Evolve

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D and AMD Radeon RX 580 pairing presents a significant bottleneck scenario in Evolve, a 2015 FPS title. The combination ranks 1566th out of 1695 tested combos, placing it in the bottom 8% of the database. The CPU is a modern 8-core, 16-thread part with a 96 MB shared L3 cache, but the GPU is an older Polaris 20 chip with 8 GB of GDDR5 memory. Benchmark results indicate that the RX 580 becomes the limiting factor at nearly every resolution, with the gap between the processor's potential and the graphics card's delivery becoming most apparent at higher settings.

FAQ

*Q: How does this combo rank among all tested configurations in Evolve?*

A: The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D with the AMD Radeon RX 580 ranks 1566th out of 1695 total tested combos, placing it in the bottom 8% of all configurations. This low rank is driven almost entirely by the GPU's performance ceiling, as the CPU sits in the 83rd percentile of all processors tested.

Q: What is the best performance this combo can achieve at 1080p?

A: The highest average frame rate recorded is 83.4 FPS at 1920x1080 with Low settings. Dropping from Low to Medium reduces performance to 68.9 FPS, while High settings yield 51.6 FPS and Ultra settings fall to 35 FPS.

Q: How does the CPU compare to its nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The Ryzen 7 5800X3D has an average benchmark score of 26574, which is 0.1% ahead of the AMD EPYC 8024P and 0.1% ahead of the Intel Core i9-11900K. It trails the AMD Ryzen 5 7600 by 0.2% and the Intel Core i9-12900HK by 0.4%, indicating essentially identical synthetic performance across these four processors.

Q: Is the RX 580's performance competitive with other GPUs in its class?

A: The RX 580's average benchmark score is 13559, placing it in the 53rd percentile of all GPUs. It performs within 1.1% of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 and within 0.1% of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, while the AMD Radeon Pro 455 is 1.1% slower and the NVIDIA P106-090 is 1.1% faster.

Q: What happens to frame rates when moving from 1440p to 4K at High settings?

A: At 2560x1440 with High settings, the combo achieves 37.7 FPS. Moving to 3840x2160 at the same settings drops performance to 21 FPS, a reduction of approximately 44%. This steep decline indicates the GPU is heavily saturated at 4K.

Q: Does increasing settings from Low to Ultra have a consistent impact across resolutions?

A: No, the impact is not consistent. At 1080p, moving from Low to Ultra reduces frame rates from 83.4 FPS to 35 FPS, a 58% drop. At 1440p, the same setting change drops performance from 57.5 FPS to 22.5 FPS, a 61% reduction. At 4K, the drop is from 31.6 FPS to 15 FPS, a 53% decrease.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 580 is the dominant performance constraint in this pairing for Evolve. The GPU operates with a base clock of 1257 MHz and a boost clock of 1340 MHz, paired with 8 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus, yielding a memory bandwidth of 256.0 GB/s. The 2304 shading units and 32 ROPs provide a pixel rate of 42.88 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 193.0 GTexel/s, with FP32 compute rated at 6.175 TFLOPS.

The VRAM configuration is sufficient for the game's demands, but the raw compute throughput is not. The data shows that at 1080p Ultra, the combo only reaches 35 FPS, while at 1080p Low it reaches 83.4 FPS. This performance spread of 48.4 FPS between the lowest and highest settings demonstrates that the GPU's shading units and texture units are overwhelmed as graphical complexity increases. The GPU's 53rd percentile ranking among all GPUs confirms its mid-range status, and the benchmark results indicate that it cannot keep pace with the CPU's 8-core, 16-thread processing capability in this title.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals a GPU-bound configuration at all tested settings. At Low settings, performance drops from 83.4 FPS at 1920x1080 to 57.5 FPS at 2560x1440, then to 31.6 FPS at 3840x2160. The transition from 1440p to 4K represents a 45% performance loss, which is proportionally larger than the 31% loss seen when moving from 1080p to 1440p. This non-linear scaling indicates the GPU is approaching its memory bandwidth and pixel fill rate limits as resolution increases.

At High settings, the pattern is similar but more severe. The combo produces 51.6 FPS at 1080p, 37.7 FPS at 1440p, and 21 FPS at 4K. The 4K result is less than half of the 1080p figure, showing that the RX 580's 256.0 GB/s memory bandwidth and 42.88 GPixel/s pixel rate are insufficient for 4K rendering in this title. The data suggests that even at 1440p, the GPU is the clear limiting component. The CPU's high single-thread performance, evidenced by a 3dmark single-thread score of 884 and a cinebench R23 single-core score of 3397, is not the bottleneck here. The resolution scaling pattern points exclusively to the graphics card as the performance ceiling.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its most playable results. Low settings produce an average of 83.4 FPS, which is the highest frame rate recorded across all configurations. Medium settings achieve 68.9 FPS, while High settings drop to 51.6 FPS. Ultra settings at 1080p yield only 35 FPS, representing a 58% reduction from the Low setting result. The spread of 48.4 FPS between Low and Ultra at this resolution indicates that the GPU's 6.175 TFLOPS of FP32 compute is heavily taxed by the game's Ultra preset.

Moving to 2560x1440, the performance figures show a consistent decline across all settings. Low settings produce 57.5 FPS, which remains playable, but Medium drops to 46 FPS and High falls to 37.7 FPS. Ultra settings at 1440p yield just 22.5 FPS, which is below the threshold for smooth gameplay. The 1440p results show a 61% reduction from Low to Ultra, slightly steeper than the 1080p scaling, further confirming the GPU's role as the performance limiter.

At 3840x2160, the combo struggles across the board. Low settings produce 31.6 FPS, Medium drops to 25.1 FPS, and High falls to 21 FPS. Ultra settings at 4K yield only 15 FPS, which is the lowest recorded result in the dataset. The 4K results demonstrate that the RX 580's 8 GB VRAM and 256-bit memory bus are insufficient for this resolution in Evolve, with even the lowest settings failing to reach 60 FPS.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo rank of 1566 out of 1695 tested configurations places this pairing in the bottom 8% of the database. This low ranking is notable because the CPU component is far from the bottom of its own performance distribution. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D ranks in the 83rd percentile of all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 26574 that places it within 0.4% of the Intel Core i9-12900HK and within 0.2% of the AMD Ryzen 5 7600.

The GPU, by contrast, ranks in the 53rd percentile of all GPUs, with an average score of 13559. Its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 at a 0% delta and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 at a 0.1% delta, showing that the RX 580 is positioned at the edge of mid-range performance. The mismatch between the CPU's top-tier synthetic scores and the GPU's mid-range standing explains the poor overall combo rank. In Evolve, the measured frame rates align closely with the GPU's percentile ranking rather than the CPU's, confirming that the RX 580 anchors this configuration's position near the bottom of the database. The data indicates that this pairing is only suitable for 1080p gaming at Low to Medium settings, with any attempt at higher resolutions or quality presets resulting in sub-60 FPS performance.