Outriders

The AMD Ryzen 5 4600G paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 delivers a robust Outriders experience, with the data showing that the optimal balance of visual fidelity and frame rate is achieved at High settings across all tested resolutions. This combination ranks in the 53rd percentile of all tested combos, placing it solidly in the upper half of the database.

Settings Recommendations

The benchmark results clearly indicate that the High preset is the sweet spot for this hardware pairing. At 1920x1080, High settings deliver 128.7 FPS average, which is only 32.1 FPS below the Low preset’s 160.8 FPS, while providing substantially better visual quality. The gap narrows further at higher resolutions: at 2560x1440, High produces 110.5 FPS versus Low’s 143.2 FPS, and at 3840x2160, High maintains 61 FPS compared to Low’s 108.3 FPS.

Ultra settings are not recommended for a consistently smooth experience. The Ultra preset at 3840x2160 drops to 45.1 FPS, which falls below the 60 FPS threshold many players target. At 2560x1440, Ultra achieves 85 FPS, but the jump from High to Ultra costs 25.5 FPS (from 110.5 to 85), a significant penalty for marginal visual gains. At 1920x1080, Ultra delivers 116.2 FPS, but High’s 128.7 FPS offers a better safety margin.

Medium settings provide diminishing returns relative to High. At 1920x1080, Medium’s 145.3 FPS is only 16.6 FPS above High, while at 2560x1440 the difference is 15.1 FPS (125.6 vs 110.5). The data suggests High is the clear choice: it maintains playable frame rates even at 4K, where it hits 61 FPS, and offers the best performance-per-visual-quality tradeoff across all three resolutions.

GPU Role

The RTX 4070’s 12 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 192-bit bus provides 504.2 GB/s of bandwidth, which proves adequate for Outriders’ demands. The GPU’s Ada Lovelace architecture, built on a 5 nm process at TSMC, contains 5,888 shading units, 184 texture mapping units, and 64 raster output units. The 46 ray tracing cores and 184 tensor cores are present but not directly reflected in the measured FPS data, suggesting the game’s rasterization workload dominates.

The GPU’s clock behavior shows a base of 1920 MHz boosting to 2475 MHz, with memory running at 1313 MHz (21 Gbps effective). The measured results indicate the RTX 4070 scales well with resolution, but the frame rate drops from 1080p to 4K reveal that the GPU is the primary driver of performance. The 12 GB VRAM capacity is sufficient for all tested settings, as no settings combination appears to hit a memory ceiling that would cause severe frame rate collapses.

The GPU’s PassMark G3D score of 26,927 places it in the 81st percentile of all GPUs, and its average benchmark score of 37,283 sits within 2.5% of the AMD Radeon RX 5300M and 2.2% below the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile. These rival comparisons show the RTX 4070 is well-positioned in the mid-to-high performance tier.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS scaling from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 follows a predictable pattern that confirms GPU-bound behavior. At High settings, performance drops from 128.7 FPS at 1080p to 110.5 FPS at 1440p (a 14.1% decrease), then to 61 FPS at 4K (a 44.8% decrease from 1440p). This steep 4K penalty indicates the RTX 4070 is working near its limits at that resolution.

Low settings show a more moderate scaling curve: 160.8 FPS at 1080p, 143.2 FPS at 1440p (an 11% drop), and 108.3 FPS at 4K (a 24.4% drop from 1440p). The smaller 4K penalty at Low settings suggests that at lower visual loads, the CPU begins to play a more significant role, limiting the GPU’s ability to stretch further.

Ultra settings exhibit the most dramatic resolution scaling: 116.2 FPS at 1080p, 85 FPS at 1440p (a 26.9% drop), and 45.1 FPS at 4K (a 46.9% drop). This pattern reinforces that the GPU is the limiting factor at higher settings and resolutions, with the RTX 4070’s compute resources being saturated by the increased pixel count and shading complexity.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the Ryzen 5 4600G and RTX 4070 ranks 795th out of 1,693 tested combos in Outriders, placing it in the 53rd percentile. This mid-pack ranking is notable because the GPU alone sits in the 81st percentile, suggesting the CPU is holding back the overall combo performance.

The CPU’s average benchmark score of 17,489 places it in the 75th percentile of all CPUs, with nearest rivals including the AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5355GE (deltaPct 0), Intel Core i5-12450H (deltaPct 0.1), Intel Core i3-14100T (deltaPct -0.8), and Intel Core i3-13100F (deltaPct -1). These tight margins (within 1%) indicate the Ryzen 5 4600G is competitive with modern low-end and mid-range CPUs, but its Zen 2 architecture and 8 MB shared L3 cache limit its ability to feed the RTX 4070 at lower resolutions.

The combo’s 795th rank out of 1,693 is a direct consequence of this CPU-GPU imbalance. At 1080p, where CPU overhead is most pronounced, the combo still achieves 128.7 FPS at High settings, but the GPU’s headroom is not fully utilized compared to what a stronger CPU might enable.

FAQ

Q: Is the RTX 4070 capable of running Outriders at 4K with High settings?

A: Yes, the measured data shows 61 FPS average at 3840x2160 with High settings, which is playable, though it sits right at the 60 FPS threshold.

Q: What is the best settings preset for 1440p gaming with this combo?

A: High settings at 2560x1440 deliver 110.5 FPS, which is 25.5 FPS faster than Ultra and only 15.1 FPS slower than Medium, making High the optimal balance.

Q: How does the Ryzen 5 4600G compare to its nearest CPU rivals?

A: The Ryzen 5 4600G scores 17,489 on average, which is 0.1% higher than the Intel Core i5-12450H, 0.8% lower than the Intel Core i3-14100T, and 1% lower than the Intel Core i3-13100F.

Q: Does the combo perform better at 1080p or 1440p relative to the GPU’s potential?

A: The data shows 1080p High achieves 128.7 FPS while 1440p High achieves 110.5 FPS, indicating the combo is more CPU-limited at 1080p and more GPU-limited at 1440p.

Q: What is the highest frame rate recorded for this combo?

A: The highest measured average is 160.8 FPS at 1920x1080 with Low settings.

Q: Is the Ultra preset worth using at any resolution?

A: Only at 1080p, where Ultra achieves 116.2 FPS (above 60 FPS), but High’s 128.7 FPS provides a better performance margin.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the settings scale from 160.8 FPS at Low, 145.3 FPS at Medium, 128.7 FPS at High, down to 116.2 FPS at Ultra. The performance gap between Low and Ultra is 44.6 FPS, representing a 27.7% reduction in frame rate for maximum visual quality.

At 2560x1440, the results are 143.2 FPS at Low, 125.6 FPS at Medium, 110.5 FPS at High, and 85 FPS at Ultra. The spread from Low to Ultra is 58.2 FPS, a 40.6% reduction, showing that the GPU’s workload increases more sharply at this resolution.

At 3840x2160, the measured averages are 108.3 FPS at Low, 79.2 FPS at Medium, 61 FPS at High, and 45.1 FPS at Ultra. The Low-to-Ultra gap expands to 63.2 FPS, a 58.4% reduction, demonstrating that 4K Ultra is simply too demanding for this combo.

The data also shows that the step from High to Ultra is the most expensive at every resolution: 12.5 FPS at 1080p, 25.5 FPS at 1440p, and 15.9 FPS at 4K. In contrast, the step from Low to Medium costs 15.5 FPS at 1080p, 17.6 FPS at 1440p, and 29.1 FPS at 4K, making High the most efficient preset per frame.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 4600G is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 2 architecture on a 7 nm process. It runs at a base clock of 3.70 GHz with a boost clock of 4.20 GHz, and its 65 W TDP indicates modest power requirements. The CPU’s cache hierarchy includes 64 KB L1 per core, 512 KB L2 per core, and 8 MB of shared L3 cache, which is relatively small for feeding a high-end GPU.

The CPU’s benchmark results show a single-thread score of 726 in 3DMark and 1,919 in Cinebench R23, which are modest by modern standards. Its multi-threaded performance is stronger, with Cinebench R23 multicore at 13,593 and Geekbench multicore at 6,093. The PassMark multithread score of 15,992 and average benchmark score of 17,489 place it in the 75th percentile of all CPUs.

In Outriders, the CPU’s role is most evident at 1080p, where the combo achieves 128.7 FPS at High settings but cannot push much higher even at Low (160.8 FPS). The fact that 4K Low (108.3 FPS) is faster than 1080p Ultra (116.2 FPS) by a small margin, but 4K High (61 FPS) is far below 1080p High (128.7 FPS), shows that the CPU maintains enough throughput to avoid being a bottleneck at lower settings, but the GPU becomes the clear limiter as resolution and settings increase. The CPU’s 6 cores and 12 threads are sufficient for Outriders’ looter shooter gameplay, but its aging Zen 2 architecture prevents it from fully unlocking the RTX 4070’s potential in CPU-bound scenarios.