Fivem

FAQ

Q: How does the Intel Core i9-14900K compare to its closest rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The i9-14900K posts an average benchmark score of 79,824, placing it just 0.3% behind the AMD EPYC 7413 (80,041) and 0.7% ahead of both the Intel Core i9-14900KF (79,245) and Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF (79,240). It also edges out the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K (79,102) by 0.9%.

Q: What is the GPU's percentile ranking among all tested graphics cards?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER sits in the 55th percentile of all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 14,286. Its nearest rival, the AMD Radeon RX Vega 11, scores 14,314, which is 0.2% higher.

Q: What is the best measured FPS result for this combo in Fivem?

A: The highest average FPS recorded is 125.4 at 1920x1080 with Low settings. The lowest is 21.5 at 3840x2160 with Ultra settings, showing a wide performance envelope across configurations.

Q: How does the combo rank among all tested combinations in Fivem?

A: This specific pairing of the Intel Core i9-14900K and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER ranks 1,546th out of 1,792 tested combos for Fivem, placing it in the lower portion of the field.

Q: What memory configuration does the CPU support?

A: The Intel Core i9-14900K supports both DDR4 and DDR5 memory types through a dual-channel memory bus. It also supports ECC memory, which is notable for a desktop processor.

Q: What are the GPU's memory specifications?

A: The GTX 1660 SUPER comes with 6 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, providing 336.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The memory clock is rated at 1750 MHz, with 14 Gbps effective speed.

How This Combo Ranks

The data places this combination at rank 1,546 out of 1,792 tested combos in Fivem, which means it sits in the bottom 14% of all pairings evaluated. This is a significant finding because the CPU is a top-tier part—the i9-14900K ranks in the 97th percentile of all CPUs—while the GPU is decidedly mid-pack at the 55th percentile. The disparity between these two components explains the overall ranking.

Benchmark results indicate that the combo's position is dragged down almost entirely by the graphics card. The i9-14900K's average benchmark score of 79,824 puts it in elite company, trading blows with server-class chips like the AMD EPYC 7413. Meanwhile, the GTX 1660 SUPER's average score of 14,286 places it just 0.2% behind the AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 and 0.7% behind the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT. This is not a pairing where both parts contribute equally; the CPU is capable of far more than the GPU can deliver.

For context on the CPU's strength, its nearest rivals in synthetic testing are all within a 1% band. The Intel Core i9-14900KF matches it almost exactly (0.7% higher score), while the AMD EPYC 7413 is 0.3% ahead. This suggests the i9-14900K is performing as expected for its class. The GPU, however, sits at a point where modest changes in score—like the 0.2% gap to the Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics—can shift its relative position. In Fivem specifically, the measured FPS numbers show the GPU struggling at higher resolutions, which aligns with its overall percentile standing.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is built on the Turing architecture using the TU116 chip, fabricated on a 12 nm process at TSMC with 6,600 million transistors. Its base clock runs at 1530 MHz with a boost clock of 1785 MHz, and it delivers 5.027 TFLOPS of FP32 compute. The memory subsystem consists of 6 GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus, yielding 336.0 GB/s of bandwidth—a figure that becomes critical when analyzing Fivem's performance across resolutions.

The GPU's role in this combo is best understood through its measured FPS at 1080p. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the combo hits 125.4 FPS, but this drops to 95.9 FPS at Medium and 78.5 FPS at High. The Ultra setting at 1080p produces 62.3 FPS. These numbers show that the GTX 1660 SUPER has enough headroom for smooth play at lower settings, but the gap between Low and Ultra is substantial—a 50.3% reduction in FPS. This pattern is characteristic of a GPU that is the limiting factor, as the CPU has far more compute headroom than the GPU can utilize.

The GPU's 48 ROPs and 88 TMUs, combined with its 1408 shading units, determine its pixel and texture throughput. The pixel rate is 85.68 GPixel/s, and the texture rate is 157.1 GTexel/s. These figures, while not directly comparable to Fivem's engine demands, help explain why higher resolutions and settings cause steep FPS declines. The 6 GB VRAM is also a consideration; at 4K with Ultra settings, the memory bandwidth of 336.0 GB/s may become a bottleneck even before the compute units are saturated.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its strongest results. The Low setting produces 125.4 FPS, which is the highest measured average across all configurations. Medium drops to 95.9 FPS, High to 78.5 FPS, and Ultra to 62.3 FPS. The step from Low to Medium is a 23.5% decrease, while the step from Medium to High is 18.1%. The final step from High to Ultra is 20.6%. These are relatively consistent drops, indicating a balanced scaling curve at this resolution.

Moving to 2560x1440, the FPS figures decline across the board. Low settings yield 83.3 FPS, which is 33.6% lower than the same setting at 1080p. Medium produces 66.6 FPS, High 49.4 FPS, and Ultra 38.7 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra at 1440p is 53.5%, which is slightly larger than the 50.3% gap at 1080p. This suggests that the GPU's workload is increasing more than proportionally with resolution, as expected from a 192-bit memory bus.

At 3840x2160, the results become marginal for playable framerates. Low settings yield 43.8 FPS, Medium 35.5 FPS, High 31.1 FPS, and Ultra 21.5 FPS. The Ultra setting at 4K is the only configuration that falls below 30 FPS, but even the Low setting at 4K is barely above 40 FPS. The data shows a clear pattern: this combo is viable for 1080p gaming at most settings, acceptable at 1440p with lower settings, and only suitable for 4K with Low quality presets.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS drop from 1080p to 1440p is steep across all settings. At Low, the drop is from 125.4 to 83.3 FPS, a 33.6% reduction. At Medium, it goes from 95.9 to 66.6 FPS, a 30.6% reduction. At High, from 78.5 to 49.4 FPS, a 37.1% reduction. At Ultra, from 62.3 to 38.7 FPS, a 37.9% reduction. The scaling from 1440p to 4K is even more punishing: Low drops from 83.3 to 43.8 FPS (47.4% reduction), Medium from 66.6 to 35.5 FPS (46.7%), High from 49.4 to 31.1 FPS (37.0%), and Ultra from 38.7 to 21.5 FPS (44.4%).

These numbers tell a clear story about the limiting component. If the CPU were the bottleneck, we would expect FPS to remain relatively flat as resolution increases, since the CPU's workload is largely resolution-independent. Instead, FPS drops by roughly one-third when moving from 1080p to 1440p, and by another 40-47% when moving to 4K. This is classic GPU-bound behavior. The i9-14900K, with its 24 cores and 32 threads, is not the constraint here.

The resolution scaling analysis also reveals that the GPU's memory bandwidth is a likely culprit. The GTX 1660 SUPER's 336.0 GB/s bandwidth is modest by modern standards, and the 192-bit bus width means that memory access becomes proportionally more stressed as pixel count increases. The fact that the Low setting at 4K (43.8 FPS) is higher than the Ultra setting at 1440p (38.7 FPS) further confirms that memory bandwidth and fill rate, rather than raw compute, are the primary limits in this scenario.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i9-14900K is a 24-core, 32-thread processor from the Raptor Lake architecture, built on Intel's 10 nm process. It has a base clock of 3.20 GHz and a boost clock of 6.00 GHz, with a 125 W TDP. The cache hierarchy includes 80 KB of L1 per core, 2 MB of L2 per core, and 36 MB of shared L3 cache. This is a desktop processor with a multiplier unlock, supporting both DDR4 and DDR5 memory.

In synthetic benchmarks, the i9-14900K is exceptional. Its Cinebench R23 multicore score is 49,872, and its single-core score is 7,040. Geekbench results show 20,370 for multicore and 3,064 for single-core. The Passmark multithread score is 58,674, with a single-thread score of 4,697. These numbers place the CPU in the 97th percentile of all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 79,824.

However, in Fivem, the CPU's role is constrained by the GPU. The measured FPS at 1080p Low (125.4) is the only result that approaches what this CPU could theoretically drive, but even that is likely limited by the GTX 1660 SUPER. The CPU's 36 MB of L3 cache and high boost clock are beneficial for multiplayer scenarios, where draw calls and entity updates can be CPU-intensive. The 24 cores and 32 threads provide ample headroom for background tasks, but Fivem's engine is unlikely to utilize more than a fraction of this capacity.

The data suggests that this CPU is massively overprovisioned for the GPU it is paired with. The i9-14900K's nearest rival in synthetic scores, the AMD EPYC 7413, is a server chip, and the i9-14900K trades blows with it (0.3% difference). Yet in Fivem, the combo ranks 1,546th out of 1,792. This indicates that the CPU's potential is largely untapped in this configuration, and that upgrading the GPU would yield far more significant FPS gains than any CPU change could provide. The CPU's role in this combo is to eliminate any possibility of a CPU-side bottleneck, but the GPU ensures that bottleneck occurs anyway.