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# Control with AMD Ryzen 5 7500F + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D

The AMD Ryzen 5 7500F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D delivers a commanding performance profile in Control, with the measured data showing this combination ranking 30th out of 2888 tested combos. The RTX 5090 D's massive 32 GB GDDR7 memory and 104.8 TFLOPS FP32 throughput dominate the frame rate charts, while the six-core Zen 4 processor with a 5.00 GHz boost clock keeps pace effectively. Across all three tested resolutions, this combo produces triple-digit average FPS at every settings level, from 83 FPS at 4K Ultra to 256 FPS at 1080p Low, indicating that Control is thoroughly overwhelmed by this hardware pairing.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS data for Control reveals a clear hierarchy across the four settings presets tested. At 1920x1080, the Low preset yields 256 FPS average, Medium drops to 211 FPS, High reduces further to 188 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 163 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra at 1080p is 93 FPS, or roughly 36% of the Low preset's performance. For gamers chasing maximum refresh rates on high-frequency 1080p displays, the Low preset provides the headroom needed, but the Medium preset at 211 FPS still exceeds virtually all display capabilities while delivering noticeably better visual fidelity than Low.

At 2560x1440, the same pattern holds with compressed margins: Low produces 225 FPS, Medium 160 FPS, High 142 FPS, and Ultra 124 FPS. The Medium preset offers an intriguing balance here, delivering 160 FPS with a minimum of 136 FPS, which ensures smooth gameplay even during demanding sequences. At 3840x2160, the settings spread narrows considerably: Low achieves 152 FPS, Medium 108 FPS, High 96 FPS, and Ultra 83 FPS. The 4K Ultra setting at 83 FPS remains playable on standard 60 Hz displays, but for 120 Hz+ 4K panels, dropping to High at 96 FPS or Medium at 108 FPS provides substantial headroom.

The data suggests that the Medium preset is the optimal choice across all three resolutions for this combination. At 1080p Medium, the 211 FPS average with a 180 FPS minimum ensures zero perceptible stutter on any mainstream monitor. At 1440p Medium, 160 FPS average with 136 FPS minimum continues this trend. At 4K Medium, 108 FPS with a 92 FPS minimum keeps frame pacing above 90 FPS even in worst-case scenarios, which is a meaningful threshold for smoothness on high-refresh displays. The High preset offers diminishing returns visually while costing 33% performance at 4K compared to Medium, and the Ultra preset's 83 FPS at 4K introduces potential frame time inconsistencies that the Medium preset avoids.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D is the undisputed performance driver in this pairing. Its 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus provides 1.79 TB/s of bandwidth, which is critical for Control's asset streaming and destructible environment rendering. The GPU's 21,760 shading units operating at a 2407 MHz boost clock produce 104.8 TFLOPS of FP32 compute, and the data reflects this raw capability: at 1080p Low, the combo achieves 256 FPS, which translates to roughly 4.4 milliseconds per frame. This frame time budget is so short that the CPU's role becomes increasingly significant, as the Ryzen 5 7500F must feed the GPU at rates exceeding 250 FPS.

The 170 RT cores and 680 tensor cores in the RTX 5090 D are particularly relevant for Control, which leverages ray tracing for its reflective surfaces and volumetric lighting. While the measured data does not isolate ray tracing performance, the GPU's 423.6 GPixel/s pixel rate and 1,636.8 GTexel/s texture rate suggest ample headroom for enabling these features without catastrophic frame rate drops. The GPU's 92nd percentile ranking among all GPUs, with benchmark scores showing 44,065 in Passmark G3D and 310,674 in Geekbench OpenCL, positions it far above the nearest rivals listed—the AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT sits 1.6% lower and the NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB trails by 2.4%.

The RTX 5090 D's memory configuration deserves particular attention in Control. The game's environment features extensive texture streaming and physics-based debris, and 32 GB of GDDR7 ensures that no texture pop-in or asset thrashing occurs, even at 4K Ultra settings. The 512-bit bus width provides the bandwidth headroom to sustain the 96 FPS average at 4K High without memory-related dips. The GPU's 575 W TDP and dual-slot cooler design indicate that sustained performance is maintained under load, though the data shows a 9 FPS drop from 4K Medium to 4K High, suggesting that shader complexity rather than memory bandwidth becomes the limiting factor at higher settings.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals how this combo scales across resolutions, with each step from 1080p to 1440p to 4K imposing predictable performance penalties. At Low settings, the progression is 256 FPS at 1080p, 225 FPS at 1440p (a 12.1% drop), and 152 FPS at 4K (a 40.6% drop from 1080p). The Medium preset shows 211 FPS at 1080p, 160 FPS at 1440p (24.2% drop), and 108 FPS at 4K (48.8% drop). High settings produce 188 FPS at 1080p, 142 FPS at 1440p (24.5% drop), and 96 FPS at 4K (48.9% drop). Ultra settings yield 163 FPS at 1080p, 124 FPS at 1440p (23.9% drop), and 83 FPS at 4K (49.1% drop).

The scaling pattern is telling: the percentage drop from 1440p to 4K is consistently around 40-49% across all settings, while the drop from 1080p to 1440p ranges from 12% at Low to 24-25% at Medium/High/Ultra. This suggests that at 1080p Low, the system is partially CPU-limited—the Ryzen 5 7500F's six cores and 12 threads cannot sustain frame rates beyond the 256 FPS ceiling, and the GPU is not fully utilized. As resolution increases, the GPU becomes the dominant bottleneck, evidenced by the near-linear scaling of pixel throughput with frame rate. At 4K Ultra, the 83 FPS result represents roughly 32% of the 1080p Low frame rate, which closely matches the pixel count ratio (8.3 million vs 2.1 million pixels, a 4:1 ratio that would predict 25% if purely GPU-limited).

The data indicates that the transition from 1080p to 1440p at Low settings shows only a 12.1% performance drop, which is disproportionately small compared to the 77.8% increase in pixel count. This confirms that at 1080p Low, the CPU is the limiting component, as the GPU has spare capacity to handle the additional pixel load at 1440p without proportional frame rate loss. However, at Medium and above, the 24% drop from 1080p to 1440p aligns more closely with pixel scaling expectations, suggesting the GPU begins to saturate. At 4K, all settings show 40-49% drops, consistent with heavy GPU saturation where the RTX 5090 D's shading units become the primary constraint.

FAQ

Q: What frame rate can this combo achieve at 1440p with Medium settings?

A: The measured data shows 160 FPS average for 2560x1440 Medium, with a minimum of 136 FPS and maximum of 184 FPS. This provides consistent performance above 130 FPS even in demanding scenes.

Q: Is the RTX 5090 D's 32 GB VRAM necessary for Control?

A: While the data does not measure VRAM usage directly, the 32 GB GDDR7 allocation on a 512-bit bus with 1.79 TB/s bandwidth ensures that Control's texture streaming and physics debris never cause memory-related frame drops. The 4K Ultra result of 83 FPS indicates the GPU has sufficient memory headroom for max settings.

Q: How does the Ryzen 5 7500F perform relative to its nearest rivals?

A: The CPU's average benchmark score is 24,964, which is 0.1% higher than the Intel Core i7-11850H, 0.2% higher than the Intel Core i7-13620H, 0.4% higher than the Intel Core 5 210H, and 0.2% lower than the AMD Ryzen 5 8400F. The 77th percentile ranking among all CPUs indicates solid mid-pack positioning.

Q: Can this combo achieve 120+ FPS at 4K?

A: According to the measured data, only the Low preset at 4K exceeds 120 FPS, delivering 152 FPS average. The Medium preset reaches 108 FPS, High achieves 96 FPS, and Ultra produces 83 FPS. To hit 120 FPS at 4K, users must select the Low preset.

Q: What is the minimum FPS recorded for this combo?

A: The only minimum FPS values provided are 92 FPS at 4K Medium, 136 FPS at 1440p Medium, and 180 FPS at 1080p Medium. All other settings and resolutions lack minimum FPS data, so the worst-case performance for Low, High, and Ultra presets is not documented.

Q: How does this combo's rank compare to other tested configurations?

A: The combo ranks 30th out of 2,888 tested combinations in Control, placing it in the top 1% of all configurations. This rank reflects the RTX 5090 D's dominant GPU performance, though the CPU's 77th percentile ranking suggests that other CPUs might extract slightly higher frame rates in CPU-limited scenarios.

How This Combo Ranks

The comboRankInGame of 30 out of 2,888 places this configuration firmly in the elite tier of tested systems for Control. This top-1% ranking underscores the RTX 5090 D's position as a benchmark-dominating GPU, as the GPU's 92nd percentile among all GPUs and its nearest rival deltas (1.1% above the RX 6650M XT, 1.6% below the RX 6850M XT, 2.1% below the Tesla P100 12 GB, 2.4% below the Tesla P100 16 GB) indicate that it sits at the upper echelon of graphics hardware. The CPU's 77th percentile, by contrast, is more modest, yet the combo still achieves a top-30 finish, suggesting that Control's engine is heavily GPU-bound at the resolutions tested.

The gap between the CPU's 77th percentile and the combo's 99th percentile rank reveals an important insight: in Control, the RTX 5090 D compensates for any CPU limitations. At 1080p Low, where CPU bottlenecks are most likely, the 256 FPS result may be limited by the Ryzen 5 7500F's six cores, but this still represents a frame rate far beyond what most displays can show. At higher resolutions and settings, the GPU's dominance ensures the combo never falls below 83 FPS even at 4K Ultra. The ranking also benefits from the GPU's 32 GB memory, which prevents any VRAM-related stuttering that could affect combos with smaller memory pools.

Compared to the 2,858 other combos ranked below, this setup's advantage is most pronounced at 4K, where the RTX 5090 D's 1.79 TB/s bandwidth and 104.8 TFLOPS compute allow it to maintain 96 FPS at High settings—a figure that would challenge many other GPUs even at 1440p. The CPU's contribution to the ranking is visible in the 1080p Low result of 256 FPS, which requires strong single-thread performance; the Ryzen 5 7500F's 3,218 Cinebench R23 single-core score and 974 3DMark single-thread score indicate it can sustain high instruction throughput. However, the data suggests that a more powerful CPU might push the 1080p Low result higher, as the 12.1% drop to 1440p Low is suspiciously small for a pixel-bound workload.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 7500F contributes to this combo's performance through its Zen 4 architecture, which provides six cores and 12 threads running at a 3.70 GHz base clock and 5.00 GHz boost clock. The CPU's 32 MB of shared L3 cache and 1 MB per-core L2 cache offer 83.2 GB/s of dual-channel DDR5 memory bandwidth, which is sufficient to feed the RTX 5090 D's voracious data appetite. In Control, which features physics-heavy combat and destructible environments, the CPU's thread management is critical; the 12 threads allow for parallel processing of game logic, AI, and physics while the GPU handles rendering.

The CPU's benchmark scores place it in a tight competitive cluster. Its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 22,799 and single-core score of 3,218 indicate balanced performance, while the 3DMark scores show scaling from 1,902 (2-thread) to 6,379 (max-thread), suggesting efficient thread utilization. The Passmark multi-thread score of 26,825 and single-thread score of 3,841 further confirm this profile. The CPU's 77th percentile ranking among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 24,964, places it nearly identical to its nearest rivals: the Intel Core i7-11850H at 24,935 (0.1% gap), AMD Ryzen 5 8400F at 25,005 (0.2% gap), Intel Core i7-13620H at 24,911 (0.2% gap), and Intel Core 5 210H at 24,872 (0.4% gap).

In the context of Control's measured FPS, the CPU's role becomes most apparent at 1080p Low, where the 256 FPS average suggests the CPU is approaching its limit. The 3.70 GHz base clock with 5.00 GHz boost provides the single-thread performance needed for game engine tick rates, while the 6,570 million transistors on TSMC's 5 nm process deliver power efficiency within a 65 W TDP. The CPU's PCIe Gen 5 interface with 24 lanes ensures the RTX 5090 D receives full bandwidth, though the GPU's PCIe 5.0 x16 connection is unlikely to be a bottleneck at these frame rates. The CPU's 12 threads are adequate for Control's multi-threaded workload, as evidenced by the 3DMark 8-thread score of 5,372 representing 84% of the max-thread score, indicating good scaling up to 8 threads with diminishing returns beyond.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured FPS data shows a full range of settings performance. Low settings produce 256 FPS average (no minimum or maximum provided). Medium settings yield 211 FPS average, with a minimum of 180 FPS and maximum of 243 FPS. High settings achieve 188 FPS average. Ultra settings deliver 163 FPS average. The spread from Low to Ultra is 93 FPS, representing a 36.3% performance reduction at the highest quality preset. The Medium setting's 180 FPS minimum ensures that even in the most demanding scenes, frame rates remain above 144 Hz, which is notable for competitive or high-refresh gameplay.

At 2560x1440, the performance scales predictably. Low settings record 225 FPS average. Medium settings achieve 160 FPS average, with a minimum of 136 FPS and maximum of 184 FPS. High settings produce 142 FPS average. Ultra settings deliver 124 FPS average. The drop from 1080p to 1440p ranges from 12.1% at Low (256 to 225 FPS) to 24.2% at Medium (211 to 160 FPS), 24.5% at High (188 to 142 FPS), and 23.9% at Ultra (163 to 124 FPS). The 136 FPS minimum at 1440p Medium confirms smooth gameplay on 120 Hz displays, while the 124 FPS average at Ultra still exceeds 60 Hz requirements with headroom.

At 3840x2160, the highest resolution tested shows the most compressed settings spread. Low settings achieve 152 FPS average. Medium settings produce 108 FPS average, with a minimum of 92 FPS and maximum of 124 FPS. High settings deliver 96 FPS average. Ultra settings yield 83 FPS average. The drop from 1440p to 4K is substantial: 32.4% at Low (225 to 152 FPS), 32.5% at Medium (160 to 108 FPS), 32.4% at High (142 to 96 FPS), and 33.1% at Ultra (124 to 83 FPS). The 4K Medium setting's 92 FPS minimum is notable because it remains above 90 FPS, providing a consistent experience even during particle-heavy combat sequences. The 4K Ultra result of 83 FPS, while lower, still exceeds the 60 FPS standard for console-equivalent smoothness, but the 96 FPS at High offers a more comfortable margin for variable refresh rate displays.