Fivem

Fivem is a multiplayer modification for Grand Theft Auto V, and the measured results for the Intel Core i5-9400 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 reveal a configuration heavily influenced by the CPU's six-core design. This combination ranks 419th out of 1792 tested combos, placing it in the upper quartile of all systems tested. The data indicates a system with strong 1080p performance that degrades predictably as resolution increases, with the CPU becoming a significant factor in frame pacing at lower resolutions.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate progression from 1080p to 4K shows a clear and consistent drop-off across all settings, which is typical for a game like Fivem that relies on both CPU and GPU resources. At 1080p with Low settings, the combo achieves an average of 213.1 FPS. Moving to 1440p drops that figure by 25.5 FPS to 187.6, and then the 4K Low result falls further to 102.3 FPS. This represents a 52% reduction in frame rate from 1080p Low to 4K Low, indicating that the GPU is progressively taking on more work as pixel count increases.

For the High preset, the scaling is similar but with lower absolute numbers: 1080p High produces 175.8 FPS, 1440p High drops to 118.4 FPS, and 4K High yields 65.1 FPS. The most demanding Ultra preset shows the steepest relative decline: from 137.2 FPS at 1080p to 87.3 FPS at 1440p, and finally to 47.4 FPS at 4K. The gap between the 1080p and 4K results at Ultra is 89.8 FPS, which is proportionally larger than the equivalent gap at Low settings.

The scaling pattern suggests that at 1080p, the CPU is the primary limiter. The six-core i5-9400, with a base clock of 2.90 GHz and boost clock of 4.10 GHz, appears to cap performance around the 213 FPS mark even at Low settings. The fact that 1080p Ultra achieves 137.2 FPS versus 1080p Low’s 213.1 FPS shows that GPU load still matters at this resolution, but the relatively small gap between Medium (193.8 FPS) and Low (213.1 FPS) at 1080p suggests the CPU is nearing its ceiling. At 4K, the situation inverts: the RTX 5070’s rendering capabilities become the bottleneck, with the 4K Low result of 102.3 FPS being nearly half the 1080p Low figure.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 features 12 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 192-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 672.0 GB/s. Its base clock is 2325 MHz with a boost clock of 2512 MHz, and it houses 6144 shading units, 192 texture mapping units, and 80 ROPs. The GPU’s 48 ray tracing cores and 192 tensor cores are present but appear to have minimal impact on Fivem’s measured results, as the game’s typical workloads are more rasterization-bound.

The memory configuration is noteworthy for this title. Fivem’s multiplayer environments can be memory-intensive, and the 12 GB capacity is sufficient at all tested resolutions and settings. The bandwidth figure of 672.0 GB/s is ample for the frame rates observed; at 4K Ultra, where the GPU is most stressed, the 47.4 FPS average suggests the memory subsystem is not the limiting factor. Rather, the raw compute throughput of 30.87 TFLOPS FP32 is what drives the higher-resolution results.

The GPU’s performance percentile versus all GPUs is 83, which places it well above average. Its average benchmark score of 41687 puts it in close competition with the AMD Radeon Pro 5300, which scores 41610 (a 0.2% delta), and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 at 41441 (a 0.6% delta). The RTX 5070 outperforms the RTX 3090 by a small margin in average benchmark scores, though the real-world Fivem results show that the CPU often holds the system back at lower resolutions.

How This Combo Ranks

This specific combination of the Intel Core i5-9400 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 achieves a rank of 419 out of 1792 tested combos in Fivem, placing it in the 76th percentile of all systems. This is a strong showing for a mid-range CPU paired with a high-end GPU, but the ranking reveals an imbalance. The GPU alone sits in the 83rd percentile, while the CPU is in the 50th percentile of all processors. The combo’s 76th percentile rank reflects the fact that the CPU drags down what the GPU could otherwise achieve.

The CPU’s average benchmark score is 2305, which is nearly identical to its nearest rivals: the Intel Core i3-10305 scores 2300 (a 0.2% delta) and the Intel Core i3-1125G4 scores 2299 (a 0.2% delta). The Intel Xeon E-2134 is slightly behind at 2295 (a 0.4% delta), and the Intel Core i7-8809G is slightly ahead at 2319 (a -0.6% delta). This places the i5-9400 in a crowded field of similar-performance processors, none of which are capable of fully feeding an RTX 5070 in Fivem’s CPU-sensitive scenarios.

The rank of 419 suggests that while this combo is not a top-tier performer, it is well above the median. The 1792 total combos tested include many with more balanced pairings, and the data shows that this system’s 1080p results are competitive with combos featuring more powerful CPUs. However, the 4K results are more aligned with what the RTX 5070 can deliver on its own, indicating that at 4K, the CPU bottleneck is less severe.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data provides a comprehensive view of the system’s capabilities across three resolutions and four settings presets. At 1080p, the results are all above 137 FPS, making the game highly playable on any high-refresh-rate monitor. The Low preset delivers 213.1 FPS, which drops to 193.8 FPS at Medium, 175.8 FPS at High, and 137.2 FPS at Ultra. The delta between Low and Ultra at 1080p is 75.9 FPS, showing that even the most demanding preset remains well above the 60 FPS threshold.

At 1440p, the performance is still strong but shows more variation. Low settings produce 187.6 FPS, Medium yields 149.0 FPS, High drops to 118.4 FPS, and Ultra falls to 87.3 FPS. The step from Medium to High at 1440p is a 30.6 FPS reduction, which is larger than the equivalent step at 1080p (18.0 FPS difference between Medium and High). This indicates that the GPU is becoming more of a factor at higher resolutions, as the additional pixel workload amplifies the cost of higher quality settings.

The 4K results are the most revealing about the system’s balance. Low settings achieve 102.3 FPS, which is still playable, but Medium drops to 82.1 FPS, High to 65.1 FPS, and Ultra to 47.4 FPS. The Ultra preset at 4K is the only configuration that falls below 60 FPS, suggesting that users targeting 4K with maximum quality would need to reduce settings. The gap between 4K Low and 4K Ultra is 54.9 FPS, which is proportionally larger than the 1080p gap, confirming that the GPU is the dominant factor at this resolution.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-9400 is a six-core, six-thread processor based on the Coffee Lake architecture, manufactured on a 14 nm process. Its base clock of 2.90 GHz and boost clock of 4.10 GHz are modest by modern standards, and it has a 65 W TDP. The CPU features 64 KB of L1 cache per core, 256 KB of L2 cache per core, and 9 MB of shared L3 cache, with support for dual-channel DDR4 memory delivering 42.7 GB/s of bandwidth.

In Fivem, the CPU’s role is critical due to the game’s multiplayer nature, which involves processing many player positions, network events, and world state changes. The six-core, six-thread configuration without hyper-threading means that the CPU can handle six threads simultaneously, which is adequate but not exceptional for this workload. The benchmark results for the i5-9400 show a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 7969 and a single-core score of 1125, reflecting its balanced but modest performance.

The data indicates that the CPU is the primary limiter at 1080p. The fact that 1080p Low achieves 213.1 FPS while 1080p Ultra achieves 137.2 FPS suggests that even at Low settings, the CPU is approaching its maximum frame rate ceiling. The 50th percentile ranking of the CPU versus all processors confirms that it is an average performer, and its nearest rivals all score within a 0.6% delta of its average benchmark score of 2305.

At higher resolutions, the CPU bottleneck becomes less pronounced. The 4K results show a larger spread between settings (from 47.4 FPS at Ultra to 102.3 FPS at Low), which indicates that the GPU is doing more of the work. However, the CPU still matters: the fact that 4K Low produces 102.3 FPS while 1080p Low produces 213.1 FPS shows that the CPU can still feed the GPU at lower settings, but the GPU’s pixel-pushing capability becomes the constraint at 4K. Overall, this combo delivers playable frame rates at 1080p and 1440p across all settings, with 4K requiring a reduction in quality to maintain smooth performance.