Outriders

# Outriders with AMD Ryzen 7 5700G + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Outriders, a looter shooter released on 2021-03-31, demonstrates highly resolution-sensitive performance with the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 combination. This pairing places in the 237th percentile of 1693 tested hardware combos for this title, indicating a strong but not top-tier configuration. The measured data reveals a system where the RTX 5090's massive 32 GB VRAM and 1.79 TB/s bandwidth dominate at lower resolutions, while the Ryzen 7 5700G's 8-core, 16-thread Zen 3 architecture becomes increasingly relevant as resolution climbs and frame rates drop toward more CPU-bound territory.

FAQ

Q: What is the best-performing settings preset at 1080p for this combo?

A: Low settings deliver the highest average frame rate at 1920x1080, reaching 202.3 FPS. This is 42 FPS higher than High settings (160.3 FPS) and 57.5 FPS higher than Ultra (144.8 FPS).

Q: How much performance is lost when moving from 1080p to 4K at Ultra settings?

A: At Ultra settings, the average frame rate drops from 144.8 FPS at 1920x1080 to 61.6 FPS at 3840x2160. This represents a 57.5% reduction in average FPS, showing that 4K Ultra places substantial stress on the rendering pipeline.

Q: Does the RTX 5090's 32 GB VRAM provide any measurable benefit in Outriders?

A: The data shows smooth scaling across resolutions with no sudden frame rate collapses that would indicate VRAM capacity limitations. At 4K Ultra, the system still maintains 61.6 FPS average, suggesting the 32 GB GDDR7 memory (with 1.79 TB/s bandwidth) is sufficient even at maximum settings.

Q: Which resolution offers the best balance of visual quality and performance?

A: 2560x1440 at High settings delivers 140.1 FPS average, which is only 20.2 FPS below the 1080p High result (160.3 FPS) while providing significantly more pixel detail. This makes 1440p High a compelling middle ground.

Q: How does the Ryzen 7 5700G's single-thread performance influence results?

A: The CPU's 3dmark single-thread score of 899 and Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2930 indicate solid per-core performance. In Outriders, this shows in the relatively small FPS gap between Low and Ultra at 1080p (202.3 vs 144.8 FPS), suggesting the GPU remains the primary bottleneck even at lower settings.

Q: What is the combined hardware ranking for this game?

A: This AMD Ryzen 7 5700G + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 combination ranks 237th out of 1693 tested hardware combos in Outriders, placing it in the 86th percentile of all configurations tested.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data points to High settings as the optimal preset for most users across all three resolutions. At 1920x1080, High delivers 160.3 FPS average, which is 84.5 FPS higher than Ultra (144.8 FPS) but only 42 FPS lower than Low (202.3 FPS). The visual quality improvement from Low to High is substantial for a relatively modest performance cost.

At 2560x1440, the case for High becomes even stronger. The High preset achieves 140.1 FPS average, which is only 32.1 FPS below the Low preset's 172.2 FPS, yet provides dramatically better image quality. The jump from High to Ultra costs 15.4 FPS (140.1 to 124.7), a smaller penalty than at 1080p, making Ultra a viable option for users with high-refresh 1440p displays.

The 4K results show a different pattern. At 3840x2160, High settings produce 91.5 FPS average, which is comfortably above 60 FPS for smooth gameplay. Medium delivers 117.9 FPS, while Low reaches 141.5 FPS. Ultra drops to 61.6 FPS, which is borderline for a looter shooter where consistent frame pacing matters. For 4K, Medium presents the most compelling option: it delivers 117.9 FPS average while maintaining reasonable visual fidelity, and it is only 26.4 FPS below Low (141.5 FPS) but 56.3 FPS above Ultra (61.6 FPS).

For users prioritizing maximum frame rates, Low settings at 1080p provide 202.3 FPS average, which is ideal for competitive play. However, given that Outriders is primarily a cooperative PvE experience, High at 1440p (140.1 FPS) represents the sweet spot for most users seeking both visual polish and responsive gameplay.

Resolution Scaling

The performance scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals a system that becomes progressively more GPU-bound at higher resolutions. At High settings, the average frame rate drops from 160.3 FPS at 1920x1080 to 140.1 FPS at 2560x1440 (a 12.6% decrease), then further to 91.5 FPS at 3840x2160 (a 34.7% decrease from 1440p). This non-linear decline indicates that the RTX 5090's rendering throughput becomes the limiting factor as pixel count increases.

The Low settings curve shows a similar pattern but with a gentler slope. From 202.3 FPS at 1080p to 172.2 FPS at 1440p (14.9% drop) and then to 141.5 FPS at 4K (17.8% drop from 1440p). The smaller percentage decline at Low settings suggests that when the GPU is less stressed, the Ryzen 7 5700G's performance ceiling becomes more apparent—the CPU's 8 cores and 16 threads can feed the GPU adequately, but there is a hard limit around 200 FPS at 1080p.

The Ultra settings curve exhibits the steepest decline: 144.8 FPS at 1080p, 124.7 FPS at 1440p (13.9% drop), and 61.6 FPS at 4K (50.6% drop from 1440p). This dramatic fall at 4K Ultra demonstrates that the combination of high resolution and maximum graphical effects overwhelms even the RTX 5090's substantial compute resources (104.8 TFLOPS FP32). The 4K Ultra result of 61.6 FPS is the only measured configuration below 90 FPS, highlighting that this setting combination is the most demanding.

At 1080p, the differences between settings presets are relatively compressed (202.3 to 144.8 FPS, a 57.5 FPS spread), indicating that the CPU at 1080p Low may be approaching its limit. The Ryzen 7 5700G's 3dmark_max_threads score of 6627 and passmark_multithread score of 24419 suggest moderate multi-threaded capability that can support high frame rates but cannot push beyond roughly 200 FPS in this title.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured average frame rates are: Low 202.3 FPS, Medium 178.4 FPS, High 160.3 FPS, and Ultra 144.8 FPS. The spread between Low and Ultra is 57.5 FPS, with each settings step costing between 15.5 and 24 FPS. The step from Medium to High (18.1 FPS loss) is the smallest, while the step from Low to Medium (23.9 FPS loss) is the largest.

At 2560x1440, the results show: Low 172.2 FPS, Medium 154 FPS, High 140.1 FPS, and Ultra 124.7 FPS. The total spread narrows to 47.5 FPS, with the step from Medium to High costing 13.9 FPS and the step from High to Ultra costing 15.4 FPS. The Low to Medium step (18.2 FPS loss) remains the largest single drop.

At 3840x2160, the frame rates are: Low 141.5 FPS, Medium 117.9 FPS, High 91.5 FPS, and Ultra 61.6 FPS. This represents a 79.9 FPS spread between Low and Ultra, the widest of any resolution. The step from High to Ultra (29.9 FPS loss) is the most punishing, while the step from Medium to High (26.4 FPS loss) is nearly as severe. The Low to Medium step (23.6 FPS loss) is comparatively moderate.

Across all resolutions, the Low to Medium transition consistently costs the most frame rate relative to other steps at lower resolutions, but at 4K the High to Ultra transition becomes the most expensive. This pattern suggests that certain graphical features enabled at Ultra settings (such as advanced post-processing or shadow quality) have a disproportionately higher cost at 4K pixel counts.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 plays the dominant role in these results, particularly at higher resolutions. Its 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus provides 1.79 TB/s of bandwidth, which is critical for feeding the GPU's 21760 shading units and 176 ROPs at 4K resolution. The 423.6 GPixel/s pixel rate and 1,636.8 GTexel/s texture rate directly support the high fill-rate demands of 4K rendering.

The GPU's clock behavior (2017 MHz base, 2407 MHz boost) allows it to scale performance dynamically. The measured FPS results show that at 1080p Low (202.3 FPS), the GPU is being fed adequately by the CPU, but the system's overall throughput is limited by the Ryzen 7 5700G's processing capabilities rather than the GPU's maximum output. The RTX 5090's 104.8 TFLOPS FP32 compute is far beyond what Outriders requires at 1080p, explaining why Low and Medium presets deliver similar frame rates at this resolution.

The GPU's capacity is most evident at 4K Ultra, where it still manages 61.6 FPS average despite the extreme load. The 32 GB VRAM ensures that texture streaming never becomes a bottleneck—the game's assets, no matter how large at Ultra settings, fit comfortably within the memory pool. The 1.79 TB/s bandwidth prevents any memory bandwidth constraints from limiting the 4K performance.

The RTX 5090's nearest rivals in the benchmark database include the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D (0.1% ahead) and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile (0.2% ahead), while the AMD Radeon PRO W6600 trails by 1.3%. These narrow margins reflect the GPU's position at the top of the performance hierarchy. The RTX 5090's 94th percentile ranking among all GPUs confirms that for Outriders, the GPU is the primary driver of frame rates at 1440p and 4K, while the CPU becomes the limiting factor only at 1080p with lower graphical presets.