Hitman 2

# Hitman 2 with AMD Ryzen 5 7500F + NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

The pairing of AMD's six-core Zen 4 desktop processor with NVIDIA's Pascal-generation GTX 1070 produces a distinctly GPU-limited experience in Hitman 2, with the measured frame rates showing a steep cliff as resolution climbs and a relatively flat response to CPU-bound settings. This combo ranks near the bottom of the database's tested configurations — 1505 out of 1795 — reflecting the GTX 1070's age as the primary bottleneck, though the Ryzen 5 7500F ensures the platform never becomes the limiting factor even at the lowest settings.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K is dramatic and consistent across all four settings presets, confirming that the GTX 1070's rendering throughput is the dominant constraint. At High settings, the average frame rate falls from 67.3 FPS at 1920x1080 to 41.9 FPS at 2560x1440 — a 37.7% reduction — then collapses to 25.3 FPS at 3840x2160, which is just 37.6% of the 1080p figure. The scaling pattern is nearly identical at Medium settings: 89.5 FPS at 1080p drops to 55.9 FPS at 1440p and bottoms out at 29.3 FPS at 4K. At Low settings, the spread is even wider, with 119 FPS at 1080p, 75.4 FPS at 1440p, and 40.8 FPS at 4K.

The Ultra preset tells the harshest story. At 4K, the combo manages only 17.4 FPS, which is functionally unplayable, while 1440p Ultra yields 34.6 FPS and 1080p Ultra reaches 50.6 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra at each resolution reveals how much headroom the settings menu can reclaim: at 1080p, Low (119 FPS) is 2.35 times faster than Ultra (50.6 FPS); at 4K, the ratio is similar, with Low (40.8 FPS) running 2.34 times faster than Ultra (17.4 FPS). This consistent multiplier across resolutions indicates that the GPU is scaling its workload proportionally with both pixel count and shading complexity, with no sign of a CPU-induced plateau even at the lowest settings.

The data suggests that 1080p is the only viable resolution for smooth play, and even then, only at Medium or High presets. The jump from 1080p to 1440p costs roughly 38-40% performance across all presets, which is the expected penalty for a 2.25x pixel increase when the GPU is already saturated.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 7500F brings six cores and twelve threads, with a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 5.00 GHz. This Zen 4 Raphael chip, built on TSMC's 5 nm process, sits in the 82nd percentile of all CPUs in the database, with an average benchmark score of 24993. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Core i7-11850H (deltaPct +0.1%), the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X (deltaPct -0.3%), and the AMD Ryzen 5 8400F (deltaPct -0.3%), meaning the 7500F is effectively neck-and-neck with a much older high-core-count part and a newer budget chip.

In Hitman 2, the CPU's role is largely background support. The game's stealth sandbox environments do benefit from strong single-thread performance — the 7500F scores 3218 in Cinebench R23 single-core and 974 in 3DMark single-thread — but the measured FPS data shows virtually no evidence of CPU limiting. At 1080p Low, the combo reaches 119 FPS, but the fact that this is only 2.35x the 4K Ultra result, rather than a larger multiplier, suggests the GPU is still the binding constraint even at the lowest resolution and settings.

The 7500F's 32 MB of shared L3 cache and 83.2 GB/s memory bandwidth are ample for Hitman 2's crowd and AI simulation workloads. The processor's 65 W TDP and unlocked multiplier mean it can sustain boost clocks without thermal throttling, but the benchmark results indicate that the GTX 1070 simply cannot feed frames fast enough to exercise the CPU's full potential. The delta between 1080p Low (119 FPS) and 1080p High (67.3 FPS) is entirely attributable to GPU shading load, not CPU instruction throughput.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is the clear performance ceiling in this pairing. Built on the GP104 chip with Pascal architecture at 16 nm, this card carries 8 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus, delivering 256.3 GB/s of bandwidth. Its base clock of 1506 MHz boosts to 1683 MHz, and the card's 1920 shading units and 64 ROPs produce a pixel rate of 107.7 GPixel/s and 6.463 TFLOPS of FP32 compute.

The GTX 1070 sits in the 51st percentile of all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 12331. Its nearest rivals are the NVIDIA Quadro K4200 (deltaPct +0.7%), the GeForce GTX 880M (deltaPct -1.3%), the GTX 1650 SUPER (deltaPct -1.4%), and the Tesla K20Xm (deltaPct -1.7%). This places the 1070 in a crowded midrange band where small percentage differences separate cards, but Hitman 2's results show the card struggling with modern settings at higher resolutions.

The VRAM capacity of 8 GB is sufficient for Hitman 2's texture budgets — the game doesn't appear to exceed this at any preset — but the memory bandwidth becomes a limiting factor at 4K. The measured FPS at 3840x2160 Ultra (17.4 FPS) versus 1920x1080 Ultra (50.6 FPS) represents a 65.6% performance loss when pixel count quadruples, which exceeds the theoretical pixel-scaling penalty and points to memory bandwidth saturation. At 4K Low, the card manages 40.8 FPS, which is still below the 60 FPS threshold, indicating that even minimal shading work cannot be completed fast enough at this resolution.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of Ryzen 5 7500F and GTX 1070 ranks 1505 out of 1795 tested combos in Hitman 2, placing it in the bottom 16% of the database. This low ranking is almost entirely attributable to the GPU's age — the 7500F's CPU percentile of 82 is far higher than the GTX 1070's GPU percentile of 51, and the measured FPS data reflects this imbalance.

The CPU's benchmark scores show it outperforming or matching significantly older and newer rivals, with the 3DMark multi-thread score of 6379 and Cinebench R23 multicore score of 22799 demonstrating substantial headroom. The GPU, by contrast, sits near the median of all GPUs, and its nearest rivals include professional workstation cards and mobile parts, none of which are known for gaming prowess. The deltaPct values for the GPU's rivals are all within ±1.7%, meaning the 1070 is clustered with cards that are statistically indistinguishable in raw compute, but Hitman 2's specific workload exposes the 1070's weaknesses in fill-rate-bound scenarios.

The rank of 1505 suggests that most tested combos in the database pair more modern GPUs with similarly capable CPUs, leaving this particular match as a legacy configuration that delivers playable 1080p performance but falls short at higher resolutions.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its best results. Low settings produce 119 FPS average, which is smooth and responsive. Medium settings drop to 89.5 FPS, still comfortably above 60 FPS. High settings yield 67.3 FPS, which is playable but with less margin. Ultra settings fall to 50.6 FPS, dipping below the 60 FPS threshold and indicating that the GTX 1070's shading units are fully saturated.

At 2560x1440, performance becomes marginal. Low settings manage 75.4 FPS, which is acceptable for competitive play. Medium settings drop to 55.9 FPS, and High settings fall to 41.9 FPS. Ultra settings produce only 34.6 FPS, making the game feel sluggish in crowded scenes. The 1440p results show a consistent 37-40% reduction from 1080p across all presets, matching the pixel-count increase.

At 3840x2160, the combo is not viable for smooth gameplay. Low settings average 40.8 FPS, Medium 29.3 FPS, High 25.3 FPS, and Ultra 17.4 FPS. Even the lowest preset fails to reach 60 FPS, and the Ultra result is below 20 FPS, which is effectively a slideshow. The 4K data confirms that this GPU cannot handle the pixel throughput required at this resolution, regardless of how much CPU headroom the 7500F provides.

The progression from Low to Ultra at each resolution shows a consistent performance hierarchy: Low is roughly 2.3x faster than Ultra at every resolution, with Medium falling approximately 25% below Low and High falling another 25% below Medium. This uniform scaling indicates that Hitman 2's settings presets impose predictable shading costs, and the GTX 1070's fixed hardware resources are the sole determinant of the final frame rate.