Pc Building Simulator

How This Combo Ranks

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER lands at rank 1252 out of 1769 tested combinations in Pc Building Simulator. That places this build in the 29th percentile of all combos, meaning roughly 71% of tested systems deliver higher average frame rates in this simulation title. The ranking reflects a mid-pack position that is more capable than entry-level hardware but clearly outclassed by higher-tier configurations.

What makes this ranking particularly interesting is the gap between the two components' individual standings. The CPU sits at the 79th percentile among all processors, while the GPU ranks at the 63rd percentile among all graphics cards. The combined result being dragged down to the 29th percentile suggests that Pc Building Simulator is heavily dependent on the graphics subsystem, and the RTX 2060 SUPER becomes the limiting factor more often than the Ryzen 5 5600. The data implies that swapping in a stronger GPU would yield a more substantial rank improvement than upgrading the processor.

Benchmark results show the CPU's average score of 21765 places it within 0.6% of the Intel Xeon D-1746TER (21635) and 0.9% behind the Intel Core i7-11700F (21957). On the GPU side, the RTX 2060 SUPER's average score of 19774 puts it just 0.3% ahead of the GeForce GTX TITAN (19706) and 0.5% ahead of the RTX 2070 (19680). These tight deltas indicate the system is well-balanced in synthetic tests, but the in-game ranking reveals that balance does not translate into top-tier performance for this specific simulation workload.

FAQ

Q: How does this combo compare to other tested configurations in Pc Building Simulator?

A: The combo ranks 1252 out of 1769 tested combinations, placing it below the median but above the bottom quarter of systems. It outperforms roughly 29% of all tested combos in this game.

Q: What is the best frame rate this system achieves at 1080p?

A: The highest measured average FPS is 225.5 at 1920x1080 with Low settings. At Ultra settings, the average drops to 105.9 FPS at the same resolution.

Q: Can this system handle 4K gaming in this title?

A: At 3840x2160, the system averages 38 FPS on High settings and 35.7 FPS on Ultra. Low settings at 4K produce 73.3 FPS, which is playable but not ideal for competitive play.

Q: Which component is more likely to bottleneck in this game?

A: The GPU appears to be the primary constraint. The RTX 2060 SUPER ranks at the 63rd percentile among all GPUs, while the Ryzen 5 5600 ranks at the 79th percentile among all CPUs. The frame rate scaling across resolutions confirms the graphics card is the limiting factor.

Q: How much performance difference exists between Medium and Ultra settings at 1440p?

A: At 2560x1440, Medium settings average 102 FPS while Ultra averages 70.1 FPS. That represents a 31.3% reduction in frame rate when moving from Medium to Ultra.

Q: Is the CPU's multi-threading capability relevant for this simulation game?

A: The Ryzen 5 5600's 12 threads with a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 18309 suggests strong multi-threading, but the game's performance scaling with GPU settings indicates that CPU headroom is not fully utilized at higher resolutions.

Resolution Scaling

The measured frame rates reveal a clear pattern of GPU-bound scaling as resolution increases. At 1080p with High settings, the system produces 109.3 FPS. Moving to 1440p drops that to 73.3 FPS, a 32.9% reduction. At 4K, the same settings yield only 38 FPS, which represents a 65.2% drop from the 1080p result. This steep decline is characteristic of a system where the graphics card's pixel throughput becomes the dominant constraint.

The Low settings data tells an even more revealing story. At 1080p Low, the system achieves 225.5 FPS, but this falls to 140.8 FPS at 1440p and 73.3 FPS at 4K. The fact that 4K Low produces the same frame rate as 1440p High (73.3 FPS) suggests the GPU is hitting a performance ceiling that is independent of visual quality settings. This points toward memory bandwidth or raw compute limits rather than shader complexity being the bottleneck.

The CPU's role in this scaling is minimal. The Ryzen 5 5600's boost clock of 4.40 GHz and single-thread score of 2584 in Cinebench R23 provide ample headroom for the simulation's logic, but the frame rates at lower resolutions do not improve enough to suggest CPU limitation. At 1080p Low, the 225.5 FPS result indicates the processor can feed frames quickly enough, but the GPU cannot sustain that throughput as resolution climbs.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the full settings range shows the system's versatility. Low settings produce 225.5 FPS, Medium delivers 157.8 FPS, High achieves 109.3 FPS, and Ultra reaches 105.9 FPS. The gap between High and Ultra is remarkably small at just 3.1%, suggesting that Ultra settings add visual features that are relatively inexpensive to render at this resolution.

Moving to 2560x1440, the numbers compress significantly. Low averages 140.8 FPS, Medium hits 102 FPS, High produces 73.3 FPS, and Ultra drops to 70.1 FPS. The spread from Low to Ultra narrows from 119.6 FPS at 1080p to 70.7 FPS at 1440p, confirming that the GPU's workload increases faster than its ability to differentiate between settings levels.

At 3840x2160, the system struggles to maintain smooth frame rates at higher presets. Low averages 73.3 FPS, Medium produces 53.9 FPS, High achieves 38 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 35.7 FPS. The 4K results show that only Low settings cross the 60 FPS threshold, and even that is marginal. The progression from Medium to High at 4K represents a 28% performance hit, while High to Ultra only costs 6% more performance.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data suggests that the optimal experience depends heavily on the target resolution. At 1080p, the High preset at 109.3 FPS offers the best balance of visual fidelity and performance, as the jump to Ultra only gains 3.1% more visual quality for a 3.1% frame rate loss. The Medium preset at 157.8 FPS is the choice for high-refresh displays, providing 44% more frames than High.

At 1440p, Medium settings at 102 FPS deliver the smoothest experience while retaining reasonable visual quality. High at 73.3 FPS is still playable and represents a 39% improvement in frame rate over Ultra at 70.1 FPS, making Ultra a poor trade-off. The data shows that High at 1440p produces identical performance to Low at 4K (73.3 FPS), which suggests that users prioritizing visual quality should choose 1440p High over 4K Low.

For 4K displays, Low settings at 73.3 FPS is the only preset that clears the 60 FPS threshold. Medium at 53.9 FPS is borderline playable but risks noticeable stutter in busy simulation scenes. The Ultra preset at 35.7 FPS is only suitable for screenshot purposes or turn-based gameplay where frame rate is not critical. The recommendation is to run 1440p Medium for the best experience, as it provides 102 FPS with better visual fidelity than 4K Low.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600 brings six cores and twelve threads to this configuration, built on the Zen 3 architecture with a 7 nm process from TSMC. Its base clock of 3.50 GHz and boost clock of 4.40 GHz provide solid single-thread performance, as evidenced by the Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2584. This places the processor at the 79th percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 21765 that sits within 1% of several enterprise-grade Xeon and EPYC processors.

The CPU's memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s over dual-channel DDR4 is adequate for this simulation genre, which typically involves managing many in-game entities rather than processing massive datasets. The 32 MB shared L3 cache helps with the game's object tracking and state management. The PassMark multithread score of 21541 and data compression score of 251687 indicate strong throughput for background tasks, though these are unlikely to be the primary workload in Pc Building Simulator.

What the data reveals is that the CPU is rarely the bottleneck in this pairing. At 1080p Low, the system achieves 225.5 FPS, which is well below the CPU's theoretical frame generation capability. The fact that performance drops by 65.2% when moving from 1080p to 4K at High settings confirms that the GPU is the limiting factor. The Ryzen 5 5600's 12 threads provide enough parallelism for the game's simulation logic, but the game does not appear to scale with additional CPU cores beyond this configuration.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER is built on the Turing architecture with a 12 nm process and features 2176 shading units, 136 texture mapping units, and 64 raster output units. Its boost clock of 1650 MHz and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus provide a memory bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s. These specifications place the GPU at the 63rd percentile among all graphics cards, with an average benchmark score of 19774 that is nearly identical to the RTX 2070.

The GPU's ray tracing capabilities, including 34 RT cores and 272 tensor cores, are present but largely irrelevant for Pc Building Simulator, which focuses on system assembly and benchmark simulation rather than path-traced visuals. The FP32 performance of 7.181 TFLOPS is the more relevant metric for this game's rendering workload. The 12 GB of VRAM is sufficient for 4K textures in most titles, but the measured frame rates suggest that memory capacity is not the limiting factor here.

The performance data shows that the RTX 2060 SUPER hits its compute ceiling at 4K resolutions. The identical 73.3 FPS results for 4K Low and 1440p High indicate that the GPU is bandwidth-limited or fill-rate-limited at these settings. The 448.0 GB/s memory bandwidth is likely the constraint, as the pixel rate of 105.6 GPixel/s and texture rate of 224.4 GTexel/s are sufficient for lower resolutions. This interpretation is supported by the 14% performance gap between High and Ultra at 1080p, which narrows to 6% at 4K as the GPU becomes saturated.