Evolve

FAQ

Q: What is the combo rank of the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 in Evolve?

A: This combination ranks 3584 out of 3700 tested combos in Evolve, placing it in the bottom 6% of all tested configurations.

Q: What is the best average FPS this combo achieves at 1080p?

A: The highest average frame rate recorded is 77 FPS, achieved at 1920x1080 with Low settings. The same resolution yields 59 FPS on Medium and 47 FPS on High.

Q: How does the GTX 1650 compare to its nearest rival, the Intel Arc A310?

A: The GTX 1650 has an average benchmark score of 7472, which is 1% lower than the Intel Arc A310's score of 7550. Conversely, it outperforms the AMD Radeon HD 8850M by 0.3% (7447) and the Intel UHD Graphics 750 by 0.4% (7441).

Q: What is the CPU's multi-threaded performance relative to its closest competitor?

A: The Ryzen 7 9700X scores 37943 on average, which is 0.1% higher than the Intel Core i9-14901E (37911) and 0.1% higher than the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (37904). It leads the Intel Core 5 211E by 0.3% (37829).

Q: Does the GTX 1650 support modern graphics APIs?

A: Yes, the GPU supports DirectX 12 (12_1), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. However, its DirectX 12 benchmark score is only 35, compared to 58 for DirectX 11 and 124 for DirectX 9.

Q: What is the minimum FPS recorded across all tested configurations?

A: The lowest minimum FPS is 19, observed at 3840x2160 with Medium settings. The only other reported minimum is 50 FPS at 1920x1080 Medium, and 34 FPS at 2560x1440 Medium.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 is built on the Turing architecture (TU117 chip) using a 12 nm process at TSMC. It has 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 128.1 GB/s. The memory clock runs at 2001 MHz (8 Gbps effective), while the GPU core operates at a base clock of 1485 MHz and boosts to 1665 MHz. With 896 shading units, 56 TMUs, and 32 ROPs, the card delivers a pixel rate of 53.28 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 93.24 GTexel/s. Its FP32 performance is 2.984 TFLOPS.

In Evolve, this GPU’s limitations become apparent quickly. At 1080p Low, the combo achieves 77 FPS, but dropping to Medium reduces that to 59 FPS, and High yields 47 FPS. The jump to Ultra cuts performance nearly in half again, down to 32 FPS. This pattern suggests that the GTX 1650’s 4 GB VRAM and 128-bit memory interface are significant constraints, particularly as texture and shading complexity increase with higher presets.

The GPU’s overall percentile ranking is 40th among all GPUs, and its average benchmark score is 7472. In 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, it scores 305, while PassMark G3D gives it 7880. Interestingly, its DirectX 9 score (124) is more than three times its DirectX 12 score (35), indicating weak DX12 path performance, which matters for a 2015 title like Evolve that was built around DX11-era rendering. The Vulkan score of 33042 and OpenCL score of 29629 show compute capability, but these don't translate to gaming headroom.

The GTX 1650's nearest rivals in the database—the AMD Radeon HD 8850M (7447), Intel UHD Graphics 750 (7441), and AMD Radeon R7 350 (7425)—all sit within 0.6% of its score. This places the card in a performance tier where 1080p Low-to-Medium settings are the realistic ceiling for maintaining playable frame rates in Evolve.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X is a Zen 5 (Granite Ridge) processor built on TSMC's 4 nm node, featuring 8 cores and 16 threads. It has a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 5.50 GHz, with a TDP of 65 W. The cache hierarchy includes 80 KB of L1 per core, 1 MB of L2 per core, and 32 MB of shared L3. Memory support is DDR5 over a dual-channel bus, providing 89.6 GB/s of bandwidth. The CPU sits on the AMD Socket AM5 platform with PCIe Gen 5 (24 lanes).

In synthetic benchmarks, the 9700X shows strong scaling from 2 threads (2525 in 3DMark) to 16 threads (9824). Cinebench R23 scores are 20485 multi-core and 2211 single-core. Geekbench reports 17906 multi-core and 3023 single-core. PassMark multi-thread score is 37161, with a single-thread score of 4654. The CPU's percentile rank is 86th among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 37943.

For Evolve, the CPU's 8-core/16-thread configuration is far more capable than what the GPU can feed it. The game's engine, released in 2015, was designed for quad-core CPUs of that era. At 1080p Low, the GPU produces 77 FPS, but the CPU could likely push much higher if the GPU weren't the bottleneck. Evidence of this imbalance appears in the scaling pattern: from 1080p to 1440p, FPS drops by 34% on Low (77 to 51), and from 1440p to 4K, it drops another 43% (51 to 29). This steep resolution-based degradation is characteristic of a GPU-bound scenario.

The nearest CPU rivals—Intel Core i9-14901E (37911), AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (37904), Intel Core 5 211E (37829), and AMD Ryzen AI Embedded P132 (37804)—all score within 0.4% of the 9700X. This means swapping the CPU for any of these would produce virtually identical frame rates in Evolve, since the GPU remains the limiting factor in every measured configuration.

How This Combo Ranks

The Ryzen 7 9700X + GTX 1650 combination ranks 3584 out of 3700 tested combos in Evolve, which places it in the 3rd percentile of all configurations. This low ranking is driven entirely by the GPU, not the CPU. The 9700X's 86th percentile CPU ranking contrasts sharply with the GTX 1650's 40th percentile GPU ranking.

The combo's position is consistent with the measured FPS data: it cannot achieve 60 FPS at 1080p on Medium (59 FPS), let alone on High (47 FPS) or Ultra (32 FPS). At 1440p, even Low settings drop to 51 FPS, and at 4K, the best case is 29 FPS on Low. These numbers place the system firmly in the lower tier of tested combinations.

What makes this ranking notable is the mismatch between components. The 9700X would be perfectly capable of driving a much more powerful GPU in this game. In the database's nearest rival comparisons, the CPU sits within 0.1-0.4% of top-tier alternatives, while the GPU sits within 0.3-1% of low-end integrated graphics like the Intel UHD Graphics 750. This pairing represents a CPU that is roughly 46 percentile points stronger than its GPU counterpart, creating a system where the graphics card determines the entire gaming experience.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its best performance. Low settings produce an average of 77 FPS, which is the only configuration reaching the 60+ FPS threshold. Medium follows at 59 FPS with a minimum of 50 and maximum of 68. High drops to 47 FPS, and Ultra falls to 32 FPS. The step from Low to Medium is a 23% reduction, while Medium to High is another 20% cut, and High to Ultra is a 32% drop.

Moving to 2560x1440, the pattern holds but with compressed numbers. Low settings average 51 FPS, Medium averages 40 FPS (min 34, max 46), High averages 31 FPS, and Ultra averages 22 FPS. The resolution penalty from 1080p to 1440p is approximately 34% across all settings, indicating that pixel fill rate and memory bandwidth are being taxed heavily.

At 3840x2160, performance becomes marginal. Low settings yield 29 FPS, Medium drops to 23 FPS (min 19, max 26), High falls to 18 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 12 FPS. None of these are playable for a fast-paced FPS. The 4K Low result is 62% lower than 1080p Low, and 4K Ultra is 63% lower than 1080p Ultra, showing consistent resolution scaling penalties.

The only settings with reported minimum and maximum FPS are Medium at all three resolutions. This suggests that Low, High, and Ultra configurations produced too much variance or too few samples for reliable min/max reporting, which is itself an indicator of unstable frame pacing at those extremes.

Settings Recommendations

Based on the measured data, the optimal experience for this combo is 1080p with Medium settings. This configuration delivers an average of 59 FPS with a minimum of 50 and maximum of 68, keeping frame times within a playable range. The alternative—1080p Low at 77 FPS—offers higher frame rates but sacrifices visual quality. For a competitive FPS, the jump from Medium to Low (18 FPS gain) may be worth the visual downgrade, but the Medium preset provides a better balance for most players.

At 1440p, the best option is Low at 51 FPS, which is marginally playable but below the 60 FPS target. Medium at 1440p averages 40 FPS with a minimum of 34, which will feel stuttery in action sequences. High and Ultra at 1440p (31 and 22 FPS) are not recommended for gameplay.

4K is not viable on this system. Even Low settings only manage 29 FPS, and Medium falls to 23 FPS. All 4K presets should be avoided unless the user is willing to tolerate sub-30 FPS gameplay.

The data suggests that Ultra settings are universally poor on this combo, regardless of resolution. The 32 FPS at 1080p Ultra versus 59 FPS at 1080p Medium represents a 46% performance penalty for settings that on a 2015 title would offer marginal visual improvements. The GTX 1650's 4 GB VRAM likely causes texture thrashing at Ultra, explaining the steep drop-off.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS degradation from 1080p to 4K reveals a GPU-bound system. At Low settings, frame rates drop from 77 to 51 to 29 as resolution increases from 1080p to 1440p to 4K. This represents a 34% penalty from 1080p to 1440p and a 43% penalty from 1440p to 4K. The pattern is similar at Medium (59 to 40 to 23, a 32% and 43% drop), High (47 to 31 to 18, a 34% and 42% drop), and Ultra (32 to 22 to 12, a 31% and 45% drop).

These consistent percentage drops across all settings indicate that the GPU's pixel processing and memory bandwidth are the limiting factors. The GTX 1650's 128.1 GB/s bandwidth and 128-bit bus are simply insufficient to feed a 4K framebuffer, particularly with 4 GB of VRAM that can be exhausted by high-resolution textures.

The CPU's role in this scaling is negligible. If the Ryzen 7 9700X were the bottleneck, we would expect frame rates to remain relatively flat across resolutions, since CPU load doesn't change with resolution. Instead, the near-linear FPS decline with pixel count confirms that the GTX 1650 is saturated at every resolution tested. This also explains why the combo ranks so low: the 9700X's headroom is wasted behind a GPU that cannot push even 30 FPS at 4K Low in a 2015 title.

For users of this combo, the resolution scaling data makes one thing clear: the system is designed for 1080p gaming, and even there, Medium settings are the realistic ceiling for consistent performance. Any resolution above 1080p requires dropping to Low settings to approach playability, and 4K is entirely out of reach.