Red Dead Redemption 2

# Red Dead Redemption 2 with AMD Ryzen 7 7700 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER combination delivers a broadly playable experience across Red Dead Redemption 2's resolution and settings spectrum, though the data reveals a system that transitions from CPU-bound at 1080p to GPU-bound at 4K. The measured frames per second range from a demanding 42.4 FPS at 4K Ultra to a fluid 193.3 FPS at 1080p Low, with the pairing ranking 130th out of 1,687 tested combinations in this title.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS drop from 1080p to 4K is steep and predictable, but the shape of that curve changes dramatically depending on the quality preset. At Low settings, average FPS falls from 193.3 at 1080p to 146.7 at 1440p, then down to 94.4 at 4K — a total reduction of roughly 51% across the two resolution steps. This relatively modest scaling suggests that at Low settings, the CPU is doing much of the heavy lifting, and the GPU has enough headroom that resolution increases don't proportionally punish frame rates.

High settings tell a different story. The 1080p result of 122.7 FPS drops to 89.7 at 1440p and then to 59.6 at 4K. The percentage decline from 1080p to 4K is about 51%, similar to Low, but the absolute frame rates are much closer to the GPU's limits. At Ultra, the curve steepens further: 85.5 FPS at 1080p, 66 at 1440p, and just 42.4 at 4K. The gap between 1080p and 1440p Ultra is only 19.5 FPS, while the 1440p-to-4K drop is 23.6 FPS, indicating that the RTX 4080 SUPER's rendering load grows faster than the pixel count suggests at the highest quality settings.

What this scaling reveals is a component balance that shifts with resolution. At 1080p, the Ryzen 7 7700's 8 cores and 16 threads can keep up with the GPU's output, but the 4080 SUPER is not the bottleneck. At 4K, the GPU's 16 GB of VRAM and 736.3 GB/s of bandwidth become the primary constraint, especially at Ultra where the 42.4 FPS result shows the card's limits in this title. The Medium preset offers the most linear scaling: 144.5 FPS at 1080p, 105.7 at 1440p, and 69.2 at 4K, representing a consistent 27% reduction per resolution step.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is the dominant component in this pairing, and its specifications explain much of the measured behavior. Built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with a 5 nm process, the card features 10,240 shading units, 320 texture mapping units, and 112 render output units. Its boost clock of 2550 MHz and base clock of 2295 MHz are relatively high, but the memory subsystem is arguably more important for Red Dead Redemption 2's open-world rendering.

With 16 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit bus, the 4080 SUPER delivers 736.3 GB/s of bandwidth. This is ample for the game's textures and geometry at 4K, but the Ultra preset's 42.4 FPS result suggests that raw compute throughput, not memory capacity, is the limiting factor. The card's 52.22 TFLOPS of FP32 performance and 285.6 GPixel/s pixel rate are substantial, yet Red Dead Redemption 2's draw calls and lighting effects at Ultra push the GPU to its knees.

The 4080 SUPER's 80 RT cores and 320 tensor cores are present but less relevant here, as Red Dead Redemption 2 does not heavily utilize ray tracing. Instead, the game's demand on traditional rasterization and shader work explains why the card's 816.0 GTexel/s texture rate becomes a key metric. At 4K Ultra, the combination of high-resolution textures and dense foliage stresses the texture units, producing the sub-60 FPS result. The card's 88th percentile ranking among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 53,610, places it just ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (0.2% delta) and the AMD Radeon Pro W6600M (0.4% delta), confirming its position as a high-end but not top-tier part.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 is a Zen 4 (Raphael) desktop processor with 8 cores and 16 threads, running at a base clock of 3.80 GHz and boosting to 5.30 GHz. Its 32 MB of shared L3 cache and dual-channel DDR5 memory support with 83.2 GB/s of bandwidth provide a solid foundation for feeding the RTX 4080 SUPER. The CPU's 65 W TDP is modest for a desktop part, and its 91st percentile ranking among all CPUs reflects strong multi-threaded performance.

In Red Dead Redemption 2, the CPU's role becomes most apparent at lower resolutions and settings. At 1080p Low, the 193.3 FPS result far exceeds what the GPU alone could produce if the CPU were a bottleneck, indicating that the 7700's single-thread performance — highlighted by a 3DMark single-thread score of 1,049 and a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 4,136 — is sufficient to keep up. The 8-core, 16-thread configuration also handles the game's background simulation tasks, with a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 29,302.

However, the CPU's limitations emerge at higher resolutions when paired with this GPU. At 4K Ultra, the 42.4 FPS result is purely GPU-bound, and the CPU's utilization likely drops. The data suggests that the 7700 can push well beyond 100 FPS in this game at 1080p, but the RTX 4080 SUPER's ceiling at 4K Ultra is the bottleneck. The CPU's nearest rivals include the AMD Ryzen 9 7940H (0.1% ahead), the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 (0.5% ahead), and the Intel Core i9-13905H (0.6% behind), showing that the 7700 sits in a tightly contested performance band. Its 3DMark multi-thread score of 8,484 and max-thread score of 8,479 demonstrate consistent scaling across all cores.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combination delivers its highest frame rates. Low settings produce 193.3 FPS, while Medium drops to 144.5 FPS, High to 122.7 FPS, and Ultra to 85.5 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra is 107.8 FPS, or roughly 56%, showing that the quality preset has a massive impact at this resolution. Notably, the 1080p results all exceed 60 FPS, making this resolution ideal for high-refresh-rate displays.

Moving to 2560x1440, the numbers compress somewhat. Low settings yield 146.7 FPS, Medium 105.7 FPS, High 89.7 FPS, and Ultra 66 FPS. The Ultra result barely clears 60 FPS, while Low remains highly fluid. The percentage drop from 1080p to 1440p is consistent across presets: Low falls 24%, Medium 27%, High 27%, and Ultra 23%. This uniformity suggests that neither the CPU nor GPU becomes a sudden bottleneck at this resolution; instead, both scale proportionally.

At 3840x2160, the GPU's limits become stark. Low settings produce 94.4 FPS, which is still very playable, but Medium drops to 69.2 FPS, High to 59.6 FPS, and Ultra to 42.4 FPS. The Ultra result is below the 60 FPS threshold that many consider the minimum for smooth gameplay, and even High struggles to maintain 60 FPS. The 1440p-to-4K drops are: Low 36%, Medium 35%, High 34%, and Ultra 36%, indicating that the 4080 SUPER's performance scales consistently with pixel count at this stage, but the absolute numbers fall short of 4K Ultra demands.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the benchmark database's tested combinations for Red Dead Redemption 2, this pairing of the AMD Ryzen 7 7700 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER ranks 130th out of 1,687 total combos. This places it in the top 8% of all tested configurations, a strong showing that reflects the hardware's overall capability. The rank considers all resolution and settings combinations, with the data measured rather than estimated.

The rank is noteworthy because the RTX 4080 SUPER, while powerful, is not the absolute fastest GPU in the database — its 88th percentile ranking among all GPUs means many cards outperform it. Similarly, the Ryzen 7 7700's 91st percentile ranking among CPUs places it in the upper tier but not at the very top. The combination's 130th rank in this game suggests that the pairing works well together, with neither component dragging the other down significantly. The 4080 SUPER's nearest GPU rivals include the RTX 5070 Ti (2.9% behind) and the RX 7700S (2.1% behind), while the 7700's closest CPU competitors are within 1.2% in average benchmark score.

The ranking also implies that many of the 1,557 combos ranked higher likely feature faster GPUs, such as the RTX 4090 or RTX 5090, paired with high-end CPUs. For this specific pairing, the data shows a balanced system that excels at 1440p and 1080p, handles 4K at Medium to High settings comfortably, and only falls short of 60 FPS at 4K Ultra. The 130th position out of 1,687 confirms the synergy between the 7700's strong multi-threaded performance and the 4080 SUPER's substantial rasterization power, even if the absolute top-tier configurations remain out of reach.