Overpower

CPU Role — cores, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X is an 8-core, 16-thread processor built on the Zen 5 architecture with a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 5.50 GHz. It carries a 65 W TDP and belongs to the 9000 series, using the AMD Socket AM5 platform. The processor's launch MSRP is $359. In synthetic workloads, the chip posts a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 31588 and a single-core score of 4459, while Geekbench reports 17002 multi-core and 3353 single-core. These figures place the CPU at the 89th percentile among all tested processors, with an average benchmark score of 36029.

The nearest rivals in the database show how tightly grouped this CPU is at the top end. The Intel Core i5-14500HX scores 35940, a delta of 0.2% relative to the 9700X, meaning the AMD part is effectively tied with that mobile chip. The Intel Core Ultra 9 185H posts 36165, which is 0.4% higher, while the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5845 scores 35802, 0.6% lower. The Intel Core Ultra 5 225H reaches 36328, 0.8% above the 9700X. These deltas are all within a single percentage point, so the 9700X sits in a cluster where no single competitor holds a meaningful advantage in aggregate compute.

For Overpower, the game's measured FPS values suggest that the CPU is not the primary limiting factor at most settings. At 1080p Low, the combo produces 160.9 FPS average, which is the highest figure recorded across all resolution and settings combinations. The jump from 1080p Medium at 100.6 FPS to 1080p Low at 160.9 FPS is substantial, indicating that the CPU can push well beyond 160 FPS when the GPU is given lighter work. However, at 4K Ultra, the average drops to 61.6 FPS, a level where the GPU's workload dominates. The 8-core/16-thread layout with a 32 MB shared L3 cache provides ample parallelism for a modern action game, and the single-thread performance (Cinebench R23 single-core 4459) ensures that game logic and draw call submission are not bottlenecks at lower resolutions.

FAQ

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

A: The highest average is 160.9 FPS at 1920x1080 with Low settings.

Q: How does the Ryzen 7 9700X compare to its closest rival in aggregate CPU performance?

A: The Ryzen 7 9700X has an average benchmark score of 36029, while the nearest rival, the Intel Core i5-14500HX, scores 35940, a delta of 0.2% — effectively a tie.

Q: Does the combo achieve playable frame rates at 4K with maximum settings?

A: At 3840x2160 with Ultra settings, the average FPS is 61.6, which is above the 60 FPS threshold commonly considered playable.

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

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 sits at the 73rd percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 30109.

Q: How much FPS is gained by dropping from Ultra to Low at 1440p?

A: At 2560x1440, Ultra yields 69.6 FPS while Low yields 143 FPS, a gain of 73.4 FPS or roughly a doubling of performance.

Q: What is the combo's rank among all tested CPU-GPU combinations in Overpower?

A: The combo ranks 853rd out of 1744 tested combinations, placing it just below the median of the database.

Resolution Scaling — how FPS drops from 1080p to 4K and what it says about the limiting component

The measured FPS data reveals a clear pattern of GPU-bound scaling as resolution increases. At 1080p Low, the combo averages 160.9 FPS. Moving to 1440p Low, the average drops to 143 FPS, a reduction of 17.9 FPS (about 11%). At 4K Low, the average falls to 124 FPS, another 19 FPS drop from 1440p. This gradual decline across Low settings suggests that even at 4K, the GPU retains substantial headroom when visual effects are minimized.

The scaling story changes dramatically at higher settings. At 1080p High, the average is 96.8 FPS. At 1440p High, it drops to 86.3 FPS, and at 4K High, it reaches 69.6 FPS. The decline from 1080p to 4K at High settings is 27.2 FPS, or about 28%. At Ultra settings, the progression is even steeper: 1080p Ultra averages 77.9 FPS, 1440p Ultra drops to 69.6 FPS, and 4K Ultra falls to 61.6 FPS. The total drop from 1080p Ultra to 4K Ultra is 16.3 FPS, representing a 21% reduction.

The Medium settings show a similar trend: 1080p Medium at 100.6 FPS, 1440p Medium at 90.9 FPS, and 4K Medium at 77 FPS. The fact that Low settings at 4K (124 FPS) still exceed 1080p Ultra (77.9 FPS) by a wide margin indicates that the GPU's rendering workload, not the CPU, is the dominant constraint as settings and resolution rise. The CPU's strong multi-threaded scores (Cinebench R23 multi-core 31588) and high single-thread performance (4459) mean it can feed the GPU efficiently at all tested resolutions, but the RTX 5060's 8 GB GDDR7 memory and 128-bit bus become increasingly taxed at 4K with higher quality presets.

How This Combo Ranks — use comboRankInGame vs other tested combos

In the Overpower benchmark database, this specific pairing of AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 ranks 853rd out of 1744 tested combinations. This places the combo in the lower-middle portion of the distribution, just above the 50th percentile of all tested systems. The rank reflects the balance between the CPU's strong compute position (89th percentile among CPUs) and the GPU's more modest standing (73rd percentile among GPUs).

The discrepancy between the CPU's high percentile and the GPU's lower percentile suggests that the RTX 5060 is the limiting factor in this pairing for Overpower. The CPU has headroom to drive higher frame rates, as evidenced by the 1080p Low result of 160.9 FPS, but the GPU's performance ceiling constrains the overall combo rank. The measured FPS data confirms this: at 1080p Low, the combo achieves 160.9 FPS, but at 1080p Ultra, it drops to 77.9 FPS, a reduction of more than half. This spread indicates that the GPU's shading units (3840), TMUs (120), and ROPs (48) are heavily loaded by the game's higher-quality settings, while the CPU's 8 cores and 16 threads remain underutilized.

Compared to other combos in the database, this system sits in the same tier as configurations pairing mid-range GPUs with high-end CPUs. The rank of 853 out of 1744 means roughly half of tested systems outperform it, but the specific bottleneck analysis from the FPS data shows that a GPU upgrade would be the most direct path to improving the combo's standing.

GPU Role — VRAM, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 is built on the Blackwell 2.0 architecture with a GB206 chip fabricated on a 5 nm process at TSMC. It features 8 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 128-bit bus, providing 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The GPU's base clock is 2280 MHz with a boost clock of 2497 MHz, and memory runs at 1750 MHz (28 Gbps effective). The card has 3840 shading units, 120 texture mapping units, and 48 render output units, with 30 RT cores and 120 tensor cores. Its FP32 performance is rated at 19.18 TFLOPS, and it carries a 145 W TDP with a suggested 300 W power supply. The launch MSRP is 299 USD.

In synthetic benchmarks, the RTX 5060 posts a Geekbench OpenCL score of 120785 and a Vulkan score of 116626. Passmark results show a G3D score of 20891 and a GPU compute score of 10899. The GPU's average benchmark score is 30109, placing it at the 73rd percentile among all GPUs. Its nearest rivals are tightly clustered: the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT scores 30097 (0% delta), the AMD Radeon RX 570 scores 30158 (0.2% higher), the NVIDIA Tesla M60 scores 29969 (0.5% lower), and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile scores 29928 (0.6% lower). These deltas indicate that the RTX 5060's raw compute performance is nearly identical to its closest competitors, despite architectural differences.

For Overpower, the GPU's 8 GB VRAM capacity is sufficient at 1080p and 1440p across all settings, as evidenced by the measured FPS values. At 4K, the 128-bit memory bus and 448.0 GB/s bandwidth become more stressed, but the card still delivers playable frame rates at all settings, with 61.6 FPS at 4K Ultra. The boost clock of 2497 MHz helps maintain throughput in GPU-bound scenarios, and the 30 RT cores provide ray tracing capability, though the game's settings do not specify RT usage. The pixel rate of 119.9 GPixel/s and texture rate of 299.6 GTexel/s are the key metrics for fill-rate-heavy scenes, and the data shows the card handles them adequately.

Measured FPS Breakdown — resolution by resolution, settings by settings, exact numbers

1920x1080 (1080p):

• Low: 160.9 FPS average
• Medium: 100.6 FPS average
• High: 96.8 FPS average
• Ultra: 77.9 FPS average

The spread from Low to Ultra at 1080p is 83 FPS, with the largest single drop occurring from Low to Medium (60.3 FPS). The difference between Medium and High is only 3.8 FPS, suggesting diminishing returns from Medium to High, while Ultra incurs a further 18.9 FPS penalty over High.

2560x1440 (1440p):

• Low: 143 FPS average
• Medium: 90.9 FPS average
• High: 86.3 FPS average
• Ultra: 69.6 FPS average

At 1440p, the Low setting drops 17.9 FPS from the 1080p Low figure, while Ultra drops 8.3 FPS from the 1080p Ultra figure. The Medium-to-High gap narrows to 4.6 FPS, and the High-to-Ultra penalty is 16.7 FPS. The 1440p Ultra result of 69.6 FPS exactly matches the 4K High result, indicating that the GPU's workload at 1440p Ultra is comparable to 4K High.

3840x2160 (4K):

• Low: 124 FPS average
• Medium: 77 FPS average
• High: 69.6 FPS average
• Ultra: 61.6 FPS average

At 4K, the Low setting still achieves 124 FPS, which is higher than 1080p Ultra (77.9 FPS) and 1440p Ultra (69.6 FPS). This demonstrates that the GPU can deliver high frame rates if visual quality is reduced. The Medium-to-High drop at 4K is 7.4 FPS, and the High-to-Ultra drop is 8 FPS, showing a more gradual degradation at higher resolutions compared to the steep Low-to-Medium drop at 1080p.

The data across all resolutions shows that the combo is most efficient at 1080p Low, where the CPU's strong single-thread performance (Cinebench R23 single-core 4459) and the GPU's boost clock of 2497 MHz combine to produce the highest frame rate. The 4K Ultra result of 61.6 FPS is the lowest recorded, but it remains above the 60 FPS threshold, making the combo viable for high-resolution gaming with maximum settings, albeit with less headroom for frame rate fluctuations.