Control

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D delivers a formidable Control experience, sitting in the 97th percentile of all tested system combinations. This pairing produces exceptionally high frame rates across all resolutions, with the data showing a clear preference for High settings to balance visual fidelity against the extreme performance ceiling this GPU offers.

Settings Recommendations

The measured rows reveal a clear hierarchy where High settings provide the optimal experience. At 1920x1080, High settings deliver 188 FPS average, which is only 73 FPS behind the Low preset’s 261 FPS but offers substantially better visual quality. The jump from Medium to High at 1080p costs just 23 FPS (211 to 188), while the leap from High to Ultra costs 25 FPS (188 to 163). This pattern holds across all resolutions: High settings consistently offer the best performance-per-visual-fidelity tradeoff.

At 2560x1440, High settings produce 142 FPS, comfortably above the 120 FPS threshold for high-refresh-rate monitors. The Ultra preset drops to 124 FPS, which is still playable but begins to sacrifice the headroom needed for smooth gameplay in action-heavy sequences. The Medium preset at 1440p delivers 160 FPS, but the visual downgrade from High is significant enough that the 18 FPS gain seems marginal for most users.

The 3840x2160 results show High settings at 96 FPS, which is the only 4K preset that maintains near-60 FPS with substantial margin. Ultra drops to 83 FPS, while Medium sits at 108 FPS. For 4K gaming, High is the recommended choice because it stays above 90 FPS while avoiding the steep 25 FPS penalty that Ultra imposes over High (96 to 83). The Low preset at 4K reaches 152 FPS, but this requires sacrificing so much visual detail that the game’s atmospheric environments lose their impact.

The data indicates that Low settings provide diminishing returns beyond 1080p. At 1440p, Low hits 225 FPS, but the difference between Low and High at this resolution (225 vs 142) represents a massive visual quality gap for only 83 FPS. For competitive play where frame rate is paramount, Low at 1440p makes sense, but for the vast majority of players, High at any resolution offers the best blend of performance and immersion.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D is the dominant component in this pairing, with its 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus providing 1.79 TB/s of bandwidth. This memory configuration is critical for Control, which features complex particle effects and destructible environments that demand substantial texture bandwidth. The 92,200 million transistors on the GB202 chip, built on TSMC’s 5 nm process with a 750 mm² die size, give this GPU enormous compute headroom.

Clock speeds are notably high, with a base clock of 2017 MHz and a boost clock of 2407 MHz. These frequencies, combined with 21,760 shading units and 680 texture mapping units, produce a pixel rate of 423.6 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 1,636.8 GTexel/s. The FP32 throughput of 104.8 TFLOPS shows that this GPU is not just about raw memory bandwidth but also about compute density.

The GPU’s benchmark scores reinforce its position. In 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, it scores 14,326, while Geekbench Vulkan reaches 376,915 and OpenCL hits 310,674. PassMark G3D shows 44,065, with GPU compute at 28,396. These scores place the RTX 5090 D in the 92nd percentile of all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 77,712.

The nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks show interesting deltas. The AMD Radeon RX 6650M XT scores 76,904 (1.1% higher), while the AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT scores 78,940 (-1.6% lower). This tight grouping in synthetic tests does not translate to gaming, where the RTX 5090 D’s architectural advantages in ray tracing and DLSS become apparent. The data shows this GPU is capable of pushing Control to 261 FPS at 1080p Low, indicating that the GPU is rarely the bottleneck in this title.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals where the system’s bottleneck shifts. At High settings, the progression is 188 FPS at 1080p, 142 FPS at 1440p, and 96 FPS at 4K. This represents a 24.5% drop from 1080p to 1440p, and a 32.4% drop from 1440p to 4K. The scaling is not linear, suggesting that at lower resolutions the CPU begins to limit performance, while at 4K the GPU becomes the primary constraint.

The Low settings show a similar pattern but with steeper drops: 261 FPS at 1080p, 225 FPS at 1440p (13.8% drop), and 152 FPS at 4K (32.4% drop). The larger percentage drop from 1440p to 4K at Low settings (73 FPS) compared to High settings (46 FPS) indicates that the GPU is more heavily taxed when details are minimal, as the CPU has less work to do and the GPU becomes the sole limiter.

At Medium settings, the pattern remains consistent: 211 FPS at 1080p, 160 FPS at 1440p, and 108 FPS at 4K. The 1440p to 4K drop of 52 FPS represents a 32.5% reduction, nearly identical to the High and Low scaling. This consistency suggests that Control’s rendering pipeline scales predictably with resolution regardless of quality preset, and that the RTX 5090 D’s 32 GB frame buffer prevents any memory-related bottlenecks even at 4K Ultra.

The Ultra preset shows 163 FPS at 1080p, 124 FPS at 1440p, and 83 FPS at 4K. The 4K Ultra result of 83 FPS is the lowest measured, but still maintains playable frame rates. The scaling from 1440p to 4K at Ultra (124 to 83, a 33.1% drop) is slightly steeper than other presets, indicating that the additional detail settings at Ultra place extra load on the GPU’s compute units.

How This Combo Ranks

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D combination ranks 29th out of 2,888 tested system configurations in Control. This places the pairing in the top 1% of all measured combos, which is remarkable given that the RTX 5090 D is paired with a mid-range CPU rather than a flagship processor. The rank demonstrates that Control is far more GPU-bound than CPU-bound, allowing this CPU to keep pace with much more expensive processors.

The top 28 configurations ahead of this combo likely feature higher-end CPUs, but the data shows that the GPU is doing the heavy lifting. The RTX 5090 D’s 92nd percentile ranking among all GPUs, combined with the Ryzen 5 7600’s 78th percentile CPU ranking, creates a system that exceeds the sum of its parts in this specific title. The 29th overall rank suggests that only ultra-high-end CPU and GPU pairings can meaningfully outperform this combination.

This ranking is particularly impressive when considering that the Ryzen 5 7600 is not a flagship CPU. The 6-core, 12-thread processor with a boost clock of 5.10 GHz provides sufficient single-thread performance to feed the RTX 5090 D, but it is the GPU’s raw power that drives the system to this elite ranking. The data indicates that users with this combination are getting near-flagship gaming performance without paying for a flagship CPU.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600 contributes a solid foundation with its 6 cores and 12 threads, based on the Zen 4 architecture codenamed Raphael. The base clock of 3.80 GHz and boost clock of 5.10 GHz provide strong single-thread performance, which is essential for Control’s game logic and physics calculations. The 32 MB of shared L3 cache helps reduce memory latency, while the dual-channel DDR5 memory support with 83.2 GB/s bandwidth ensures the CPU can feed data to the GPU without bottlenecking.

Synthetic benchmarks show the Ryzen 5 7600 performs well relative to its class. Cinebench R23 scores 12,735 in multicore and 1,852 in single-core, while Geekbench reaches 13,413 multicore and 2,521 single-core. The 3DMark results show scaling from 1,938 at 2 threads to 6,503 at max threads, indicating efficient multi-threading. PassMark scores include 27,058 for multithread and 3,910 for single-thread, with strong results in integer math (80,581) and floating-point math (48,107).

The CPU’s 78th percentile ranking places it near rivals like the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX (26,274 avg score, 0.2% higher), AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS (26,402 avg score, -0.3% lower), Intel Core i9-11900KF (26,212 avg score, 0.4% higher), and AMD Ryzen 5 8540U (26,187 avg score, 0.5% higher). These deltas are all within 0.5%, showing that the Ryzen 5 7600 performs comparably to these processors in synthetic benchmarks.

In Control, the CPU’s role is secondary to the GPU. The 261 FPS result at 1080p Low suggests the CPU can handle even the highest frame rates this GPU can produce. At 4K Ultra, where the GPU is fully taxed, the CPU has ample headroom. The 6-core configuration with 12 threads is sufficient for this game, which does not appear to scale significantly beyond 8 threads based on the 3DMark 8-thread score of 5,508 versus the max thread score of 6,503.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system produces exceptional frame rates across all settings. Low settings average 261 FPS, Medium averages 211 FPS with a range of 180 to 243 FPS, High averages 188 FPS, and Ultra averages 163 FPS. The Medium preset shows the most variance with a 63 FPS spread between minimum and maximum, while Low and High maintain tighter frame pacing.

Moving to 2560x1440, the results drop but remain impressive. Low settings average 225 FPS, Medium averages 160 FPS with a range of 136 to 184 FPS, High averages 142 FPS, and Ultra averages 124 FPS. The Medium preset at 1440p shows a 48 FPS spread, which is tighter than at 1080p, suggesting better frame consistency at higher resolutions.

At 3840x2160, the system maintains playable frame rates at all settings. Low averages 152 FPS, Medium averages 108 FPS with a range of 92 to 124 FPS, High averages 96 FPS, and Ultra averages 83 FPS. The Medium preset at 4K shows a 32 FPS spread, which is the narrowest variance of any resolution, indicating stable performance even under heavy GPU load.

The Medium settings are the only preset where minimum and maximum FPS are recorded, providing insight into frame pacing. At 1080p, the 180 FPS minimum and 243 FPS maximum show that the system can dip below average during intense scenes but never approaches unplayable territory. The 4K Medium results show a 92 FPS minimum, which is still well above the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay. These minimum frame rates suggest that even the most demanding moments in Control are handled with headroom, making this combination suitable for high-refresh-rate monitors at 1080p and 1440p, and for standard 60 Hz displays at 4K.