Overpower

Resolution Scaling

The measured frame rates across the three tested resolutions reveal a surprisingly flat scaling curve for this combination. At 1080p with Low settings, the system delivers 161.4 FPS, which drops to 155.2 FPS at 1440p and 147.6 FPS at 4K. That is a mere 8.5% total reduction from 1080p to 4K at the lowest preset, indicating that the limiting factor is not the GPU's raw throughput at these settings. The RTX 5080 has enormous headroom, and the frame rate is being constrained elsewhere — most likely by the processor.

The picture shifts when moving to higher presets. At High settings, the spread from 129.9 FPS (1080p) to 119 FPS (4K) is a 8.4% drop, while at Ultra settings, the spread is from 121.1 FPS down to 106.6 FPS, an 11.9% reduction. These are still remarkably small deltas for a 4x pixel count increase. The Ultra preset at 4K (106.6 FPS) is only 12% slower than the Ultra preset at 1080p (121.1 FPS), which suggests the game's visual complexity at Ultra does not dramatically increase the GPU load relative to the resolution scaling.

What this data indicates is a system where the GPU is rarely the bottleneck. The RTX 5080, with its 56.28 TFLOPS FP32 throughput and 960.0 GB/s memory bandwidth, is powerful enough that even at 4K Ultra it keeps the frame rate above 100 FPS. The fact that Low settings at 4K (147.6 FPS) are faster than Ultra settings at 1080p (121.1 FPS) tells you that settings level matters more than resolution for this pairing. The CPU, a six-core Intel Core i5-9400 with a 4.10 GHz boost clock, appears to be the ceiling when settings are lowered, because the frame rate improvements from dropping to Low are modest — only 24.5 FPS at 1080p and 28.6 FPS at 4K compared to their respective Ultra presets.

GPU Role

The RTX 5080 is the dominant component in this pairing, and its specifications reflect a card built for high-refresh 4K gaming. It carries 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus, yielding 960.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The base clock runs at 2295 MHz with a boost up to 2617 MHz. These numbers matter because the measured frame rates show the card rarely breaking a sweat. At 4K High, the average FPS is 119, which is well within the range of what this GPU can sustain given its 293.1 GPixel/s pixel rate and 879.3 GTexel/s texture rate.

The VRAM capacity of 16 GB is substantial for a 2023 title like Overpower, which is an Action game released in August 2023. The data shows no catastrophic frame rate collapses at 4K Ultra (106.6 FPS), which would be the scenario where insufficient VRAM or bandwidth would manifest as stuttering or severe dips. The minimum FPS values are not recorded in the data, but the averages stay consistently high, suggesting the memory subsystem is coping well with the game's demands.

The benchmark scores for this GPU place it in the 89th percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 59188. Its nearest rivals are all Intel Arc products — the Arc A570M (58239, 1.6% slower), the Arc Pro A60 (60326, 1.9% faster), and the Arc A580 (57756, 2.5% slower) — plus the AMD Radeon Pro W5500X (57661, 2.6% slower). The RTX 5080 sits comfortably above most of these in synthetic tests, and the game data confirms it is not the limiting factor in any of the tested configurations.

The card's 10752 shading units and 112 ROPs provide ample geometry and pixel throughput. The 336 TMUs support the texture-heavy workloads common in action games. With 84 RT cores and 336 tensor cores on the Blackwell 2.0 architecture, the card is future-proof for ray-traced titles, though no ray tracing data is present in this test set.

Settings Recommendations

The measured rows provide clear guidance on which preset delivers the best balance of visual fidelity and frame rate. At every resolution, the Medium preset offers a significant improvement over High with only a modest frame rate cost. At 1080p, Medium runs at 131.7 FPS versus 129.9 FPS for High — a negligible 1.4% difference. At 1440p, Medium hits 127.4 FPS versus 124 FPS for High, a 2.7% advantage. At 4K, Medium achieves 120.8 FPS versus 119 FPS for High, a 1.5% gain.

The Ultra preset is the most demanding, but the frame rates remain playable across all resolutions: 121.1 FPS at 1080p, 118.7 FPS at 1440p, and 106.6 FPS at 4K. Given that the RTX 5080 maintains over 100 FPS even at 4K Ultra, there is no hard requirement to drop settings for competitive play. However, the data shows that Low settings provide the highest frame rates: 161.4 FPS at 1080p, 155.2 FPS at 1440p, and 147.6 FPS at 4K.

For users with high-refresh monitors, the Low preset at 1440p (155.2 FPS) or 4K (147.6 FPS) will push well beyond 144 Hz. The Medium preset at 4K (120.8 FPS) is arguably the sweet spot for visual quality versus performance, as it is only 8.5% slower than Low at the same resolution but likely offers substantially better image quality. The jump from Medium to High yields almost no measurable difference in this game — at 4K, it is 1.8 FPS — so users should skip High entirely and choose between Medium and Ultra based on their refresh rate target.

FAQ

Q: Can this system run Overpower at 4K with playable frame rates?

A: Yes. The measured data shows 119 FPS at 4K High and 106.6 FPS at 4K Ultra, both well above the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay.

Q: How does the RTX 5080 compare to its nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The RTX 5080 has an average benchmark score of 59188, which is 1.6% higher than the Intel Arc A570M (58239), 2.5% higher than the Intel Arc A580 (57756), and 2.6% higher than the AMD Radeon Pro W5500X (57661). It trails the Intel Arc Pro A60 by 1.9%.

Q: What is the best preset for maximum frame rate at 1080p?

A: The Low preset delivers the highest measured average FPS at 1080p with 161.4 FPS. Medium drops to 131.7 FPS and Ultra to 121.1 FPS.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the bottleneck in this game?

A: The data suggests the CPU is the limiting factor at lower settings. Dropping from Ultra to Low at 1080p only improves the frame rate from 121.1 to 161.4 FPS, a 33% gain, which is modest given the massive reduction in GPU load. The GPU is clearly capable of more.

Q: How much VRAM does the RTX 5080 have, and is it sufficient?

A: The card has 16 GB of GDDR7 memory. The measured frame rates remain stable across all settings and resolutions, with no evidence of memory-related performance drops, indicating 16 GB is sufficient for Overpower.

Q: What frame rate can be expected at 1440p with Medium settings?

A: The measured average FPS at 2560x1440 with Medium settings is 127.4, which is only 0.7% faster than High (124 FPS) and 8.5% faster than Ultra (118.7 FPS).

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-9400 is a six-core, six-thread processor from the Coffee Lake generation, built on a 14 nm process. It has a base clock of 2.90 GHz and a boost clock of 4.10 GHz, with 9 MB of shared L3 cache. The processor supports DDR4 memory in dual-channel configuration with a bandwidth of 42.7 GB/s. Its production status is end-of-life, and it was released in October 2018.

In synthetic benchmarks, this CPU scores 7969 in Cinebench R23 multicore and 1125 in single-core. Its average benchmark score is 2305, placing it at the 50th percentile among all CPUs. Its nearest rivals are the Intel Core i3-10305 (2300, 0.2% slower), the Intel Core i3-1125G4 (2299, 0.2% slower), the Intel Xeon E-2134 (2295, 0.4% slower), and the Intel Core i7-8809G (2319, 0.6% faster). These are all similarly performing parts, indicating the i5-9400 is a middle-of-the-road processor.

The game data reveals that this CPU is the constraining factor in most scenarios. At 1080p, the frame rate difference between Low (161.4 FPS) and Medium (131.7 FPS) is 29.7 FPS, but the difference between Medium and Ultra (121.1 FPS) is only 10.6 FPS. This pattern holds at 4K as well: Low (147.6 FPS) versus Medium (120.8 FPS) is a 26.8 FPS gap, while Medium versus Ultra (106.6 FPS) is only 14.2 FPS. If the GPU were the bottleneck, we would expect the frame rate to scale more consistently with settings changes, and the absolute differences between resolutions would be larger.

The CPU's six cores and six threads are sufficient for this game, but the 4.10 GHz boost clock is not high enough to feed the RTX 5080's massive throughput at low settings. The fact that 4K Low (147.6 FPS) is only 8.5% slower than 1080p Low (161.4 FPS) reinforces that the CPU is delivering a similar instruction throughput regardless of resolution, while the GPU has ample headroom. For users seeking higher frame rates, upgrading the processor would yield larger gains than increasing the GPU, as the RTX 5080 is already performing well above its percentile rank suggests it should.