Revolution Idle

Revolution Idle presents an unusual scaling profile for the AMD Ryzen 5 7600 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 combination. At 1080p with Low settings, the system delivers 213.4 FPS, but this drops to 187.9 FPS at High settings, a relatively modest penalty. Moving to 1440p, the High preset yields 117.3 FPS, while the Ultra preset falls to 74.2 FPS. The most pronounced scaling occurs at 4K, where the High preset manages 63 FPS, but the Ultra preset collapses to 39.3 FPS. This pattern reveals that the game’s engine has a steep quality-tier cost curve, particularly at higher resolutions, rather than a linear relationship between settings and frame rate.

The transition from 1080p Low to 4K Low shows a drop from 213.4 FPS to 85.2 FPS, indicating that resolution scaling alone can halve performance even at minimal graphical settings. However, the gap between 1440p High (117.3 FPS) and 4K High (63 FPS) is nearly a 46% reduction, suggesting that the GPU’s memory bandwidth and fillrate become limiting factors as pixel count increases. The RTX 4090’s 24 GB of GDDR6X memory and 1.01 TB/s bandwidth are substantial, yet the data shows that 4K Ultra still bottlenecks at 39.3 FPS, meaning the game’s shader complexity and draw calls are likely the primary constraint rather than raw VRAM capacity. This is an idle game, so the low frame rates at 4K Ultra are curious, implying that the title’s rendering pipeline is not optimized for high-resolution workloads despite the hardware’s capability.

FAQ

Q: What is the maximum average FPS achievable with this combo?

A: The highest recorded average FPS is 213.4 at 1920x1080 with Low settings. This drops to 119.9 FPS at the same resolution with Ultra settings, showing a 43.8% performance hit from quality presets alone.

Q: How does the RTX 4090’s performance compare to its nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The RTX 4090 has an average benchmark score of 66473, which is 0.4% higher than the NVIDIA Tesla T4 (66733) and 0.5% lower than the NVIDIA Tesla P40 (66127). It trails the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 by 0.9% and the NVIDIA Quadro P6000 by 1.3% in this metric.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU more responsible for the frame rate differences between 1080p and 4K?

A: The data shows a 50.5% reduction in FPS from 1080p High (187.9) to 4K High (63), which is a much larger drop than the 10.2% decrease from 1080p High to 1080p Low. This indicates the GPU is the limiting component at higher resolutions, while the CPU’s 6 cores and 12 threads are sufficient to maintain high frame rates at 1080p.

Q: What is the combo’s rank among all tested configurations for this game?

A: This specific combination of AMD Ryzen 5 7600 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 ranks 29th out of 1774 tested combos in Revolution Idle, placing it in the top 1.6% of all configurations.

Q: How does the Ryzen 5 7600’s multi-threaded performance compare to its nearest rivals?

A: The CPU’s average benchmark score is 26617, which is 0.2% higher than the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D (26574) and 0.3% higher than the Intel Core i9-11900K (26546). It is 0.2% lower than the Intel Core i9-12900HK (26672), making the differences negligible across all rivals.

Q: What are the frame rate differences between Low and Ultra settings at 1440p?

A: At 2560x1440, Low settings yield 164 FPS, while Ultra settings drop to 74.2 FPS, a 54.8% reduction. The High preset (117.3 FPS) sits between these extremes, indicating that the quality presets have a non-linear effect on performance.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600 is a 6-core, 12-thread processor from the 7000 series, built on the Zen 4 architecture with a 5 nm process. It has a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 5.10 GHz, with 32 MB of shared L3 cache. Its benchmark results show strong single-thread performance, scoring 999 in 3dMark single-thread and 3246 in Cinebench R23 single-core, which is critical for games that rely on a primary simulation thread. The multi-thread scores are equally robust, with 22992 in Cinebench R23 multicore and 6503 in 3dMark max threads, indicating that the CPU can handle parallel workloads without becoming a bottleneck.

In Revolution Idle, the CPU’s role appears to be secondary to the GPU, given that the frame rates at 1080p Low (213.4 FPS) are nearly double those at 4K Low (85.2 FPS). The 7600’s 12 threads are likely underutilized in this idle game, as the genre typically involves periodic calculations rather than continuous physics or AI processing. The data shows that the CPU’s average benchmark score of 26617 places it in the 83rd percentile of all CPUs, with its nearest rival being the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, which is only 0.2% faster. This suggests that the 7600 is more than adequate for this game, and the performance ceiling is determined by the GPU’s ability to render at higher resolutions.

The processor’s 65 W TDP and dual-channel DDR5 memory support with 83.2 GB/s bandwidth further indicate that it is not a limiting factor in this configuration. The measured FPS at 1080p High (187.9 FPS) versus 1080p Ultra (119.9 FPS) shows a 36.2% drop, which is likely due to increased draw calls and shader complexity that stress the CPU’s single-thread performance. However, since the CPU’s single-thread score (999 in 3dMark) is competitive, the game’s engine may not be optimized to leverage the full boost clock of 5.10 GHz. Overall, the Ryzen 5 7600 provides ample headroom for this title, and the frame rate variations are primarily attributable to GPU workload.

How This Combo Ranks

This combination of the AMD Ryzen 5 7600 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 achieves a rank of 29 out of 1774 tested combos in Revolution Idle, positioning it in the top percentile of all configurations. This high ranking is notable because the CPU is a mid-range desktop part, while the GPU is a flagship, end-of-life product. The data suggests that the game is heavily GPU-bound, as the RTX 4090’s performance dominates the overall frame rate, while the CPU’s 83rd percentile ranking is sufficient to avoid bottlenecking.

The combo’s rank of 29 indicates that only 28 other combinations performed better in this specific game, which is impressive given that the RTX 4090 has an average benchmark score of 66473 and ranks in the 91st percentile of all GPUs. The CPU’s average score of 26617 is lower than the GPU’s, but the game’s idle nature means that the CPU’s 6 cores and 12 threads are rarely saturated. This is reflected in the measured FPS data, where the 1080p Low result of 213.4 FPS is close to the theoretical maximum for many displays, while the 4K Ultra result of 39.3 FPS is the only point where the combo falls below 60 FPS.

Compared to other combos, the rank of 29 suggests that the RTX 4090’s raw compute power (82.58 TFLOPS fp32) and 24 GB of VRAM are the primary drivers of performance, rather than the CPU. The fact that the combo ranks higher than the CPU’s percentile (83rd) and GPU’s percentile (91st) individually implies that the pairing is synergistic, with the CPU’s Zen 4 architecture and the GPU’s Ada Lovelace architecture working well together. The nearest rival GPUs in terms of average score, such as the Tesla T4 and P40, are likely paired with more powerful server CPUs, yet this combo still outperforms them in this game, underscoring the importance of the RTX 4090’s gaming-oriented features.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is the dominant component in this configuration, with 24 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus providing 1.01 TB/s of bandwidth. Its base clock of 2235 MHz and boost clock of 2520 MHz, combined with 16384 shading units, deliver 82.58 TFLOPS of fp32 performance. The GPU’s average benchmark score is 66473, placing it in the 91st percentile of all GPUs, and its nearest rival, the NVIDIA Tesla T4, is only 0.4% faster on average. This suggests that the RTX 4090 is at the top of the consumer GPU hierarchy, and its performance in Revolution Idle reflects this.

The measured FPS data shows that the GPU is the primary bottleneck at resolutions above 1080p. At 1440p High, the combo achieves 117.3 FPS, but at 4K High, it drops to 63 FPS, a 46.3% reduction. This is consistent with the GPU’s memory bandwidth being taxed by higher pixel counts, despite the 24 GB VRAM capacity being more than sufficient for the game’s textures. The Ultra preset at 4K yields only 39.3 FPS, which is surprisingly low for a GPU of this caliber, indicating that the game’s Ultra settings introduce computationally expensive effects that the RTX 4090’s 128 RT cores and 512 tensor cores cannot accelerate efficiently.

The GPU’s performance at lower resolutions is exceptional, with 1080p Low hitting 213.4 FPS and 1080p High reaching 187.9 FPS. This shows that the RTX 4090 is capable of handling the game’s rendering pipeline with ease at 1080p, but the scaling to 4K reveals a sharp drop-off. The passmark DirectX 12 score of 150 is notably lower than the DirectX 11 score of 326, which could explain the performance degradation at higher settings if the game uses a less optimized DirectX 12 path. Overall, the RTX 4090’s role is to provide high frame rates at 1080p and 1440p, but the 4K Ultra results suggest that even this flagship GPU cannot overcome the game’s engine limitations at maximum settings.