Pc Building Simulator

# Pc Building Simulator: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 — Benchmark Analysis

The AMD Ryzen 9 7900X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 combination delivers a thoroughly playable experience in Pc Building Simulator across all tested resolutions, with the data showing a clear GPU-bound trend at 4K and a CPU-bound ceiling emerging at 1080p. The combo ranks 984th out of 1769 tested configurations, placing it in the middle of the pack, yet the measured frame rates tell a more nuanced story: this pairing excels at high-refresh 1080p and 1440p gaming while struggling to maintain 60 FPS at 4K Ultra.

FAQ

Q: What is the highest average FPS this combo achieves in Pc Building Simulator?

A: The maximum recorded average FPS is 267.3, achieved at 1920x1080 resolution with Low settings. This indicates the CPU-GPU pairing has substantial headroom at lower resolutions and settings.

Q: Can this combo handle 4K gaming in Pc Building Simulator?

A: Yes, but with caveats. At 3840x2160, the combo delivers 45.7 FPS on High settings and 43.1 FPS on Ultra, both below the 60 FPS threshold. Dropping to Medium raises it to 64.5 FPS, while Low settings produce 88.3 FPS.

Q: How does the RTX 4060 compare to its nearest GPU rivals?

A: The RTX 4060's average benchmark score of 23181 is 0.6% below the AMD Radeon RX 6600M (23321) and 0.7% below the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti (23338). It sits 0.7% above the Intel Arc B580 (23021) and 0.8% above the AMD Radeon 760M (22999).

Q: What is the Ryzen 9 7900X's standing among all CPUs?

A: The processor ranks in the 93rd percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 50556. Its closest rival, the Intel Core Ultra 5 235, scores 50598, a negligible 0.1% difference.

Q: What is the best settings preset for smooth gameplay at 1440p?

A: At 2560x1440, High settings deliver 86.6 FPS and Ultra produces 83.2 FPS, both comfortably above 60 FPS. Medium achieves 118.7 FPS, while Low reaches 168.2 FPS.

Q: Does this combo rank highly among all tested combinations?

A: No, it ranks 984th out of 1769 combos, placing it in the 56th percentile. This mid-pack ranking reflects the RTX 4060's position as a mainstream GPU rather than a high-end performer.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with the AD107 chip, fabricated on TSMC's 5 nm process with 18,900 million transistors. Its 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus provides 272.0 GB/s of bandwidth, while the GPU operates at a base clock of 1830 MHz and boosts to 2460 MHz. The memory runs at 2125 MHz, translating to 17 Gbps effective speed.

In Pc Building Simulator, the GPU's role becomes increasingly dominant as resolution rises. At 4K, the gap between Low and Ultra settings spans 45.2 FPS (88.3 vs 43.1), demonstrating that the RTX 4060's compute resources — 3072 shading units, 96 TMUs, and 48 ROPs — are the primary constraint. The card's 15.11 TFLOPS FP32 performance and 118.1 GPixel/s pixel rate are sufficient for 1080p and 1440p gaming but fall short at 4K Ultra.

The GPU's percentile ranking of 66 among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 23181, aligns with its measured performance. Its nearest rival, the AMD Radeon RX 6600M, scores 23321 (0.6% higher), while the Intel Arc B580 trails by 0.7% at 23021. This tight clustering suggests the RTX 4060 is competitively positioned within its performance tier. The card's 24 RT cores and 96 tensor cores provide modern feature support, though Pc Building Simulator's simulation-focused workload appears to rely more on raw rasterization throughput than ray tracing or AI acceleration.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 9 7900X is a 12-core, 24-thread processor from the 7000 series, built on the Zen 4 architecture (codenamed Raphael) using TSMC's 5 nm process. It operates at a 4.70 GHz base clock and boosts to 5.60 GHz, with a 170 W TDP. The CPU features 64 KB of L1 cache per core, 1 MB of L2 per core, and 64 MB of shared L3 cache, supporting DDR5 memory on a dual-channel bus with 83.2 GB/s bandwidth.

This processor is exceptional by any metric, ranking in the 93rd percentile among all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 50556. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Core Ultra 5 235 (50598, 0.1% higher), AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT (50738, 0.4% higher), Intel Core i7-13850HX (50827, 0.5% higher), and Intel Core i9-13980HX (50944, 0.8% higher). The 7900X's Cinebench R23 multicore score of 43695 and single-core score of 6168 demonstrate substantial headroom for simulation workloads.

In Pc Building Simulator, the CPU's influence is most visible at 1080p Low settings, where the combo reaches 267.3 FPS. This frame rate, while not CPU-limited in a traditional sense, highlights that the 7900X's 12 cores and 24 threads can feed the GPU efficiently even at high frame rates. The processor's Geekbench multicore score of 17830 and 3DMark max-threads score of 12536 indicate strong multi-threaded performance, which is beneficial for a simulation game that may utilize multiple threads for physics and system modeling.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers exceptional frame rates across all settings. Low settings produce 267.3 FPS, Medium reaches 191.3 FPS, High achieves 130.8 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 126.3 FPS. The difference between High and Ultra is a modest 4.5 FPS, suggesting diminishing returns at the highest preset.

Moving to 2560x1440, performance remains strong but scales down predictably. Low settings deliver 168.2 FPS, Medium hits 118.7 FPS, High achieves 86.6 FPS, and Ultra produces 83.2 FPS. The High-to-Ultra gap narrows to 3.4 FPS, indicating that Ultra settings at 1440p are nearly as efficient as High.

At 3840x2160, the GPU becomes the limiting factor. Low settings yield 88.3 FPS, Medium drops to 64.5 FPS, High falls to 45.7 FPS, and Ultra reaches 43.1 FPS. The step from Medium to High costs 18.8 FPS, while High to Ultra costs only 2.6 FPS, revealing that Ultra's additional effects have minimal impact beyond High at 4K.

The data shows a consistent pattern across resolutions: Ultra settings provide only marginal gains over High, while Low settings offer roughly double the frame rate of Ultra at each resolution. This suggests the game's graphics options have a steep performance curve at the lower end but flatten considerably at the top.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K is dramatic and reveals the system's bottleneck behavior. At Low settings, performance falls from 267.3 FPS at 1080p to 168.2 FPS at 1440p (a 37.1% reduction) and then to 88.3 FPS at 4K (a 47.5% reduction from 1440p). This scaling pattern indicates that at Low settings, the CPU still has headroom, but the GPU becomes increasingly stressed as pixel count rises.

At Ultra settings, the scaling is steeper: 126.3 FPS at 1080p, 83.2 FPS at 1440p (34.1% drop), and 43.1 FPS at 4K (48.2% drop). The near-linear scaling from 1440p to 4K (roughly half the frame rate) is characteristic of a GPU-bound scenario, where the RTX 4060's 8 GB VRAM and 272.0 GB/s bandwidth are fully utilized.

The transition from 1080p to 1440p at High settings (130.8 to 86.6 FPS, a 33.8% drop) versus the 1440p to 4K transition (86.6 to 45.7 FPS, a 47.2% drop) shows that the GPU's workload scales super-linearly with resolution. This points to the RTX 4060 as the primary limiting component at 1440p and above, while the Ryzen 9 7900X's capabilities are only fully exercised at 1080p Low and Medium settings.

Settings Recommendations

For 4K gaming, Medium settings provide the best balance, delivering 64.5 FPS — the only preset above 60 FPS at this resolution. High and Ultra fall short at 45.7 and 43.1 FPS respectively, while Low's 88.3 FPS sacrifices visual quality for a frame rate that exceeds the typical 60 Hz display refresh. The 21.2 FPS difference between Medium and High (64.5 vs 45.7) makes Medium the clear choice for 4K.

At 1440p, High settings are the sweet spot, offering 86.6 FPS with only a 3.4 FPS penalty for moving to Ultra (83.2 FPS). Medium's 118.7 FPS and Low's 168.2 FPS are available for users prioritizing refresh rate over fidelity, but High provides the best visual-to-performance ratio. The 33.7 FPS gap between High and Medium (86.6 vs 118.7) suggests Medium is a significant visual downgrade for a modest frame rate gain.

For 1080p, Ultra settings at 126.3 FPS are fully playable on high-refresh displays, and High at 130.8 FPS offers nearly identical performance. The 61 FPS difference between High and Medium (130.8 vs 191.3) makes Medium attractive for 165 Hz or 240 Hz monitors, but the diminishing returns beyond High suggest most users should stick with High or Ultra. The 141 FPS gap between Medium and Low (191.3 vs 267.3) highlights Low as a competitive option for maximum frame rates, though the visual compromise is substantial.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 ranks 984th out of 1769 tested combos in Pc Building Simulator, placing it in the middle of the distribution. This ranking reflects the RTX 4060's position as a mainstream GPU — its 66th percentile standing among GPUs drags down the overall combo ranking despite the 7900X's elite 93rd percentile CPU performance.

The data suggests that the CPU is not the limiting factor in this pairing. At 1080p Low, the combo reaches 267.3 FPS, which is likely near the game's engine limits rather than a hardware constraint. The Ryzen 9 7900X's Cinebench R23 multicore score of 43695 and Passmark multithread score of 51406 provide immense processing headroom, while the RTX 4060's 19545 Passmark G3D score and 101030 Geekbench OpenCL score represent the actual bottleneck at higher resolutions.

For users with high-refresh 1080p monitors, this combo delivers outstanding performance, with Low settings exceeding 240 FPS and Ultra still clearing 120 FPS. At 1440p, it handles Ultra at 83.2 FPS, suitable for 75 Hz or 144 Hz displays. The 4K experience is limited to Medium settings for 60 FPS gameplay, positioning this combo as a 1080p and 1440p solution rather than a 4K powerhouse.

The mid-pack ranking of 984th out of 1769 combos is consistent with the RTX 4060's mainstream positioning. The GPU's nearest rivals — the AMD Radeon RX 6600M, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti, Intel Arc B580, and AMD Radeon 760M — all score within 0.8% of each other, indicating that the RTX 4060 sits in a tightly contested performance tier. Pairing it with a top-tier CPU like the Ryzen 9 7900X ensures that the CPU never becomes a limiting factor, but it cannot overcome the GPU's inherent 4K limitations.