Microsoft Flight Simulator

FAQ

Q: How does the AMD Ryzen 5 7400F + AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT combo rank in Microsoft Flight Simulator?

A: This combination ranks 2745th out of 3714 tested combos in the database for this game, placing it in the lower-middle portion of the performance field.

Q: What is the best 4K performance this combo can achieve?

A: At 3840x2160, the highest average FPS recorded is 59 on Low settings, while Ultra settings deliver only 33 FPS average. Medium settings produce 46 FPS, and High settings yield 34 FPS.

Q: Does the CPU or GPU bottleneck this game at 1080p?

A: Benchmark results show the GPU becomes the primary limiting factor at lower resolutions. At 1080p Low, the combo reaches 98 FPS, but scaling to 4K Low drops to 59 FPS, a roughly 40% reduction that tracks closely with GPU workload scaling rather than CPU limits.

Q: How does the GPU compare to its nearest rivals in overall benchmark scores?

A: The RX 5700 XT has an average benchmark score of 16361, sitting within 0.3% of the AMD Radeon PRO W7500 (16415) and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (16408). It is 0.1% ahead of the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M (16351).

Q: What CPU benchmark scores does the Ryzen 5 7400F produce?

A: The CPU scores 21765 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 3072 in single-core. In PassMark, it achieves 25645 for multithread and 3689 for single-thread performance, with an overall average benchmark score of 32750.

Q: Is there a playable FPS at 1440p with this combo?

A: At 2560x1440, Medium settings deliver 62 FPS average (with 52 min and 71 max), while High produces 46 FPS and Ultra drops to 44 FPS. Low settings reach 79 FPS, making 1440p Medium the most balanced option for smooth gameplay.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT brings 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, yielding 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth. Its base clock runs at 1605 MHz, with a game clock of 1755 MHz and a boost clock of 1905 MHz. These specifications position the GPU as a mid-range part from the RDNA 1.0 architecture, built on TSMC's 7 nm process with 10,300 million transistors.

In Microsoft Flight Simulator, the GPU's memory capacity and bandwidth become critical. The game streams vast terrain and scenery data, and the 8 GB frame buffer shows its limits at higher resolutions. At 4K Ultra, the combo averages only 33 FPS, while dropping to Medium raises that to 46 FPS. The jump from Medium to High at 4K is steep — a 12 FPS decline — indicating that the GPU's shading units (2560) and texture units (160) struggle with the increased detail.

The GPU's 9.754 TFLOPS of FP32 compute and 304.8 GTexel/s texture rate are modest by current standards. The PassMark G3D score of 16277 places it at the 59th percentile of all GPUs, confirming its mid-pack standing. Its nearest rivals in average benchmark score include the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M (16351, 0.1% behind) and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (16408, 0.3% ahead), showing the RX 5700 XT is closely matched with workstation-class parts.

The lack of hardware ray tracing cores (none listed) means the game's visual effects rely purely on rasterization, which is consistent with the measured FPS at various settings. The 64 ROPs deliver a pixel rate of 121.9 GPixel/s, but at 4K resolution the fill rate becomes a bottleneck — evidenced by the sub-60 FPS results at all settings except Low.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo's rank of 2745 out of 3714 tested combinations places it in the 26th percentile of all tested systems for Microsoft Flight Simulator. This is a below-average standing, but the data reveals that the ranking is heavily influenced by the GPU's age and the game's demanding nature.

The CPU, by contrast, performs above average. The Ryzen 5 7400F sits at the 83rd percentile of all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 32750. It edges out the Intel Core i5-14600T (32707, 0.1% behind) and the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H (32697, 0.2% behind), while trailing the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H (32812, 0.2% ahead) by a hair.

The GPU, however, sits at the 59th percentile, pulling the combined ranking down. The RX 5700 XT's average score of 16361 is competitive with its immediate rivals, but it lacks the headroom needed for a flight simulator that pushes both geometry and texture loads simultaneously.

Given that this combo ranks 2745th out of 3714, the data suggests that most other tested systems — likely with newer GPUs — outperform it. The gap between the CPU's high percentile and the GPU's mid percentile indicates that the GPU is the constraining factor in this pairing. Upgrading the GPU would yield larger gains than replacing the CPU, based on the benchmark distribution.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its strongest results. Low settings produce 98 FPS average, Medium reaches 77 FPS (with a 65 min and 88 max), High drops to 58 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 55 FPS. The spread from Low to Ultra is 43 FPS, showing that the GPU scales predictably with settings at this resolution.

At 2560x1440, performance declines across the board. Low settings yield 79 FPS, Medium produces 62 FPS (52 min, 71 max), High falls to 46 FPS, and Ultra manages 44 FPS. The gap between High and Ultra narrows to just 2 FPS, suggesting that beyond a certain detail threshold, the GPU's resources are exhausted and additional settings have diminishing returns.

At 3840x2160, the results become marginal. Low settings average 59 FPS, Medium drops to 46 FPS (39 min, 52 max), High falls to 34 FPS, and Ultra sinks to 33 FPS. The 4K Ultra result is barely above the minimum playable threshold for many users, and the 4K High result is similarly constrained.

The data shows a consistent pattern: the combo is capable of smooth 60+ FPS only at 1080p Low/Medium and 1440p Low. For 4K gaming, even Low settings hover near the 60 FPS line, and anything above Medium will produce stutter-prone frame rates. The min FPS values at Medium settings (65 at 1080p, 52 at 1440p, 39 at 4K) indicate that frame pacing degrades as resolution increases, which is typical for a GPU with 8 GB of VRAM under heavy texture streaming loads.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS drop from 1080p to 4K reveals the bottleneck characteristics of this combo. At Low settings, 1080p produces 98 FPS, 1440p produces 79 FPS, and 4K produces 59 FPS. The scaling from 1080p to 4K is a 40% reduction, which is less than the 4x pixel count increase would suggest — this indicates that the CPU is partially limiting at 1080p Low, preventing the GPU from fully stretching its legs.

At Medium settings, the scaling is steeper: 77 FPS at 1080p, 62 FPS at 1440p, and 46 FPS at 4K. This represents a 40% drop from 1080p to 4K as well, but the absolute numbers show the GPU becoming more dominant as the workload increases. The min FPS values at Medium (65, 52, 39) scale almost linearly with resolution, suggesting the GPU's memory bandwidth is the limiting factor.

At High settings, the pattern shifts: 58 FPS at 1080p, 46 FPS at 1440p, and 34 FPS at 4K. The 4K result is 41% lower than 1080p, but the 1440p result is only 21% lower, indicating that the GPU hits a compute ceiling beyond 1440p. Ultra settings show a similar trend: 55 FPS at 1080p, 44 FPS at 1440p, and 33 FPS at 4K.

The data suggests that at 1080p, the CPU is capable of feeding the GPU sufficiently at Low settings, but as settings increase, the GPU becomes the primary limiter. At 4K, the GPU is unequivocally the bottleneck — the 8 GB VRAM and 448 GB/s bandwidth cannot sustain high detail levels, and the frame rate collapses to the low 30s regardless of Ultra or High settings.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 7400F is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on Zen 4 architecture (Raphael codename), running on the AMD Socket AM5 platform. Its base clock is 3.70 GHz, boosting up to 4.70 GHz, with a 65W TDP. The 5 nm process node from TSMC houses 6,570 million transistors on a 71 mm² die, with 32 MB of shared L3 cache.

In Microsoft Flight Simulator, the CPU handles simulation logic, physics, and AI traffic. The 7400F's strong single-thread performance — 3072 in Cinebench R23 single-core and 3689 in PassMark single-thread — is crucial for this game, which relies heavily on single-threaded simulation loops. The 83rd percentile ranking among all CPUs confirms it is well above average for this workload.

The CPU's multi-threaded capabilities are also relevant. The Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 21765 and PassMark multithread score of 25645 show that the 12 threads can handle the game's background tasks, such as terrain loading and weather simulation, without bottlenecking the GPU.

The data shows that the CPU is not the primary constraint in this combo. At 1080p Low, the combo hits 98 FPS, which is close to what the GPU can deliver at that setting. If the CPU were limiting, we would expect the 4K Low result (59 FPS) to be closer to the 1080p result, but instead it drops significantly — a sign that the GPU is saturated at higher resolutions.

The nearest CPU rivals in average benchmark score are the Intel Core i5-14600T (0.1% behind), Intel Core Ultra 7 155H (0.2% behind), and AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H (0.2% ahead). These close margins indicate that the 7400F is competitively positioned among mid-range desktop and high-end mobile processors, but none of these rivals would change the fundamental GPU-bound nature of this combo in Flight Simulator.

The CPU's 83.2 GB/s memory bandwidth and dual-channel DDR5 support provide adequate data throughput for the game's streaming requirements, but the GPU's 448 GB/s bandwidth is the more critical path for frame rendering. The 6-core/12-thread configuration is sufficient for this title, as the game does not scale efficiently beyond a handful of cores, and the 7400F's high boost clock ensures responsive single-thread performance.