Minimum

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700 and AMD Radeon RX 6600 combination delivers a solid 1080p experience in Minimum, a third-person shooter released in 2014. Benchmark results show this pairing handles high-refresh-rate gaming at 1080p, but struggles to maintain smooth frame rates at 4K Ultra settings. The data places this combo at rank 1427 out of 1733 tested configurations in this title, indicating a mid-pack performance tier. The CPU sits at the 84th percentile among all processors, while the GPU ranks at the 69th percentile among all graphics cards, suggesting the processor has more headroom than the graphics card in this pairing.

FAQ

*Q: What is the best resolution and settings combination for this hardware in Minimum?*

A: The 1920x1080 Low preset delivers the highest average frame rate at 156.8 FPS. For a balance of visual quality and performance, the 1080p High preset achieves 98.4 FPS average, which is well above the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay.

Q: How does the Ryzen 7 5700 compare to its closest rival processors?

A: The Ryzen 7 5700 has an average benchmark score of 27220, placing it 0.7% ahead of the Intel Core i9-9900K and 0.8% ahead of both the Intel Core i7-12700H and Intel Core i7-1370P. The AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 trails 1.2% behind.

Q: Is the RX 6600's 8 GB VRAM sufficient for this game?

A: The 8 GB GDDR6 memory with 224.0 GB/s bandwidth proves sufficient across all tested settings and resolutions. The game runs at all four presets (Low, Medium, High, Ultra) at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K, with the lowest result being 23.5 FPS at 4K Ultra.

Q: What is the performance gap between Low and Ultra settings at 1080p?

A: At 1920x1080, the Low preset averages 156.8 FPS while Ultra drops to 75.5 FPS. This represents a 51.9% reduction in average frame rate when moving from the lowest to the highest quality preset at the same resolution.

Q: How does the RX 6600 stack up against its nearest GPU rivals?

A: The RX 6600's average benchmark score is 25235, essentially matching the AMD Radeon 890M at a 0% delta. It trails the AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP by 0.2% and leads both the AMD Radeon RX 6700M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti by 0.2% and 0.5% respectively.

Q: Does the 1440p resolution provide a viable alternative to 4K for this combo?

A: At 2560x1440, the High preset averages 66.1 FPS, offering a playable experience. This is nearly double the 4K High result of 33.5 FPS, making 1440p a much more practical choice for maintaining smooth gameplay on this hardware.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700 is an 8-core, 16-thread processor based on the Zen 3 architecture, built on TSMC's 7 nm process. It operates with a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz, with a 65 W TDP. The processor's 16 MB of L3 cache and dual-channel DDR4 memory support with 51.2 GB/s bandwidth provide adequate throughput for gaming workloads. Its 3DMark single-thread score of 901 and multi-thread score of 6617 indicate strong single-core performance, which remains important for game logic in a 2014 title.

The CPU's benchmark results show balanced performance across thread counts. The 3DMark 8-thread score of 5585 represents 84.4% of the max-thread score of 6617, suggesting the processor scales well with additional threads. Cinebench R23 scores of 2916 single-core and 20655 multi-core reinforce this profile. The processor's PassMark single-thread score of 3296 and multithread score of 24303 place it in the 84th percentile of all CPUs, indicating it outperforms the majority of processors currently available.

In Minimum, the CPU's role becomes more significant at lower resolutions where the GPU can produce higher frame rates. At 1080p Low, the system achieves 156.8 FPS, which demands sufficient CPU throughput to feed the graphics card. The Ryzen 7 5700's 16 threads provide ample headroom for background processes while maintaining game performance. The processor's nearest rival, the Intel Core i9-9900K, scores nearly identically with a 0.7% delta, confirming that this CPU tier is well-matched to the demands of this title.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 6600 utilizes the Navi 23 chip based on RDNA 2.0 architecture, manufactured on TSMC's 7 nm process with 11,060 million transistors. The GPU features a base clock of 1626 MHz, a game clock of 2044 MHz, and a boost clock of 2491 MHz. Its 8 GB of GDDR6 memory operates on a 128-bit bus, delivering 224.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The card's 1792 shading units, 112 texture units, and 64 ROPs provide the raw compute throughput of 8.928 TFLOPS FP32.

The graphics card's memory configuration proves adequate for Minimum's demands across all tested settings. The 4K Ultra preset averages 23.5 FPS, indicating the GPU becomes the limiting factor at this extreme configuration. The card's pixel rate of 159.4 GPixel/s and texture rate of 279.0 GTexel/s determine how quickly it can fill and texture frames, directly impacting performance at higher resolutions. The 28 ray-tracing cores and DirectX 12 Ultimate support provide modern API compatibility, though this 2014 title likely relies on older rendering paths.

The RX 6600's benchmark scores show a PassMark G3D score of 15096 and a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 1492. The GPU's percentile ranking of 69 places it above most graphics cards, with nearest rivals including the AMD Radeon 890M (0% delta) and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (0.5% delta). The GPU's Vulkan score of 80492 and OpenCL score of 73130 from Geekbench indicate solid compute capabilities that support the game's rendering requirements.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured average frame rates span from 75.5 FPS at Ultra settings to 156.8 FPS at Low settings. The Medium preset averages 117.1 FPS, while High achieves 98.4 FPS. These results show a clear progression where each quality tier reduces performance, with the gap between Low and Ultra representing a 51.9% drop in average frame rate.

Moving to 2560x1440, the performance scales downward as expected. Low settings average 102 FPS, Medium drops to 80.2 FPS, High reaches 66.1 FPS, and Ultra falls to 46.8 FPS. The 1440p results maintain playable frame rates for most settings, though Ultra dips below the 60 FPS threshold that many players consider minimum for smooth gameplay.

At 3840x2160, the GPU becomes increasingly strained. Low settings average 54.9 FPS, Medium drops to 38.9 FPS, High falls to 33.5 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 23.5 FPS. The 4K results show that this hardware pairing cannot sustain 60 FPS at any quality setting, making 4K gaming impractical for competitive play in this title. The spread between Low and Ultra at 4K is 31.4 FPS, representing a 57.2% reduction in performance.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals the GPU's dominance as the primary bottleneck. At Low settings, the average frame rate drops from 156.8 FPS at 1080p to 102 FPS at 1440p, a 34.9% reduction, then further to 54.9 FPS at 4K, a cumulative 65% drop from the 1080p baseline. This steep decline indicates that pixel throughput becomes the limiting factor as resolution increases.

The scaling pattern differs across quality settings. At Ultra, the 1080p average of 75.5 FPS falls to 46.8 FPS at 1440p (a 38% reduction) and 23.5 FPS at 4K (a 68.9% reduction from 1080p). The percentage drop from 1440p to 4K is larger than the drop from 1080p to 1440p for every setting, confirming that the GPU's memory bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s and pixel rate become increasingly strained at higher resolutions.

The CPU's performance remains relatively constant across resolutions, as its workload does not scale with pixel count. The Ryzen 7 5700's strong single-thread score of 901 in 3DMark suggests it can maintain consistent frame delivery even when the GPU output varies widely. The data indicates that at 1080p, the system achieves frame rates that challenge the CPU's ability to feed the GPU, particularly at Low settings where 156.8 FPS approaches the processor's practical output limit. At 4K, the GPU's compute limitations dominate, with the 8.928 TFLOPS FP32 throughput proving insufficient for high-quality rendering at this resolution. The resolution scaling analysis points to the RX 6600 as the definitive limiting component in this pairing, especially when targeting higher resolutions or maximum quality presets.