Pc Building Simulator

FAQ

Q: What is the measured performance of the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 combo in Pc Building Simulator?

A: The data shows the combo achieves an average of 86 FPS at 4K High, 164 FPS at 1440p High, and 260 FPS at 1080p High. At Ultra settings, the averages drop to 82 FPS at 4K, 156 FPS at 1440p, and 247 FPS at 1080p.

Q: How does this combo rank among all tested configurations?

A: The combo ranks 180th out of 3,723 tested combinations in Pc Building Simulator, placing it in the top 5% of all tested systems.

Q: What is the CPU's average benchmark score and how does it compare to its nearest rivals?

A: The Ryzen 9 5900X has an average benchmark score of 41,376 across all tested workloads. It sits 0.3% above the Intel Core Ultra 7 366H (41,263) and 0.4% above the Intel Core Ultra 7 356H (41,215) and AMD Ryzen AI 5 PRO 440 (41,208), while trailing the Intel Core i7-14650HX (41,576) by 0.5%.

Q: What are the GPU's key memory specifications?

A: The RTX 4090 features 24 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus, delivering 1.01 TB/s of memory bandwidth. The memory clock runs at 1313 MHz with 21 Gbps effective speed.

Q: What is the best measured FPS result for this combo?

A: The highest average FPS recorded is 349 at 1080p Low settings. At 1440p Low, the average is 299 FPS, and at 4K Low it drops to 171 FPS.

Q: Does the game show a preference for CPU or GPU performance?

A: The FPS scaling from 1080p to 4K indicates a strong GPU dependency. At 1080p High, the combo delivers 260 FPS, but at 4K High it falls to 86 FPS — a 67% reduction. The CPU's 12 cores and 24 threads provide ample headroom, as evidenced by the high frame rates even at lower resolutions.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS data provides a clear picture of how each preset performs across the three resolutions. For 1080p, all four presets deliver well above 240 FPS, with Low hitting 349 FPS, Medium at 307 FPS, High at 260 FPS, and Ultra at 247 FPS. Even the most demanding Ultra preset maintains an average above 240 FPS, making it the best choice for high-refresh-rate 1080p monitors. The minimum FPS recorded at Medium is 261, which still exceeds 240, so there is minimal risk of dropping below refresh-rate thresholds.

Moving to 1440p, the situation remains comfortable. Ultra averages 156 FPS, High delivers 164 FPS, and Medium reaches 232 FPS. The Medium preset shows a minimum of 197 FPS and a maximum of 267 FPS, indicating smooth performance with some variance. For 1440p, Ultra is viable for 144 Hz displays, and High is recommended for 165 Hz panels. Low at 299 FPS is excessive for most displays and offers no practical benefit over Medium given the visual quality trade-off.

At 4K, the choice becomes more nuanced. Ultra averages 82 FPS, High averages 86 FPS, and Medium averages 121 FPS with a minimum of 103 FPS and a maximum of 140 FPS. Low jumps to 171 FPS. For a 60 Hz 4K display, Ultra and High both provide comfortable headroom. For 120 Hz or 144 Hz 4K panels, Medium is the best choice—it maintains an average above 120 FPS while keeping the minimum above 100 FPS. Low at 171 FPS would be necessary for 165 Hz 4K displays, but the visual compromise is substantial.

The data suggests that Medium is the optimal preset for 4K gaming on this combo, balancing visual fidelity with frame rates that exceed 120 FPS on average. At 1440p and 1080p, Ultra is entirely playable and recommended for the best image quality, as even the worst-case Ultra frame rates remain above 150 FPS.

How This Combo Ranks

The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 ranks 180th out of 3,723 tested combinations in Pc Building Simulator. This places the combo in the top 4.8% of all systems tested, a strong result for a simulation game that typically does not require extreme hardware.

The ranking reflects the combination's measured FPS across all settings and resolutions. At 1080p, the combo delivers between 247 and 349 FPS depending on preset, which is far beyond what most displays can show. At 1440p, the range is 156 to 299 FPS, still exceptionally high. Even at 4K, the combo never drops below 82 FPS on any preset, with Medium hitting 121 FPS.

The percentile data for individual components supports this ranking. The CPU sits at the 87th percentile among all CPUs, while the GPU is at the 88th percentile among all GPUs. The combination of two top-tier components produces a system that is well above average for this game.

The rank of 180 suggests that some combinations of even higher-end components (such as newer CPUs or multi-GPU setups) outperform this pairing, but the measured data shows that for Pc Building Simulator specifically, this combo already delivers frame rates that exceed typical display refresh rates at every resolution except 4K Ultra.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured average FPS ranges from 247 to 349. Low settings achieve 349 FPS, Medium drops to 307 FPS with a minimum of 261 and maximum of 353, High delivers 260 FPS, and Ultra produces 247 FPS. The spread between Low and Ultra is 102 FPS, or roughly 29% — a moderate penalty for maximum visual quality.

At 2560x1440, averages fall between 156 and 299. Low hits 299 FPS, Medium averages 232 FPS with a range of 197 to 267, High reaches 164 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 156 FPS. The gap from Low to Ultra here is 143 FPS, or about 48%, showing that resolution scaling amplifies the settings impact.

At 3840x2160, the averages range from 82 to 171. Low achieves 171 FPS, Medium averages 121 FPS with a minimum of 103 and maximum of 140, High drops to 86 FPS, and Ultra yields 82 FPS. The Low-to-Ultra spread is 89 FPS, but in percentage terms, Ultra is 52% slower than Low, the largest relative drop across all resolutions.

The Medium presets are the only ones with recorded minimum and maximum values. At 1080p Medium, the range is 261 to 353 FPS, a 92 FPS spread. At 1440p Medium, the range narrows to 197 to 267 FPS, a 70 FPS spread. At 4K Medium, the range is 103 to 140 FPS, a 37 FPS spread. This tightening of variance at higher resolutions indicates that GPU load becomes more consistent, reducing frame-time spikes.

The data shows a clear pattern: higher resolutions compress the absolute FPS values and reduce the relative difference between settings, while lower resolutions amplify both the averages and the variance between presets.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture using a 5 nm process at TSMC, with 76,300 million transistors on a 609 mm² die. It operates at a base clock of 2235 MHz and a boost clock of 2520 MHz. The GPU features 16,384 shading units, 512 texture mapping units, and 176 raster output pipelines, along with 128 ray tracing cores and 512 tensor cores.

Memory is a defining characteristic of this GPU: 24 GB of GDDR6X on a 384-bit bus provides 1.01 TB/s of bandwidth. The memory clock is 1313 MHz with 21 Gbps effective speed. This memory configuration is directly relevant to Pc Building Simulator, a game that involves managing system resources and building PCs; the large frame buffer ensures that even at 4K Ultra, the GPU never runs out of memory.

The GPU's compute capabilities are substantial: 82.58 TFLOPS for both FP32 and FP16 (1:1 ratio). Pixel rate is 443.5 GPixel/s, and texture rate is 1,290.2 GTexel/s. These figures indicate the GPU can handle the game's rendering workload comfortably, which is reflected in the measured FPS.

The 4090's benchmark results show a passmark G3D score of 38,194 and a Geekbench OpenCL score of 255,416. In Vulkan, it scores 271,631. The GPU's average benchmark score is 60,347, placing it at the 88th percentile among all GPUs. Its nearest rivals in the benchmark database include the Intel Arc Pro A60 (60,326, 0% delta), AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 (60,140, 0.3% delta), and AMD Radeon PRO V710 (58,657, 2.9% delta), while it trails the AMD Radeon Pro W6600M (61,896) by 2.5%.

In Pc Building Simulator, the GPU's role is evident in the 4K performance scaling. At 4K Ultra, the combo delivers 82 FPS, which is 67% lower than the 247 FPS at 1080p Ultra. This drop is consistent with the GPU being the primary bottleneck at higher resolutions. The GPU's 24 GB memory and 1.01 TB/s bandwidth ensure that even the most demanding 4K preset does not cause memory-related stutters, as evidenced by the 4K Medium minimum of 103 FPS.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is a 12-core, 24-thread processor based on the Zen 3 architecture (codenamed Vermeer), manufactured on TSMC's 7 nm process. It has a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 4.80 GHz, with a TDP of 105 W. The CPU supports DDR4 memory on a dual-channel bus with 51.2 GB/s bandwidth, and it uses PCIe Gen 4.

Cache configuration includes 64 KB of L1 per core, 512 KB of L2 per core, and 64 MB of L3 cache. The CPU contains 8,300 million transistors across two 74 mm² dies. It was released on 2020-11-04 with a launch MSRP of $549.

Benchmark results show strong multi-threaded performance: Cinebench R23 multicore scores 16,262, while single-core scores 1,527. Geekbench multicore reaches 14,118, and single-core hits 2,083. The 3DMark max-thread score is 10,075, with 16-thread at 9,075, 8-thread at 6,601, 4-thread at 3,588, and 2-thread at 1,852. Passmark multithread scores 39,002, with single-thread at 3,469.

The CPU's average benchmark score is 41,376, placing it at the 87th percentile among all CPUs. Its nearest rivals are clustered closely: the Intel Core Ultra 7 366H (41,263, 0.3% faster), Intel Core Ultra 7 356H (41,215, 0.4% faster), and AMD Ryzen AI 5 PRO 440 (41,208, 0.4% faster) are all within 0.4%, while the Intel Core i7-14650HX (41,576) is 0.5% faster.

In Pc Building Simulator, the CPU's role is less apparent than the GPU's, but still significant. At 1080p Low, the combo hits 349 FPS, which suggests the CPU can feed the GPU with enough frames to exceed 300 FPS. The 12 cores and 24 threads provide ample processing power for a simulation game, which often involves physics and logic calculations beyond rendering.

The CPU's 64 MB L3 cache is particularly relevant for simulation workloads, as it reduces memory latency for frequently accessed data. The single-thread performance (3DMark single-thread score of 941, Cinebench R23 single-core of 1,527) ensures that the game's main thread is not a bottleneck, even at high frame rates.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals how the combo scales across resolutions. At 1080p High, the average is 260 FPS. At 1440p High, it drops to 164 FPS, a 37% reduction. At 4K High, it falls to 86 FPS, a 67% reduction from 1080p. This scaling pattern is typical for a GPU-bound scenario where pixel count drives performance.

The Low settings show a similar pattern: 349 FPS at 1080p, 299 FPS at 1440p (14% drop), and 171 FPS at 4K (51% drop). Medium settings yield 307 FPS at 1080p, 232 FPS at 1440p (24% drop), and 121 FPS at 4K (61% drop). Ultra settings produce 247 FPS at 1080p, 156 FPS at 1440p (37% drop), and 82 FPS at 4K (67% drop).

The percentage drops from 1080p to 4K are remarkably consistent across settings: 51% for Low, 61% for Medium, 67% for High, and 67% for Ultra. This consistency indicates that the game's rendering workload scales predictably with resolution, and the GPU is the limiting factor at higher resolutions.

The 1440p to 4K transition is particularly steep: at High settings, the drop is 78 FPS (from 164 to 86), a 48% reduction. At Medium, the drop is 111 FPS (from 232 to 121), a 48% reduction. At Low, the drop is 128 FPS (from 299 to 171), a 43% reduction. This suggests that 4K requires nearly double the GPU throughput of 1440p, which aligns with the pixel count difference (8.3 million vs 3.7 million pixels).

The fact that the CPU maintains high frame rates at 1080p (247-349 FPS depending on settings) indicates that it is not the bottleneck at lower resolutions. As resolution increases and frame rates drop, the GPU becomes the primary limiter. The 4K Ultra result of 82 FPS is the only measured configuration that falls below 100 FPS, confirming that 4K Ultra pushes the GPU to its limits in this game.

The scaling behavior suggests that for 1440p and below, the combo is overwhelmingly GPU-sufficient, with the CPU providing ample headroom. For 4K, the GPU's performance determines the playable settings, with Medium offering the best balance of visual quality and frame rate.