Outriders

The Core i5-12400 paired with the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti produces a wide spread of frame rates across the four settings presets in Outriders, with the gap between 1080p and 4K revealing a shift in bottleneck. At 1920x1080, the Low preset delivers an average of 214.3 FPS, while the Ultra preset drops to 151.1 FPS. Moving to 2560x1440, the same settings yield 185.7 FPS on Low and 103.3 FPS on Ultra. The most pronounced scaling appears at 3840x2160, where Low produces 136.7 FPS but Ultra falls to 52.1 FPS. The delta between 1080p Low and 4K Low is 77.6 FPS, a 36.2% reduction, whereas the delta between 1080p Ultra and 4K Ultra is 99 FPS, a 65.5% reduction. This disproportionate drop at higher settings and resolutions indicates that the GPU becomes progressively more limiting as pixel count and visual complexity increase, while the CPU maintains sufficient headroom to feed the framerate at lower loads.

The 4K Ultra result of 52.1 FPS shows the RTX 5070 Ti operating well below its potential in this title under maximum load, suggesting that the combination of 4K resolution and Ultra settings creates a scenario where the GPU is the dominant constraint. Conversely, the 1080p Low result of 214.3 FPS, while being the highest measured average, still leaves a substantial gap to the 240 Hz refresh territory, hinting that the CPU is not the limiting factor even at the lowest settings. The data pattern across all three resolutions shows a consistent hierarchy: Low always produces the highest FPS, followed by Medium, then High, with Ultra in last place. The relative ordering of Medium and High shifts slightly, as Medium at 1440p (163.9 FPS) outperforms High at 1080p (169 FPS) by a small margin, but this is expected given the resolution difference.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS drop from 1080p to 4K is not linear across settings, which provides insight into where the system's headroom lies. At Low settings, the transition from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 reduces the average from 214.3 FPS to 136.7 FPS, a 36.2% decrease. At Medium settings, the same resolution change goes from 189.9 FPS to 98 FPS, a 48.4% decrease. High settings see a steeper decline, from 169 FPS at 1080p to 71.7 FPS at 4K, a 57.6% reduction. Ultra settings suffer the largest relative loss, dropping from 151.1 FPS to 52.1 FPS, a 65.5% decrease. This widening percentage gap as settings increase indicates that each step up in visual quality adds disproportionately more GPU work per pixel, and the RTX 5070 Ti's 16 GB of GDDR7 memory and 896.0 GB/s bandwidth are being taxed harder as the rendering load grows. The data suggests that at 1080p and 1440p, even Ultra settings remain playable, but 4K Ultra pushes the combination into marginal territory, with the average FPS falling below the 60 FPS threshold.

The scaling from 1440p to 4K is particularly telling. At High settings, the drop from 144.6 FPS to 71.7 FPS represents a 50.4% reduction, while at Low settings, the drop from 185.7 FPS to 136.7 FPS is only 26.4%. This asymmetry implies that the GPU is not purely pixel-bound at Low settings; other factors such as draw call overhead or engine limits become more relevant. The RTX 5070 Ti's boost clock of 2452 MHz and base clock of 2295 MHz contribute to its ability to sustain high frame rates at lower resolutions, but the 4K Ultra case shows that raw compute throughput, measured at 43.94 TFLOPS FP32, is insufficient to maintain high refresh rates in this looter shooter when all effects are enabled.

GPU Role

The RTX 5070 Ti brings 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 896.0 GB/s. In Outriders, the memory capacity is not exhausted at any tested setting, as the game's asset streaming at 4K Ultra does not appear to cause a drop below the measured averages. The memory clock runs at 1750 MHz, with an effective data rate of 28 Gbps. The GPU's 8960 shading units and 280 texture mapping units provide the computational muscle for the high FPS numbers seen at lower resolutions. The pixel rate of 235.4 GPixel/s and texture rate of 686.6 GTexel/s are directly relevant to how the game fills the screen with effects at 4K, where the pixel count quadruples relative to 1080p.

The benchmark results for this GPU show a Passmark G3D score of 32974 and a Geekbench OpenCL score of 231226, placing it at the 87th percentile against all GPUs. Its average benchmark score of 52086 is nearly identical to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080, which scores 52085 with a deltaPct of 0. This near-parity in synthetic benchmarks does not fully translate to Outriders, where the measured FPS at 4K Ultra (52.1) suggests that the game's specific rendering path does not take full advantage of the Blackwell 2.0 architecture's features. The GPU's 70 ray tracing cores are present, but the data does not indicate whether Outriders uses them extensively, as the measured results show a steep drop to 52.1 FPS at 4K Ultra, which is likely rasterization-bound rather than RT-bound.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the database of tested CPU-GPU combinations for Outriders, this pairing of the Intel Core i5-12400 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti ranks 245 out of 1693 tested combos. This places it in the top 14.5% of all configurations, which is a strong showing given that the CPU is a mid-range 6-core part. The rank reflects the GPU's dominance in the pairing, as the RTX 5070 Ti's 87th percentile standing among all GPUs is significantly higher than the CPU's 77th percentile among all CPUs. The combination's position suggests that while the GPU can push high frame rates, the CPU's performance ceiling may prevent it from reaching the absolute top tier of results.

The CPU's nearest rivals provide context for its contribution. The Intel Core i7-9700 scores 19831 in average benchmark, a deltaPct of 0.1 relative to the i5-12400's 19850 average. The Intel Core i7-8700 scores 19894, a deltaPct of -0.2, meaning the i5-12400 is slightly slower. The AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX scores 19928, a deltaPct of -0.4, and the Intel Core i5-11600K scores 19771, a deltaPct of 0.4. These tiny deltas indicate that the i5-12400 is performance-equivalent to several older high-end and current mid-range parts, which means the CPU is not holding back the RTX 5070 Ti in a meaningful way for this game. The combo's rank of 245 out of 1693 is more a function of the GPU's strength than the CPU's, as the 5070 Ti is capable of producing frame rates that many lower-tier GPUs cannot match.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS rows provide a clear guide for which preset delivers the best experience. At 1920x1080, the Ultra preset averages 151.1 FPS, which is well above the 144 Hz refresh rate common on high-refresh monitors, while the Low preset hits 214.3 FPS but sacrifices visual quality. The Medium preset at 1080p yields 189.9 FPS, offering a balance between the two. At 2560x1440, the High preset produces 144.6 FPS, which is nearly perfect for 144 Hz displays, while Ultra drops to 103.3 FPS, still playable but not maximizing refresh rate potential. The Medium preset at 1440p averages 163.9 FPS, which provides a smoother experience than High but with reduced visual fidelity.

For 3840x2160, the data shows that only the Low preset (136.7 FPS) and Medium preset (98 FPS) maintain frame rates above 60 FPS. High settings drop to 71.7 FPS, which is playable, but Ultra falls to 52.1 FPS, which is below the 60 FPS threshold. Based on the measured rows, the best experience at 4K is Medium, which offers a 98 FPS average while retaining more visual features than Low. At 1440p, High settings at 144.6 FPS are the optimal choice for users with 144 Hz monitors, as the jump to Ultra (103.3 FPS) costs 41.3 FPS for marginal visual gains. At 1080p, Ultra at 151.1 FPS is the recommended setting, as it provides a high frame rate without compromising on visual quality, and the drop from Low to Ultra is only 63.2 FPS, which is acceptable for most users.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The full set of measured averages shows a consistent pattern across all three resolutions. At 1920x1080, the Low preset averages 214.3 FPS, Medium averages 189.9 FPS, High averages 169 FPS, and Ultra averages 151.1 FPS. The spread from Low to Ultra is 63.2 FPS, which is the smallest absolute difference of any resolution. At 2560x1440, Low averages 185.7 FPS, Medium averages 163.9 FPS, High averages 144.6 FPS, and Ultra averages 103.3 FPS. The spread here is 82.4 FPS, showing a wider gap as the GPU becomes more stressed. At 3840x2160, Low averages 136.7 FPS, Medium averages 98 FPS, High averages 71.7 FPS, and Ultra averages 52.1 FPS. The spread at 4K is 84.6 FPS, and the Ultra result is the only one below 60 FPS in the entire dataset.

The step from Medium to High at each resolution is notable. At 1080p, the drop is 20.9 FPS (from 189.9 to 169), at 1440p it is 19.3 FPS (from 163.9 to 144.6), and at 4K it is 26.3 FPS (from 98 to 71.7). The step from High to Ultra is more severe: at 1080p it is 17.9 FPS (from 169 to 151.1), at 1440p it is 41.3 FPS (from 144.6 to 103.3), and at 4K it is 19.6 FPS (from 71.7 to 52.1). This indicates that the Ultra preset at 1440p is particularly demanding, likely enabling effects that disproportionately impact the GPU. The data also shows that the RTX 5070 Ti can maintain high FPS at 1080p even on Ultra, but the same preset at 4K results in a sub-60 FPS experience.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-12400 is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Alder Lake architecture, with a base clock of 2.50 GHz and a boost clock of 4.40 GHz. It has an 18 MB shared L3 cache and 1.25 MB L2 cache per core, along with 80 KB L1 cache per core. The CPU's 3DMark scores show a single-thread score of 910 and a max-thread score of 5890, indicating that its single-core performance is adequate for gaming workloads. In Cinebench R23, the multi-core score is 15935 and the single-core score is 2249, which places it in line with other mid-range desktop parts. The Passmark single-thread score of 3456 and multithread score of 18747 confirm that the CPU is not a bottleneck in Outriders, as the game's frame rates at 1080p Low (214.3 FPS) are not limited by the processor's throughput.

The CPU's percentile rank of 77 against all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 19850, puts it just slightly above the Intel Core i7-9700 (19831, deltaPct 0.1) and just below the Intel Core i7-8700 (19894, deltaPct -0.2). This near-identical performance to older 8-core parts suggests that the i5-12400's 6 cores are sufficient for Outriders, which does not appear to scale beyond a handful of threads based on the FPS data. The CPU's TDP of 65 W and support for DDR4 and DDR5 memory indicate a balanced platform, but the measured results show that the GPU is the primary driver of FPS differences across settings. At 4K Ultra, the CPU is not the constraint, as the GPU drops to 52.1 FPS, a level where even a stronger CPU would not help. The combination's rank of 245 out of 1693 is thus attributable to the RTX 5070 Ti's high performance, with the i5-12400 providing sufficient compute to avoid limiting the GPU at lower resolutions.