Minecraft

Measured Minecraft performance for the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile pairing is collected below. The CPU is a 16-core, 32-thread Zen 4 mobile part with a 2.50 GHz base clock and 5.40 GHz boost clock, while the GPU uses 8 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 128-bit interface with 384.0 GB/s of bandwidth. In aggregate benchmark results, the CPU averages 76212 and sits in the 95th percentile of all tested CPUs, while the GPU averages 22435 and sits in the 67th percentile of all tested GPUs. In Minecraft specifically, this combo is measured at rank 2470 out of 3710 tested combos.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS rows cover the Low, Medium, High, and Ultra presets at 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160. Low produces the highest averages at every resolution: 399 FPS at 1920x1080, 252 at 2560x1440, and 132 at 3840x2160. High produces 251, 158, and 83 FPS for the same resolution order. Ultra produces 157, 99, and 52 FPS. Medium sits between Low and High: 316, 200, and 104 FPS.

Medium is the only preset in the measured set with logged minimum and maximum values. At 1920x1080, it averages 316 FPS with a minimum of 269 and a maximum of 364. At 2560x1440, it averages 200 FPS with a minimum of 170 and a maximum of 229. At 3840x2160, it averages 104 FPS with a minimum of 89 and a maximum of 120. That gives Medium a measurable frame-rate floor that the other presets do not include in this dataset.

For the best balance of average speed and logged frame delivery, Medium is the recommended setting from the measured rows. It outperforms High at every resolution and remains strong at 3840x2160. Low is the choice only when the goal is maximum FPS, while Ultra is best reserved for 1920x1080 or 2560x1440 play, because its 3840x2160 average falls to 52 FPS. High is acceptable at 3840x2160 with 83 FPS, but Medium offers a higher average and logged minimums at all three measured resolutions.

FAQ

Q: What is the best preset for this combo?

A: Medium offers the most balanced measured results: 316 FPS at 1920x1080, 200 FPS at 2560x1440, and 104 FPS at 3840x2160. It also has the only logged minimums, at 269, 170, and 89 FPS respectively. High and Ultra are slower at every resolution, and Low is faster but represents the lowest visual tier in the test set.

Q: How does the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX compare with its nearest CPU rivals?

A: The 8945HX has an average benchmark score of 76212 and a 95th percentile ranking. Its nearest listed rivals are the Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX at 76155 with a deltaPct of 0.1, the AMD EPYC Embedded 8224P at 76492 with a deltaPct of -0.4, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9945WX at 76513 with a deltaPct of -0.4, and the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D at 75779 with a deltaPct of 0.6. These scores put the 8945HX in a tight group around its nearest rivals.

Q: How does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile compare with nearby GPUs?

A: The RTX 5060 Mobile has an average benchmark score of 22435 and a 67th percentile ranking. Its nearest listed rivals are the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT at 22549 with a deltaPct of -0.5, the AMD Radeon RX 5700 at 22170 with a deltaPct of 1.2, the AMD Radeon RX 6700S at 22154 with a deltaPct of 1.3, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile at 22729 with a deltaPct of -1.3.

Q: What does the Minecraft combo rank say about this pairing?

A: The combo ranks 2470 out of 3710 tested Minecraft combos. That places the pairing in the lower portion of the tested field, despite the CPU's 95th percentile and the GPU's 67th percentile aggregate scores. The game-specific rank does not follow directly from the component aggregate benchmark standings.

Q: How does resolution change the measured FPS?

A: Every preset loses FPS as resolution increases. Low falls from 399 at 1920x1080 to 252 at 2560x1440 and 132 at 3840x2160. Medium falls from 316 to 200 and 104. High falls from 251 to 158 and 83. Ultra falls from 157 to 99 and 52. The pattern is consistent across all four presets.

Q: Is High or Ultra a better option when Medium is not selected?

A: High is the stronger fallback. It averages 251, 158, and 83 FPS across the three resolutions, while Ultra averages 157, 99, and 52. At 3840x2160, High remains above 83 FPS, while Ultra drops to 52 FPS. If visual quality is prioritized over frame rate, Ultra is still usable at 1920x1080 and 2560x1440, but its 3840x2160 result is the lowest measured value in the dataset.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile is a Blackwell 2.0 part with chip identifier GB206, built on a 5 nm process at TSMC. The die contains 21,900 million transistors and measures 181 mm². Its memory configuration is 8 GB of GDDR7 across a 128-bit bus, producing 384.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The listed clock behavior includes a 952 MHz base clock, a 1455 MHz boost clock, and a 1500 MHz memory clock with 24 Gbps effective speed. Compute resources include 3328 shading units, 104 texture mapping units, 48 ROPs, 26 RT cores, 104 tensor cores, and 9.684 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput.

The GPU's synthetic benchmark results provide context for the Minecraft numbers. It scores 3013.5 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, 96969 in Geekbench OpenCL, 96451 in Geekbench Vulkan, 18852 in PassMark G3D, and 7607 in PassMark GPU compute. Its aggregate GPU score is 22435, with a 67th percentile ranking among all tested GPUs.

In the Minecraft measured rows, the GPU is the component most directly associated with resolution-driven FPS changes. At 1920x1080, the setup reaches 399 FPS on Low, 316 on Medium, 251 on High, and 157 on Ultra. At 3840x2160, those averages fall to 132, 104, 83, and 52 FPS. The 8 GB VRAM capacity and 384.0 GB/s bandwidth are the memory-side specifications paired with these results. The dataset does not include VRAM occupancy measurements, so the frame buffer capacity cannot be directly confirmed as a limiting factor in these runs; the available data only shows that the measured FPS declines as the render resolution rises.

How This Combo Ranks

The Minecraft-specific ranking places this combo at 2470 out of 3710 tested combinations. That is a lower position than the component percentile figures alone would suggest. The CPU ranks in the 95th percentile of all tested CPUs, and the GPU ranks in the 67th percentile of all tested GPUs. If aggregate performance were the only factor, a pairing with those standings would be expected to sit higher in the game-specific table.

The CPU's nearest rivals are all separated by narrow deltaPct values: the Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX is at 76155 with a deltaPct of 0.1, the AMD EPYC Embedded 8224P is at 76492 with a deltaPct of -0.4, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9945WX is at 76513 with a deltaPct of -0.4, and the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is at 75779 with a deltaPct of 0.6. The GPU's nearest rivals are similarly tight: the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT is at 22549 with a deltaPct of -0.5, the AMD Radeon RX 5700 is at 22170 with a deltaPct of 1.2, the AMD Radeon RX 6700S is at 22154 with a deltaPct of 1.3, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile is at 22729 with a deltaPct of -1.3.

Despite those close aggregate scores, the Minecraft combo rank of 2470 out of 3710 indicates that many tested CPU and GPU pairings produce higher Minecraft performance. The game-specific result appears to depend on factors beyond average CPU and GPU benchmark scores, including the interaction of this particular CPU and GPU in Minecraft's workload.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data shows a steady, consistent resolution curve. At Low settings, the average goes from 399 FPS at 1920x1080 to 252 at 2560x1440 and 132 at 3840x2160. At Medium settings, it goes from 316 to 200 and 104. At High settings, it goes from 251 to 158 and 83. At Ultra settings, it goes from 157 to 99 and 52.

This pattern indicates that increasing resolution has a clear effect on performance. Because the GPU is the component that renders pixels, the measured FPS decline is consistent with a GPU-sensitive workload at higher resolutions. At 1920x1080, the CPU's strong aggregate results — including a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 42713 and single-core score of 6030 — help explain why the setup can produce very high frame rates even on the Ultra preset. As the resolution increases to 2560x1440 and then 3840x2160, the GPU becomes the more visible limiting component.

The scaling behavior is uniform across all four presets. No preset is immune to the resolution penalty, and no resolution shows an anomalous spike. The 3840x2160 averages range from 52 FPS on Ultra to 132 FPS on Low, which shows that the component combination still maintains usable performance at the highest tested resolution on lower presets, but cannot sustain extreme frame rates there.

Measured FPS Breakdown

| Resolution | Settings | Avg FPS | Min FPS | Max FPS |

|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|

| 1920x1080 | Low | 399 | — | — |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 316 | 269 | 364 |

| 1920x1080 | High | 251 | — | — |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 157 | — | — |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 252 | — | — |

| 2560x1440 | Medium | 200 | 170 | 229 |

| 2560x1440 | High | 158 | — | — |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra | 99 | — | — |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 132 | — | — |

| 3840x2160 | Medium | 104 | 89 | 120 |

| 3840x2160 | High | 83 | — | — |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra | 52 | — | — |

The Medium preset is the only row group with minimum and maximum FPS values in the measured set. Its minimums are 269 at 1920x1080, 170 at 2560x1440, and 89 at 3840x2160. Those logged minimums show that even at the highest measured resolution, Medium remains above the point where the average frame rate would be pulled downward. The Low, High, and Ultra rows do not include minimum or maximum values, so the dataset provides only their average FPS. Overall, the measured data confirms that this Ryzen 9 8945HX and RTX 5060 Mobile combination is capable of very high frame rates at 1920x1080, strong performance at 2560x1440, and playable results at 3840x2160 when settings are chosen carefully.