To The Core

To The Core is an idle game, and the measured data for the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 is marked as a real measured result rather than a synthetic projection. The combination sits at rank 1445 out of 1756 in this game's combo list. The CPU's average benchmark score is 18129, placing it at the 76th percentile of all CPUs, while the GPU's average benchmark score is 16074, placing it at the 58th percentile of all GPUs. That gap is reflected in the frame rates: the CPU is capable of very high averages at low resolution, but the GPU becomes the limiting factor as resolution increases.

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

At 1920x1080, the Low preset averages 241.3 FPS and Ultra averages 141.4. At 2560x1440, Low drops to 164.1 and Ultra to 96. The same movement appears on Medium, which falls from 202.5 at 1080p to 134.8 at 1440p, and on High, which falls from 175.4 to 120. At 3840x2160, the rows continue downward: Low is 89.3, Medium 80.6, High 67.8, and Ultra 53.4. The 4K Low result is 89.3 against the 1080p Low result of 241.3, and the 4K Ultra result is 53.4 against the 1080p Ultra result of 141.4, so the resolution penalty is substantial across every preset. If the Ryzen 5 3600 were the primary bottleneck, the 1080p and 4K rows for the same preset would not diverge to this degree. The resolution scaling therefore points to the RTX 2060 as the component being loaded by increasing pixel counts.

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

The RTX 2060 is a TU106 part on TSMC's 12 nm process, with a 160 W TDP. It has 6 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, a memory clock of 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective transfer, and a bandwidth of 336.0 GB/s. The core runs at 1365 MHz base and 1680 MHz boost, and the 1920 shading units are paired with a texture rate of 201.6 GTexel/s and a pixel rate of 80.64 GPixel/s. These specifications put the GPU at the 58th percentile of all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 16074. The nearest rival list shows an RX 7600S with a deltaPct of 0.5, the Radeon Pro 5600M and Pro 5700 with -1.7, and the Radeon Pro W5500 with 1.8. In To The Core, the GPU's role is most visible at 4K: every preset drops well below its 1440p counterpart. The 6 GB frame buffer is the same at every setting, yet frame rates still fall from Low to Ultra, so the rendering pipeline, not the memory capacity, appears to be the active constraint when preset quality increases.

How This Combo Ranks — use comboRankInGame vs other tested combos

The combo's in-game rank is 1445 out of 1756, placing it in the lower portion of the tested field. The CPU percentile of 76 and GPU percentile of 58 are both solid in their individual pools, but the in-game rank is much lower, which suggests that the game's measured rows are not simply an average of component percentiles. The CPU's nearest rival list includes the Intel Core i5-11400 with a deltaPct of -0.1, the AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS with 0.2, the AMD Ryzen 5 1600 with -0.2, and the AMD EPYC 9274F with -0.3. The GPU's nearest rival list includes the AMD Radeon RX 7600S with 0.5, the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M and Pro 5700 with -1.7, and the AMD Radeon Pro W5500 with 1.8. Those are tight synthetic margins. In To The Core, however, the final rank is determined by the measured FPS rows, and those rows show that the GPU is the component that holds this combo back when resolution and settings are raised.

Measured FPS Breakdown — resolution by resolution, settings by settings, exact numbers

The measured file contains average FPS values; min and max are null for every row. The full breakdown is:

| Resolution | Settings | Avg FPS |

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

| 3840x2160 | High | 67.8 |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 89.3 |

| 3840x2160 | Medium | 80.6 |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra | 53.4 |

| 2560x1440 | High | 120 |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 164.1 |

| 2560x1440 | Medium | 134.8 |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra | 96 |

| 1920x1080 | High | 175.4 |

| 1920x1080 | Low | 241.3 |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 202.5 |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 141.4 |

The lowest average in the set is 3840x2160 Ultra at 53.4, and the highest is 1920x1080 Low at 241.3.

CPU Role — cores, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The AMD Ryzen 5 3600 is a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 2 processor from the 3000 series, built on TSMC's 7 nm process. It runs at a 3.60 GHz base clock and 4.20 GHz boost clock, with a 32 MB shared L3 cache, a 65 W TDP, and dual-channel DDR4 support providing 51.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Its synthetic scores show a balanced part: 3DMark 16 threads scores 4605, max threads scores 4603, and single thread scores 696. Cinebench R23 returns 15045 multi-core and 2124 single-core. The CPU's average benchmark score is 18129, and its nearest rivals are all within 0.3 in deltaPct. In this game, the CPU's strength is visible at the low-resolution end: 1080p Low reaches 241.3 FPS, the best row in the measured set. Because the same CPU is paired with the same GPU at 4K, and the 4K averages are much lower, the CPU is not the main constraint there. The chip has enough multi-threaded headroom for this idle game, but the measured frame rates are ultimately governed by the GPU when resolution and settings rise.

Settings Recommendations — which preset gives the best experience per the measured rows

For 1920x1080, the highest preset is still measured at 141.4 FPS, so Ultra is a defensible choice if visual quality is the priority. High at 175.4 provides more headroom, and Medium at 202.5 provides more still, but no 1080p row falls below 141.4. At 2560x1440, High produces 120 FPS while Ultra produces 96, so High is the better balance between preset quality and measured frame rate. At 3840x2160, Low is 89.3, Medium is 80.6, High is 67.8, and Ultra is 53.4; the practical 4K presets in this dataset are Low or Medium, since the two higher presets drop further. Across the full measured set, 2560x1440 High at 120 FPS stands out as the row that combines a higher resolution, a high preset, and a clear margin over the 4K results.