Overpower

Overpower is an action title released in August 2023, and this page analyzes how it performs on a modern mobile pairing: the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile. The dataset contains twelve measured rows — four quality presets across 1080p, 1440p, and 4K — and the picture they paint is consistent: a GPU-limited experience in which resolution matters far less than it usually would, and in which the CPU's capabilities are largely held in reserve. Both components sit in the upper tier of the database — the Core Ultra 9 185H at the 85th percentile versus all CPUs, the RTX 5050 Mobile at the 83rd percentile versus all GPUs — yet together they rank modestly within this game, at position 2,975 of 3,713 tested combos. The sections below unpack why.

Resolution Scaling

The headline numbers: at 1080p the average frame rate spans 113 FPS on Low to 54 FPS on Ultra. At 1440p that span compresses to 100 FPS down to 48 FPS. At 4K it compresses further, from 85 FPS on Low to 41 FPS on Ultra. Take the Medium preset as the cleanest example, since it is the only tier with full min/max data at every resolution: 70 FPS average at 1080p (60–81 range), 63 FPS at 1440p (53–72 range), and 53 FPS at 4K (45–61 range).

That is an unusually shallow scaling curve. Moving from 1080p to 4K quadruples the pixel count, yet the Medium average drops by only about a quarter — from 70 to 53 FPS. A healthy GPU-bound scaling profile would show far steeper losses across that jump. Shallow scaling of this kind is the classic signature of a system whose graphics subsystem is already saturated at 1080p: once the GPU pipeline is full at the lower resolution, pushing more pixels costs relatively little additional throughput headroom — but the ceiling never rises either.

The High preset tells the same story: 65 FPS at 1080p, 58 at 1440p, 50 at 4K. That is a drop of only 15 FPS across a quadrupled pixel count. Ultra behaves similarly, going 54 → 48 → 41. The Low preset, the least GPU-intensive tier, shows the steepest relative falloff (113 → 100 → 85), which is exactly what you would expect — at Low, the GPU retains some spare capacity at lower resolutions, so resolution increases bite harder. The pattern across presets confirms the diagnosis: the RTX 5050 Mobile is the limiting component in Overpower at every tested resolution, and there is little CPU headroom being converted into additional frames.

CPU Role

The Intel Core Ultra 9 185H is a Meteor Lake mobile processor with 16 cores and 22 threads, a 3.90 GHz base clock and a 5.10 GHz boost clock, on Intel's 7 nm process with a 45 W TDP. Its cache hierarchy comprises 112 KB of L1 and 2 MB of L2 per core plus a shared 24 MB L3. It connects over the Intel BGA 2049 socket, supports dual-channel DDR5 with 89.6 GB/s of memory bandwidth, and integrates Arc Xe-LPG graphics with 128 execution units.

Against the wider CPU database, this chip sits at the 85th percentile with an aggregate benchmark score of 35,670 — a strong mobile part. Its nearest rivals cluster remarkably tightly around it: the AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350 scores 35,719 (0.1% higher), the Intel Core 7 250H scores 35,728 (0.2% higher), the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5845 scores 35,802 (0.4% higher), and the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X scores 35,909 (0.7% higher). In raw throughput terms the Ultra 9 185H is effectively interchangeable with these chips — the spread between it and the fastest of that group is under one percent.

Its individual benchmark scores reinforce that standing: 17,984.5 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 1,810.5 in single-core, 10,356 in R20 multi-core and 1,462 in R20 single-core, 11,657 multi-core and 1,794 single-core in Geekbench, and a PassMark multithread score of 29,376 with a single-thread score of 3,697. PassMark physics lands at 1,956, and integer math at 98,302.

How does this relate to Overpower? The game simply does not ask much of it. An action title from 2023 running on a CPU in the 85th percentile, with strong single-thread results and a 5.10 GHz boost clock, is comfortably fed. The resolution-scaling data supports this: frame rates that barely improve when the resolution drops from 4K to 1080p indicate the CPU is not the constraint — if it were, lower resolutions would produce much larger gains as the CPU ceiling was approached. Instead, the flat curve points the other way. The Ultra 9 185H is doing its job; the GPU is the bottleneck.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile is a Blackwell 2.0 part built on TSMC's 5 nm process, using the GB207 chip with 16,900 million transistors on a 149 mm² die — a density of 113.4 million transistors per square millimeter. It carries 2,560 shading units, 80 texture mapping units, 32 render output units, 20 RT cores, and 80 tensor cores. Clocks are 1020 MHz base and 1500 MHz boost, with memory running at 1500 MHz (24 Gbps effective).

The memory subsystem is the most interesting spec for a 2023 action game: 8 GB of GDDR7 on a 128-bit bus, delivering 384.0 GB/s of bandwidth. That is a substantial pool of bandwidth for an entry-tier mobile GPU, and it helps explain why 4K play remains viable — at 3840x2160 Medium the average holds at 53 FPS with a 45 FPS minimum. The 8 GB capacity, however, is the likely factor behind the steep drop from Low to Medium at 4K: 85 FPS falls to 53 FPS, a much larger gap than the Low-to-Medium step at 1080p (113 to 70). Higher resolutions consume more VRAM per preset tier, and the Medium tier at 4K is where the cost lands hardest in this dataset.

Raw throughput figures: 7.680 TFLOPS FP32 (with FP16 at a 1:1 ratio), a pixel rate of 48.00 GPixel/s, and a texture rate of 120.0 GTexel/s. Its benchmark standing puts it at the 83rd percentile versus all GPUs with an average score of 43,268, including 2,365 in 3DMark Steel Nomad (DX12) and 84,171 in Geekbench OpenCL. Its nearest rivals by aggregate score are the Quadro M6000 24 GB (43,262, dead even), the Quadro M6000 (43,301, 0.1% apart), the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER (43,323, 0.1% apart), and the RTX 4090 Mobile (43,367, 0.9% apart) — a mixed field of professional and consumer parts clustered within one percent of each other. DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), Vulkan 1.4, and OpenGL 4.6 are all supported, so Overpower's rendering path is fully covered.

How This Combo Ranks

Within Overpower specifically, this pairing ranks 2,975th out of 3,713 tested combos — comfortably inside the tested population but well short of the top tier. That placement is coherent with the component percentiles: an 85th-percentile CPU and an 83rd-percentile GPU do not combine into an 85th-percentile gaming experience when the game is GPU-bound. The rank reflects what the measured rows show directly — sub-60 FPS averages at High and Ultra at every resolution, and a 4K Ultra average of just 41 FPS.

The tight CPU rival cluster is worth noting here. Because the Ultra 9 185H sits within one percent of the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350, Core 7 250H, Ryzen 7 PRO 5845, and Ryzen 7 7700X in aggregate score, combos built on those processors paired with comparable GPUs would be expected to land near this one in Overpower's rankings. The differentiator in this game is the graphics card, not the CPU — which is precisely what the flat resolution-scaling curve demonstrates.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data points to 1440p Medium as the sweet spot. It delivers a 63 FPS average with a 53 FPS minimum and a 72 FPS maximum — the only measured configuration outside 1080p Medium with full frame-rate range data, and a minimum above 50 FPS that keeps motion smooth in an action game. Players who prioritize fluidity over resolution should look at 1080p Medium: 70 FPS average, 60 minimum, 81 maximum. That is the highest frame rate in the dataset with min/max data attached, and the 60 FPS minimum makes it the safest choice for consistent pacing.

1080p High at 65 FPS average is also playable, though without min/max data the risk of deeper dips cannot be quantified. 4K Medium, at 53 FPS average with a 45 FPS minimum, is viable for players who value image quality but sits below the 60 FPS line. 4K Ultra at 41 FPS and 1440p Ultra at 48 FPS should both be avoided; 1080p Ultra at 54 FPS is borderline and offers no clear advantage over 1080p High. Low presets are the option only when maximum frame rate is the sole priority — 113 FPS at 1080p — at a significant cost in visual fidelity.

FAQ

Q: Is this combo good for playing Overpower at 4K?

A: Partially. 4K Medium averages 53 FPS with a 45 FPS minimum, which is playable but below 60. 4K Low reaches 85 FPS, while High and Ultra manage only 50 and 41 FPS respectively — not recommended.

Q: Does the CPU limit frame rates in Overpower?

A: No. The resolution-scaling data indicates a GPU limitation. Averaging 70 FPS at 1080p Medium versus 53 FPS at 4K Medium — despite quadrupled pixels — shows the GPU is saturated and the Core Ultra 9 185H has headroom to spare.

Q: How does the Core Ultra 9 185H compare to rival CPUs?

A: It sits within one percent of its nearest rivals in aggregate benchmark score: 0.1% behind the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350, 0.2% behind the Core 7 250H, 0.4% behind the Ryzen 7 PRO 5845, and 0.7% behind the Ryzen 7 7700X.

Q: Is 8 GB of VRAM enough for Overpower?

A: At these settings, yes — every measured row is playable. However, the steep drop from 85 FPS (4K Low) to 53 FPS (4K Medium) suggests the heavier presets at 4K push the 8 GB GDDR7 buffer and 384 GB/s of bandwidth considerably harder than at lower resolutions.

Q: Where does this combo rank among tested Overpower configurations?

A: It ranks 2,975 out of 3,713 tested combos — below the median, consistent with a GPU-bound result on an 83rd-percentile mobile graphics part.

Q: What is the best single setting from the measured data?

A: 1440p Medium: 63 FPS average, 53 minimum, 72 maximum — the best balance of resolution, image quality, and sustained frame rate in the dataset.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All rows below are measured average frame rates for Overpower on the Core Ultra 9 185H + RTX 5050 Mobile combination. Min/max figures are given where captured.

1920x1080

| Settings | Avg FPS | Min FPS | Max FPS |

|---|---|---|---|

| Low | 113 | — | — |

| Medium | 70 | 60 | 81 |

| High | 65 | — | — |

| Ultra | 54 | — | — |

2560x1440

| Settings | Avg FPS | Min FPS | Max FPS |

|---|---|---|---|

| Low | 100 | — | — |

| Medium | 63 | 53 | 72 |

| High | 58 | — | — |

| Ultra | 48 | — | — |

3840x2160

| Settings | Avg FPS | Min FPS | Max FPS |

|---|---|---|---|

| Low | 85 | — | — |

| Medium | 53 | 45 | 61 |

| High | 50 | — | — |

| Ultra | 41 | — | — |

Reading the table as a whole: the largest single step in the dataset is Low-to-Medium at 4K (85 to 53 FPS), and the smallest is Low-to-Medium at 1080p scaled against its ceiling — 113 to 70. Every preset clears 40 FPS at every resolution, and three configurations post full min/avg/max captures: 1080p Medium (60/70/81), 1440p Medium (53/63/72), and 4K Medium (45/53/61). Those three rows, taken together, summarize the entire analysis: a GPU-bound system that trades frame rate for pixels at a remarkably gentle rate, and a CPU that never comes close to running out of work.