Pc Building Simulator

How This Combo Ranks

The AMD Ryzen 5 5500 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER lands at rank 1219 out of 1769 tested combos in Pc Building Simulator. That places this configuration in the 31st percentile of all tested pairings, meaning roughly two-thirds of the combos in the database deliver higher average frame rates in this simulation title. The ranking reflects a mid-pack position rather than a top-tier result, consistent with a CPU that sits at the 79th percentile among all processors and a GPU at the 63rd percentile among all graphics cards.

What is more telling than the raw rank is the shape of the performance curve. This combo is neither a low-end outlier nor a high-end contender; it occupies a crowded middle ground where small changes in settings or resolution produce outsized swings in playability. The data shows a system that can handle Pc Building Simulator comfortably at 1080p across all settings, becomes increasingly strained at 1440p when pushing toward Ultra, and falls below the 40 FPS threshold at 4K with maximum quality enabled. The rank of 1219, therefore, does not tell the whole story — the combo's real character emerges in how it scales across the twelve measured data points.

GPU Role

The RTX 2060 SUPER is built on the Turing architecture with 2176 shading units, 136 texture mapping units, and 64 ROPs. Its memory subsystem consists of 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus, delivering 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The chip operates at a base clock of 1470 MHz with a boost clock of 1650 MHz, and it carries 34 RT cores alongside 272 tensor cores, though Pc Building Simulator does not heavily leverage ray tracing or DLSS capabilities. The GPU's pixel rate of 105.6 GPixel/s and texture rate of 224.4 GTexel/s provide the raw throughput needed for a simulation game that renders detailed PC components and case interiors.

In the benchmark results, the RTX 2060 SUPER's percentile rank of 63 among all GPUs indicates it outperforms nearly two-thirds of the graphics cards in the database. Its average benchmark score of 19774 places it in close competition with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN, which scores 19706 (a delta of 0.3%), and the RTX 2070 at 19680 (a delta of 0.5%). The 2060 SUPER actually edges out the RTX 2070 in aggregate score, a notable result given the latter's higher tier in NVIDIA's lineup. This GPU's 8 GB of VRAM proves sufficient for Pc Building Simulator's texture loads at 1080p and 1440p, but the data suggests that at 4K Ultra, the combination of memory bandwidth and shading throughput becomes the limiting factor.

CPU Role

The Ryzen 5 5500 brings six cores and twelve threads based on the Zen 3 architecture, fabricated on TSMC's 7 nm process. It runs at a base clock of 3.60 GHz with a boost clock of 4.20 GHz, drawing a 65 W TDP. The CPU features 64 KB of L1 cache per core, 512 KB of L2 per core, and 16 MB of shared L3 cache. Memory support is dual-channel DDR4 with a bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s, and the chip connects via PCIe Gen 3. This processor was released in April 2022 with a launch MSRP of $159.

The CPU's benchmark results show a balanced profile. In Cinebench R23, it scores 16429 multi-core and 2319 single-core. The 3DMark results range from 836 in single-thread to 5411 at max threads, with the 8-thread score of 4593 indicating that the six physical cores scale well up to that point. The Passmark multi-thread score of 19330 and single-thread score of 3058 reinforce this picture. With a percentile rank of 79 among all CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5500 sits near the top quintile of processors in the database. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Core i5-12500 (avg score 20897, delta -0.1%), the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4655GE (avg score 20900, delta -0.1%), and the AMD EPYC 7J13 (avg score 20845, delta 0.1%). The data indicates the 5500 is effectively tied with these competitors, with deltas under 0.2% in either direction.

For Pc Building Simulator, the CPU's role is less demanding than in many other genres. The game's simulation logic runs on a handful of threads, and the 5500's 12 threads provide ample headroom. The single-core performance, as measured by the 2319 Cinebench R23 score, is adequate for the game's UI and component interaction logic. At lower resolutions and settings, the CPU becomes the more active partner, but it does not bottleneck the GPU in most scenarios — the measured FPS data confirms this.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1080p, this combo delivers strong performance across all settings. Low settings produce an average of 226.5 FPS, Medium drops to 161.2 FPS, High yields 112.1 FPS, and Ultra maintains 106.4 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra is 120.1 FPS, showing that settings have a significant impact even at this resolution. The step from Medium to High is 49.1 FPS — the largest single drop in the 1080p tier — while the step from High to Ultra is only 5.7 FPS, suggesting diminishing returns at the top end. Every 1080p configuration exceeds 100 FPS, making this resolution entirely playable with headroom for high-refresh-rate displays.

Moving to 1440p, the numbers tell a more nuanced story. Low settings average 143.6 FPS, dropping to 100.0 FPS at Medium, 71.1 FPS at High, and 65.2 FPS at Ultra. The 1440p Low result is still above the 1080p High figure, which indicates the GPU has enough headroom at this resolution to handle the game's lighter settings easily. However, the drop from Low to Medium is 43.6 FPS, and from Medium to High is 28.9 FPS. The Ultra setting at 1440p remains above 60 FPS, which is the threshold for smooth gameplay, but the margin is thin at 65.2 FPS.

At 4K, the performance picture becomes constrained. Low settings average 74.8 FPS, Medium drops to 54.1 FPS, High falls to 39.2 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 37.9 FPS. The 4K Low result is still playable, but the High and Ultra figures dip below the 40 FPS mark, which would be noticeable in a game where the player is often rotating and zooming around detailed 3D scenes of PC components. The gap between Low and Medium at 4K is 20.7 FPS, while the gap between High and Ultra is just 1.3 FPS — the smallest difference in the entire dataset, indicating that the GPU is fully saturated at these settings.

Resolution Scaling

The scaling behavior from 1080p to 4K reveals where this combo's bottleneck lies. At Low settings, the average FPS drops from 226.5 at 1080p to 143.6 at 1440p (a 36.6% reduction), then to 74.8 at 4K (a 47.9% reduction from 1440p). At Ultra settings, the trajectory is 106.4 at 1080p, 65.2 at 1440p (a 38.7% reduction), and 37.9 at 4K (a 41.9% reduction from 1440p). The consistent 36-48% drops per resolution step indicate that the GPU is the primary limiter as pixel count increases.

The data shows that the RTX 2060 SUPER's 448.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth and 7.181 TFLOPS of FP32 compute are insufficient to maintain fluid frame rates at 4K with higher settings. The 1080p results, by contrast, suggest that the CPU's six cores and 12 threads are more than adequate for this simulation title — the fact that 1080p Low reaches 226.5 FPS without the CPU capping the frame rate confirms this. The Ryzen 5 5500's single-thread score of 2319 in Cinebench R23 and its 12 threads provide enough processing power to feed the GPU at 1080p and even at 1440p Low.

The most telling comparison is between the 4K Low result of 74.8 FPS and the 1080p Ultra result of 106.4 FPS. A 32% reduction in frame rate occurs when moving from 1080p Ultra to 4K Low, even though the latter uses dramatically lighter graphics settings. This indicates that the GPU's raw pixel throughput is the dominant constraint at higher resolutions. Conversely, the small gap between 4K High (39.2 FPS) and 4K Ultra (37.9 FPS) — just 1.3 FPS — shows that once the GPU is saturated, additional settings changes have minimal impact. For this combo, the sweet spot is 1080p at any settings or 1440p at Medium and below; 4K is only viable at Low settings, and even then with a modest 74.8 FPS average.