Pc Building Simulator

Pc Building Simulator, a simulation title from 2019, shows distinct performance scaling characteristics when paired with the Intel Core i5-13400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER. The measured data reveals a system where the GPU becomes the primary bottleneck at higher resolutions, while the CPU demonstrates significant headroom at lower settings. This combination ranks 1089th out of 1769 tested combos in this specific game, placing it in the lower-middle portion of the database.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K is steep and consistent across all settings, indicating that the graphics card is the limiting component as pixel count rises. At Low settings, the average FPS falls from 246.3 at 1920x1080 to 155.3 at 2560x1440, a reduction of 91.0 FPS or roughly 37%. Moving to 3840x2160 at Low settings yields 81.2 FPS, which is 47.7% lower than the 1440p result and just 33% of the 1080p figure.

The scaling pattern intensifies with higher quality presets. At High settings, the transition from 1080p to 1440p drops performance from 121.6 to 79.2 FPS, a 34.9% loss. The jump from 1440p to 4K at High settings is even more punishing, with average FPS falling to 42.7, representing a 46.1% decrease. Ultra settings follow a similar trajectory: 120.7 FPS at 1080p, 73.5 at 1440p, and 40.4 at 4K. The 4K Ultra result is only 33.5% of the 1080p Ultra figure, demonstrating that the RTX 2070 SUPER's 8 GB GDDR6 memory and 256-bit bus are overwhelmed by the pixel throughput required at 3840x2160.

The delta between Low and Ultra at each resolution reveals how much headroom the CPU provides. At 1080p, the spread from Low to Ultra is 125.6 FPS (246.3 down to 120.7), suggesting the processor can feed frames quickly but the GPU saturates as settings increase. At 4K, the spread narrows to 40.8 FPS (81.2 to 40.4), indicating that the GPU is fully utilized even at Low settings, leaving little room for quality improvements without substantial FPS penalties.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-13400F is a 10-core, 16-thread Raptor Lake-S processor with a base clock of 2.50 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz. Its 20 MB of shared L3 cache and 1.25 MB L2 per core provide substantial bandwidth for game logic and simulation calculations. The processor's benchmark scores show strong multi-threaded capability: a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 21279 and a Geekbench multi-core score of 10971. Single-thread performance is also respectable, with Cinebench R23 single-core at 3004 and PassMark single-thread at 3634.

In Pc Building Simulator, the CPU's role is most evident at 1080p with Low settings, where the system achieves 246.3 FPS. This high frame rate, combined with the fact that 4K Low still produces 81.2 FPS, suggests the processor is not the primary constraint in most scenarios. The 3DMark 16-thread score of 7314 and max-thread score of 7307 indicate balanced scaling across cores, which suits a simulation game that may spread work across multiple threads for building components and managing system state.

The CPU's 82nd percentile ranking versus all CPUs places it above the median, with nearest rivals including the Intel Core i7-13620H (0.1% higher average score) and the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D (0.5% lower). This positioning means the i5-13400F delivers compute performance comparable to those parts, though the game's frame rates are more heavily influenced by GPU load. The 65 W TDP and dual-channel DDR4/DDR5 memory support keep power and bandwidth requirements modest, but the 10 nm process node and 215 mm² die size do not directly translate to gaming performance advantages in this title.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the Intel Core i5-13400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER achieves a rank of 1089 out of 1769 tested combinations in Pc Building Simulator. This places the pair in the 61st percentile of all combos, meaning roughly 38% of tested systems perform worse. The ranking reflects the GPU's 65th percentile position among all graphics cards, while the CPU sits at the 82nd percentile, indicating the graphics card is the weaker link in this pairing.

The RTX 2070 SUPER's nearest rivals in the GPU benchmark database include the NVIDIA RTX A400 (0.5% higher average score), the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z (0.9% higher), and the AMD Radeon RX 5700 (2.5% lower). These small deltas suggest the graphics card is competitively positioned within its tier, but the 4K performance figures show it struggles with the demands of this simulation at high pixel counts. The combo's overall rank is dragged down by the GPU's inability to maintain high frame rates at 3840x2160, where even Medium settings only produce 58.4 FPS.

Relative to other systems in the database, this combo sits in a crowded mid-range area where small changes in GPU or CPU selection could shift the rank significantly. The CPU's strong multi-threaded scores (PassMark multi-thread at 25032, Cinebench R20 multi-core at 8937) do not compensate for GPU limitations at higher resolutions, which is typical for a simulation game that relies on consistent rendering performance across complex scenes.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system delivers playable frame rates across all quality presets. Low settings produce an average of 246.3 FPS, which drops to 173.4 at Medium, 121.6 at High, and 120.7 at Ultra. The small gap between High and Ultra (0.9 FPS) suggests diminishing returns beyond the High preset at this resolution, with the GPU becoming the limiting factor as settings approach maximum.

Moving to 2560x1440, the average frame rates are 155.3 (Low), 108.6 (Medium), 79.2 (High), and 73.5 (Ultra). The percentage drop from 1080p to 1440p is consistent across settings: 37.0% for Low, 37.4% for Medium, 34.9% for High, and 39.1% for Ultra. This uniformity indicates that the resolution scaling is primarily driven by pixel count rather than specific setting effects, which points to the GPU's fill rate and memory bandwidth as the key constraints.

At 3840x2160, the average FPS figures are 81.2 (Low), 58.4 (Medium), 42.7 (High), and 40.4 (Ultra). The 4K Ultra result is 33.5% of the 1080p Ultra figure, and the 4K High result is 35.1% of the 1080p High figure. Interestingly, the gap between High and Ultra at 4K is only 2.3 FPS, while the gap between Low and Medium is 22.8 FPS. This suggests that the GPU's shading units and texture units are saturated beyond Medium settings at 4K, with ray tracing cores and tensor cores (40 and 320 respectively) not providing meaningful benefits in this simulation title.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER is built on the TU104 chip using a 12 nm process at TSMC, with 13,600 million transistors on a 545 mm² die. Its base clock of 1605 MHz and boost clock of 1770 MHz, combined with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, provide a memory bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s. The card's 2560 shading units, 160 TMUs, and 64 ROPs deliver a pixel rate of 113.3 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 283.2 GTexel/s, with FP32 performance rated at 9.062 TFLOPS.

In Pc Building Simulator, the GPU's role is clearly dominant at higher resolutions. The 4K Low result of 81.2 FPS versus the 1080p Low result of 246.3 FPS represents a 67.0% reduction, which aligns closely with the 4.2x increase in pixel count (3840x2160 vs 1920x1080). This scaling behavior indicates that the card's fill rate and memory bandwidth are the primary bottlenecks, rather than its compute capabilities. The 448.0 GB/s bandwidth is sufficient for 1440p gaming, as evidenced by the 155.3 FPS Low result, but the 4K data points show the memory subsystem struggling to keep up with the data demands.

The GPU's 65th percentile ranking versus all graphics cards places it near the NVIDIA RTX A400 (0.5% higher) and GTX TITAN Z (0.9% higher), with the RTX 4060 Mobile 2.3% higher and the RX 5700 2.5% lower. Its PassMark G3D score of 18169 and 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 1651 reflect its mid-range positioning. The card's 40 RT cores and 320 tensor cores are present but not heavily utilized in this simulation, which likely explains why Ultra settings provide minimal gains over High at 4K—the additional rendering features do not translate to visible performance improvements in this workload.

The 215 W TDP and suggested 550 W PSU indicate the card's power requirements, but the measured FPS data shows that its computational resources are adequate for 1080p and 1440p gaming across all settings, with the 4K Ultra result of 40.4 FPS being the only figure below 60 FPS. The 8 GB VRAM capacity is sufficient for the game's textures and geometry at 4K, as the performance drop from High to Ultra at that resolution is minimal, suggesting memory capacity is not the limiting factor—rather, the raw shading throughput and memory bandwidth are.