Pc Building Simulator

The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X paired with the AMD Radeon RX 570 delivers a highly variable experience in Pc Building Simulator, depending almost entirely on the resolution and quality preset selected. The measured data reveals a configuration that is fundamentally constrained by its graphics processor, with the CPU's considerable 8-core, 16-thread headroom going largely unused. The benchmark results indicate that this combo is best suited for 1080p gaming, where it can achieve playable frame rates, but it struggles significantly at higher resolutions.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS data provides a clear hierarchy for the optimal settings preset. At 1920x1080, the Low preset yields an average of 110.6 FPS, which is the highest measured performance across all configurations. This drops to 80.1 FPS on Medium, a 27.6% decrease, and then to 51.6 FPS on both High and Ultra. The fact that High and Ultra produce identical average frame rates (51.6 FPS) is a critical indicator that the GPU has reached a performance ceiling, likely due to a VRAM or shading unit limitation, making the Ultra preset a pointless trade-off for extra visual fidelity with no performance penalty.

For the best balance of visual quality and smoothness at 1080p, the Medium preset is the recommended choice. It delivers a significant jump from the Low preset's visuals while maintaining an 80.1 FPS average, which is comfortably above the 60 FPS threshold for most displays. The High preset, while matching Ultra's frame rate, offers no advantage over Medium in terms of performance, and the data shows a 35.6% performance drop from Medium to High. At 2560x1440, the situation becomes more challenging. The Low preset is the only playable option, achieving 69.6 FPS, but Medium drops to 45.6 FPS, and High falls to 36.7 FPS. For 4K (3840x2160), no preset is truly playable, as even the Low setting only manages a 38.1 FPS average, which is below the generally acceptable threshold for smooth gameplay.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 570 is the definitive bottleneck in this configuration. Its specifications from the fact pack—4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus with 224.0 GB/s bandwidth—are modest by modern standards. The GPU's base clock is 1168 MHz with a boost clock of 1244 MHz, and its performance percentile sits at 74 among all GPUs. This places it in the lower-mid range of the performance spectrum, and the measured FPS data confirms that it is the limiting component. The GPU's average benchmark score is 30158, and its nearest rivals, such as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 and AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT, show a deltaPct of only 0.2, indicating that the RX 570's synthetic benchmark score is competitive on paper, but its real-world 4 GB VRAM capacity and older GCN 4.0 architecture limit its gaming performance.

The VRAM constraint becomes evident when analyzing the FPS drop between Medium and High settings at 1080p. The identical frame rates of 51.6 FPS for both High and Ultra suggest that the GPU is not processing more complex geometry or effects at Ultra, but rather that the 4 GB frame buffer is saturated, causing the card to throttle or swap data inefficiently. This is a classic sign of a memory-limited scenario, where the GPU's compute capabilities are not the primary constraint. The card's 2048 shading units and 32 ROPs are also dated, but the fact that performance plateaus so abruptly points directly to the memory subsystem as the primary bottleneck in this simulation-heavy title.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS scaling from 1080p to 4K is severe and non-linear, clearly demonstrating the GPU's limitations. At 1080p Low, the combo achieves 110.6 FPS. At 1440p Low, this drops to 69.6 FPS, a 37.1% decrease. At 4K Low, the frame rate plummets to 38.1 FPS, a 65.5% decrease from the 1080p result. This scaling pattern indicates that the GPU is being overwhelmed by the increasing pixel count. The 4 GB VRAM buffer is insufficient for the larger frame buffers required at higher resolutions, and the 224.0 GB/s memory bandwidth is unable to keep up with the texture and geometry data demands.

The data shows that this combo is strictly a 1080p solution. At 1440p, the only viable setting is Low, and even then, the 69.6 FPS average is only marginally acceptable. The jump from 1440p to 4K is particularly punishing, with the High preset falling from 36.7 FPS to 15.4 FPS, a 58.0% reduction. This steep decline suggests that the rendering pipeline, specifically the ROPs and memory bandwidth, is the limiting factor. The CPU, with its 32 MB L3 cache and high multi-threaded performance (Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 19087), is not the cause of these drops; it is simply waiting on the GPU to finish each frame. The measured data indicates that the limiting component is the GPU at all resolutions above 1080p.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data provides a comprehensive picture of this combo's performance envelope. At 1920x1080, the frame rates are as follows: Low yields 110.6 FPS, Medium 80.1 FPS, High 51.6 FPS, and Ultra 51.6 FPS. The identical scores for High and Ultra are a notable anomaly, suggesting that the Ultra preset is not adding any additional load that the GPU can process, or that it is hitting a hard cap. The 35.6% drop from Medium to High is the largest single-settings jump, further reinforcing the idea that the GPU's memory system is the bottleneck.

Moving to 2560x1440, the performance drops significantly. Low settings produce 69.6 FPS, which is still playable but represents a 37.1% reduction from the 1080p Low score. Medium yields 45.6 FPS, High 36.7 FPS, and Ultra 32.9 FPS. The gap between Medium and High narrows to 19.5%, and the gap between High and Ultra narrows further to 10.4%, indicating that the GPU is running out of compute resources and the settings are having diminishing returns. At 3840x2160, the results are uniformly poor. Low settings manage 38.1 FPS, Medium 25.2 FPS, High 15.4 FPS, and Ultra 14.9 FPS. The difference between High and Ultra is only 0.5 FPS, showing that the card is completely saturated and cannot handle the 4K resolution regardless of the quality preset. These numbers show a clear pattern: the RX 570 is only comfortable at 1080p, and even there, it requires a drop to Medium settings to maintain a smooth experience.

How This Combo Ranks

This specific configuration, the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X with the AMD Radeon RX 570, holds a combo rank of 1691 out of 1769 tested combinations in Pc Building Simulator. This places it in the bottom 4.4% of all tested combos, indicating that it is one of the least capable pairings for this game. The low rank is almost entirely attributable to the GPU, as the CPU is a strong performer. The Ryzen 7 3700X has a percentile rank of 85 among all CPUs and an average benchmark score of 28631, which is nearly identical to its nearest rivals, such as the Intel Core i5-12600 (28654, deltaPct -0.1) and the AMD Ryzen 5 5600XT (28591, deltaPct 0.1).

The contrast is stark. The CPU's synthetic benchmarks show it is a top-tier processor for its generation, but the GPU's 74th percentile and its measured in-game performance drag the entire combo down. The data shows that the CPU is not the limiting factor; the 4 GB RX 570 is. The combo rank of 1691 reflects the GPU's inability to push frames at higher resolutions or settings, which is the primary determinant of the game's performance. The 4K Ultra result of 14.9 FPS is a clear indicator of why this combo ranks so low. In a game that is simulation-heavy and likely CPU-bound in many scenarios, the fact that this combo ranks so poorly suggests that the GPU is a severe bottleneck even at 1080p, preventing the capable CPU from ever being fully utilized.