioned in a tightly contested tier where performance differences are negligible in real-world gaming scenarios.

The GPU's average benchmark score of 30097 shows a similar clustering. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 matches it exactly with a delta of 0 percent, while the AMD Radeon RX 570 sits 0.2 percent behind. The NVIDIA Tesla M60 is 0.4 percent ahead, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile leads by 0.6 percent. This grouping indicates that the RX 7700 XT is performing at a level where minor architectural differences between rivals do not translate into meaningful FPS gaps in Control. The data suggests that for this specific title, the combo's overall rank is determined more by how the two components interact with the game's engine than by raw component scores alone.

GPU Role

The Radeon RX 7700 XT brings 12 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 192-bit bus, delivering a bandwidth of 432.0 GB/s. The memory clock runs at 2250 MHz with 18 Gbps effective throughput, which provides ample headroom for Control's texture-heavy environments. The GPU's base clock is 1435 MHz, with a game clock of 2171 MHz and a boost clock reaching 2544 MHz. These clock speeds are particularly relevant for Control, a title that demands consistent sustained performance during physics-heavy combat sequences rather than short bursts of compute activity.

The shader configuration includes 3456 shading units, 216 texture mapping units, and 96 raster operation units, which translate to a pixel rate of 244.2 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 549.5 GTexel/s. The FP32 throughput of 35.17 TFLOPS gives the card substantial raw compute power, and the 54 ray tracing cores enable hardware-accelerated effects for games that support them. Control is known for its ray-traced reflections and global illumination, and while the measured data does not separate RT-specific results, the presence of these cores means the GPU can handle such workloads without relying entirely on compute shaders. In the benchmark results, the GPU's DirectX 12 score of 79 in Passmark and 3DMark Steel Nomad score of 3316 provide context for its DX12 performance, which is the API Control uses.

Settings Recommendations

For this combo, the data shows a clear progression of performance across the four settings presets at each resolution. The High preset emerges as the optimal balance between visual fidelity and frame rate sustainability. At 1080p, High delivers 101.3 FPS, which is well above the 90.3 FPS achieved at Ultra and only slightly below the 115 FPS of Medium. The jump from High to Ultra costs roughly 11 FPS at 1080p, which represents a 10.9 percent drop for what is typically a marginal visual improvement. At 1440p, the same pattern holds with High at 76.4 FPS versus Ultra at 67.5 FPS, a difference of 8.9 FPS or 11.6 percent.

The Medium preset offers a modest frame rate increase over High but does not justify the visual downgrade given that High already maintains playable numbers. Low settings provide the highest frame rates, reaching 161.6 FPS at 1080p and 122.1 FPS at 1440p, but these figures are unnecessary for a game like Control where the atmospheric lighting and destructible environments benefit substantially from higher quality presets. At 4K, the High preset drops to 51.6 FPS, which is still playable, but the recommendation shifts to Medium at exactly 60 FPS for users who prioritize a locked 60 FPS experience. For most scenarios, High offers the best experience per the measured rows, providing smooth gameplay without the diminishing returns associated with Ultra settings.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data covers three resolutions and four settings presets, yielding twelve distinct data points. At 1920x1080, the combo delivers 161.6 FPS on Low, 115 FPS on Medium, 101.3 FPS on High, and 90.3 FPS on Ultra. The scaling from Low to Ultra shows a 44.1 percent reduction in frame rate, from 161.6 to 90.3 FPS. The step from Medium to High costs 13.7 FPS, while the step from High to Ultra costs another 11 FPS. This indicates that each preset increment extracts a similar toll on performance, with the gap between Low and Medium being the largest at 46.6 FPS.

At 2560x1440, the results are 122.1 FPS on Low, 86.3 FPS on Medium, 76.4 FPS on High, and 67.5 FPS on Ultra. The transition from Low to Medium represents a 35.8 FPS drop, which is the steepest single-step decline in this resolution. The subsequent steps are more moderate, with Medium to High losing 9.9 FPS and High to Ultra losing 8.9 FPS. At 3840x2160, the frame rates are 83.4 FPS on Low, 60 FPS on Medium, 51.6 FPS on High, and 44.4 FPS on Ultra. The Low to Medium drop is 23.4 FPS, followed by an 8.4 FPS drop from Medium to High and a 7.2 FPS drop from High to Ultra. The 4K Ultra result of 44.4 FPS is the lowest measured in the entire dataset, highlighting the GPU's limits at the highest settings and resolution.

Resolution Scaling

The resolution scaling shows how this combo's performance degrades as pixel count increases, revealing the GPU as the primary limiting component. Moving from 1080p to 1440p at High settings drops the frame rate from 101.3 to 76.4 FPS, a 24.6 percent reduction. The same transition at Low settings goes from 161.6 to 122.1 FPS, a 24.4 percent drop. At Medium, the figures are 115 to 86.3 FPS, a 25 percent decline, and at Ultra, 90.3 to 67.5 FPS, a 25.2 percent reduction. The consistency of these percentages, all hovering around 25 percent, indicates that the scaling penalty is uniform across settings when moving from 1080p to 1440p.

The jump from 1440p to 4K is more severe. At High settings, the frame rate falls from 76.4 to 51.6 FPS, a 32.5 percent reduction. Low settings drop from 122.1 to 83.4 FPS, a 31.7 percent decline. Medium goes from 86.3 to 60 FPS, a 30.5 percent drop, and Ultra falls from 67.5 to 44.4 FPS, a 34.2 percent reduction. The larger percentage declines at 4K, combined with the fact that the CPU's workload does not scale with resolution in the same way, point to the RX 7700 XT as the performance bottleneck. At 1080p, the CPU can feed frames quickly enough that the GPU is still the constraint, but the gap between Low and Ultra settings at each resolution demonstrates that the GPU's rendering pipeline is the determining factor. The 4K Ultra result of 44.4 FPS, which is roughly half the 1080p High result of 101.3 FPS, underscores that this combo is best utilized at 1440p or below for demanding titles like Control.