Overpower

The AMD Ryzen 5 9600X paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER achieves a combo rank of 90 out of 1744 tested combinations in Overpower. This places the pairing in the top 5% of all tested systems, reflecting a hardware configuration that is well above the median for this title. The CPU itself sits in the 85th percentile against all processors, while the GPU is in the 88th percentile against all graphics cards, suggesting both components are operating near the top of their respective tiers. The data indicates that this combo is positioned to deliver a high-refresh-rate experience at most resolution and settings combinations, with the primary bottleneck emerging only at the most demanding preset levels.

How This Combo Ranks

With a rank of 90 out of 1744 combos, this system is firmly in the upper echelon of tested configurations for Overpower. The CPU’s average benchmark score of 28246 places it in a tight cluster with its nearest rivals: it is 0.3% ahead of the Intel Core i5-13490F and the AMD Ryzen 5 230, 0.4% behind the AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS, and 0.5% behind the Intel Core i5-14500T. These deltas are negligible in real-world terms, meaning the 9600X is effectively tied with its closest competitors in synthetic workloads. The GPU’s average benchmark score of 53610 shows a similar pattern, sitting 0.2% ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, 0.4% ahead of the AMD Radeon Pro W6600M, 2.1% ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 7700S, and 2.9% ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti. The ranking data suggests that the combination’s strength lies not in any single component dominating its class, but in the balanced partnership between a mid-high-range CPU and a high-end GPU, which together produce consistently high frame rates across the board.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS data reveals a clear hierarchy across the four settings presets. At 1080p, the Low preset achieves 271 FPS, Medium reaches 167.4 FPS, High delivers 156 FPS, and Ultra drops to 132.2 FPS. The jump from Low to Medium is substantial, with a reduction of 103.6 FPS, while the transition from Medium to High is comparatively minor at 11.4 FPS. The step from High to Ultra costs another 23.8 FPS. This pattern indicates that the Medium preset offers the most efficient balance between visual quality and performance, as it captures a significant portion of the visual uplift from Low while maintaining a frame rate well above the 144 Hz threshold common on high-refresh monitors. At 1440p, the same relative pattern holds: Low produces 239.1 FPS, Medium 150 FPS, High 139.2 FPS, and Ultra 118.1 FPS. Here, the Medium preset remains the recommended choice, as it stays comfortably above 144 FPS. At 4K, the situation changes slightly; Low hits 202.7 FPS, Medium 127.8 FPS, High 118.9 FPS, and Ultra 98.4 FPS. At this resolution, the Medium preset is still the best option for maintaining high refresh rates, though users targeting a strict 120 FPS cap might find High acceptable. The data consistently shows that Medium is the sweet spot across all resolutions, offering the largest performance-per-visual-step improvement.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals the extent to which the GPU becomes the limiting component as resolution increases. At the Low preset, the frame rate drops from 271 FPS at 1080p to 239.1 FPS at 1440p, a reduction of 31.9 FPS, and then further to 202.7 FPS at 4K, another 36.4 FPS loss. This represents a total drop of 68.3 FPS from 1080p to 4K, or roughly a 25% decrease. At the Ultra preset, the scaling is more dramatic: 132.2 FPS at 1080p falls to 118.1 FPS at 1440p (a 14.1 FPS drop), and then to 98.4 FPS at 4K (a 19.7 FPS drop), for a total reduction of 33.8 FPS, or about 26%. The consistency of these percentage drops across presets indicates that the RTX 4080 SUPER’s rendering load scales predictably with pixel count, and the CPU is not introducing a variable bottleneck at lower resolutions. However, the absolute FPS numbers at 1080p and 1440p are so high—271 FPS and 239.1 FPS at Low—that the CPU’s single-thread performance, which scores 3603 in Cinebench R23, is sufficient to feed the GPU without constraint. The data suggests that the system is GPU-bound at all tested settings, with the 4K Ultra result of 98.4 FPS representing the only configuration where the GPU’s raw throughput begins to approach its practical limit for this title.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1080p, the full range of settings produces average frame rates from 132.2 FPS at Ultra to 271 FPS at Low. The Medium preset delivers 167.4 FPS, and High sits at 156 FPS. The 1080p results are uniformly high, with even the most demanding preset maintaining a frame rate that exceeds the refresh rate of most standard monitors. At 1440p, the averages are 118.1 FPS for Ultra, 139.2 FPS for High, 150 FPS for Medium, and 239.1 FPS for Low. The 1440p Ultra result is the first configuration in the data to fall below 120 FPS, indicating that this resolution and preset combination is where the RTX 4080 SUPER begins to feel the strain of higher pixel counts. At 4K, the results are 98.4 FPS for Ultra, 118.9 FPS for High, 127.8 FPS for Medium, and 202.7 FPS for Low. The 4K Ultra figure of 98.4 FPS is the lowest recorded average in the entire dataset, yet it remains above 90 FPS, which is still a playable experience for most users. The data shows a consistent pattern: each step up in resolution or settings costs a predictable amount of performance, and the system never drops below 98 FPS in any tested configuration. The 1440p Medium result of 150 FPS and the 1080p Medium result of 167.4 FPS stand out as particularly strong combinations of smoothness and visual fidelity.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with a 5 nm process, featuring 10240 shading units, 320 texture mapping units, and 112 render output units. Its 16 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit bus provides a bandwidth of 736.3 GB/s, which is ample for Overpower’s texture and geometry demands at 4K. The boost clock of 2550 MHz and base clock of 2295 MHz contribute to a pixel rate of 285.6 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 816.0 GTexel/s, figures that align well with the measured FPS data. The GPU’s 80 RT cores and 320 tensor cores are present but not directly reflected in the benchmark results, which focus on rasterized performance. The FP32 throughput of 52.22 TFLOPS is a strong indicator of raw compute headroom, and the benchmark results show the GPU scoring 34245 in Passmark G3D and 19822 in Passmark GPU Compute. The data indicates that the RTX 4080 SUPER is the dominant factor in this combo’s performance, as evidenced by the resolution scaling analysis. Its 16 GB VRAM capacity is not a limiting factor in any of the measured scenarios, as even the 4K Ultra preset, which would typically stress memory capacity, maintains a playable average of 98.4 FPS. The GPU’s percentile rank of 88 and its tight clustering with rivals—0.2% ahead of the RX 6900 XT—suggest that it performs as expected for its class, with the 2.9% lead over the RTX 5070 Ti representing the largest margin in its peer group. The power delivery configuration, with a 320 W TDP and a suggested 700 W PSU, is consistent with the sustained high frame rates observed across all settings.