Overpower

The data for Overpower shows a system pairing the AMD Ryzen 5 5500 with the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT. This combination produces a wide range of frame rates depending on resolution and quality settings, with the most demanding configuration dropping below 50 FPS and the lightest exceeding 130 FPS. The following analysis breaks down the measured performance figures.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate progression from 1080p to 4K reveals a system that is heavily influenced by resolution, though the degree of that influence shifts with quality settings. At Low settings, the drop is substantial: the average frame rate falls from 136.7 FPS at 1920x1080 to 118.8 FPS at 2560x1440, then to 103.6 FPS at 3840x2160. This represents a 24.2% reduction from 1080p to 4K, indicating that even at the lowest quality preset, the GPU is still working within its comfort zone, but the pixel count is starting to matter.

The picture changes dramatically at Ultra settings. At 1920x1080, the system manages 66.3 FPS. Moving to 2560x1440 drops that to 61.0 FPS, and at 3840x2160 the average falls to 48.5 FPS. The gap between 1080p and 4K here is 17.8 FPS, or a 26.8% decline. Notably, the absolute drop from 1440p to 4K at Ultra is 12.5 FPS, which is the single largest resolution-based step in the entire dataset.

The scaling pattern suggests that at 4K with High or Ultra settings, the Radeon RX 7600 XT becomes the primary limiting component. The 16 GB of video memory is not the constraint — the issue is raw throughput. The 288.0 GB/s memory bandwidth and the 22.57 TFLOPS FP32 compute figure are being pushed to their limits. Conversely, at 1080p Low, the system is likely becoming more CPU-bound, as the Ryzen 5 5500's 6 cores and 12 threads must feed frames to the GPU faster than the 136.7 FPS average.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is built on the RDNA 3.0 architecture with the Navi 33 chip. Its base clock is 1980 MHz, with a boost clock of 2755 MHz and a game clock of 2470 MHz. The memory operates at 2250 MHz, which translates to 18 Gbps effective speed across a 128-bit bus, yielding a total bandwidth of 288.0 GB/s. This memory configuration is notable for the 16 GB GDDR6 capacity, which is substantial for this class of GPU.

In Overpower, the GPU's role becomes clearer when comparing Low and Ultra performance at the same resolution. At 1080p, the difference between Low (136.7 FPS) and Ultra (66.3 FPS) is 70.4 FPS, more than a 50% reduction. At 4K, the same comparison shows 103.6 FPS versus 48.5 FPS, a gap of 55.1 FPS. The fact that Low settings at 4K (103.6 FPS) outperform Ultra settings at 1080p (66.3 FPS) is telling — the quality preset has a larger impact on performance than the resolution change in many cases.

The GPU's benchmark scores place it in the 63rd percentile of all tested GPUs. Its average benchmark score of 20146 is nearly identical to the AMD Radeon RX 460 (20088, a 0.3% difference) and slightly below the AMD Radeon RX 7600 (20258, a -0.6% difference). The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER trails by 1.9% on average score, while the RTX 3070 Mobile is ahead by -1.9% (meaning the RX 7600 XT is 1.9% slower). These figures suggest the GPU sits in a specific performance tier, and the Overpower results are consistent with that positioning.

FAQ

Q: What is the maximum average FPS this combo achieves in Overpower?

A: The highest recorded average is 136.7 FPS, achieved at 1920x1080 resolution with Low settings.

Q: Can this system maintain 60 FPS at 4K resolution?

A: Yes, but only at High settings (60.3 FPS) and Low settings (103.6 FPS). At Medium settings it drops to 61.5 FPS, and at Ultra it falls below 60 FPS to 48.5 FPS.

Q: How much faster is 1080p Low compared to 4K Ultra?

A: The difference is 88.2 FPS (136.7 vs 48.5). The 1080p Low result is 2.8 times higher than the 4K Ultra result.

Q: Which setting change causes the largest performance penalty at 4K?

A: Moving from Medium (61.5 FPS) to Ultra (48.5 FPS) costs 13.0 FPS, which is the largest single-step drop at that resolution. The jump from Low to Medium is 41.9 FPS, which is larger but reflects a much bigger settings change.

Q: What is the GPU's percentile ranking among all tested GPUs?

A: The Radeon RX 7600 XT is in the 63rd percentile, with an average benchmark score of 20146.

Q: How does the combo rank overall in this game?

A: The combination ranks 1121 out of 1744 tested combos, placing it in the lower-middle portion of the database.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system delivers 136.7 FPS on Low, 83.3 FPS on Medium, 78.8 FPS on High, and 66.3 FPS on Ultra. The gap between Medium and High is only 4.5 FPS, suggesting that High settings are not significantly more demanding than Medium at this resolution. The step from High to Ultra costs 12.5 FPS, which is the largest quality-based drop at 1080p.

Moving to 2560x1440, the numbers are 118.8 FPS on Low, 72.6 FPS on Medium, 68.0 FPS on High, and 61.0 FPS on Ultra. The Medium-to-High gap narrows to 4.6 FPS, while High-to-Ultra costs 7.0 FPS. The resolution increase from 1080p to 1440p costs roughly 17.9 FPS at Low, 10.7 FPS at Medium, 10.8 FPS at High, and 5.3 FPS at Ultra. The smaller absolute penalty at Ultra suggests the GPU is already heavily loaded at 1080p Ultra.

At 3840x2160, the results are 103.6 FPS on Low, 61.5 FPS on Medium, 60.3 FPS on High, and 48.5 FPS on Ultra. The Medium and High results are nearly identical, differing by just 1.2 FPS, which indicates that the game's High preset adds very little GPU load over Medium at 4K. The drop to Ultra is 11.8 FPS, confirming that Ultra settings introduce a significant additional cost. Across all resolutions, Low settings always provide at least 103 FPS, making 4K Low a viable target for smooth gameplay, while Ultra at 4K is the only configuration that falls below 50 FPS.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo's rank of 1121 out of 1744 puts it in the 35.7th percentile of tested combinations. This means roughly two-thirds of all tested combos outperform it in Overpower. The ranking reflects the balance between the Ryzen 5 5500 and the RX 7600 XT — the GPU is strong enough to drive high frame rates at lower resolutions and settings, but the overall package does not reach the top tiers.

The GPU's nearest rivals frame its position. The RX 7600 XT averages 20146, which is 0.3% above the RX 460, 0.6% below the RX 7600, 1.9% above the RTX 2060 SUPER, and 1.9% below the RTX 3070 Mobile. These deltas are small, indicating that the GPU sits in a tightly contested performance band. The combo's rank is therefore more a function of the CPU pairing than the GPU alone. The Ryzen 5 5500's average score of 20875 places it 0.1% below the Intel Core i5-12500 and 0.2% below the Intel Core i5-12600T, while being 0.1% above the AMD EPYC 7J13. These sub-0.2% differences suggest the CPU is not a differentiator in most scenarios.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5500 is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 3 architecture, codenamed Cezanne. It operates at a base clock of 3.60 GHz and boosts to 4.20 GHz, with a 65 W TDP. The cache hierarchy includes 64 KB of L1 per core, 512 KB of L2 per core, and 16 MB of shared L3. Memory support is DDR4 running dual-channel with a theoretical bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s. The CPU uses PCIe Gen 3, which is a generation behind the GPU's PCIe 4.0 x8 interface.

In Overpower, the CPU's influence is most visible at 1080p Low, where the average frame rate reaches 136.7 FPS. This is the highest result in the dataset, and it suggests the CPU is capable of feeding the GPU at this level. However, the fact that the 1440p Low result (118.8 FPS) is 17.9 FPS lower, while 4K Low (103.6 FPS) is another 15.2 FPS lower, indicates that the GPU becomes the bottleneck as resolution increases. At 1080p Ultra, the 66.3 FPS result shows the GPU is still the limiting factor, since the CPU has headroom to produce more frames if the GPU could render them.

The CPU's benchmark scores support this interpretation. Its single-thread score in 3dmark is 836, and its max-threads score is 5411, which is only slightly above the 16-thread score of 5386. This indicates the processor scales well up to its full thread count but does not have exceptional single-core performance. The Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 16429 and single-core of 2319 confirm a modest single-thread capability. In Overpower, which appears to benefit from higher frame rates at lower settings, the CPU is adequate but not exceptional — it enables 136.7 FPS at 1080p Low but cannot push beyond that when the GPU is not the constraint.