Hitman 2

Resolution Scaling

The measured frame rates across 1080p, 1440p, and 4K reveal a system that is heavily constrained by the graphics card in Hitman 2. At 1080p with Low settings, the combo reaches 79.9 FPS average, which is the only configuration in the entire measured set to approach high-refresh territory. Stepping up to 1440p Low drops that to 50.4 FPS, a 36.9% reduction in frame rate from the 1080p result. At 4K Low, the average collapses to 24.9 FPS, representing a 68.8% drop from the 1080p Low figure. This scaling pattern is classic GPU-bound behavior; the CPU has enough headroom to feed the frame buffer at lower resolutions, but the Polaris 20 chip cannot keep pace as pixel count rises.

The gap between Low and Ultra settings widens dramatically as resolution increases. At 1080p, the spread from Low to Ultra is 45.8 FPS (79.9 down to 34.1). At 1440p, that spread narrows to 26.3 FPS (50.4 down to 24.1). At 4K, the spread is just 11.2 FPS (24.9 down to 13.7). This compression at higher resolutions indicates that the GPU is the limiting component: when the pixel fill rate becomes the bottleneck, additional graphics settings have less relative impact because the renderer is already saturated. The data suggests that resolution scaling follows an exponential decay pattern — each step from 1080p to 1440p to 4K costs more performance than the previous step, particularly at lower settings presets.

How This Combo Ranks

In the global database of tested CPU-GPU combinations for Hitman 2, this pairing sits at rank 1654 out of 1795 combos. That places it in the bottom 7.9% of all tested configurations for this game. The ranking reflects the substantial mismatch between the CPU and GPU: the Ryzen 7 5800XT is a high-end processor with an average benchmark score of 29774, placing it in the 86th percentile of all CPUs, while the RX 580's average benchmark score of 13559 puts it in the 53rd percentile of all GPUs. The processor is clearly not the limiting factor in this pairing.

Looking at the CPU's nearest rivals, the Ryzen 7 5800XT scores within 0.3% of the AMD Ryzen 7 7840H and the AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS, and within 0.1% of the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5755GE. These margins are negligible in real-world gaming terms — the chip's compute capability is consistently near the top of its class. The GPU, however, trades blows with much older hardware: the RX 580's nearest rivals include the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (0% delta), the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 (0.1% delta), and the AMD Radeon Pro 455 (1.1% delta). This places the GPU's raw compute performance in a bracket with cards from several generations prior, which explains why the combo rank is so low despite having a modern eight-core processor.

The combination's low rank in Hitman 2 is therefore a direct consequence of GPU-limited performance. The CPU's high percentile ranking is effectively wasted in this game at the resolutions tested, as the frame rates are dictated almost entirely by the graphics card's throughput.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 580 brings 8 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 256.0 GB/s. The memory runs at a 2000 MHz clock with 8 Gbps effective speed. These memory specifications are adequate for 1080p gaming but become strained at higher resolutions. The GPU's compute capabilities include 2304 shading units, 144 texture mapping units, and 32 render output units. Its pixel rate is 42.88 GPixel/s and texture rate is 193.0 GTexel/s, with FP32 performance of 6.175 TFLOPS.

The clock behavior of this card — base clock of 1257 MHz and boost clock of 1340 MHz — shows a modest boost ceiling that limits the card's ability to respond to increased load. In Hitman 2, this translates to the steep frame rate degradation observed when moving from 1080p to 4K. The 14 nm Polaris 20 chip, with a die size of 232 mm² and 5,700 million transistors, was designed for the 1080p era, and the benchmark results confirm this: only the 1080p Low preset (79.9 FPS) and 1080p Medium (58.4 FPS) deliver playable frame rates. The 8 GB VRAM capacity is sufficient for the game's assets at 1080p, but the memory bandwidth becomes the limiting factor at 1440p and 4K, where the pixel throughput requirements outpace what the 256-bit bus can deliver.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo produces a clear tiered structure across settings. Low settings yield an average of 79.9 FPS, which is the only result above 60 FPS in the entire dataset. Medium settings drop to 58.4 FPS, a 26.9% reduction from Low. High settings reduce the average further to 42 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 34.1 FPS. The relative performance difference between Low and Ultra at 1080p is 57.3%, showing that the GPU has some headroom at this resolution to absorb graphics feature increases, but the gap between Medium and High (16.4 FPS) is the steepest single-step drop, suggesting that High enables effects that heavily tax the Polaris architecture.

At 2560x1440, the same settings ladder produces 50.4 FPS at Low, 35.1 FPS at Medium, 30.2 FPS at High, and 24.1 FPS at Ultra. The Low-to-Ultra drop here is 52.2%, slightly shallower than at 1080p because the GPU is already closer to saturation. None of the 1440p presets achieve a 60 FPS average; even the lowest settings preset falls 16% short of that target. The Medium preset at 1440p delivers 35.1 FPS, which is nearly identical to the Ultra preset at 1080p (34.1 FPS), illustrating how resolution and settings trade off against each other on this hardware.

At 3840x2160, the results are uniformly low. Low settings average 24.9 FPS, Medium drops to 20.7 FPS, High falls to 14.6 FPS, and Ultra manages only 13.7 FPS. The 4K Low result is just 31.2% of the 1080p Low result, and the 4K Ultra result is 40.2% of the 1080p Ultra result. The frame rates at 4K are consistently below 25 FPS across all presets, making this resolution effectively unusable for smooth gameplay with this combination.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data points to a clear strategy for this combo in Hitman 2. At 1080p, the Medium preset delivers 58.4 FPS, which is close to the 60 FPS target and represents the best balance between visual quality and performance among the measured rows. The jump from Medium to High costs 16.4 FPS (a 28% drop), while the jump from Low to Medium gains 21.5 FPS (a 36.8% improvement) — the marginal benefit of lowering from Medium to Low is smaller than the visual cost, so Medium is the sweet spot at this resolution.

For 1440p, the Low preset at 50.4 FPS is the only setting that stays within striking distance of smooth gameplay, though it still misses 60 FPS by 16%. The Medium preset at 1440p drops to 35.1 FPS, which is a 30.4% reduction from Low — a steep price for the visual upgrade. Users who prioritize frame rate consistency should stay at 1440p Low; those who prefer visual fidelity should consider dropping to 1080p Medium instead, which offers 58.4 FPS and likely richer image quality than 1440p Low.

At 4K, no preset is playable. The best result, 24.9 FPS at Low, falls below 30 FPS, and the Ultra preset at 13.7 FPS is a slideshow. The data suggests avoiding 4K entirely with this combination. The overall recommendation from the measured rows is to run Hitman 2 at 1080p Medium for the best experience, with a possible move to 1440p Low for users who prefer resolution over settings. The GPU's 8 GB VRAM and 256-bit bus are sufficient for 1080p Medium, and the frame rate data confirms that this preset is where the hardware delivers its most consistent performance without sacrificing the game's visual identity.