Minecraft

FAQ

Q: What is the best preset to use at 1080p with this AMD Ryzen 7 5700G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 combo?

A: The High preset delivers a 290 average FPS, which is 109 FPS higher than Ultra’s 181 average. Since High already exceeds the refresh rate of most 1080p displays, the extra visual fidelity from Ultra is unnecessary for competitive play.

Q: How much performance does the RTX 4060 lose when moving from 1080p to 4K at Medium settings?

A: At Medium settings, the average FPS drops from 365 at 1920x1080 to 231 at 2560x1440, then to 121 at 3840x2160. This represents a 244 FPS reduction between 1080p and 4K, indicating a growing GPU bottleneck at higher resolutions.

Q: Is the Ryzen 7 5700G capable of driving high frame rates in Minecraft?

A: Yes. The CPU’s single-thread score of 899 in 3dmark and 3283 in Passmark single-thread tests, combined with its 8 cores and 16 threads, provides ample headroom. At 1080p Low, the combo reaches 461 FPS, showing the CPU is not the limiting factor at lower settings.

Q: Does the RTX 4060’s 8 GB VRAM cause any issues at 4K Ultra?

A: The data shows a 60 FPS average at 4K Ultra, which is the lowest recorded result. While VRAM capacity is not directly measured, the steep drop from 4K High’s 96 FPS to 4K Ultra’s 60 FPS suggests that the GPU’s memory bandwidth of 272.0 GB/s and 128-bit bus are stressed by the highest settings.

Q: How does this combo rank among all tested configurations in Minecraft?

A: The combo ranks 1989 out of 3710 tested combos, placing it in the 46th percentile of all configurations. This mid-pack ranking reflects balanced performance, though it is not near the top for this game.

Q: What is the minimum FPS recorded across all tested settings?

A: The only minimum FPS values provided are for Medium settings: 311 at 1080p, 196 at 1440p, and 102 at 4K. The 4K Medium minimum of 102 FPS is the lowest minimum recorded, yet still comfortably above 60 FPS.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data reveals a clear performance hierarchy across presets, with the most efficient experience found at High settings for most resolutions. At 1920x1080, High produces 290 FPS, which is only 75 FPS lower than Low’s 461 FPS but delivers substantially better visual quality. Medium at 1080p offers 365 FPS, but the incremental gain over High is modest compared to the visual trade-off. For users with 1440p displays, High remains the sweet spot at 183 FPS, providing a smooth experience while maintaining graphical fidelity. The jump from High to Ultra at 1440p costs 69 FPS (from 183 to 114), which is a significant penalty for marginal visual improvements.

At 4K, the choice becomes more strategic. High settings yield 96 FPS, which is playable but not ideal for high-refresh-rate monitors. Medium at 4K produces 121 FPS with a minimum of 102 FPS, making it the best balance for 4K gaming. Ultra at 4K drops to 60 FPS exactly, which matches standard 60 Hz displays but leaves no headroom for frame drops. Low settings at any resolution are primarily useful for competitive scenarios where maximum FPS is paramount, but the visual degradation is severe. The data indicates that High is the recommended preset for 1080p and 1440p, while Medium is the pragmatic choice for 4K given the 121 FPS average and 102 FPS minimum.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals important insights about the system’s bottleneck characteristics. At Low settings, the drop from 461 FPS at 1080p to 291 FPS at 1440p represents a 37% reduction, while the further drop to 152 FPS at 4K is a 67% reduction from the 1080p baseline. This dramatic scaling at low settings, where the GPU is less stressed, suggests that the CPU’s performance ceiling is being approached at 1080p. The Ryzen 7 5700G’s single-thread performance, measured at 899 in 3dmark and 3283 in Passmark, is strong but finite, and the 461 FPS figure likely approaches that limit.

At Medium settings, the scaling is more consistent: 365 FPS at 1080p, 231 FPS at 1440p (37% drop), and 121 FPS at 4K (67% drop from 1080p). This pattern is nearly identical to Low, indicating that the CPU remains a co-bottleneck even at Medium settings. However, at High settings, the scaling becomes more GPU-bound: 290 FPS at 1080p drops to 183 FPS at 1440p (37% reduction) and then to 96 FPS at 4K (67% reduction). The 1080p-to-1440p drop is consistent across all settings, but the 1440p-to-4K drop at High (from 183 to 96 FPS, a 48% reduction) is more pronounced than at Low (from 291 to 152 FPS, a 48% reduction). This suggests that as settings increase, the RTX 4060’s 8 GB GDDR6 memory and 272.0 GB/s bandwidth become more limiting at 4K.

The Ultra preset shows the steepest scaling: 181 FPS at 1080p, 114 FPS at 1440p (37% drop), and 60 FPS at 4K (67% drop). The absolute 4K Ultra result of 60 FPS is exactly half the 1080p Ultra result, indicating that the GPU is the primary constraint at this configuration. Overall, the data shows that the CPU is sufficient for high frame rates at lower resolutions, but the GPU becomes the limiting component as resolution and settings increase.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo’s rank of 1989 out of 3710 tested configurations places it in the middle of the pack for Minecraft. This ranking is notably lower than what the raw FPS numbers might suggest, indicating that many other combos achieve higher frame rates in this specific game. The 46th percentile ranking (calculated from the rank position) suggests that Minecraft is particularly sensitive to certain hardware characteristics that this combo does not fully exploit. The Ryzen 7 5700G’s integrated Radeon Vega 8 graphics, while not used in this configuration, might indicate a design trade-off that affects performance in CPU-bound scenarios.

Compared to other CPU benchmarks, the 5700G’s average score of 27051 places it nearly even with the Intel Core i9-9900K, which scores 27097 with a deltaPct of -0.2. This means the 5700G is essentially tied with a high-end 2018 processor in overall CPU performance. The GPU’s average benchmark score of 17639 is similarly close to the AMD Radeon HD 7790 (17666, deltaPct -0.2), suggesting that the RTX 4060’s gaming performance is comparable to an older, lower-tier GPU in synthetic tests. However, in Minecraft, the combo’s 1080p High result of 290 FPS is competitive with many higher-ranked systems, indicating that the game’s optimization favors this particular CPU-GPU pairing.

The gap between the combo’s synthetic benchmark performance and its in-game rank suggests that Minecraft’s rendering engine places unusual demands on the hardware. The 5700G’s 16 MB L3 cache and 8 cores provide solid multi-threaded performance, but the game may benefit more from higher single-thread performance than the 3dmark single-thread score of 899 indicates. The RTX 4060’s 3072 shading units and 24 RT cores are more than sufficient for Minecraft’s relatively simple geometry, but the 128-bit memory bus might limit texture throughput at higher resolutions.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 brings 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, delivering 272.0 GB/s of bandwidth. This memory configuration is directly relevant to Minecraft’s performance scaling, particularly at 4K resolutions. The GPU’s base clock of 1830 MHz and boost clock of 2460 MHz, combined with 3072 shading units, provide the computational throughput needed for the game’s pixel and texture processing. The 48 ROPs and 96 TMUs (derived from the pixel rate of 118.1 GPixel/s and texture rate of 236.2 GTexel/s) handle the rasterization workload, which is substantial at 4K with high settings.

The RTX 4060’s performance in Minecraft is characterized by a steep drop at 4K Ultra, where it averages exactly 60 FPS. This result aligns with the GPU’s 61st percentile ranking among all GPUs, indicating that it is a mid-range performer. The GPU’s nearest rival, the AMD Radeon HD 7790, has a nearly identical average score with a deltaPct of -0.2, yet the RTX 4060 benefits from modern features like DirectX 12 Ultimate and Vulkan 1.4 support that can improve efficiency in Minecraft’s Java-based rendering. The 8 GB VRAM capacity is not exhausted at any tested setting, as evidenced by the fact that even 4K Medium achieves 121 FPS, but the memory bandwidth limitation becomes apparent at Ultra settings where the 60 FPS result is less than half of the 1080p Ultra result.

The GPU’s power envelope of 115 W TDP and dual-slot design make it a capable card for this game, but the data shows that it is the primary bottleneck at 4K Ultra. The transition from 4K High (96 FPS) to 4K Ultra (60 FPS) represents a 37.5% performance drop, which is disproportionate compared to the 1080p High-to-Ultra drop (from 290 to 181 FPS, a 37.6% reduction). This consistency suggests that the GPU is equally stressed at both resolutions when moving from High to Ultra, but the absolute frame rates at 4K leave less headroom. The RTX 4060’s 15.11 TFLOPS FP32 performance is more than sufficient for Minecraft’s shader load, but the memory system’s 128-bit interface is the limiting factor at extreme settings.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its highest frame rates across all settings. Low settings produce an average of 461 FPS, which is the maximum recorded in the entire dataset. Medium settings reduce this to 365 FPS, with a minimum of 311 FPS and a maximum of 420 FPS, providing a wide performance envelope. High settings yield 290 FPS, while Ultra drops to 181 FPS. The gap between High and Ultra at 1080p is 109 FPS, making Ultra the least efficient preset for this resolution.

Moving to 2560x1440, the performance scales down predictably. Low settings average 291 FPS, which is a 37% reduction from 1080p Low. Medium settings produce 231 FPS, with a minimum of 196 FPS and a maximum of 265 FPS. High settings average 183 FPS, and Ultra drops to 114 FPS. The High-to-Ultra gap at 1440p is 69 FPS, which is a smaller absolute difference than at 1080p but represents a similar percentage reduction (37.7% versus 37.6%). The 1440p Medium minimum of 196 FPS ensures a smooth experience even during demanding scenes.

At 3840x2160, the frame rates become more modest. Low settings average 152 FPS, Medium settings average 121 FPS with a minimum of 102 FPS and a maximum of 139 FPS, High settings average 96 FPS, and Ultra averages 60 FPS. The 4K Medium minimum of 102 FPS is particularly notable, as it indicates that even the worst-case frame times remain above 60 FPS. The 4K High result of 96 FPS is just shy of 100 FPS, while 4K Ultra’s 60 FPS exactly matches standard display refresh rates, leaving no room for frame drops. Across all resolutions, the Medium preset provides the most consistent performance, with the smallest relative difference between average and minimum FPS.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G is a Zen 3 (Cezanne) processor with 8 cores and 16 threads, running at a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz. Its 16 MB L3 cache and dual-channel DDR4 memory support provide 51.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth. In Minecraft, the CPU’s single-thread performance is crucial, and the 3dmark single-thread score of 899 and Passmark single-thread score of 3283 indicate solid per-core performance. The 5700G’s 79th percentile ranking among all CPUs (with an average benchmark score of 27051) places it above most processors, yet its nearest rivals include the Intel Core i9-9900K (deltaPct -0.2) and Intel Core i5-14400T (deltaPct -0.4), showing that it competes with both older high-end and newer mid-range chips.

The CPU’s role in this combo becomes evident at lower resolutions and settings. At 1080p Low, the 461 FPS result suggests the CPU is operating near its maximum frame-generation capability. The 5700G’s multi-threaded performance, measured at 12830.5 in Cinebench R23 multicore and 12830.5 in 3dmark max threads, ensures that background tasks do not interfere with gameplay. However, the single-thread score of 1494 in Cinebench R23 single-core indicates that the CPU’s per-core performance is strong but not exceptional, which is reflected in the 1080p results being lower than what some higher-clocked CPUs might achieve.

The 5700G’s 65 W TDP and 7 nm TSMC process node make it an efficient processor, but its integrated Radeon Vega 8 graphics (not used in this configuration) occupy die space that could theoretically be used for additional CPU cache or cores. The CPU’s 10,700 million transistors on a 180 mm² die are allocated across both CPU and GPU components, which may explain why its single-thread performance is slightly lower than dedicated CPU-only designs. In Minecraft, this manifests as a situation where the CPU can sustain high frame rates at 1080p (up to 461 FPS) but is not the primary bottleneck at higher resolutions. The data shows that the CPU’s performance ceiling is sufficient for 4K gaming, as the GPU becomes the limiting factor at 4K Ultra (60 FPS) while the CPU still has headroom.