Undisputed

The AMD Ryzen 5 2600 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 produces a wide spread of frame rates across the four presets in Undisputed, with the 1080p Medium setting offering the most balanced experience. At 1080p Medium, the combo delivers 255.6 FPS, which is 43 FPS higher than the 1080p High preset (212.6 FPS) and only 94.7 FPS below the absolute ceiling of 350.3 FPS seen at 1080p Low. The jump from Medium to High at 1080p costs 43 FPS, while the step from High to Ultra costs 74.2 FPS, making Ultra a heavy penalty for marginal visual gains. At 1440p, the Medium preset produces 185.1 FPS, which remains above the 1440p High result of 157.9 FPS by a comfortable margin. For 4K, the situation changes: Medium drops to 117.8 FPS, while High falls to 100.6 FPS, and Ultra plummets to 64.7 FPS. The data suggests that Medium is the sweet spot across all resolutions, as it maintains a significant lead over High while avoiding the steep performance cliff of Ultra. Low settings, while offering the highest frame rates (350.3 FPS at 1080p), sacrifice too much visual fidelity for a game where the extra headroom is rarely necessary above 200 FPS.

CPU Role

The Ryzen 5 2600 is a 6-core, 12-thread processor from AMD's 2000 series, built on the 12 nm Zen architecture (Pinnacle Ridge) with a base clock of 3.40 GHz and a boost clock of 3.90 GHz. Its benchmark profile shows a single-core Cinebench R23 score of 1579 and a multi-core score of 11186, placing it in the 77th percentile of all CPUs. In the context of Undisputed, a sports title that relies on consistent frame pacing, the CPU's single-thread performance is more relevant than its multi-core throughput. The 1579 single-core score in Cinebench R23 indicates that the processor can handle the game's physics and AI calculations without becoming a bottleneck at lower resolutions. However, the data reveals a pattern: at 1080p Low, the combo hits 350.3 FPS, which is likely near the CPU's practical limit for this engine. When the resolution increases to 1440p Low, the frame rate drops to 257.3 FPS — a 26.5% reduction that suggests the GPU is beginning to take over the workload. At 4K Low, the frame rate falls further to 163.4 FPS, a 35.9% drop from 1440p, confirming that the CPU's role diminishes as resolution scales. The processor's 16 MB of shared L3 cache and dual-channel DDR4 memory support (46.9 GB/s bandwidth) are adequate for the game's demands, but the aging Zen architecture shows its limits in the highest-refresh scenarios. Compared to its nearest rivals, the Ryzen 5 2600's average benchmark score of 19616 is 0.4% behind the Intel Core i5-1345U (19691) and 0.6% ahead of the AMD Ryzen 5 7530U (19508), indicating that it remains competitive with much newer mobile parts in synthetic workloads. In game-specific terms, the CPU's 6 cores and 12 threads are sufficient to feed the RTX 3080 at 1440p and 4K, where the GPU becomes the primary driver of performance.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is a high-end Ampere architecture GPU with 10 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 320-bit bus, providing 760.3 GB/s of bandwidth. Its boost clock of 1710 MHz and 8704 shading units deliver a peak FP32 throughput of 29.77 TFLOPS, which places it in the 80th percentile of all GPUs. In Undisputed, the GPU's role escalates with resolution and settings, as evidenced by the measured frame rates. At 1080p Medium, the combo produces 255.6 FPS, but at 4K Medium, that figure drops to 117.8 FPS — a 53.9% reduction. This steep decline indicates that the RTX 3080's 10 GB VRAM and bandwidth are being stressed at 4K, particularly with higher texture quality. The 4K Ultra result of 64.7 FPS is particularly telling: it represents a 74.7% drop from the 1080p Medium result, showing that the GPU is the limiting factor at this resolution and preset combination. The GPU's memory subsystem, with 760.3 GB/s of bandwidth, is sufficient for 1440p High (157.9 FPS) and 1440p Ultra (102.9 FPS), but at 4K, the 10 GB capacity may cause texture thrashing in Ultra settings, explaining the disproportionate performance hit. Compared to its nearest rivals, the RTX 3080's average benchmark score of 35787 is 0.2% behind the AMD Radeon Pro Duo (35860) and 0.9% behind the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE (36101), while sitting 1% ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile (35435). This positioning suggests that the RTX 3080 remains a formidable GPU for 1440p gaming, but its 4K Ultra performance in Undisputed is hampered by the combination of VRAM capacity and the game's settings scaling.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the Ryzen 5 2600 and RTX 3080 achieves a rank of 502 out of 1580 tested combos in Undisputed, placing it in the 68.2nd percentile of all systems tested. This ranking is notable because it reflects the imbalance between the two components: the GPU is a high-end part (80th percentile of all GPUs), while the CPU is a mid-range part from 2018 (77th percentile of all CPUs). The combo's rank of 502 indicates that while the RTX 3080 provides the bulk of the gaming performance, the Ryzen 5 2600 holds the system back from reaching the top tier. In practical terms, the combo delivers 138.4 FPS at 1080p Ultra, which is a playable frame rate, but the 64.7 FPS at 4K Ultra falls below the 100 FPS threshold that many competitive sports titles aim for. The rank of 502 out of 1580 suggests that there are 501 other combinations that outperform this pairing, likely due to newer CPUs with higher single-thread performance that can better feed the RTX 3080 at lower resolutions. At 1440p, where the GPU becomes more dominant, the combo's performance is more respectable: 157.9 FPS at High and 102.9 FPS at Ultra are both solid results. The data indicates that this pairing is best suited for 1440p gaming, where the CPU's limitations are less exposed and the GPU's strengths are fully utilized.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals a clear transition in the system's bottleneck. At High settings, the combo delivers 212.6 FPS at 1080p, 157.9 FPS at 1440p, and 100.6 FPS at 4K. This represents a 25.7% drop from 1080p to 1440p, and a further 36.3% drop from 1440p to 4K. The scaling is relatively linear, suggesting a balanced load between CPU and GPU at High settings. However, at Low settings, the scaling is more dramatic: 350.3 FPS at 1080p drops to 257.3 FPS at 1440p (a 26.6% reduction) and then to 163.4 FPS at 4K (a 36.5% reduction from 1440p). The persistence of this scaling pattern at Low settings indicates that the GPU is the primary limiting factor across all resolutions, as the CPU's workload remains relatively constant while the GPU's pixel-pushing demands increase. At Ultra settings, the scaling becomes more pronounced: 138.4 FPS at 1080p, 102.9 FPS at 1440p, and 64.7 FPS at 4K. The 1080p to 1440p drop of 25.6% is consistent with other presets, but the 1440p to 4K drop of 37.1% is the largest of any preset, confirming that the RTX 3080's 10 GB VRAM is stressed by 4K Ultra textures. The overall pattern suggests that the RTX 3080 is the dominant component in this pairing, with the Ryzen 5 2600 providing sufficient CPU throughput to avoid becoming a bottleneck at any resolution. The 4K Low result of 163.4 FPS demonstrates that the GPU can still deliver high frame rates at 4K when settings are reduced, but the 4K Ultra result of 64.7 FPS highlights the GPU's limitations at maximum settings. For users seeking the best experience, the 1440p Medium preset (185.1 FPS) offers the most efficient balance of visual quality and performance, as it remains well above the 100 FPS threshold while providing a substantial improvement over Low settings.