Hitman 2

The Intel Core i5-10400F paired with the AMD Radeon RX 570 produces a constrained experience in Hitman 2, with the benchmark data showing a clear hierarchy of playable settings depending on resolution. At 1080p, the Low preset delivers an average of 72.8 FPS, which is the only configuration in the dataset that approaches high-refresh-rate territory. The Medium preset drops to 55.2 FPS, still smooth for most displays, while High falls to 38.7 FPS, which is playable but noticeably less fluid. The Ultra preset at 1080p yields just 29.3 FPS, indicating that the GPU lacks the headroom for maximum quality at this resolution. For the best experience per the measured rows, the Low preset at 1920x1080 offers the highest frame rate, but Medium at 55.2 FPS is the optimal balance, as it provides a significant visual upgrade over Low while maintaining a frame rate well above the 30 FPS threshold. At 1440p, the situation worsens: Low produces 46.8 FPS, Medium 35.9 FPS, and High 26.1 FPS, with Ultra falling to 21.1 FPS. The 1440p Medium preset is the only 1440p option that stays above 30 FPS, making it the sole viable choice for that resolution. At 4K, all presets are effectively unplayable, with Low at 23.5 FPS, Medium at 20.2 FPS, High at 15.8 FPS, and Ultra at 8.3 FPS, so the data suggests avoiding 3840x2160 entirely with this combination.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 570 is the primary bottleneck in this pairing for Hitman 2, as its 4 GB of GDDR5 memory and 256-bit bus provide a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s, which is insufficient for the game’s demands at higher settings. The GPU’s base clock of 1168 MHz and boost clock of 1244 MHz, coupled with 2048 shading units, 128 TMUs, and 32 ROPs, produce a pixel rate of 39.81 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 159.2 GTexel/s. These specifications translate to a raw compute throughput of 5.095 TFLOPS, which the benchmark scores reflect in the measured frame rates. The GPU’s percentile ranking against all GPUs is 74, placing it above the median, but its nearest rivals in average benchmark score include the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, which is 0.2% ahead, and the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT, also 0.2% ahead, indicating that the RX 570’s synthetic performance is competitive with much newer parts, yet its real-world gaming performance in Hitman 2 is hampered by memory capacity and bandwidth. The 4 GB VRAM is particularly problematic at 4K, where the Ultra preset’s 8.3 FPS suggests the card is spilling over into system memory or failing to load textures efficiently. The GPU’s 14 nm process node from GlobalFoundries, with 5,700 million transistors on a 232 mm² die, explains its relatively high power draw of 150 W, but this does not translate into sustained high frame rates in this title. The data shows that the RX 570’s architecture, GCN 4.0, is aging, and its performance in Hitman 2 is consistent with a card that struggles to maintain 60 FPS even at 1080p on Medium settings.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K is severe and reveals the GPU as the limiting component. At Low settings, the average FPS falls from 72.8 at 1920x1080 to 46.8 at 2560x1440, a reduction of 35.7%, and then to 23.5 at 3840x2160, a further 49.8% drop from the 1440p figure. This scaling is not linear, as the pixel count increases by 77.8% from 1080p to 1440p and by 125% from 1440p to 4K, yet the frame rate drops are proportionally larger, indicating that the RX 570’s fillrate and memory bandwidth are exhausted quickly. At High settings, the 1080p result is 38.7 FPS, dropping to 26.1 FPS at 1440p (a 32.6% decrease) and then to 15.8 FPS at 4K (a 39.5% decrease from 1440p). The Ultra preset shows the most dramatic falloff: 29.3 FPS at 1080p, 21.1 FPS at 1440p, and 8.3 FPS at 4K, with the 4K figure representing only 28.3% of the 1080p performance. This pattern suggests that the CPU, with its 6 cores and 12 threads, is not the primary constraint, as the frame rate scales inversely with resolution in a manner typical of a GPU-bound scenario. The 42.7 GB/s memory bandwidth of the CPU is more than sufficient for the data transfer required at these resolutions, whereas the GPU’s 224.0 GB/s bandwidth is the limiting factor. The 4K Ultra result of 8.3 FPS is so low that it indicates the game is likely unable to maintain consistent rendering, and even the 1440p Medium result of 35.9 FPS is borderline, suggesting that the sweet spot for this combo is firmly at 1080p.

How This Combo Ranks

In the database of tested combinations for Hitman 2, this specific pairing of the Intel Core i5-10400F and AMD Radeon RX 570 ranks 1688 out of 1795 combos, placing it in the bottom 6% of all configurations. This rank is a reflection of the GPU’s age and the game’s demanding nature, as the CPU itself is not the weak link. The i5-10400F has a percentile ranking of 73 against all CPUs, meaning it outperforms 73% of processors in synthetic benchmarks, and its average benchmark score of 14168 is nearly identical to its nearest rival, the AMD EPYC 7552, which scores 14115 with a deltaPct of 0.4%. However, the GPU’s percentile ranking of 74, while similar, does not translate to strong gaming performance because the RX 570’s average benchmark score of 30158 is closely matched by the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 (30109, deltaPct 0.2%) and the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT (30097, deltaPct 0.2%), both of which are far more capable in modern titles. The combo’s low rank is primarily due to the RX 570’s inability to handle Hitman 2’s higher presets, as evidenced by the 1080p Ultra result of 29.3 FPS, which is below the 30 FPS playability threshold. The data indicates that while the CPU is a solid mid-range part, the GPU drags the overall system down to a rank that is near the bottom of the chart, with only 107 combos performing worse. This suggests that users with this pairing should expect to run the game at 1080p with low-to-medium settings to achieve acceptable frame rates.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-10400F provides a stable foundation for this gaming system, with 6 cores and 12 threads operating at a base clock of 2.90 GHz and a boost clock of 4.30 GHz. This Comet Lake architecture, built on a 14 nm process, has a 12 MB shared L3 cache and supports DDR4 memory in dual-channel mode, yielding a memory bandwidth of 42.7 GB/s. The CPU’s benchmark scores are respectable for its class: it achieves 10297 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 1453 in single-core, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 5783 and single-core of 1454. These numbers place the i5-10400F in the 73rd percentile of all CPUs, and its average benchmark score of 14168 is within 1.2% of its nearest rivals, including the Intel Core i5-8500 (14332, deltaPct -1.1%) and the AMD Ryzen Embedded V2546 (14336, deltaPct -1.2%). In Hitman 2, the CPU’s role appears to be secondary to the GPU, as the frame rates at 1080p Low (72.8 FPS) and 1440p Low (46.8 FPS) suggest that the 6-core, 12-thread configuration is not a bottleneck at lower settings, where the GPU is fully utilized. However, the data does not show a scenario where the CPU becomes limiting, as even at 1080p Ultra (29.3 FPS), the frame rate is so low that it is clearly GPU-bound. The CPU’s boost clock of 4.30 GHz on a single core is sufficient for the game’s AI and physics calculations, and its 12 MB L3 cache helps reduce memory latency. The Passmark multi-thread score of 12115 and single-thread score of 2541 further confirm that the CPU has adequate processing power for a stealth game like Hitman 2, which relies more on crowd simulation and pathfinding than on heavy parallel workloads. The conclusion is that the i5-10400F is not holding back the RX 570 in this title; rather, the GPU’s 4 GB memory and older architecture are the decisive factors in the measured performance.