Overpower

How This Combo Ranks

The Intel Core i7-12700K paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 holds rank 2933 out of 3713 tested combos in the database for Overpower. This places the configuration in the lower-middle portion of the field, at roughly the 79th percentile of all recorded combinations. The ranking reflects a pairing where the CPU is substantially stronger than the GPU, and the benchmark results confirm that the graphics card becomes the primary constraint at most settings.

The CPU alone sits at the 84th percentile among all processors in the database, with an average benchmark score of 35287. Its nearest rivals in the CPU rankings are the Intel Core i5-13600T at 35305, the Intel Core i7-12700KF at 35365, the Intel Core i7-13700T at 35403, and the Intel Core 5 213PE at 35428. The deltas are tight: the i5-13600T trails by 0.1 percent, the 12700KF trails by 0.2 percent, the 13700T trails by 0.3 percent, and the Core 5 213PE trails by 0.4 percent. These are effectively identical scores, meaning the i7-12700K is positioned at the boundary of a cluster of similarly performing CPUs.

The GPU, by contrast, sits at the 58th percentile among all graphics cards, with an average benchmark score of 15290. Its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 at 15283 (a 0 percent delta), the AMD Radeon 680M at 15270 (0.1 percent ahead of the RTX 2060), the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM at 15199 (0.6 percent ahead), and the AMD Radeon RX 7600 at 15171 (0.8 percent ahead). The RTX 2060 is thus grouped with hardware that spans multiple generations, from the 2010-era GTX 580 to modern integrated graphics and entry-level discrete cards. In Overpower, this GPU tier produces playable but not exceptional frame rates, and the combo rank reflects that ceiling.

The database shows that this combination is not a top-tier performer in Overpower, but the measured FPS data indicates it can handle the game across a range of settings. The critical observation is the imbalance: the CPU has far more headroom than the GPU can use, so any frame rate improvements from lowering settings will come primarily from reducing GPU load rather than unlocking CPU potential.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS rows provide a clear picture of which preset delivers the best experience for this combo. At 1920x1080, the Low preset produces 118 FPS average, which is the highest recorded value for this configuration at any resolution. The Medium preset delivers 74 FPS average with a minimum of 63 FPS and a maximum of 85 FPS. High produces 68 FPS average, and Ultra drops to 57 FPS average.

For standard 60 FPS display targets, the Medium preset at 1080p is the strongest recommendation from the data. The 74 FPS average provides headroom above 60, while the 63 FPS minimum indicates that even the slowest moments stay above the 60 FPS threshold. The High preset at 68 FPS average is also viable, but its minimum FPS is not recorded, so the consistency cannot be verified from the data. The Ultra preset at 57 FPS average falls below the 60 FPS line, making it a less reliable choice for smooth gameplay.

At 2560x1440, the Medium preset delivers 66 FPS average with a minimum of 56 FPS and a maximum of 76 FPS. The average is above 60, but the minimum dips below it, so there will be occasional stutter on demanding scenes. The Low preset at 105 FPS average is the only 1440p option that comfortably exceeds 60 FPS throughout, though it sacrifices visual quality. The High preset at 61 FPS average sits right at the threshold, and the Ultra preset at 51 FPS average falls short.

At 3840x2160, no preset reaches a 60 FPS average. The Low preset produces 89 FPS average, which is the only 4K option with substantial headroom, but it requires the lowest visual quality. The Medium preset at 56 FPS average with a minimum of 47 FPS and a maximum of 64 FPS is close to playable but will experience noticeable drops. The High preset at 52 FPS and the Ultra preset at 43 FPS both sit below comfortable playability.

The data indicates that the Medium preset at 1080p is the sweet spot for this combo in Overpower: it maintains a minimum FPS above 60 while delivering better visual fidelity than Low. For users who prioritize frame rate above all else, the Low preset at 1080p at 118 FPS average is the highest-performing option in the entire measured set.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS progression from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 reveals where the bottleneck lies in this combo. At 1080p Low, the average is 118 FPS. At 1440p Low, it drops to 105 FPS, a decline of 13 FPS or approximately 11 percent. At 4K Low, it falls to 89 FPS, another 16 FPS drop from 1440p, or approximately 15 percent. The scaling is not linear, and the percentage declines are relatively modest, which suggests the GPU is not fully saturated even at lower resolutions.

Looking at the Medium preset, the pattern shifts. At 1080p, the average is 74 FPS. At 1440p, it drops to 66 FPS, an 8 FPS decline of roughly 11 percent. At 4K, it falls to 56 FPS, a 10 FPS decline from 1440p, or approximately 15 percent. The same percentage pattern repeats, indicating that the GPU load scales predictably with pixel count.

The High preset shows a similar trend: 68 FPS at 1080p, 61 FPS at 1440p, and 52 FPS at 4K. The drops are 7 FPS and 9 FPS respectively, again around 10 to 15 percent per resolution step. The Ultra preset goes from 57 FPS at 1080p to 51 FPS at 1440p to 43 FPS at 4K, with drops of 6 FPS and 8 FPS.

The consistent percentage declines across resolution steps indicate that the GPU is the limiting component. A CPU-bound scenario would show flat or even improving FPS at higher resolutions, because the GPU would be the one struggling while the CPU waits. Instead, the FPS decreases steadily as pixel count rises, which is the signature of a GPU that is fully engaged. The i7-12700K with its 12 cores and 20 threads is never the constraint in these measurements; its 3DMark scores, including a max-thread score of 9979 and a single-thread score of 1043, far exceed what Overpower demands at these frame rates.

The 4K Ultra result of 43 FPS average is the lowest recorded value for this combo, and it confirms that the RTX 2060 cannot sustain high visual quality at 4K in this game. The 4K Low result of 89 FPS shows that the GPU has enough raw throughput for 4K when the visual load is reduced, but the gap between Low and Ultra at 4K, a 46 FPS difference, demonstrates how heavily the higher presets tax the graphics card.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The complete measured FPS table for this combo covers three resolutions and four settings, yielding twelve data points. At 1920x1080, the Low preset averages 118 FPS, the Medium preset averages 74 FPS with a minimum of 63 and a maximum of 85, the High preset averages 68 FPS, and the Ultra preset averages 57 FPS. The Medium preset is the only 1080p option with recorded minimum and maximum values, which allows for a consistency assessment: the 63 FPS minimum means the frame rate never drops below the 60 FPS threshold, while the 85 FPS maximum shows there is room for higher performance in less demanding scenes.

At 2560x1440, the Low preset averages 105 FPS, the Medium preset averages 66 FPS with a minimum of 56 and a maximum of 76, the High preset averages 61 FPS, and the Ultra preset averages 51 FPS. The Medium preset at 1440p has a 56 FPS minimum, which falls below the 60 FPS target, indicating occasional dips during heavy gameplay sequences. The gap between Low and Medium at 1440p is 39 FPS, which is a substantial penalty for the visual upgrade. The gap between Medium and High is only 5 FPS, and between High and Ultra it is 10 FPS, showing that the largest performance cost comes from the Low to Medium transition.

At 3840x2160, the Low preset averages 89 FPS, the Medium preset averages 56 FPS with a minimum of 47 and a maximum of 64, the High preset averages 52 FPS, and the Ultra preset averages 43 FPS. The Medium preset at 4K has a 47 FPS minimum, which is the lowest recorded minimum across all measured rows. The 64 FPS maximum shows that the combo can briefly exceed 60 FPS even at 4K Medium, but the average of 56 FPS and the minimum of 47 FPS make for an inconsistent experience.

The data shows a clear hierarchy: Low is always the fastest preset, Medium is the second fastest, High is third, and Ultra is slowest. This ordering holds at every resolution. The performance gap between Low and Ultra widens as resolution increases: 61 FPS at 1080p, 54 FPS at 1440p, and 46 FPS at 4K. This narrowing gap at higher resolutions indicates that the Ultra preset becomes relatively less demanding compared to Low as the pixel count rises, because the GPU is already saturated and the additional shading work from Ultra settings has diminishing absolute impact.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 is built on the TU106 chip using the Turing architecture at a 12 nm process node from TSMC. The chip contains 10,800 million transistors on a 445 mm² die, with a transistor density of 24.3 million per square millimeter. The GPU has 1920 shading units, 120 texture mapping units, 48 render output units, 30 ray tracing cores, and 240 tensor cores. Its pixel rate is 80.64 GPixel/s, its texture rate is 201.6 GTexel/s, and its FP32 compute is 6.451 TFLOPS. The FP16 rate is 12.90 TFLOPS at a 2:1 ratio.

The memory subsystem consists of 6 GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus, with a bandwidth of 336.0 GB/s. The memory clock is 1750 MHz, which translates to 14 Gbps effective. The base clock is 1365 MHz and the boost clock is 1680 MHz. The card draws a TDP of 160 W, uses a single 8-pin power connector, and has a suggested PSU rating of 450 W. It connects via PCIe 3.0 x16 and occupies a dual-slot form factor measuring 229 mm in length, 113 mm in height, and 35 mm in width.

In Overpower, the 6 GB VRAM capacity is sufficient at 1080p and 1440p across all presets, as the measured FPS values remain in playable ranges even at Ultra. At 4K, the 6 GB capacity appears to be a limiting factor when combined with the GPU's compute throughput. The 4K Ultra result of 43 FPS average suggests that the card cannot sustain the memory bandwidth or shading workload required for the highest preset at that resolution. The 4K Medium result of 56 FPS with a 47 FPS minimum indicates that even moderate settings at 4K push the card to its limits.

The GPU's benchmark scores place it at the 58th percentile among all graphics cards. Its PassMark G3D score is 14111, its DirectX 12 score is 53, its DirectX 11 score is 110, and its DirectX 10 score is 98. The 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score is 1242. These scores correlate with the measured Overpower performance: the card is a mid-range part that can handle esports-level titles at high frame rates but struggles with demanding AAA games at high resolutions.

The RTX 2060's nearest rival, the GTX 580, has an identical average benchmark score of 15283, a 0 percent delta. This is a striking comparison, as the GTX 580 is a much older architecture. The Radeon 680M integrated GPU scores 15270, 0.1 percent ahead, and the RTX 3050 OEM scores 15199, 0.6 percent ahead. The RX 7600 scores 15171, 0.8 percent ahead. These narrow deltas mean the RTX 2060 is essentially performance-equivalent to a range of modern and legacy parts in synthetic benchmarks, but Overpower's measured FPS shows that the card delivers consistent frame rates in the 43 to 118 FPS range depending on settings and resolution.

FAQ

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

A: The highest average FPS is 118, recorded at 1920x1080 with the Low preset.

Q: Does this combo achieve 60 FPS at 4K in Overpower?

A: No. The closest is the Low preset at 89 FPS average, but the Medium preset averages 56 FPS with a minimum of 47 FPS, and the High and Ultra presets average 52 FPS and 43 FPS respectively.

Q: Which preset provides the most consistent frame rate above 60 FPS?

A: The Medium preset at 1920x1080, which averages 74 FPS with a minimum of 63 FPS and a maximum of 85 FPS. This is the only measured row where the minimum FPS stays above 60.

Q: How does the combo rank among all tested configurations for Overpower?

A: It ranks 2933 out of 3713 combos, placing it in the lower-middle portion of the field.

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

A: The RTX 2060 sits at the 58th percentile, with an average benchmark score of 15290.

Q: What is the FPS difference between Low and Ultra presets at 1080p?

A: The Low preset averages 118 FPS and the Ultra preset averages 57 FPS, a difference of 61 FPS.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-12700K is a 12-core, 20-thread processor from the Alder Lake architecture, built on Intel's 10 nm process node with a die size of 215 mm². It has a base clock of 3.60 GHz and a boost clock of 5.00 GHz, with a TDP of 125 W. The cache hierarchy includes 80 KB of L1 per core, 1.25 MB of L2 per core, and 25 MB of shared L3. It supports DDR4 and DDR5 memory in a dual-channel configuration, uses Intel Socket 1700, and provides PCIe Gen 4 with 20 CPU lanes. The integrated UHD Graphics 770 is present but irrelevant for gaming with a discrete GPU installed.

In Overpower, the CPU's role is largely secondary, as the measured FPS scaling with resolution indicates GPU limitation. The CPU's benchmark scores confirm its capability: Cinebench R23 multicore scores 19784 and single-core scores 1850.5, Geekbench multicore scores 15790 and single-core scores 2308, and 3DMark scores range from 1043 single-thread to 9979 max-thread. The PassMark multithread score is 34404, and the single-thread score is 4013.

The CPU sits at the 84th percentile among all processors, with an average benchmark score of 35287. Its nearest rivals are all within 0.4 percent of its score, indicating that the i7-12700K is part of a tight performance cluster. The Core i5-13600T at 35305 is 0.1 percent lower, the Core i7-12700KF at 35365 is 0.2 percent lower, the Core i7-13700T at 35403 is 0.3 percent lower, and the Core 5 213PE at 35428 is 0.4 percent lower. These deltas are within measurement noise, so the i7-12700K offers performance essentially identical to these rivals in synthetic workloads.

In Overpower, the CPU never becomes the bottleneck. The evidence is the FPS behavior across resolutions: if the CPU were limiting, the FPS would remain constant or drop only slightly when moving from 1080p to 4K, because the GPU would have spare capacity. Instead, the FPS drops consistently with each resolution increase, which means the GPU is the component doing all the heavy lifting. The i7-12700K's 12 cores and 20 threads provide ample headroom for Overpower's threading demands, and its 5.00 GHz boost clock ensures single-threaded performance is more than adequate for the game's main thread.

The launch MSRP for the CPU is $409. The processor uses a dual-channel memory bus, supports both DDR4 and DDR5, and has an unlocked multiplier for overclocking. The part number is SRL4N, and it was released on 2021-11-03. In the context of this combo, the CPU is not the limiting factor, and users could pair it with a stronger GPU to achieve higher frame rates in Overpower without changing the processor.