Control

The Intel Core i5-12400F and AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT combination delivers a measured performance profile in Control, an Action Adventure title released on 2019-08-26. The CPU has a launch MSRP of $174, and the GPU has a launch MSRP of 399 USD. The data set includes 12 measured FPS points across three resolutions and four settings, with a combo rank of 1231 out of 1636 tested combinations.

Resolution Scaling

At High settings, the average FPS drops from 73.8 at 1920x1080 to 56 at 2560x1440, and then to 34.9 at 3840x2160. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is 17.8 FPS, while the drop from 1440p to 4K is 21.1 FPS. This increasing drop rate indicates that the GPU becomes the primary limiting component as resolution rises. At Low settings, the scaling is similar: 114 FPS at 1080p, 90.9 at 1440p, and 61.7 at 4K. The 4K Low result is the only 4K setting that exceeds 60 FPS. The 4K High average of 34.9 FPS is less than half of the 1080p High average of 73.8 FPS. The data shows that the CPU, with 6 cores and 12 threads, is not the bottleneck at higher resolutions; the GPU's rendering load scales with pixel count.

The pattern holds across all settings. At Medium, the 1080p result is 85.7 FPS, falling to 62 at 1440p and 40.4 at 4K. At Ultra, the values are 66, 48.2, and 35.7 respectively. The relative drop from 1080p to 4K is consistent: the 4K Ultra result of 35.7 FPS is roughly half of the 1080p Ultra result of 66 FPS. This consistency suggests that the scaling is purely resolution-driven, with no sudden cliff that would indicate a memory or bandwidth limitation. The 4K High and 4K Ultra results are nearly identical (34.9 vs 35.7), which implies that the GPU is fully saturated at 4K, and additional settings changes have minimal impact on the frame rate.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT is built on the Navi 10 chip with RDNA 1.0 architecture on a 7nm process. It features 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, providing 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The GPU's base clock is 1605 MHz, with a boost clock of 1905 MHz and a game clock of 1755 MHz. The memory clock is 1750 MHz, or 14 Gbps effective. The GPU has 2560 shading units, 160 TMUs, and 64 ROPs, with a pixel rate of 121.9 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 304.8 GTexel/s. The FP32 performance is 9.754 TFLOPS. The GPU's average benchmark score is 24731, placing it in the 68th percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rival is the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Mobile, which scores 24763, a delta of -0.1%.

The GPU's role in Control is to handle the rendering, and the data shows that at 4K Ultra, the average FPS is 35.7, which is close to the 4K High result of 34.9, indicating that the GPU is saturated at these settings. The 8 GB VRAM is sufficient for the tested settings, as the FPS drops are consistent with resolution scaling rather than memory capacity limits. The boost clock of 1905 MHz and the game clock of 1755 MHz provide the computational headroom for the 1080p and 1440p results, where the GPU is not fully stressed. The memory bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s supports the texture-heavy scenes typical of the genre, but the data does not show a bandwidth bottleneck at any tested resolution.

FAQ

Q: What is the average FPS at 1920x1080 with High settings?

A: The measured average FPS is 73.8.

Q: How does the Intel Core i5-12400F compare to its nearest rival?

A: The i5-12400F has an average benchmark score of 19221, which is 0.1% higher than the Intel Core i7-8700K's score of 19210.

Q: What is the combo's rank in Control?

A: The combo ranks 1231st out of 1636 tested combinations.

Q: What is the GPU's memory configuration?

A: The GPU has 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, with a bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s.

Q: Which 4K setting achieves the highest average FPS?

A: At 3840x2160, the Low setting achieves an average of 61.7 FPS, which is the highest among the 4K settings.

Q: What is the GPU's boost clock?

A: The boost clock is 1905 MHz.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The following table lists the measured average FPS for each resolution and settings combination.

| Resolution | Low | Medium | High | Ultra |

|------------|-----|--------|------|-------|

| 1920x1080 | 114 | 85.7 | 73.8 | 66 |

| 2560x1440 | 90.9 | 62 | 56 | 48.2 |

| 3840x2160 | 61.7 | 40.4 | 34.9 | 35.7 |

At 1080p, the Low setting yields 114 FPS, Medium 85.7, High 73.8, and Ultra 66. At 1440p, the values are 90.9, 62, 56, and 48.2 respectively. At 4K, the values are 61.7, 40.4, 34.9, and 35.7. The data shows that the gap between Low and Ultra narrows as resolution increases. At 1080p, the difference between Low and Ultra is 48 FPS, while at 4K it is 26 FPS. This indicates that the GPU is the limiting factor at higher resolutions, as the settings have less impact on the final FPS. The 4K Ultra result of 35.7 FPS is actually slightly higher than the 4K High result of 34.9 FPS, a minor anomaly that falls within the expected variance of measured data.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo ranks 1231st out of 1636 tested combinations in Control. This places it in the lower portion of the field, outperforming 405 other combinations but trailing the majority. The CPU is in the 77th percentile of all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 19221. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Core i7-8700K (19210, +0.1%), the Intel Core i5-1335U (19167, +0.3%), the AMD Ryzen 5 7533HS (19364, -0.7%), and the AMD EPYC 7773X (18979, +1.3%). The GPU is in the 68th percentile of all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 24731. Its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Mobile (24763, -0.1%), the Intel Arc A350M (24647, +0.3%), the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile (24592, +0.6%), and the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 (24519, +0.9%). The CPU's performance is closely matched with the i7-8700K, while the GPU is slightly behind the RTX A5000 Mobile. The combination's rank reflects the GPU's lower percentile relative to the CPU, indicating that the GPU is the more limiting factor in this pairing. The CPU's 6-core, 12-thread configuration with a boost clock of 4.40 GHz provides sufficient processing power for the game's logic, but the GPU's 68th percentile standing drags the overall combo down in the rankings.