To The Core

To The Core is an idle game whose measured FPS table places the Intel Core i7-14700KF + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 at rank 877 out of 1756 tested combos. The CPU is the stronger half of this pairing: it has 20 cores, 28 threads, and a 96th-percentile standing among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 70104. The GPU sits in the 73rd percentile among all GPUs with an average score of 30109. Measured rows show that the combo is fastest at 1920x1080 Low (334.1 fps) and slowest at 3840x2160 Ultra (75.5 fps), and every preset loses FPS as resolution and settings increase.

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

The Intel Core i7-14700KF is a 20-core, 28-thread desktop processor based on Raptor Lake and built on a 10 nm process. It runs at a 3.40 GHz base clock and a 5.60 GHz boost clock, with 33 MB of shared L3 cache and 80 KB L1 plus 2 MB L2 per core. It supports DDR4 and DDR5 memory through a dual-channel memory bus and uses an Intel Socket 1700. Its benchmark profile reinforces that role: Cinebench R23 multicore 44557 and singlecore 6290, Geekbench multicore 19287 and singlecore 2972, PassMark multithread 52425, PassMark single-thread 4480, and an average benchmark score of 70104. That places the CPU in the 96th percentile of all CPUs.

The nearest rivals are all close. The Intel Core i7-14700K averages 70074 with deltaPct 0. The AMD EPYC 9115 averages 69887 with deltaPct 0.3. The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X averages 70420 with deltaPct -0.4. The Intel Xeon Platinum 8270 averages 71056 with deltaPct -1.3. For To The Core, this CPU strength appears in the highest measured row: 1920x1080 Low reaches 334.1 fps, which is the fastest average in the entire measurement set. At that resolution and preset, the CPU's high single-thread score (Cinebench R23 singlecore 6290, PassMark single-thread 4480) is enough to keep the frame rate far above the GPU-bound results seen at 3840x2160.

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

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 is built on Blackwell 2.0 at 5 nm, with the GB206 chip containing 21,900 million transistors on a 181 mm² die. It has 8 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 128-bit bus with 448.0 GB/s bandwidth, and its memory clock is 1750 MHz, listed as 28 Gbps effective. The GPU runs at 2280 MHz base and 2497 MHz boost, with 3840 shading units, 120 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 30 RT cores, and 120 tensor cores. Its rated pixel rate is 119.9 GPixel/s, texture rate 299.6 GTexel/s, FP32 performance 19.18 TFLOPS, and FP16 performance 19.18 TFLOPS. The benchmark data shows PassMark G3D 20891, PassMark GPU Compute 10899, Geekbench OpenCL 120785, and Geekbench Vulkan 116626, placing the GPU in the 73rd percentile of all GPUs with an average score of 30109.

Its nearest rivals are tightly grouped. The AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT scores 30097 with deltaPct 0. The AMD Radeon RX 570 scores 30158 with deltaPct -0.2. The NVIDIA Tesla M60 scores 29969 with deltaPct 0.5. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile scores 29928 with deltaPct 0.6. The GPU's role in To The Core is visible in the settings and resolution response: at 3840x2160 Ultra it falls to 75.5 fps, the lowest measured value, while 1920x1080 Low reaches 334.1. That large gap points to the GPU as the component that scales the frame rate downward as load increases.

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

The measured data forms a consistent pattern. For Low, FPS goes from 334.1 at 1920x1080 to 226 at 2560x1440 to 125.2 at 3840x2160. Medium goes from 279.7 to 186.2 to 110.6. High goes from 240.5 to 163.7 to 91.1. Ultra goes from 195.3 to 129.8 to 75.5. In every preset, raising the resolution lowers the average FPS. Within each resolution, the Low preset is faster than the Ultra preset, and the spread between Low and Ultra is present at every step. At 1920x1080, Low is 334.1 and Ultra is 195.3. At 2560x1440, Low is 226 and Ultra is 129.8. At 3840x2160, Low is 125.2 and Ultra is 75.5.

This response to both resolution and settings says the GPU is the main limiting component as load increases. If the CPU were limiting, the frame rate would not drop so sharply when shifting from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 while holding the same preset. The CPU's 96th percentile and high single-thread scores make it capable of feeding the GPU, but the GPU's lower 73rd percentile is the more likely ceiling in the heavier rows.

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

| Resolution | Low | Medium | High | Ultra |

| 1920x1080 | 334.1 | 279.7 | 240.5 | 195.3 |

| 2560x1440 | 226 | 186.2 | 163.7 | 129.8 |

| 3840x2160 | 125.2 | 110.6 | 91.1 | 75.5 |

All 12 rows are measured data. No minimum or maximum frame rate values are present in the data, so these averages are the complete FPS set. The fastest result is 1920x1080 Low at 334.1. The slowest is 3840x2160 Ultra at 75.5. Within every resolution, the ordering is the same: Low has the highest average, followed by Medium, High, and Ultra. At 2560x1440, Low's 226 fps is faster than every 3840x2160 row, including 3840x2160 Low's 125.2. At 1920x1080, even Ultra's 195.3 fps is far ahead of the 3840x2160 Ultra result of 75.5.

FAQ

Q: How does the Intel Core i7-14700KF compare with its closest CPU rivals?

A: The i7-14700KF has an average benchmark score of 70104 and ranks in the 96th percentile of all CPUs. Its nearest rival list includes the Core i7-14700K at 70074 with deltaPct 0, the AMD EPYC 9115 at 69887 with deltaPct 0.3, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X at 70420 with deltaPct -0.4, and the Intel Xeon Platinum 8270 at 71056 with deltaPct -1.3. This places the processor near the top of the tested CPU field.

Q: How does the RTX 5060 compare with the RX 7700 XT?

A: The RTX 5060's average benchmark score is 30109, while the RX 7700 XT's average is 30097 with deltaPct 0. Those numbers put the two effectively level. The RTX 5060 also sits in the 73rd percentile of all GPUs.

Q: What is the highest measured frame rate in the data?

A: 1920x1080 Low produces 334.1 fps, the fastest row in the measured FPS set. The slowest row is 3840x2160 Ultra at 75.5 fps.

Q: Does the CPU or GPU have more benchmark headroom?

A: The CPU ranks in the 96th percentile of all CPUs with an average score of 70104. The GPU ranks in the 73rd percentile of all GPUs with an average score of 30109. The higher CPU percentile and the resolution-related FPS drops indicate the GPU is the more limiting side at higher settings.

Q: What memory configuration does the RTX 5060 use?

A: It uses 8 GB of GDDR7 on a 128-bit bus with 448.0 GB/s memory bandwidth. The memory clock is 1750 MHz, listed as 28 Gbps effective.

Q: Where does this combo rank among all tested combinations?

A: The combo ranks 877 out of 1756 tested combos in To The Core. That is just above the midpoint of the tested field, despite the CPU's high 96th-percentile standing.

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

The measured rows give a clear hierarchy: Low is fastest, Ultra is slowest at every resolution. If the goal is maximum average FPS, the data points to 1920x1080 Low at 334.1. If visual quality is more important, 2560x1440 Ultra stands out because its 129.8 fps is higher than every 3840x2160 preset, including 3840x2160 Low's 125.2, while using the top settings tier. At 1920x1080, Ultra also performs well at 195.3 fps, giving a high-quality option with a large margin over the 3840x2160 Ultra result of 75.5. For 3840x2160 use, Medium at 110.6 fps is the strongest balance between quality and speed; High drops to 91.1 fps and Ultra to 75.5 fps, while Low at 125.2 fps trades away quality for a smaller gain. Based strictly on the measured rows, 2560x1440 Ultra delivers the best overall experience because it is the highest settings tier at a higher-than-1920x1080 resolution and still averages more FPS than any 3840x2160 row.

How This Combo Ranks — use comboRankInGame vs other tested combos

The combination's in-game rank is 877 out of 1756 tested combos, placing it slightly above the middle of the database. This result is below what the CPU's 96th percentile might imply, but it aligns with the GPU's 73rd percentile. The CPU average score of 70104 and the GPU average score of 30109 are both close to their immediate rivals, so the combo is not an outlier; it sits in a dense field. The measured FPS rows reinforce that placement: the system is capable of 334.1 fps at 1920x1080 Low, but under maximum load at 3840x2160 Ultra it falls to 75.5 fps. That range, combined with the mid-field rank, shows a pairing with a very strong CPU and a solid but not top-tier GPU. In To The Core's combo ranking, the GPU holds the overall result back from the CPU's high percentile.