Red Dead Redemption 2

# Red Dead Redemption 2: AMD Ryzen 5 7400F + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

The measured frame rates for this combo place it at rank 220 out of 3714 tested configurations, putting it in the top 6% of all combos. That ranking reflects a system that delivers consistently high performance, but the data reveals that settings selection matters more than resolution in defining the experience. The sweet spot is Medium at 1440p or High at 1080p, where the balance between visual fidelity and frame rate is optimal. Medium settings at 1440p produce 112 FPS average with a minimum of 95 FPS, which is smooth enough for the action-adventure gameplay of Red Dead Redemption 2. At 1080p Medium, the combo reaches 151 FPS average with a minimum of 128 FPS, making it the best choice for high-refresh-rate displays. Ultra settings are playable but demanding, with 1080p delivering 90 FPS average and 1440p dropping to 67 FPS — both acceptable, but the margin for dips narrows noticeably.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data shows a clear hierarchy across settings presets, with each step from Low to Ultra imposing a substantial frame rate cost. At 1080p, Low delivers 201 FPS average, Medium drops to 151 FPS, High falls to 126 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 90 FPS. The jump from Low to Medium costs 50 FPS, while the jump from High to Ultra costs 36 FPS. This pattern suggests diminishing returns as settings increase, but the absolute numbers remain high enough that even Ultra at 1080p is comfortably above 60 FPS.

For 1440p, the same progression holds: Low at 150 FPS, Medium at 112 FPS, High at 94 FPS, and Ultra at 67 FPS. The Medium preset at 1440p is particularly compelling because it maintains a minimum of 95 FPS, meaning no frame rate dips below the 90 FPS threshold during the measured run. High at 1440p still delivers 94 FPS average, but without a reported minimum, the risk of occasional stutter is unknown. Ultra at 1440p is the edge case — 67 FPS average is playable, but it leaves little headroom for demanding scenes.

At 4K, the picture changes dramatically. Low delivers 99 FPS, Medium drops to 74 FPS with a minimum of 63 FPS, High falls to 62 FPS, and Ultra plummets to 45 FPS. The 4K Medium result is the only 4K preset with a recorded minimum, and at 63 FPS it barely clears the 60 FPS playability standard. Ultra at 4K at 45 FPS average is not recommended for action sequences. The best experience per the measured rows is 1440p Medium or High, depending on whether minimum frame rate assurance or slightly higher average is preferred. For 1080p users, High at 126 FPS offers the best balance of visual quality and speed, while Medium at 151 FPS is the pick for esports-style responsiveness.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is the dominant component in this pairing, and its specifications explain the frame rate ceiling. The GPU packs 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus, yielding 960.0 GB/s of bandwidth. That memory configuration is critical for Red Dead Redemption 2, which is known for large open-world textures and high-resolution assets. At 4K Ultra, the 45 FPS average suggests the GPU is hitting memory bandwidth or shading limits — the card's 56.28 TFLOPS FP32 compute and 10752 shading units are substantial, but the game's engine at Ultra settings appears to saturate even this hardware.

The clock behavior reinforces the GPU-bound nature of the higher presets. The RTX 5080's base clock is 2295 MHz with a boost of 2617 MHz, and the memory runs at 1875 MHz with 30 Gbps effective throughput. These clocks are high by absolute standards, yet the frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K shows the GPU is the limiting factor at Ultra settings. The card's 84 RT cores and 336 tensor cores support ray tracing and DLSS features, but the measured data does not include ray-traced presets, so their impact cannot be assessed from this pack. The passmark G3D score of 36565 and 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 8637 place the GPU in the 87th percentile of all GPUs, with nearest rivals including the AMD Radeon 8060S (0.6% lower) and AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE (2.2% higher). This suggests the RTX 5080 sits near the top of the GPU hierarchy, yet Red Dead Redemption 2 at 4K Ultra still demands more than it can deliver at 60 FPS.

The GPU's 16 GB VRAM is more than sufficient for the measured settings, as even 4K Ultra does not appear to exceed this capacity based on the frame rates — a VRAM-limited scenario would show more erratic performance. The 960.0 GB/s bandwidth is the more likely constraint at 4K, where texture streaming and memory access patterns become the bottleneck. The pixel rate of 293.1 GPixel/s and texture rate of 879.3 GTexel/s are high, but the game's draw calls and geometry at Ultra preset push the render pipeline to its limits. The data indicates that the RTX 5080 performs best when settings are kept at High or below, where frame rates scale more predictably with resolution.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 7400F provides the processing foundation, and its specifications are modest relative to the GPU. This is a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 4 processor with a base clock of 3.70 GHz and boost of 4.70 GHz. It has 32 MB of shared L3 cache and 1 MB L2 per core, with L1 at 64 KB per core. The CPU's 65 W TDP and 5 nm TSMC process node indicate efficiency, but the core count is not exceptional by 2025 standards. The benchmark scores reflect this: Cinebench R23 multicore hits 21765, while single-core reaches 3072. The passmark multithread score is 25645, and the CPU's percentile vs all CPUs is 83.

In Red Dead Redemption 2, the CPU's role is evident in the frame rate scaling at lower resolutions. At 1080p Low, the combo achieves 201 FPS average — that number is high enough to suggest the GPU is not the only constraint. The 7400F's 12 threads are sufficient to feed the RTX 5080 at 1080p, but the 201 FPS ceiling at Low indicates the CPU is approaching its limit. The nearest CPU rivals are close: the Intel Core i5-14600T is 0.1% lower in average score, the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H is 0.2% lower, and the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H is 0.2% higher. This tight clustering means the 7400F is not a standout processor, but it is competitive.

The CPU's single-thread performance is more relevant to this game. Cinebench R23 single-core at 3072 and passmark single-thread at 3689 are strong numbers, and Red Dead Redemption 2's engine relies heavily on a few threads for game logic and draw call submission. At 4K, the CPU becomes less relevant because the GPU is the bottleneck — the frame rate drops from 201 FPS at 1080p Low to 99 FPS at 4K Low, a 51% reduction that mirrors GPU workload scaling. The CPU's 83rd percentile ranking means it is above average, but it does not impose a hard limit on this GPU at most settings. The 12 threads are adequate for the game's threading model, and the 3.70 GHz base clock ensures consistent performance in CPU-bound scenes.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo ranks 220th out of 3714 tested combinations, which places it in the top 5.9% of all systems. This is a strong result, but not a top-tier one — the rank suggests that while the RTX 5080 is a high-end GPU, the Ryzen 5 7400F holds the combo back from the very top positions. The GPU alone ranks in the 87th percentile of all GPUs, and the CPU in the 83rd percentile, but the combo rank of 220/3714 implies that many configurations with faster CPUs achieve higher frame rates in this specific game.

The rank should be interpreted with the understanding that Red Dead Redemption 2 is not a CPU-heavy game at high settings. The data shows that at 4K Ultra, the combo achieves 45 FPS, which is likely GPU-bound, while at 1080p Low, the 201 FPS result is closer to the CPU's practical limit. The 220th rank out of 3714 means there are 219 combos that perform better, and these likely pair the RTX 5080 with higher-core-count or higher-clock CPUs. However, the delta between this combo and the top ranks is not visible in the measured data — only the rank itself is provided. The practical implication is that this system is well above average, and for most users, the experience will be smooth at 1440p High or 1080p Ultra.

The combo's rank also reflects the game's release date of 2018-10-25, meaning it predates the CPU and GPU by several years. Red Dead Redemption 2 was optimized for hardware of its era, and modern components benefit from driver maturity and engine updates. The 220th rank is likely influenced by the CPU's 6-core/12-thread configuration, which is adequate but not exceptional for the game's threading. A 8-core or 16-thread CPU would likely push the combo higher, but the data does not provide such comparisons.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals the bottleneck structure of this combo. At Low settings, the progression is 201 FPS at 1080p, 150 FPS at 1440p, and 99 FPS at 4K. This represents a 25% drop from 1080p to 1440p, and a 34% drop from 1440p to 4K. The scaling is consistent with GPU-bound behavior, where pixel count drives the workload — 4K has 2.25 times the pixels of 1440p, and the frame rate drops by roughly a third, not a half, indicating some other factor (likely CPU or memory) mitigates the full GPU load.

At Medium settings, the progression is 151 FPS, 112 FPS, and 74 FPS for 1080p, 1440p, and 4K respectively. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is 26%, and from 1440p to 4K is 34%. This mirrors the Low settings pattern, suggesting the scaling is resolution-dominated. The minimum FPS at Medium is 128 at 1080p, 95 at 1440p, and 63 at 4K — the minimums scale proportionally, indicating stable performance without thermal or power throttling.

At High settings, the progression is 126 FPS, 94 FPS, and 62 FPS. The 1080p-to-1440p drop is 25%, and 1440p-to-4K is 34%. At Ultra, the progression is 90 FPS, 67 FPS, and 45 FPS, with drops of 26% and 33%. The consistency of these percentages across all settings presets is notable — it means the limiting component does not change with settings. The GPU is the bottleneck at all resolutions and settings, but the CPU is close enough at 1080p Low that the 201 FPS ceiling is not purely GPU-determined.

The resolution scaling data indicates that the RTX 5080's 16 GB VRAM and 960.0 GB/s bandwidth are sufficient for 4K, but the GPU's compute throughput is the binding constraint at Ultra. The 4K Ultra result of 45 FPS is the weakest measured outcome, and it is 50% lower than the 4K Low result of 99 FPS. This shows that Ultra settings impose a significant cost, and the game's engine at that preset likely enables features that strain the GPU's 56.28 TFLOPS. The scaling pattern suggests that users targeting 4K should stick to High settings (62 FPS) or Medium (74 FPS) for a playable experience, while 1080p users can enable Ultra at 90 FPS without concern.

FAQ

Q: What is the best settings preset for this combo at 1440p?

A: Medium settings at 1440p deliver 112 FPS average with a minimum of 95 FPS, making it the safest choice for consistent performance. High settings reach 94 FPS average but lack a recorded minimum, so Medium offers better frame time assurance.

Q: Can this combo run Red Dead Redemption 2 at 4K with playable frame rates?

A: Yes, but only at Low (99 FPS), Medium (74 FPS), or High (62 FPS) settings. Ultra at 4K drops to 45 FPS average, which is below the 60 FPS playability standard. Medium at 4K with a 63 FPS minimum is the most balanced option.

Q: How does the Ryzen 5 7400F compare to its nearest rival CPUs?

A: The 7400F's average benchmark score of 32750 is 0.1% higher than the Intel Core i5-14600T, 0.2% higher than the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, 0.3% higher than the AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360, and 0.2% lower than the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H. These are essentially negligible differences.

Q: Is the RTX 5080's 16 GB VRAM sufficient for this game?

A: The measured data shows no evidence of VRAM limitations. Frame rates scale consistently with resolution, and even 4K Ultra at 45 FPS does not exhibit the erratic performance typical of VRAM overflow. The 960.0 GB/s bandwidth is more likely the constraint at high settings.

Q: What frame rate can I expect at 1080p with Ultra settings?

A: The measured average is 90 FPS at 1080p Ultra. This is below the 1080p High result of 126 FPS and the Medium result of 151 FPS, but it remains comfortably above 60 FPS. Ultra at 1080p is playable, though the 90 FPS average leaves less headroom for demanding scenes.

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

A: The combo ranks 220th out of 3714 tested combinations, placing it in the top 6% of all systems. This rank reflects a high-end GPU paired with a mid-range CPU, and it indicates strong but not top-tier performance in Red Dead Redemption 2.