Revolution Idle

The Intel Core i5-12400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 combination delivers a playable experience in Revolution Idle, but the data reveals a steep performance curve as resolution increases. At 1920x1080, the system achieves a 153.7 FPS average on Low settings, which drops to 107.6 FPS on High and 70.4 FPS on Ultra. Moving to 2560x1440, the average FPS falls to 97.5 on Low, 66.7 on High, and 43.5 on Ultra. At 3840x2160, the figures compress further: 50.8 FPS on Low, 40.7 on Medium, 33.9 on High, and 22 on Ultra. The scaling from 1080p to 4K at High settings shows a 68.5% reduction in FPS (from 107.6 to 33.9), indicating that the GPU becomes the primary bottleneck as pixel count rises. The gap between Low and Ultra at each resolution is substantial—at 4K, the difference is 28.8 FPS, while at 1080p it is 83.3 FPS—suggesting that the RTX 3070’s workload scales sharply with visual fidelity, and the CPU has less headroom to compensate at higher resolutions.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the i5-12400F and RTX 3070 ranks 776 out of 1774 tested combos in Revolution Idle, placing it in the 44th percentile of all systems evaluated. This mid-pack standing is influenced by both components’ relative positions in their respective benchmark hierarchies. The CPU ranks in the 77th percentile against all processors, with an average benchmark score of 19221, while the GPU sits in the 72nd percentile with an average score of 28238. The combo’s overall rank reflects a balanced pairing, but the game’s Idle genre likely places less strain on multi-threaded performance than on raw graphics throughput. The CPU’s nearest rivals include the Intel Core i7-8700K (19210 average score, 0.1% delta) and the AMD Ryzen 5 7533HS (19364 average score, -0.7% delta), showing that the i5-12400F is virtually tied with older high-end parts and newer mid-range mobile chips. On the GPU side, the RTX 3070 is within 1% of the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT (27985 score, 0.9% delta) and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti (27956 score, 1% delta), indicating that its performance sits comfortably in the upper-midrange tier. The data suggests that this combo is neither a top-tier outlier nor a weak link; it delivers consistent results that align with its component-level rankings.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 is built on the Ampere architecture with a GA104 chip manufactured on an 8 nm process by Samsung. Its 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus provides 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth, which is a critical factor for Revolution Idle at higher resolutions. The GPU’s base clock of 1500 MHz and boost clock of 1725 MHz, combined with 5888 shading units, contribute to its 20.31 TFLOPS FP32 performance. In benchmark tests, the RTX 3070 achieves a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 3162 and a Passmark G3D score of 22214, with a Passmark GPU Compute score of 11195. The card’s 8 GB VRAM is sufficient for the tested settings, but the FPS drops at 4K Ultra (22 FPS) versus 4K Low (50.8 FPS) highlight how memory bandwidth and shader load interact. The RTX 3070’s percentile rank of 72 places it ahead of the AMD FirePro S7150 (28409 score, -0.6% delta) and the AMD Radeon R9 M295X (28541 score, -1.1% delta), but it trails the RX 6600 XT by 0.9%. The data indicates that the GPU is the dominant factor in the measured FPS, as the gap between Low and Ultra settings widens with resolution, a pattern typical of a card that handles compute-heavy workloads well but struggles with fill-rate demands at extreme settings.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system shows a clear scaling pattern across settings. Low settings yield 153.7 FPS, Medium produces 116.6 FPS, High drops to 107.6 FPS, and Ultra falls to 70.4 FPS. The step from Medium to High is modest (9 FPS difference), while the jump from High to Ultra is substantial (37.2 FPS drop), suggesting that Ultra enables effects that heavily tax the GPU. Moving to 2560x1440, the averages are 97.5 FPS on Low, 72.4 on Medium, 66.7 on High, and 43.5 on Ultra. The relative ordering remains consistent, but the margin between Low and Ultra narrows to 54 FPS, compared to 83.3 FPS at 1080p. At 3840x2160, the numbers compress further: 50.8 FPS on Low, 40.7 on Medium, 33.9 on High, and 22 on Ultra. The 4K Ultra result is the only configuration that falls below 30 FPS, making it the sole instance where the combo fails to maintain smooth gameplay. Across all resolutions, the Low-to-Ultra ratio changes from roughly 2.18x at 1080p to 2.31x at 4K, indicating that the GPU’s performance ceiling is more consistently reached as pixel count increases. The data shows no minimum or maximum FPS values, so the averages represent the full picture of performance.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-12400F is a 6-core, 12-thread processor from the Alder Lake-S family, with a base clock of 2.50 GHz and a boost clock of 4.40 GHz. Its 65 W TDP and support for DDR4 and DDR5 memory make it a versatile pairing with the RTX 3070. In synthetic benchmarks, the CPU scores 16518 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 2332 in single-core, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 9138 and single-core score of 2221. The Passmark multi-thread score is 19433, and the single-thread score is 3481, placing it in the 77th percentile of all CPUs. The nearest rivals include the Intel Core i7-8700K (19210 avg score, 0.1% delta) and the AMD EPYC 7773X (18979 avg score, 1.3% delta), showing that the i5-12400F’s performance is closely matched to older flagship desktop parts and server-class chips. In Revolution Idle, the CPU’s role is less pronounced than the GPU’s, as evidenced by the FPS scaling from 1080p to 4K. At 1080p Low, the 153.7 FPS result suggests the CPU can feed the GPU adequately, but at 4K Ultra (22 FPS), the GPU is clearly the limiting factor. The 18 MB of shared L3 cache and 10 nm process contribute to the processor’s efficiency, but the data does not show any CPU-bound scenarios where FPS plateaus across resolutions, indicating that the i5-12400F provides sufficient headroom for the RTX 3070 in this title. The 2-thread 3DMark score of 1699 and 16-thread score of 5895 further illustrate that the CPU’s multi-threading capabilities are robust, though the Idle genre likely relies more on single-thread performance, which is solid at 909 in 3DMark single-thread. Overall, the CPU’s contribution is consistent but secondary, with the GPU driving the observed performance differences across settings and resolutions.