Control

The Intel Core i7-14700K paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER occupies the 1,105th position out of 1,636 tested combinations in Control, placing it in the lower-middle tier of the database. This ranking reflects a configuration where a high-end 2023 CPU is matched with a 2019 mid-range GPU, and the measured frame rates confirm that the graphics card is the primary constraint across most settings and resolutions.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo's rank of 1,105 out of 1,636 places it in the 32nd percentile of all tested system configurations for Control. This positioning is heavily influenced by the GPU, which sits at the 63rd percentile among all GPUs, while the CPU achieves a 96th percentile ranking among all processors. The substantial gap between the CPU's relative strength and the GPU's more modest standing explains why this system lands in the lower half of the overall ranking.

Benchmark results show the RTX 2060 SUPER produces an average score of 19,774, placing it just 0.3% behind the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN and 0.5% behind the RTX 2070. The GPU's performance is closely clustered with these rivals, with deltas of 0.8% and 1.3% against the Quadro K5200 and Tesla K40m respectively. This tight grouping indicates that the RTX 2060 SUPER delivers performance consistent with its tier, and the combo's overall rank reflects that GPU ceiling rather than any CPU limitation.

GPU Role

The RTX 2060 SUPER is built on the TU106 chip using a 12 nm process, featuring 2,176 shading units, 136 texture mapping units, and 64 raster operation units. The GPU operates at a base clock of 1470 MHz with a boost clock of 1650 MHz, while its 8 GB of GDDR6 memory runs at 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) across a 256-bit bus, delivering 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth. These specifications produce a pixel rate of 105.6 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 224.4 GTexel/s, with FP32 performance rated at 7.181 TFLOPS.

The GPU's 34 ray tracing cores and 272 tensor cores provide hardware support for DirectX 12 Ultimate and Vulkan 1.4, which are relevant for Control's rendering features. However, the measured frame rates suggest that the GPU's raw throughput becomes the limiting factor at higher resolutions and quality settings. At 4K Ultra, the system achieves just 33.5 FPS, which is only 57% of the 58.4 FPS seen at 4K Low. This scaling pattern indicates that the GPU's memory bandwidth and compute resources are heavily taxed by the game's visual effects at maximum settings.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-14700K provides 20 cores and 28 threads, operating at a base clock of 3.40 GHz with a boost clock of 5.60 GHz. This Raptor Lake Refresh processor features 33 MB of shared L3 cache and 2 MB of L2 cache per core, with 80 KB of L1 cache per core. The CPU's Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 44,534 and single-core score of 6,287 demonstrate substantial processing headroom for game logic and physics calculations.

The CPU's average benchmark score of 70,074 places it within 0.3% of the AMD EPYC 9115 and 0.5% of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, while sitting 1.4% behind the Intel Xeon Platinum 8270. In Control, the CPU's capabilities are not the bottleneck: even at 1080p Low, where the GPU load is lightest, the system reaches 117.4 FPS. The frame rate differences between resolutions at the same settings follow a pattern consistent with GPU-bound performance, where the CPU has ample headroom to feed the graphics card without becoming a limiting factor.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured frame rates reveal a consistent performance hierarchy across resolutions and settings. At 1920x1080, the system delivers 117.4 FPS on Low settings, 83.9 FPS on Medium, 77.7 FPS on High, and 67.8 FPS on Ultra. The transition from Low to Medium incurs a 28.6% performance drop, while the step from Medium to High costs only 7.4%, and High to Ultra costs 12.7%.

At 2560x1440, the frame rates are 90.9 FPS on Low, 65.7 FPS on Medium, 57.6 FPS on High, and 48.9 FPS on Ultra. The resolution increase from 1080p to 1440p reduces performance by 22.6% on Low settings and 25.9% on High settings, indicating that the GPU's pixel throughput and memory bandwidth are increasingly challenged. The gap between Low and Ultra widens to 46.2% at this resolution, compared to 42.3% at 1080p.

At 3840x2160, the system manages 58.4 FPS on Low, 44.5 FPS on Medium, 40.0 FPS on High, and 33.5 FPS on Ultra. Moving from 1440p to 4K costs 35.8% performance on Low settings and 30.6% on High settings. The 4K Ultra result of 33.5 FPS falls below the 40 FPS threshold typically considered playable for action titles, while 4K High at 40 FPS sits right at that boundary.

The scaling across settings shows that Control's graphical options have a substantial impact on this GPU. At 1080p, the difference between Low and Ultra is 49.6 FPS, while at 4K the same comparison yields a 24.9 FPS difference. This indicates that the GPU's resource limits are reached more quickly at higher resolutions, where the absolute cost of each quality step becomes more pronounced.

FAQ

Q: How does this combo rank among all tested systems in Control?

A: This configuration ranks 1,105th out of 1,636 tested combinations, placing it in the lower-middle portion of the database.

Q: What is the best performance this system achieves at 1080p?

A: At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the system reaches 117.4 FPS average, while Ultra settings still deliver 67.8 FPS.

Q: Can this system maintain 60 FPS at 1440p?

A: At 2560x1440, Low settings achieve 90.9 FPS and Medium settings hit 65.7 FPS, but High settings drop to 57.6 FPS and Ultra falls to 48.9 FPS.

Q: How does the GPU compare to its nearest rivals?

A: The RTX 2060 SUPER scores 19,774 on average, trailing the GTX TITAN by 0.3%, the RTX 2070 by 0.5%, and leading the Quadro K5200 by 0.8% and the Tesla K40m by 1.3%.

Q: What is the 4K performance like?

A: At 3840x2160, the system delivers 58.4 FPS on Low, 44.5 FPS on Medium, 40.0 FPS on High, and 33.5 FPS on Ultra settings.

Q: Is the CPU a bottleneck in this configuration?

A: The i7-14700K ranks in the 96th percentile among CPUs, and the frame rate scaling across resolutions indicates the GPU is the limiting factor rather than the processor.