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# Resolution Scaling — how FPS drops from 1080p to 4K and what it says about the limiting component

The measured frame rates for this AMD Ryzen 5 4600G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER combination in Minimum show a clear and consistent pattern of scaling as resolution increases. At 1080p with Low settings, the combo delivers 188 FPS average. Moving to 1440p Low drops that to 121 FPS, a reduction of 67 FPS (roughly 36% lower). At 4K Low, the average falls further to 65 FPS, which is 123 FPS below the 1080p result — a 65% drop from the baseline.

This scaling behavior is typical of a GPU-bound scenario at higher resolutions. The RTX 2070 SUPER with its 8 GB GDDR6 memory and 448.0 GB/s bandwidth is being tasked more heavily as pixel count increases. The 4K Low figure of 65 FPS is still playable, but the steep decline from 188 FPS suggests the graphics card, not the CPU, is the primary constraint at 4K.

The data reveals an interesting nuance when comparing settings within each resolution. At 1080p, the gap between Low (188 FPS) and Ultra (92 FPS) is 96 FPS — more than double. At 1440p, the Low-to-Ultra spread narrows to 62 FPS (121 vs 59). At 4K, the spread compresses further to 33 FPS (65 vs 32). This compression at higher resolutions indicates that the GPU becomes the bottleneck earlier as settings increase, while at 1080p the CPU can still feed frames fast enough to expose more of the GPU's performance range.

The 4K Medium row provides the only min/max data at that resolution, showing an average of 50 FPS with a minimum of 42 and maximum of 57. The tight 15 FPS range between min and max suggests consistent frame pacing without severe spikes. At 1440p Medium, the range is wider (79 to 106 FPS around a 93 average), and at 1080p Medium it widens further (122 to 165 around a 144 average). The widening range at lower resolutions is consistent with the CPU becoming more involved in frame delivery, introducing more variability.

# FAQ

*Q: What is the best average FPS this combo achieves in Minimum?*

A: The highest measured average is 188 FPS at 1920x1080 with Low settings. The lowest measured average is 32 FPS at 3840x2160 with Ultra settings.

Q: Is 4K playable with this CPU and GPU combination?

A: Yes, but with caveats. At 4K Low, the average is 65 FPS; at 4K Medium, it drops to 50 FPS with a minimum of 42 FPS; at 4K High, it reaches 42 FPS; and at 4K Ultra, it falls to 32 FPS. For smooth gameplay, Low or Medium settings at 4K are the realistic options based on the measured data.

Q: How much performance is lost going from 1080p to 1440p at High settings?

A: At High settings, the average drops from 121 FPS at 1080p to 78 FPS at 1440p, a reduction of 43 FPS (approximately 35% lower). The 4K High average is 42 FPS, which is 79 FPS below the 1080p High result.

Q: Which resolution offers the best combination of visual quality and frame rate?

A: Based on the measured rows, 1440p High at 78 FPS average provides a strong balance. It delivers a frame rate above the 60 FPS threshold while offering higher resolution than 1080p. Alternatively, 1080p Ultra at 92 FPS gives maximum settings with headroom above 60 FPS.

Q: How does the RTX 2070 SUPER rank relative to other GPUs in the database?

A: The GPU sits at the 65th percentile versus all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 20282. Its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile (20534 average, 1.2% higher), Intel Arc B570 (20556, 1.3% higher), and Intel Arc A750 (20582, 1.5% higher).

Q: What does the CPU's benchmark position suggest about its ability to feed the GPU?

A: The Ryzen 5 4600G ranks at the 71st percentile versus all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 17507. Its 6 cores and 12 threads with a boost clock of 4.20 GHz provide sufficient throughput for this game, as evidenced by the 188 FPS result at 1080p Low, which is high enough to suggest the CPU is not a limiting factor at that resolution.

# GPU Role — VRAM, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER is built on the Turing architecture using the TU104 chip, fabricated on a 12 nm process at TSMC. The chip contains 13,600 million transistors on a 545 mm² die, with a transistor density of 25.0 million per mm². The GPU operates at a base clock of 1605 MHz and a boost clock of 1770 MHz, with memory clocked at 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective). This configuration produces 9.062 TFLOPS of FP32 compute and 18.12 TFLOPS of FP16 (2:1 ratio).

Memory capacity is 8 GB of GDDR6 across a 256-bit bus, providing 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth. For Minimum, a game released in 2014, 8 GB is ample even at 4K Ultra, which is why the VRAM capacity is unlikely to be the constraint in the measured results. The 2560 shading units, 160 texture mapping units, and 64 render output units deliver a pixel rate of 113.3 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 283.2 GTexel/s.

The GPU's benchmark data shows a PassMark G3D score of 18169 and a PassMark GPU Compute score of 7557. In Geekbench, it scores 83358 in OpenCL and 90637 in Vulkan. These figures place the card at the 65th percentile versus all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 20282. Its nearest rival in the database is the NVIDIA Quadro M4000M at 20480 (1% higher), followed by the RTX 3070 Mobile at 20534 (1.2% higher), the Intel Arc B570 at 20556 (1.3% higher), and the Intel Arc A750 at 20582 (1.5% higher). The RTX 2070 SUPER is effectively bracketed by these competitors within a narrow 1.5% performance band.

The relationship between GPU clocks and game performance is evident in the resolution scaling. At 1080p Low, the 188 FPS average suggests the GPU is operating near its peak throughput. As resolution increases to 4K, the pixel workload multiplies, and the card's fill rate and bandwidth become more critical. The 4K Ultra result of 32 FPS indicates that the GPU is saturated at that configuration. The fact that 4K Low (65 FPS) is more than double 4K Ultra (32 FPS) demonstrates that the GPU's compute and memory resources are heavily taxed by the Ultra preset's additional graphical effects.

# Measured FPS Breakdown — resolution by resolution, settings by settings, exact numbers

At 1920x1080, the full settings ladder was measured. Low produces an average of 188 FPS. Medium steps down to 144 FPS with a minimum of 122 and maximum of 165. High achieves 121 FPS average. Ultra delivers 92 FPS average. The progression from Low to Ultra represents a 96 FPS drop, or approximately 51% lower performance at the highest preset compared to the lowest.

At 2560x1440, the averages are 121 FPS on Low, 93 FPS on Medium (with min 79 and max 106), 78 FPS on High, and 59 FPS on Ultra. The Low-to-Ultra spread here is 62 FPS, a 51% reduction from Low to Ultra. Notably, the 1440p Low result (121 FPS) exactly matches the 1080p High result (121 FPS), suggesting that the resolution increase from 1080p to 1440p costs roughly the same performance as moving from High to Low settings at the same resolution.

At 3840x2160, the averages are 65 FPS on Low, 50 FPS on Medium (with min 42 and max 57), 42 FPS on High, and 32 FPS on Ultra. The Low-to-Ultra spread is 33 FPS, a 51% reduction — the same proportional drop as at 1440p. This consistency indicates that the settings multiplier has a uniform effect on performance regardless of resolution, while the absolute resolution cost remains additive.

Comparing across resolutions at each setting reveals the cost of pixel count. At Low, the drops are 188 → 121 → 65 FPS as resolution moves from 1080p to 1440p to 4K. At Medium, they are 144 → 93 → 50 FPS. At High, they are 121 → 78 → 42 FPS. At Ultra, they are 92 → 59 → 32 FPS. In every case, moving from 1080p to 1440p reduces performance by roughly 35-36%, and moving from 1440p to 4K reduces it by roughly 46-47%. The 4K penalty is proportionally larger than the 1440p penalty, consistent with the quadratic scaling of pixel count.

The only rows with min/max data are the Medium settings at each resolution. At 1080p Medium, the range is 122 to 165 FPS. At 1440p Medium, it narrows to 79 to 106 FPS. At 4K Medium, it narrows further to 42 to 57 FPS. The absolute range shrinks from 43 FPS at 1080p to 27 FPS at 1440p to 15 FPS at 4K, indicating that frame time consistency improves as the GPU becomes the dominant bottleneck.

# CPU Role — cores, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The AMD Ryzen 5 4600G is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 2 architecture with the Renoir codename. It is manufactured on a 7 nm process at TSMC, containing 9,800 million transistors on a 156 mm² die. The base clock is 3.70 GHz with a boost clock of 4.20 GHz, and it carries a 65 W TDP. The CPU supports DDR4 memory in a dual-channel configuration with 51.2 GB/s bandwidth, and it includes Radeon Vega 7 integrated graphics — though in this benchmark configuration, the discrete RTX 2070 SUPER handles rendering.

The cache hierarchy consists of 64 KB L1 per core, 512 KB L2 per core, and 8 MB shared L3. The CPU is unlocked for multiplier overclocking and uses the AMD Socket AM4 interface with PCIe Gen 3 (20 lanes from the CPU). In the database, this processor ranks at the 71st percentile versus all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 17507.

In multi-threaded benchmarks, the CPU scores 13593 in Cinebench R23 multicore and 5709 in Cinebench R20 multicore. Single-thread performance is 1919 in Cinebench R23 singlecore and 805 in Cinebench R20 singlecore. Geekbench shows 6637 multicore and 1460 singlecore. PassMark multithread is 15992 with a single-thread score of 2653. The 3DMark scores scale from 726 single-thread to 4889 max-threads, showing good scaling across the 12 threads.

The CPU's nearest rivals in the database are the AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5355GE at 17482 average (0.1% higher), the AMD Ryzen 3 8300GE at 17614 (0.6% lower), the Intel Core 7 150U at 17395 (0.6% higher), and the Intel Core i3-14100T at 17648 (0.8% lower). All four rivals sit within 0.8% of the 4600G's average score, indicating a tightly clustered performance tier.

For Minimum, a 2014 third-person shooter, the CPU's single-thread performance is likely the more relevant metric. The 188 FPS result at 1080p Low suggests that the CPU can sustain high frame rates without becoming a bottleneck. Even at 1080p Ultra, the 92 FPS average is well within the CPU's delivery capability. The fact that performance scales consistently with resolution — rather than plateauing at a CPU-bound ceiling — confirms that the Ryzen 5 4600G provides adequate headroom for this GPU in this game.

# Settings Recommendations — which preset gives the best experience per the measured rows

Based solely on the measured data, the optimal settings depend on the target resolution and frame rate preference. At 1080p, the High preset delivers 121 FPS average, which exceeds the refresh rate of most standard 60 Hz and 144 Hz monitors. The Ultra preset at 92 FPS is still above 60 FPS and offers the highest visual quality, but the 29 FPS gap between High and Ultra may not justify the additional graphical load for a game of this era. For 1080p users prioritizing smoothness, High at 121 FPS is a strong choice; for those wanting maximum quality, Ultra at 92 FPS remains viable.

At 1440p, High produces 78 FPS average, which is above 60 FPS and represents a good balance. Medium at 93 FPS offers more headroom for demanding scenes, with a minimum of 79 FPS ensuring consistent performance. Ultra at 59 FPS dips just below the 60 FPS threshold, making it less ideal for users who prefer a locked 60 FPS experience. Low at 121 FPS matches the 1080p High result and would suit competitive play, but the visual trade-off is substantial.

At 4K, the choices narrow considerably. Low at 65 FPS is the only preset that maintains an average above 60 FPS. Medium at 50 FPS (minimum 42) is playable but may exhibit noticeable drops in busy scenes. High at 42 FPS and Ultra at 32 FPS fall below the 60 FPS standard and are best reserved for slower-paced gameplay or screenshots. For 4K users, Low or Medium are the practical recommendations based on the measured averages.

The Medium preset is the only one with min/max data available, allowing for frame pacing analysis. At 1080p Medium, the 122-165 FPS range (spread of 43 FPS) around a 144 average suggests occasional dips but generally smooth performance. At 1440p Medium, the 79-106 FPS range (spread of 27 FPS) around a 93 average is tighter. At 4K Medium, the 42-57 FPS range (spread of 15 FPS) around a 50 average shows the most consistent pacing, though the absolute frame rate is lower. This data indicates that Medium provides predictable performance across all resolutions.

# How This Combo Ranks — use comboRankInGame vs other tested combos

In the database of tested combinations for Minimum, this AMD Ryzen 5 4600G with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER pairing holds the rank of 2142 out of 3712 total combinations. This places it in the upper-middle portion of the overall distribution — better than roughly 42% of tested combos, while 1570 combinations outperform it.

The rank of 2142 indicates that while this combination is capable of high frame rates at lower resolutions — the 188 FPS at 1080p Low is a strong result — many other tested combos achieve higher performance, particularly at higher resolutions and settings. The 4K Ultra result of 32 FPS is a limiting factor for the combo's overall standing, as higher-ranked combinations likely maintain more playable frame rates at 4K.

Given the GPU's 65th percentile ranking and the CPU's 71st percentile ranking, one might expect the combo to rank higher than 2142 of 3712 (approximately 58th percentile). The discrepancy suggests that Minimum is particularly sensitive to some aspect of this pairing, possibly the GPU's driver optimization for older titles or the CPU's memory bandwidth constraints (51.2 GB/s) affecting frame delivery in certain scenarios. However, the measured data shows no obvious bottleneck at 1080p, where the combo still achieves 92 FPS at Ultra.

The combo's position relative to its component parts indicates that in this specific game, the pairing performs slightly below what the individual component percentiles would predict. This is not unusual for older games that may not scale perfectly with newer hardware architectures. The data does show that the combo is fully functional across all tested configurations, with no anomalous results that would suggest incompatibility or driver issues. The rank reflects the competitive field — 3712 combinations is a large sample, and the 2142 position still represents a system capable of 60+ FPS at 1440p High and 4K Low.