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# Resolution Scaling — how FPS drops from 1080p to 4K and what it says about the limiting component

The measured FPS data for this AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 combination in Minimum shows a clear and predictable scaling pattern as resolution increases. At 1080p with Low settings, the combo produces an average of 356 FPS. Moving to 1440p Low drops that to 230 FPS, and at 4K Low it falls to 124 FPS. That represents a 65% reduction from 1080p to 4K at the lowest settings tier, which is a substantial hit but still leaves frame rates well above 60 FPS.

The High settings curve tells a similar story with slightly smaller absolute numbers. At 1080p High, the average is 229 FPS. At 1440p High, it's 148 FPS, and at 4K High, it's 79 FPS. The drop from 1080p to 4K here is roughly 65% as well, indicating that the GPU is the primary scaling factor across all settings levels. The game is clearly not CPU-bound at any of these resolutions, given the enormous headroom at 1080p where frame rates exceed 350 FPS.

The Medium settings tier provides the only min/max FPS data in the entire set, which is useful for understanding frame time consistency. At 4K Medium, the average is 95 FPS with a minimum of 80 and maximum of 109. At 1440p Medium, the average rises to 176 FPS with a minimum of 149 and maximum of 202. At 1080p Medium, the average is 273 FPS with a minimum of 232 and maximum of 313. The spread between min and max is roughly 30 FPS at each resolution, suggesting that frame pacing remains stable even as the GPU load increases at higher resolutions.

Ultra settings produce the most demanding load, with 4K Ultra averaging just 61 FPS. This is the only configuration that dips below the 60 FPS threshold, and it does so barely. At 1440p Ultra, the average is 112 FPS, and at 1080p Ultra, it's 174 FPS. The scaling from 1080p to 4K at Ultra is slightly steeper than at other settings — a 65% drop — which is consistent with the overall pattern.

What this tells us about the limiting component is straightforward. The RTX 4080's 16 GB of GDDR6X memory and 716.8 GB/s bandwidth are being exercised fully as resolution climbs, while the Ryzen 7 5800XT with its 8 cores and 16 threads has ample compute headroom to feed the GPU at every resolution tested. The fact that 1080p Low reaches 356 FPS without any apparent ceiling suggests the CPU is not a bottleneck even in the most GPU-light scenario.

# How This Combo Ranks

In the database of tested combinations for Minimum, this pairing of AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 holds the rank of 246 out of 3,712 total combos. That places it in the top 6.6% of all tested configurations for this game, which is a strong result given the game's 2014 release date and the modern hardware involved.

The rank reflects the overall performance across all measured resolutions and settings, weighting the combo's ability to maintain high frame rates at 4K as well as at 1080p. With 4K Ultra averaging 61 FPS and 4K High at 79 FPS, this combo can handle maximum settings at 4K with only occasional dips below 60 FPS. At 1440p, every settings tier from Low to Ultra stays above 110 FPS, making it a very comfortable experience for high-refresh-rate monitors at that resolution.

Compared to other combos in the database, this rank of 246 out of 3,712 means the majority of tested configurations — roughly 3,466 of them — produce lower overall performance in Minimum. The top 245 combos achieve higher scores, likely through more recent CPU generations or higher-tier GPUs, but the margin is not enormous given that the RTX 4080 already sits at the 86th percentile among all GPUs.

The CPU's percentile ranking of 81 among all processors further supports the notion that this is a balanced pairing. The Ryzen 7 5800XT is not the absolute fastest CPU available, but it provides enough single-thread and multi-thread performance to avoid holding back the RTX 4080 in this particular title. The game's third-person shooter genre typically favors high frame rates over complex physics or AI simulations, which plays to this combo's strengths.

# GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 is the dominant component in this pairing for Minimum's frame rates. Its 16 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit bus provides 716.8 GB/s of bandwidth, which is more than sufficient for a game from 2014 that was never designed to stress modern GPUs. The memory clock runs at 1400 MHz with 22.4 Gbps effective speed, and the base clock of 2205 MHz boosts up to 2505 MHz under load.

The GPU's benchmark scores place it at the 86th percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 54,247. Its nearest rival is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, which scores 54,209 — a delta of just 0.1%. This means the non-SUPER 4080 is effectively matched with its successor in raw compute terms. The AMD Radeon Pro W5700X scores 54,828 (a 1.1% delta), and the AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB scores 55,698 (a 2.6% delta), so the 4080 sits in a tight cluster of high-end GPUs.

In Minimum specifically, the GPU's role is most evident at 4K resolution. At 4K Ultra, the average FPS drops to 61, which is precisely at the edge of playable for many gamers. At 4K High, it rises to 79 FPS, and at 4K Medium to 95 FPS. The 4K Low setting yields 124 FPS, showing that even at the lowest settings, the GPU still has to work hard to push pixels at this resolution.

The RTX 4080's Ada Lovelace architecture with 9,728 shading units and 112 ROPs delivers 48.74 TFLOPS of FP32 performance. This compute capacity is what allows the card to maintain high frame rates at 1440p and 1080p across all settings tiers. At 1080p Low, the 356 FPS average is likely beyond what most displays can show, but it demonstrates the headroom available for future titles or more demanding scenes.

The GPU's pixel rate of 280.6 GPixel/s and texture rate of 761.5 GTexel/s are relevant for a game like Minimum that relies on straightforward rasterization rather than ray tracing or DLSS features. The 76 RT cores and 304 tensor cores are present but unused in this title, meaning the card is operating in its most basic rendering mode.

# Measured FPS Breakdown

The complete measured FPS data for this combo covers three resolutions and four settings tiers, providing 12 distinct data points. Here is the full breakdown:

1920x1080 (1080p):

• Low: 356 FPS average
• Medium: 273 FPS average (min 232, max 313)
• High: 229 FPS average
• Ultra: 174 FPS average

2560x1440 (1440p):

• Low: 230 FPS average
• Medium: 176 FPS average (min 149, max 202)
• High: 148 FPS average
• Ultra: 112 FPS average

3840x2160 (4K):

• Low: 124 FPS average
• Medium: 95 FPS average (min 80, max 109)
• High: 79 FPS average
• Ultra: 61 FPS average

The Medium settings tier is the only one with min/max data, which allows for frame time analysis. At 1080p Medium, the 232 FPS minimum and 313 FPS maximum create a spread of 81 FPS, which is the widest of any resolution at this settings level. At 1440p Medium, the spread narrows to 53 FPS (149 to 202), and at 4K Medium, it narrows further to 29 FPS (80 to 109). This pattern indicates that as the GPU becomes more fully utilized at higher resolutions, frame times become more consistent, which is counterintuitive but often observed in GPU-bound scenarios.

The scaling efficiency from 1080p to 1440p is roughly 65% across all settings — for example, 356 to 230 FPS at Low, 273 to 176 FPS at Medium, 229 to 148 FPS at High, and 174 to 112 FPS at Ultra. From 1440p to 4K, the scaling is also consistent at about 54% — 230 to 124 FPS at Low, 176 to 95 FPS at Medium, 148 to 79 FPS at High, and 112 to 61 FPS at Ultra. This linear scaling pattern is typical for a GPU-bound game with no significant CPU involvement.

The jump from Low to Ultra at any given resolution is substantial. At 1080p, the difference is 182 FPS (356 to 174). At 1440p, it's 118 FPS (230 to 112). At 4K, it's 63 FPS (124 to 61). The diminishing returns from Low to Medium to High to Ultra are evident — the largest gains come from moving from Ultra to High, followed by High to Medium, with Low to Medium offering the smallest relative improvement.

# CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT plays a supporting role in this pairing for Minimum. With 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Zen 3 architecture (codenamed Vermeer), this CPU provides ample processing power for a 2014 third-person shooter. The base clock of 3.80 GHz and boost clock of 4.80 GHz, combined with 32 MB of shared L3 cache, ensure that single-threaded performance is strong enough to avoid bottlenecking the RTX 4080.

The CPU's benchmark scores confirm its capability. In Cinebench R23, it scores 23,794 multi-core and 3,359 single-core. In 3DMark's 16-thread test, it scores 7,683, and in the single-thread test, 959. The PassMark multithread score is 28,053, with a single-thread score of 3,535. These numbers place the CPU at the 81st percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 29,879.

The nearest rivals in the CPU benchmark database are the AMD Ryzen 7 7840H with an average score of 29,868 (0% delta), the AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS at 29,955 (-0.3% delta), the AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS at 29,955 (-0.3% delta), and the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X at 29,713 (0.6% delta). This means the 5800XT is statistically tied with several newer mobile and desktop chips, despite being based on older Zen 3 architecture.

In Minimum, the CPU's role is most apparent at 1080p Low settings, where the 356 FPS average indicates the CPU can feed frames faster than the GPU can render them at this low resolution. However, the lack of a significant FPS drop between 1080p Low and 1080p High (356 to 229 FPS) suggests that even at High settings, the GPU is still the limiting factor rather than the CPU.

The CPU's 105 W TDP and DDR4 memory support with dual-channel 51.2 GB/s bandwidth are adequate for this game. The PCIe Gen 4 interface with 20 lanes provides sufficient bandwidth for the RTX 4080's PCIe 4.0 x16 connection, though a game from 2014 is unlikely to saturate even PCIe 3.0 bandwidth. The 4,150 million transistors on a 74 mm² die at 7 nm process node from TSMC represent a mature and efficient design.

Given that the game was released in 2014 and has modest CPU demands, the Ryzen 7 5800XT is effectively overkill for this title. The 8-core/16-thread configuration ensures that no background processes or streaming workloads will impact frame rates, and the high boost clock of 4.80 GHz provides the single-thread performance that older games often rely on.

# FAQ

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

A: At 1440p, every settings tier from Low to Ultra stays above 110 FPS, with Ultra averaging 112 FPS. This makes 1440p Ultra the best balance of visual quality and performance. At 4K, Ultra drops to 61 FPS average, which is borderline playable, while 4K High at 79 FPS offers a safer margin.

*Q: Can this combo handle 4K gaming in Minimum?*

A: Yes, but with caveats. At 4K Low, the average FPS is 124; at 4K Medium, it's 95; at 4K High, it's 79; and at 4K Ultra, it's 61. All settings tiers except Ultra stay comfortably above 60 FPS. Ultra at 61 FPS is technically playable but may dip below 60 in demanding scenes.

Q: Is the Ryzen 7 5800XT a bottleneck for the RTX 4080 in this game?

A: The data suggests no. At 1080p Low, the combo achieves 356 FPS, which indicates the CPU can supply frames faster than the GPU can render them. The consistent scaling from 1080p to 4K across all settings further confirms that the GPU is the limiting component, not the CPU.

Q: How does the RTX 4080 compare to its nearest rival, the RTX 4080 SUPER?

A: The RTX 4080 and RTX 4080 SUPER have nearly identical average benchmark scores, with the SUPER at 54,209 and the 4080 at 54,247, a delta of just 0.1%. In Minimum, this difference would be imperceptible in frame rates.

Q: What frame rates can I expect at 1080p with High settings?

A: The measured average is 229 FPS. This is well above the refresh rate of most 1080p monitors, which typically max out at 240 Hz or 360 Hz. Even at Ultra settings, 1080p delivers 174 FPS average, providing headroom for high-refresh-rate displays.

Q: Does the game support the RTX 4080's ray tracing or DLSS features?

A: The fact pack does not include any data on ray tracing or DLSS support for Minimum. The measured FPS data reflects standard rasterization performance without any upscaling or ray-traced effects. The RTX 4080's 76 RT cores and 304 tensor cores are present but not exercised in these benchmarks.