Fivem

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER in Fivem presents a stark study in bottleneck dynamics. The benchmark data shows a system where the CPU's immense processing power is repeatedly constrained by the GPU's age, particularly as resolution and graphical fidelity increase. This pairing occupies the 1089th position out of 1792 tested combos, placing it in the lower-middle tier of the database, a ranking that reflects the significant performance ceiling imposed by the graphics card.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals a pronounced and predictable decline as resolution scales from 1080p to 4K. At 1080p with High settings, the combo achieves an average of 111.6 FPS, which drops to 69.7 FPS at 1440p and further to a playable but less fluid 40.1 FPS at 4K. This represents a 64% reduction in frame rate from 1080p to 4K. The pattern is consistent across all quality presets, though the absolute drop is most severe at the highest settings.

The scaling behavior indicates that the RTX 2070 SUPER becomes the limiting factor well before 4K. At 1080p Low, the system produces 173.3 FPS, but this falls to 117.8 FPS at 1440p and 63.7 FPS at 4K. The fact that the 4K Low result is still higher than the 1080p Ultra result (63.7 vs 86.2 FPS) suggests that while the GPU is struggling, the CPU has ample headroom to feed it frames even at lower resolutions. The gap between Low and Ultra settings at each resolution is significant, with Ultra being roughly 50% slower than Low at every resolution tested. This indicates that the game's graphical settings impose a heavy load on the GPU's shading and rasterization capabilities, which are the RTX 2070 SUPER's primary bottleneck.

The data strongly suggests that 1080p is the intended operating range for this combination, as it is the only resolution where the system consistently delivers frame rates above 100 FPS across most settings. At 1440p, the combo manages a respectable 89 FPS on Medium, but the drop to 57.4 FPS on Ultra makes high-refresh-rate gameplay challenging. At 4K, even Low settings cannot maintain 60 FPS, confirming that this pairing is not suitable for 4K gaming in Fivem.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER is a Turing-architecture card built on a 12 nm process, featuring 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s. Its base clock is 1605 MHz with a boost clock of 1770 MHz. These specifications define its performance envelope, and the benchmark results show it operating at the edge of that envelope in Fivem.

The 8 GB VRAM capacity is a critical factor. While Fivem is not typically a VRAM-intensive title, the Ultra preset at 4K pushes the card to its limit, resulting in an average of just 28.8 FPS. This suggests that the combination of high-resolution textures and complex draw distances in multiplayer environments can stress the memory subsystem. The card's memory clock runs at 1750 MHz, which translates to 14 Gbps effective, and this bandwidth provision is adequate for the game's data streaming demands, but not for the sheer pixel throughput required at 4K.

The GPU's overall benchmark percentile is 65, placing it above the median but below the high-end tier. Its average benchmark score of 22206 is only 0.9% higher than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z and 2.5% higher than the AMD Radeon RX 5700, indicating it sits in a tightly contested performance bracket. The card's compute capabilities, reflected in its 9.062 TFLOPS FP32 performance, are not the primary constraint in Fivem; rather, the fixed-function rasterization and pixel fill rate, which are tied to its 64 ROPs and 113.3 GPixel/s pixel rate, are what limit performance at higher resolutions. In this game, the GPU is clearly the component that determines the upper bounds of frame rate, as evidenced by the steep drop from 117.8 FPS at 1440p Low to 40.1 FPS at 4K High.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is a 16-core, 32-thread processor based on the Zen 5 architecture, codenamed Granite Ridge, and manufactured on a 4 nm process. Its base clock is 4.30 GHz with a boost clock of 5.70 GHz. The CPU's vast L3 cache of 128 MB shared is a defining feature, designed to reduce memory latency and improve gaming performance. In Fivem, which involves complex multiplayer interactions and physics simulations, this cache advantage is likely significant.

The CPU's benchmark results are exceptional, with a 96th percentile rank among all CPUs and an average benchmark score of 71660. It is 1.8% ahead of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and 2.2% ahead of the Intel Core i7-14700KF in average scores. The multi-threaded performance is staggering, as seen in the Cinebench R23 multicore score of 59712 and the Passmark multithread score of 70255. However, Fivem's engine does not appear to scale perfectly with this level of core count, as the game's primary thread workload is more dependent on single-core speed.

The single-thread performance is also strong, with a Geekbench single-core score of 3401 and a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 8430. This ensures that the CPU can process the game's main game logic and render commands quickly. The data shows that the CPU is never the bottleneck in this configuration. Even at 1080p Low, where the GPU is least stressed, the system achieves 173.3 FPS, and the CPU's 3DMark single-thread score of 1292 indicates it has ample capability to drive higher frame rates if the GPU could keep up. The CPU's 170 W TDP and dual-chiplet design with a 128 MB L3 cache are characteristics that make it a top-tier gaming processor, but in this pairing, its potential is largely unrealized due to the GPU's limitations.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo holds a rank of 1089 out of 1792 tested combinations, placing it in the 60th percentile of all systems in the database. This ranking is a direct consequence of the GPU's age relative to the CPU's newness. The RTX 2070 SUPER, being an end-of-life product from 2019, drags down the overall system performance despite the CPU's modern architecture.

The GPU's nearest rivals illustrate its position in the market. It is 0.9% faster than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z, but 2.3% slower than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile and 0.5% slower than the NVIDIA RTX A400. These tight margins show that the RTX 2070 SUPER is not an outlier in its performance class; it is simply an older mid-range card that has been surpassed by newer generations. The CPU's nearest rivals, on the other hand, are all high-end workstation or desktop processors, with the Intel Xeon Platinum 8270 being 0.9% faster and the Intel Xeon 6517P being 1.9% faster. This contrast underscores the mismatch: the CPU is competing with enterprise-grade silicon, while the GPU is competing with cards from several generations ago.

The rank of 1089 suggests that there are 703 tested combos that perform worse, but a vast majority of modern systems with newer mid-range GPUs would likely outperform this pairing. The data implies that the system's overall gaming capability is heavily weighted by the GPU's performance, and in this case, the GPU's 65th percentile ranking is a more accurate predictor of the combo's real-world Fivem performance than the CPU's 96th percentile.

FAQ

Q: What is the average FPS at 1080p with High settings for this combo?

A: The system achieves an average of 111.6 FPS at 1920x1080 with High settings, which is the most balanced preset for this pairing.

Q: How does the RTX 2070 SUPER compare to the AMD Radeon RX 5700 in this database?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER has an average benchmark score of 22206, which is 2.5% higher than the AMD Radeon RX 5700's score of 21670.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the limiting factor at 4K resolution?

A: The GPU is the clear limiting factor at 4K. The data shows a significant drop to 40.1 FPS on High settings and 28.8 FPS on Ultra, indicating the RTX 2070 SUPER cannot handle the pixel throughput required at 3840x2160.

Q: What is the CPU's percentile ranking among all tested processors?

A: The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D ranks in the 96th percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 71660.

Q: At which resolution does this combo maintain frame rates above 100 FPS on Medium settings?

A: The combo achieves 141 FPS at 1920x1080 on Medium, but at 2560x1440 on Medium it drops to 89 FPS. Therefore, only at 1080p does it stay above 100 FPS on Medium.

Q: What is the combo's overall rank in the database for Fivem?

A: The combination ranks 1089th out of 1792 tested combos, placing it in the lower-middle portion of the performance chart.