Minimum

The AMD Ryzen 5 7500F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER delivers a broad performance envelope in Minimum, a Third-Person Shooter released on 2014-06-25. The measured frame rates across resolutions and settings reveal a system that scales predictably with workload, though the balance between CPU and GPU shifts dramatically as resolution increases. This analysis breaks down the resolution scaling, combo ranking, component roles, and answers common questions using the benchmark data.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate progression from 1080p to 4K shows a classic pattern of GPU-bound scaling at higher resolutions, with CPU headroom dominating at lower ones. At 1920x1080 with High settings, the combo produces 225.8 FPS. Moving to 2560x1440 High drops that to 147.1 FPS, a reduction of 78.7 FPS, or roughly 35%. At 3840x2160 High, the average falls further to 80.3 FPS. This trajectory indicates that at 1080p, the system is not fully GPU-limited — the CPU can push well beyond 225 FPS, as evidenced by the 355.1 FPS result at Low settings.

The scaling across quality presets reinforces this. At 1080p, the gap between Low (355.1 FPS) and Ultra (170.8 FPS) is 184.3 FPS, showing that the GPU has significant headroom to absorb quality increases. However, at 4K, that same Low-to-Ultra spread shrinks to 63.8 FPS (122.5 FPS down to 58.7 FPS). The data suggests the RTX 4080 SUPER becomes the primary constraint at 4K, where even Medium settings (92.6 FPS) and High (80.3 FPS) show steep declines from the 1440p equivalents.

The 1440p results offer a balanced picture. High settings yield 147.1 FPS, while Ultra drops to 111 FPS. The step from High to Ultra at 1440p costs 36.1 FPS, which is proportionally larger than the 55 FPS step at 1080p (225.8 to 170.8). This indicates that at 1440p, the GPU is already beginning to feel the load of higher-quality rendering, though it still maintains frame rates well above 100 FPS for most settings. The 4K Ultra result of 58.7 FPS shows the combination's absolute limit, where the GPU's rendering workload overwhelms the CPU's contribution.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the benchmark database, this specific CPU-GPU pairing ranks 129th out of 1733 tested combos in Minimum. This places it in the top 7.4% of all configurations evaluated for this title. The rank reflects the combination's ability to sustain high frame rates across most settings, though it is not the absolute top performer.

The ranking is particularly strong given the CPU's performance class. The Ryzen 5 7500F sits in the 82nd percentile against all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 24993. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Core i7-11850H (avgScore 24974, deltaPct 0.1) and the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX (avgScore 24897, deltaPct 0.4), both of which are within a fraction of a percent. The Ryzen 7 2700X (avgScore 25057, deltaPct -0.3) and Ryzen 5 8400F (avgScore 25064, deltaPct -0.3) are also close. This tight grouping means the CPU is not a differentiator at 4K, where the GPU dominates.

The GPU side shows similar clustering. The RTX 4080 SUPER achieves an 88th percentile ranking among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 53610. Its nearest rival, the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, scores 53489 (deltaPct 0.2), putting the two within statistical noise. The Radeon Pro W6600M (53414, deltaPct 0.4) and Radeon RX 7700S (52505, deltaPct 2.1) trail slightly. The RTX 4080 SUPER's position in the 88th percentile aligns with the combo's 129th rank, suggesting that the GPU is the primary driver of placement in this title.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER's specifications directly explain its behavior in Minimum. The GPU features 16 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit bus, providing 736.3 GB/s of bandwidth. This memory capacity is more than sufficient for a 2014 title, even at 4K Ultra settings, where texture loads are modest by modern standards. The bandwidth ensures that no memory bottleneck appears in the measured results.

Clock speeds are notable: the base clock runs at 2295 MHz with a boost of 2550 MHz. The memory operates at 1438 MHz, translating to 23 Gbps effective. These clocks, combined with 10240 shading units and 320 TMUs, produce a pixel rate of 285.6 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 816.0 GTexel/s. The FP32 throughput of 52.22 TFLOPS indicates substantial compute headroom, though Minimum's rendering workload is not compute-intensive.

The GPU's Ada Lovelace architecture, built on TSMC's 5 nm process with 45,900 million transistors on a 379 mm² die, delivers the raw throughput needed for the 4K Ultra result of 58.7 FPS. The fact that 4K Medium achieves 92.6 FPS while 4K High reaches 80.3 FPS shows how quality settings impact the GPU's fill rate and shading load. The GPU's 80 RT cores and 320 tensor cores are present but largely unused in this title, which does not utilize ray tracing or DLSS features. The measured FPS values therefore represent pure rasterization performance, where the RTX 4080 SUPER excels.

FAQ

Q: How does the frame rate change from 1080p to 4K at High settings?

A: At 1920x1080 High, the average FPS is 225.8. This drops to 147.1 at 2560x1440 High, and further to 80.3 at 3840x2160 High. The 4K result is 35.6% of the 1080p figure.

Q: What is the best performance result in the dataset?

A: The highest average FPS recorded is 355.1, achieved at 1920x1080 with Low settings. This indicates the CPU can drive the GPU to very high frame rates when the rendering load is minimal.

Q: Is the RTX 4080 SUPER GPU-bound at 4K?

A: Yes. At 3840x2160, the spread between Low (122.5 FPS) and Ultra (58.7 FPS) is 63.8 FPS. The steep drops across quality presets at 4K, compared to smaller drops at 1080p, confirm the GPU is the limiting factor.

Q: How does this combo rank among all tested configurations?

A: The combo ranks 129th out of 1733 tested combos in Minimum, placing it in the top 7.4% of all pairings evaluated for this game.

Q: What is the CPU's nearest rival based on average benchmark score?

A: The Intel Core i7-11850H has an average score of 24974, which is 0.1% higher than the Ryzen 5 7500F's 24993. The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX is 0.4% higher at 24897.

Q: Does the GPU's memory bandwidth support 4K Ultra settings?

A: The 736.3 GB/s bandwidth from 16 GB GDDR6X on a 256-bit bus is ample. The 4K Ultra result of 58.7 FPS shows no memory-related stall, as the bandwidth comfortably handles the texture and buffer requirements.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 7500F contributes meaningfully to the lower-resolution results, where its 6 cores and 12 threads can feed the GPU without becoming a bottleneck. The CPU's Zen 4 architecture, codenamed Raphael, runs on 5 nm TSMC process with 6,570 million transistors on a 71 mm² die. Its base clock of 3.70 GHz boosts to 5.00 GHz, providing strong single-thread performance that is critical for a 2014-era game engine.

Benchmark data shows the CPU's capabilities. The Cinebench R23 multicore score of 22799 and single-core score of 3218 indicate robust throughput. PassMark single-thread performance is 3841, while multithread reaches 26825. The Geekbench scores of 12686 (multicore) and 2759 (single-core) further confirm the CPU's strength. These numbers explain why the combo achieves 355.1 FPS at 1080p Low — the CPU can sustain very high frame generation rates without stalling.

The CPU's 32 MB of shared L3 cache, plus 1 MB L2 per core and 64 KB L1 per core, provides ample on-die storage for game data. Memory support for DDR5 with 83.2 GB/s bandwidth ensures the CPU can feed the GPU efficiently. However, at 4K, the CPU's role diminishes. The 4K Ultra result of 58.7 FPS is nearly identical to what a weaker CPU would achieve with the same GPU, as the rendering load shifts entirely to the RTX 4080 SUPER.

The 65 W TDP and unlocked multiplier make this a flexible choice, though those characteristics do not directly affect gaming performance. The CPU's 82nd percentile ranking relative to all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 24993, places it just below the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X (25057, deltaPct -0.3) and Ryzen 5 8400F (25064, deltaPct -0.3). The difference between these rivals is under 0.5%, meaning the choice between them would not alter Minimum's frame rates in any measurable way, especially at higher resolutions where the GPU dominates.