Rust

Rust, a Survival game released on 2018-02-07, was measured with the AMD Ryzen 7 7700 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 across three resolutions and four settings. The dataset contains average FPS rows for Low, Medium, High, and Ultra at 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160, and each row is confirmed measured rather than estimated.

Resolution Scaling

The High preset shows the cleanest resolution curve. At 1920x1080 the combo produces 188.1 FPS, at 2560x1440 it drops to 131.5 FPS, and at 3840x2160 it falls to 77.2 FPS. That is a substantial decline as pixel count increases, and the 1440p-to-4K step is larger than the 1080p-to-1440p step in practical terms. A similar pattern appears on Low: 237.4 FPS at 1080p, 210.8 FPS at 1440p, and 135.9 FPS at 4K. Again, the move from 1440p to 4K removes far more performance than the move from 1080p to 1440p.

This pattern points to the GPU becoming the limiting component as resolution rises. At 1080p, even Ultra reaches 141.4 FPS, while Low is 237.4 FPS. The fact that Low and Ultra are both high at 1080p suggests the system still has headroom at that resolution. At 4K, however, the same settings spread from 135.9 FPS on Low to 60.1 FPS on Ultra. The lowering of average FPS with each step in quality at 4K indicates the rendering workload is scaling heavily with resolution, which is the expected signature of a GPU-limited scenario.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 is an 8-core, 16-thread processor from the 7000 series, built on the Zen 4 architecture. It has a base clock of 3.80 GHz, a boost clock of 5.30 GHz, a 65 W TDP, and 32 MB of shared L3 cache. In synthetic workloads, it scores 29302 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 4136 in Cinebench R23 single-core. It also produces 8484 in 3DMark’s 16-thread test and 8479 in the max-thread test, which is nearly identical and shows the thread count is fully engaged.

The CPU sits at the 91st percentile of all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 40468. Its nearest rivals are very close: the Ryzen 7 7700 is 0.1% higher than the AMD Ryzen 9 7940H, 0.5% higher than the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365, 1.2% higher than the Intel Core Ultra 5 235T, and 0.6% lower than the Intel Core i9-13905H. This is a tightly packed group, meaning the 7700 is not an outlier in either direction relative to similarly scoring CPUs.

The CPU’s single-thread strength is visible in the Rust results. At 1080p Low, the combo reaches 237.4 FPS, and at 1080p Medium it stays at 205.1 FPS. Even 1080p Ultra holds 141.4 FPS. These numbers indicate that the CPU is capable of feeding very high frame rates when the GPU is not the main bottleneck. At lower resolutions, where each frame is cheaper for the GPU, the measured FPS stays high. At 4K, the CPU is less likely to be the primary limit because the GPU has far more pixels to process.

How This Combo Ranks

This CPU/GPU combination ranks 19th out of 1717 tested combos in Rust. That puts it near the front of the tested field, ahead of the overwhelming majority of pairings in the database. The rank is derived from measured FPS data, not synthetic estimates, as the dataset marks the results as measured.

Being 19th out of 1717 is a strong result, but it is not the top result. The ranking reflects the full measured behavior of the Ryzen 7 7700 paired with the RTX 5090 across the tested resolutions and settings. The wide range of settings in the dataset — from Low to Ultra, at three resolutions — means the rank accounts for both CPU-heavy and GPU-heavy scenarios. The result is a combination that performs at a high level in Rust across the board.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured rows are as follows, with all values representing average FPS:

| Resolution | Low | Medium | High | Ultra |

|---|---|---|---|---|

| 1920x1080 | 237.4 | 205.1 | 188.1 | 141.4 |

| 2560x1440 | 210.8 | 150.7 | 131.5 | 98.6 |

| 3840x2160 | 135.9 | 87.6 | 77.2 | 60.1 |

At 1080p, every preset stays above 140 FPS. Low reaches 237.4, Medium is 205.1, High is 188.1, and Ultra is 141.4. This is the only resolution where the lowest and highest presets are both comfortably high.

At 1440p, Low is still very fast at 210.8 FPS, but Medium drops to 150.7, High to 131.5, and Ultra to 98.6. The step between Low and Medium is the largest jump in settings, and the Ultra preset is the first measured row in the set to fall below 100 FPS.

At 4K, the pattern becomes much more settings-sensitive. Low produces 135.9 FPS, Medium produces 87.6, High produces 77.2, and Ultra produces 60.1. The gap between Low and Ultra at 4K is far larger than at 1080p, reinforcing the idea that resolution and preset both put heavy load on the GPU. The dataset does not include minimum or maximum FPS values, so the analysis is based on average FPS only.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is built on the Blackwell 2.0 architecture with the GB202 chip. It has a base clock of 2017 MHz and a boost clock of 2407 MHz. Its memory configuration is 32 GB of GDDR7 on a 512-bit bus, with 1.79 TB/s of memory bandwidth. The GPU also has 21760 shading units, 170 ray tracing cores, and 680 tensor cores, and it supports DirectX 12 Ultimate.

In synthetic benchmarks, the GPU scores 14411 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, 380114 in Geekbench OpenCL, and 379571 in Geekbench Vulkan. It also scores 39650 in PassMark G3D and 26756 in PassMark GPU compute. Its average benchmark score is 84306, placing it at the 94th percentile of all GPUs. Among its nearest rivals, the RTX 5090 is 0.1% higher than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D, 0.2% higher than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile, 1.3% higher than the AMD Radeon PRO W6600, and 1.6% lower than the NVIDIA CMP 40HX.

The GPU’s role in Rust can be seen in the preset scaling at 4K. With the same resolution, switching from Low to Medium changes average FPS from 135.9 to 87.6, and switching from High to Ultra changes it from 77.2 to 60.1. The 32 GB frame buffer and 1.79 TB/s bandwidth provide a large memory envelope, but the measured FPS still declines heavily with preset, indicating that render workload, not memory capacity, is the main factor driving the preset differences.

Settings Recommendations

Based on the measured rows, the best experience depends on resolution. At 4K, High is the strongest balance in the dataset: it delivers 77.2 FPS, whereas Ultra drops to 60.1 and Medium is 87.6. The Medium preset is faster, but High is the highest quality preset measured that stays clearly ahead of the 4K Ultra result. If maximum frame rate is the priority, 4K Low at 135.9 FPS is available, but it comes with a large visual quality reduction.

At 1440p, High at 131.5 FPS is a strong choice for high-refresh displays. The Ultra preset at 98.6 FPS is also viable for a smoother experience than 4K, while Medium at 150.7 and Low at 210.8 provide progressively higher frame rates. At 1080p, Ultra at 141.4 FPS is the best preset for image quality, with High at 188.1, Medium at 205.1, and Low at 237.4 available for higher refresh rates.

The measured data indicates that the combination can handle 4K High comfortably, 1440p High with plenty of headroom, and 1080p Ultra with enough frame rate for high-refresh operation. For users who prioritize keeping frame rate above the level seen at 4K Ultra, the 4K High and 1440p High rows are the most balanced measured options.