Outriders

The data for Outriders with the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 reveals a system of exceptional capability, yet the measured frame rates show distinct behavioral patterns depending on resolution and preset. The combination ranks 30th out of 1693 tested combos, placing it in the top 2% of all configurations, a position that suggests a high degree of synergy between the components. The benchmark results indicate that the RTX 4090, with its 24 GB of GDDR6X memory and 1.01 TB/s bandwidth, provides a massive performance ceiling, but the data shows that the CPU and the game engine itself begin to define the experience at lower resolutions.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS drop from 1080p to 4K is not linear and reveals a shift in the system's bottleneck. At 1080p with Low settings, the system achieves an average of 256 FPS. Moving to 1440p at the same settings, the average drops to 220.4 FPS, a reduction of 13.9%. However, jumping to 4K Low yields 159.8 FPS, a substantial 27.5% drop from the 1440p figure. This pattern confirms that at lower resolutions, the CPU is the limiting factor, as the GPU has headroom to spare. The AMD Ryzen 7 7700X, with its 8 cores and 16 threads, is powerful, but its role becomes less dominant as resolution increases.

The scaling is even more pronounced when examining the Ultra preset. At 1080p Ultra, the system manages 182.2 FPS. At 1440p Ultra, it falls to 119.8 FPS, a 34.2% reduction. Pushing to 4K Ultra results in 65.2 FPS, another 45.6% reduction from the 1440p score. This steeper decline at higher settings suggests that the GPU's rendering load, particularly with effects like ray tracing or high-detail textures, becomes the primary constraint. The data implies that the RTX 4090 is so fast that it can brute-force 1080p and 1440p, but the sheer pixel count of 4K (3840x2160) finally engages its full pipeline, leading to the significant FPS drops observed.

FAQ

Q: What is the highest average FPS recorded for this combo?

A: The highest recorded average is 256 FPS, achieved at 1920x1080 resolution with Low settings.

Q: How does the Ultra preset performance compare between 1440p and 4K?

A: At 2560x1440 Ultra, the average FPS is 119.8. At 3840x2160 Ultra, it drops significantly to 65.2 FPS, a reduction of approximately 45.6%.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU more likely to be the bottleneck at 1080p?

A: The benchmark results indicate the CPU is the likely bottleneck at 1080p. The FPS difference between Low (256 FPS) and High (204.9 FPS) settings is relatively small, suggesting the CPU's processing of game logic and draw calls limits performance before the GPU is fully taxed.

Q: What is the combo's overall rank among all tested system configurations?

A: The combo ranks 30th out of 1693 tested combos in Outriders, placing it in the 98th percentile of performance.

Q: Which preset at 4K provides a playable frame rate above 100 FPS?

A: The Medium preset at 3840x2160 achieves an average of 113.6 FPS, making it the highest quality setting at 4K that still breaks the 100 FPS barrier.

Q: How large is the performance gap between the Low and Ultra presets at 1080p?

A: At 1920x1080, the gap between Low (256 FPS) and Ultra (182.2 FPS) is 73.8 FPS, representing a 28.8% performance loss for the maximum visual quality preset.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700X is a Zen 4 architecture processor with 8 cores and 16 threads, clocking up to 5.40 GHz boost. Its benchmark scores, such as a Cinebench R23 multicore score of 30325 and a single-core score of 4281, position it as a high-end desktop part. Its percentile rank of 89 versus all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 34313, places it just 0.4% ahead of the Intel Core i5-13500 and 0.5% ahead of the Intel Core i7-12800HX in aggregate performance. This indicates that while it is a top-tier chip, the competition is close in synthetic tests.

In Outriders, the CPU's influence is most visible at 1080p. The difference between the Low preset (256 FPS) and the High preset (204.9 FPS) is only 51.1 FPS, a 20% reduction. This relatively small delta suggests that the game's engine is able to feed the GPU frames faster than the renderer can process them, but the CPU's thread scheduling and single-thread speed are still crucial. The 3DMark scores for the CPU show a strong scaling from 2 threads (2112) to 8 threads (7057), but the jump to 16 threads (8859) is less dramatic, implying that Outriders likely does not efficiently utilize more than 8 cores. The data suggests that the 7700X's 32 MB of shared L3 cache and high boost clock are more important for this game than its raw multi-threading capability, as the FPS at 1080p is largely consistent across Medium and High settings.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data provides a clear hierarchy of presets, allowing for strategic choices based on display resolution. For 4K gaming, the Ultra preset is the most demanding, yielding 65.2 FPS. This is playable but not ideal for high-refresh-rate monitors. The High preset at 4K provides 87.3 FPS, a significant improvement that maintains most visual fidelity. However, the Medium preset at 113.6 FPS offers the best balance for 4K, delivering a fluid experience while still utilizing higher-quality textures and effects than the Low preset.

For 1440p, the data shows that the Ultra preset (119.8 FPS) is perfectly playable and provides the best visual experience, as the system has enough headroom to maintain a high frame rate. The High preset (166 FPS) and Medium preset (200 FPS) offer even higher refresh rates for competitive play, but the visual gains from Ultra are generally worth the performance cost at this resolution. At 1080p, the Ultra preset (182.2 FPS) is the recommended choice, as it still provides a very high frame rate that exceeds the refresh rate of most monitors, making the performance trade-offs of lower presets unnecessary. The Low preset at 1080p (256 FPS) is only useful for extreme competitive scenarios where maximum frame pacing is paramount.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 achieves a rank of 30 out of 1693 tested combos in Outriders. This places the system in the top 1.8% of all configurations, a signal of the raw power of both components. The RTX 4090, with its 82.58 TFLOPS FP32 performance and 16384 shading units, is the dominant force in this pairing, and its 91st percentile rank among all GPUs confirms its status as a flagship part. The CPU, while not the absolute fastest, provides ample support, ensuring that the GPU is not starved of data at lower resolutions.

The ranking implies that very few systems can outperform this setup, with those ahead likely featuring even more exotic or specifically tuned hardware. The deltaPct from the GPU's nearest rivals, such as the NVIDIA Tesla T4 (0.4% slower) and AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 (0.9% faster), shows that the 4090 is in a class of its own for gaming, as those rivals are professional compute cards. This combo ranking is a strong indicator that users will experience top-tier performance across all resolutions, with the only potential limitation being the game engine's ability to scale beyond the measured frame rates.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system delivers a range of performance depending on the preset. The Low preset averages 256 FPS, the Medium preset averages 228.8 FPS, the High preset averages 204.9 FPS, and the Ultra preset averages 182.2 FPS. The scaling from Low to Ultra shows a clear 28.8% performance reduction for maximum quality, but even the lowest figure is exceptionally high.

Moving to 2560x1440, the averages are 220.4 FPS for Low, 200 FPS for Medium, 166 FPS for High, and 119.8 FPS for Ultra. The drop from High to Ultra is notable at 27.8%, indicating a heavier load on the GPU. At 3840x2160, the results are 159.8 FPS for Low, 113.6 FPS for Medium, 87.3 FPS for High, and 65.2 FPS for Ultra. The 4K Ultra figure represents a 74.5% decrease from the 1080p Low score, highlighting the immense stress of 4K rendering.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is a behemoth, built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with a 5 nm process and 76,300 million transistors. Its 24 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus provides 1.01 TB/s of bandwidth, which is crucial for high-resolution textures. The GPU's clock speeds are high, with a base of 2235 MHz and a boost of 2520 MHz, and its 128 RT cores and 512 Tensor cores make it future-proof for ray-traced content. Its benchmark scores, such as a Passmark G3D score of 38194 and a Geekbench OpenCL score of 317684, place it in the 91st percentile of all GPUs.

In Outriders, the GPU's role becomes increasingly critical as resolution and settings increase. At 4K Ultra, the 65.2 FPS result shows that even this flagship GPU is working hard, as the gap between Medium (113.6 FPS) and Ultra (65.2 FPS) is a massive 42.6%. This suggests that the Ultra preset likely enables effects that are exceptionally taxing, such as high-quality shadows, ambient occlusion, and volumetric lighting. The data indicates that the RTX 4090's raw compute power is the sole reason the system can maintain playable frame rates at 4K, while its massive memory pool ensures that texture loading is never a bottleneck. The GPU's performance is so high that it effectively shifts the system bottleneck to the CPU at resolutions below 1440p, proving that it holds the key to the system's high rank.