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# Control with AMD Ryzen 7 7700X + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 combination produces exceptional frame rates in Control, with the data showing a clear pattern: this pairing ranks 33rd out of 1,636 tested combinations, placing it in the top 2% of all configurations. The CPU's 8 cores and 16 threads, running at a base clock of 4.50 GHz and boost of 5.40 GHz, combine with the GPU's 24 GB of GDDR6X memory and 82.58 TFLOPS of FP32 performance to deliver results that consistently exceed 77 FPS even at the most demanding settings. The benchmark results indicate that this system is never GPU-bound at lower resolutions, as the frame rates scale dramatically from 1080p to 4K, revealing the CPU's capability to feed the RTX 4090 effectively.

FAQ

Q: What is the average frame rate at 1080p Ultra settings?

A: The system achieves an average of 149.1 FPS at 1920x1080 with Ultra settings, which is the most demanding preset tested at this resolution.

Q: How does the CPU's multi-threaded performance compare to its nearest rivals?

A: The Ryzen 7 7700X scores 34,313 on average across all benchmarks, placing it 0.4% ahead of the Intel Core i5-13500 (34,175) and 0.5% ahead of the Intel Core i7-12800HX (34,136), while trailing the Intel Core Ultra 7 165H by 0.8% (34,584) and the AMD EPYC 4244P by 0.8% (34,599).

Q: What is the GPU's percentile ranking among all tested graphics cards?

A: The RTX 4090 ranks in the 91st percentile of all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 66,473, placing it ahead of 91% of all tested graphics cards.

Q: How much VRAM does the RTX 4090 have, and what is its memory bandwidth?

A: The GPU features 24 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus, providing a memory bandwidth of 1.01 TB/s with an effective memory clock of 21 Gbps.

Q: What is the frame rate difference between 1080p Low and 4K Ultra?

A: The system delivers 273.1 FPS at 1080p Low and 77 FPS at 4K Ultra, representing a frame rate reduction of 196.1 FPS when moving from the lightest to the heaviest tested configuration.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 serves as the primary rendering engine in this configuration, and its specifications directly explain the observed performance in Control. The GPU's 16,384 shading units and 512 texture mapping units, working with 176 raster output pipelines, provide the raw compute capacity needed to sustain high frame rates in this action-adventure title. The Ada Lovelace architecture, built on a 5 nm process with 76,300 million transistors, delivers 82.58 TFLOPS of FP32 performance, which translates into the measured results across all resolution and settings combinations.

The 24 GB of GDDR6X memory, accessed via a 384-bit bus at 1.01 TB/s bandwidth, ensures that texture streaming and geometry data never become bottlenecks, even at 4K Ultra where memory pressure is highest. The GPU's base clock of 2235 MHz and boost clock of 2520 MHz, combined with 128 ray tracing cores and 512 tensor cores, allow Control's visual effects to be processed without compromising frame rates. The data shows that at 4K Ultra, the system maintains 77 FPS, indicating that this GPU has sufficient headroom to handle the game's most demanding scenes while staying above the 60 FPS threshold commonly considered necessary for smooth gameplay.

The GPU's DirectX 12 Ultimate support, along with Vulkan 1.4 and OpenGL 4.6, ensures compatibility with Control's rendering pipeline. The RTX 4090's performance percentile of 91% across all GPUs in the database, combined with its average benchmark score of 66,473, confirms that this is a top-tier graphics solution. When paired with the Ryzen 7 7700X, the GPU receives a steady stream of draw calls and physics calculations from the CPU, allowing it to operate near its full potential across all tested configurations.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals distinct scaling patterns as resolution increases from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160. At Low settings, the frame rate drops from 273.1 FPS at 1080p to 140.3 FPS at 4K, a reduction of 132.8 FPS or approximately 48.6% of the 1080p value. This substantial drop indicates that even at low graphical fidelity, the GPU becomes increasingly burdened by the higher pixel count, though the absolute frame rates remain exceptionally high.

Under Medium settings, the scaling shows a similar trend: 194.9 FPS at 1080p falls to 148.5 FPS at 1440p, then to 101.3 FPS at 4K. The step from 1080p to 1440p represents a 46.4 FPS decrease, while the step from 1440p to 4K represents a 47.2 FPS decrease, showing a consistent per-resolution cost. High settings demonstrate the same pattern with 172.9 FPS at 1080p, 130.4 FPS at 1440p, and 90.7 FPS at 4K.

Ultra settings produce the most demanding workload, with frame rates of 149.1 FPS at 1080p, 115.5 FPS at 1440p, and 77 FPS at 4K. The scaling from 1080p to 1440p at Ultra shows a 33.6 FPS drop, while the jump to 4K costs an additional 38.5 FPS. This progressive degradation indicates that the GPU is the limiting component at higher resolutions, particularly at 4K where the frame rate at Ultra (77 FPS) approaches the point where CPU overhead becomes a smaller proportion of the total frame time. The data suggests that at 1080p, the CPU has more influence on performance, as frame rates above 270 FPS at Low settings would require extremely efficient GPU processing to achieve.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system demonstrates its highest performance across all settings. Low settings produce an average of 273.1 FPS, which is the fastest configuration tested in this dataset. Medium settings achieve 194.9 FPS, a reduction of 78.2 FPS from Low. High settings yield 172.9 FPS, while Ultra settings deliver 149.1 FPS. The progression from Low to Ultra at 1080p shows a total reduction of 124 FPS, with the largest single step occurring between Low and Medium (78.2 FPS), followed by a 22 FPS drop from Medium to High, and a 23.8 FPS drop from High to Ultra.

Moving to 2560x1440, the frame rates decrease but remain highly playable. Low settings achieve 204.6 FPS, which is 68.5 FPS lower than the corresponding 1080p result. Medium settings produce 148.5 FPS, High settings reach 130.4 FPS, and Ultra settings deliver 115.5 FPS. The difference between Low and Ultra at 1440p is 89.1 FPS, with the step from Low to Medium (56.1 FPS) being the largest single reduction. The gap between Medium and High is 18.1 FPS, and between High and Ultra is 14.9 FPS, showing that the GPU handles settings scaling more efficiently at this resolution.

At 3840x2160, the system delivers its lowest but still substantial frame rates. Low settings achieve 140.3 FPS, Medium settings produce 101.3 FPS, High settings reach 90.7 FPS, and Ultra settings deliver 77 FPS. The total spread from Low to Ultra at 4K is 63.3 FPS. The settings scaling at 4K shows diminishing returns in terms of frame rate cost per setting tier: Low to Medium costs 39 FPS, Medium to High costs 10.6 FPS, and High to Ultra costs 13.7 FPS. This pattern indicates that at 4K, the GPU's shading and memory resources are more heavily taxed, making each additional graphics feature more expensive in absolute frame rate terms, though the overall performance remains above 77 FPS even at the most demanding settings.

How This Combo Ranks

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700X + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 combination ranks 33rd out of 1,636 tested combinations in Control, placing it in the top 2.0% of all configurations in the database. This rank reflects the combined capabilities of both components, as the CPU's strong single-threaded performance (4,281 points in Cinebench R23 single-core) and the GPU's massive compute throughput work together to deliver the frame rates documented in the measured FPS data.

The CPU's average benchmark score of 34,313 places it in the 89th percentile of all CPUs, with its nearest rival being the Intel Core Ultra 7 165H at 34,584 (0.8% faster) and the AMD EPYC 4244P at 34,599 (0.8% faster). This close grouping indicates that the Ryzen 7 7700X is competitive with the fastest processors in the database, though not the absolute leader. The GPU, meanwhile, scores 66,473 on average, placing it in the 91st percentile of all GPUs, with its nearest rival being the NVIDIA Tesla T4 at 66,733 (0.4% faster).

The combination's 33rd rank among 1,636 combos suggests that while this pairing is exceptionally strong, there are 32 configurations that achieve higher frame rates in Control. These higher-ranked systems likely feature even faster CPUs or more optimized memory configurations, but the data does not specify which components differentiate them. What the data does show is that this combo delivers frame rates that are playable and smooth at every resolution and settings combination tested, from the 273.1 FPS at 1080p Low to the 77 FPS at 4K Ultra. The rank of 33rd out of 1,636 (top 2%) confirms that this system is positioned at the high end of the performance spectrum for Control, with only a small fraction of tested configurations surpassing its output.