Overpower

The Intel Core i7-14700F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER delivers a high-refresh-rate experience in Overpower, but the data reveals a predictable shift in bottleneck behavior as resolution climbs. At 1080p, the combination produces frame rates exceeding 250 FPS on Low settings, indicating that the CPU is being pushed hard to feed the GPU. As resolution increases to 1440p and then 4K, the average FPS drops significantly across all settings, with the Ultra preset at 4K falling to just 93.4 FPS. This scaling pattern suggests that while the GPU remains capable, the gap between Low and Ultra settings widens at higher resolutions, pointing to the graphics card as the primary limiting factor at 4K, whereas at 1080p the processor’s 20 cores and 28 threads are more likely to constrain peak output.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data shows a clear and consistent decline as resolution increases from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160, across every settings preset. At Low settings, the average frame rate drops from 251.2 FPS at 1080p to 219.7 FPS at 1440p, and then falls sharply to 187.5 FPS at 4K. This represents a 25% reduction from 1080p to 4K, which is substantial but still leaves the combo well above 144 Hz at the highest resolution. The High preset follows a similar pattern: 147.8 FPS at 1080p, 131.5 FPS at 1440p, and 107.6 FPS at 4K. The Medium preset shows 156 FPS, 140 FPS, and 115.4 FPS respectively. Ultra is the most demanding, with 122.9 FPS at 1080p, 104.8 FPS at 1440p, and 93.4 FPS at 4K.

The relative drop from 1080p to 4K is most pronounced at Low settings (a 25% decrease) and least pronounced at Ultra settings (a 24% decrease). This narrow range of percentage drops across settings indicates that the scaling is primarily resolution-driven rather than settings-driven. However, the absolute FPS at 4K Ultra (93.4 FPS) versus 4K Low (187.5 FPS) shows that settings still matter enormously, with a 101% performance gap at the same resolution. The data suggests that at 1080p, the CPU has enough headroom to push the GPU to very high frame rates, but the GPU becomes the limiting component as pixel count increases. At 4K, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER’s 16 GB of GDDR6X memory and 672.3 GB/s bandwidth are likely being taxed, given the 256-bit memory bus.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the benchmark database, this specific CPU-GPU combination ranks 163rd out of 1744 tested combos for Overpower, placing it in the top 9.3% of all configurations. This is a strong result, indicating that the pairing is well-balanced for this game. The CPU itself, the Intel Core i7-14700F, holds a percentile rank of 94 against all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 54097. Its nearest rival, the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X, scores 54450, which is only 0.6% higher, making the performance essentially equivalent. The gap to the Intel Xeon Phi 7290 is slightly larger at 1.2% in favor of the i7-14700F, and the AMD EPYC 7313P trails by 1.7%. These deltas are small, suggesting that the i7-14700F is not leaving meaningful performance on the table in CPU-bound scenarios.

On the GPU side, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER ranks in the 86th percentile against all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 48704. Its closest rival, the NVIDIA CMP 50HX, scores 49071, which is only 0.7% higher. The NVIDIA RTX A2000 is 1.6% lower, and the Intel Arc A550M is 2.1% lower. The combination of a top-10% CPU and a top-15% GPU yields a top-10% combo ranking, which is a coherent outcome. The data shows no obvious mismatch: the CPU is not overkill for the GPU, nor is the GPU being held back by a weak processor. The 163rd rank out of 1744 indicates that a small number of more powerful combos (likely featuring higher-end CPUs or GPUs) outperform this pairing, but it remains a very competitive configuration for Overpower.

Settings Recommendations

Based on the measured FPS rows, the optimal settings depend on the target refresh rate and resolution. At 1080p, all presets exceed 120 FPS, with Ultra hitting 122.9 FPS. For a 144 Hz display, High (147.8 FPS) or Medium (156 FPS) are the best choices, as they provide a comfortable margin above 144 FPS without the performance cost of Ultra. Low settings at 1080p produce 251.2 FPS, which is only useful for extreme high-refresh-rate monitors (240 Hz or above) and sacrifices visual fidelity for marginal gains.

At 1440p, the situation changes. High (131.5 FPS) and Medium (140 FPS) both exceed 120 FPS, but Ultra drops to 104.8 FPS. For a 144 Hz monitor, Medium is the best choice, as it stays above 140 FPS while providing better visuals than Low (219.7 FPS). Ultra at 1440p is playable but not ideal for competitive play, as it falls below 120 FPS. For 4K, the data shows that High (107.6 FPS) and Medium (115.4 FPS) are the only presets that remain above 100 FPS. Ultra (93.4 FPS) is below the 100 FPS threshold, and Low (187.5 FPS) is the only preset that allows a 144 Hz experience at 4K, though the visual downgrade is significant.

The best overall experience per the measured data is the Medium preset at 1440p, which delivers 140 FPS—a balance of smoothness and visual quality. For 4K, High is the recommended preset, as it keeps the frame rate above 107 FPS while retaining more detail than Medium or Low.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the highest average FPS is achieved with Low settings at 251.2 FPS. Medium yields 156 FPS, High produces 147.8 FPS, and Ultra drops to 122.9 FPS. The gap between Low and Medium is 95.2 FPS, which is substantial, while the gap between Medium and High is only 8.2 FPS, and between High and Ultra is 24.9 FPS. This suggests that the transition from Low to Medium has the largest impact on performance, while the step from Medium to High is relatively minor.

At 2560x1440, Low delivers 219.7 FPS, Medium 140 FPS, High 131.5 FPS, and Ultra 104.8 FPS. The drop from Low to Medium is 79.7 FPS, from Medium to High is 8.5 FPS, and from High to Ultra is 26.7 FPS. The pattern is similar to 1080p, with the Low-to-Medium gap being the most significant. The absolute numbers are lower than 1080p, as expected, but the relative differences between settings remain consistent.

At 3840x2160, Low reaches 187.5 FPS, Medium 115.4 FPS, High 107.6 FPS, and Ultra 93.4 FPS. The Low-to-Medium gap is 72.1 FPS, Medium-to-High is 7.8 FPS, and High-to-Ultra is 14.2 FPS. Notably, the High-to-Ultra gap narrows at 4K compared to lower resolutions, indicating that the GPU is becoming the limiting factor and additional settings have less relative impact. Across all resolutions, Low settings provide the highest frame rates, but the data shows that Medium offers a much better performance-per-quality trade-off than Low, with only a moderate FPS penalty.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is built on the AD103 chip with the Ada Lovelace architecture and a 5 nm process. It features 8448 shading units, 264 texture mapping units, and 96 raster output units, along with 66 ray tracing cores and 264 tensor cores. The GPU’s boost clock is 2610 MHz, with a base clock of 2340 MHz, and its memory runs at 1313 MHz, yielding 21 Gbps effective speed. The 16 GB of GDDR6X memory operates across a 256-bit bus, providing 672.3 GB/s of bandwidth. The GPU has a TDP of 285 W and requires a 600 W power supply, using a single 16-pin connector.

In Overpower, the GPU’s role is most evident at 4K, where the frame rates at Ultra (93.4 FPS) and High (107.6 FPS) are well below the 1080p figures. The 16 GB VRAM is sufficient for this game, as there are no signs of memory-related stuttering in the data. However, the pixel rate of 250.6 GPixel/s and texture rate of 689.0 GTexel/s are likely being saturated at 4K Ultra, given that the FPS drops below 100. The GPU’s FP32 performance of 44.10 TFLOPS is high, but the game’s workload at 4K appears to be fill-rate or bandwidth-bound, as evidenced by the 72.1 FPS gap between Low and Medium at 4K, which is larger than the 8.2 FPS gap between Medium and High. This suggests that the GPU’s memory bandwidth and pixel throughput are the limiting factors at high resolutions, rather than raw compute power. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER’s percentile rank of 86 against all GPUs aligns with its performance in this test, placing it ahead of the NVIDIA RTX A2000 and Intel Arc A550M, but slightly behind the NVIDIA CMP 50HX in overall benchmark scores.