Pc Building Simulator

FAQ

Q: How does the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X compare to its nearest rivals in overall CPU benchmark performance?

A: The Ryzen 5 9600X posts an average benchmark score of 29,713, which places it essentially level with the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5755GE (0.2% ahead), the AMD Ryzen 7 7840H (0.5% behind), and the AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT (0.6% behind). The Ryzen 7 8845HS trails by 0.8%, making the 9600X the top performer among this cluster, though margins are slim.

Q: How does the Radeon RX 570's benchmark standing compare with its nearest rivals?

A: The RX 570 averages 28,766 across its benchmark set, placing it just behind the AMD Radeon RX 6800M by 0.4% and the AMD Radeon RX 470 by 0.8%, while leading the AMD Radeon R9 M295X by 0.7% and the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 by 1.2%. This positions it as a mid-pack contender among those four rivals.

Q: What is the best 1080p result for this combination in Pc Building Simulator?

A: At 1920x1080, the Low preset delivers the highest average frame rate at 108 FPS, with Medium at 77 FPS, High at 54 FPS, and Ultra at 51 FPS. Low is the only setting that exceeds 100 FPS, while Ultra dips to nearly half the Low result.

Q: How does the frame rate scale when moving from 1080p to 1440p on the High preset?

A: At 1920x1080 High, the average is 54 FPS. Dropping to 2560x1440 High yields 34 FPS, a 37% reduction. This steep decline indicates the GPU is the primary limiting factor as resolution increases, since the CPU's strong single-thread performance (2,183.5 in Cinebench R23 single-core) cannot compensate for the RX 570's 4 GB VRAM and 224.0 GB/s bandwidth constraints.

Q: Is the 4K Ultra preset playable with this hardware?

A: No. At 3840x2160 Ultra, the average FPS is 17, and High is barely better at 18 FPS. Even at Low, 4K only reaches 36 FPS. The data suggests 4K is not viable for smooth gameplay, as every preset at this resolution falls below the 60 FPS threshold.

Q: What is the combo's overall rank among all tested combinations?

A: This pairing of the Ryzen 5 9600X with the RX 570 ranks 3,562 out of 3,723 tested combinations, placing it in the bottom 4.3% of all combos. This reflects the significant bottleneck created by pairing a modern 9000-series CPU with an end-of-life Polaris GPU.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 570 is the decisive component in this combination, and its specifications explain why the measured frame rates fall where they do. The card features 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus, yielding 224.0 GB/s of bandwidth. Its base clock of 1168 MHz and boost clock of 1244 MHz drive 2048 shading units, 128 texture mapping units, and 32 ROPs. The resulting pixel rate is 39.81 GPixel/s and texture rate is 159.2 GTexel/s, with FP32 performance of 5.095 TFLOPS. These figures are modest by modern standards, and the 14 nm Polaris 20 chip — fabricated by GlobalFoundries with 5,700 million transistors on a 232 mm² die — is a legacy part that entered production in 2017.

In Pc Building Simulator, the GPU's role is central because the game's simulation workloads appear to scale heavily with resolution and preset. The RX 570's 4 GB VRAM is a hard constraint: at 3840x2160, even the Low preset only manages 36 FPS, while High and Ultra fall to 18 and 17 FPS respectively. This pattern indicates that the card's memory bandwidth and raw compute are saturated well before the Ryzen 5 9600X's capabilities come into play. The CPU, with its Zen 5 architecture and 6 cores / 12 threads, boasts a boost clock of 5.40 GHz and a 32 MB L3 cache — far more than this game requires at these settings.

The data confirms that the RX 570 is the limiting factor across all resolutions. At 1080p, the GPU still cannot push beyond 108 FPS even on Low, and the gap between Low and Ultra (108 vs 51 FPS) is a 53% drop that stems from the card's fill-rate and shading limitations. The Ryzen 5 9600X, by contrast, shows no signs of bottlenecking: its 3DMark single-thread score of 1,253 and PassMark single-thread score of 4,570 are more than adequate for this simulation genre. The GPU's 74th percentile ranking among all GPUs (versus the CPU's 81st percentile) further underscores that the graphics card is the weaker link, and the measured FPS data reflects this imbalance precisely.

Settings Recommendations

For Pc Building Simulator, the data points to the Low preset at 1920x1080 as the only configuration that delivers a clearly playable experience with headroom. At 1080p Low, the average FPS is 108, which is smoothly above the 60 FPS standard and leaves room for occasional dips without becoming noticeable. Medium at 1080p drops to 77 FPS, still playable, but the step to High (54 FPS) and Ultra (51 FPS) pushes the experience below the 60 FPS threshold.

At 2560x1440, the story changes dramatically. Low yields 68 FPS, which is acceptable, but Medium falls to 48 FPS and High to 34 FPS, with Ultra at 32 FPS. Given that the 1440p Low result is the only one above 60 FPS at this resolution, users with 1440p displays should stick to Low. The 4K results are uniformly poor: Low at 36 FPS, Medium at 25 FPS, High at 18 FPS, and Ultra at 17 FPS. None of these are recommended for serious play, as even the lowest preset fails to maintain a consistent 40 FPS.

The best balance of visual quality and performance, per the measured rows, is 1080p Medium at 77 FPS. This provides a 27% improvement over High (54 FPS) while retaining most of the graphical fidelity that Low sacrifices. The min FPS of 65 at 1080p Medium (with a max of 88) indicates acceptable frame pacing, whereas the 1080p High result has no min/max data but averages just above 50. For users prioritizing smoothness above all, 1080p Low at 108 FPS is the safest choice; for those wanting a middle ground, 1080p Medium is the sweet spot.

How This Combo Ranks

This pairing of the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X with the AMD Radeon RX 570 ranks 3,562 out of 3,723 tested combinations in Pc Building Simulator. This places it in the bottom 4.3% of all combos, a poor showing that reflects the stark mismatch between the CPU's high-end capabilities and the GPU's legacy status. The Ryzen 5 9600X sits in the 81st percentile among all CPUs, while the RX 570 sits in the 74th percentile among all GPUs — but the combo rank is far lower than either individual percentile would suggest.

The reason for this disconnect is that the GPU becomes the bottleneck at virtually every resolution and preset in this game. The CPU's average benchmark score of 29,713 is competitive with its nearest rivals (all within 0.8%), but that strength is wasted when the GPU cannot translate it into frame rate. The RX 570's average score of 28,766 places it near the RX 6800M and RX 470, yet those rivals also lack the headroom for 4K or high-refresh 1440p gaming. The combo rank of 3,562 indicates that most other tested pairings — even those with weaker CPUs — achieve better FPS because they pair more balanced components.

The data suggests that this rank is driven almost entirely by the GPU's limitations. If the combo had been tested with a different CPU, the rank might shift slightly, but the RX 570's 4 GB VRAM and 224.0 GB/s bandwidth set a hard ceiling. At 3840x2160, the best case is 36 FPS on Low, and at 2560x1440, only Low breaks 60 FPS. The Ryzen 5 9600X, with its 6 cores and 12 threads at up to 5.40 GHz boost, is overkill for a game that cannot utilize its full potential when paired with this GPU.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals a clear linear relationship between resolution and performance, with the GPU being the dominant limiting factor. Moving from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 on the High preset, the average FPS drops from 54 to 34, a 37% reduction. From 1440p High to 3840x2160 High, the average drops from 34 to 18, a 47% reduction. The total drop from 1080p High to 4K High is from 54 to 18 FPS, a 67% decline that far exceeds the 4x pixel-count increase, indicating that the RX 570's memory bandwidth (224.0 GB/s) and pixel rate (39.81 GPixel/s) are overwhelmed at higher resolutions.

The Low preset shows a similar pattern but with higher absolute values. At 1080p Low, the average is 108 FPS; at 1440p Low, it falls to 68 FPS (37% drop); at 4K Low, it drops to 36 FPS (47% drop from 1440p). The consistency of these percentage drops across presets suggests that the scaling is purely resolution-driven, not settings-driven — the GPU's fill rate and shading capacity scale linearly with pixel count. The Medium preset data (with min/max values) reinforces this: at 1080p Medium, the range is 65-88 FPS; at 1440p Medium, it's 41-56 FPS; at 4K Medium, it's 21-29 FPS.

This scaling behavior points to the GPU as the bottleneck. If the CPU were the limiting factor, the FPS would remain relatively flat across resolutions because the CPU workload would stay constant. Instead, the FPS drops by roughly a third at each step up in resolution, which is exactly what happens when a GPU runs out of pixel throughput and memory bandwidth. The Ryzen 5 9600X's strong single-thread performance (2,183.5 in Cinebench R23 single-core) is irrelevant because the game's frame rate is constrained by the RX 570's ability to fill the screen, not by the CPU's ability to issue draw calls.

Measured FPS Breakdown

1920x1080 (Full HD):

• Low: Average 108 FPS. This is the only 1080p setting that exceeds 100 FPS, and it provides ample headroom for smooth gameplay.
• Medium: Average 77 FPS, with a minimum of 65 and maximum of 88 FPS. This is the best balance of fidelity and frame rate at 1080p.
• High: Average 54 FPS. This falls below the 60 FPS threshold, making it marginal for fast-paced interaction.
• Ultra: Average 51 FPS. The gap between High and Ultra is small (3 FPS), suggesting diminishing returns from the highest preset.

2560x1440 (Quad HD):

• Low: Average 68 FPS. This is the only 1440p setting that stays above 60 FPS, making it the sole viable option for 1440p displays.
• Medium: Average 48 FPS, with a minimum of 41 and maximum of 56 FPS. Frame pacing is consistent but the average is below the smoothness threshold.
• High: Average 34 FPS. This represents a significant drop from 1080p High and is not recommended for playable performance.
• Ultra: Average 32 FPS. Nearly identical to High, indicating that the GPU is saturated regardless of the highest settings.

3840x2160 (4K UHD):

• Low: Average 36 FPS. This is the best 4K result, but it still fails to reach 40 FPS, making it marginal at best.
• Medium: Average 25 FPS, with a minimum of 21 and maximum of 29 FPS. The frame rate is consistently low and will feel stuttery.
• High: Average 18 FPS. This is effectively unplayable, as the simulation will render at a slideshow pace.
• Ultra: Average 17 FPS. The lowest result in the entire dataset, confirming that 4K Ultra is entirely out of reach for this hardware.

Across all resolutions, the pattern is consistent: Low is roughly double the frame rate of High, and Medium sits roughly halfway between them. The Ultra preset offers only a marginal improvement over High in terms of visual quality (3 FPS or less at every resolution), yet it costs 3-5 FPS compared to High, making it the least efficient choice. For any user, the data recommends sticking to Low or Medium at 1080p, or Low at 1440p, and avoiding 4K entirely.