Hitman 2

# Hitman 2 with AMD Ryzen 5 5500 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 5 5500 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 delivers a highly capable Hitman 2 experience across all tested resolutions, with the data showing a clear progression from playable 4K Ultra to exceptionally high refresh-rate 1080p performance. This pairing ranks 794th out of 3,711 tested combos for this game, placing it in the upper quintile of all configurations evaluated. The measured results indicate that the RTX 5070 provides substantial headroom for high settings at 1440p, while the Ryzen 5 5500's six-core Zen 3 architecture proves sufficient to keep frame rates high even at lower resolutions where CPU load becomes more significant.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data for Hitman 2 with this hardware combination reveals distinct performance tiers across the four settings presets tested. At 1080p, the Medium preset delivers an average of 189 FPS with a minimum of 161 FPS and maximum of 218 FPS, providing a smooth experience that comfortably exceeds high refresh-rate display capabilities. Moving to High settings at the same resolution drops the average to 143 FPS, still well above the threshold for most gaming monitors. The Ultra preset at 1080p averages 105 FPS, which remains playable but represents a significant reduction from the lower presets.

At 1440p, the High preset achieves an average of 92 FPS, which is the optimal balance for this resolution when considering both visual quality and frame rate stability. The Medium preset at 1440p averages 121 FPS with a minimum of 103 FPS, offering even greater headroom for competitive play, while Ultra drops to 67 FPS average. For 4K, the data shows that High settings produce an average of 49 FPS, which is borderline for smooth gameplay, whereas Medium averages 65 FPS with a minimum of 55 FPS and maximum of 74 FPS, making it the recommended preset for 4K play on this hardware. The Low preset at 4K averages 86 FPS but sacrifices too much visual fidelity for the modest gain over Medium.

The best overall experience per the measured rows is the Medium preset at 1440p, which provides 121 FPS average with a tight minimum-maximum range of 103-139 FPS, indicating consistent performance without major frame-time spikes. For players prioritizing visual detail, High at 1440p at 92 FPS average represents the sweet spot where image quality improvements are most noticeable while maintaining fluid motion. At 1080p, the High preset at 143 FPS average offers the best combination of visual quality and performance for high refresh-rate displays, as the jump from Medium to High costs only 46 FPS average while delivering noticeable improvement in shadow detail and texture filtering.

FAQ

Q: What is the best resolution and settings combination for this hardware in Hitman 2?

A: The measured data shows that 1440p Medium provides the most balanced experience at 121 FPS average with a minimum of 103 FPS, while 1080p High at 143 FPS average is optimal for high refresh-rate displays. For 4K, Medium at 65 FPS average is the recommended preset, as High at 49 FPS average falls below the 60 FPS threshold.

Q: How does this combo rank among all tested configurations for Hitman 2?

A: The AMD Ryzen 5 5500 with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 ranks 794th out of 3,711 tested combos for this game, placing it in the top 21% of all configurations in the benchmark database.

Q: Is the RTX 5070 the limiting factor at 4K resolution?

A: The data indicates GPU limitation at 4K, as the average frame rate drops from 65 FPS at Medium to 49 FPS at High and 36 FPS at Ultra, showing that the RTX 5070's rendering workload increases more steeply than the settings progression suggests. The CPU headroom is sufficient, as evidenced by the 86 FPS at Low settings.

Q: Can this system achieve 144Hz at 1080p with High settings?

A: No, the measured average of 143 FPS at 1080p High falls just short of a 144Hz target. However, the Medium preset at 1080p averages 189 FPS, which comfortably exceeds 144Hz, and the Low preset reaches 253 FPS average for maximum refresh-rate potential.

Q: How does the Ryzen 5 5500's performance compare to its nearest rivals?

A: The Ryzen 5 5500 has an average benchmark score of 19,593, placing it within 0.1% of the AMD Ryzen AI 5 430 at 19,617, 0.4% below the Intel Core i5-12500 at 19,668, and 0.5% above the Intel Core i7-10700F at 19,499. This indicates near-identical synthetic performance among these four processors.

Q: What is the frame rate consistency like at 1440p Medium?

A: The 1440p Medium preset shows a minimum of 103 FPS and maximum of 139 FPS around the 121 FPS average, indicating a 36 FPS spread between floor and ceiling, which represents good consistency for Hitman 2's varied environments.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5500 brings six cores and twelve threads based on the Zen 3 architecture, with a base clock of 3.60 GHz and boost clock of 4.20 GHz. This processor is manufactured on TSMC's 7 nm process and features 16 MB of L3 cache, with 512 KB of L2 cache per core. The CPU's benchmark results show a single-thread score of 836 in 3DMark and 2,319 in Cinebench R23, while multi-thread performance reaches 5,411 in 3DMark max threads and 16,429 in Cinebench R23 multicore. The processor's passmark single-thread score of 3,058 and multithread score of 19,330 indicate balanced performance that suits Hitman 2's mixed single-thread and multi-thread workloads.

In Hitman 2, the CPU's role becomes more pronounced at lower resolutions where the GPU can render frames faster than the processor can feed it. The data shows this effect clearly: at 1080p Low, the system achieves 253 FPS average, which approaches the practical limit for this CPU-GPU pairing, while at 4K Low the average drops to 86 FPS, indicating that at higher resolutions the GPU becomes the primary bottleneck. The 3DMark 2-thread score of 1,645 and 4-thread score of 3,151 suggest that the processor's per-core performance is adequate for Hitman 2's AI and physics calculations, which typically scale across a few threads rather than utilizing all twelve.

The Ryzen 5 5500's 65W TDP and dual-channel DDR4 memory support with 51.2 GB/s bandwidth provide sufficient memory throughput for the game's level streaming. The processor's percentile rank of 73 against all CPUs indicates it outperforms nearly three-quarters of tested processors, which aligns with the measured frame rates showing no significant CPU bottleneck at 1440p and above. The nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks include the Intel Core i5-12500 at 19,668 average score (0.4% higher) and Intel Core i5-11600KF at 19,723 (0.7% higher), all clustering within 1% of each other, which suggests that any of these processors would deliver similar Hitman 2 performance when paired with the RTX 5070.

How This Combo Ranks

The AMD Ryzen 5 5500 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 combination ranks 794th out of 3,711 tested combos for Hitman 2, positioning it in the 79th percentile of all configurations in the database. This rank reflects the balanced nature of the pairing: the RTX 5070 provides strong GPU performance while the Ryzen 5 5500 avoids being a significant bottleneck in most scenarios. The rank of 794 out of 3,711 means that 2,917 other combos performed worse, indicating that this setup outperforms approximately 78.6% of all tested configurations for this specific game.

The high rank is particularly notable given that the CPU's average benchmark score of 19,593 places it in the 73rd percentile against all CPUs, while the GPU's average score of 40,377 places it in the 82nd percentile against all GPUs. The combination rank of 794 out of 3,711 is consistent with what would be expected from pairing a mid-range CPU with a high-end GPU, as the RTX 5070's strong rasterization performance at 1440p and 4K allows the combo to outperform many configurations with more expensive processors but weaker graphics cards. The data suggests that this combo is well-balanced for Hitman 2 specifically, as the game's engine scales well with GPU performance while not demanding excessive CPU resources beyond what the Ryzen 5 5500 provides.

Compared to other potential pairings, this combo's rank indicates that the RTX 5070 is the dominant contributor to the overall performance, as the CPU's benchmark percentile (73rd) is lower than the GPU's (82nd). This means that in CPU-limited scenarios, such as the 1080p Low setting where 253 FPS is achieved, the processor may prevent the GPU from reaching its full potential, but at 1440p and 4K the GPU becomes the limiting factor and the combo's performance aligns more closely with the GPU's capabilities. The rank of 794 out of 3,711 also suggests that there are 793 combos that perform better, which would include pairings with higher-end CPUs like the Ryzen 7 or Core i7 series along with equally powerful or stronger GPUs.

Resolution Scaling

The measured frame rates across resolutions show a predictable scaling pattern that reveals the system's bottleneck characteristics. At 1080p High, the average frame rate is 143 FPS, dropping to 92 FPS at 1440p High, representing a 35.7% reduction for a 77.8% increase in pixel count. Moving to 4K High, the average drops to 49 FPS, which is a 46.7% reduction from 1440p and a 65.7% reduction from 1080p. This scaling pattern indicates that the GPU is the primary limiting factor at higher resolutions, as the frame rate does not scale linearly with pixel count due to the increasing rendering complexity.

The Low settings preset shows a similar trend: 253 FPS at 1080p, 162 FPS at 1440p (a 36% reduction), and 86 FPS at 4K (a 47% reduction from 1440p). The fact that the 1080p Low average of 253 FPS is substantially higher than the 1080p High average of 143 FPS indicates that the CPU has more headroom at lower settings, but even at Low settings, the resolution scaling remains significant. This suggests that the RTX 5070's rendering pipeline becomes increasingly stressed as resolution increases, regardless of the graphics preset being used.

The Medium preset demonstrates the most consistent scaling with minimum and maximum values recorded: at 1080p, the average is 189 FPS with a range of 161-218 FPS; at 1440p, the average is 121 FPS with a range of 103-139 FPS; and at 4K, the average is 65 FPS with a range of 55-74 FPS. The frame rate reduction from 1080p to 1440p is 36%, and from 1440p to 4K is 46.3%, which closely mirrors the scaling seen at High and Low settings. The consistency of these percentages across different presets strongly indicates that the GPU is the limiting component at all resolutions, as the CPU would show a more pronounced effect at lower resolutions if it were the bottleneck.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured performance spans from 253 FPS average at Low settings to 105 FPS average at Ultra settings. The Medium preset achieves 189 FPS average with a minimum of 161 FPS and maximum of 218 FPS, providing the widest recorded range in the dataset. High settings produce 143 FPS average, and Ultra drops to 105 FPS, showing that the jump from High to Ultra costs 38 FPS average while the jump from Medium to High costs 46 FPS average. The Low to Medium transition costs 64 FPS average, indicating that the most significant performance penalty occurs when moving from Low to Medium, likely due to the enabling of shadow mapping and texture streaming features.

At 2560x1440, the performance hierarchy remains consistent with 1080p but at reduced absolute values. Low settings average 162 FPS, Medium averages 121 FPS with a minimum of 103 FPS and maximum of 139 FPS, High averages 92 FPS, and Ultra averages 67 FPS. The gap between Medium and High at 1440p is 29 FPS, while the gap between High and Ultra is 25 FPS, showing that the settings progression has a more uniform cost at this resolution compared to 1080p. The minimum frame rate at 1440p Medium of 103 FPS indicates that even in demanding scenes, the system maintains a comfortable frame rate above 100 FPS.

At 3840x2160, the measured results show the most constrained performance. Low settings average 86 FPS, Medium averages 65 FPS with a minimum of 55 FPS and maximum of 74 FPS, High averages 49 FPS, and Ultra averages 36 FPS. The Medium preset's minimum of 55 FPS and maximum of 74 FPS shows a 19 FPS spread, indicating that 4K gameplay can experience notable frame rate fluctuations in more demanding areas of Hitman 2's levels. The Ultra preset at 36 FPS average is below the threshold for smooth gameplay, while High at 49 FPS remains marginal. The Low preset at 86 FPS average demonstrates that the RTX 5070 is capable of producing high frame rates at 4K when visual features are minimized, but the game's visual quality at Low settings may not be acceptable to most players.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 is built on the Blackwell 2.0 architecture with the GB205 chip, manufactured on TSMC's 5 nm process with 31,100 million transistors and a die size of 263 mm². The GPU features 12 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 192-bit bus, providing 672.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth, with base and boost clocks of 2325 MHz and 2512 MHz respectively. The memory runs at 1750 MHz with 28 Gbps effective speed, and the GPU's 6,144 shading units, 192 texture mapping units, and 80 raster output pipelines deliver a pixel rate of 201.0 GPixel/s and texture rate of 482.3 GTexel/s. The FP32 performance of 30.87 TFLOPS indicates substantial compute capability for Hitman 2's rendering requirements.

In Hitman 2, the GPU's role is dominant across all tested resolutions, as evidenced by the frame rate scaling patterns discussed previously. The RTX 5070's 12 GB VRAM capacity is sufficient for Hitman 2 at all settings and resolutions tested, as the game's texture memory requirements are well within this capacity. The GPU's benchmark results show a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 5,077, a Geekbench OpenCL score of 172,660, and a Vulkan score of 178,923, with a Passmark G3D score of 29,137. These synthetic scores, combined with the game-specific measurements, indicate that the GPU is performing at a level consistent with its 82nd percentile ranking against all GPUs.

The RTX 5070's nearest rivals in terms of average benchmark score include the AMD Radeon Pro 580 at 40,318 (0.1% higher), AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 at 40,063 (0.8% higher), AMD Radeon Pro 5300 at 40,870 (1.2% lower), and NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile at 39,568 (2% lower). These rival comparisons show that the RTX 5070 occupies a performance tier that is closely matched by several workstation-oriented GPUs, although none of these rivals are likely to appear in gaming systems. The GPU's 250W TDP and dual-slot design require a 600W suggested power supply with a single 16-pin connector, which is typical for a card in this performance class. The RTX 5070's 48 ray tracing cores and 192 tensor cores provide hardware acceleration for Hitman 2's DX12 features, though the measured frame rates in this dataset were obtained without ray tracing enabled, as the game's standard presets do not include RT effects.