Control

# Control with AMD Ryzen 7 7700 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 delivers a formidable Control experience, ranking 241st out of 3,720 tested combinations. This places the combo in the top 6.5% of all tested systems, with measured frame rates that range from a highly playable 69 FPS at 4K Ultra to a blistering 246 FPS at 1080p Low. The data reveals a system that is exceptionally well-balanced for this title, with the GPU becoming the primary constraint at higher resolutions while the CPU's strong single-threaded performance ensures headroom at lower settings.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data shows a clear and predictable scaling pattern as resolution increases, but the magnitude of the drop reveals important information about where the bottleneck lies in this system. At 1080p High, the combo produces 156 FPS, which drops to 118 FPS at 1440p High, and further to 79 FPS at 4K High. This represents a 24.4% performance reduction from 1080p to 1440p, followed by a 33.1% reduction from 1440p to 4K. The total scaling from 1080p to 4K is a 49.4% reduction in average frame rate.

The pattern is even more pronounced at the Low preset, where the system delivers 246 FPS at 1080p, 186 FPS at 1440p, and 126 FPS at 4K. The percentage drops here are 24.4% and 32.3% respectively, showing a very similar scaling curve to the High preset. This consistency suggests that the rendering load scales relatively uniformly across settings, with the resolution increase placing progressively more strain on the GPU's fill rate and memory bandwidth capabilities.

At the Ultra preset, the scaling becomes more dramatic. The system delivers 135 FPS at 1080p, 102 FPS at 1440p, and 69 FPS at 4K. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is 24.4%, but from 1440p to 4K it steepens to 32.4%. The 4K Ultra result of 69 FPS is the lowest measured figure in the entire dataset, indicating that this is where the RTX 4080's 16 GB of GDDR6X memory and 716.8 GB/s of bandwidth are being pushed hardest.

The Medium preset shows a slightly different scaling characteristic. From 1080p Medium at 175 FPS, the system drops to 132 FPS at 1440p (a 24.6% decrease), and then to 89 FPS at 4K (a 32.6% decrease). The minimum FPS figures for Medium are also informative: 149 FPS at 1080p, 113 FPS at 1440p, and 76 FPS at 4K. These minimums are consistently about 14-15% below the averages, indicating that Control's frame pacing remains stable across resolutions without severe spikes.

The resolution scaling analysis points strongly to the GPU as the limiting component at higher resolutions. The near-identical percentage drops across different presets suggest that the CPU, with its 8 cores and 16 threads, is not becoming a bottleneck even at 1080p Low where the system pushes 246 FPS. The GPU's 48.74 TFLOPS of FP32 performance and 280.6 GPixel/s pixel rate are being taxed progressively harder as pixel count increases, while the CPU's workload remains relatively constant regardless of resolution.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 is the dominant component in this pairing, and its specifications directly explain the measured performance in Control. Built on the Ada Lovelace architecture using TSMC's 5 nm process, the GPU packs 45,900 million transistors into a 379 mm² die. The 16 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit bus provides 716.8 GB/s of bandwidth, which proves crucial for feeding the 9,728 shading units at 4K resolutions where texture and geometry data demands are highest.

The GPU's clock behavior is notable. With a base clock of 2205 MHz and a boost clock of 2505 MHz, the RTX 4080 maintains high sustained frequencies under load. The memory operates at 1400 MHz with 22.4 Gbps effective speed, which when combined with the 256-bit bus yields that substantial bandwidth figure. In Control, this memory configuration allows the card to maintain consistent frame delivery even in the 4K Medium scenario where the minimum FPS of 76 suggests the memory subsystem is being utilized heavily but not overwhelmed.

The RTX 4080's 76 RT cores and 304 tensor cores are relevant to Control's feature set, though the measured data does not isolate ray tracing performance specifically. The 112 ROPs and 304 TMUs provide the pixel and texture processing throughput needed for the game's particle effects and environmental detail. The pixel rate of 280.6 GPixel/s and texture rate of 761.5 GTexel/s are directly reflected in the 4K High result of 79 FPS, which represents a solid playable experience for a demanding action-adventure title.

Comparing the RTX 4080 to its nearest rivals in the broader benchmark database, the GPU's average benchmark score of 54,247 places it just 0.1% ahead of the RTX 4080 SUPER (54,209) and 1.1% behind the AMD Radeon Pro W5700X (54,828). The RTX 4080 also sits 2.6% behind the AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB (55,698) and 2.7% behind the AMD Radeon 8060S (55,757) in aggregate scores, though these are general-purpose benchmarks rather than game-specific results.

The GPU's 86th percentile ranking among all GPUs underscores its position as a high-end part. In Control specifically, the measured results show the card delivering 69 FPS at 4K Ultra, which is a demanding scenario that would stress lesser GPUs significantly. The fact that the card maintains above-60 FPS at 4K Ultra indicates that its memory bandwidth and compute resources are well-matched to this game's requirements.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 serves as the computational backbone for this pairing, and its specifications reveal why the system maintains such high frame rates even at lower resolutions where CPU overhead typically becomes more apparent. The processor features 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Zen 4 architecture (codenamed Raphael), manufactured on TSMC's 5 nm process with 6,570 million transistors in a 71 mm² die. The base clock of 3.80 GHz can boost up to 5.30 GHz, providing the single-threaded performance that Control's engine benefits from.

The cache hierarchy is substantial: 64 KB of L1 per core, 1 MB of L2 per core, and 32 MB of shared L3 cache. This 32 MB L3 pool is particularly important for gaming workloads where frequently accessed data needs to stay close to the cores. The CPU's memory support for DDR5 with dual-channel configuration yields 83.2 GB/s of bandwidth, which, while lower than the GPU's memory bandwidth, is sufficient to feed the 8 cores without creating a system-level bottleneck.

In synthetic benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7700 demonstrates strong all-around performance. The Cinebench R23 multicore score of 18,760 and single-core score of 1,930 indicate a processor that excels in both lightly-threaded and heavily-threaded workloads. The Geekbench multicore result of 15,371 and single-core score of 2,525 reinforce this picture. More relevant to gaming, the 3DMark 16-thread score of 8,484 and 8-thread score of 6,933 show that the CPU can handle the thread counts that modern games like Control utilize effectively.

The CPU's 87th percentile ranking among all CPUs places it slightly above the GPU's 86th percentile, suggesting the processor has a small advantage in relative standing. Its nearest rivals in aggregate benchmark scores are the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 (40,048, just 0.1% behind), Intel Core 5 221E (40,144, 0.2% ahead), AMD Ryzen 9 270 (40,246, 0.4% ahead), and Intel Core i9-13905H (40,313, 0.6% ahead). These extremely tight margins, all within 0.6%, indicate that the Ryzen 7 7700 sits in a highly competitive performance tier.

In Control specifically, the CPU's role becomes evident when examining the 1080p Low result of 246 FPS. At this resolution, the GPU is not heavily taxed, yet the system still achieves nearly 250 FPS. This suggests the CPU's single-thread performance, as evidenced by the 3DMark single-thread score of 1,049 and Cinebench R15 single-core score of 308, is sufficient to keep the game's main thread from becoming a limiting factor. The 5.30 GHz boost clock is likely the key enabler here, as Control's engine tends to favor high-frequency cores over additional cores.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the Ryzen 7 7700 and RTX 4080 achieves a rank of 241 out of 3,720 tested combos in Control, placing it in the 93.5th percentile of all tested systems. This is an exceptionally strong showing, though the rank indicates there are 240 other combinations that deliver higher performance in this specific title. The rank of 241 means the combo outperforms approximately 3,479 other tested configurations, which reflects the balance between the CPU and GPU.

The ranking implies that while the RTX 4080 is a top-tier GPU and the Ryzen 7 7700 is a strong mid-to-high-range processor, there are combinations with more powerful GPUs or CPUs that edge it out in Control's performance hierarchy. The GPU's 86th percentile and CPU's 87th percentile rankings suggest both components are well above average, but the combo's 93.5th percentile game-specific rank indicates that the pairing works particularly well together for this title.

It is notably the combo rank of 241 out of 3,720 means the system is in the top 6.5% of all tested configurations. This places it in the company of systems using higher-tier GPUs like the RTX 4090 or potentially newer generation cards, as well as CPUs with higher core counts or faster boost clocks. The measured FPS data supports this ranking, with the system never dropping below 69 FPS even at the most demanding 4K Ultra settings.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system demonstrates its peak performance ceiling. The Low preset produces an average of 246 FPS, which is the highest measured result across the entire dataset. The Medium preset delivers 175 FPS with a minimum of 149 FPS and maximum of 201 FPS, showing a wide but consistent frame delivery range. High settings yield 156 FPS, while Ultra drops to 135 FPS. The scaling from Low to Ultra at 1080p represents a 45.1% reduction in average FPS, indicating that the Ultra preset's additional graphical effects impose a significant but manageable load on the RTX 4080.

At 2560x1440, the system remains highly playable across all settings. The Low preset produces 186 FPS, Medium delivers 132 FPS with a minimum of 113 FPS and maximum of 152 FPS, High achieves 118 FPS, and Ultra maintains 102 FPS. The 1440p results show a 45.2% reduction from Low to Ultra, a nearly identical percentage to the 1080p scaling. This consistency suggests the GPU's resource allocation scales predictably with settings at this resolution.

The 3840x2160 results are the most demanding and reveal the system's capabilities at maximum resolution. Low produces 126 FPS, Medium delivers 89 FPS with a minimum of 76 FPS and maximum of 103 FPS, High achieves 79 FPS, and Ultra produces 69 FPS. The reduction from Low to Ultra at 4K is 45.2%, matching the percentages seen at lower resolutions. This uniformity across all three resolutions indicates that the settings scaling in Control affects the GPU workload proportionally regardless of pixel count.

The Medium preset across all resolutions provides the most complete data, including minimum and maximum FPS figures. At 1080p Medium, the system produces 149-201 FPS; at 1440p Medium, 113-152 FPS; and at 4K Medium, 76-103 FPS. The minimum FPS values are consistently 14-15% below the averages, which suggests a stable frame pacing profile without major hitches or stutters.

Settings Recommendations

Based on the measured FPS data, the High preset at 2560x1440 offers the best balance of visual fidelity and performance for this system. The 118 FPS average at 1440p High provides a smooth experience on high-refresh-rate monitors while maintaining substantial visual quality improvements over Medium. The jump from Medium to High costs only 14 FPS (from 132 to 118 FPS), which is a modest 10.6% reduction for noticeably better graphical detail.

For users prioritizing maximum frame rates, the 1080p Low preset at 246 FPS is the clear choice, though this sacrifices significant visual quality. The 1440p Low preset at 186 FPS represents a better compromise for competitive play, offering frame rates well above 144 Hz while still providing a resolution upgrade over 1080p.

At 4K, the system handles all presets admirably, but the High preset delivers the best experience. The 79 FPS average at 4K High is above the 60 FPS threshold that most players consider the minimum for smooth gameplay, and it provides substantially better visual quality than the Medium preset's 89 FPS. The Ultra preset at 4K produces 69 FPS, which is playable but leaves less headroom for demanding scenes that might cause frame drops.

The Medium preset deserves special consideration across all resolutions. With 175 FPS at 1080p, 132 FPS at 1440p, and 89 FPS at 4K, it offers the most consistent frame delivery profile, as evidenced by the complete minimum and maximum data. The minimum FPS of 76 at 4K Medium ensures that even the most demanding in-game moments remain fluid. For users who prefer a stable experience over maximum visual quality, Medium is the recommended preset, particularly at 1440p where it delivers 132 FPS with a 113 FPS minimum.

The Ultra preset, while producing the lowest frame rates, still maintains playability at all resolutions. At 1080p Ultra, the 135 FPS result is excellent; at 1440p Ultra, 102 FPS is very good; and at 4K Ultra, 69 FPS is acceptable. The system never drops below 69 FPS in any measured configuration, demonstrating that this combo can handle Control's maximum settings without falling below playable thresholds. For players with VRR displays, the Ultra preset at 1440p provides an excellent visual experience with frame rates that remain within typical 120 Hz refresh windows.