Hitman 2

FAQ

Q: How does this CPU+GPU combo rank in Hitman 2?

A: The AMD Ryzen 5 7600 paired with the AMD Radeon RX 580 ranks 1670th out of 1795 tested combinations in Hitman 2, placing it in the lower tier of configurations for this title.

Q: What is the best playable result at 1080p?

A: At 1920x1080, the Low preset delivers 75.6 FPS average, which is the highest performance recorded for this combination. Medium yields 55.5 FPS, while High drops to 47 FPS and Ultra falls to 31.5 FPS.

Q: How does the RX 580 compare to its closest rivals?

A: The RX 580's average benchmark score of 13559 is effectively tied with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (13564, 0% delta) and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 (13549, 0.1% delta). It sits 1.1% ahead of the AMD Radeon Pro 455 and 1.1% behind the NVIDIA P106-090.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the limiting factor at 4K?

A: The data indicates the GPU becomes the dominant constraint at 3840x2160, as the RX 580's 8 GB GDDR5 memory and 256.0 GB/s bandwidth struggle to maintain playable frame rates—Ultra produces only 11 FPS at that resolution.

Q: What happens to performance when moving from 1080p to 1440p?

A: Across all settings, the frame rate drops by roughly 38-40% when moving from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440. For example, High settings fall from 47 FPS to 29 FPS, and Low settings drop from 75.6 FPS to 48.2 FPS.

Q: Does the CPU's strong benchmark performance translate to high FPS in this game?

A: Not proportionally. While the Ryzen 5 7600 scores 26617 average across benchmarks (83rd percentile), the RX 580's 53rd percentile GPU standing limits overall results, confirming the graphics card as the bottleneck in Hitman 2.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 580 serves as the primary performance constraint in this Hitman 2 configuration. The GPU operates with a base clock of 1257 MHz and a boost clock of 1340 MHz, built on the Polaris 20 chip with GCN 4.0 architecture. Its 8 GB of GDDR5 memory runs at 2000 MHz with an 8 Gbps effective rate across a 256-bit bus, yielding 256.0 GB/s of bandwidth.

The GPU's 2304 shading units, 144 texture mapping units, and 32 ROPs deliver 6.175 TFLOPS of FP32 compute. Pixel rate reaches 42.88 GPixel/s and texture rate hits 193.0 GTexel/s. These specifications place the RX 580 in the 53rd percentile of all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 13559—statistically indistinguishable from the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 and GTX 950.

In Hitman 2 specifically, the GPU's VRAM capacity and bandwidth determine how well the game scales with resolution. At 1080p, the 8 GB frame buffer is adequate, but at 4K, the combination of higher pixel count and texture demands overwhelms the memory subsystem. The measured results confirm this: 4K Ultra produces just 11 FPS, while 4K Low manages 25.8 FPS—still below playable thresholds.

The CPU, by contrast, provides ample headroom. The Ryzen 5 7600's 6 cores and 12 threads with a 5.10 GHz boost clock place it at the 83rd percentile of all CPUs, with nearest rivals including the Ryzen 7 5800X3D (0.2% delta) and Core i9-11900K (0.3% delta). This imbalance means the RX 580 never receives sufficient utilization relief from the processor, and frame rates scale almost entirely with GPU workload.

Settings Recommendations

For 1920x1080, the Low preset is the only setting that delivers consistently smooth performance, averaging 75.6 FPS. Medium drops to 55.5 FPS, which remains playable for most users, but High falls to 47 FPS and Ultra to 31.5 FPS—the latter bordering on unplayable for a stealth title requiring precision timing.

At 2560x1440, the Low preset yields 48.2 FPS, which is acceptable but not ideal. Medium drops to 35.2 FPS, High to 29 FPS, and Ultra to 24 FPS. The data suggests that 1440p users should stick to Low or Medium settings to maintain responsive gameplay.

At 3840x2160, no preset achieves playable performance. Low averages 25.8 FPS, Medium 19.8 FPS, High 16.8 FPS, and Ultra 11 FPS. None of these meet the 30 FPS minimum typically required for smooth motion, so 4K is not viable for this configuration.

The optimal balance for this pairing is 1080p Medium, which offers 55.5 FPS—a 27% improvement over High while still retaining substantial visual quality over Low. Users prioritizing frame rate above all else should select 1080p Low, as the jump from Medium to Low adds 20.1 FPS (36% increase).

Measured FPS Breakdown

1920x1080:

• Low: 75.6 FPS average
• Medium: 55.5 FPS average
• High: 47 FPS average
• Ultra: 31.5 FPS average

The spread from Low to Ultra spans 44.1 FPS, with the most significant drop occurring between Low and Medium (20.1 FPS) and between High and Ultra (15.5 FPS). The step from Medium to High costs 8.5 FPS.

2560x1440:

• Low: 48.2 FPS average
• Medium: 35.2 FPS average
• High: 29 FPS average
• Ultra: 24 FPS average

The 1440p results compress the performance range to 24.2 FPS between Low and Ultra. The gap between Low and Medium is 13 FPS, Medium to High is 6.2 FPS, and High to Ultra is 5 FPS.

3840x2160:

• Low: 25.8 FPS average
• Medium: 19.8 FPS average
• High: 16.8 FPS average
• Ultra: 11 FPS average

At 4K, the entire preset ladder stays below 26 FPS. The difference between Low and Ultra is only 14.8 FPS, showing how GPU-bound the configuration becomes at higher pixel counts.

The data reveals that the RX 580's performance degrades proportionally more at higher settings when resolution increases. At 1080p, Ultra achieves 41.7% of Low's frame rate; at 1440p, that ratio falls to 49.8%; at 4K, it's 42.6%. This non-linear behavior points to memory bandwidth saturation rather than pure compute limits.

Resolution Scaling

The transition from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 reduces frame rates by approximately 36-40% across all presets. Low drops from 75.6 to 48.2 FPS (36.2% reduction), Medium from 55.5 to 35.2 FPS (36.6%), High from 47 to 29 FPS (38.3%), and Ultra from 31.5 to 24 FPS (23.8%). The smaller drop at Ultra suggests that setting is already so demanding that pixel count matters less.

Moving from 2560x1440 to 3840x2160 produces a more severe decline. Low falls from 48.2 to 25.8 FPS (46.5% reduction), Medium from 35.2 to 19.8 FPS (43.8%), High from 29 to 16.8 FPS (42.1%), and Ultra from 24 to 11 FPS (54.2%). The Ultra preset suffers the steepest drop, indicating that the combination of 4K resolution and maximum settings exceeds the GPU's memory bandwidth capabilities.

The full 1080p-to-4K scaling shows: Low goes from 75.6 to 25.8 FPS (65.9% loss), Medium from 55.5 to 19.8 FPS (64.3%), High from 47 to 16.8 FPS (64.3%), and Ultra from 31.5 to 11 FPS (65.1%). This remarkably consistent ~65% performance loss across settings strongly indicates the RX 580's 256-bit memory interface and 256.0 GB/s bandwidth as the primary bottleneck, rather than compute throughput.

The Ryzen 5 7600's strong single-thread performance (999 in 3dmark single-thread, 3246 in Cinebench R23 single-core) ensures the CPU is never the limiting factor at any resolution. The data confirms that Hitman 2's engine scales predictably with pixel count, and the RX 580's fixed memory bandwidth creates a hard ceiling that no CPU can overcome. For users targeting 60 FPS, only 1080p Low achieves this, and the gap between 1080p and 1440p at equivalent settings is consistently larger than the gap between Low and Medium presets at the same resolution.