Counter-Strike 2

Counter-Strike 2’s performance with the AMD Ryzen 5 7400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 reveals a system that scales predictably with resolution, though the GPU’s dominance is most evident at 4K. At 1080p, the average frame rate for Low settings is 736 FPS, which drops to 505 FPS at 1440p and further to 282 FPS at 4K. This represents a 61.7% reduction from 1080p to 4K on Low settings. The scaling pattern shifts with higher presets: High settings produce 473 FPS at 1080p, 313 FPS at 1440p, and 175 FPS at 4K, a 63.0% drop. Ultra settings show the steepest relative decline, moving from 368 FPS at 1080p to 243 FPS at 1440p and finally 136 FPS at 4K, a 63.0% reduction. The consistency of these percentage drops—all hovering near 62-63%—suggests that the limiting component remains the GPU across all tested configurations. If the CPU were the bottleneck, the 1080p to 4K delta would be far smaller, as the processor would cap performance at lower resolutions. Instead, the RTX 5090 demonstrates its capability to push massive frame counts even at 4K, with the 4K Low result of 282 FPS highlighting that this combo is never CPU-bound in standard gameplay scenarios.

Resolution Scaling

The data indicates that Counter-Strike 2 places a heavy load on the graphics card, and the RTX 5090 handles this with ample headroom. The jump from 4K Medium (234 FPS) to 4K High (175 FPS) is a 25.2% performance cost, while moving from 4K High to 4K Ultra (136 FPS) costs another 22.3%. At 1440p, the same progression from Medium (420 FPS) to High (313 FPS) results in a 25.5% drop, and High to Ultra (243 FPS) is a 22.4% decrease. These consistent margins across resolutions indicate that the game’s settings scale uniformly, with Ultra being the most demanding preset that still delivers playable frame rates at 4K. The 4K Medium result includes a minimum FPS of 199 and a maximum of 270, showing a 35.7% variance between the lowest and highest frames. This variance is narrower than what the 1440p Medium (min 357, max 482) shows, where the range is 35.0%. Such stability is notable for a competitive shooter, where frame-time consistency matters more than raw averages.

How This Combo Ranks

In the broader context of tested combinations, this pairing of the Ryzen 5 7400F and RTX 5090 ranks 93rd out of 3,719 combos for Counter-Strike 2. This places it in the top 2.5% of all configurations benchmarked, which is an exceptional result for a game that is traditionally CPU-sensitive. The rank reflects the RTX 5090’s raw power, as the GPU sits in the 92nd percentile of all GPUs tested, with an average benchmark score of 79,842. Its nearest rivals in the GPU benchmark database include the NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB, which scores 79,605 (0.3% lower), and the Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB at 79,396 (0.6% lower). The AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT trails at 78,940 (1.1% lower), while the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X leads slightly at 80,959 (1.4% higher). For the CPU, the Ryzen 5 7400F sits in the 83rd percentile of all processors, with an average benchmark score of 32,750. Its closest rival, the Intel Core i5-14600T, achieves a nearly identical score of 32,707 (0.1% difference), while the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H is also close at 32,697 (0.2% higher). This near-tie in CPU scores suggests that the 7400F’s performance is well-matched within its class, but the overall combo rank is driven primarily by the GPU’s exceptional capabilities.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is the undisputed star of this configuration, featuring 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 1.79 TB/s. The GPU’s base clock runs at 2017 MHz, boosting to 2407 MHz, with memory clocked at 1750 MHz (28 Gbps effective). This memory configuration is critical for Counter-Strike 2 at 4K, where the high frame rates demand rapid texture streaming and asset loading. The GPU’s 21,760 shading units and 176 ROPs deliver a pixel rate of 423.6 GPixel/s, which directly supports the high pixel throughput required at 3840x2160. The 104.8 TFLOPS of FP32 compute power ensures that even the most complex shader effects in the Ultra preset do not create a bottleneck. In the benchmark data, the RTX 5090 achieves a Passmark G3D score of 39,650abb, with a DirectX 12 score of 185 and a DirectX 11 score of 341. These scores, while synthetic, corroborate the measured FPS results, showing that the GPU has far more headroom than the game demands, even at 4K Ultra. The GPU’s 92nd percentile ranking among all GPUs underscores its position as a top-tier component, though the nearest rival data shows that the Tesla P100 variants are within 0.6% of its average score, indicating that the 5090’s advantage is not insurmountable in all workloads.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers 736 FPS on Low settings, 634 FPS on Medium, 473 FPS on High, and 368 FPS on Ultra. The Medium preset shows a minimum of 539 FPS and a maximum of 729 FPS, giving a 190 FPS range. Moving to 2560x1440, the numbers are 505 FPS (Low), 420 FPS (Medium), 313 FPS (High), and 243 FPS (Ultra). The 1440p Medium result includes a min of 357 FPS and a max of 482 FPS, a 125 FPS spread. At 3840x2160, the performance is 282 FPS (Low), 234 FPS (Medium), 175 FPS (High), and 136 FPS (Ultra). The 4K Medium frame range is 199 to 270 FPS, a 71 FPS difference. These figures show that the RTX 5090 maintains playable frame rates even at 4K Ultra, which is remarkable for a competitive shooter. The progression from Low to Ultra at 1080p results in a 50.0% performance drop (736 to 368 FPS), while at 1440p the drop is 51.9% (505 to 243 FPS), and at 4K it is 51.8% (282 to 136 FPS). This consistency suggests that the game’s settings have a uniform impact across resolutions, with Ultra costing roughly half the performance of Low. The data also shows that the 4K Low result (282 FPS) is still higher than the 1440p Ultra result (243 FPS), which reflects the GPU’s ability to handle higher resolutions without a proportional performance penalty.

Settings Recommendations

Based on the measured rows, the optimal balance of visual fidelity and frame rate is achieved at 1440p High, which delivers 313 FPS. This is well above the typical 240 Hz refresh rate of high-end monitors, providing a smooth experience with substantial visual improvements over Low settings. For players with 4K displays, the Medium preset at 234 FPS is the recommended choice, as it keeps frame rates above 200 FPS while offering better visuals than Low. The 4K Medium result includes a minimum of 199 FPS, ensuring that dips stay above the 144 Hz threshold for most high-refresh 4K panels. At 1080p, the High preset at 473 FPS is the best pick for competitive play, as the extra frames over Medium (634 FPS) are unlikely to be perceptible on most monitors, but the visual upgrade is significant. The Ultra preset is not recommended for any resolution in competitive play, as it drops frame rates below 250 FPS at 1440p (243 FPS) and below 150 FPS at 4K (136 FPS), which could introduce input latency in a game where reaction time is paramount. The data shows that the Medium preset at 4K provides a 30.7% performance uplift over High (from 175 to 234 FPS), which is a more substantial gain than the visual difference between those presets justifies.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 7400F is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 4 architecture, with a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 4.70 GHz. It features 64 KB of L1 cache per core, 1 MB of L2 cache per core, and 32 MB of shared L3 cache, which is ample for Counter-Strike 2’s single-threaded physics and game logic. The CPU’s TDP is 65 W, and it supports DDR5 memory with a dual-channel bus, providing a bandwidth of 83.2 GB/s. In synthetic benchmarks, the 7400F scores 3,072 in Cinebench R23 single-core and 21,765 in multi-core, which places it in the 83rd percentile of all CPUs. Its Passmark single-thread score is 3,689, and multithread score is 25,645. These figures are modest compared to the GPU’s dominance, but the measured FPS data shows that the CPU is not a limiting factor in Counter-Strike 2. The fact that 1080p Low produces 736 FPS, which is nearly 3x the 4K Low result of 282 FPS, indicates that the GPU is still the primary driver of performance even at lower resolutions. If the CPU were the bottleneck, the 1080p results would plateau at a similar level to 1440p, but instead the scaling continues across all resolutions, confirming that the 7400F provides sufficient processing power to feed the RTX 5090. The CPU’s nearest rival, the Intel Core i5-14600T, scores within 0.1% of its average benchmark score, showing that this processor is competitive with its peers, but its role in this combo is secondary to the GPU’s brute force.