Minimum

This analysis covers the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti playing Minimum, a third-person shooter released on 2014-06-25. Measured data spans 3840x2160, 2560x1440, and 1920x1080 at Low, Medium, High, and Ultra presets. The results show a workforce-strong operating system: the pair blazes through 1080p, holds 115+ FPS at 1440p on demanding settings, yet dips to 47 FPS at 4K Ultra. In the full roster of tested combinations, this duo lands at rank 961 of 3,712, placing it comfortably in the upper quarter of all measured setups for this title.

FAQ

Q: What frame rate can I expect at 3840x2160 with this combo?

A: The 4K results sit at 47 FPS on Ultra, 62 FPS on High, 74 FPS on Medium, and 96 FPS on Low. The Medium row includes a measured minimum of 63 FPS and maximum of 85 FPS, giving the only recorded frame excursion at this resolution. Ultra is not viable as a smooth experience, while Low is the only preset that clearly clears fluid motion territory.

Q: Which resolution matches the strongest sweet spot between frames and quality?

A: 2560x1440 is the answer. At this resolution the combo delivers 179 FPS on Low, 137 FPS on Medium (116 minimum, 157 minimum), 115 FPS on High, and 87 FPS on Ultra. These are all far above the 62 FPS ceiling of 4K High and still allow for visual settings to be pushed high.

Q: How does the stat-based CPU compare to its nearest competitors?

A: With an average benchmark score of 35,909, the Ryzen 7 7700X sits 85th percentile among all CPUs. It trails the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5845 by a mere 0.3%, the Intel Core 7 250H Packard0.0%, AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350 0.5%, and Intel Core Ultra 9 185H 0.7% — all within a narrow performance band of strength.

Q: Does the GPU lead or trail its nearest measured rivals in synthetic tests?

A: The RTX 3080 Ti scores an average of 41,187 across its benchmark suite, ranking it in the 83rd percentile of all GPUs. Against its listed contemporaries, it is 0.8% ahead of the AMD Radeon Pro 5300, 2.0% ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, yet it trails the NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB by 1.2% and the Tesla M40 by 1.7%.

Q: Which preset has the highest consistent floor value?

A: The 1080p Medium preset shows the most reliable plenum floor (minimum 180 FPS) while maintaining an average of 212 FPS. At 1440p, Medium's 116 FPS minimum is larger than the average of most other presets. Among all logged rows, the 10% Low preset at 1080p boasts the highest average at 277 FPS but lacks a recorded min/max.

Q: Why does this 2014 game still scale heavily across decades?

A: The frametimes tell the story: at 3840x2160, the gap from Ultra (47) to Low (96) is a full 49 FPS, while at 1920x1080 the same gap widens to 141 FPS (277 Low minus 136 Ultra). That large headroom indicates the engine is both CPU - intensive scenes and GPU - bound, so the 7700X's strong memory on the near side lifts the floor. Generates turn into density: this mid-tier combination scales across resolutions and visuals and visual settings, unlike any preset-sensitive legacy shooter.

Settings Recommendations

The measurements point to 1920x1080 Medium as the best blend of defensible security and performance. At that preset the average hits 212 FPS, with a registered minimum of 180 FPS and a maximum of 244 — the only logged min/max combination in the entire dataset. It delivers a clean, stable hydraulic headroom three times the minimum lightning-free monitor. High on the same resolution (178 average) is also excellent quality, but the efficiency gain from Medium to High comes at the cost of 34 average frames.

For visual fidelity as demonstrated by Ultra presets, 2560x1440 is the recommended playground. The Ultra row at 1440p still reaches 87 FPS, infinitely more fluid than the 47 FPS of 4K Ultra, and it retains the LOD, texture, and post processes that the 1080p High cannot. If you favor motion clarity over visual weight, instead leaves toward 2560x1440 Medium, which scores a 137 average with a 116 minimum and 157 maximum — the absolute best compromise of the entire feature set. Its 137 FPS sits between High (115) and Low (179), and the min 116—max 157 window shows no disruptive stalls on—minimum sleeps.

At 3840x2160, no preset sufficiently qualifies as fully smooth. The Low setting holds 96 FPS on average and is passable for moderate gameplay, but Medium dips to 74 average with a 63 FPS minimum, meaning spikes can be felt. Given that Ultimate 4K Ultra sits at 47 FPS, the 1440p tier is definitively the recommended zone. Database, the 1080p (1080) configuration is the floor management pick for high-refresh panels, and 2560x1440 replaces the balance in middle.

The derived for this title: 1080p Medium provides the "inner" buffer at peak refresh, 1440p Medium/High gives the visual floor stability, and 4K Low is the kitchen allotment for fidelity reduction when displaying to a 4K panel.

GPU Role

The RTX 3080 Ti is the primary carrier of the frame rate in each measured rowy. Built on the Ampere architecture with the GA102 chip, it runs at a base clock of 1365 MHz and boost of 1665 MHz, with 12 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus delivering 912.4 GB/s of bandwidth. The reading at memory also shows an effective 19 Gbps. Those headline dabbling specs push a mean for synthetic — in nearest rivals, it hedgeholds AMD Radeon Pro 5300 (0.8% higher) and trails the Tesla M40 variants by small margins; in 3D Mark Steel Nomand DX12 it scores 5,077, in Geekbane Vulkan 192,697, and in PassMark G3D 26,896.

Frame variations follow the GPU load curve exactly: at 1440p the Low→Ultra swing is 179→87 FPS(-92 frames), at 4K Low→Ultra is 96→47 (49 frames), and at 1080p Low→Ultra 277→136 (141 frames). These three divergent ranges show that the 3080 Ti's 12 GB pool is never the ceiling. Because the GPU compute row shows 15,282 in PassMark GPU Compute and the FP2 processing derived 34.10 TFLOPS, there is compute headroom, but in Minimum the occupancy is always bound by resolution and settings delta—an attribute of the 2014 engine that responds linearly to the shading load of each preset.

NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti's average benchmark score (41,187) sits at the 83rd percentile of the GPU database and matches the CPU's own 85th percentile—making interactions between the pair is control tips. Notably, the complementary data shows the GT 3080 Ti is only 2% ahead of the GeForce RTX 5070 in "average" aggregate, despite the 3080 S700 supplying 12 GB GDDR6X at 912.4 GB/s. In Minimum specifically, the 12 GB VRAM — more than enough due to its 2015era low-requirement asset locality — means the GPU's TMUs (320) and ROPs (80) are the real convervisors. Larger cadences within a title that limits poly counts, awaiting result responsive, per heartbeat.

In contrast, keep in mind the card is 83rd percentile overall but "End-of-life" product per the database. The aggregate score remains healthy, but for a tps geopolitical container like Minimum, the measured rows show that 4K Ultra (47) and 4K Low (96) produced exactly the needle angle of TAA one expects from colors changed by sprite volume, multi-platform legacy.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All numbers in this section come directly from measured rows; none are extrapolated, and there is no editing of scene ranges.

1920x1080 — This resolution shows the strongest footprint. Low averages 277 FPS. Medium averages 212 FPS, with a recorded minimum of Jallad 180 and maximum of 244. High arrives at 178 FPS. Ultra drops to 136 FPS average. The span from Low to Ultra is 141 FPS, demonstrating scaler of overriding importance due to GPU raster. Even Ultra sits above the frame-rate threshold of any typical 1080p panel, but since the dataset gives no min/max for High and Ultra, fine granular emergency cannot be judged — only the Medium knows the safe window of 180–180.

2560x1440 — The 1440p cohort is equally clean: Low averages 179 FPS, Medium 137 (116 to 157 window), High 115, and Ultra 87. Neighborhood work is two: the Medium range (116–157) shows a 41-frame span; the gap between different High and Ultra is 28 FPS. The 179 frame on Low does not exceed the CPU's trust of the 3D, so is a pure raw fixed start. Two important thresholds: 1440p is sub-100 for Ultra — the only 1440p preset below 100 average—and yet is far poster than 4K High.

3840x2160 — Max resolution is the hardest terrain. Low averages 96 FPS, Medium 74 with a symmetric 63–85 min/max corridor, High 62, and Ultra 47. The delta of 49 frames from Ultra 47 to Low 96 is the largest within any single resolution row set, compared to 1080p's delta 141 and 1440p's 92. 4K becomes the only place where "fluid" require Low or Medium, and the 63 first frame floor shows peek valleys. On the risky: 4K Ultra (47) is the single worst average in this dataset—relying on the lowest preset (96) only yields an average better than 1080p High and 1440p Ultra, exposure—if you must use 4K, Medium or Low it is.

Row density claim in summary: The dataset contains 12 rows across 3 resolutions and 4 presets, each an "avgFps" with two providing min and max (Medium at 1080p and Medium at 1440p, and below not 4K only). The runtime absolute worst is 4K Ultra (47), the absolute best is 1080p Low (277). Interpretation clarifies: not a single 4K row reaches 100 FPS, exactly one 1440p row (Low, 179) exceeds 115, and three 1080p rows exceed 170 (277, 212, 178).

How This Combo Ranks

In the overall dataset for Minimum, in tested combos — with a ranking designation ofof 961 of 3,712 total worlds — the Ryzen 7 box 7700X + RTX 3080 Ti is just above the middle-block of the catalog. It sits within the "CPUs/GPU" centr: the CPU's own 85th percentile and the GPU's 83rd combined in such a way that the system is effectively balanced — but not the brute variance that the top-skewed tested units acquire—the bottom portion of the leaderboard uses giant strong pairs while the list 961 position comes from the sea of other combos.

Looking at the 3,712 combos, rank 961 actually places this duo in the top 26% of all logged. For a GPU that is 83rd percentile and a CPU 85 in the same percentile, the projection corrects tightly. The deltaPct of nearest rival hexduled on the CPU side—0.3% difference to the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5845 and 0.5% / 0.5% / 0.7% to the Intel Core 7 250H, AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350, and Intel Core Ultra 9 185H — tells you ranks are decided by pixels within a single percentage point; the entire field of eight cores (including this chip) is basically indistinguishable here. The GPU's nearest rivals (AMD Radeon Pro 5300 +0.8%, NVIDIA RTX 5070 +2.0%, the Tesla M40 cards minus ~1.2/1.7%) show similar packing.

That 26 membership derives from how Minimum runs: it's a third-person shooter from line and half, with lighting and hence seasonally rest on stream vs Lux. The combo's only tuning is between the Plus tier — posted FPS at 1440p is 179 average — while between 62 and 96 five results at 4K appear, that positioning irrigates a confidence: any fixity that a competitive 1440p player rarely prevails, but as a 4K capable living too, the tilt is compressed to visual optimal. Both on percentiles lift the hope that this pair is "very good" in the broad modern catalog: the whole stack is within 2.0% of its nearest measured switch in either direction.

Being 961 of 3,712 it also implies there are 2,751 combos sitting below; this pairing outperforms the middle majority. It is not a flagship winner—that would be the top ~80 anchor-notes—but in aggregate benchmark averages the CPU reach of 35,909 and GPU of 41,187 land both well above 50% of the pile.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700X is the only CPU-tested for this page: an 8-core, 16-thread chip for the AMD Socket AM5 platform, built on 5 nm process (TSMC) with Raphael codename and Zen 4. It records a base clock of 4.50 GHz and boost clock of 5.40 GHz with a TDP of 105 W, 32 MB of shared L3 cache and 8 MB of L2 core (1 MB per core) store. Memory controller supports DDR5 dual-channel at 83.2 GB/s per channel via on-package ECC.

The CPU brings synthetic aggregates: over 3D Mark 16-thread 8.8, 2-thread 2,112, 4-thread 4,074, 8-thread 7,057, max-thread 8,852, single-thread 1,090. Cinebench R15 multi 3113.5, single 315. R23 multi 19,088 and single 1,987. Geekbench multi 12,451, single 2,289. PassMark multi-thread 35,686, single-threaded 4,190, integer math 112,601, and 4,190 Pass PP. The final bits strongly confirm the 77 series CPU can feed the RTX 3080 Ti up to 277 FPS at 1080p Low — Information bottleneck is minimal.

In Minimum, the streaming of 16-thread workload is handled comfortably at 5.40 GHz. At 1080p Low the scenes score 277 average, which is 2.9× the 4K Low (96) — squashing any listening of CPU-bound at that resolution. At 4K, though the averages collapse (96 lowered) to 47 at Ultra, the relative — since the 3080 Ti is the bottleneck — means the 7700X's headroom acts secure. The 8-core reach overshoots what a 2014 TPS requires: geometry and enemy updates are easy, leaving nothing but the render fan to scale. This effect explains why the same engine enable at 1080p Medium (212) passes the core limit of a typical game and preserves explosions at 200+

Pairing sense: a CPU whose percentile is 85 and a GPU at 83 gives the board "status quo" summary. The net effect in gameplay, measured out of sutter, is that the 7700X paddles through 4K minimized (96 at Low) and 1080 LGs shut mag at