Minimum

The Intel Core i5-10400F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti delivers a compelling 1080p experience in Minimum, but the data reveals a clear shift in bottleneck behavior as resolution climbs. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the combo produces 268.3 FPS, which drops to 221.1 FPS at High settings and 169.1 FPS at Ultra. This scaling pattern—a 36.9% reduction from Low to Ultra at 1080p—indicates that while the GPU is doing heavy lifting, the six-core Comet Lake processor still keeps pace with the 16 GB GDDR7 memory buffer. Moving to 2560x1440, the performance curve steepens: Low settings yield 218.3 FPS, but Ultra falls to 106.4 FPS, a 51.3% drop. The trend becomes more pronounced at 3840x2160, where Low settings manage 117.8 FPS and Ultra plummets to 57.3 FPS. The 4K Low result is particularly telling—it is 56% slower than the 1080p Low figure, suggesting the GPU’s 896.0 GB/s bandwidth and 43.94 TFLOPS compute are increasingly saturated while the CPU’s 12 threads wait for work. The RTX 5070 Ti’s boost clock of 2452 MHz and 70 RT cores do not prevent the frame rate from halving between 1440p and 4K at Ultra settings, confirming that pixel throughput becomes the dominant constraint at higher resolutions.

FAQ

Q: How does the combo perform at 1080p Ultra settings?

A: The measured average FPS at 1920x1080 Ultra is 169.1 FPS. This is 58.7% higher than the 4K Ultra result of 57.3 FPS, indicating that the RTX 5070 Ti is not fully taxed at 1080p, leaving headroom for the CPU’s 4.30 GHz boost clock to drive frame generation.

Q: What is the biggest performance gap between settings at a single resolution?

A: At 3840x2160, the gap between Low (117.8 FPS) and Ultra (57.3 FPS) is 60.5 FPS, representing a 51.3% reduction. This is the largest absolute delta across all tested resolutions, highlighting the GPU’s sensitivity to the game’s Ultra preset.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the limiting factor at 1440p?

A: At 2560x1440, the spread from Low (218.3 FPS) to Ultra (106.4 FPS) is 111.9 FPS. The 1440p High result of 142.4 FPS is only 35.6% lower than the 1080p High figure, suggesting the i5-10400F’s 12 MB L3 cache still feeds the GPU adequately, but the GPU’s 256-bit memory bus becomes a partial constraint.

Q: How does the 4K Low setting compare to 1080p High?

A: The 3840x2160 Low average of 117.8 FPS is significantly below the 1920x1080 High average of 221.1 FPS, a 46.7% deficit. This shows that even at Low settings, the 4K pixel count overwhelms the GPU’s 96 ROPs, independent of CPU load.

Q: What does the rank of 228 out of 1733 combos signify?

A: This combo ranks in the top 13.2% of all tested configurations for Minimum. Given the GPU’s percentileVsAllGpus of 87 and the CPU’s percentileVsAllCpus of 73, the rank indicates strong overall performance, though the CPU’s lower percentile relative to the GPU suggests some imbalance.

Q: Does the memory configuration affect 4K results?

A: The GPU’s 16 GB GDDR7 memory with 896.0 GB/s bandwidth is paired with the CPU’s dual-channel DDR4 at 42.7 GB/s. The 4K Ultra result of 57.3 FPS is 51.3% below the 1440p Ultra result, indicating that GPU memory bandwidth, not the CPU’s memory bus, is the primary limiter at 4K.

GPU Role

The RTX 5070 Ti serves as the dominant performance driver in this pairing, evidenced by the steep FPS declines as resolution increases. The GPU’s 16 GB GDDR7 frame buffer is ample for Minimum’s 2014-era assets, but its 256-bit bus width and 896.0 GB/s bandwidth are taxed heavily at 3840x2160. The data shows a 75.4 FPS average at 4K High, which drops to 57.3 FPS at 4K Ultra—a 24% reduction that correlates with the GPU’s shading units (8960) and texture units (280) being pushed toward saturation. The boost clock of 2452 MHz, while 157 MHz above base, does not prevent the 4K Ultra result from falling below 60 FPS, underscoring that raw clock speed is insufficient to overcome the pixel fill rate of 235.4 GPixel/s at extreme resolutions.

At lower resolutions, the GPU’s capabilities are more evident. The 1080p Low result of 268.3 FPS and 1440p Low result of 218.3 FPS demonstrate the GPU’s ability to drive high refresh rates when pixel count is moderate. The 28 Gbps effective memory speed contributes to this, as the bandwidth scales with resolution demand. However, the 4K Low result of 117.8 FPS is only 56% of the 1080p Low figure, indicating that the GPU’s 43.94 TFLOPS FP32 compute is not the binding constraint—rather, the memory subsystem and ROP throughput (96 ROPS) limit 4K performance. The GPU’s 70 RT cores are irrelevant in this title, as Minimum does not leverage ray tracing, so the measured FPS reflects pure rasterization throughput.

The GPU’s 300 W TDP and dual-slot design suggest it is a high-power part, but the benchmark data shows diminishing returns at 4K Ultra (57.3 FPS) relative to 1440p Ultra (106.4 FPS). This 46.1% drop indicates that the GPU’s 378 mm² die and 45,600 million transistors are underutilized at 1080p, where the CPU’s 2.90 GHz base clock and 4.30 GHz boost clock can keep up. The GPU’s 87th percentile ranking among all GPUs, versus the CPU’s 73rd percentile, confirms that the RTX 5070 Ti is the stronger component in this duo, but the 4K results show its limits are reached when the workload scales to 8.3 million pixels.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured data provides a comprehensive view of performance across three resolutions and four settings presets. At 1920x1080, the combo delivers 268.3 FPS on Low, 246.1 FPS on Medium, 221.1 FPS on High, and 169.1 FPS on Ultra. The delta between Low and Ultra is 99.2 FPS, a 37% reduction, which is modest compared to higher resolutions, suggesting the CPU’s 6 cores and 12 threads are sufficient to feed the GPU at this resolution. The 1080p Medium result of 246.1 FPS is only 8.3% below Low, indicating that Medium settings impose minimal additional load on the GPU’s 280 TMUs.

At 2560x1440, performance scales down predictably: Low averages 218.3 FPS, Medium 170.9 FPS, High 142.4 FPS, and Ultra 106.4 FPS. The transition from Medium to High costs 28.5 FPS (16.7%), while High to Ultra costs 36.0 FPS (25.3%), showing that the Ultra preset disproportionately burdens the GPU’s ROPs. The 1440p Low result of 218.3 FPS is 18.7% lower than the 1080p Low figure, aligning with the 78% increase in pixel count from 1080p to 1440p.

At 3840x2160, the numbers reveal the GPU’s ceiling: Low averages 117.8 FPS, Medium 88.4 FPS, High 75.4 FPS, and Ultra 57.3 FPS. The 4K Medium result of 88.4 FPS is 48.3% lower than the 1440p Medium result, and the 4K High figure of 75.4 FPS is 47.0% lower than the 1440p High figure. Most notably, the 4K Ultra result of 57.3 FPS is the only measurement below 60 FPS in the entire dataset, indicating that this combination cannot sustain smooth gameplay at maximum settings in 4K. The 4K Low result of 117.8 FPS is still above 100 FPS, but the 51.3% drop from Low to Ultra at 4K highlights how the game’s Ultra preset scales with pixel count, likely due to increased draw distance and texture filtering that saturate the GPU’s 96 ROPs.

How This Combo Ranks

The Intel Core i5-10400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti combination achieves a rank of 228 out of 1733 tested combos in Minimum, placing it in the top 13.2% of all configurations. This ranking is noteworthy given the CPU’s modest specs—6 cores, 12 threads, and a 65 W TDP—which place it in the 73rd percentile of all CPUs. The GPU, by contrast, sits in the 87th percentile of all GPUs, and its 52086 average benchmark score is nearly identical to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080’s 52085 score (deltaPct of 0), indicating that the RTX 5070 Ti is a top-tier performer.

The combo’s rank reflects a slight CPU bottleneck at lower resolutions. The CPU’s nearest rivals include the AMD EPYC 7552 (score 14115, deltaPct 0.4) and AMD Ryzen 3 7320C (score 14277, deltaPct -0.8), which are comparable in synthetic benchmarks. However, the i5-10400F’s 12 MB L3 cache and 4.30 GHz boost clock allow it to sustain high frame rates in Minimum, as evidenced by the 1080p Low result of 268.3 FPS. The GPU’s nearest rivals, including the RTX 4080 (deltaPct 0) and AMD Radeon RX 7700S (deltaPct -0.8), show that the RTX 5070 Ti is competitively positioned, but its 4K Ultra result of 57.3 FPS is a limitation.

Compared to other combos in the database, the 228th rank indicates that the CPU-GPU pairing is well balanced for 1080p and 1440p gaming but falls short at 4K Ultra. The 4K Low result of 117.8 FPS is still above the 60 FPS threshold, but the Ultra preset’s 57.3 FPS average is a clear outlier. The rank suggests that many other tested combos—likely those with newer CPUs like the Core 14th Gen or AMD Ryzen 7000 series—achieve higher 4K Ultra frame rates, as the i5-10400F’s 42.7 GB/s memory bandwidth and PCIe Gen 3 interface may limit data transfer to the GPU in CPU-bound scenarios. Despite this, the combo’s overall rank of 228 out of 1733 is strong, placing it ahead of 86.8% of all tested configurations, which is impressive for a CPU released in 2020 paired with a GPU released in 2025. The data confirms that this pairing is viable for high-refresh 1440p gaming, with 4K Ultra being the only setting where the GPU’s 16 GB VRAM and 896.0 GB/s bandwidth cannot overcome the pixel workload.