Control

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER pairing delivers a solid 1080p experience in Control, but the data shows a steep falloff as resolution increases. The measured frames per second (FPS) across all settings indicate that this combo is best suited for high-refresh 1080p gaming, with playable but compromised performance at 1440p and a struggle at 4K.

Settings Recommendations

The benchmark data presents a clear hierarchy of performance across the four tested presets. At 1920x1080, the Low preset achieves an average of 118 FPS, which is the highest frame rate recorded for this combo. This setting provides the headroom necessary for high-refresh-rate monitors, though it comes at the cost of visual fidelity. The Medium preset delivers 84 FPS on average, offering a balanced compromise between visual quality and smoothness, with a minimum of 71 FPS and a maximum of 96 FPS. This suggests that Medium is the sweet spot for maintaining a consistent experience above the 60 FPS threshold without significant dips.

Moving to the High preset at 1080p, the average FPS drops to 74, which is still respectable but represents a 10 FPS reduction from Medium. The Ultra preset further reduces the average to 65 FPS, indicating that the GPU's limitations begin to surface with the most demanding visual settings. For the best experience per the measured rows, the Medium preset at 1080p is the recommended choice, as it offers a substantial improvement over Low in visual quality while maintaining a comfortable margin above 60 FPS. The frame time consistency, evidenced by the 71 to 96 FPS range, suggests fewer stutters compared to the High preset, which lacks the same min/max data but shows a lower average.

At 2560x1440, the situation changes. The Low preset yields 89 FPS, which is excellent for this resolution. However, the Medium preset drops to 63 FPS, and the High preset falls to 56 FPS. The Ultra preset at 1440p manages only 49 FPS. The data indicates that at 1440p, the Low or Medium presets are the sensible options, with Medium providing a better visual experience at the cost of some smoothness. The Ultra preset at this resolution is not recommended, as the average FPS dips below the 50 FPS mark, which can result in a less fluid action game experience.

At 3840x2160, the results are marginal. The Low preset averages 60 FPS, which is technically playable, but the Medium preset drops to 43 FPS, and the High preset falls to 38 FPS. The Ultra preset bottoms out at 33 FPS. The data suggests that 4K gaming is only viable with the Low preset, and even then, the frame rate is borderline for a fast-paced title. The Medium preset at 4K shows a minimum of 36 FPS, indicating significant frame dips that would likely detract from gameplay. The recommendation is clear: for a playable experience, stick to 1080p with Medium or High settings, or 1440p with Low or Medium settings.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER features 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, providing a memory bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s. The GPU's base clock is 1470 MHz, with a boost clock of 1650 MHz. In Control, this memory configuration appears to be a limiting factor at higher resolutions. The data shows that the FPS drops significantly when moving from 1440p to 4K, even at the same settings. For instance, the High preset averages 56 FPS at 1440p but only 38 FPS at 4K, a reduction of 18 FPS. This pattern is consistent across all presets, suggesting that the 8 GB VRAM capacity is being saturated at 4K, forcing the GPU to rely on slower memory operations that impact frame delivery.

The GPU's architectural capabilities, including 2176 shading units and 64 ROPs, are sufficient for 1080p gaming, as evidenced by the 118 FPS average at Low settings. However, the data indicates that the RTX 2060 SUPER struggles with the demands of Control's higher presets at 1440p and above. The 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 2011 and the PassMark G3D score of 16462 place this GPU in the 62nd percentile of all GPUs, highlighting its mid-range positioning. The benchmark results show that the GPU's performance is adequate for 1080p but not for higher resolutions, where the frame rate drops become more pronounced. The pixel rate of 105.6 GPixel/s and texture rate of 224.4 GTexel/s provide a theoretical foundation, but the measured FPS data reveals practical limitations in this specific game.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS scaling from 1080p to 4K demonstrates a typical pattern where the GPU becomes the primary bottleneck at higher pixel counts. At the Low preset, the average FPS drops from 118 at 1080p to 89 at 1440p, a 24.6% reduction, and further to 60 at 4K, a 49.2% reduction from 1080p. This steep decline indicates that the rendering workload increases exponentially with resolution, and the RTX 2060 SUPER's compute and memory resources are insufficient to maintain high frame rates at 4K.

The Medium preset shows a similar trend: 84 FPS at 1080p, 63 FPS at 1440p, and 43 FPS at 4K. The percentage drops are 25% from 1080p to 1440p and 48.8% from 1080p to 4K. The High preset follows suit with 74, 56, and 38 FPS respectively, showing a 24.3% drop to 1440p and a 48.6% drop to 4K. The Ultra preset, while having the lowest absolute numbers, shows a less steep relative decline: 65, 49, and 33 FPS, representing a 24.6% drop to 1440p and a 49.2% drop to 4K.

The consistency of these percentage drops across all presets is telling. It suggests that the limiting factor is not the settings themselves but the resolution-dependent workload. The GPU's memory bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s and 8 GB capacity are the likely culprits, as higher resolutions require more frame buffer memory and increased bandwidth to feed the shaders. The data shows that the Ryzen 7 5700 CPU is not the bottleneck in this scenario, as the FPS scales predictably with resolution, indicating that the GPU is fully saturated at 1440p and beyond. The CPU's strong multi-threaded performance, with a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 20655, ensures that it can keep up with the GPU's rendering demands, but the GPU cannot keep up with the increased pixel count.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured FPS values are as follows: the Low preset averages 118 FPS, the Medium preset averages 84 FPS with a range of 71 to 96 FPS, the High preset averages 74 FPS, and the Ultra preset averages 65 FPS. The spread between Low and Ultra is 53 FPS, illustrating the significant impact of visual settings on performance. The Medium preset's minimum of 71 FPS is notable, as it stays above the 60 FPS threshold, while the High preset's lack of min/max data makes it difficult to assess its frame consistency, but the lower average suggests more demanding scenes cause greater dips.

At 2560x1440, the Low preset achieves 89 FPS, the Medium preset averages 63 FPS with a minimum of 54 FPS and a maximum of 73 FPS, the High preset averages 56 FPS, and the Ultra preset averages 49 FPS. The Medium preset at 1440p shows a wider FPS range (54 to 73) compared to its 1080p counterpart, indicating less stable frame pacing. The Ultra preset's 49 FPS average falls below the 60 FPS target, making it unsuitable for smooth gameplay.

At 3840x2160, the Low preset averages 60 FPS, the Medium preset averages 43 FPS with a minimum of 36 FPS and a maximum of 49 FPS, the High preset averages 38 FPS, and the Ultra preset averages 33 FPS. The Medium preset at 4K shows a minimum of 36 FPS, which is well below playable standards, and the High and Ultra presets are even worse. The data indicates that the RTX 2060 SUPER is not capable of delivering a consistent 60 FPS experience at 4K, even at Low settings, where the average is exactly 60 FPS but likely with dips below that threshold in intense scenes.

How This Combo Ranks

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER combination ranks 2650 out of 3720 tested combos in Control, placing it in the 71.2 percentile of all configurations. This ranking reflects the mid-range positioning of both components. The GPU's percentile of 62 among all GPUs and the CPU's percentile of 78 among all CPUs suggest that the pairing is well-balanced, with the CPU having slightly more headroom than the GPU. The combo ranking indicates that there are 1070 other configurations that perform better in this game, but also 1070 that perform worse, showing that this is a typical mid-range setup.

The GPU's nearest rivals in the benchmark database include the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile, which has an average score 0.4% higher, and the AMD Radeon Pro 5700, which is 0.5% higher. The AMD Radeon RX 460 and Intel Arc A770M show scores 1.5% and 1.6% higher respectively, though these differences are marginal. The CPU's nearest rivals, such as the Intel Xeon D-2752TER and AMD Ryzen 5 6600H, show negligible performance differences of less than 0.3%. This data suggests that the combo's ranking is primarily determined by the GPU's performance, as the CPU is competitive with its peers.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700 is an 8-core, 16-thread processor based on the Zen 3 architecture, with a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz. It features 16 MB of L3 cache and supports DDR4 memory with a bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s. In Control, the CPU's role appears to be secondary to the GPU, as the FPS scaling with resolution is consistent and predictable, indicating that the GPU is the limiting factor at higher resolutions. However, the CPU's strong single-threaded performance, evidenced by a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2916, ensures that it can handle the game's physics and AI calculations without bottlenecking the GPU at lower resolutions.

The CPU's multi-threaded capabilities, with a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 20655, provide ample headroom for background tasks and game logic. The measured FPS at 1080p Low (118 FPS) is high enough that the CPU could potentially become a bottleneck if the GPU were more powerful, but in this pairing, the RTX 2060 SUPER is the limiting component. The CPU's 3DMark single-thread score of 901 and multi-thread score of 6617 further confirm its balanced performance profile. The data shows that the Ryzen 7 5700 does not restrict the GPU's performance in Control, as the FPS drops are directly attributable to resolution increases rather than CPU limitations. The processor's 65W TDP and 7nm process node also indicate efficient power delivery, though these factors do not directly impact the measured FPS in the benchmark data.