Hard West

Resolution Scaling

Hard West is a turn-based tactics title from 2015, and the measured frame rates across resolutions reveal a system that is heavily CPU-bound at lower resolutions. At 1080p with Low settings, the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 combination produces 233.5 FPS. Moving to 1440p Low drops this to 197.4 FPS, a decline of roughly 15%. At 4K Low, the average falls to 119.5 FPS, which is a 39% reduction from the 1440p figure and a 49% drop from 1080p.

The scaling pattern shifts dramatically when looking at High settings. At 1080p High, the combo achieves 199.4 FPS. At 1440p High, it reaches 144.6 FPS, which is a 27% decrease. Jumping to 4K High yields 75.2 FPS, representing a 48% drop from 1440p and a 62% decline from 1080p. This steeper curve at higher settings indicates that the GPU begins to take on a more significant role as image quality increases, though the absolute numbers remain exceptionally high for a game of this era.

The most telling data point comes from the Ultra settings progression. At 1080p Ultra, the average is 169.1 FPS. At 1440p Ultra, it falls to 108.2 FPS, a 36% reduction. At 4K Ultra, the average is 54.5 FPS, which is a 50% drop from 1440p and a 68% decline from 1080p. This near-halving at each resolution step at Ultra settings is classic GPU-bound behavior, but the fact that the 4K Ultra figure still exceeds 54 FPS suggests that even the most demanding preset cannot fully saturate the RTX 4090 in this title. The data shows that Hard West's engine is not particularly demanding by modern standards, and the limiting component shifts from the CPU at 1080p to the GPU only at 4K with maximum settings.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 achieves a rank of 98 out of 1,699 tested combos in Hard West. This places the pairing in the top 6% of all configurations tested for this game. The high ranking is primarily attributable to the RTX 4090's raw throughput, as the GPU sits at the 91st percentile among all GPUs in the database. The CPU, meanwhile, holds the 83rd percentile among all processors.

The Ryzen 7 5700G's position in the broader CPU landscape provides context for its role here. Its average benchmark score of 25,626 places it in close competition with several mobile and workstation parts. The nearest rival, the AMD Ryzen 7 6800U, scores 25,706, a negligible 0.3% difference. The Intel Xeon D-2752TER scores 25,532, which is 0.4% lower. The Intel Core 5 210H and AMD Ryzen 5 7640U trail by 0.5% and 0.6%, respectively. These margins are within noise, meaning the 5700G performs essentially identically to those parts in synthetic benchmarks.

For the GPU, the RTX 4090's average benchmark score of 66,473 is similarly clustered. The NVIDIA Tesla T4 scores 66,733, just 0.4% higher. The Tesla P40 scores 66,127, which is 0.5% lower. The AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 and NVIDIA Quadro P6000 are 0.9% and 1.3% away, respectively. The ranking in Hard West, however, reflects actual game performance rather than synthetic averages, and the 98th position out of 1,699 indicates that this specific pairing is particularly well-suited to the game's engine characteristics.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G is an 8-core, 16-thread processor based on the Zen 3 architecture, codenamed Cezanne. It operates on the AMD Socket AM4 platform with a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz. The chip is built on a 7 nm process at TSMC, containing 10,700 million transistors on a 180 mm² die. Its cache hierarchy includes 64 KB of L1 per core, 512 KB of L2 per core, and a 16 MB L3 cache. The processor supports DDR4 memory in a dual-channel configuration with a bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s.

In Hard West, the CPU's role is most evident at 1080p, where frame rates exceed 200 FPS at Low settings. The game's turn-based tactical nature typically does not demand high thread counts, but the 5700G's 8 cores and 16 threads provide ample headroom. The single-thread performance, as measured by a 3DMark single-thread score of 899 and a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2,930, is sufficient to drive the game's logic and AI calculations without becoming a bottleneck.

The multi-threaded capabilities are demonstrated by a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 20,755 and a Geekbench multi-core score of 8,970. In a game like Hard West, where combat encounters involve numerous units and environmental interactions, the extra threads can help maintain consistent frame pacing. The PassMark multithread score of 24,419 and the 3DMark max-thread score of 6,627 indicate that the CPU has substantial computational reserves, even if the game does not fully utilize all 16 threads. The data suggests that the 5700G is more than adequate for Hard West, and the observed frame rates at 1080p are likely limited by the game engine's single-threaded performance rather than the CPU's capabilities.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data provides a complete picture of performance across three resolutions and four settings levels. At 1080p, the averages range from 233.5 FPS at Low to 169.1 FPS at Ultra. The Medium preset achieves 217.9 FPS, while High sits at 199.4 FPS. This spread of 64.4 FPS between the lowest and highest settings indicates that the game's graphical options have a moderate impact at this resolution.

At 1440p, the averages are 197.4 FPS at Low, 183.5 FPS at Medium, 144.6 FPS at High, and 108.2 FPS at Ultra. The drop from Low to Ultra is 89.2 FPS, representing a 45% reduction. This is a more pronounced scaling than at 1080p, where the reduction from Low to Ultra is 27.6%. The 1440p data shows that higher resolutions amplify the differences between settings presets.

At 4K, the averages are 119.5 FPS at Low, 98 FPS at Medium, 75.2 FPS at High, and 54.5 FPS at Ultra. The progression from Low to Ultra at 4K represents a 54% reduction. Notably, the 4K Low figure of 119.5 FPS is still higher than the 1080p Ultra figure of 169.1 FPS, but the gap narrows considerably. The 4K Ultra result of 54.5 FPS is the only measurement below 60 FPS in the entire dataset, suggesting that the combination of maximum resolution and maximum settings is the only configuration that pushes the RTX 4090 to its limits in this title. The data shows a consistent pattern where each increase in resolution or settings level yields a predictable decrease in average FPS, with no anomalies or unexpected dips.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and fabricated on a 5 nm process at TSMC. The chip, designated AD102, contains 76,300 million transistors on a 609 mm² die. It features 16,384 shading units, 512 texture mapping units, and 176 raster operation processors. The GPU operates at a base clock of 2,235 MHz with a boost clock of 2,520 MHz. Memory is provided by 24 GB of GDDR6X on a 384-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 1.01 TB/s. The memory clock is 1,313 MHz with 21 Gbps effective speed.

In Hard West, the RTX 4090's role becomes increasingly prominent as resolution and settings rise. The GPU's 24 GB of VRAM is far more than the game requires, even at 4K Ultra, so memory capacity is never a limiting factor. The 82.58 TFLOPS of FP32 performance and 1,290.2 GTexel/s texture rate provide more than enough computational power for a 2015 turn-based tactics title.

The GPU's benchmark scores reflect its position. The 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 9,223 and the Geekbench OpenCL score of 317,684 indicate strong raw compute capabilities. The PassMark G3D score of 38,194 places it at the 91st percentile among all GPUs. The nearest rivals in the database are workstation and professional cards, with the Tesla T4 scoring 66,733 (0.4% higher), the Tesla P40 at 66,127 (0.5% lower), and the Radeon Pro Vega 56 at 67,097 (0.9% higher). These comparisons highlight that the RTX 4090 sits at the top of consumer GPU performance, though its synthetic scores are closely matched by some professional parts.

The measured FPS data in Hard West shows that the RTX 4090 is effectively underutilized at 1080p, where the CPU limits performance. At 4K Ultra, the GPU is finally exercised, producing 54.5 FPS. The fact that this figure is still playable for a turn-based game indicates that the RTX 4090 provides a smooth experience even in the most demanding configuration. The GPU's 450 W TDP and 850 W suggested PSU requirement are notable, but the performance headroom in Hard West means the card rarely operates at full capacity in this title.