Road 96

Road 96 is an adventure game that places modest demands on hardware, but the measured frame rates for the Intel Core i7-12700KF and AMD Radeon RX 9070 combination reveal a clear performance profile across resolutions and settings. The data set includes average FPS at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K with Low, Medium, High, and Ultra presets, and the combo ranks 575 out of 1684 in the game's benchmark database.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS values show a consistent and pronounced drop as resolution increases. At High settings, the average frame rate falls from 155.3 at 1920x1080 to 96 at 2560x1440, and then to 52.7 at 3840x2160. The reduction from 1080p to 1440p is substantial, and the further drop to 4K is even more severe. This pattern repeats across all quality presets. At Low settings, the averages are 262.6 at 1080p, 164.6 at 1440p, and 90 at 4K. Medium settings yield 190.3, 123.6, and 62.8 respectively, while Ultra settings produce 119.5, 75.2, and 43.1.

The fact that the relative decline from 1080p to 4K remains large even when settings are lowered—for example, the 4K Low average of 90 is far below the 1080p Low average of 262.6—indicates that the GPU is the primary limiting component at higher resolutions. If the CPU were the bottleneck, reducing settings would typically increase frame rates more at lower resolutions, but here the scaling pattern is similar across all presets. The 4K Ultra average of 43.1 is the lowest recorded value in the entire data set, while the 1080p Low average of 262.6 is the highest, underscoring the wide performance envelope of this combination.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 is built on the RDNA 4.0 architecture with a Navi 48 chip, fabricated on a 4 nm process. It features 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, providing a bandwidth of 644.6 GB/s. The GPU's base clock is 1330 MHz, with a boost clock of 2520 MHz and a game clock of 2070 MHz; memory runs at 2518 MHz, equivalent to 20.1 Gbps effective. The chip contains 3584 shading units, 224 texture mapping units, 128 ROPs, and 56 ray tracing cores, delivering 36.13 TFLOPS of FP32 performance.

In synthetic benchmarks, the RX 9070 scores 6290 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, 133741 in Geekbench OpenCL, and 165532 in Geekbench Vulkan. Passmark results include a G3D score of 25381 and a GPU compute score of 14737. The GPU's percentile versus all GPUs is 79, and its average benchmark score is 34780. Its nearest rivals are the NVIDIA A2 with an average score of 34866 and a deltaPct of -0.2, the NVIDIA Quadro GV100 at 34677 with a deltaPct of 0.3, the AMD Radeon HD 7970 at 34541 with a deltaPct of 0.7, and the AMD Radeon PRO W6400 at 34511 with a deltaPct of 0.8. This places the RX 9070 slightly below the A2 and marginally above the Quadro GV100 in aggregate performance.

In Road 96, the GPU's behavior aligns with its synthetic standing. At 4K, the average FPS ranges from 43.1 on Ultra to 90 on Low, with High at 52.7 and Medium at 62.8. At 1440p, the averages are 75.2 on Ultra, 96 on High, 123.6 on Medium, and 164.6 on Low. At 1080p, the GPU delivers 119.5 on Ultra, 155.3 on High, 190.3 on Medium, and 262.6 on Low. The 16 GB VRAM capacity is ample for this title, and the high memory bandwidth of 644.6 GB/s supports the demanding 4K workloads. The boost clock of 2520 MHz is the highest clock listed, but the game clock of 2070 MHz is more representative of sustained performance. The data shows that the GPU becomes the limiting factor at 4K Ultra, where the average FPS drops to 43.1, while at 1440p Ultra the average of 75.2 remains comfortably playable. The launch MSRP for the RX 9070 is 549 USD.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-12700KF is a 12-core, 20-thread processor from the Alder Lake-S family, with a base clock of 3.60 GHz and a boost clock of 5.00 GHz. It has a TDP of 125 W and a shared L3 cache of 25 MB. The CPU's benchmark results are strong across the board: Cinebench R23 multicore scores 28979 and single-core 4091; Geekbench multicore is 13596 and single-core 2526; Passmark multithread is 34092 and single-thread 3984. The CPU's percentile versus all CPUs is 89, and its average benchmark score is 35355. Its nearest rivals are the Intel Core i5-14400 with an average score of 35336 and a deltaPct of 0.1, the Intel Core i7-13800H at 35416 with a deltaPct of -0.2, the Intel Core i9-12900HX at 35289 with a deltaPct of 0.2, and the Intel Core i5-13600T at 35256 with a deltaPct of 0.3. These deltaPct values indicate that the i7-12700KF is essentially tied with its closest competitors, differing by less than a third of a percent.

In Road 96, the CPU's influence is most visible at lower resolutions where the GPU is not saturated. At 1080p Low, the average FPS reaches 262.6, a value that far exceeds typical display refresh rates and demonstrates that the CPU can feed frames at a very high rate. Even at 1080p High, the average of 155.3 is well above the 4K High result of 52.7, confirming that the CPU is not the bottleneck at 1080p. The strong single-thread performance, as evidenced by the Cinebench R23 single-core score of 4091, is particularly relevant for an adventure game that likely relies on a few primary threads. The multi-thread scores, such as the Cinebench R23 multicore of 28979, also indicate that the CPU has ample headroom for any background tasks or lightly threaded workloads.

The data shows that the CPU's role in this game is to provide a high ceiling for frame rates, but the GPU becomes the limiting factor as resolution increases. The combo rank of 575 out of 1684 places this pairing in the upper portion of the benchmark database, reflecting a balanced configuration where neither component severely constrains the other. The launch MSRP for the i7-12700KF is $384.