Outriders

Resolution Scaling

Outriders demonstrates a pronounced resolution-dependent performance curve with this AMD Ryzen 7 5800X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 pairing. At 1080p with Low settings, the combo delivers 212.1 FPS, which drops to 179.5 FPS at 1440p and further to 107.1 FPS at 4K. That represents a 49.5% reduction in frame rate from 1080p to 4K at Low settings, indicating that the GPU becomes increasingly taxed as pixel count rises.

The scaling pattern shifts dramatically when moving through quality presets. Under High settings, the frame rate falls from 170 FPS at 1080p to 108.5 FPS at 1440p—a 36.2% decline—and then to 60.6 FPS at 4K, which is a 44.2% drop from the 1440p figure. The Ultra preset shows the steepest absolute decline: 129.6 FPS at 1080p, 82.3 FPS at 1440p, and just 43 FPS at 4K. The gap between 1080p and 1440p at Ultra is 47.3 FPS, while the 1440p-to-4K gap is 39.3 FPS.

These numbers reveal that the RTX 3080's 10 GB GDDR6X memory and 320-bit bus become the limiting factor at higher resolutions, particularly with Ultra settings. The bandwidth of 760.3 GB/s is substantial, but the 4K Ultra result of 43 FPS suggests the GPU is saturated. In contrast, the 1080p Low result of 212.1 FPS shows headroom that the CPU can exploit, with the Ryzen 7 5800X's 8 cores and 16 threads providing ample processing power. The scaling from Medium to High at 1440p is relatively modest—146.9 to 108.5 FPS—whereas the jump from High to Ultra at the same resolution is more severe, highlighting where the graphics card's compute resources begin to bottleneck.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, built on the Ampere architecture with the GA102 chip, is the dominant component in this pairing for Outriders. Its boost clock of 1710 MHz and base clock of 1440 MHz, combined with 8704 shading units, drive the frame rates observed across all tested configurations. The GPU's 68 RT cores and 272 tensor cores are present, though Outriders' rendering workload primarily stresses traditional rasterization.

The 10 GB of GDDR6X memory operating at 19 Gbps effective provides 760.3 GB/s of bandwidth. At 4K Ultra, the 43 FPS result indicates that memory bandwidth and capacity are being pushed hard. The 320-bit bus width is narrower than the 384-bit implementations seen in some higher-tier cards, yet the data shows this configuration still manages playable frame rates at 1440p High (108.5 FPS) and 4K High (60.6 FPS). The GPU's pixel rate of 164.2 GPixel/s and texture rate of 465.1 GTexel/s are key metrics for understanding why High settings yield better scaling than Ultra.

The RTX 3080's percentile ranking of 80 among all GPUs places it in the upper tier, though its nearest rivals show close scores: the AMD Radeon Pro Duo trails by 0.2%, the AMD Radeon 880M is 0.4% ahead, and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE leads by 0.9%. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile sits 1% behind. These narrow margins suggest that in compute benchmarks, the RTX 3080 is competitive, but in Outriders specifically, the 4K Ultra result of 43 FPS reveals its limitations at the highest fidelity setting.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data provides clear guidance for optimal settings. At 4K resolution, the High preset delivers 60.6 FPS, which is the only 4K configuration crossing the 60 FPS threshold. The Medium preset at 4K produces 77.7 FPS, offering a 28.2% improvement over High, while Low at 4K reaches 107.1 FPS—a 76.7% increase over High. Ultra at 4K falls to 43 FPS, which is 29% below the High preset's result.

For 1440p displays, the Medium preset at 146.9 FPS provides the best balance of visual quality and performance, sitting 35.4% above High's 108.5 FPS and 78.5% above Ultra's 82.3 FPS. The Low preset at 179.5 FPS is available for competitive play, but Medium offers a substantial quality improvement for a 32.6 FPS trade-off. At 1080p, the High preset at 170 FPS is the recommended starting point, with Medium at 189.8 FPS and Ultra at 129.6 FPS as alternatives. The 1080p Low result of 212.1 FPS demonstrates the ceiling of this combo, but the visual degradation is likely unnecessary given the headroom available.

The data indicates that High settings are the sweet spot for this GPU across all resolutions, with the 4K result of 60.6 FPS being particularly notable. Ultra settings impose a heavy penalty—a 29% reduction at 4K compared to High—without proportional visual gains, based on the frame rate drops observed.

How This Combo Ranks

This Ryzen 7 5800X + RTX 3080 combination ranks 489th out of 1,693 tested combos in Outriders, placing it in the 71st percentile of all configurations. This is a strong showing, given that the combo sits in the upper third of all tested systems. The ranking reflects the balanced nature of this pairing: the CPU's 84th percentile ranking among all processors and the GPU's 80th percentile ranking among all graphics cards combine to produce a system that handles Outriders well across most settings.

The GPU's nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks—the AMD Radeon Pro Duo, AMD Radeon 880M, AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile—all fall within 1% of the RTX 3080's average score. This tight clustering suggests that in compute-heavy workloads, the RTX 3080 is not decisively ahead of its peers. However, in Outriders specifically, the measured frame rates show that this combo outperforms many lower-ranked configurations, particularly at 1080p and 1440p where the CPU's strong single-thread performance (3,327 in Cinebench R23 single-core) helps maintain high frame rates.

The combo rank of 489 out of 1,693 means that 1,204 tested configurations performed worse in this game. This positions the system as a solid choice for Outriders, though not at the very top tier. The gap between this combo and the best-performing systems likely stems from the GPU's 10 GB memory capacity and the CPU's 8-core configuration, which may be exceeded by higher-end parts in the database.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, based on the Zen 3 Vermeer architecture, contributes meaningfully to this combo's Outriders performance. Its 8 cores and 16 threads, running at a base clock of 3.80 GHz and boost clock of 4.70 GHz, provide the processing throughput needed to feed the RTX 3080 at lower resolutions. The 1080p Low result of 212.1 FPS demonstrates that the CPU can sustain very high frame rates without becoming a bottleneck, as the GPU is not fully saturated at this resolution and settings combination.

The CPU's 32 MB of L3 cache and 4,150 million transistors on a 7 nm TSMC process give it strong single-thread performance, reflected in its Cinebench R23 single-core score of 3,327 and Geekbench single-core score of 2,194. These results place the 5800X in the 84th percentile among all CPUs, with its nearest rival—the AMD Ryzen 7 5800—just 0.3% behind in average score. The Intel Core i7-13700H and Intel Core i5-12600KF are also close, with the former 0.4% ahead and the latter 0.8% ahead.

In Outriders, the CPU's role is most evident at 1080p, where frame rates exceed 170 FPS even at High settings. The difference between 1080p and 1440p results at Low settings—212.1 to 179.5 FPS—indicates that the CPU can still push high frame rates at 1440p, but the GPU begins to take over as the limiting factor. At 4K, the CPU's contribution diminishes, with the 107.1 FPS Low result showing that the GPU's memory bandwidth and compute capacity are the primary constraints. The 5800X's 51.2 GB/s memory bandwidth and dual-channel DDR4 support are sufficient for this workload, as the data shows no CPU-induced frame rate ceilings at any tested resolution.