Control

Control with the AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT and AMD Radeon RX 570 is a severely GPU-bound pairing at every resolution tested. The benchmark results place this combo in the 1561st position out of 1636 tested combinations, putting it in the bottom 5% of all systems for this title. The data shows a system that struggles to maintain playable frame rates even at 1080p, with the CPU's substantial headroom left largely untapped due to the GPU's limitations.

Resolution Scaling

The performance drop from 1080p to 4K is steep and consistent, revealing a classic case of GPU-bound scaling. At Low settings, average frame rates fall from 56.3 FPS at 1920x1080 to 43.1 FPS at 2560x1440, a 23% reduction, and then plummet to 27.4 FPS at 3840x2160, representing a 51% loss from the 1080p baseline. This pattern indicates that the RX 570's rendering pipeline is saturated well before the higher resolutions, with the pixel fill rate and memory bandwidth becoming the dominant constraints.

The scaling becomes even more aggressive at higher quality presets. Moving from 1080p High to 4K High drops performance from 37.5 FPS to 19.3 FPS, a 49% reduction. The Ultra preset shows the worst scaling, falling from 32.6 FPS at 1080p to just 15.7 FPS at 4K, a 52% loss. Notably, the gap between Medium and High settings at 1440p is minimal (29.1 FPS vs 28.0 FPS), suggesting that the GPU is already hitting a hard architectural ceiling rather than a settings-driven bottleneck. The data strongly indicates that the limiting component is the GPU; the Ryzen 7 5800XT's 8-core, 16-thread configuration is not the constraint in any of these scenarios.

How This Combo Ranks

This combination ranks 1561st out of 1636 tested combos in Control, placing it in the 4.6th percentile of all systems. This is a very poor result for a game that is not particularly demanding by modern standards. The ranking reflects the fundamental mismatch between a high-end 2024 CPU and an end-of-life 2017 GPU. The RX 570's percentile rank among all GPUs is 74, but that figure is based on synthetic benchmarks; in this real-world game test, the pairing's overall score is dragged down by the GPU's inability to maintain acceptable frame rates.

The CPU's nearest rivals in synthetic testing — the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5755GE, AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS, AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360, and AMD Ryzen 7 7840H — all score within 0.3% of the 5800XT's average benchmark score of 29774. This suggests that any of these CPUs paired with an RX 570 would produce nearly identical results in Control, confirming that the CPU choice is irrelevant to this game's performance outcome with this GPU. The combo rank is almost entirely determined by the GPU's capability, and the data shows that the RX 570 is simply outclassed for this title at playable settings.

FAQ

Q: What is the best average frame rate this combo can achieve in Control?

A: The highest measured average FPS is 56.3, achieved at 1920x1080 with Low settings. This is the only configuration in the measured data that exceeds 50 FPS.

Q: Is this system capable of 60 FPS gameplay at any setting?

A: No. The maximum average FPS recorded across all resolutions and settings is 56.3 at 1080p Low. No measured configuration reaches 60 FPS average.

Q: How much better is 1080p performance compared to 4K at the same settings?

A: At Low settings, 1080p delivers 56.3 FPS versus 27.4 FPS at 4K, which is a 105% improvement. At High settings, the difference is 37.5 FPS versus 19.3 FPS, a 94% improvement.

Q: What is the worst performing configuration in the dataset?

A: The lowest average FPS is 15.7, recorded at 3840x2160 with Ultra settings. This is the only configuration that drops below 16 FPS average.

Q: Does the CPU bottleneck this GPU in any scenario?

A: No. The data shows consistent GPU-bound behavior, with performance scaling directly with resolution and settings. The Ryzen 7 5800XT's strong multi-threaded scores (23794 in Cinebench R23 multi-core) are never the limiting factor.

Q: How does the GPU's synthetic benchmark percentile compare to its in-game performance?

A: The RX 570 holds a 74th percentile rank among all GPUs based on average benchmark scores, but its in-game results in Control are far weaker, showing that synthetic scores overstate its real-world capability in this title.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the results are as follows: Low settings yield an average of 56.3 FPS, Medium drops to 39.2 FPS, High produces 37.5 FPS, and Ultra falls to 32.6 FPS. The difference between Medium and High is only 1.7 FPS, indicating that the Medium preset is already hitting a performance plateau. The jump from Low to Medium costs 17.1 FPS, a 30% reduction, which is the largest single-preset drop at this resolution.

Moving to 2560x1440, the averages are 43.1 FPS at Low, 29.1 FPS at Medium, 28.0 FPS at High, and 23.9 FPS at Ultra. The gap between Low and Medium widens to 14.0 FPS, but the Medium-to-High difference narrows to just 1.1 FPS. This suggests that at 1440p, the GPU is becoming more sensitive to the initial quality jump but is then saturated by moderate settings. The Ultra preset at 1440p is only 4.1 FPS below High, showing diminishing returns from the highest settings.

At 3840x2160, all configurations fall below 30 FPS: Low averages 27.4 FPS, Medium 23.5 FPS, High 19.3 FPS, and Ultra 15.7 FPS. The performance deltas between presets are relatively consistent here, with each step costing roughly 3-4 FPS. This indicates a linear degradation pattern at 4K, where the GPU's 224.0 GB/s memory bandwidth and 32 ROPs are simply overwhelmed by the pixel workload, regardless of the specific quality settings chosen.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 570 is the definitive performance limiter in this configuration. With 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus, the GPU has a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s, which is insufficient for Control's higher-resolution textures and effects. The clock speeds are modest — 1168 MHz base and 1244 MHz boost — and the 2048 shading units, 128 TMUs, and 32 ROPs deliver a pixel rate of 39.81 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 159.2 GTexel/s. These specifications translate to a raw FP32 throughput of 5.095 TFLOPS, but the measured results show that this raw compute power is not effectively utilized in Control.

The GPU's synthetic benchmark average score is 30158, which places it near the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 (30109, 0.2% delta) and AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT (30097, 0.2% delta) in the benchmark database's ranking. However, this is misleading; those rival GPUs are far more capable in real games. The RX 570's 74th percentile ranking reflects its performance in synthetic tests like Geekbench, not its actual gaming capability in 2019-era titles like Control. The 4 GB VRAM capacity is a particular concern, as Control is known to consume significant memory at higher settings, and the data shows that even at 1080p Medium, performance drops 30% from Low, suggesting memory pressure begins early.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT is vastly overqualified for this GPU pairing. With 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Zen 3 architecture, the CPU features a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 4.80 GHz. Its synthetic benchmarks are strong: a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 23794 and a single-core score of 3359, placing it in the 86th percentile of all CPUs. The 32 MB L3 cache and 51.2 GB/s memory bandwidth on a dual-channel DDR4 interface provide ample data throughput for gaming workloads.

The CPU's nearest rivals in the benchmark database — the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5755GE, AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS, AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360, and AMD Ryzen 7 7840H — all have average scores within 0.3% of the 5800XT's 29774 average. This indicates that the CPU is performing exactly as expected for its class. However, in Control with the RX 570, this CPU horsepower is completely untapped. The measured FPS data shows no scenario where CPU performance would be a factor; the frame rates are entirely dictated by GPU rendering limits. The CPU's 105 W TDP and 7 nm process node make it an efficient and cool-running component, but none of that matters when the GPU cannot deliver more than 56.3 FPS at the lowest settings.

Settings Recommendations

Based on the measured data, the only viable configuration for a playable experience is 1920x1080 with Low settings, which produces an average of 56.3 FPS. This is the sole setting combination that approaches a smooth 60 FPS target. At 1080p Medium (39.2 FPS) and High (37.5 FPS), the frame rate drops into the 30s range, which is playable but noticeably stuttery for an action-adventure game. The Ultra preset at 1080p (32.6 FPS) offers no meaningful visual benefit over High given the 4.9 FPS penalty, and it pushes the system close to the edge of playability.

At 2560x1440, only the Low preset (43.1 FPS) is marginally acceptable, but the step down to Medium (29.1 FPS) is a 32% performance loss that makes the game feel sluggish. All 1440p settings above Low are below 30 FPS average. At 3840x2160, no setting is viable; even Low (27.4 FPS) fails to reach 30 FPS, and Ultra (15.7 FPS) is a slideshow. The data suggests that users should prioritize resolution over visual quality: a 1080p Low experience at 56.3 FPS is significantly better than a 1440p Medium experience at 29.1 FPS. For users who insist on higher quality, the only option is to accept sub-40 FPS performance at 1080p, with Medium offering the best balance at 39.2 FPS versus the negligible 1.7 FPS gain from stepping down to High.