Thief

The pairing of the AMD Ryzen 7 7700 with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 produces a balanced mid-range platform for the stealth title Thief. According to the measured FPS data, this combination achieves an average of 124 FPS at 1080p Medium, 85 FPS at 1440p Medium, and 50 FPS at 4K Medium. The combo is ranked 2258th out of 3720 tested configurations, placing it below the median. The processor, an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 4 part with a 5.30 GHz boost clock, delivers an average benchmark score of 40081, while the GPU, a Blackwell 2.0 with 2560 shading units, posts an average benchmark score of 21035. These figures set the context for how the two components share the workload across resolution and setting combinations.

FAQ

*Q: What is the system's overall performance rank in Thief?*

A: The combination of the AMD Ryzen 7 7700 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 ranks 2258th out of 3720 tested combos in Thief.

Q: What are the frame times for the GPU?

A: The RTX 5050 has 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, providing a bandwidth of 320.0 GB/s. Its base clock is 2317 MHz, game clock is 2572 MHz, and memory 2500 MHz effective.

Q: What is the CPU's architecture and memory support?

A: The Ryzen 7 7700 is built on TSMC's 5 nm process (Zen 4, Raphael) with L3 cache of 32 MB shared. It supports dual-channel DDR5 memory with a bandwidth of 83.2 GB/s.

Q: How does the CPU's single-core performance look?

A: The 3DMark single-thread score is 1049, while Cinebench R23 single-core reaches 1930. Geekbench single-core is 2525, and PassMark single-thread is 4063.

Q: Both The CPU's avgBenchmarkScore of 40081 and the GPU's avgBenchmarkScore of 21035 place them in the 87th and 66th percentiles of all CPUs and GPUs, respectively.

These figures show a not-insignificant gap: the CPU has 87th-percentile performance while the GPU sits at the 66th percentile. This is a notable discrepancy that hints at potential GPU limitations in high-detail scenarios.

Settings Recommendations

Among the measured presets, Medium offers the most favorable balance between visual fidelity and performance. At 1080p, Medium yields an average frame rate of 124 FPS, which is only 2 FPS behind High’s 95 FPS and 34 FPS above Ultra’s 90 FPS. However, Medium maintains the highest average FPS at 4K: 50 FPS versus 38 FPS for High and 36 FPS for Ultra. At 1440p, Medium delivers 85 FPS, a 20 FPS improvement over Ultra's 65 FPS. Thus, the preset occupies the top-tier performer at all three tested resolutions, while still providing a frame rate near the next visual setting.

Conversely, Ultra is the most visually demanding, dropping to 90 FPS at 1080p, 62 FPS at 1440p, and only 36 FPS at 4K. For players with 1080p displays aiming for refresh rates above a 60 Hz threshold, both Ultra and High remain viable, but Medium supplies a comfortable buffer. When the display is 1440p, only Medium and Low exceed 60 FPS; at 4K, Low alone reaches 66 FPS while Medium arrests at 50. Therefore, Medium is the recommended preset for a consistent experience, while Low is the only setting that achieves comfortable 4K frame rates.

GPU Role

The RTX 5050’s design includes 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM on a 128-bit bus, generating a bandwidth of 320.0 GB/s. With 2560 shading units, 20 Tensor cores, 20 RT cores, and base/boost clocks of 2317/2572 MHz, this GPU targets the entry-to-midrange segment. In Thief, the measured FPS data shows clear scaling between settings: at 1080p, the move from Low to Medium to High to Ultra produces a sequential drop, 164 → 124 → 95 → 90 FPS. The GPU’s frame generation and memory bandwidth influence these numbers, but the presence of 8 GB of VRAM becomes a bottleneck in higher detail configurations. In the 4K rows, Ultra pushes the average down to 36 FPS, with High at 38 FPS and Medium at 50 FPS. This suggests that at 4K, the console is under enough memory pressure to drag performance below 60 FPS for all settings except Low.

Moreover, the RTX 5050’s average GPU benchmark score (21035) puts it at the 66th percentile. In comparison, its approximate rivals, the AMD RX Vega M GL (21153) and the Radeon HD 8970M (21237), are within 3.1% of its score, while the NVIDIA RTX A4000 Mobile (21379) is 1.6% higher. This combinatorial placement indicates that the RTX 5050’s raw power aligns closely with mid-range mobile GPUs, but the dedicated game title here reveals its weaker aspect, compromising at 4K Ultra to below 40 FPS.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The chart below summarizes the average FPS for each resolution and preset.

1920x1080

• Low: 164 Avg FPS
• Medium: 124 Avg FPS (min 106, max 143)
• High: 95 Avg FPS
• Ultra: 90 Avg FPS

2560x1440

• Low: 112 Avg FPS
• Medium: 85 Avg FPS (min 72, max 98)
• High: 65 Avg FPS
• Ultra: 62 Avg FPS

3840x2160

• Low: 66 Avg FPS
• Medium: 50 Avg FPS (min 43, max 58)
• High: 38 Avg FPS
• Ultra: 36 Avg FPS

These numbers, based on measured data, indicate a consistent degradation as resolution increments, with a monotonic reduction in average FPS from Low to Ultra at every native resolution. The min/max columns for Medium reveal that the minimums keep the frame times stable: at 1080p the emulation window is 106–143, at 1440p it is 72–98, and at 4K it is 43–58.

How This Combo Ranks

In the overall ranking for Thief, this combo achieves 2258th place out of 3720 tested combinations. That is in the bottom 39% of the ranking (since 3720 - 2258 = 1462 results are below it, while 2258 results are above it). The GPU’s percentile (66th) and CPU’s percentile (87th) help explain its placement: the CPU is above average while the GPU is slightly below the 2/3 mark, and this δ across hardware tiers places the pair in the lower net half of leaderboards. When.

The CPU’s nearest rival results drawn from the database - AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 (±0.1%), Intel Core 3 221E (–0.2%), and AMD Ryzen 9 270 (–0.6%) – all sit with deltas under 1%, meaning the 7700’s performance level is a prominent grouping and not an outlier. Similarly, the GPU's nearest rivals: the AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL ( -0.6%), Radeon HD 8970M (–1%), Radeon RX 5600 XT (+1.6%), and NVIDIA RTX A4000 Mobile (–1.6%) all cluster tightly around its score. Thus, the combo places effectively in line with expectations given its upper-tier CPU and lower-middle GPU.

CPU Role

The Ryzen 7 7700 uses the Zen 4 design on the 5nm process, tweezers 8 cores and 16 threads, base clock 3.80 GHz, and boost up to 5.30 GHz. It belongs to the 7000 series for socket AM5. Its compute output is supported by a 32 MB L3 cache and a dual-channel DDR5 memory interface with 83.2 GB/s of bandwidth.

In this historical title, the CPU’s role is to feed the GPU with drawcalls and simulation workloads. The high general-purpose scores - Cinebench R23 multicore of 18760, single-core 1930, and 3DMark multi-thread of 8479 – indicate far more headroom than the GPU may exploit. At 1080p Low, the GPU max reaches 164 FPS, which likely serves as the ceiling for the graphics card. At such a resolution, the game is CPU-bound; the GPU is the selection that ultimately determines frame output. Yet the data show that at 4K, even the lowest preset yields 66 FPS, demonstrating that the CPU still sustains a stable baseline.

Looking at the CPU’s nearest neighbor, the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 (0.1% difference) and Intel Core 5 221E (-0.2%), the 7700’s performance is balanced. The CPU’s average benchmark score of 40081 is only 0.1% higher than its accelerator, showing the platform’s strong processing capabilities.

Nonetheless, in a title from 2014 that is not excessively heavy on multi-threading, the 8-core/16-thread part is more than sufficient. The thread scaling behavior is similar to other scenes: single-thread tasks (Cinebench R23 single-core 1937) counter the scoring by relaying that even a single thread can reach 60+ FPS.

Resolution Scaling

Researchers measured FPS across three resolutions: 1080p, 1440p, and 4K, at each preset. A clear monotonic decline occurs in every preset. For instance, at High settings, the average FPS drops from 95 at 1080p to 65 at 1440p (a reduction of 30 FPS) and then to 38 at 4K (a further 27 FPS). Similarly, Medium runs at 124 FPS (1080p), 85 (1440p), and 50 (4K). Ultra, the highest setting, scales 90→62→36, and Low scales 164→112→66.

The scaling pattern stands as: lowering the render resolution provides a linear boost. The 1080p to 4K span yields a multiplication factor of about 2.5, as shown by the ratios – from 95 to 38 is ~2.5x, and from 124 to 50 is ~2.5x. Thus, a four-fold increase in pixel count (as it would be) 1080→4K (19201080=2.07M, 40962160=8.85M, 4x) yields an only 1.9x drop in FPS (95/38 ≈ 2.45). The actual scaling is in the range of 1 to 2, which implies the GPU is the zero-limiting component, not the CPU.

The 7700’s capacity to adjust the visuals is evident, its 5.3 GHz boost and 6560 million of transistors on 71mm² legacy process do not interfere in this title's rendering. The 1440p to 4K drop shows a majority of a pattern. For example, at Ultra, FPS drops by 26 from 62 to 36, while at 1080p to 1440p the differential is 28 (90 to 62). The steadiness of the relative gaps across the range points to the GPU’s rendering ability. In contrast, the CPU: as 4K lifts the resolution, the frametimes remain equal to the 1080p0 conditions, reaffirming the limiting component.

The results highlight that this combination delivers comfortable frames up to 1440p, but at 4K only Low preset reaches 66 FPS, and Medium sits at the borderline of 50.