Minimum

The AMD Ryzen 5 2600 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 delivers a solid, if not spectacular, experience in Minimum, a Third-Person Shooter released in 2014. Benchmark data shows the combination is capable of high refresh rate play at 1080p, but demands significant settings compromises as resolution climbs. The pairing ranks low in the broader database, indicating that while it handles this specific title adequately, it sits far from the top of the performance hierarchy.

FAQ

*Q: What is the combo's overall rank among tested systems in Minimum?*

A: The AMD Ryzen 5 2600 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 combination ranks 1456 out of 1733 tested combos in this game, placing it in the lower percentile of all recorded configurations.

Q: Can this system achieve 60 FPS at 1440p?

A: Yes, at 2560x1440 with High settings, the combo produces an average of 58.7 FPS. Dropping to Medium settings raises the average to 71.2 FPS, ensuring a smoother experience above the 60 FPS threshold.

Q: How does the GTX 1070 compare to its closest rival, the GTX 1650 SUPER?

A: The GTX 1070 has an average benchmark score of 12331, which is 1.4% lower than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER's score of 12504. This indicates near-identical raw performance between the two cards.

Q: What is the performance difference between the Ryzen 5 2600 and the Intel Core i5-11600KF?

A: The Ryzen 5 2600's average benchmark score of 19616 is 0.6% lower than the Intel Core i5-11600KF's score of 19740. The performance gap is minimal in synthetic tests.

Q: Is the GTX 1070's 8 GB of VRAM sufficient for 4K in this game?

A: While the 8 GB of VRAM is not the limiting factor at 4K, the GPU's raw compute power is. At 3840x2160 with High settings, the system averages 29.6 FPS, which is below the playable threshold for most users.

Q: Does the CPU bottleneck the GPU at 1080p Low settings?

A: No, the data indicates the GPU remains the primary bottleneck. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the system reaches 138.8 FPS, with the 6-core, 12-thread CPU providing sufficient headroom for the GTX 1070 to operate near its maximum potential.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 serves as the primary rendering engine in this configuration, built on the Pascal architecture with a 16 nm process node. Its core configuration includes 1920 shading units, 120 texture mapping units, and 64 ROPs, allowing it to process geometry and pixels efficiently for a game from 2014. The card operates at a base clock of 1506 MHz with a boost clock of 1683 MHz, and its 8 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus provides a bandwidth of 256.3 GB/s. This memory subsystem is crucial for feeding the GPU at higher resolutions and texture settings.

In Minimum, the GPU's influence is immediately apparent in the frame rate scaling across presets. At 1920x1080, the card delivers 138.8 FPS on Low, 108 FPS on Medium, 91.2 FPS on High, and 66.7 FPS on Ultra. The spread of 72.1 FPS between Low and Ultra demonstrates that the GTX 1070 has ample headroom at this resolution, but the performance cost of each quality tier is significant. Moving to 2560x1440, the averages drop to 87.8 FPS on Low, 71.2 FPS on Medium, 58.7 FPS on High, and 42.4 FPS on Ultra. The GPU's raw throughput, rated at 6.463 TFLOPS FP32, begins to show its limits here, as the pixel fill rate of 107.7 GPixel/s struggles to maintain high frame rates with Ultra settings.

At 3840x2160, the GTX 1070's limitations become stark. The card produces 49.6 FPS on Low, 36.3 FPS on Medium, 29.6 FPS on High, and 26.4 FPS on Ultra. This dramatic drop, from 138.8 FPS at 1080p Low to 49.6 FPS at 4K Low, highlights how the GPU's 256.3 GB/s bandwidth and 6.463 TFLOPS of compute power become overwhelmed by the 4K pixel count. The card's 8 GB VRAM is sufficient for the game's textures, but the sheer number of pixels at 3840x2160 exceeds what the Pascal architecture can efficiently process at high settings. The GTX 1070's benchmark percentile of 51, placing it in the middle of all GPUs, aligns with this behavior — it is a capable mid-range card that performs admirably at 1080p but loses steam at higher resolutions.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 2600 provides the computational foundation for this system, featuring 6 cores and 12 threads based on the Zen architecture. Its base clock of 3.40 GHz and boost clock of 3.90 GHz are modest by modern standards, but the 12 nm process node and 16 MB of shared L3 cache help it maintain consistent performance. The CPU's memory bandwidth of 46.9 GB/s through dual-channel DDR4 support is adequate for feeding the GTX 1070's frame buffer, and its PCIe Gen 3, 16 Lanes interface provides sufficient bandwidth for the GPU.

In Minimum, the CPU's role is less prominent than the GPU's, but it still dictates the ceiling for maximum frame rates. The processor's Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 11186 and single-core score of 1579 indicate solid multi-threaded performance for a 2018 chip, though its Passmark single-thread score of 2239 reveals modest per-core strength. This is relevant because Minimum, as a third-person shooter, relies on a mix of physics, AI, and game logic that can benefit from multiple threads, but the single-thread performance is what often limits peak FPS.

At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the system achieves 138.8 FPS, a figure that approaches the CPU's practical limit for maintaining frame pacing in this title. The Ryzen 5 2600's 12 threads ensure that background tasks and game threads do not cause stutters, but the 3.90 GHz boost clock is not high enough to push frame rates beyond this point. When settings are increased to High at 1080p, the frame rate drops to 91.2 FPS, showing that the GPU becomes the limiting factor before the CPU is fully saturated. The CPU's percentile ranking of 77, compared to all CPUs, places it well above average, and its nearest rivals — including the Intel Core i5-1345U with a delta of -0.4% and the AMD Ryzen 5 7530U with a delta of 0.6% — confirm that it remains competitive with much newer processors in synthetic workloads.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 5 2600 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 ranks 1456 out of 1733 tested combos in Minimum, placing it in the bottom 16% of all systems tested. This rank is surprising given the individual component strengths, but it reflects the database's inclusion of far more powerful modern hardware. The GTX 1070's percentile of 51 and the CPU's percentile of 77 do not translate into a high combo ranking, indicating that the game's performance is heavily skewed toward GPU capability, and the GTX 1070's mid-range standing drags the overall rank down.

Compared to the GPU's nearest rivals, the GTX 1070's average benchmark score of 12331 is 0.7% higher than the NVIDIA Quadro K4200's 12241, and 1.3% lower than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M's 12490. These small deltas suggest that the GTX 1070 is positioned in a tightly contested performance tier. However, in Minimum, the card's actual frame rates at 1080p Ultra (66.7 FPS) and 1440p Ultra (42.4 FPS) demonstrate that it cannot maintain high refresh rates at maximum settings, which contributes to the low combo rank. The CPU's nearest rivals, such as the Intel Core i7-10700F with a delta of 0.7% and the Intel Core i5-11600KF with a delta of -0.6%, also show that the Ryzen 5 2600 is not a performance outlier, further cementing the combo's mid-pack status.

The rank of 1456 suggests that while this system is fully capable of running Minimum smoothly at moderate settings, it is outclassed by a large number of configurations in the database that feature newer GPUs with higher compute throughput. The data indicates that the combo's performance is sufficient for a playable experience, but not competitive with the top-tier systems that dominate the rankings.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals a clear pattern of GPU-bound performance degradation. At 1920x1080 with High settings, the system averages 91.2 FPS, which drops to 58.7 FPS at 2560x1440, and further to 29.6 FPS at 3840x2160. This represents a 67.5% reduction in frame rate from 1080p to 4K at High settings, a steep decline that underscores the GTX 1070's inability to handle the 4K pixel workload.

Looking at Low settings, the scaling is slightly less severe but still pronounced. The system achieves 138.8 FPS at 1080p Low, 87.8 FPS at 1440p Low, and 49.6 FPS at 4K Low, showing a 64.3% drop from 1080p to 4K. This consistent reduction of roughly two-thirds across settings indicates that the limiting component is the GPU, as the CPU's performance does not scale with resolution in a way that would cause such a uniform decline. The pixel fill rate of 107.7 GPixel/s and texture rate of 202.0 GTexel/s are fixed hardware limits, and as resolution increases, these rates are consumed faster, leading to the observed frame rate drops.

The data also shows that the performance gap between 1080p and 1440p is larger than the gap between 1440p and 4K in relative terms. At High settings, the drop from 91.2 FPS to 58.7 FPS is a 35.7% reduction, while the drop from 58.7 FPS to 29.6 FPS is a 49.6% reduction. This suggests that the GPU is not only bandwidth-limited but also compute-limited, as the 4K resolution requires more shading operations per frame. The GTX 1070's 6.463 TFLOPS FP32 throughput is simply insufficient for 4K at playable frame rates, making 1080p the recommended resolution for this combo if aiming for high refresh rates, and 1440p viable only with Medium settings or lower to stay above 60 FPS.