Road 96

Resolution Scaling — how FPS drops from 1080p to 4K and what it says about the limiting component

The measured frame rates for Road 96 with this AMD Ryzen 5 8400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 combination reveal a classic GPU-bound scaling pattern as resolution increases. At 1080p with Low settings, the combo produces 204.2 FPS, which drops to 130.9 FPS at 1440p and further to 70.6 FPS at 4K. This represents a 35.9% reduction from 1080p to 1440p, and a 65.4% reduction from 1080p to 4K at Low settings. The scaling is consistent with a graphics card that has sufficient raw throughput for lower resolutions but progressively becomes the limiting factor as pixel count expands.

Examining the High settings tier, the pattern intensifies. At 1080p the combo delivers 117.1 FPS, falling to 75.7 FPS at 1440p (a 35.4% drop) and then to 38.1 FPS at 4K (a 67.5% reduction from 1080p). The Ultra settings tier shows the steepest curve: 94.8 FPS at 1080p, 61.5 FPS at 1440p (35.1% lower), and 30.3 FPS at 4K (68.0% lower). The consistency of these percentage drops across settings tiers — all hovering near 35% for the 1080p-to-1440p step and near 67-68% for the 1080p-to-4K step — indicates that resolution scaling is largely independent of the quality preset applied.

This uniform scaling behavior strongly suggests the GPU is the primary constraint at higher resolutions. The RTX 4060's 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus with 272.0 GB/s bandwidth appears adequate for 1080p and 1440p workloads but becomes stretched at 4K, particularly under Ultra settings where average frame rates dip below 31 FPS. The CPU's role diminishes as resolution rises; the Ryzen 5 8400F's six Zen 4 cores are more than capable of feeding frames at 1080p, as evidenced by the 204.2 FPS Low-settings result, but the GPU's compute ceiling asserts itself decisively at 4K.

GPU Role — VRAM, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 operates with a base clock of 1830 MHz and a boost clock of 2460 MHz on the AD107 chip built on TSMC's 5 nm process. Its 8 GB of GDDR6 memory runs at 2125 MHz with 17 Gbps effective speed, delivering 272.0 GB/s across a 128-bit bus. These specifications position the card in the mid-range segment, and the benchmark data reflects this positioning in Road 96.

The GPU's 3072 shading units, 96 texture mapping units, and 48 render output units provide the computational backbone for the game's rendering. The pixel rate of 118.1 GPixel/s and texture rate of 236.2 GTexel/s are the figures that govern how quickly the card can fill the screen at various resolutions. At 4K Ultra, the card's limits become apparent with a 30.3 FPS average, suggesting that the combination of 8.3 million pixels per frame and maximum-quality shader work exceeds what the AD107 can sustain.

The RTX 4060's memory configuration deserves particular attention for Road 96. The game's art style, which leans on stylized visuals rather than photorealistic textures, likely keeps VRAM usage moderate. The 8 GB capacity appears sufficient for 1080p and 1440p across all settings, as frame rates remain playable at those resolutions. At 4K, however, the 128-bit memory bus and 272.0 GB/s bandwidth become bottlenecks, limiting the card to 38.1 FPS at High settings and 70.6 FPS at Low settings. The gap between Low and Ultra at 4K (40.3 FPS) is smaller than the corresponding gap at 1080p (109.4 FPS), indicating that memory bandwidth constraints cap the GPU's ability to exploit higher quality settings at 4K.

In terms of raw compute, the RTX 4060 achieves 15.11 TFLOPS for both FP32 and FP16 operations, with 24 ray tracing cores and 96 tensor cores available for advanced rendering features. Road 96's benchmark results show the card performing within expectations for its class, sitting at the 66th percentile versus all GPUs with an average benchmark score of 23181. The card's nearest rivals include the AMD Radeon RX 6600M with a score of 23321 (0.6% higher) and the Intel Arc B580 at 23021 (0.7% lower), indicating the RTX 4060 sits in a tightly contested performance band.

CPU Role — cores, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The AMD Ryzen 5 8400F brings six cores and twelve threads based on the Zen 4 architecture, codenamed Phoenix, manufactured on TSMC's 4 nm process. Its base clock of 4.20 GHz and boost clock of 4.70 GHz, combined with a 16 MB shared L3 cache and 1 MB L2 per core, provide substantial single-thread and multi-thread performance. The CPU's 3DMark scores show strong scaling from 2 threads (1874) to 16 threads (6091), with the max-threads score of 6165 indicating efficient utilization of all available threads.

For Road 96, an adventure game that typically presents moderate CPU demands, the Ryzen 5 8400F proves more than adequate. The 1080p Low settings result of 204.2 FPS demonstrates that the CPU can feed the GPU far beyond what the RTX 4060 can render at higher quality settings. The single-thread score of 951 in 3DMark and 2943 in Cinebench R23 single-core suggest strong per-core performance that handles the game's simulation and logic threads without becoming a bottleneck.

The CPU's 82nd percentile ranking versus all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 25064, places it in a competitive position. Its nearest rival, the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, scores 25057 (0% delta), while the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F scores 24993 (0.3% lower). This tight clustering indicates that the 8400F delivers performance on par with previous-generation eight-core parts, despite having only six physical cores. The 12 threads allow for efficient handling of background tasks while the game runs.

The memory configuration supporting this CPU — DDR5 with dual-channel architecture and 83.2 GB/s bandwidth — further ensures that memory bandwidth does not constrain game performance. Road 96's relatively modest asset streaming requirements mean the CPU can maintain consistent frame delivery even when the GPU is saturated at lower resolutions. The data indicates that the CPU is not the limiting factor in any of the measured scenarios; the GPU's performance ceiling defines the frame rates at all resolutions and settings.

Measured FPS Breakdown — resolution by resolution, settings by settings, exact numbers

At 1920x1080, the measured results span a wide range across quality presets. Low settings deliver 204.2 FPS average, Medium settings produce 150 FPS, High settings yield 117.1 FPS, and Ultra settings achieve 94.8 FPS. The progression from Low to Ultra represents a 53.6% reduction in frame rate, illustrating how quality settings impact the GPU's workload at this resolution. The gap between Medium and High (32.9 FPS) is larger than between High and Ultra (22.3 FPS), suggesting diminishing returns on quality changes at the higher end.

Moving to 2560x1440, the same pattern persists with lower absolute values. Low settings produce 130.9 FPS, Medium settings yield 91.8 FPS, High settings deliver 75.7 FPS, and Ultra settings achieve 61.5 FPS. The reduction from 1080p to 1440p is roughly 35% across all settings, confirming that the additional 78% pixel count scales nearly linearly with GPU workload. The 1440p results remain comfortably playable at all settings, with even Ultra maintaining above 60 FPS.

At 3840x2160, the GPU's limitations become pronounced. Low settings produce 70.6 FPS, Medium settings yield 48 FPS, High settings deliver 38.1 FPS, and Ultra settings drop to 30.3 FPS. The 4K Ultra result falls below the 30 FPS threshold that many consider the minimum for playable performance, while 4K High sits just above it. The 4K Low result of 70.6 FPS shows that the card can handle 4K when quality settings are reduced, but the gap between Low and Medium (22.6 FPS) is substantial at this resolution.

The full settings sweep at each resolution reveals a consistent hierarchy. Low settings always provide the highest frame rates, followed by Medium, High, and Ultra in descending order. The relative differences between settings grow larger at higher resolutions, indicating that the GPU's resource constraints amplify quality-setting impacts as pixel count increases. At 1080p, the difference between Low and Ultra is 109.4 FPS; at 4K, it narrows to 40.3 FPS, suggesting the card's absolute performance ceiling limits how much quality settings can affect the outcome.

How This Combo Ranks — use comboRankInGame vs other tested combos

This specific combination of AMD Ryzen 5 8400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 ranks 943rd out of 1684 tested combos in Road 96, placing it in the 44th percentile of all combinations tested. This mid-pack positioning reflects the components' individual standings: the CPU sits at the 82nd percentile versus all CPUs, while the GPU occupies the 66th percentile versus all GPUs. The combination's overall rank is dragged down by the GPU's more modest positioning relative to the CPU's stronger showing.

The rank suggests that many other CPU-GPU pairings deliver higher frame rates in this game. Given that Road 96 is not particularly demanding on either component, the ranking likely reflects the GPU's mid-range status. Combos featuring higher-tier graphics cards, even with less capable CPUs, would likely outrank this pairing because the game's GPU-bound nature at higher resolutions emphasizes graphics card performance. The CPU's strength at 1080p, where it can push frame rates above 200 FPS at Low settings, does not translate into a higher combo rank because the GPU becomes the limiting factor at more demanding settings.

The gap between the CPU's 82nd percentile ranking and the combo's 44th percentile ranking underscores the GPU's role as the performance determinant in this pairing. The RTX 4060's 66th percentile GPU ranking places it below the midpoint of all tested graphics cards, and when paired with a stronger-than-average CPU, the combined system lands near the middle of all tested combos. This analysis suggests that for Road 96, upgrading the GPU would yield larger frame rate gains than upgrading the CPU, as the current CPU already provides ample headroom for the game's computational demands.

The measured data confirms that this combo delivers playable performance at 1080p across all settings and at 1440p down to High settings, with 4K requiring Low settings for smooth frame rates. The 943rd rank out of 1684 combos places this pairing in a competitive but not top-tier position, consistent with the mid-range GPU and upper-mid-range CPU configuration.