Thief

The 2014 stealth title Thief may be old by some measures, but its benchmark data with the Intel Core i5-10400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti provide a clear, measurable look at how a Comet Lake 6-core CPU and an Ampere 8 GB GPU handle a well-optimized single-player stealth engine. The dataset in question contains real, measured framerates across three resolutions and four quality presets, along with synthetic CPU and GPU benchmarks, and it places this combo at position 1981 out of 3720 tested system/game combinations. The CPU's six cores, twelve threads, 2.90 GHz base clock, and 4.30 GHz boost clock are paired with the RTX 3070 Ti's 8 GB GDDR6X, 1770 MHz boost clock, and 21.75 TFLOPS FP32 performance. Since every figure here is directly from the measured telemetry set, the analysis below sticks strictly to what the numbers show about this pairing in Thief.

FAQ

Q: What is the overall GPU performance percentile of the RTX 3070 Ti in this record?

A: The GPU sits at the 75th percentile among all GPUs in the benchmark database, with its average benchmark score of 29945 placing it just ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile (GSM) by a deltaPct of 0.1. Behind it sits the RTX 2080 Ti (0.5 deltaPct) and the AMD Radeon RX 6800 (deltaPct -0.5).

Q: Which resolution gives the highest average framerate in Thief with this combo?

A: The record shows 1920x1080 at Low settings producing 125 avg FPS, while 1920x1080 at Medium produces 113 FPS, High yields 102 FPS, and Ultra delivers 100 FPS. Lower is never an issue here; the maximum FPS output and the minimum FPS at Medium 1080p are 130 and 96 respectively.

Q: How does the CPU compare to closely ranked rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The Intel Core i5-10400F posts an average benchmark score of 14185. That mark puts it 0.2% above the Intel Xeon 6756E and 0.5% above the AMD EPYC 7552, while trailing the Intel Core 7 160UL by 0.3% and the AMD Ryzen 3 7320C by 0.6%.

Q: What memory setups does the RTX 3070 Ti use?**

A: 8 GB of GDDR6X sits on a 256-bit bus, producing 608.3 GB/s of memory bandwidth, with memory clocked at 1188 MHz (or 19 Gbps effective).

Q: Where does this combo rank among all recorded Thief combinations?**

A: It ranks 1981 out of 3720. Given that over 1700 combos fall below it, that's a middle-of-the-pack placement.

Q: How does the CPU deliver in single-threaded metrics?**

A: The i5-10400F records a Geekbench single-core score of 1420, a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 1451, and a 3DMark single-thread score of 688, indicating that assembly—which relies on single threaded physics.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-10400F belongs to the Comet Lake generation, a 14 nm desktop chip on the Intel Socket 1200, with six physical cores and twelve threads. Its base frequency is 2.90 GHz and it boosts up to 4.30 GHz, while the L3 cache is 12 MB shared across cores. The memory controller supports DDR4 and two channels, delivering a defined memory bandwidth of 42.7 GB/s. With only 16 PCIe Gen 3 lanes for the CPU, the connection to a GPU is standard, though the CPU’s role here is not PCIE bandwidth-limited.

The CPU benchmarks reflect a solid mid-range part. In 3DMark, the chip reaches 3929 with eight threads, 4748 with sixteen threads, and 2560 with four threads. The single-thread showing of 688 in the same suite points to modest per-core power. Cinebench results echo that: R20 multi-core 4318, R20 single-core 609; R23 multi-core 10283, R23 single-core 1451. Geekbench records a multi-core of 6257 and a single-core of 1420. Passmark’s multithread score is 12115, and the "passmark_multithread" line reads 12115 (the duplicate single-thread score is 2541). The CPU sits at the 68th percentile of all CPUs, underlining. In Thief, a 2008-era stealth game, the render threads are relatively light and rely heavily on the traditional frame on a single-thread or a couple of threads.

From the measured FPS data, this CPU is not the slather in Thief: the Comet Lake chip’s 6/12 configuration can feed the RTX 3070 Ti at 1080p well, as shown by 100 FPS at Ultra settings, 102 FPS at High, and 125 FPS at Low on 1920x1080. It is a single "Ultra" preset in the measured set that yields 100 FPS — not a CPU-bound scenario in that case. The benchmark score lines of 3dmax 2 threads (1350) and 3d mark_single_thread (688) together clarify why a lower resolution, particularly 1080p, doesn't get gamma> details 130 max FPS; by contrast, the same integrated CPU when paired with any other GPU in theory would be a CPU-bound situation.

The CPU data show no launch MSRP recorded, so the two-priced measure provides nothing. Beyond the game, the neighbor file from nearestRivals: rivaled by Xeon 6756E (avg 14163) and Ryzen 3 7320C (14277) — these deltas are under 0.6%. The i5-10400F thus sits tightly against that pack; a 0.2 point gap over Xeon 6756E and 0.5 over EPYC 7540. In practical Thief gameplay, these synthetic scores align with a CPU that can capture a high framerate ceiling when the GPU is not being pressured by resolution.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is built from the GA104 chip, using Ampere architecture, on Samsung’s 8 nm process with 17,400 million transistors packed into a 392 mm² die. The specifications read: 6144 shading units, 192 texture mapping units, 96 ROPs, 48 ray tracing cores, and 192 tensor cores. Its pixel rate is 169.9 GPixel/s and the texture rate is 339.8 GTexel/s. The main branch is 21.75 TFLOPS of FP32 performance (same for FP16), at a base clock of 1575 MHz and a boost clock of 1770 MHz. The 8 GB GDDR6X runs at 1188 MHz (19 Gbps effective) over a 256-bit bus, delivering 608.3 GB/s of bandwidth. Its TDP is 290 W, suggesting a 600 W PSU, and it uses a single 12-pin power connector. The card spans a dual-slot, 267 mm long, 112 mm tall, and uses PCIe 4.0 x16. Its API support reaches DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), Vulkan (3) 1.4, and OpenGL 4.6. The GPU was at end-of-life and succeeded by the GeForce 40 series.

In raw performance terms, the RTX 3070 Ti sits at the 75th percentile of all GPUs in the database, with an average benchmark score of 29945 and nearest competitors that are by the numbers neighbours: the RTX 5070 Mobile at 0.1 deltaPct, the AMD Radeon RX 6800 at -0.5, the RTX 2080 Ti at +0.5, and the Radeon RX 6790 at -1.6. Its synthetic scores are as follows: 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 yields 3478; Geekbench OpenCL 119718 and Vulkan 139541; Passmark’s G3D reports 23356 and GPU compute 11601. The G3D ratio, combined with pixel rate and texture rate, explains the strong 1080p values.

Specifically, the RTX 3070 Ti’s measured FPS in Thief: at 1080p on High it gives — Large numbers: 102 average; at Medium it rides the 113 FPS (minimum 96, max 130). This is all with the 8GB VRAM fully satisfied by the game, since large textures of 2014 engine typically occupy no more than 4-8 GB. Because the ultra preset at 1080p still returns 100 FPS, the GPU is clearly able to render the geometry and lighting than the CPU can conduct at that scene level. At 4K, the variety is evidenced: Low 89, Medium 67, High 51, Ultra 49. The dip from High to Ultra in 4K is only 21 fps drop (ft/ui). That said the GPU role crosses over with CPU constraints at 1080p because both specifications climb with the GHz boost (CPU 4.30) and GPU boost 1776 MHz as far relative.

The relevant bathtub reasoning: while the CPU delivers 100–125 FPS at 1080p, the GPU keeps those numbers largely yield-to-video. At 4K Ultra, the 49 avg means the COM is limited by pixel throughput and VRAM bandwidth; likely the senior units saturass at 608.3 GB/s. So the measured data illustrates that 30700 Ti is the unilateral limit at high res.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination is a machine ranked in the unified game-performance leaderboard: the position is 1981 of 3720 measured combos. A "rank 1981" places it in the upper-middle of the field (out of 3720). The combo stands above hundreds of weaker pairings, but it is also expected — there are many high-end configs above.

Given the GPU’s 75th percentile across all GPUs and the CPU’s 68th percentile, this does not yet align exactly with the combinatorial midpoint. The rank in Thief (37/3720) suggests that in this optimized stealth engine, the pair performs approximately the same as its synthetic parts would predict. That means it’s nearly the product of CPU and GPU it would be — but with room for the CPU high equity.

Because Thief has a released 2014 frame-lock predominately, the measured FPS never reach CPU-bound high value; maximum FPS at 1080p medium is 130. The contextual score delta places the GPU as 0.1% behind the RTX 5070 Mobile (29928 vs 29945) and 0.5% ahead of the RTX 2080 Ti (29783). The CPU delta is 0.2% above a Xeon in avg and 0.6% below the Ryzen3 7320. Relative to all combos, this creates a representative 6-core/12-thread and 8GB-VRAM config that launches in the rank 50% region of Thief's benchmark superlative.

Resolution Scaling

The measured data quantifies scaling: from 1080p to 4K, the frame count for each preset falls consistently to the GPU shader load. At the Ultra preset (default: 1080p 100; 1440p 83; 2160p 49) — performance reduces by about 50 frames from 1080p to 4K. At High (102, 87, 51), it falls by 51 FPS over the span. At Medium, 1080p is 113, 1440p is 99, and 4K is 67; the 4K value is lower but still a playable medium. At Low, 1080p 125, 1440p 110 and 4K 89 — the least steep drop. The shapes show that as resolution climbs, FPS decreases less than the linear pixel increase—indicating not a memory bandwidth or a single component limit but a balance.

Consider the jump from 1440p (2560x1440) to 4K (3840x2160); For High, it goes 87 to 51; Ultra