Pc Building Simulator

Resolution Scaling

The measured frame rates for Pc Building Simulator with the Intel Core i9-14900K and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 show a steep and consistent drop as resolution climbs. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the combo averages 104.5 FPS. Moving to 2560x1440 at the same settings, that figure falls to 66.1 FPS, a reduction of roughly 37%. The jump to 3840x2160 at Low settings yields only 36.1 FPS, which is less than half the 1080p result and a 65% drop from the baseline.

The pattern is similar across every settings tier. At High settings, the trio of resolutions produces 56.4 FPS at 1080p, 31.6 FPS at 1440p, and 16.9 FPS at 4K. Medium settings show 73.5 FPS, 50.8 FPS, and 25.4 FPS respectively. Ultra settings are the most demanding, with 50.9 FPS at 1080p, 30 FPS at 1440p, and just 16.7 FPS at 4K.

This scaling behavior indicates that the GTX 1650 is the limiting component throughout the resolution range. The i9-14900K is a top-tier desktop processor with a 97th percentile ranking versus all CPUs, and it has ample headroom for this simulation title. The GPU, by contrast, sits in the 43rd percentile among all GPUs, and its 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus with 128.1 GB/s bandwidth is a modest configuration by modern standards.

The fact that even Low settings at 4K cannot reach 40 FPS underscores how quickly the GTX 1650's rendering capacity is exhausted. The frame rate curve is nearly linear with pixel count, which is typical for a GPU-bound scenario. If the CPU were the bottleneck, the scaling from 1080p to 1440p would be far less drastic, since the processor's workload would remain relatively constant while the GPU's fill rate demands increase.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 is built on the Turing architecture using the TU117 chip, manufactured on a 12 nm process at TSMC with 4,700 million transistors on a 200 mm² die. Its base clock is 1485 MHz with a boost clock of 1665 MHz, and the memory runs at 2001 MHz with 8 Gbps effective speed. The card has 896 shading units, 56 texture mapping units, and 32 ROPs, delivering a pixel rate of 53.28 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 93.24 GTexel/s. FP32 performance is rated at 2.984 TFLOPS.

These specifications place the GTX 1650 in the lower-middle tier of the GPU landscape. Its average benchmark score of 8713 puts it in the 43rd percentile of all GPUs. In the nearest rival comparison, it trails the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile by 0.4%, matches the AMD Radeon 550X at a 0.4% deficit, and sits 0.5% behind the NVIDIA Quadro P2200, while leading the AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100 by 0.5%. These are extremely tight margins, indicating the GTX 1650 performs almost identically to a cluster of similarly positioned cards.

The 4 GB VRAM capacity is the most consequential limitation for this game. Pc Building Simulator, despite being a simulation title, still exercises the GPU's memory subsystem heavily at higher resolutions and settings. The measured data shows that Ultra settings at 1080p produce 50.9 FPS, which is only slightly below the High setting's 56.4 FPS, but the gap widens considerably at 4K where Ultra drops to 16.7 FPS versus 16.9 FPS at High. This near-parity at 4K between High and Ultra suggests that the card is running out of memory bandwidth or capacity long before the extra visual fidelity from Ultra settings can be realized.

The GTX 1650's power envelope is minimal at 75 W TDP with no power connectors required, and the suggested PSU is 250 W. That efficiency does not translate into headroom for this title, however. The benchmark results show that the card's performance is consistently the limiting factor, regardless of the i9-14900K's substantial compute capabilities.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the Intel Core i9-14900K and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 ranks 1729th out of 1769 tested combos in Pc Building Simulator. This places it in the bottom 2.3% of all configurations tested, which is a stark outcome given the processor's elite standing. The i9-14900K alone scores in the 97th percentile among CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 79824, but the pairing with the GTX 1650 drags the overall gaming experience down dramatically.

The processor's nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks are the AMD EPYC 7413, which scores 0.3% higher, and the Intel Core i9-14900KF and Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF, both of which trail by 0.7%, along with the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K at 0.9% behind. These deltas are negligible, confirming the i9-14900K is a top-flight CPU. Yet in this game, that computational strength is irrelevant because the GPU cannot feed frames fast enough to utilize it.

The combo rank of 1729 out of 1769 means that virtually any pairing with a more capable graphics card would outperform this setup in Pc Building Simulator. The data suggests that even a modest GPU upgrade would yield a substantial improvement in measured FPS, since the current bottleneck is almost entirely on the graphics side. The i9-14900K's 24 cores and 32 threads, with a 6.00 GHz boost clock, are far beyond what this simulation title requires, while the GTX 1650's 4 GB VRAM and 128.1 GB/s bandwidth are the constraining factors.

Settings Recommendations

Based on the measured FPS rows, the optimal experience for this combo is at 1920x1080 with Low settings, which delivers 104.5 FPS. This is the only configuration that exceeds the 100 FPS threshold, and it provides a smooth, responsive experience. Medium settings at 1080p still offer a playable 73.5 FPS, while High drops to 56.4 FPS and Ultra falls to 50.9 FPS.

For users who prefer higher visual quality, 2560x1440 at Low is the only viable option, producing 66.1 FPS. Medium at 1440p yields 50.8 FPS, which may be acceptable for some, but High at 31.6 FPS and Ultra at 30 FPS are borderline for a simulation game that benefits from steady frame pacing.

At 3840x2160, no settings tier provides a satisfactory experience. Low reaches 36.1 FPS, Medium 25.4 FPS, and both High and Ultra hover around 16.9 and 16.7 FPS respectively. These figures are too low for comfortable gameplay, and the recommendation is to avoid 4K entirely with this GPU.

The data indicates that the GTX 1650's sweet spot is 1080p with Low or Medium settings. The jump from Medium to High at 1080p costs 17.1 FPS (from 73.5 to 56.4), while the jump from High to Ultra costs another 5.5 FPS. The visual gains from those settings are unlikely to justify the performance penalty, especially when the i9-14900K could easily handle more graphical work if the GPU permitted it.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the full settings sweep produces the following averages: Low 104.5 FPS, Medium 73.5 FPS, High 56.4 FPS, and Ultra 50.9 FPS. The spread from Low to Ultra is 53.6 FPS, indicating that the GPU's performance scales significantly with settings at this resolution.

At 2560x1440, Low delivers 66.1 FPS, Medium 50.8 FPS, High 31.6 FPS, and Ultra 30 FPS. The gap between High and Ultra narrows to just 1.6 FPS, while the difference between Low and Medium is 15.3 FPS. The drop from 1080p to 1440p at Low settings is 38.4 FPS, which represents a 37% reduction.

At 3840x2160, the numbers compress further: Low 36.1 FPS, Medium 25.4 FPS, High 16.9 FPS, and Ultra 16.7 FPS. The difference between High and Ultra is negligible at 0.2 FPS, and even Low struggles to maintain 30 FPS. The resolution scaling from 1440p to 4K at Low settings costs 30 FPS exactly, another 45% reduction.

Across all resolutions and settings, the GTX 1650 demonstrates a clear pattern: it can handle 1080p Low and Medium well, 1440p Low adequately, and struggles everywhere else. The i9-14900K's presence does not alter this outcome, as the GPU remains the definitive bottleneck in every measured configuration. The combination ranks 1729th out of 1769 tested combos, a reflection of the severe imbalance between the processor's capabilities and the graphics card's modest output.