Evolve

FAQ

Q: What is the highest average frame rate this combo achieves in Evolve?

A: The AMD Ryzen 7 7700X with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 reaches 365 FPS at 1920x1080 with Low settings. This is the top measured result across all resolution and settings combinations.

Q: How does the combo perform at 4K Ultra settings?

A: At 3840x2160 with Ultra settings, the average frame rate drops to 60 FPS. This is the lowest average recorded in the dataset, indicating a heavy GPU workload at maximum fidelity.

Q: What is the frame rate difference between 1080p and 4K at High settings?

A: At High settings, the average FPS falls from 225 at 1920x1080 to 151 at 2560x1440 and further to 86 at 3840x2160. The transition from 1080p to 4K reduces the average frame rate by 139 FPS, a 61.8% drop.

Q: Does the RTX 4090 hold a significant lead over its nearest rivals in general benchmarks?

A: The RTX 4090's average benchmark score is 60,347, while its closest rival, the Intel Arc Pro A60, scores 60,326 with a deltaPct of 0. The AMD Radeon Pro W6600M scores 61,896, which is 2.5% higher, while the AMD Radeon PRO V710 trails by 2.9%.

Q: Where does this combo rank among all tested combinations in Evolve?

A: The combo ranks 108th out of 3,700 tested combinations. This places it in the top 2.9% of all combos, indicating strong overall performance in this title.

Q: What is the difference in average FPS between Low and Ultra at 1440p?

A: At 2560x1440, Low settings yield an average of 248 FPS, while Ultra yields 105 FPS. The gap is 143 FPS, meaning Ultra delivers roughly 42.3% of the Low setting's frame rate.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is the dominant component in this pairing, and the measured data confirms this. The GPU features 24 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus, providing 1.01 TB/s of bandwidth. Its boost clock is rated at 2520 MHz, with a base clock of 2235 MHz. In Evolve, the GPU's role becomes clear when observing the frame rate scaling across resolutions at fixed settings.

At 1080p High, the combo achieves 225 FPS. Moving to 1440p High, the average drops to 151 FPS, a reduction of 74 FPS. At 4K High, the average falls further to 86 FPS. This pattern shows the GPU being progressively loaded as pixel count increases. The 4K result at High (86 FPS) is less than half of the 1080p High result, indicating that the RTX 4090's rasterization throughput is the limiting factor at higher resolutions.

The VRAM capacity of 24 GB is substantial for a game released in 2015, but the benchmark data does not suggest any memory-related bottlenecks. The frame rates at 4K, even at Ultra (60 FPS), are playable but not exceptionally high, which points to compute-bound performance rather than memory capacity constraints. The GDDR6X memory at 21 Gbps effective and 1.01 TB/s bandwidth ensures the GPU's 16,384 shading units and 512 TMUs are well-fed, yet the 4K Ultra result of 60 FPS suggests the AD102 chip is working near its limits under maximum settings.

The RTX 4090's general benchmark performance places it at the 88th percentile among all GPUs, with an average score of 60,347. Its nearest rival, the Intel Arc Pro A60, matches it at a 0% delta, while the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 is 0.3% behind. This context shows the RTX 4090 is not an outlier in synthetic tests, but in Evolve specifically, its real-world results are what matter. The GPU's 82.58 TFLOPS of FP32 compute and 1,290.2 GTexel/s texture rate are high, yet the game's engine appears to cap gains at 4K Ultra, where the average FPS sits at exactly 60.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals a clear and consistent scaling pattern as resolution increases. At Low settings, the average frame rates are 365 FPS at 1080p, 248 FPS at 1440p, and 141 FPS at 4K. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is 117 FPS (32.1% reduction), while from 1440p to 4K the drop is 107 FPS (43.1% reduction). This non-linear scaling indicates that the GPU becomes more of a bottleneck as pixel count grows.

At Medium settings, the averages are 287 FPS at 1080p, 193 FPS at 1440p, and 110 FPS at 4K. The resolution scaling here is similar: a 94 FPS drop from 1080p to 1440p, then an 83 FPS drop from 1440p to 4K. The Medium preset also provides min and max FPS data, showing at 1080p the range is 244-330 FPS, at 1440p it is 164-221 FPS, and at 4K it is 93-126 FPS. These ranges tighten as resolution increases, which is typical of GPU-bound scenarios.

High settings show the same trend: 225 FPS at 1080p, 151 FPS at 1440p, and 86 FPS at 4K. The percentage drops are 32.9% from 1080p to 1440p and 43.0% from 1440p to 4K. Ultra settings, however, exaggerate the scaling: 156 FPS at 1080p, 105 FPS at 1440p, and 60 FPS at 4K. The 4K Ultra result is exactly half of the 1080p Ultra result, suggesting a hard performance cap or a specific optimization threshold in the game engine at that configuration.

The limiting component is evidently the GPU. At 1080p, the CPU can feed the RTX 4090 enough frames to reach 365 FPS on Low, but at 4K, even Low settings only produce 141 FPS. This 224 FPS difference between 1080p and 4K at Low settings is almost entirely attributable to the GPU's pixel throughput. The CPU's role is more visible at lower resolutions, where frame rates exceed 300 FPS, but the data shows the RTX 4090 is the primary constraint for all resolutions above 1080p.

Settings Recommendations

Based on the measured rows, the optimal balance of frame rate and visual fidelity appears to be the High preset. At 1080p High, the average is 225 FPS, which is well above the 144 Hz refresh rate common on modern monitors. At 1440p High, the average is 151 FPS, still suitable for high-refresh displays. Even at 4K High, the average of 86 FPS is playable, though not ideal for 120 Hz panels.

The Medium preset offers a marginal FPS improvement over High: 287 FPS at 1080p, 193 FPS at 1440p, and 110 FPS at 4K. The gain from High to Medium is 62 FPS at 1080p, 42 FPS at 1440p, and 24 FPS at 4K. This suggests that Medium provides a meaningful boost for those targeting higher refresh rates, but the visual quality reduction may not be justified for most users. The Low preset delivers the highest frame rates (365 FPS at 1080p, 248 FPS at 1440p, 141 FPS at 4K) but sacrifices the most fidelity.

Ultra settings, by contrast, show a steep penalty. At 4K Ultra, the average FPS is exactly 60, which is a 30.2% reduction from High and a 45.5% reduction from Medium at the same resolution. At 1440p Ultra, the average is 105 FPS, which is still smooth but 46 FPS lower than High. At 1080p Ultra, the average is 156 FPS, which is 69 FPS lower than High. The incremental visual gains from High to Ultra are not reflected in the frame rate data, making Ultra the least efficient preset for this combo.

The recommendation is to use High settings for most scenarios. It delivers 225 FPS at 1080p, 151 FPS at 1440p, and 86 FPS at 4K, all of which are playable. For users with 120 Hz or 144 Hz monitors at 4K, the Medium preset (110 FPS) is a better choice than High, offering a 27.9% FPS increase. For those with 240 Hz displays at 1080p, Low (365 FPS) or Medium (287 FPS) would be necessary to fully utilize the refresh rate.

How This Combo Ranks

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 combination ranks 108th out of 3,700 tested combos in Evolve. This places it in the top 2.9% of all combinations, which is a strong result given the game's age and the hardware's modern specifications. The rank of 108 means there are 107 other combos that achieve higher average frame rates across the tested settings and resolutions.

The CPU alone holds the 85th percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 35,909. Its nearest rivals are the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5845 (35,802, 0.3% slower), the Intel Core 7 250H (35,728, 0.5% slower), and the AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350 (35,719, 0.5% slower). The GPU holds the 88th percentile among all GPUs, with an average score of 60,347. Its nearest rivals are the Intel Arc Pro A60 (60,326, 0% delta), the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 (60,140, 0.3% slower), and the AMD Radeon PRO V710 (58,657, 2.9% slower).

The combo's rank of 108 out of 3,700 is better than what the individual percentiles might suggest. The CPU's 85th percentile and GPU's 88th percentile would naively indicate a rank around the 85-88th percentile, but the actual rank of 108 out of 3,700 corresponds to the 97.1st percentile. This discrepancy indicates that the combination of these two specific components is particularly well-suited for Evolve, likely due to the CPU's high single-thread performance (3dmark single-thread score of 1,090) and the GPU's raw throughput.

The data shows that only 107 combos outperform this pairing, which is a small fraction of the 3,700 tested. This suggests that for Evolve, the Ryzen 7 7700X and RTX 4090 combination is near the top of the performance hierarchy, and users with this setup should expect excellent results across all settings and resolutions.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its highest frame rates. With Low settings, the average is 365 FPS. At Medium settings, the average is 287 FPS, with a measured range of 244-330 FPS. High settings produce 225 FPS on average, while Ultra settings yield 156 FPS. The progression from Low to Ultra shows a 209 FPS drop, meaning Ultra delivers only 42.7% of the Low setting's frame rate.

At 2560x1440, the averages are 248 FPS (Low), 193 FPS (Medium, range 164-221 FPS), 151 FPS (High), and 105 FPS (Ultra). The drop from Low to Ultra is 143 FPS, a 57.7% reduction. The Medium range at 1440p shows a 57 FPS spread between minimum and maximum, which is tighter than the 86 FPS spread at 1080p Medium.

At 3840x2160, the averages are 141 FPS (Low), 110 FPS (Medium, range 93-126 FPS), 86 FPS (High), and 60 FPS (Ultra). The Medium range at 4K is 33 FPS, which is the narrowest of all resolutions, indicating a more consistent frame delivery at higher pixel counts. The drop from Low to Ultra at 4K is 81 FPS, meaning Ultra delivers 42.6% of the Low setting's frame rate, which is nearly identical to the 1080p ratio.

Across all resolutions, the Medium preset is the only one with full min/max data. At 1080p, the range is 244-330 FPS, at 1440p it is 164-221 FPS, and at 4K it is 93-126 FPS. The spread narrows from 86 FPS at 1080p to 57 FPS at 1440p to 33 FPS at 4K, demonstrating that higher resolutions lead to more stable frame times, likely due to the GPU being consistently maxed out.

The highest average FPS in the entire dataset is 365 at 1080p Low. The lowest average is 60 at 4K Ultra. The largest single resolution jump is from 1080p Low to 1440p Low, which drops 117 FPS. The smallest drop is from 1440p High to 4K High, which falls 65 FPS.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700X provides the processing foundation for this combo. It has 8 cores and 16 threads, with a base clock of 4.50 GHz and a boost clock of 5.40 GHz. The CPU is built on the Zen 4 architecture (codenamed Raphael) using a 5 nm process from TSMC, with 6,570 million transistors on a 71 mm² die. It supports DDR5 memory in a dual-channel configuration with 83.2 GB/s of bandwidth.

In Evolve, the CPU's role is most apparent at lower resolutions and settings where frame rates exceed 200 FPS. At 1080p Low, the combo reaches 365 FPS, which suggests the CPU can sustain very high draw call rates. The CPU's single-thread performance is strong, with a 3dmark single-thread score of 1,090 and a Cinebench R15 single-core score of 315. Its multi-threaded capabilities are also substantial, with a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 19,088 and a Geekbench multi-core score of 12,451.

The CPU's 85th percentile ranking among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 35,909, places it in the upper echelon. Its nearest rival, the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5845, is only 0.3% behind in average score, indicating that the 7700X is closely matched with other high-end processors from similar generations.

In the context of Evolve, the CPU does not appear to be the limiting factor at any resolution above 1080p. At 4K, the frame rates are dictated by the GPU, as evidenced by the tight scaling across settings (141 FPS on Low to 60 FPS on Ultra). At 1080p, the CPU's influence is more visible: the jump from Low (365 FPS) to Medium (287 FPS) is 78 FPS, which is a larger absolute drop than the 31 FPS drop from Medium to High at the same resolution. This suggests that at 1080p Low, the CPU is near its limit, but at higher settings, the GPU workload increases enough to shift the bottleneck.

The CPU's 32 MB of shared L3 cache and 1 MB L2 per core provide ample memory locality for game logic, and the 5.40 GHz boost clock ensures high instruction throughput. The 16 threads allow for efficient handling of background tasks, but the game's engine, released in 2015, likely does not utilize all cores fully, favoring the CPU's strong single-thread performance instead. The measured data confirms that the Ryzen 7 7700X is more than sufficient to drive the RTX 4090 in Evolve, with the GPU being the primary constraint for most settings and resolutions.