Road 96

Road 96 is an Adventure game with measured results for the Intel Core i5-14400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070. The data covers 1920x1080, 2560x1440 and 3840x2160 at Low, Medium, High and Ultra. This combination ranks 790th out of 1684 tested combos. The CPU sits in the 88th percentile of all CPUs, while the GPU sits in the 72nd percentile of all GPUs. Frame rates in the measured rows range from 226.4 fps at 1080p Low to 34.4 fps at 4K Ultra, and the data is marked as measured rather than estimated.

Resolution Scaling

At the High preset, the average frame rate starts at 133.3 fps at 1080p, drops to 85.4 fps at 1440p, and lands at 43.1 fps at 4K. Low follows the same path: 226.4 fps, then 145.8 fps, then 75.1 fps. Medium runs 165.4, 103.9 and 54.9, while Ultra runs 109.1, 67.3 and 34.4. In every preset, the 4K value is well below the 1440p value, and the 1440p value is well below the 1080p value. That consistent falloff is the mark of a GPU-limited workload. The CPU’s benchmark results do not change with resolution, but the GPU is required to shade and rasterize progressively larger images. At 1080p Low the RTX 3070 is able to produce 226.4 fps; at 4K Ultra the same card produces 34.4 fps. The gap shows that resolution, not the processor, is the main scaling factor in this title.

The 4K preset spread tells a similar story. Low delivers 75.1 fps, Medium 54.9, High 43.1, and Ultra 34.4. Moving from Low to Ultra at 4K costs a substantial amount of average frame rate, while moving from Low to Ultra at 1080p still leaves every setting above 109.1 fps. The data therefore indicates that users who push this combo to high resolution will feel the GPU limit first. The frame rate collapse is not a CPU effect, because the same CPU is present in every measured row.

GPU Role

The RTX 3070 is built on the GA104 chip with Samsung’s 8 nm process and contains 17,400 million transistors on a 392 mm² die. Its memory configuration is 8 GB GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus, with 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The base clock is 1500 MHz, the boost clock is 1725 MHz, and memory is rated at 1750 MHz with 14 Gbps effective throughput. The render pipeline includes 5888 shading units, 184 texture units and 96 ROPs, along with 46 RT cores and 184 tensor cores. Pixel rate is 165.6 GPixel/s, texture rate is 317.4 GTexel/s, and FP32 throughput is 20.31 TFLOPS.

Those specifications map cleanly onto the measured game results. At 1080p, the card reaches 226.4 fps on Low and 109.1 fps on Ultra. At 1440p it reaches 145.8 fps on Low and 67.3 fps on Ultra. At 4K it reaches 75.1 fps on Low and 34.4 fps on Ultra. The 448.0 GB/s memory bandwidth keeps 4K Low at 75.1 fps, but 4K Ultra drops to 34.4 fps, a result that shows the card’s limits under the highest load. The 4K Medium and High rows sit between 54.9 and 43.1 fps, so the memory and shading subsystems are under growing strain as settings increase.

In synthetic benchmarks, the GPU scores 22214 in Passmark G3D, 3162 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, and has an average benchmark score of 28238. Its nearestRivals data shows that it is 0.9% higher than the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT and 1.0% higher than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. It is 0.6% lower than the AMD FirePro S7150 and 1.1% lower than the AMD Radeon R9 M295X. These are small margins, meaning the RTX 3070 is closely matched to its immediate peers. In Road 96, the GPU’s clock speeds and memory configuration are the primary factors behind the resolution scaling discussed above.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-14400F is a 10-core, 16-thread Raptor Lake Refresh processor on Intel’s 10 nm process. Its base clock is 2.50 GHz, its boost clock is 4.70 GHz, and it has 20 MB of shared L3 cache. Memory support covers DDR4 and DDR5 through a dual-channel memory bus. Single-thread scores are strong: Cinebench R23 single-core is 3093, Geekbench single-core is 2333, and Passmark single-thread is 3723. Multi-thread results are also high: Cinebench R23 multi-core is 21914, Geekbench multi-core is 11209, and Passmark multithread is 25783.

The CPU’s average benchmark score is 32508, which puts it in the 88th percentile of all CPUs. In the nearestRivals list, it is exactly matched with the Intel Core i7-12800H at deltaPct 0, 0.2% higher than the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7645, and 0.2% lower than both the AMD Ryzen 7 250 and the Intel Core i7-13705H. This is a tightly grouped set, and the i5-14400F does not separate itself from those processors in raw average.

In Road 96, the CPU’s role is visible in the 1080p Low result of 226.4 fps. That high frame rate demands strong single-thread throughput, and the 4.70 GHz boost clock provides it. The 10 cores and 16 threads add capacity for background work, but the measured frame rate drop from 109.1 fps at 1080p Ultra to 34.4 fps at 4K Ultra is not caused by the processor. The same CPU is used in every row; the variable is the GPU’s render load. The data points to the i5-14400F as a capable partner that does not become the main constraint until very low-resolution, high-frame-rate situations.

FAQ

Q: What are the measured average frame rates at 1920x1080?

A: Low is 226.4 fps, Medium is 165.4 fps, High is 133.3 fps, and Ultra is 109.1 fps.

Q: Which 4K preset produces the highest average frame rate?

A: Low, at 75.1 fps. Medium is 54.9, High is 43.1, and Ultra is 34.4.

Q: How does this combo rank in Road 96?

A: It ranks 790th out of 1684 tested combinations.

Q: What are the component percentiles?

A: The CPU is in the 88th percentile of all CPUs, and the GPU is in the 72nd percentile of all GPUs.

Q: How does the RTX 3070 compare to the RX 6600 XT in benchmark average?

A: The RTX 3070’s average benchmark score is 28238, and the nearestRivals deltaPct of 0.9 means it is 0.9% higher than the RX 6600 XT.

Q: What are the i5-14400F’s key multithreaded scores?

A: Cinebench R23 multi-core is 21914, Geekbench multi-core is 11209, and Passmark multithread is 25783.

How This Combo Ranks

The comboRankInGame field puts this pairing at 790 out of 1684, which places it in the middle of the tested field. The individual component percentiles are better than that overall slot suggests: the CPU is at the 88th percentile and the GPU is at the 72nd percentile. That mismatch is useful context. Road 96’s measured rank does not track perfectly with general-purpose benchmark averages, because the game’s frame rates depend heavily on settings and resolution.

The CPU’s average benchmark score of 32508 is nearly identical to its nearest rivals, so the processor is not an outlier. The GPU’s average of 28238 is also close to its rival group, with deltaPct values ranging from -1.1 to 1.0. This combo is neither far ahead nor far behind the surrounding hardware in raw compute. The 790th position in Road 96 reflects the actual measured behavior of this specific CPU-GPU pair in this title, not a projected score. Since the data is marked as measured, the rank is an observed result from real runs.

The takeaway is that the i5-14400F and RTX 3070 sit in a crowded performance band. They are respectable parts on their own, but the Road 96 ranking shows that many other tested combinations produce better average frame rates. The gap between the 88th percentile CPU and the 72nd percentile GPU on one hand, and the mid-pack game rank on the other, is a sign that game-specific tuning matters as much as raw component standing.

Settings Recommendations

The measured rows show a clear settings path for this combo. At 1080p, Ultra is the strongest choice. It delivers 109.1 fps, which is higher than every 1440p and 4K measured row except 1440p Low at 145.8 fps. Since Ultra is the heaviest preset at 1080p and still stays above 109 fps, there is little reason to drop below Ultra at that resolution.

At 1440p, Ultra remains viable at 67.3 fps. High is 85.4 fps, Medium is 103.9 fps, and Low is 145.8 fps. The data supports 1440p Ultra if the goal is to keep maximum quality while moving past 1080p. Users who need more speed can step down to High or Medium without leaving the 85 to 104 fps range.

At 4K, the situation changes. Low is 75.1 fps, Medium is 54.9, High is 43.1, and Ultra is 34.4. Low is the only 4K preset that beats the 1440p Ultra result of 67.3 fps, but it does so while removing much of the visual preset quality. Medium at 54.9 is a middle ground, and High/Ultra are the slowest measured settings in the entire package. The practical recommendation is to use 1080p Ultra for the best combination of settings and frame rate, 1440p Ultra if resolution matters more than the 1080p margin, and 4K Low if hitting a higher average frame rate at 2160p is the priority. The 4K High and Ultra rows are not recommended because they sit at 43.1 and 34.4 fps respectively.