Pc Building Simulator

# Pc Building Simulator with AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER delivers a playable but uneven experience in Pc Building Simulator, with 1080p results ranging from 118 FPS at Ultra to 248 FPS at Low. The 12-core Zen 5 processor clearly outpaces the Turing-based GPU in this simulation title, as frame rates scale more dramatically with resolution than with CPU-bound settings. This combo ranks 1693rd out of 3002 tested configurations, placing it in the middle of the database, which reflects a substantial CPU-GPU imbalance that becomes more apparent at higher resolutions.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data shows that Medium settings provide the most balanced experience across all three resolutions. At 1920x1080, Medium delivers 175 FPS average with a minimum of 149 FPS and maximum of 202 FPS, which keeps frame pacing smooth while maintaining visual fidelity. The jump from Low to Medium costs 73 FPS at 1080p (from 248 to 175), but the visual improvement in a simulation game about building PCs justifies that trade-off. At 2560x1440, Medium produces 111 FPS average with a 94 FPS minimum, still comfortably above typical display refresh rates. Even at 3840x2160, Medium maintains a 58 FPS average with 49 FPS minimums, making it the only preset that stays playable at 4K.

High settings offer marginal gains over Ultra while being less punishing than expected. At 1080p, High delivers 124 FPS versus 118 FPS on Ultra, a difference of only 6 FPS. At 1440p, High hits 78 FPS compared to 74 FPS on Ultra. The pattern repeats at 4K, where High manages 41 FPS versus 39 FPS on Ultra. This narrow gap between High and Ultra suggests the game's Ultra preset adds expensive effects that yield diminishing returns on this GPU. For users prioritizing frame rate, High is the better choice over Ultra, but Medium remains the sweet spot.

Low settings are only recommended for competitive or high-refresh-rate scenarios. The 248 FPS at 1080p Low and 156 FPS at 1440p Low show the combo's maximum potential, but the visual downgrade in a game centered on visual PC assembly is significant. The data indicates that Medium offers the best experience per measured frame rate, balancing the 175 FPS at 1080p, 111 FPS at 1440p, and 58 FPS at 4K against reasonable visual quality. For 4K owners, Medium is the only viable preset, as High drops to 41 FPS and Ultra falls to 39 FPS, both below the 60 FPS threshold.

FAQ

Q: Can this combo run Pc Building Simulator at 4K smoothly?

A: Only at Medium settings, which produces a 58 FPS average with 49 FPS minimums. High settings drop to 41 FPS average, and Ultra falls to 39 FPS, both below typical smoothness thresholds. Low settings reach 82 FPS at 4K but require significant visual compromises.

Q: How does the RTX 2070 SUPER compare to its nearest GPU rivals in average benchmark scores?

A: The RTX 2070 SUPER has an average benchmark score of 20282, placing it 1% below the NVIDIA Quadro M4000M (20480), 1.2% below the RTX 3070 Mobile (20534), 1.3% below the Intel Arc B570 (20556), and 1.5% below the Intel Arc A750 (20582). It ranks in the 65th percentile of all GPUs.

Q: What is the performance difference between the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and its nearest CPU rivals?

A: The Ryzen 9 9900X3D has an average benchmark score of 54762, which is 0.6% below the Intel Core Ultra 5 245KF (55093), 1.3% above the Intel Core Ultra 5 245K (54053), 2% above the Intel Xeon 6505P (53701), and 2.1% above the Intel Core i7-14700F (53620). It sits in the 91st percentile of all CPUs.

Q: Does the CPU or GPU limit performance in this game?

A: The data suggests the GPU is the primary bottleneck at higher resolutions. At 1080p, the combo achieves 248 FPS at Low and 175 FPS at Medium, but at 4K, even Low drops to 82 FPS. The CPU's high core count and clock speeds are not the limiting factor, as resolution scaling shows frame rates dropping by roughly 67% from 1080p to 4K at Medium settings.

Q: What is the minimum FPS recorded for this combo?

A: The only measured minimum FPS values are 149 FPS at 1080p Medium, 94 FPS at 1440p Medium, and 49 FPS at 4K Medium. Other settings rows do not include minimum FPS data in the measured results.

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

A: The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D and RTX 2070 SUPER combination ranks 1693rd out of 3002 tested combos in Pc Building Simulator, placing it in the 56th percentile of all configurations tested for this game.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo rank of 1693 out of 3002 tested configurations places this pairing near the middle of the database. This mid-pack positioning is notable because the Ryzen 9 9900X3D itself ranks in the 91st percentile of all CPUs, while the RTX 2070 SUPER sits in the 65th percentile of GPUs. The gap between these percentile positions explains why the overall combo does not reach the upper quartile — the GPU holds back a processor that is clearly capable of more.

In Pc Building Simulator specifically, the game's simulation nature means CPU performance matters for game logic, but the rendering workload still depends heavily on GPU capabilities. The 12-core, 24-thread Ryzen 9 9900X3D with its 5.50 GHz boost clock provides ample processing headroom, yet the RTX 2070 SUPER's 8 GB GDDR6 memory and 448.0 GB/s bandwidth become the limiting factor at higher resolutions. The measured FPS data confirms this: at 1080p, the combo achieves excellent frame rates (118-248 FPS depending on settings), but at 4K, even Low settings only reach 82 FPS.

Compared to other combos in the database, this pairing sits in the middle because the GPU's 65th percentile performance drags down the CPU's 91st percentile capability. The nearest GPU rivals — the Quadro M4000M, RTX 3070 Mobile, Arc B570, and Arc A750 — all score within 1.5% of the RTX 2070 SUPER, indicating that swapping to any of these would produce similar overall results. Conversely, the CPU's nearest rivals are all within 2.1% of the 9900X3D's average score, so processor choice among these options would have minimal impact on the final ranking.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its strongest performance across all settings. Low settings produce 248 FPS average, Medium reaches 175 FPS with a 149 FPS minimum and 202 FPS maximum, High achieves 124 FPS, and Ultra drops to 118 FPS. The spread from Low to Ultra is 130 FPS, showing a wide performance range that gives users substantial flexibility.

At 2560x1440, frame rates scale down predictably. Low settings hit 156 FPS, Medium averages 111 FPS with 94 FPS minimums and 127 FPS maximums, High reaches 78 FPS, and Ultra settles at 74 FPS. The gap between High and Ultra narrows to just 4 FPS, suggesting that the Ultra preset's additional effects have minimal impact at this resolution. The Medium preset's 111 FPS average remains well above 60 FPS, making 1440p gaming viable with this combo.

At 3840x2160, the RTX 2070 SUPER's limitations become apparent. Low settings produce 82 FPS, Medium averages 58 FPS with 49 FPS minimums and 67 FPS maximums, High drops to 41 FPS, and Ultra falls to 39 FPS. The 4K results show that only Low and Medium presets maintain playable frame rates. The 49 FPS minimum at Medium reveals occasional dips below 60 FPS, which could cause noticeable stuttering in a game that involves detailed 3D scenes of PC components.

The data shows a consistent pattern across resolutions: Medium settings offer the best balance of frame rate and visual quality, while the difference between High and Ultra remains minimal (6 FPS at 1080p, 4 FPS at 1440p, 2 FPS at 4K). Low settings provide the highest frame rates but sacrifice the visual detail that makes a PC building simulator engaging.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals how dramatically performance drops as resolution increases. At Medium settings, the combo delivers 175 FPS at 1080p, 111 FPS at 1440p, and 58 FPS at 4K. This represents a 36.6% drop from 1080p to 1440p, and a 66.9% drop from 1080p to 4K. The scaling from 1440p to 4K is even steeper at 47.7%, indicating that the GPU struggles to fill the additional pixels at 4K.

At Low settings, the pattern is similar but with higher absolute numbers: 248 FPS at 1080p, 156 FPS at 1440p, and 82 FPS at 4K. The percentage drops are 37.1% from 1080p to 1440p and 66.9% from 1080p to 4K. High settings show 124 FPS at 1080p, 78 FPS at 1440p, and 41 FPS at 4K, with drops of 37.1% and 66.9% respectively. Ultra settings follow the same trend: 118 FPS at 1080p, 74 FPS at 1440p, and 39 FPS at 4K.

The consistency of these percentage drops across all settings points to a GPU-bound scenario. If the CPU were the limiting factor, the frame rate would show less degradation at higher resolutions because the CPU workload remains constant while the GPU workload increases. Instead, the uniform ~37% drop from 1080p to 1440p and ~67% drop from 1080p to 4K across all presets indicates that the RTX 2070 SUPER's rendering throughput is the primary constraint.

The 4K results are particularly telling. Even at Low settings, the combo only achieves 82 FPS, which is lower than the 1080p Ultra result of 118 FPS. This suggests that the GPU's 8 GB memory buffer and 448.0 GB/s bandwidth are insufficient for smooth 4K gaming in this title, regardless of quality settings. The 256-bit memory bus and GDDR6 memory operate at 14 Gbps effective, but the data shows this is not enough to maintain high frame rates at 4K resolution.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D brings substantial processing power to this combo, with 12 cores, 24 threads, and a boost clock of 5.50 GHz. Its Zen 5 architecture on the 4 nm TSMC process includes 128 MB of L3 cache, which benefits simulation games that often have large working sets. The CPU's benchmark results are impressive: Cinebench R23 multicore scores 47737, single-core reaches 6739, and Geekbench multicore hits 22884 with a 3041 single-core score.

However, the gaming data shows that this CPU power is largely untapped in Pc Building Simulator at higher resolutions. At 1080p, the combo achieves 248 FPS at Low settings, which suggests the CPU can feed frames quickly enough to saturate the GPU. The 3DMark scores support this interpretation: 16-thread performance reaches 12490, while max-thread performance hits 13795, showing strong multi-core scaling. The Passmark multithread score of 56154 and single-thread score of 4646 indicate balanced performance across both lightly and heavily threaded workloads.

The CPU's 91st percentile ranking versus all CPUs, combined with the GPU's 65th percentile ranking, creates an imbalance where the processor waits on the graphics card at resolutions above 1080p. The 4K results — 82 FPS at Low and 58 FPS at Medium — are far below what the CPU could theoretically support. The Ryzen 9 9900X3D's nearest rivals, all within 2.1% of its average benchmark score, would likely produce identical gaming results in this title, confirming that the GPU is the performance bottleneck.

The 12-core configuration with 24 threads is more than adequate for Pc Building Simulator, which is not a heavily threaded title. The CPU's 5.50 GHz boost clock ensures strong single-thread performance (679 in Cinebench R15 single-core, 2830 in R20 single-core, 6739 in R23 single-core), which matters more for game logic and physics. The 128 MB L3 cache likely helps with the game's asset management, but the measured FPS data shows no evidence of CPU-related frame drops, as minimum FPS values at Medium settings (149 FPS at 1080p, 94 FPS at 1440p, 49 FPS at 4K) remain close to averages.