Control

# Control: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 produces a highly capable Control experience, landing at rank 44 out of 1,636 tested combos in this game. This places the combination within the top 3% of all tested configurations, reflecting a pairing that leverages both strong CPU throughput and flagship GPU compute. The CPU's 91st percentile standing among all processors and the GPU's matching 91st percentile among all graphics cards indicate a balanced pairing where neither component is dramatically outpacing the other in overall benchmark terms.

How This Combo Ranks

At rank 44 of 1,636 tested combos, this configuration sits comfortably in the upper echelon of systems evaluated for Control. The ranking reflects the combined contribution of the Ryzen 7 7700 and the RTX 4090, with the CPU delivering an average benchmark score of 40,468 across all tested workloads. This places it within 0.1% of the AMD Ryzen 9 7940H (40,431) and 0.5% ahead of the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 (40,262). The Intel Core i9-13905H (40,712) sits just 0.6% ahead, while the Intel Core Ultra 5 235T (39,995) trails by 1.2%.

For the GPU, the RTX 4090's average benchmark score of 66,473 is remarkably close to its nearest rivals. The NVIDIA Tesla T4 (66,733) edges ahead by 0.4%, while the NVIDIA Tesla P40 (66,127) sits 0.5% behind. The AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 (67,097) leads by 0.9%, and the NVIDIA Quadro P6000 (67,320) is 1.3% ahead. These tight margins suggest that in pure compute terms, the RTX 4090 is operating at a performance tier where small architectural differences between professional and consumer cards become negligible.

The rank of 44 out of 1,636 becomes more meaningful when considering that Control's demands scale heavily with both CPU and GPU resources. The Ryzen 7 7700's 8 cores and 16 threads provide ample parallelism for the game's physics and AI systems, while the RTX 4090's 16,384 shading units handle the visual workload with substantial headroom.

GPU Role

The RTX 4090's memory configuration is central to its Control performance. With 24 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus, the card delivers 1.01 TB/s of bandwidth. This is particularly relevant for Control at higher resolutions, where texture streaming and asset loading benefit from both capacity and bandwidth. The memory clock runs at 1313 MHz, translating to 21 Gbps effective, which keeps the memory subsystem well ahead of the pixel and texture demands at 4K.

The GPU's base clock of 2235 MHz and boost clock of 2520 MHz, built on the AD102 chip with Ada Lovelace architecture, drive a pixel rate of 443.5 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 1,290.2 GTexel/s. These figures explain why the card maintains playable frame rates even at 4K Ultra settings, where the measured 76.4 FPS average suggests the GPU is still the primary throughput engine. The 128 ray tracing cores and 512 tensor cores are present in the architecture, though the measured FPS data does not isolate ray tracing workloads.

The 82.58 TFLOPS FP32 compute capability provides substantial raw arithmetic throughput. This explains the scaling pattern observed in the measured FPS: the gap between Low and Ultra settings at any given resolution is consistent with a GPU that has compute headroom to absorb settings changes without becoming the bottleneck until extreme loads are applied.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals how this combination scales across resolutions and settings, and the pattern strongly indicates a GPU-bound scenario at higher resolutions with CPU influence at 1080p. At 1080p Low, the combo achieves 269.5 FPS, which drops to 208.4 FPS at 1440p Low (a 22.7% decrease) and further to 139.1 FPS at 4K Low (a 48.4% decrease from 1080p). These scaling factors are typical of a system where the GPU becomes progressively more saturated as pixel count rises.

For High settings, the trajectory is similar: 173.4 FPS at 1080p, 130.1 FPS at 1440p (25.0% lower), and 88 FPS at 4K (49.3% lower). The consistency of these percentage drops across settings suggests that the limiting component remains the GPU throughout the resolution range. If the CPU were the bottleneck at 1080p, we would expect to see a flatter FPS curve between 1080p and 1440p, as the GPU would have headroom to render more pixels without hitting a CPU cap.

The Ultra settings data reinforces this interpretation: 150.2 FPS at 1080p, 114.8 FPS at 1440p (23.6% lower), and 76.4 FPS at 4K (49.1% lower). The nearly identical scaling percentages across all settings indicate that the RTX 4090's rendering pipeline scales linearly with resolution, and the Ryzen 7 7700's 3.80 GHz base and 5.30 GHz boost clocks provide sufficient single-thread performance to keep feeding the GPU even at 1080p Ultra.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers 269.5 FPS on Low settings, 192.7 FPS on Medium, 173.4 FPS on High, and 150.2 FPS on Ultra. The step from Low to Medium is the largest single-settings drop at 76.8 FPS, while the High to Ultra reduction is 23.2 FPS. This pattern suggests that Medium settings introduce significant visual features that load the GPU, while the Ultra preset adds incremental effects that cost relatively less.

At 2560x1440, the numbers are 208.4 FPS Low, 145.2 FPS Medium, 130.1 FPS High, and 114.8 FPS Ultra. The Low to Medium drop is 63.2 FPS, again the largest single step. The High to Ultra gap narrows to 15.3 FPS, indicating that at this resolution, the additional Ultra effects have diminishing performance impact relative to the Medium settings jump.

At 3840x2160, the combo produces 139.1 FPS Low, 98.9 FPS Medium, 88 FPS High, and 76.4 FPS Ultra. The Low to Medium reduction is 40.2 FPS, and the High to Ultra difference is 11.6 FPS. At 4K, even the Low setting requires substantial GPU throughput, and the RTX 4090's 24 GB frame buffer ensures that no resolution or settings combination exceeds available VRAM.

The 1080p Ultra figure of 150.2 FPS is noteworthy because it exceeds the 1440p High result of 130.1 FPS by 20.1 FPS, confirming that the GPU has enough headroom at 1080p to run maximum settings while still delivering high refresh rates. Conversely, the 4K Ultra result of 76.4 FPS is the only measured configuration below 80 FPS, suggesting that users targeting 4K at maximum settings will want to consider settings adjustments.

FAQ

Q: How does this combo compare to other tested configurations in Control?

A: This pairing ranks 44th out of 1,636 tested combos, placing it in the top 3% of all configurations evaluated for this game.

Q: Is the RTX 4090's 24 GB memory capacity relevant for Control at 4K?

A: The 24 GB GDDR6X allocation with 1.01 TB/s bandwidth ensures that no tested settings combination at any resolution approaches memory capacity limits, allowing the GPU to operate without texture streaming constraints.

Q: What does the FPS scaling between 1080p and 4K indicate about the bottleneck?

A: The consistent 22-25% FPS drop from 1080p to 1440p and 48-49% drop from 1080p to 4K across all settings indicates the GPU is the primary limiting component, as CPU-bound scenarios would show flatter scaling at lower resolutions.

Q: Which settings preset provides the best balance of visual quality and performance at 1440p?

A: At 2560x1440, High settings deliver 130.1 FPS, which is 15.3 FPS higher than Ultra (114.8 FPS) while still representing a significant visual upgrade over Medium's 145.2 FPS.

Q: How does the Ryzen 7 7700's CPU performance compare to its nearest rivals?

A: The CPU's average benchmark score of 40,468 is within 0.6% of the Intel Core i9-13905H (40,712) and 1.2% ahead of the Intel Core Ultra 5 235T (39,995), indicating near-parity with leading mobile H-series processors.

Q: Can this combo maintain 60 FPS at 4K Ultra in Control?

A: The measured 76.4 FPS average at 3840x2160 Ultra surpasses the 60 FPS threshold with a 16.4 FPS margin, indicating comfortable headroom for 4K Ultra gameplay.