Thief

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 pairing delivers measured frame rates between 72 and 171 FPS across four presets and three resolutions in Thief, with the exact combination ranking 686th out of the 3,720 hardware bundles tracked for the game. The Ryzen 5 5600GT brings six Zen 3 cores and twelve threads, while the RTX 4080 provides 16 GB of GDDR6X memory; their combined output is high enough that even the most demanding measured setting—4K Ultra—stays above 70 FPS. This next multinational breakdown digs into what the measurements show about each component’s role.

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

Looking at the measured rows, the scale between 1080p and 1440p is modest for every preset. At High settings, the average sits at 134 FPS in 1080p, then only slips to 119 FPS in 1440p—a decline that does not appear between the same preset at 1440p and 4K, where it drops from 119 to 76 FPS. The Low preset follows a similar shape: 164 FPS at 1080, 145 at 1440, but only 121 at 4K. Thus a handful of frames—the difference between the middle resolution and the highest—clearly methodically shrinks how much the pixel count limits the card.

This pattern indicates that the GPU becomes increasingly dominant as resolution climbs, whereas the slower step between 1080p and 1440p suggests a point where the CPU or memory the component's role as a secondary limiter. At 4K, the gap from 121 (Low) to 72 (Ultra) is a full 49 frames per second, meaning that preset choice has a dramatic impact when the card is heavily utilized. Meanwhile, at 1080p the same preset jump only changes the result from 164 down to 132—a spread of just 32 FPS. The tighter the window at low resolution, the less headroom the GPU has to express its large base clock of 2205 MHz and boost of 2505 MHz. Since the game is from February 2014, it may not thread heavily across the CPU’s twelve threads; the measured scaling supports the view that the RTX 4080 is essentially unimpressed by Thief’s workload at 1440p and below.

The only rows that capture a minimum and maximum are the Medium preset. At 4K, the range spans from 85 to 114, giving an average of 100; at 1440 it runs from 111 to 151 with a 131 average; and at 1080p it minuimal between 126 and 171. This shows that as the resolution increases, the minimum frame rate falls close to the average, possibly because the card is mostly doing the same job across all pixels, while the CPU can keep up virtually all resources. The max values also tighten as the bump goes up, a sign that the engine has a fairly consistent scan out rate. If the GPU work rises with pixel count, the CPU has less idle time and the whole pipeline remains busy—yet even at 4K the minima are above what an older stealth title demands, so the data does not reveal any hard 'of frame crunch.

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

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 in this test carries 16 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit bus, with a stated bandwidth of 716.8 GB/s. These are modern quantities, and Thief’s dataset makes clear that the card’s memory speed does not become a wall at any of the four presets: even the 4K Ultra setting does not soak most of that bandwidth. The core runs at a base of 2205 MHz and boosts to 2505 MHz, clock speeds that are in the top tier of the card’s generation. Those clocks translate into a pixel rate of 280.6 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 761.5 GTexel/s—the copper for the sizable frame counts.

The RTX 4080’s 86th percentile among all GPUs in the database further explains why the 4K High average of 76 FPS does not slip further. The card’s measured peak performance on a generic pass-aggregate is 54,247, and its nearest score comparison is the RTX 4080 SUPER with an average score of 54,409 (delta −0.1%), meaning the basic version is effectively matched by the SUPER in synthetic benchmarks. This exact parity is visible in Thief’s frame numbers: Ten FPS measured at 1080p’s Ultra shows the system’s ceiling immediately rather than the GPU’s own limit.

The memory clock is 1400 MHz, rated at 22.4 Gbps effective. Combined with the 16 GB capacity, the card has room to store any of Thief’s texture data without forcing a spill to system memory. There may be no textures will not saturate this quantity of VRAM, so the only upper constraint appears to be the shading units (9,728) and the RT cores (76) that Thief’s engine does not fully utilize. In short, the GPU delivers just enough throughput that the frame rate ceiling is defined by software presets and resolution the feature scaling, not by the card’s own resources.

FAQ — GPU and CPU Relations

Q: What is the highest average FPS in Thief for this hardware, and under which setting?

A: The highest average FPS is recorded at 1080p with Low settings—the average reaches 164 FPS. No other combination surpasses that in the dataset.

Q: Which settings produce the only measured minimum and maximum values?

A: The Medium preset is the only one to include min and max values. At 4K, the range is 85–114 FPS around a 100 FPS average; at 1440p it is 111–151 FPS with an average of 131; at 1080p the range is 126–171 FPS with 148 average.

Q: How does the Ryzen 5 5600GT compare to the Intel Core i5-12490F in synthetic CPU benchmarks?

A: The Ryzen 5 5600GT has an average benchmark score of 20,733, which is 0.3% lower than the Core i5-12490F’s score of 20,802. This places both CPUs within a narrow 0.3% difference.

Q: In the GPU database, the RTX 3080 sits near which other NVIDIA card?

A: The RTX 4080 comparison shows its average score is 54,409, while the RTX 4080 SUPER averages 54,409, giving the original card a 0.1% higher result. The two cards are effectively tied.

Q: At 4K Ultra, does the system maintain an average above what the Low preset offers in 4Kp?

A: Not within the 4K resolution space. The Ultra average is 72 FPS, while the Low preset at 4K delivers 121 FPS. The distinguishing factor is a 32 FPS (64%) difference between those two presets.

Q: How common is this combo rank?

A: Among all 3,720 configurations benchmarked in Thief, this pair ranks 686th, placing it comfortably in the upper percentile of situations that ensure strong play.

Measured FPS Breakdown — Exact Numbers

| Resolution | Settings | Average FPS | Minimum | Maximum |

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

| 3840×2160 | High | 76 | – | – |

| 3840×2160 | Low | 121 | – | – |

| 3840×2160 | Medium | 100 | 85 | 114 |

| 3840×2160 | Ultra | 72 | – | – |

| 2560×1440 | High | 119 | – | – |

| 2560×1440 | Low | 145 | – | – |

| 2560×1440 | Medium | 131 | 111 | 151 |

| 2560×1440 | Ultra | 117 | – | – |

| 1920×1080 | High | 134 | – | – |

| 1920×1080 | Low | 164 | – | – |

| 1920×1080 | Medium | 148 | 126 | 171 |

| 1920×1080 | Ultra | 132 | – | – |

The narrative that emerges from these rows is consistent: the widest spread between preset appears at 1440p, where Ultra (117) is barely 9 FPS slower than High (119) while Low jumps to 145. At 1080p, the order from Low to Ultra is 164, 148, 134, and 132, which means that dropping from Low to Ultra costs only 84 FPS (actually 32 FPS? yes, 164 down to 132). However, the average difference between 1440p and 4K on High is 119 against 76; that is a 43 FPS step, the single largest resolution penalty in the data.

Each Medium preset offers a stable mid-point with measured minima. The 4K Medium’s 85 FPS floor, while the lowest of all rows, still yields 87 FPS better than the Ultra's overall average of 72. At 1080p, the Medium's minimum of 126 FPS is a strong representation of the card's headroom.

Settings Recommendations — Which Preset Provides the Ideal Experience

If the goal is to sustain high and constant staltery at 4K, the Medium preset is the clear candidate: it reaches 100 FPS on average and never falls below 85 at the same resolution, whereas the higher High and Ultra content suffer from width narrower margins without recorded minimums. At 4K High the average is 76, and too often Ultra dips to 72, so the Ultra’s profit over High is a mere 4 FPS, almost not worth the extra graphics load.

At 1440p, the Medium setting delivers 131 FPS with minima of 111, mirroring 1440p's best combination of smoothness and visual fidelity. Moving to High bumps the score to 119, but adds no frame data on the low end. The Ultra setting matters, as it pulls 117 FPS, within 2% of High—so on this card, the difference between High and Ultra falls is more cosmetic than performance. Budget-conscious players are thus better to set 1440p High or even Ultra, since the cost is \(\sim2\) frames on average.

At 1080p the hardware is abused by definition: even Ultra posts 132 FPS, and Low posts 164. The most ‘estaminet’ choice is the Medium preset, which delivers 148 average with a minimum of 126—a margin large enough to absorb any occasional dips on a high-refresh monitor. Ultra and High final numbers (132 and 134) are so close that picking one of the two is a matter of taste.

The key recommendation drawn from the dataset: for a lock near 120 FPS at 4K with still high panels, Medium is the only preset with min values; for 1440p it's likely the whole span beyond 111 FPD to