Hard West

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 were measured in Hard West, a Turn-Based Tactics title. The measured data set includes average FPS for four presets at three resolutions. The CPU is a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 4 desktop part; the GPU is a GeForce 50-series Blackwell 2.0 card. This combination ranks 312th out of 1699 tested combos.

Resolution Scaling

Average FPS declines at every settings level as resolution moves from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 to 3840x2160. Low goes from 274.8 to 176.1 to 93.6. Medium goes from 226.5 to 143.2 to 76.7. High goes from 173.4 to 109.2 to 55.9. Ultra goes from 128.9 to 83.2 to 42.3.

The 4K step is the most demanding in the data. For High, the 1440p result is 109.2, and the 4K result is 55.9. For Ultra, the 1440p result is 83.2, and the 4K result is 42.3. Every preset loses a substantial amount of average FPS when moving from 1440p to 4K, and the 1080p-to-1440p step is also steep. Low at 1080p reaches 274.8, while Low at 1440p falls to 176.1 and Low at 4K falls to 93.6.

This scaling pattern points toward the GPU becoming the limiting component at higher resolutions. At 1080p, the preset spread runs from 128.9 at Ultra up to 274.8 at Low, leaving a wide range of possible performance. At 4K, the same presets are compressed into a band from 42.3 at Ultra up to 93.6 at Low. The frame rate drops as the pixel workload increases, and the gap between the lowest and highest preset narrows in absolute terms. That is consistent with a system that has plenty of CPU headroom at 1080p but is constrained by the graphics workload as resolution rises.

Settings Recommendations

No minimum or maximum FPS values are present in the measured data, so these settings recommendations are based on average FPS alone. The measured rows contain Low, Medium, High, and Ultra at each resolution.

At 1920x1080, Ultra produces 128.9 FPS, High produces 173.4 FPS, Medium produces 226.5 FPS, and Low produces 274.8 FPS. The Ultra preset is the highest settings level in the data, and it still maintains a much higher average than the 1440p or 4K rows. For 1080p, the data supports Ultra as the strongest measured preset.

At 2560x1440, Ultra falls to 83.2 FPS while High produces 109.2 FPS. Medium produces 143.2 FPS and Low produces 176.1 FPS. High offers a meaningful gap over Ultra in the 1440p group, and it sits between Medium and Ultra in the preset order. For 1440p, High is the most balanced choice in the measured data.

At 3840x2160, Ultra drops to 42.3 FPS and High drops to 55.9 FPS. Medium produces 76.7 FPS and Low produces 93.6 FPS. The two highest preset levels are the two lowest results in the whole table, while Medium keeps the average well above the High row. For 4K, Medium is the highest settings level that holds a clear advantage over the bottom rows.

Across the full data set, the best preset changes with resolution: Ultra at 1080p, High at 1440p, and Medium at 4K.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600X has 6 cores and 12 threads. Its base clock is 4.70 GHz and its boost clock is 5.30 GHz. It belongs to the 7000 series, uses the Zen 4 architecture on a 5 nm process, and has 32 MB of shared L3 cache. Memory support is DDR5 over a dual-channel bus with 83.2 GB/s of bandwidth. The CPU package contains 6,570 million transistors on a 71 mm² die.

Benchmark results place the CPU at an average score of 26272 and the 83rd percentile among all CPUs. Single-thread results are strong: Cinebench R23 single-core scores 3406, Geekbench single-core scores 2892, and 3DMark single-thread scores 1060. Multi-thread results include Cinebench R23 multicore at 24128, Geekbench multicore at 12905, and 3DMark max threads at 6845.

These CPU numbers align with the low-resolution results in Hard West. The 1080p Low row reaches 274.8 FPS, which is the highest average in the measured set. The 1080p High row still reaches 173.4 FPS, and even 1080p Ultra reaches 128.9 FPS. The processor is delivering enough performance to avoid capping the frame rate in the 1080p rows.

The CPU does not change across resolutions, yet 4K results drop sharply. At 4K Low the same CPU/GPU pair produces 93.6 FPS, at 4K Medium 76.7 FPS, at 4K High 55.9 FPS, and at 4K Ultra 42.3 FPS. That pattern points to the graphics workload dominating the higher-resolution rows rather than a CPU core or thread limitation.

Nearest rival data confirms that the CPU is sitting in a tight cluster. The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U has an average score of 26262 with a deltaPct of 0. The AMD Ryzen 7 7735U scores 26305 with a deltaPct of -0.1. The AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5655GE scores 26320 with a deltaPct of -0.2. The AMD Ryzen 7 5700X scores 26214 with a deltaPct of 0.2. All of these deltas are close to zero, meaning the 7600X is not far from its nearest measured competitors.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination ranks 312th out of 1699 tested combos in Hard West. That rank is the only combo-level result in the data set, so it cannot be split into separate CPU and GPU contributions. The CPU sits at the 83rd percentile among all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 26272. The GPU also sits at the 83rd percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 41687.

The GPU’s nearest rivals bracket its average score. The AMD Radeon Pro 5300 has an average score of 41610 with a deltaPct of 0.2. The NVIDIA Tesla M40 has an average score of 41897 with a deltaPct of -0.5. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 has an average score of 41441 with a deltaPct of 0.6. The AMD Radeon Pro 580X has an average score of 41991 with a deltaPct of -0.7. These scores run from 41441 to 41991, placing the RTX 5070’s 41687 within that group.

The CPU’s nearest rivals run from 26214 to 26320. With a rank of 312 out of 1699, the full system finishes in the upper portion of the tested combinations list.

FAQ

Q: What is this combo’s rank in Hard West?

A: The combo ranks 312th out of 1699 tested combos.

Q: What average FPS does this pair deliver at 3840x2160 with the High preset?

A: The measured average is 55.9 FPS. The same preset produces 109.2 FPS at 2560x1440 and 173.4 FPS at 1920x1080.

Q: At 4K, which settings preset gives the highest measured average?

A: Low gives 93.6 FPS, followed by Medium at 76.7 FPS, High at 55.9 FPS, and Ultra at 42.3 FPS.

Q: Does the measured data include minimum or maximum frame rates?

A: No. The minFps and maxFps fields are null for every resolution and settings row; only avgFps is present.

Q: What are the CPU’s core, thread, and cache figures?

A: The CPU has 6 cores, 12 threads, 64 KB of L1 cache per core, 1 MB of L2 cache per core, and 32 MB of shared L3 cache.

Q: What is the GPU memory configuration in this data?

A: The GPU is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 with 12 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 192-bit bus and 672.0 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Measured FPS Breakdown

| Resolution | Settings | Average FPS |

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

| 3840x2160 | High | 55.9 |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 93.6 |

| 3840x2160 | Medium | 76.7 |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra | 42.3 |

| 2560x1440 | High | 109.2 |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 176.1 |

| 2560x1440 | Medium | 143.2 |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra | 83.2 |

| 1920x1080 | High | 173.4 |

| 1920x1080 | Low | 274.8 |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 226.5 |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 128.9 |

All values above are the avgFps values from the measured data. There are twelve measured rows total: three resolutions, each with four settings presets. No minimum or maximum FPS values were recorded for any row.