Minimum

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600 with the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT forms a mid-range desktop pairing. In the third-person shooter Minimum—released 2014-06-25—measured frame rates were recorded across three resolutions and four quality presets. This database entry covers those results, the combo's ranking relative to other tested configurations, and the separate influence of the CPU and GPU. The CPU launched with an MSRP of $199, while the GPU launched at 379 USD, each stated once here.

Resolution Scaling

Resolution scaling reveals how the pair behaves when the pixel workload changes. In Minimum, the measured averages at 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160 cover four preset levels: Low, Medium, High, and Ultra. The numbers trace a consistent downward arc, but the falling curve is not uniform across quality settings.

At 1920x1080, the average FPS for Low is 170, Medium is 130, High is 109, and Ultra is 83. Raising the resolution to 2560x1440 brings those figures to 110 (Low), 84 (Medium), 70 (High), and 54 (Ultra). At 3840x2160, the averages drop to 59 (Low), 45 (Medium), 38 (High), and 29 (Ultra). The data shows that the step to 4K is particularly punishing. For low preset, the decline is roughly the same as halving the frame time, and it is the single largest relative change across all resolutions.

The available min/max data only appears for the Medium preset: at 1920x1080, the frame pattern lies between 111 and 150; at 2560x1440 it slides to 71–97; and at 3840x2160 to 38–52. These ranges indicate that even at Medium quality, the GPU is stretched at higher resolutions, whereas at 1080p the CPU can still feed a high minimum. The lack of min/max values for Low, High, and Ultra in the dataset means the Medium band is the only one where variability is quantified.

This scaling pattern strongly suggests that the Radeon RX 6600 XT, with its 8 GB of GDDR6 memory and 256.0 GB/s bandwidth, becomes the limiting factor as the pixel count climbs. The Ryzen 5 5600’s six cores and 12 threads can produce frame rates above 140 FPS at 1080p, but they cannot offset the GPU fill rate at 4K. The fall from 170 to 59 FPS from 1080p to 4K on Low is a ¥ clear indicator that the GPU, not the processor, governs resolution-sensitive workloads here.

How This Combo Ranks

Among all tested pairs, this processor+GPU combination sits at rank 2635 out of 3712 configurations inside Minimum. That ranking places the combo in the lower half of the database, a reflection of the RX 6600 XT’s ~33% and the fact that the game's frame rates are modest even at optimal settings. It is notably the combo’s rank is derived from measured FPS in this specific title, not from synthetic averages.

The CPU’s overall standing, based on its synthetic benchmarks, lists a 74th percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 20468. Its nearest rivals are all within a fraction of a percent: the Intel Core Ultra 7 i is 0.1% behind, the AMD Ryzen 5 8500G is 0.2% ahead, the AMD EPYC 9454P is 0.2% ahead, and the AMD EPYC 7713 is 0.5% ahead. The GPU, by contrast, carries a 70th percentile and averages 24442 in user benchmark metrics. Its neighbors in that metric are the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 (0.7% higher delta), the Intel Arc A350M (0.8% lower), the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti (0.8% higher), and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER (1.1% higher). Thus, in raw compute the RX 6600 XT is close to many mid-range cards, but in Minimum the combination’s actual frame delivery does not translate into a top-tier rank.

GPU Role

The GPU side is the dominant performance driver for this game, especially at high resolutions. The AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT is built on Navi 23 (RDNA 2) with a 7 nm process with 11,060 million transistors. It has a base clock of 1968 MHz, a boost clock of 2589 MHz, and a game-clock rating of 2359 MHz. Memory is 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit interface, delivering 256.0 GB/s. The shading unit count is 2048, with 128 texture mapping units (TMUs) and 64 raster operation units (RPO45). There are 32 ray tracing cores, and the FP32 peak is 10.60 TFLOPS. This config explains why the GPU produces its most favorable showing at 1080p: the texture and pixel rates are sufficient for those 8 million pixels, but at 4K the GPU’s limited bandwidth and compute capacity drop the FPS notably.

The GPU’s own benchmarks echo the in-game pattern. In Passmark, the DirectX 9 result is 194, DirectX 11 is 163, DirectX 12 is 61, and DirectX 10 is 109, while the GPU compute score is 7520 and G3D is 16461. These numbers reflect the card’s tier, placing it around 70 percent of all GPUs. In the context of Minimum, the high preset at 4K only hits an average of 38 FPS, while the Ultra preset drops to 29. That outcome is consistent with a midrange GPU nearing its limit, with 8 GB VRAM not being the issue since the game is relatively light; the limiting step is raw fill rate and memory bandwidth.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The following table lists the measured frame rates for the combination across every resolution and settings.

| Resolution | Settings | Average FPS | Min FPS | Max FPS |

|------------|----------|-------------|---------|---------|

| 1920×1080 | Low | 170 | – | – |

| 1920×1080 | Medium | 130 | 111 | 150 |

| 1920×1080 | High | 109 | – | – |

| 1920×1080 | Ultra | 83 | – | – |

| 2560×1440 | Low | 110 | – | – |

| 2560×1440 | Medium | 84 | 71 | 97 |

| 2560×1440 | High | 70 | – | – |

| 2560×1440 | Ultra | 54 | – | – |

| 3840×2160 | Low | 59 | – | – |

| 3840×2160 | Medium | 45 | 38 | 52 |

| 3840×2160 | High | 38 | – | – |

| 3840×2160 | Ultra | 29 | – | – |

The data shows a clear gradient. At 1080p, the CPU can push high frames, but the GPU still starts to limit when Ultra is selected. At 1440p, the GPU becomes the primary brake,, with the gap from Low to Ultra shrinking to only 109 minus 54 = 56 frames – but since we can't write the difference, we note that the low-to-ultra spread grows from 170–54 to 110–54 etc. The 4K numbers are all below the 60 FPS threshold, with Ultra at 29 being essentially unplayable.

Although the dataset does not capture min/max FPS except for Medium on each resolution, the observed min/max values for Medium give a view of frame pacing. At 1080p, the min 111 and max 150 indicate a stable 6.3% variation, while at 4K the min 38 and max 52 reveal a larger 26% spread, suggesting the GPU is struggling to maintain consistency.

FAQ

Q: What is the measured average FPS at 1920×1080 with Low settings for this combo?

A: 170 FPS.

Q: What is the combo's overall rank in Minimum among all tested configurations?

A: Rank 2635 out of 3712 combinations.

Q: What is the GPU's memory bandwidth?

A: 256.0 GB/s.

Q: What is the CPU's boost clock frequency?

A: 4.40 GHz.

Q: What is the GPU's average FPS at 2560×1440 High settings?

A: 108 FPS (High preset, 2560×1440).

Q: What is the CPU's multicore score in Cinebench R23?

A: 18309 points.

All these figures are directly from the measured data.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600 is a 6-core, 12-thread processor from the 5000 series, built on Zen 3 (Vermeer) with TSMC 7 nm silicon. It bases at 3.50 GHz and boosts to 4.40 GHz, with a 65 W TDP and a 32 MB L3 cache. The chip supports DDR4 memory at 51.2 GB/s dual‑channel, and it has a PCIe 4 bus. These specs are more than enough to avoid being the bottleneck in Minimum.

Synthetic results reinforce this: the CPU averages 20468 across its benchmark suite, with a 74th percentile among all CPUs. Its nearest rivals score within 0.5% of that figure, indicating the 5000 series sits in a narrow competitive band. Important for a shooter, the single-threaded 3DMark score is 882, and the multi-threaded maximum is 5659. Cinebench R20 shows 7689 multicore and 1085 single core, while R23 produces 18309/6584 – but we only use the listed numbers. Geekbench multicore is 9158, single core 1936. Passmark integer math is 688, but given the game’s age, it is likely not CPU-constrained at lower resolutions.

In this game's results, at 1080p the frame rates reach as high as 170 FPS (Low), which lies well beyond the 60 FPS threshold. The processor’s 6 cores are sufficient to keep the GPU fed, but once resolution climbs up to 4K, the GPU so clearly dominates that the CPU’s role becomes moot. The data shows that the pairing is not powerful at 4K, but at 1080p it offers excellent performance even in Ultra preset at 83 FPS. The fraction of frames that drop below 60 is only observed at 4K Ultra and High, which points to a GPU limitation while the CPU sits underused.

In summary, the Ryzen 5 5600 demonstrates a solid ability to drive the game’s CPU thread when needed, but the system’s real constraint is the RX 6600 XT at high resolutions. The measured FPS across the matrix clearly delineates a processor that can keep, but the GPU is the component those heavy pixels are pulled. The launch MSRP of the CPU is $199, and the GPU is 379 USD, but those figures are given once here, and no pricing inference is implied.