Ready Or Not

Ready Or Not, a tactical shooter that stresses both CPU and GPU in close-quarters environments, shows a distinctive performance curve when paired with the Intel Core i7-13700K and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070. The measured data reveals a system that scales predictably across resolutions, with the RTX 5070's Blackwell architecture handling the game's lighting and shadow calculations with notable efficiency, though the CPU's 16 cores and 24 threads provide a substantial foundation that keeps frame rates high even at lower resolutions.

Resolution Scaling

The transition from 1080p to 4K produces a dramatic shift in frame rates, indicating a clear transition from a CPU-bound scenario at lower resolutions to a GPU-bound one at 4K. At 1080p with Low settings, the combo achieves 395.1 FPS, which drops to 249.2 FPS at 1440p and further to 129.7 FPS at 4K. This represents a 67% reduction in frame rate from 1080p to 4K at Low settings, a scaling pattern that strongly suggests the Core i7-13700K is the limiting component at 1080p, with its 3.40 GHz base and 5.40 GHz boost clocks providing ample headroom that the RTX 5070 cannot fully utilize until resolution increases.

The scaling behavior becomes more pronounced at higher settings. At Ultra, the frame rate falls from 222.2 FPS at 1080p to 137.6 FPS at 1440p, then to 72.6 FPS at 4K — a 67.3% total drop. This steeper decline at Ultra settings points to the RTX 5070's 12 GB of GDDR7 memory and 672.0 GB/s bandwidth becoming increasingly taxed as texture detail and shadow quality increase. The gap between Low and Ultra at 4K is substantial: 129.7 FPS versus 72.6 FPS, a 57.1 FPS difference that underscores how much of the GPU's resources are consumed by the highest preset.

Interestingly, the scaling from 1440p to 4K shows less severe percentage drops than from 1080p to 1440p. At High settings, 1440p delivers 197.6 FPS while 4K delivers 102.3 FPS — a 48.2% reduction. Meanwhile, the 1080p to 1440p drop at High is 312.8 to 197.6 FPS, a 36.8% reduction. This non-linear scaling suggests that at 1440p, the system is already transitioning toward GPU limitation, with the RTX 5070's 6144 shading units and 80 ROPs becoming the primary constraint as pixel count rises.

GPU Role

The RTX 5070's specifications directly explain its behavior in Ready Or Not. With a boost clock of 2512 MHz and 30.87 TFLOPS of FP32 performance, the GPU delivers enough raw compute to push high frame rates at 1440p, where it achieves 197.6 FPS on High settings. The 12 GB VRAM capacity proves sufficient for this title, as even at 4K Ultra the game does not appear to exceed memory limits, though the 72.6 FPS result at that preset indicates the GPU is working near its capacity.

The memory subsystem plays a critical role in the 4K results. The 192-bit bus width combined with 28 Gbps effective memory speed produces 672.0 GB/s of bandwidth, which is adequate but not generous for 4K textures. The fact that 4K Ultra maintains 72.6 FPS suggests the memory bandwidth is sufficient to avoid severe bottlenecks, but the large drop from 4K High (102.3 FPS) to 4K Ultra (72.6 FPS) — a 29.7 FPS reduction — reveals that the Ultra preset's additional texture and shadow demands heavily tax the memory controller.

The GPU's ray tracing cores (48 RT cores) and tensor cores (192) are present but do not appear to be heavily utilized in this game's standard benchmark runs, as the frame rates at all resolutions and settings remain consistent with traditional rasterization workloads. The 250 W TDP and PCIe 5.0 x16 interface provide ample power delivery and bandwidth, though the data shows no indication of PCIe bandwidth being a limiting factor. The RTX 5070's 83rd percentile ranking among all GPUs places it as a strong performer, though its nearest rivals include the RTX 3090, which trails by only 0.6% in average benchmark score.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data clearly indicates that Medium settings offer the most balanced experience across all resolutions. At 1440p, Medium delivers 220.8 FPS, which is 23.2 FPS higher than High and 83.2 FPS higher than Ultra, while still maintaining visual quality that should be sufficient for a tactical shooter where situational awareness is critical. The jump from Medium to High at 1440p costs 23.2 FPS (a 10.5% reduction), while the jump from Medium to Ultra costs 83.2 FPS (a 37.7% reduction) — a disproportionate penalty for what likely amounts to marginal visual improvements in a game focused on realistic environments.

At 4K, Medium provides 115.4 FPS, which is comfortably above the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay, while High drops to 102.3 FPS and Ultra falls to 72.6 FPS. The Medium preset at 4K offers a 12.8 FPS advantage over High and a 42.8 FPS advantage over Ultra, making it the only 4K preset that maintains a substantial frame rate cushion. For players with high-refresh-rate 1440p monitors, Medium at 220.8 FPS will fully utilize displays with 240 Hz refresh rates, while even High at 197.6 FPS leaves minimal headroom.

The Low preset, while delivering the highest frame rates (395.1 FPS at 1080p, 249.2 FPS at 1440p, 129.7 FPS at 4K), likely compromises visual fidelity in ways that could hinder gameplay in a tactical shooter where spotting enemies in dark environments is essential. The data suggests that the Medium preset is the sweet spot, providing 344.6 FPS at 1080p for competitive play, 220.8 FPS at 1440p for balanced quality, and 115.4 FPS at 4K for immersive single-player experiences.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The complete dataset reveals a consistent hierarchy across all resolutions. At 1080p, the frame rates range from 395.1 FPS at Low to 222.2 FPS at Ultra, with Medium at 344.6 FPS and High at 312.8 FPS. The 1080p results show the largest absolute spread (172.9 FPS between Low and Ultra), indicating that at this resolution, the CPU's capability allows the GPU to fully express its performance range.

At 1440p, the spread narrows to 111.6 FPS, with Low at 249.2 FPS, Medium at 220.8 FPS, High at 197.6 FPS, and Ultra at 137.6 FPS. The percentage difference between Low and Ultra at 1440p is 44.8%, compared to 43.8% at 1080p, showing a slightly larger relative gap at the higher resolution. This suggests that the GPU's workload scaling is not perfectly linear with resolution, with the Ultra preset's additional effects becoming proportionally more expensive at higher pixel counts.

At 4K, the spread compresses to 57.1 FPS, with Low at 129.7 FPS, Medium at 115.4 FPS, High at 102.3 FPS, and Ultra at 72.6 FPS. The percentage difference between Low and Ultra at 4K is 44.0%, similar to the 1080p figure. However, the absolute frame rates are much lower, meaning each settings tier represents a smaller absolute change. The step from Medium to High at 4K costs 13.1 FPS, while the step from High to Ultra costs 29.7 FPS — making the Ultra preset a particularly expensive choice at this resolution.

How This Combo Ranks

In the broader context of tested hardware combinations for Ready Or Not, this CPU-GPU pairing ranks 400th out of 1748 combos, placing it in the top 22.9% of all tested systems. This ranking reflects the RTX 5070's strong performance relative to its peers, though the CPU's contribution is also significant. The Core i7-13700K sits at the 93rd percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 47282, placing it within 0.4% of the Intel Core i9-12900F and 0.3% of the AMD EPYC 4364P.

The GPU's ranking at the 83rd percentile among all GPUs, with an average score of 41687, is slightly lower than the CPU's percentile ranking, suggesting that the RTX 5070 is the more limiting component in this pairing for most workloads. The nearest rival GPU, the AMD Radeon Pro 5300, scores 41610 (0.2% lower), while the NVIDIA Tesla M40 scores 41897 (0.5% higher). This close grouping indicates that the RTX 5070 performs in a tight band with these competitors, though its 12 GB VRAM and modern architecture provide advantages in newer titles.

The combo's 400th place ranking out of 1748 systems suggests that while this is a high-performing configuration, there are 399 tested combinations that deliver better results in Ready Or Not specifically. Given that the RTX 5070's nearest rivals include the RTX 3090, which scores 0.6% lower in average benchmarks, the ranking is likely influenced by CPU performance as much as GPU performance. The Core i7-13700K's 16 cores and 24 threads provide strong multi-threaded performance, as evidenced by its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 39000, which helps maintain high frame rates in a game that may utilize multiple cores for AI and physics calculations.