Fortnite

For Fortnite, a Battle Royale released on 2017-07-24, the tested pairing of an Intel Core i7-14700KF and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 produces measured FPS data across three resolutions and four presets. The database places this combo at rank 460 out of 1,564 tested combos in Fortnite. The CPU, a Core 14th Gen Raptor Lake-R part, sits at the 96th percentile of all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 70,104. The GPU, an Ampere-generation GeForce 30-series card, sits at the 80th percentile of all GPUs with an average benchmark score of 35,787. The measured FPS shows a pairing that can produce very high averages on Low settings but is heavily taxed by Ultra at high resolutions.

How This Combo Ranks

At rank 460 of 1,564, this combination sits above the middle of the tested Fortnite field. It is not a top-tier pairing, but it beats the majority of tested combos. The CPU’s average score of 70,104 is effectively identical to the Core i7-14700K’s 70,074, with a deltaPct of 0. Against the EPYC 9115’s 69,887, the 14700KF is 0.3% ahead; against the Ryzen 9 9950X’s 70,420, it is 0.4% behind; and against the Xeon Platinum 8270’s 71,056, it is 1.3% behind. On the GPU side, the RTX 3080’s 35,787 average is 0.2% below the Radeon Pro Duo’s 35,860, 0.4% above the Radeon 880M’s 35,646, 0.9% below the Radeon RX 7900 GRE’s 36,101, and 1% above the RTX 5070 Ti Mobile’s 35,435. The CPU is a stronger part relative to its own market than the GPU is, which lines up with how these Fortnite results split between high frame rates and resolution-heavy load.

GPU Role

The RTX 3080 is built around the GA102 chip on Samsung 8 nm, with 28,300 million transistors on a 628 mm² die. It has 8,704 shading units, 272 texture units, 96 ROPs, 68 RT cores, and 272 tensor cores. FP32 throughput is 29.77 TFLOPS. The memory subsystem pairs 10 GB of GDDR6X on a 320-bit bus with 760.3 GB/s of bandwidth. Memory runs at 1,188 MHz / 19 Gbps effective, while the core base clock is 1,440 MHz and boost is 1,710 MHz. These specifications yield a 4,407 score in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, a 167,014 score in Geekbench OpenCL, a 145,176 score in Geekbench Vulkan, and a 25,086 score in Passmark G3D.

In Fortnite, that hardware produces 176.5 fps at 1080p High and 60.9 fps at 4K High. The 4K Ultra result of 38.3 fps is the clearest sign of the GPU’s limit under a heavy preset. The gap between 4K High and 4K Ultra, from 60.9 to 38.3, shows how quickly the rendering load grows when the preset is raised. The 10 GB frame buffer and 760.3 GB/s bandwidth are enough for High at 4K, but Ultra pushes the card below the average of every other measured configuration.

Resolution Scaling

The measured rows at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K show a consistent FPS drop as resolution climbs. On Low, 320.3 fps at 1080p becomes 203.9 at 1440p and then 110 at 4K. On Medium, 226 at 1080p becomes 144.6 at 1440p and 79 at 4K. On High, 176.5 becomes 112.4 and then 60.9. On Ultra, 116.6 becomes 73.1 and then 38.3. The drop is present at every preset, and the 4K rows are always well below the corresponding 1080p rows. This scaling pattern is consistent with the GPU becoming the limiting component as pixel count increases, since the CPU’s processing workload in Fortnite does not scale in the same way as the GPU’s pixel load.

Measured FPS Breakdown

| Resolution | Settings | Avg FPS |

|------------|----------|---------|

| 3840x2160 | High | 60.9 |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 110 |

| 3840x2160 | Medium | 79 |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra | 38.3 |

| 2560x1440 | High | 112.4 |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 203.9 |

| 2560x1440 | Medium | 144.6 |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra | 73.1 |

| 1920x1080 | High | 176.5 |

| 1920x1080 | Low | 320.3 |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 226 |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 116.6 |

The fastest measured row is 1080p Low at 320.3 fps, and the slowest is 4K Ultra at 38.3 fps. At 1080p, Low, Medium, and High all stay above 176.5 fps, while Ultra drops to 116.6. At 1440p, Low reaches 203.9, Medium 144.6, High 112.4, and Ultra 73.1. At 4K, Low is 110, Medium 79, High 60.9, and Ultra 38.3. The data set records only average FPS; no minimum or maximum FPS values are present in the measured rows.

Settings Recommendations

Low has the highest measured average at every resolution: 320.3 at 1080p, 203.9 at 1440p, and 110 at 4K. That makes Low the clear choice for a frame-rate-focused Fortnite setup. Medium is the next step up in quality and still delivers 226 at 1080p, 144.6 at 1440p, and 79 at 4K. High remains viable on all three resolutions, with 176.5 at 1080p, 112.4 at 1440p, and 60.9 at 4K. Ultra is the most expensive preset: 116.6 at 1080p, 73.1 at 1440p, and 38.3 at 4K. Across the twelve measured configurations, 4K Ultra is the slowest row, so it should be avoided on this combo when frame rate matters. For maximum average FPS, Low is the data-backed recommendation; for players who want better visuals without dropping below the 4K High result of 60.9, Medium or High is the reasonable middle ground.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-14700KF is a 20-core, 28-thread desktop CPU with a base clock of 3.40 GHz and a boost clock of 5.60 GHz. It uses Raptor Lake-R on an Intel 10 nm process, with 33 MB of shared L3 cache, 2 MB of L2 per core, and 80 KB of L1 per core. It supports DDR4 and DDR5 memory over a dual-channel bus and provides 16 PCIe Gen 5 CPU lanes. Synthetic results are strong across multiple suites: Cinebench R15 4,491 multi-core and 633 single-core; Cinebench R20 18,713 multi-core and 2,641 single-core; Cinebench R23 44,557 multi-core and 6,290 single-core; Geekbench 19,287 multi-core and 2,972 single-core; Passmark 52,425 multithread and 4,480 single-thread. The 96th percentile ranking and 70,104 average score put the CPU well above the GPU in terms of its standing among all parts.

The CPU’s nearest rival scores reinforce that position. It is effectively tied with the Core i7-14700K at 70,074, 0.3% ahead of the EPYC 9115 at 69,887, 0.4% behind the Ryzen 9 9950X at 70,420, and 1.3% behind the Xeon Platinum 8270 at 71,056. In Fortnite, the CPU’s single-thread strength is visible in the Low preset results: 320.3 fps at 1080p and 203.9 fps at 1440p are high enough that the GPU is unlikely to be the limiting factor at those settings. At 4K Ultra, the 20-core CPU still has headroom, but the RTX 3080’s 38.3 fps result shows that the GPU is the binding constraint. The measured data overall points to a CPU that can feed well beyond 200 fps at lower resolutions, while the GPU governs what happens as resolution and preset load rise.