Control

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 combination delivers a playable but constrained experience in Control, with the data showing a clear progression of frame rates that scales predictably with resolution and preset. This pairing sits near the bottom quartile of tested configurations, ranked 1396 out of 1636 combos, indicating that while it can run the game, it requires deliberate settings management to achieve smooth performance.

Resolution Scaling

The measured frames per second reveal a steep performance cliff as resolution increases, with the gap between presets widening at higher pixel counts. At 1080p, the combo achieves 96.9 FPS on Low settings, which drops to 70.5 FPS at 1440p and further to 46.7 FPS at 4K. This represents a 51.9% reduction in frame rate from 1080p to 4K on Low settings, suggesting the GPU is the primary limiting factor at higher resolutions. The High preset shows a similar trend: 58.4 FPS at 1080p, 47.1 FPS at 1440p, and 32.5 FPS at 4K, a 44.4% drop from the lowest to highest resolution tested.

The scaling pattern becomes more telling when examining the Ultra preset. At 1080p, Ultra yields 54 FPS, which is only 5.4 FPS below High. However, at 4K, Ultra drops to 28.5 FPS, a 47.2% reduction compared to the 1080p result. This disproportionate decline at 4K indicates that the GTX 1070's 8 GB of GDDR5 memory and 256-bit bus are being saturated by the higher resolution textures and effects, causing the GPU to become the bottleneck. The 4K results across all settings — 28.5 FPS on Ultra, 32.5 FPS on High, 36.4 FPS on Medium, and 46.7 FPS on Low — all fall below the 60 FPS threshold, confirming that 4K is not viable for this configuration in Control.

The 1440p results paint a more nuanced picture. The delta between Low (70.5 FPS) and Medium (49.8 FPS) is 20.7 FPS, while the difference between Medium and High (47.1 FPS) is only 2.7 FPS. This suggests that the GPU's compute resources are stretched at 1440p, and the incremental cost of enabling higher-quality effects is not linear. The CPU's role becomes more apparent at 1080p, where the 96.9 FPS Low result shows headroom for the GPU to operate closer to its limits, but the 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen 7 5700 with a boost clock of 4.60 GHz still allows the GTX 1070 to reach its potential.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data indicates that Medium settings at 1080p provide the most balanced experience, delivering 68.4 FPS while maintaining visual fidelity above the Low preset. This falls comfortably within the playable range and leaves performance headroom for demanding scenes. At 1440p, High settings produce 47.1 FPS, which is playable but not smooth for fast-paced action sequences; Medium at 1440p yields 49.8 FPS, a marginal improvement that suggests the GPU is nearing its limits regardless of preset selection.

For users prioritizing frame rate over visual quality, Low settings at 1080p offer 96.9 FPS, which is 28.5 FPS higher than Medium and 38.5 FPS higher than High. The data shows that skipping from Low to Medium at 1080p incurs a 28.5 FPS penalty, while moving from Medium to High costs only 10 FPS, and High to Ultra costs 4.4 FPS. This non-linear scaling suggests that Medium is the sweet spot for performance per frame, as it captures most of the visual improvements without the disproportionate cost seen at higher presets.

At 4K, the recommendation is straightforward: Low settings at 46.7 FPS are the only playable option, and even this falls short of 60 FPS. The jump from Low to Medium at 4K costs 10.3 FPS, and High to Ultra costs 4 FPS, but none of these presets achieve acceptable frame rates. The 4K Ultra result of 28.5 FPS is 18.2 FPS below the 4K Low result, highlighting that the GTX 1070's 6.463 TFLOPS of FP32 compute and 256.3 GB/s memory bandwidth are insufficient for Control's demanding renderer at this resolution.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700 brings substantial processing resources to this pairing, including 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Zen 3 architecture. Its base clock of 3.70 GHz and boost clock of 4.60 GHz position it favorably for gaming workloads, and the 16 MB of L3 cache helps maintain data locality for game logic. The CPU's benchmark scores reinforce its capability: a Cinebench R23 multicore score of 20655 and a single-core score of 2916 indicate strong performance across both multithreaded and latency-sensitive tasks.

The CPU's 84th percentile ranking among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 27220, places it slightly ahead of the Intel Core i9-9900K (27043, 0.7% delta) and the Intel Core i7-12700H (27006, 0.8% delta). This performance headroom means the Ryzen 7 5700 is unlikely to bottleneck the GTX 1070 in Control, particularly at lower resolutions where the GPU's workload is less demanding. The Passmark multithread score of 24303 and data compression score of 316699 suggest the CPU can handle the game's physics and particle systems without reducing frame rates.

The CPU's memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s over a dual-channel DDR4 interface is adequate for feeding the GPU's frame buffer, and the PCIe Gen 3 x16 interface (20 lanes) provides sufficient bandwidth for the GTX 1070. The data shows that at 1080p Low, the combo achieves 96.9 FPS, which is likely near the GPU's maximum output for this game; the CPU's 3DMark single-thread score of 901 and 2-thread score of 1762 indicate it can sustain the frame pacing required for high-FPS scenarios without introducing stutter.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the Ryzen 7 5700 and GTX 1070 ranks 1396 out of 1636 tested combos in Control, placing it in the 14.7th percentile of all configurations. This low ranking is primarily attributable to the GPU's age and performance tier, as the CPU's individual ranking (84th percentile) is substantially higher than the GPU's (51st percentile). The combo's position suggests that while the CPU is more than capable of handling the game's logic, the GPU's 8 GB VRAM and 6.463 TFLOPS of compute power limit overall performance.

The GPU's average benchmark score of 12331 places it near the NVIDIA Quadro K4200 (12241, 0.7% delta) and slightly below the GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER (12504, -1.4% delta). This modest performance envelope means the combo falls behind configurations that pair the same CPU with more modern GPUs, but it also indicates that the GTX 1070 is not dramatically outperformed by its immediate successors. The combo's rank of 1396 out of 1636 means there are 240 configurations that perform worse, which is a small margin of 14.7% of the tested pool.

The gap between the CPU's and GPU's percentiles — 84 versus 51 — highlights a significant imbalance in this pairing. The data suggests that upgrading the GPU would yield proportionally larger gains than upgrading the CPU, as the Ryzen 7 5700 already sits in the top 16% of all CPUs. The combo's performance in Control is thus constrained by the GPU's ability to render the game's physics-heavy environments and particle effects, not by the CPU's processing throughput.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070, built on the Pascal architecture with a GP104 chip, provides 1920 shading units, 120 TMUs, and 64 ROPs. Its base clock of 1506 MHz and boost clock of 1683 MHz are modest by modern standards, but the 8 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus delivers 256.3 GB/s of bandwidth. This memory configuration is the likely bottleneck at 4K, where the game's textures and effects exceed the available bandwidth and capacity, causing frame rates to plummet to 28.5 FPS on Ultra.

The GPU's pixel rate of 107.7 GPixel/s and texture rate of 202.0 GTexel/s are directly reflected in the measured results. At 1080p, the GPU can push 96.9 FPS on Low settings, which corresponds to a pixel throughput requirement of approximately 200 megapixels per second. The 4K Ultra result of 28.5 FPS requires 236 megapixels per second, which approaches the GPU's theoretical pixel rate limit, explaining the steep performance drop. The FP32 compute of 6.463 TFLOPS is also a factor, as Control's physics simulations and post-processing effects rely heavily on shader math.

The GPU's 51st percentile ranking, with an average benchmark score of 12331, places it in the middle of all GPUs, but its nearest rivals — the Quadro K4200 (12241), GTX 880M (12490), GTX 1650 SUPER (12504), and Tesla K20Xm (12547) — all fall within a 1.7% delta. This tight clustering indicates that the GTX 1070 is at a performance plateau, and the measured Control results confirm that it is the limiting factor in this combo. The GPU's Passmark DirectX 12 score of 48 and DirectX 11 score of 100 further illustrate its capabilities, with the lower DX12 score suggesting the Pascal architecture is less efficient in newer API workloads.

The GTX 1070's 150 W TDP and 450 W suggested PSU are modest, but the card's dual-slot design and 267 mm length indicate it is a full-size solution. The 8 GB VRAM is sufficient for 1080p and 1440p, as evidenced by the 47.1 FPS High result at 1440p, but the 4K results show that the memory subsystem is overwhelmed. The combination of 8 GB GDDR5 and 256.3 GB/s bandwidth cannot sustain the texture-rich environments of Control at 4K, even on Low settings (46.7 FPS), which is 50.2 FPS below the 1080p Low result.