Hitman 2

The Intel Core i7-13700K paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 delivers exceptional performance in Hitman 2, with the data indicating that the High preset offers the most balanced experience across all tested resolutions. At 1920x1080, the High preset produces an average of 195.1 FPS, while the Medium preset reaches 261.1 FPS and Low achieves 346.8 FPS. However, the Ultra preset, at 145.9 FPS, still provides a smooth experience but with diminishing returns relative to the visual fidelity jump from High. At 2560x1440, the High preset maintains a robust 126.4 FPS, which is well above the threshold for high-refresh-rate displays. The 3840x2160 resolution sees the High preset drop to 67.4 FPS, which remains playable but begins to test the limits of the hardware. Given the measured data, the High preset is the recommended starting point—it provides the best combination of visual quality and frame rate headroom across all three resolutions. The Medium preset is a viable alternative for users prioritizing higher frame rates, especially at 4K, where it delivers 86.6 FPS, a significant improvement over High. Conversely, the Ultra preset, while visually demanding, yields the lowest frame rates—49.9 FPS at 4K—which may not justify the performance cost for most users.

How This Combo Ranks

The Intel Core i7-13700K and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 combination ranks 8th out of 1795 tested combos in Hitman 2, placing it in the top percentile of all possible system configurations for this title. This ranking underscores the exceptional synergy between the CPU and GPU in this specific game workload. The CPU itself holds a percentile ranking of 93 against all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 47,282. Its nearest rivals in the CPU benchmark database are the Intel Core i7-13700KF, which scores 47,334 (a delta of -0.1 percent), the AMD EPYC 4364P at 47,131 (a delta of 0.3 percent), and the Intel Core i9-12900F at 47,081 (a delta of 0.4 percent). The negligible performance differences—all within a 0.5 percent range—indicate that the i7-13700K is squarely in the top tier of processors, with no meaningful performance gap to its closest competitors. The GPU, meanwhile, holds a percentile ranking of 94 against all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 84,306. Its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D at 84,241 (a delta of 0.1 percent), the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile at 84,171 (a delta of 0.2 percent), and the AMD Radeon PRO W6600 at 83,209 (a delta of 1.3 percent). The data shows that the RTX 5090 is effectively at the apex of GPU performance, with its nearest competitor trailing by only 0.1 percent. The combination of a top-8 system rank, a CPU in the 93rd percentile, and a GPU in the 94th percentile confirms that this pairing is among the most powerful configurations available for Hitman 2, with the measured FPS data reflecting this elite status.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 plays a pivotal role in Hitman 2's performance, driven by its substantial memory resources and high clock speeds. The GPU features 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus, providing a memory bandwidth of 1.79 TB/s. This vast memory capacity and bandwidth are instrumental in handling the game's asset streaming and texture data, particularly at higher resolutions such as 3840x2160, where memory pressure is most acute. The GPU's base clock is 2017 MHz, with a boost clock of 2407 MHz, and the memory operates at an effective speed of 28 Gbps. These clock speeds, combined with the 21,760 shading units, 680 texture mapping units, and 176 render output units, allow the RTX 5090 to process the game's geometry and lighting effects with high efficiency. The GPU's architecture, Blackwell 2.0, fabricated on a 5 nm process with 92,200 million transistors, contributes to its raw computational power, as evidenced by its FP32 performance of 104.8 TFLOPS. In the context of Hitman 2, the data shows that the GPU is the dominant component, as the frame rates scale significantly with resolution and settings changes. The measured FPS at 1920x1080 with Low settings reaches 346.8 FPS, which is likely near the CPU's limit, but at 3840x2160 with Ultra settings, the frame rate drops to 49.9 FPS, indicating that the GPU is being fully utilized at higher resolutions. The RTX 5090's 170 ray tracing cores and 680 tensor cores also support advanced rendering features, though the measured data does not isolate their specific impact on this title. The GPU's high pixel rate of 423.6 GPixel/s and texture rate of 1,636.8 GTexel/s further underscore its capability to handle the game's graphical demands, making it the primary driver of performance in this benchmark.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data for Hitman 2 reveals a clear performance hierarchy across resolutions and settings. At 1920x1080, the Low preset produces an average of 346.8 FPS, which is the highest recorded frame rate in the dataset. The Medium preset follows at 261.1 FPS, while the High preset achieves 195.1 FPS. The Ultra preset delivers 145.9 FPS, which is still impressively high but represents a 57.9 percent reduction from Low. Moving to 2560x1440, the frame rates show a proportional decline: Low yields 223 FPS, Medium produces 169.6 FPS, High reaches 126.4 FPS, and Ultra drops to 92.4 FPS. The scaling from 1080p to 1440p for each setting shows a consistent reduction of approximately 35 to 40 percent, indicating that the GPU is becoming more of a limiting factor as the pixel count increases. At 3840x2160, the performance drops are more pronounced. The Low preset averages 120.6 FPS, which is still playable, but the Medium preset falls to 86.6 FPS. The High preset manages 67.4 FPS, while the Ultra preset yields 49.9 FPS, which is the lowest recorded average in the entire dataset. The data shows that the High preset at 4K is the minimum viable setting for a smooth experience, while Ultra at 4K is likely to cause noticeable stuttering on high-refresh-rate displays. The overall pattern across all resolutions is consistent: the Low preset provides the highest frame rates, followed by Medium, High, and Ultra in descending order. The gap between Low and Ultra is substantial, with Ultra typically delivering 50 to 60 percent lower frame rates than Low, depending on the resolution.

Resolution Scaling

The resolution scaling behavior of Hitman 2 with this hardware combination reveals important insights into the limiting component. From 1920x1080 to 2560x1440, the average frame rate across all settings drops by approximately 37 percent. For example, at High settings, the frame rate falls from 195.1 FPS at 1080p to 126.4 FPS at 1440p, a reduction of 68.7 FPS. At Low settings, the drop is from 346.8 FPS to 223 FPS, a reduction of 123.8 FPS. This scaling pattern suggests that the CPU is still able to feed the GPU adequately at 1440p, as the frame rates remain high, but the GPU is beginning to show its influence. The transition from 2560x1440 to 3840x2160 is more dramatic. At High settings, the frame rate drops from 126.4 FPS to 67.4 FPS, a reduction of 46.7 percent. At Low settings, the drop is from 223 FPS to 120.6 FPS, a reduction of 45.9 percent. The Ultra preset shows the most severe scaling, dropping from 92.4 FPS at 1440p to 49.9 FPS at 4K, a 46 percent reduction. This steep decline at 4K is characteristic of a GPU-bound scenario, where the RTX 5090's raw compute power and memory bandwidth are being pushed to their limits. The data indicates that at 1080p, the CPU may still be the limiting factor, as evidenced by the very high frame rates that approach the CPU's theoretical maximum. However, at 4K, the GPU is clearly the bottleneck, as the frame rates scale almost linearly with the pixel count increase. The overall scaling from 1080p to 4K shows that the average frame rate across all settings drops by roughly 65 percent, which is consistent with a system that transitions from CPU-bound at lower resolutions to GPU-bound at higher resolutions. This behavior is typical for a high-end CPU paired with an ultra-high-end GPU, where the balance of performance shifts as the rendering load increases.