Evolve

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G paired with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti delivers a consistently smooth experience in Evolve, but the optimal settings depend heavily on the target resolution. Benchmark results across the measured presets show a clear hierarchy. At 1080p, the Low preset produces an average of 183.5 FPS, which is exceptionally high, while Medium drops to 142.5 FPS and High to 109.2 FPS. For competitive play on standard monitors, the High preset at 1080p offers the best balance, providing 109.2 FPS—well above the 60 FPS threshold—while retaining superior visual fidelity over the lower presets. The Ultra preset at 1080p still achieves a playable 75.2 FPS, but the jump from High to Ultra costs 34 FPS, a significant reduction that may not justify the visual gain. At 1440p, the High preset remains the sweet spot with 76.8 FPS, comfortably playable, whereas Ultra drops to 51.5 FPS, which is borderline for fast-paced action. At 4K, only the Low preset (66.7 FPS) provides a truly fluid experience; Medium (53.9 FPS) is marginal, and High (43.1 FPS) and Ultra (26.4 FPS) fall below acceptable thresholds for a shooter. Therefore, the data recommends High settings for 1080p and 1440p, and Low settings for 4K.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G is an 8-core, 16-thread processor built on the Zen 3 architecture (Cezanne codename) using a 7 nm process from TSMC. Its base clock is 3.80 GHz with a boost clock of 4.60 GHz, and it carries a 65 W TDP. The processor’s cache hierarchy includes 64 KB of L1 per core, 512 KB of L2 per core, and a 16 MB L3 cache. In synthetic benchmarks, the CPU demonstrates strong multi-threaded performance, scoring 20,755 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 8,717 in Cinebench R20 multi-core. Single-thread performance is also respectable, with a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2,930 and a Geekbench single-core score of 2,016. The CPU’s percentile ranking versus all CPUs is 83, indicating it outperforms the vast majority of tested processors. Its average benchmark score of 25,626 places it in close competition with the AMD Ryzen 7 6800U (25,706, a -0.3% delta), the Intel Xeon D-2752TER (25,532, +0.4%), and the Intel Core 5 210H (25,490, +0.5%). For Evolve, an FPS title from 2015, the CPU’s 8 cores and 16 threads are more than sufficient to handle game logic and physics, ensuring that frame rates are not bottlenecked by processor throughput. The high boost clock of 4.60 GHz also aids in maintaining responsive frame pacing, particularly in scenes with numerous AI-controlled monsters. Given that the measured FPS scales significantly with resolution and graphics settings, the CPU provides ample headroom, allowing the GPU to become the primary performance determinant in most scenarios.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is a Pascal architecture GPU (chip GP102) manufactured on a 16 nm process. It features 11 GB of GDDR5X memory on a 352-bit bus, delivering a memory bandwidth of 484.4 GB/s. The GPU’s base clock is 1481 MHz with a boost clock of 1582 MHz, and it houses 3,584 shading units, 224 texture mapping units, and 88 raster operation units. Its compute capabilities include 11.34 TFLOPS of FP32 performance and a pixel rate of 139.2 GPixel/s. The GPU’s percentile ranking versus all GPUs is 61, with an average benchmark score of 19,402. Its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 (19,405, 0% delta), the AMD Radeon Pro 560X (19,426, -0.1%), and the NVIDIA TITAN Xp (19,184, +1.1%). In Evolve, the GPU’s role is pivotal, as demonstrated by the FPS scaling across settings. At 1080p, the Low preset yields 183.5 FPS, but this drops to 75.2 FPS at Ultra, a reduction of 108.3 FPS that reflects the increasing pixel and shader workload. The 11 GB VRAM is ample for this title, even at 4K Ultra, where the GPU’s compute limits—not memory capacity—constrain performance to 26.4 FPS. The GTX 1080 Ti’s high texture fill rate (354.4 GTexel/s) and pixel rate allow it to handle high-resolution textures without stutter, but the data indicates that its raw rasterization power is the limiting factor at higher settings. For a game released in 2015, the GTX 1080 Ti provides exceptional throughput, though the 4K Ultra preset clearly exceeds its comfortable operating range.

How This Combo Ranks

In the database of tested combinations for Evolve, this specific pairing of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ranks 1014 out of 1695 total combos. This places it in the lower-middle portion of the ranking distribution, which is somewhat surprising given the individual components’ strong benchmark scores. The CPU’s high percentile (83) and the GPU’s respectable percentile (61) suggest that the combination should perform better, but the ranking indicates that other pairings in the database achieve higher average FPS in this specific title. The combo’s rank is influenced by the fact that Evolve, being an older FPS, may not fully utilize the CPU’s 8-core advantage, while the GPU’s architecture, while powerful, is not the latest generation. The data shows that the combo excels at lower resolutions, where the CPU’s high single-thread performance (Geekbench single-core score of 2,016) helps push frame rates above 180 FPS at 1080p Low. However, at 4K Ultra, the combo’s performance drops to 26.4 FPS, which is below the 60 FPS standard, dragging down its overall ranking relative to combos with more modern GPUs that handle high-resolution workloads better. The rank of 1014 out of 1695 suggests that while this combo is capable, it is not top-tier for Evolve, particularly when pushed to extreme settings. Users seeking higher rankings would need to prioritize a stronger GPU, as the CPU is clearly not the bottleneck in this pairing.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data across resolutions reveals a clear trend: performance degrades significantly as resolution increases, indicating that the GPU is the primary limiting component in this combo. At 1080p High, the average FPS is 109.2, which drops to 76.8 at 1440p High (a decrease of 32.4 FPS or 29.7%), and further to 43.1 at 4K High (a decrease of 66.1 FPS or 60.5% from 1080p). This scaling pattern is consistent with GPU-bound behavior, where the number of pixels rendered quadruples from 1080p to 4K, placing a proportional load on the GPU’s pixel and texture units. The same trend is visible across all presets. For the Low preset, 1080p yields 183.5 FPS, 1440p yields 122.1 FPS, and 4K yields 66.7 FPS. The drop from 1080p to 4K Low is 116.8 FPS (63.7%), which is slightly less severe than the High preset’s drop, suggesting that at Low settings, the CPU begins to play a more significant role in maintaining frame rates, as the GPU is less saturated. Conversely, at Ultra settings, the drop is more dramatic: 1080p Ultra produces 75.2 FPS, 1440p Ultra produces 51.5 FPS, and 4K Ultra produces 26.4 FPS. The 4K Ultra result is only 35.1% of the 1080p Ultra result, highlighting the GPU’s inability to handle the combined load of high detail and 4K resolution. This data strongly indicates that for this combo, the GTX 1080 Ti is the limiting factor at higher resolutions, while the Ryzen 7 5700G provides sufficient headroom to avoid CPU bottlenecks even at 1080p Low, where the GPU is pushed to its maximum output. The scaling also shows that users should not expect playable frame rates at 4K Ultra, and should instead opt for lower settings or lower resolutions to maintain a smooth experience.