Minimum

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER delivers a strong 1080p experience in Minimum, but the data reveals a sharp performance cliff as resolution and settings increase. Benchmark results indicate that the Medium preset at 1920x1080 provides the most balanced experience, hitting 131.8 FPS, which is comfortably above the High preset’s 109.6 FPS while still maintaining a substantial visual upgrade over Low’s 169.7 FPS. For users prioritizing maximum smoothness, the Low preset at 1080p offers the highest frame rate in the dataset, but the 60 FPS gap between Low and Medium suggests the latter is the sweet spot for gameplay fluidity without sacrificing graphical fidelity. At 2560x1440, the Medium preset drops to 81.5 FPS, still playable, but the High preset at 72.9 FPS begins to show strain. The Ultra preset, while visually demanding, produces 84.8 FPS at 1080p, but this falls to 52.6 FPS at 1440p and becomes nearly unplayable at 26.9 FPS in 4K.

Settings Recommendations

The measured frame rates strongly favor the Medium preset as the optimal configuration for this combination. At 1920x1080, Medium delivers 131.8 FPS, which is 22.2 FPS higher than High and 47 FPS higher than Ultra, while the drop from Low is a modest 37.9 FPS. This indicates that Medium captures most of the performance headroom available from the hardware without the steep penalties of higher presets. At 2560x1440, Medium maintains 81.5 FPS, which is above the 60 FPS threshold commonly considered acceptable for smooth gameplay, whereas High dips to 72.9 FPS and Ultra falls to 52.6 FPS. The data shows that Ultra is only viable at 1080p with an average of 84.8 FPS, but the scaling to higher resolutions is punishing. For users with 1440p displays, Medium is the clear recommendation, as it offers a 28.9 FPS advantage over Ultra and a 8.6 FPS advantage over High. At 4K, no preset achieves a playable average, with the best result being Low at 57.8 FPS, which suggests this resolution is outside the practical range for this pairing.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER, built on the Turing architecture with a TU106 chip, provides 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s. Its base clock of 1470 MHz and boost clock of 1650 MHz, along with 2176 shading units, drive the frame rates observed in the dataset. The GPU’s performance percentile of 63 versus all GPUs places it in the upper mid-range, and its average benchmark score of 19774 is nearly identical to the nearest rival, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN, which scores 19706 with a deltaPct of 0.3. Interestingly, the RTX 2070, despite having a higher tier, scores slightly lower at 19680 with a deltaPct of 0.5, indicating that the 2060 SUPER is well-positioned within its class. The memory bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s appears sufficient for 1080p and 1440p, as evidenced by the frame rates at those resolutions, but the 4K results, where the highest average is 57.8 FPS on Low, suggest that the 8 GB VRAM capacity and bandwidth become limiting factors at higher pixel counts. The GPU’s FP32 performance of 7.181 TFLOPS provides a baseline for its compute capability, but the measured FPS data shows that the card’s strengths are best utilized in lower-resolution scenarios.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT, a Zen 3 (Cezanne) part with 6 cores and 12 threads, operates with a base clock of 3.60 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz. Its 16 MB of L3 cache and 51.2 GB/s memory bandwidth support the GPU’s demands, but the benchmark results indicate that the CPU is not the primary bottleneck in most tested configurations. The CPU’s percentile versus all CPUs is 78, and its average benchmark score of 20740 is virtually identical to the Intel Core i7-10700, which scores 20746 with a deltaPct of 0. The Ryzen 5 5600X scores 20680 with a deltaPct of 0.3, showing that the 5600GT is competitive within its generation. In game performance, the CPU’s single-thread score from Cinebench R23 is 2438, and its multi-core score is 17272, which indicates strong per-core performance that can sustain high frame rates. However, the data reveals that resolution scaling primarily affects GPU load, as the FPS drops from 1080p to 4K are consistent across presets, suggesting the GPU is the limiting component. At 1080p Low, the 169.7 FPS result shows that the CPU can feed the GPU effectively, but at 4K Ultra, the 26.9 FPS result is clearly GPU-bound. The CPU’s 65 W TDP and 7 nm process node contribute to its efficiency, but these factors do not directly translate into higher game scores; rather, they enable sustained boost clocks that support the GPU.

How This Combo Ranks

In the database of tested combinations, this pairing of the AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER ranks 1255 out of 1733 combos, placing it in the 72nd percentile of all tested configurations. This rank reflects the balanced nature of the hardware, where the CPU’s strong single-thread performance complements the GPU’s mid-range capability. The combo’s position is influenced by the GPU’s percentile of 63, which drags the overall ranking down relative to CPU-centric tests, but the CPU’s percentile of 78 helps offset this. Compared to the nearest CPU rivals, the combo’s performance is consistent with the Ryzen 5 5600X, which has a deltaPct of 0.3, and the Intel Core i7-10700, which has a deltaPct of 0. For GPU rivals, the RTX 2060 SUPER’s score is 0.3% higher than the GTX TITAN and 0.5% higher than the RTX 2070, indicating that the combo’s ranking is driven by the GPU’s slight edge over its peers. The rank of 1255 suggests that while this is not a top-tier configuration, it sits comfortably in the upper-middle range of all tested combos, offering a reliable baseline for 1080p and 1440p gaming.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data shows a clear and consistent decline as resolution increases from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160. At the Low preset, the average FPS drops from 169.7 at 1080p to 107.3 at 1440p, a 36.8% reduction, and then to 57.8 at 4K, a further 46.1% drop from 1440p. This pattern is mirrored across all presets, with High falling from 109.6 to 72.9 (33.5% drop) and then to 39.3 (46.1% drop from 1440p), and Medium dropping from 131.8 to 81.5 (38.2% drop) and then to 45.7 (43.9% drop from 1440p). The Ultra preset shows the steepest decline, from 84.8 at 1080p to 52.6 at 1440p (38.0% drop) and then to 26.9 at 4K (48.9% drop from 1440p). The consistency of these percentage drops across presets indicates that the limiting factor is the GPU’s ability to process pixels, not the CPU’s ability to feed geometry. The 4K results, where even Low struggles to reach 60 FPS, demonstrate that the RTX 2060 SUPER’s 8 GB VRAM and 448.0 GB/s bandwidth are insufficient for this resolution. The scaling from 1080p to 1440p is more manageable, with all presets except Ultra maintaining playable frame rates, but the jump to 4K is prohibitive. This analysis confirms that the combo is best suited for 1080p and entry-level 1440p gaming, with the GPU serving as the definitive bottleneck at higher resolutions.