The Medium

# The Medium with AMD Ryzen 5 5600X + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti delivers a decidedly capable experience in The Medium, a fixed-camera horror title that proves more demanding than its genre might suggest. The measured data places this combination at rank 175 out of 1,689 tested combos, placing it comfortably within the top 11% of configurations. The RTX 5070 Ti, built on the Blackwell 2.0 architecture with 8,960 shading units and 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus, provides substantial raw throughput, while the Ryzen 5 5600X, a 6-core/12-thread Zen 3 part with a 4.60 GHz boost clock, keeps pace across most resolutions. The benchmark results reveal a system that scales predictably with resolution and settings, though the relationship between CPU and GPU workload shifts notably as pixel count rises.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS data from 1080p to 4K tells a clear story about where the bottleneck lives in this pairing. At 1920x1080 with High settings, the combo produces 82.1 FPS, while at 2560x1440 High the frame rate drops to 68.2 FPS — a 17% reduction. Moving to 3840x2160 High yields 53.5 FPS, another 21.5% decline from the 1440p figure. This scaling pattern is consistent with a GPU-bound scenario at higher resolutions, but the 1080p numbers suggest the CPU is not entirely off the hook.

The Low settings results are particularly revealing. At 1080p Low, the system hits 143.4 FPS, but at 1440p Low it only drops to 134.3 FPS — a mere 6.3% reduction. At 4K Low, the average is 120 FPS, which is still only 16.3% below the 1080p figure. This relatively flat scaling at Low settings indicates that the Ryzen 5 5600X is approaching its practical limit in this game's less demanding visual states; the 6-core/12-thread configuration with a 3.70 GHz base clock appears to be the limiting factor when GPU load is light. The 3dmark single-thread score of 917 and passmark single-thread score of 3,364 support this interpretation — the CPU has solid single-core performance but not an overwhelming margin.

At High and Ultra settings, the scaling steepens considerably, confirming that the RTX 5070 Ti becomes the primary constraint as shader and texture complexity increase. The 4K Ultra result of 44.8 FPS versus 1080p Ultra's 65.4 FPS represents a 31.5% drop, and the gap between Medium and High at 4K (77.2 FPS to 53.5 FPS) shows how heavily the GPU is taxed by the game's fixed-camera rendering techniques.

FAQ

Q: What is the best resolution for achieving 60+ FPS with this combo?

A: The data shows that 2560x1440 with Medium settings achieves 97.3 FPS, and even High settings at 1440p maintains 68.2 FPS. At 3840x2160, only Low (120 FPS) and Medium (77.2 FPS) exceed 60 FPS, while High (53.5 FPS) and Ultra (44.8 FPS) fall short.

Q: How does the RTX 5070 Ti compare to its nearest GPU rival in aggregate benchmarks?

A: The RTX 5070 Ti's average benchmark score of 52,086 is essentially identical to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080's 52,085, with a deltaPct of 0. It trails the AMD Radeon RX 7700S by 0.8% (52,505 vs. 52,086) and the AMD Radeon Pro W6600M by 2.5% (53,414 vs. 52,086), while leading the NVIDIA RTX A1000 by 2.5% (50,826).

Q: What is the FPS difference between Low and Ultra settings at 1080p?

A: At 1920x1080, the gap from Low (143.4 FPS) to Ultra (65.4 FPS) is 78 FPS, representing a 54.4% reduction in performance. Medium settings sit at 117.1 FPS, and High at 82.1 FPS.

Q: Is the Ryzen 5 5600X a bottleneck at 4K?

A: The data does not indicate a CPU bottleneck at 3840x2160. The FPS scaling from 1440p to 4K at High settings (68.2 to 53.5 FPS) and the relatively modest FPS differences between Low and Medium at 4K (120 to 77.2 FPS) show the GPU is the primary limiter at this resolution.

*Q: How does this combo rank among all tested configurations in The Medium?*

A: The combination ranks 175th out of 1,689 tested combos, placing it in the top 10.4% of all systems tested in this game.

Q: What memory bandwidth does the GPU provide for texture-heavy scenes?

A: The RTX 5070 Ti has a 256-bit memory bus with GDDR7 memory running at 28 Gbps effective, delivering 896.0 GB/s of bandwidth. This is paired with 16 GB of VRAM.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, a Vermeer-generation Zen 3 part on the 7 nm TSMC process, brings 6 cores and 12 threads with a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz. Its 32 MB of L3 cache and 51.2 GB/s dual-channel DDR4 memory bandwidth are solid for a desktop part, and its benchmark scores — Cinebench R23 multi-core of 18,578 and single-core of 2,622 — place it in the 78th percentile of all CPUs tested. The nearest rival, the AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT, scores 20,740 on average, a negligible 0.3% delta, meaning these CPUs are for practical purposes interchangeable in this game.

In The Medium, the CPU's role is most visible at lower resolutions and settings. The 1080p Low result of 143.4 FPS versus 1440p Low's 134.3 FPS shows only a modest decline, and the 4K Low figure of 120 FPS suggests that even at 4K, the CPU is still contributing meaningfully when GPU load is minimal. The passmark multithread score of 21,858 and 3dmark max-threads score of 5,588 indicate a processor that can feed the GPU adequately in most scenarios, but the 6-core/12-thread layout appears to cap frame rates in the 140-150 FPS range at 1080p Low. The 3dmark 2-thread score of 1,793 and 4-thread score of 3,363 show that the CPU's strength is concentrated in multi-threaded workloads, which aligns with the game's use of multiple camera and audio streams.

The CPU's aggregate benchmark average of 20,680 and 78th percentile ranking place it as a mid-to-upper-tier processor, and the nearest rival deltas (all within 0.7%) confirm that this is a well-understood, predictable part. The 65 W TDP and 4,150 million transistors on a 74 mm² die speak to efficiency, though in-game results are what matter here, and the data shows a CPU that rarely throttles the RTX 5070 Ti except in the most GPU-light configurations.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the RTX 5070 Ti and Ryzen 5 5600X produce a wide spread of results across the four settings presets. Low settings deliver 143.4 FPS, the highest figure recorded in this test set. Medium drops to 117.1 FPS, a 18.3% reduction from Low. High settings fall to 82.1 FPS, which is 42.7% below Low. Ultra, the most demanding preset, yields 65.4 FPS — a 54.4% reduction from Low and a 20.3% drop from High. The progression from Medium to High is the steepest single-step decline, at 35 FPS, suggesting a significant increase in shader complexity or texture filtering at the High preset.

At 2560x1440, the pattern holds but with lower absolute numbers. Low settings produce 134.3 FPS, only 6.3% below the 1080p Low figure, which reinforces the CPU-bound analysis at this setting. Medium achieves 97.3 FPS, a 27.6% drop from Low. High settings fall to 68.2 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 56.6 FPS. The gap between Medium and High at 1440p is 29.1 FPS, slightly narrower than at 1080p, indicating that the GPU is beginning to assert dominance. The 1440p Ultra result of 56.6 FPS is just shy of the 60 FPS threshold, so users targeting smooth gameplay at this resolution will need to stay at High or below.

At 3840x2160, the GPU is clearly the limiting component. Low settings still manage 120 FPS, which is a 16.3% drop from 1080p Low — a smaller relative decline than the 4K-to-1080p resolution increase would suggest, again pointing to CPU limits at Low. Medium settings fall to 77.2 FPS, a 35.7% reduction from Low. High settings drop to 53.5 FPS, and Ultra produces 44.8 FPS, the lowest score in the entire dataset. The 4K Ultra figure is 31.5% below the 1080p Ultra result of 65.4 FPS, and the gap between Medium and High at 4K (23.7 FPS) shows how heavily the game's higher presets tax the GPU's 43.94 TFLOPS FP32 throughput and 686.6 GTexel/s texture rate.

How This Combo Ranks

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti combination ranks 175th out of 1,689 tested combos in The Medium, placing it in the top 10.4% of all systems evaluated. This is a strong showing for a CPU that sits in the 78th percentile of all processors and a GPU in the 87th percentile of all GPUs. The RTX 5070 Ti's aggregate benchmark score of 52,086 places it essentially at parity with the RTX 4080 (52,085, deltaPct 0), and its 3dmark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 6,604 indicates strong modern API performance.

The ranking suggests that this combo overperforms slightly relative to its component percentiles, likely because The Medium's fixed-camera perspective and controlled scene complexity favor the combination of a competent 6-core CPU and a high-end GPU. The CPU's Cinebench R20 multi-core score of 7,802 and Geekbench multi-core score of 8,673 are respectable, and the passmark physics score of 1,316 suggests adequate game physics processing. The 0.3% delta to the Ryzen 5 5600GT and Intel Core i7-10700 in CPU aggregate benchmarks means that swapping to those parts would produce nearly identical results, while the RTX 5070 Ti's GPU rivals — the RX 7700S and Pro W6600M — are within 2.5% in aggregate, so users should expect similar frame rates from those pairings.

The overall picture is one of balance: the CPU does not substantially hold back the GPU at 1440p and 4K, and the GPU provides enough headroom to play at High settings at 1440p and Medium at 4K. The rank of 175 out of 1,689 is a statistical confirmation that this is a well-matched pair for this specific title, sitting above the median combo in both component performance percentiles and real-world game results.