Thief

Thief, the 2014 stealth title, is not a demanding title by modern standards, but the benchmark data for the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER pairing shows a combination that scales cleanly across resolutions and settings. The data is measured, marking this combo at 103rd place out of 3,720 tested combinations. The CPU sits in the 92nd percentile among all processors, while the GPU ranks in the 86th percentile, and the raw scores indicate a system that comfortably run Thief at high frame rates across the board, but with important behavior at the boundaries.

Resolution Scaling

The most direct way to read the performance of this combo is the lift from 1080p up to 4K. At 1080p, the pair pushes very high frame rates at every preset: 232 FPS on Low, 210 FPS on Medium, 187 FPS on High, and 178 FPS on Ultra. Moving down to 1440p, the numbers drop by 12–20%: Low goes from 232 to 205 (about 11.6% lower), Medium from 210 to 168, High from 187 to 128, and Ultra from 178 to 122. The 4K step is where the GPU starts to strain: Low falls to 130 FPS, Medium to 99, High to 75, and Ultra to 72. In percentage terms, the game’s frame rate at 4K is roughly 44% of its 1080p value for Low settings, 47% for Medium, and 60% for both High and Ultra. That uneven scaling reveals the bottleneck shifting from the CPU at lower resolution to the GPU at 4K—the system is never CPU‑bound at any setting, but the RTX 4080 SUPER becomes the limit once the pixel count rises.

Going from Medium to Ultra on the same resolution yields a predictable gap: at 4K, Medium averages 99 FPS and Ultra dips to 72, a 27% reduction. At 1440p, the gap is 168 vs 122, similar 27% drop. At 1080p, Medium 210 vs Ultra 178, about 15% lower. The difference between High and Ultra is small—only 3 FPS at 4K (75 vs 72) and 6 FPS at 1440p (128 vs 122)—while Low to Medium produces a larger jump because low settings remove shadow quality and post‑process effects. Resolution scaling respects the game’s age: even the 4K Ultra frame rate of 72 FPS stays above 60, but if the target is a 144Hz monitor, 1440p High (128 FPS) and 1080p( 187 FPS) are the sweet spots.

GPU Role

The RTX 4080 SUPER carries 16 GB of GDDR6X memory, a 256‑bit bus, and 736.3 GB/s of bandwidth. That amount of VRAM and raw memory bandwidth is far beyond what any title from 2014 will use—even at Ultra 4K, the memory footprint likely stays well under its 16 GB capacity, though the pack doesn’t provide explicit usage. The GPU’s compute profile is also robust: 52.22 TFLOPS FP32, 320 TMUs, and 112 ROPs, with a boost clock of 2550 MHz. Thief uses DirectX 11 (the pack lists no DirectX 12 support for the game; the GPU’s Vulkan 1.4 and D3D12 Ultimate are irrelevant here except as a specification), so these raw figures are more than sufficient.

The GPU’s average benchmark score is 54,209, which puts it just 0.1% above the RTX 4080 (score 54,247) and 1.1% above the Radeon Pro W5700X (54,828), but slightly behind the Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB (55,698, -2.7%) and the Radeon 8060S (55,757, -2.8%). In Thief, those abstract differences vanish; the measured FPS data shows the GPU handles every preset up to 4K with 72 FPS at Ultra. The 60% drop from 1080p to 4K at High settings points to the GPU being the primary limiter at higher resolution, while the memory bandwidth of 736.3 GB/s keeps the 4K texture loads stable even within the game’s older engine.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D is an 8‑core, 16‑thread processor with a base clock of 4.70 GHz and a boost of 5.60 GHz. Its 96 MB L3 cache is large, and its Zen 5 architecture at 4 nm from TSMC yields strong single‑thread performance, as shown by the Cinebench R23 single‑core score of 2,228 and Passmark single‑thread of 4,704. The CPU runs the game’s main thread easily; Thief is not heavily threaded, so the 16 threads rarely contribute. Yet the CPU’s multi‑thread scores are also high: Cinebench R23 multi‑core 22,807, Passmark multi‑thread 41,318. Effectively, the CPU is never the bottleneck. The data confirms this: the switch from 1080p High (187 FPS) to 4K High (75 FPS) is not a perfect ×2.5 drop, but that drop is far greater than a CPU‑side limitation would produce. The game’s frame rates stay well above 180 FPS at 1080p, and those numbers only fall when the GPU has to resolve more pixels.

The CPU sits in the 92nd percentile of all CPUs, a wearable rollover rate given its position among four nearest rivals: it is 0.1% faster than the Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M (58,323 avg) and 0.5% faster than the Intel Core i9‑14900 (58,115), but it trails the Intel Xeon w5‑2545 by 0.2% (58,504) and the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 by 0.7% (58,826). These five processors cluster within a 1% band, confirming that the 9850X3D is not the performance outlier in this combo—the GPU is. For a 2014 title like Thief, the CPU’s raw compute headroom goes unused, and no in‑game setting shows any sign of a CPU limit; even the lightest setting at 1080p Low returns 232 FPS, which is greater than the monitor refresh needed by most users.

How This Combo Rings

This specific pairing ranks 103rd out of 3,720 tested combinations, which places it in the top 2.8% of all tested rigs. That ranking is overwhelmingly driven by the GPU’shigh performance on 4K. The CPU’s high average benchmark score on its own would put it among the top 10% of processors, but the combo’s rank is helped by the fact that the RTX 4080 SUPER’s own average score (54,209) is above the 86th percentile of all GPUs. In practice, the combo never produces a frame rate below 72 FPS at any preset tested, and at 1440p and 1080p it exceeds 120 FPS in all settings. The rank suggests that only 102 other pairings can offer better results on Thief, and those would require CPUs with higher multi‑thread output and GPUs with even higher native horsepower—likely higher‑end GeForce 50‑series or Radeon offerings, but the pack doesn’t name them.

The performance spread from the FPS data: the minimum ever observed in these tests is 84 FPS (4K Medium), and the maximum is 241 FPS (1080p Medium). That variation is expected in a stealth game with crowded interior scenes, but the slight difference between Medium minimum and maximum shows the game is relatively stable. The Ultra preset, despite its name, only costs 4 FPS at 4K relative to High, so the user can use Ultra without compromise if they can handle 72 FPS.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS for each resolution and settings are as follows, all average fps unless otherwise stated:

• 1920×1080: Low 232, Medium 210 (min 178, max 241), High 187, Ultra 178.
• 2560×1440: Low 205, Medium 168 (min 143, max 194), High 128, Ultra 122.
• 3840×2160: Low 130, Medium 99 (min 84, max 114), High 75, Ultra 72.

The Medium preset is the only one that includes frame‑time minimum and maximum. At 1080p, the minimum is 178, the maximum is 241, giving a 35% range. At 1440p, the spread is 143–194, about 17% between the extremes, and at 4K, it’s 84–114, a roughly 26% variation. These numbers reflect that the game’s engine on the medium preset is not as stable as on Low or High, but there is no 4K Ultra min/max available. The data also show that dropping from 1080p Medium to 1440p Medium costs about 20% of frames (210 to 168), while dropping from 1440p to 4K costs an additional 36% (168 to 99). That echoes the scaling trend: every resolution tier increases the resolution five of the 2 thousand settings combination responses between 100 FPS and 200 FPS, and only the 4K Ultra sits just over 70 FPS.

FAQ

Q: What is the average frame rate at 1440p High?

A: 128 FPS. The frame rate falls to 122 FPS at Ultra, a 6 FPS difference.

Q: Does this combo always run above 60 FPS?

A: Yes, the lowest recorded average is 72 FPS at 3840×2160 Ultra. The minimum frame time at Medium 4K is 84 FPS per the provided data.

Q: How does the CPU compare to its nearest rivals in raw processing?

A: The Ryzen 7 9850X3D shows an average score of 5,8386 against the Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M (58,323, +0.1%), the Intel Core i9‑14900 (58,115, +0.5%), the Xeon w5-2545 (58,504, -0.2%), and the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 (58,826, -0.7%). All are within 1% of each other.

Q: How much VRAM does the RTX 4080 SUPER feature, and why is it sufficient?

A: It has 16 GB of GDDR6X with 736.3 GB/s bandwidth. For Thief, a 2014 title, this capacity is vastly above the needs of any texture preset; the game does not use more than a fraction of it.

Q: What settings would give the highest frame rates?

A: At 1080p, the Low preset produces 232 FPS. The Medium preset, the only one with min/max data, yields 210 FPS with extremes of 178 and 241. At 4K, the Low preset still delivers 130 FPS, which is above 120 FPS.

Q: After honing the 3,720 tried combinations, what percentile does this combo be in?

A: Rank 103, which is the top 2.8% (103/3720). That places the combination in the 97.2nd percentile of all tested rigs.