Overpower

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data for Overpower on this Intel Core i9-14900K with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 combination reveals a clear pattern of performance degradation as resolution increases, with the magnitude of the drop varying significantly by settings preset. At Low settings, the frame rate falls from 117.7 FPS at 1920x1080 to 102.7 FPS at 2560x1440, a reduction of 15.0 FPS, and then to 87.6 FPS at 3840x2160, another 15.1 FPS drop. This translates to a total reduction of 30.1 FPS from 1080p to 4K at Low settings, which represents a 25.6% decrease relative to the 1080p baseline.

The High settings preset shows a steeper relative decline. At 1920x1080, the average is 66.8 FPS. Moving to 2560x1440 reduces this to 59.4 FPS, a loss of 7.4 FPS. At 3840x2160, the average drops further to 52.9 FPS, another 6.5 FPS reduction. The total decline from 1080p to 4K at High settings is 13.9 FPS, which is a 20.8% decrease from the 1080p figure.

Medium settings follow a similar trajectory to High but with slightly larger absolute gaps. The frame rate starts at 77.2 FPS at 1920x1080, falls to 64.4 FPS at 2560x1440 (a 12.8 FPS drop), and then to 57.4 FPS at 3840x2160 (a further 7.0 FPS drop). The cumulative reduction from 1080p to 4K at Medium settings is 19.8 FPS, or 25.6% of the 1080p value.

Ultra settings exhibit the most severe scaling penalty. At 1920x1080, the average is 59.9 FPS. At 2560x1440, it drops to 47.5 FPS, a loss of 12.4 FPS. At 3840x2160, the average falls to 40.8 FPS, another 6.7 FPS reduction. The total decline from 1080p to 4K at Ultra is 19.1 FPS, representing a 31.9% decrease from the 1080p baseline.

The data indicates that the GPU becomes the primary limiting component as resolution increases. The consistent frame rate drops across all presets when moving from 2560x1440 to 3840x2160 — ranging from 6.5 FPS at High to 15.1 FPS at Low — suggest that the RTX 2060's rendering throughput is being saturated by the increased pixel count. The fact that even at Low settings, where the CPU's role should be more prominent, the 4K average (87.6 FPS) is still 30.1 FPS below the 1080p average (117.7 FPS) reinforces that the GPU is the bottleneck at higher resolutions. Meanwhile, the relatively modest declines from 1080p to 1440p at High and Ultra presets (7.4 FPS and 12.4 FPS respectively) point to a more balanced load at those settings, where both the CPU and GPU contribute to the final frame rate.

FAQ

Q: What is the highest average frame rate achieved by this combination in Overpower?

A: The highest measured average frame rate is 117.7 FPS, achieved at 1920x1080 with Low settings. This is the only tested configuration that exceeds 110 FPS.

Q: Can this system maintain 60 FPS in Overpower at 4K?

A: At 3840x2160, the system only exceeds 60 FPS on the Low preset, where it averages 87.6 FPS. The Medium preset averages 57.4 FPS, which is below the 60 FPS threshold, while High and Ultra presets average 52.9 FPS and 40.8 FPS respectively.

Q: How does the RTX 2060 compare to its nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The RTX 2060 has an average benchmark score of 16074, placing it in the 58th percentile of all GPUs. It sits within a narrow band of its nearest rivals: the AMD Radeon RX 7600S is 0.5% behind, the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M and Radeon Pro 5700 are both 1.7% ahead, and the AMD Radeon Pro W5500 is 1.8% behind.

Q: What is the performance gap between 1080p and 4K at Ultra settings?

A: At Ultra settings, the average frame rate drops from 59.9 FPS at 1920x1080 to 40.8 FPS at 3840x2160. This is a reduction of 19.1 FPS, or a 31.9% decrease relative to the 1080p figure.

Q: Which settings preset offers the smallest performance penalty when moving from 1440p to 4K?

A: At High settings, moving from 2560x1440 to 3840x2160 results in a 6.5 FPS drop (from 59.4 to 52.9 FPS). This is the smallest absolute decline among all presets; Medium drops 7.0 FPS, Ultra drops 6.7 FPS, and Low drops 15.1 FPS.

Q: Does the CPU show any signs of bottlenecking in this game?

A: The data suggests the CPU is not the primary constraint. The Intel Core i9-14900K ranks in the 97th percentile of all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 79824. Its nearest rival, the AMD EPYC 7413, is only 0.3% behind. The frame rate scaling pattern, where 4K performance is consistently lower than 1080p across all presets, indicates the GPU is the limiting factor.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i9-14900K is a 24-core, 32-thread processor based on the Raptor Lake architecture, built on Intel's 10 nm process. Its base clock is 3.20 GHz with a boost clock of 6.00 GHz, and it carries a TDP of 125 W. The cache hierarchy includes 80 KB of L1 per core, 2 MB of L2 per core, and 36 MB of shared L3 cache. This processor supports both DDR4 and DDR5 memory in a dual-channel configuration and features integrated UHD Graphics 770.

In synthetic benchmarks, the i9-14900K demonstrates exceptional multi-threaded performance. It scores 49872 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 20946 in Cinebench R20 multi-core, with a single-core score of 7040 in R23 and 2956 in R20. Geekbench results show 20370 in multi-core and 3064 in single-core. PassMark scores include 58674 in multithread, 4697 in single-thread, and 210622 in integer math. These figures place the CPU in the 97th percentile of all processors, with an average benchmark score of 79824.

Its nearest rivals in the database are tightly clustered. The AMD EPYC 7413 scores 80041, which is 0.3% higher. The Intel Core i9-14900KF scores 79245 (0.7% lower), the Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF scores 79240 (0.7% lower), and the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K scores 79102 (0.9% lower). This positioning shows that the i9-14900K is effectively at the top of the performance hierarchy, with no rival exceeding it by more than a fraction of a percent.

In the context of Overpower, the CPU's role appears secondary to the GPU. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the system reaches 117.7 FPS, which suggests the CPU is capable of feeding the GPU with sufficient data at that resolution. However, the fact that the frame rate scales downward with resolution — even at Low settings where CPU load should be relatively higher — indicates that the CPU is not the limiting factor in this configuration. The 24 cores and 32 threads provide ample headroom for the game's action genre demands, but the benchmark data shows the GPU's rendering capacity is the binding constraint.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured average frame rates across the four presets are as follows. Low settings deliver 117.7 FPS, Medium settings deliver 77.2 FPS, High settings deliver 66.8 FPS, and Ultra settings deliver 59.9 FPS. The spread from Low to Ultra is 57.8 FPS, with the largest single-step penalty occurring between Low and Medium, a drop of 40.5 FPS. The step from Medium to High reduces the average by 10.4 FPS, and the step from High to Ultra reduces it by 6.9 FPS.

At 2560x1440, the same preset ladder produces lower figures. Low settings average 102.7 FPS, Medium settings average 64.4 FPS, High settings average 59.4 FPS, and Ultra settings average 47.5 FPS. The spread from Low to Ultra is 55.2 FPS. The transition from Low to Medium incurs a 38.3 FPS penalty, from Medium to High a 5.0 FPS penalty, and from High to Ultra an 11.9 FPS penalty.

At 3840x2160, the averages are further reduced. Low settings achieve 87.6 FPS, Medium settings achieve 57.4 FPS, High settings achieve 52.9 FPS, and Ultra settings achieve 40.8 FPS. The spread from Low to Ultra is 46.8 FPS. The Low-to-Medium step drops 30.2 FPS, the Medium-to-High step drops 4.5 FPS, and the High-to-Ultra step drops 12.1 FPS.

Comparing across resolutions, the Low preset shows the most consistent scaling, with each resolution step costing roughly 15 FPS. The Medium preset shows a larger penalty for the first resolution step (12.8 FPS from 1080p to 1440p) and a smaller one for the second (7.0 FPS from 1440p to 4K). High and Ultra presets show relatively smaller penalties for the 1440p-to-4K step compared to the 1080p-to-1440p step, indicating that the GPU's fill-rate limits are approached more gradually at higher settings.

The overall combo rank for this CPU-GPU pairing in Overpower is 1447 out of 1744 tested combinations, placing it in the lower portion of the database. This ranking reflects the RTX 2060's position as a mid-range GPU, despite the top-tier CPU.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 is built on the Turing architecture using TSMC's 12 nm process, with a die size of 445 mm² and 10,800 million transistors. It features 1920 shading units, 120 texture mapping units, and 48 raster output units. The GPU operates at a base clock of 1365 MHz and a boost clock of 1680 MHz. It has 6 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, providing 336.0 GB/s of bandwidth.

In synthetic benchmarks, the RTX 2060 achieves a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 1242, a Geekbench OpenCL score of 71278, and a Geekbench Vulkan score of 67425. PassMark results include a G3D score of 14111, a GPU compute score of 5488, and DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 scores of 110 and 53 respectively. These figures give the GPU an average benchmark score of 16074, placing it in the 58th percentile of all GPUs.

The nearest rivals for the RTX 2060 are closely matched. The AMD Radeon RX 7600S scores 15996, which is 0.5% behind. The AMD Radeon Pro 5600M and AMD Radeon Pro 5700 both score 16351, which is 1.7% ahead. The AMD Radeon Pro W5500 scores 15786, which is 1.8% behind. This tight clustering indicates that the RTX 2060 sits in a well-populated performance band where small differences in synthetic scores translate to minor real-world variations.

In Overpower, the GPU's 6 GB VRAM and 336.0 GB/s bandwidth are sufficient for the measured presets, though the frame rate data shows clear signs of GPU saturation at higher resolutions. The 4K Ultra average of 40.8 FPS and the 4K High average of 52.9 FPS both indicate that the GPU's compute and memory throughput are stretched at 3840x2160. The fact that the Low preset at 4K still manages 87.6 FPS suggests that the GPU is capable of higher throughput when shading load is reduced, confirming that the limiting factor is the rendering workload rather than a hard architectural ceiling.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data provides a clear guide for selecting the optimal settings preset based on the target resolution and desired frame rate. At 1920x1080, the Ultra preset delivers 59.9 FPS, which is just under the 60 FPS threshold. The High preset at 66.8 FPS offers a comfortable margin above that threshold while maintaining visual quality. Given the modest 6.9 FPS penalty from High to Ultra, and the 10.4 FPS penalty from Medium to High, the High preset represents the best balance at 1080p.

At 2560x1440, the situation shifts. The High preset averages 59.4 FPS, which is marginally below 60 FPS. The Medium preset at 64.4 FPS clears the 60 FPS threshold with room to spare. The penalty from Medium to High is only 5.0 FPS, so users who prioritize frame rate stability might prefer Medium, while those who accept a slight dip can choose High. The Ultra preset at 47.5 FPS is likely too demanding for smooth play at this resolution.

At 3840x2160, only the Low preset exceeds 60 FPS, achieving 87.6 FPS. The Medium preset at 57.4 FPS comes close but falls short. The High preset at 52.9 FPS and the Ultra preset at 40.8 FPS are both below comfortable playable thresholds. For 4K, the Low preset is the only recommendation for fluid gameplay, though Medium may be acceptable for users who tolerate frame rates in the mid-50s.

Across all resolutions, the Low preset shows the least sensitivity to resolution scaling, retaining 87.6 FPS at 4K versus 117.7 FPS at 1080p. This makes it the most predictable choice for users who prioritize frame rate consistency. The Medium preset offers a reasonable middle ground, with 77.2 FPS at 1080p and 57.4 FPS at 4K, but its 25.6% drop from 1080p to 4K is identical to Low's relative decline. The High preset provides the best visual fidelity per frame rate at 1080p and 1440p, while the Ultra preset is only viable at 1080p, where it still fails to reach 60 FPS.