Evolve

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600G paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti delivers a deeply capable Evolve experience, with the measured data showing that the Ultra preset is the only setting tier that strains the combination at higher resolutions. The sweet spot across the board is the High preset, which provides a strong balance of visual fidelity and frame rate headroom. At 1920x1080, High delivers 186.4 FPS, while Medium reaches 238.4 FPS and Low pushes to 275.7 FPS. The Ultra preset at 1080p still produces a highly playable 131 FPS, but the drop to 89.6 FPS at 2560x1440 and 47 FPS at 3840x2160 indicates that Ultra is reserved for lower resolution monitors or users prioritizing image quality over refresh rate. For most users, the High preset at 1440p—yielding 123.1 FPS—offers the best experience, as it clears the 120 FPS threshold while maintaining substantial graphical detail. At 4K, High drops to 71 FPS, which is playable but not ideal for fast-paced FPS action; Medium at 93.4 FPS is a more sensible 4K option, while Low at 115.7 FPS provides the highest smoothness at that resolution.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the database of tested combinations, this specific CPU-GPU pairing ranks 267th out of 1695 combos for Evolve, placing it in the top 15.7% of all tested systems. This is a strong result, though the ranking suggests that while the RTX 4070 Ti is a high-end card, the Ryzen 5 5600G is a mid-range processor that keeps the combo from reaching the absolute top tier. The CPU's own percentile ranking of 78 means it outperforms 78% of all tested processors, while the GPU's percentile of 85 shows it outperforms 85% of all tested graphics cards. The delta between these two components—7 percentage points—indicates that the GPU is the more capable half of the pairing, a fact that becomes evident in the resolution scaling analysis. In synthetic benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600G scores 19,983 on average, sitting within 0.3% of the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX (19,928) and within 0.2% of the Intel Core i7-11600H (19,949). The RTX 4070 Ti posts an average benchmark score of 44,900, which is 1.6% ahead of the AMD Radeon Pro 580 (44,195) and 0.6% behind the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile (45,152). These proximity scores confirm that the combo is well-matched in overall capability, but the CPU's lower relative standing compared to the GPU is the primary limiter in demanding scenarios.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti brings 12 GB of GDDR6X memory across a 192-bit bus, yielding a memory bandwidth of 504.2 GB/s. This memory configuration is ample for Evolve, a game released in February 2015, as the title's texture and geometry demands are well within what this card can handle. The GPU's clock speeds—a base of 2310 MHz and a boost of 2610 MHz—provide substantial compute throughput, with the card achieving a pixel rate of 208.8 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 626.4 GTexel/s. The FP32 performance of 40.09 TFLOPS is significant, and the Ada Lovelace architecture's 60 RT cores and 240 Tensor cores ensure headroom for any modern rendering features, though Evolve itself predates widespread ray tracing adoption. The GPU's PassMark G3D score of 31,624 and DirectX 12 score of 116 indicate strong raw performance, while the 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 5,024 confirms its capability in modern workloads. The card's 85th percentile ranking among all GPUs means it sits comfortably in the upper echelon, and in Evolve, the data shows that the GPU is not the bottleneck at 1080p—the CPU becomes the limiting factor as frame rates exceed 200 FPS.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data reveals a consistent pattern across all resolutions. At 1920x1080, the Low preset produces 275.7 FPS, Medium yields 238.4 FPS, High delivers 186.4 FPS, and Ultra drops to 131 FPS. The scaling from Low to Ultra is a 52.5% reduction, showing that the Ultra preset's additional effects cost a significant portion of performance. At 2560x1440, the same settings produce 206.9, 159.5, 123.1, and 89.6 FPS respectively. The 1440p results are roughly 25% lower than their 1080p counterparts across the board, which is a typical resolution scaling factor. At 3840x2160, the numbers fall to 115.7 FPS on Low, 93.4 FPS on Medium, 71 FPS on High, and 47 FPS on Ultra. The 4K Ultra result of 47 FPS is the only measurement that falls below the 60 FPS playability threshold, and it represents a 64.1% drop from the 1080p Ultra score of 131 FPS. The High preset at 4K, at 71 FPS, is marginally above the 60 FPS target, while Medium at 93.4 FPS offers a more comfortable margin. The data shows that the Low preset at 4K, at 115.7 FPS, is still highly responsive, indicating that the game's rendering engine scales well with resolution when not constrained by high-quality effects.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K is instructive for understanding the limiting component. Moving from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 on the High preset reduces FPS from 186.4 to 123.1, a 34% decrease. Moving from 1440p to 4K on the same preset reduces FPS from 123.1 to 71, a 42.3% decrease. The compounding effect from 1080p to 4K on High is a 61.9% reduction. On the Low preset, the scaling is steeper: 275.7 FPS at 1080p, 206.9 at 1440p (a 25% drop), and 115.7 at 4K (a 44.1% drop from 1440p). The Low preset's 4K result being only 42% of the 1080p score suggests that at lower settings, the CPU is more frequently the bottleneck—the GPU has less work to do, so the Ryzen 5 5600G's limits become apparent. Conversely, on the Ultra preset, the scaling is more severe: 131 FPS at 1080p, 89.6 at 1440p (a 31.6% drop), and 47 at 4K (a 47.5% drop from 1440p). The Ultra preset's steeper decline indicates that the GPU is being fully utilized, and the 12 GB VRAM and 504.2 GB/s bandwidth are sufficient to feed the rendering pipeline without hitting memory limits. The data shows that the RTX 4070 Ti is the primary driver of performance at higher resolutions and settings, while the Ryzen 5 5600G becomes the limiting factor at 1080p with lower presets, where its 6 cores and 12 threads at a boost clock of 4.40 GHz struggle to keep up with the GPU's output. The CPU's 3DMark single-thread score of 872 and multithread score of 5,455 are respectable, but the 78th percentile ranking places it below the GPU's 85th percentile, confirming that the processor is the weaker link in this pairing. For users targeting the highest refresh rates at 1080p, the CPU will cap performance around 275 FPS on Low, but for 1440p and 4K gameplay, the GPU's capabilities are more fully expressed, with the combo delivering 89.6 FPS at 1440p Ultra and 93.4 FPS at 4K Medium—both solid results for a game of Evolve's era.