Thief

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The measured FPS data for Thief with the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G and AMD Radeon RX 570 combination shows a clear hierarchy across the four available presets. At 1080p, the Low preset delivers 75.7 FPS average, which is the only setting that comfortably exceeds the 60 FPS threshold typically associated with smooth gameplay in a stealth title. The Medium preset drops to 58.7 FPS, still playable but marginally below that mark. High and Ultra follow at 43.7 FPS and 40.3 FPS respectively.

At 1440p, the pattern shifts. Low produces 51.7 FPS, Medium falls to 38.3 FPS, and both High and Ultra sink to 29.8 FPS and 29 FPS. At 4K, the situation becomes untenable for most presets: Low manages 31.4 FPS, Medium 20.3 FPS, High 18 FPS, and Ultra 15.1 FPS.

The data indicates the Low preset at 1080p is the only configuration that delivers a fully fluid experience. However, the Medium preset at 1080p deserves consideration if visual fidelity matters more than the small FPS gap. The measured spread between Low and Medium at 1080p is 17 FPS, while the gap between Medium and High is 15 FPS. This suggests diminishing returns as settings climb. For players prioritizing frame rate stability, Low at 1080p is the empirically supported choice. For those willing to accept 58.7 FPS, Medium provides a better balance. No preset at 1440p or 4K achieves even 55 FPS, making those resolutions impractical for sustained gameplay with this hardware.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 570 features 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus, yielding 224.0 GB/s of bandwidth. Its base clock runs at 1168 MHz, boosting to 1244 MHz. The card has 2048 shading units, 128 TMUs, and 32 ROPs, producing a pixel rate of 39.81 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 159.2 GTexel/s. FP32 throughput is 5.095 TFLOPS.

In Thief, the GPU's memory capacity and bandwidth appear to be the primary constraints at higher resolutions. The measured FPS drops sharply when moving from 1080p to 1440p and again to 4K, which aligns with the card's 4 GB frame buffer being stressed by larger render targets. At 4K Ultra, the 15.1 FPS average indicates the GPU is severely bottlenecked, likely struggling with both fill rate and memory pressure. The 14 nm Polaris 20 chip, built by GlobalFoundries, has 5,700 million transistors on a 232 mm² die.

The RX 570's percentile rank of 74 among all GPUs places it in the upper mid-range historically, but its nearest rivals by average benchmark score include the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 (0.2% higher) and AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT (0.2% higher). These modern cards vastly outperform it in raw compute, yet the RX 570's GCN 4.0 architecture still handles Thief's 2014 engine adequately at lower presets. The 150 W TDP and PCIe 3.0 x16 interface are consistent with its era, but the card's end-of-life production status suggests its performance ceiling is fixed.

How This Combo Ranks

This specific combination of AMD Ryzen 7 5700G and AMD Radeon RX 570 ranks 1585 out of 1642 tested combos in Thief. That places it in the bottom 3.5% of all configurations tested for this game. The rank reflects the GPU's age more than the CPU's capability, as the 5700G is a modern 8-core processor.

The low ranking is unsurprising given that the RX 570's average benchmark score of 30158 places it near the RTX 5060 and RX 7700 XT in synthetic tests, but those comparisons are misleading for gaming. The 0.2% to 0.8% deltaPct values against those rivals indicate near-identical synthetic scores, yet Thief's real-world results show the RX 570 lagging far behind what those modern GPUs would achieve. This discrepancy suggests Thief's engine is particularly sensitive to the RX 570's architectural limitations, especially at higher resolutions.

For context, the CPU in this combo has a percentile rank of 83 among all CPUs, meaning the Ryzen 7 5700G outperforms 83% of processors. The GPU's percentile of 74 is lower, but the extreme combo rank of 1585 out of 1642 indicates that even a strong CPU cannot compensate for the GPU's weaknesses in this specific title. The data implies that pairing this GPU with a weaker CPU would yield even worse results, making the 5700G a best-case companion for the RX 570 in Thief.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the full preset range is measurable. Low produces 75.7 FPS, Medium 58.7 FPS, High 43.7 FPS, and Ultra 40.3 FPS. The step from Low to Medium costs 17 FPS, from Medium to High costs 15 FPS, and from High to Ultra costs only 3.4 FPS. This last gap is particularly telling: the jump from High to Ultra barely affects performance, suggesting the Ultra preset adds features that are not heavy on the GPU.

At 2560x1440, the numbers compress. Low delivers 51.7 FPS, Medium 38.3 FPS, High 29.8 FPS, and Ultra 29 FPS. The relative gaps shrink compared to 1080p, with the difference between High and Ultra shrinking to just 0.8 FPS. This convergence indicates that resolution scaling overwhelms preset differences at this resolution.

At 3840x2160, the results are uniformly low. Low preset achieves 31.4 FPS, Medium 20.3 FPS, High 18 FPS, and Ultra 15.1 FPS. The gap between Low and Medium is 11.1 FPS, but from Medium to High it narrows to 2.3 FPS, and from High to Ultra to 2.9 FPS. At 4K, even the lowest preset fails to reach 32 FPS, making the resolution largely unplayable regardless of settings.

The data shows that the RX 570 can handle 1080p Low at 75.7 FPS, which is a smooth experience for a stealth game. At 1080p Medium, the 58.7 FPS average still provides acceptable gameplay. Beyond that, frame rates drop into the 40s and below, which would be noticeable in fast-paced sections of Thief.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS degradation from 1080p to 4K is steep and consistent across all presets. For Low settings, 1080p yields 75.7 FPS, 1440p drops to 51.7 FPS (a 31.7% reduction), and 4K falls to 31.4 FPS (a 58.5% reduction from 1080p). For Medium, the progression is 58.7 to 38.3 to 20.3 FPS, representing a 34.8% drop to 1440p and a 65.4% drop to 4K. High settings show 43.7 to 29.8 to 18 FPS, with reductions of 31.8% and 58.8% respectively. Ultra goes from 40.3 to 29 to 15.1 FPS, a 28% drop to 1440p and a 62.5% drop to 4K.

These scaling patterns reveal that the GPU is the limiting component. The pixel count quadruples from 1080p to 4K, but the FPS does not drop to a quarter of the 1080p value in any preset. For Low, 4K delivers 41.5% of the 1080p frame rate; for Medium, 34.6%; for High, 41.2%; for Ultra, 37.5%. This non-linear scaling suggests that memory bandwidth and fill rate constraints become more pronounced at higher resolutions, but the CPU still provides enough headroom to prevent a complete collapse.

The 5700G's 51.2 GB/s memory bandwidth and dual-channel DDR4 support are not directly relevant to the GPU's video memory, but the overall system balance favors the CPU. At 4K, the RX 570's 224.0 GB/s bandwidth is insufficient for the texture loads required, explaining why even Low settings struggle. The resolution scaling data strongly indicates that players should stay at 1080p for any acceptable experience with this combo.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G provides 8 cores and 16 threads, with a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz. Its Zen 3 architecture on the Cezanne codename is built on a 7 nm process at TSMC, with 10,700 million transistors on a 180 mm² die. The cache hierarchy includes 64 KB L1 per core, 512 KB L2 per core, and 16 MB of L3.

In Thief, the CPU's role is secondary to the GPU, as evidenced by the FPS patterns. At 1080p Low, 75.7 FPS suggests the CPU can feed the GPU adequately, but the RX 570's limits appear before the 5700G's capabilities are exhausted. The CPU's single-thread performance, measured at 899 in 3dmark single-thread and 3283 in passmark single-thread, is sufficient for Thief's 2014 engine, which typically relies on one or two main threads.

The 5700G's multicore strength, shown by a cinebench r23 multicore score of 20755 and a passmark multithread score of 24419, does not translate to higher FPS in Thief because the game is not heavily threaded. The CPU's average benchmark score of 25626 places it just 0.3% below the AMD Ryzen 7 6800U and 0.4% above the Intel Xeon D-2752TER, but these synthetic comparisons do not reflect gaming performance.

The CPU's 65 W TDP and integrated Radeon Vega 8 graphics are irrelevant to the dedicated RX 570, but the 5700G's PCIe Gen 3 interface with 16 lanes matches the GPU's PCIe 3.0 x16 bus. This compatibility means no bandwidth bottleneck between the components. The data suggests that the Ryzen 7 5700G is more than capable of driving the RX 570 to its full potential in Thief; the GPU is the sole reason for the low combo rank of 1585 out of 1642.