Minimum

FAQ

Q: What is the combo rank of the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 in Minimum?

A: This combination ranks 580th out of 1733 tested combos in this game, placing it in the upper third of all tested configurations.

Q: How does the Ryzen 7 5800X compare to its nearest rivals in average benchmark score?

A: The Ryzen 7 5800X scores 27,606 on average, which is 0.3% ahead of the AMD Ryzen 7 5800 (27,535) and 0.4% behind both the AMD Ryzen 5 8500GE (27,708) and the Intel Core i7-13700H (27,716). It trails the Intel Core i5-12600KF (27,827) by 0.8%.

Q: What is the GPU's performance percentile relative to all GPUs?

A: The AMD Radeon RX 9070 sits in the 79th percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 34,780.

Q: How does the RX 9070's score compare to its nearest GPU rivals?

A: The RX 9070 (34,780) is 0.2% behind the NVIDIA A2 (34,866) and 0.3% ahead of the NVIDIA Quadro GV100 (34,677). It also leads the AMD Radeon HD 7970 (34,541) by 0.7% and the AMD Radeon PRO W6400 (34,511) by 0.8%.

Q: What is the best measured FPS result for this combo?

A: The highest average FPS recorded is 261.5 at 1920x1080 with Low settings.

Q: What is the lowest measured FPS result for this combo?

A: The lowest average FPS is 42 at 3840x2160 with Ultra settings.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 is built on the RDNA 4.0 architecture with the Navi 48 chip on a 4 nm process from TSMC. It packs 16 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit bus, delivering 644.6 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The GPU operates with a base clock of 1330 MHz and a boost clock of 2520 MHz, with a game clock of 2070 MHz. Memory runs at 2518 MHz, or 20.1 Gbps effective.

The card's compute resources include 3584 shading units, 224 texture mapping units, 128 raster operation units, and 56 ray tracing cores. Its pixel rate is 322.6 GPixel/s, and its texture rate is 564.5 GTexel/s. The GPU delivers 36.13 TFLOPS of FP32 performance and 72.25 TFLOPS of FP16 performance at a 2:1 ratio. The card has a 220 W TDP, uses dual-slot cooling, and requires two 8-pin power connectors with a suggested 550 W PSU.

In the context of Minimum's measured results, the GPU's substantial memory bandwidth and 16 GB VRAM buffer allow it to maintain strong frame rates even at 4K. At 3840x2160 with High settings, the combo achieves 60.2 FPS, while dropping to Low settings raises this to 91.7 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra at 4K is significant — 91.7 FPS versus 42 FPS — showing that the RX 9070's rasterization throughput becomes the limiting factor when settings are maximized at this resolution.

The GPU's average benchmark score of 34,780 places it in the 79th percentile among all GPUs. Its nearest rivals in aggregate score are the NVIDIA A2 (34,866, 0.2% higher), the NVIDIA Quadro GV100 (34,677, 0.3% lower), the AMD Radeon HD 7970 (34,541, 0.7% lower), and the AMD Radeon PRO W6400 (34,511, 0.8% lower). These deltas are small, indicating the RX 9070 clusters tightly with these cards in overall compute benchmarks, though its gaming performance is contextualized by the measured FPS data.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data shows a clear progression as resolution increases. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the combo reaches 261.5 FPS. Moving to 2560x1440 at Low settings, the frame rate drops to 169.8 FPS — a reduction of about 35%. At 3840x2160 with Low settings, the average falls to 91.7 FPS, which is roughly 46% lower than the 1440p result and about 65% lower than the 1080p result.

The pattern holds across other settings. With High settings, the progression is 169.9 FPS at 1080p, 107.6 FPS at 1440p, and 60.2 FPS at 4K. Medium settings show 203.9 FPS at 1080p, 126.7 FPS at 1440p, and 67.6 FPS at 4K. Ultra settings demonstrate the steepest drop: 129.5 FPS at 1080p, 84.2 FPS at 1440p, and 42 FPS at 4K.

The relative scaling between resolutions indicates that the GPU becomes progressively more dominant as a bottleneck at higher resolutions. At 1080p, the CPU's 8 cores and 16 threads with a boost clock of 4.70 GHz are sufficient to feed the GPU, resulting in very high frame rates. But the 4K results show the GPU's fill rate and compute capacity being taxed heavily — the difference between 1080p Low and 4K Low is 169.8 FPS, while the difference between 1080p Ultra and 4K Ultra is 87.5 FPS.

Notably, the gap between Low and Ultra settings widens with resolution. At 1080p, the spread from Low to Ultra is 132 FPS (261.5 down to 129.5). At 1440p, the spread narrows to 85.6 FPS (169.8 down to 84.2). At 4K, the spread is 49.7 FPS (91.7 down to 42). This compression at higher resolutions is typical of GPU-bound scenarios, where the cost of additional shading and texture work per pixel grows faster than the raw throughput gains from the GPU's 128 ROPs and 224 TMUs.

How This Combo Ranks

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X paired with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 achieves a combo rank of 580 out of 1733 tested combinations in Minimum. This places the configuration in the 66th percentile of all combos tested — solidly above the median but not among the top-tier configurations.

The CPU component contributes meaningfully to this ranking. The Ryzen 7 5800X carries an 84th percentile score among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 27,606. Its multi-threaded capabilities are demonstrated by a 3DMark max threads score of 7,578 and a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 23,571. The single-thread performance is also respectable, with a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 3,327 and a Geekbench single-core score of 2,194.

The GPU's 79th percentile ranking among all GPUs is slightly lower than the CPU's percentile, suggesting the graphics card is the more limiting component in this pairing. This aligns with the resolution scaling data, where 4K performance drops significantly regardless of settings.

The combo's rank of 580 out of 1,733 means there are 579 configurations that outperform it in Minimum and 1,153 that perform worse. Given that the game released in 2014, the data indicates this modern hardware combination provides headroom well beyond the game's original requirements. The measured FPS at 1080p Ultra (129.5 FPS) and 1440p Ultra (84.2 FPS) confirms that this combo handles the game's demands comfortably at mainstream resolutions, with 4K Ultra being the only setting where frame rates dip below 60 FPS.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its strongest performance. Low settings produce an average of 261.5 FPS, which is the highest measured result across all configurations. Medium settings yield 203.9 FPS, High settings produce 169.9 FPS, and Ultra settings drop to 129.5 FPS. The progression from Low to Ultra shows a 50.5% reduction in frame rate, indicating that each settings tier adds measurable rendering load.

At 2560x1440, the frame rates remain robust but show the expected decline. Low settings average 169.8 FPS, Medium settings average 126.7 FPS, High settings average 107.6 FPS, and Ultra settings average 84.2 FPS. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is most pronounced at Low settings (261.5 to 169.8, a 35% decrease) and least pronounced at Ultra settings (129.5 to 84.2, a 35% decrease as well — the proportional penalty is consistent across settings).

At 3840x2160, the performance landscape shifts significantly. Low settings still manage 91.7 FPS, which is playable for a third-person shooter. Medium settings fall to 67.6 FPS, and High settings drop to 60.2 FPS — just at the threshold of smooth gameplay. Ultra settings produce 42 FPS, which is below the typical target for competitive play.

The data reveals that the RX 9070's 16 GB of VRAM is not a limiting factor at any resolution, as even 4K Ultra does not show signs of memory capacity constraints. Instead, the GPU's compute throughput — 36.13 TFLOPS FP32 — is the binding constraint at 4K Ultra. The 42 FPS result at 4K Ultra represents a 61.7% drop from the 1080p Ultra result of 129.5 FPS, underscoring the quadratic scaling of pixel workload from 1080p to 4K (approximately four times the pixel count).

For the Ryzen 7 5800X, the 1080p Low result of 261.5 FPS approaches the practical ceiling for the CPU's per-thread performance in this title. The CPU's single-thread score of 943 in 3DMark and 3,327 in Cinebench R23 indicate strong IPC from the Zen 3 architecture, which is necessary to drive such high frame rates in a game from 2014 that may not scale perfectly across 16 threads. The 8-core, 16-thread configuration with a 32 MB L3 cache provides ample headroom for the game's logic, as evidenced by the minimal FPS degradation from 1080p Low to 1440p Low (35% drop) compared to the pixel count increase (78% more pixels).