Revolution Idle

Settings Recommendations

For Revolution Idle, the measured data shows a clear hierarchy across settings presets, with the Medium preset emerging as the optimal balance for most users. At 1920x1080, Medium delivers 152.7 FPS, which is 12.4% higher than High's 140.8 FPS and only 36.8 FPS behind Low's 189.5 FPS. The Ultra preset, by contrast, drops to 94.4 FPS at 1080p—a 38.2% reduction from Medium—while offering diminishing visual returns in a genre that relies on static UI elements and incremental number updates.

At 2560x1440, Medium maintains 94.2 FPS, staying above the 90 FPS threshold that most users consider smooth. High trails at 89.2 FPS, and Low reaches 127.7 FPS. The Ultra preset falls to 57.3 FPS, which is playable but noticeably less fluid for a game where the interface animates continuously.

The 4K results reinforce this recommendation. Medium produces 48.3 FPS at 3840x2160, while High delivers 44.5 FPS and Low reaches 65.8 FPS. Ultra drops to 30.2 FPS, which is borderline for an idle game's persistent visual updates. The data suggests that Medium consistently provides the best combination of frame rate headroom and visual quality across all three resolutions, with the gap between Medium and High widening as resolution increases—from 8.4% at 1080p to 8.6% at 1440p and 8.5% at 4K.

For users with high-refresh-rate monitors, Low at 1080p (189.5 FPS) or 1440p (127.7 FPS) offers the smoothest experience, but the Medium preset's 152.7 FPS at 1080p already exceeds the refresh rate of most displays. Given that Revolution Idle is an idle game where the primary visual load comes from UI rendering and occasional animations, Medium is the recommended preset for general use, with Low reserved for those prioritizing maximum frame pacing.

FAQ

Q: How does the RTX 5070 perform at 4K Ultra in Revolution Idle?

A: The measured average is 30.2 FPS at 3840x2160 with the Ultra preset. This is 37.5% lower than the Medium preset's 48.3 FPS at the same resolution, indicating that Ultra's additional effects significantly tax the GPU in this title.

Q: Is the Core i3-12100F a bottleneck for the RTX 5070 in this game?

A: The data does not directly measure bottlenecking, but the frame rate scaling across resolutions suggests GPU limitation. At 1080p Low, the combo achieves 189.5 FPS, while at 4K Low it drops to 65.8 FPS—a 65.3% reduction. This resolution-dependent behavior is characteristic of GPU-bound scenarios rather than CPU-limitation, which would show more consistent frame rates across resolutions.

Q: What is the best setting for a 144Hz monitor at 1440p?

A: None of the measured presets reach 144 FPS at 2560x1440. The highest is Low at 127.7 FPS, followed by Medium at 94.2 FPS and High at 89.2 FPS. For a 144Hz display, the Low preset is the only option that comes close to saturating the refresh rate, though it still falls 11.3% short.

Q: How much performance is lost between 1080p and 1440p at the same settings?

A: At Medium, the drop is from 152.7 FPS to 94.2 FPS, a 38.3% reduction. At High, it goes from 140.8 FPS to 89.2 FPS, a 36.6% reduction. At Ultra, the loss is 39.3% (94.4 to 57.3 FPS), and at Low it is 32.6% (189.5 to 127.7 FPS).

Q: Does the RTX 5070's 12 GB VRAM cause issues at 4K in this game?

A: The measured frame rates at 3840x2160 do not indicate VRAM-related stuttering or crashes. The average FPS values are consistent with rendering load scaling, and the game's genre typically uses modest texture memory. The data shows no anomalous drops that would suggest memory capacity problems.

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

A: This combination of Intel Core i3-12100F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 ranks 339th out of 1774 tested combos, placing it in the top 19.1% of all configurations tested for this game.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals a clear resolution scaling pattern that indicates the GPU is the primary limiting component in this configuration. Moving from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 at Medium settings reduces average FPS from 152.7 to 94.2, a 38.3% drop. The further step to 3840x2160 at Medium produces 48.3 FPS, a 48.7% reduction from the 1440p result and a 68.4% drop from 1080p.

This scaling behavior is consistent across all presets. At High settings, the progression is 140.8 FPS (1080p) → 89.2 FPS (1440p) → 44.5 FPS (4K), representing 36.6% and 50.1% reductions respectively. At Low settings, the drops are 32.6% (189.5 to 127.7) and 48.5% (127.7 to 65.8). The Ultra preset shows the steepest scaling, with 94.4 FPS at 1080p falling to 57.3 FPS at 1440p (39.3% loss) and then to 30.2 FPS at 4K (47.3% loss from 1440p).

The consistent pattern of approximately 33-39% loss from 1080p to 1440p and 47-50% loss from 1440p to 4K indicates that pixel count scaling is the dominant factor. Since 1440p has 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p, and 4K has 2.25 times the pixels of 1440p, the frame rate reductions track closely with pixel throughput expectations. This behavior is typical of GPU-bound workloads where the RTX 5070's 672.0 GB/s memory bandwidth and 30.87 TFLOPS FP32 throughput are being fully utilized.

The Core i3-12100F, with its 4 cores and 8 threads, demonstrates sufficient headroom at all tested resolutions. If the CPU were the bottleneck, we would expect frame rates to plateau at higher resolutions rather than continue decreasing proportionally with pixel count. The fact that 4K Low (65.8 FPS) still runs substantially slower than 1080p Low (189.5 FPS) confirms that the rendering pipeline, not the processor, sets the performance ceiling.

Measured FPS Breakdown

1920x1080: The Low preset achieves the highest average at 189.5 FPS, followed by Medium at 152.7 FPS, High at 140.8 FPS, and Ultra at 94.4 FPS. The gap between Low and Medium is 36.8 FPS (19.4%), while the gap between Medium and High is 11.9 FPS (7.8%). Ultra represents a substantial 58.3 FPS drop from Medium, indicating that Ultra's additional post-processing and shadow effects carry a heavy cost at this resolution.

2560x1440: Low leads with 127.7 FPS, then Medium at 94.2 FPS, High at 89.2 FPS, and Ultra at 57.3 FPS. The Low-to-Medium gap narrows to 33.5 FPS (26.2%), while Medium-to-High shrinks to 5.0 FPS (5.3%). Ultra falls 36.9 FPS behind Medium (39.2% lower). The compressed differences between Medium and High at 1440p suggest that these two presets converge in GPU workload as resolution increases.

3840x2160: Low produces 65.8 FPS, Medium 48.3 FPS, High 44.5 FPS, and Ultra 30.2 FPS. The Low-to-Medium gap is 17.5 FPS (26.6%), and Medium-to-High is only 3.8 FPS (7.9%). Ultra trails Medium by 18.1 FPS (37.5%). At 4K, the Medium and High presets become nearly indistinguishable in performance, while Low remains the only preset that comfortably exceeds 60 FPS.

Across all resolutions, the Medium preset consistently offers the best balance of visual fidelity and frame rate. The data shows that High's incremental quality improvements over Medium cost between 5.3% and 8.5% performance depending on resolution, while Ultra's additional effects cost between 37.5% and 39.2% relative to Medium.

How This Combo Ranks

The Intel Core i3-12100F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 ranks 339th out of 1774 tested combinations in Revolution Idle, placing this configuration in the top 19.1% of all systems tested. This ranking reflects the combination's ability to deliver high frame rates at mainstream resolutions while maintaining playable performance even at 4K Ultra.

The CPU component of this combo performs at the 72nd percentile against all CPUs in the database, with an average benchmark score of 13516. Its nearest rival, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX, scores 13534 (0.1% higher), while the Intel Core i7-1250U scores 13462 (0.4% lower). The Intel Core i3-10105 and Intel Core i7-7700K trail by 0.6% and 1.8% respectively. This indicates that the i3-12100F delivers competitive processing power despite its budget positioning.

The GPU side is similarly strong. The RTX 5070 sits at the 83rd percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 41687. Its closest rivals include the AMD Radeon Pro 5300 (0.2% higher), NVIDIA Tesla M40 (0.5% lower), NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (0.6% higher), and AMD Radeon Pro 580X (0.7% lower). The RTX 5070's 12 GB GDDR7 memory and Blackwell 2.0 architecture provide ample headroom for this idle game, which does not heavily stress modern GPU features.

The combo's 339th rank out of 1774 positions it well above the median tested configuration. The ranking suggests that while this pairing is not in the top tier of absolute performance, it comfortably outperforms the majority of systems tested in Revolution Idle. The 4-core, 8-thread CPU's strong single-thread performance (Cinebench R23 single-core score of 1681) likely contributes to consistent UI responsiveness, while the GPU's 30.87 TFLOPS FP32 throughput ensures smooth rendering at all but the most demanding 4K Ultra settings.