Undisputed

The pairing of AMD’s Ryzen 5 4600G with NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4090 in Undisputed is a study in extremes: a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 2 processor built for efficiency, harnessed to a 24 GB flagship GPU that remains among the fastest ever produced. The resulting benchmark data reveals a combination that is overwhelmingly GPU-bound at higher resolutions, yet surprisingly capable of delivering high refresh rates even at 4K. This analysis breaks down the measured performance across resolutions and settings, contextualizes the CPU’s role, and ranks the combo against 1,579 other tested configurations.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate deltas between 1080p and 4K clearly illustrate where the bottleneck lies. At Low settings, the average FPS drops from 414.6 at 1920x1080 to 368.6 at 2560x1440, a reduction of 11.1%, and then falls to 245.9 at 3840x2160, a further 33.3% decline from the 1440p figure. This steep, progressive drop indicates that the CPU is not the limiting factor at Low settings; instead, the GPU’s raw fill rate and shading power are being tasked with more pixels, and the performance scales accordingly.

The scaling pattern shifts dramatically with Ultra settings. At 1920x1080 Ultra, the average is 204.4 FPS. Moving to 2560x1440 Ultra yields 148.4 FPS, a 27.4% decrease. At 4K Ultra, the average plummets to 95.8 FPS, which is 35.4% lower than the 1440p result. The fact that the 1080p Ultra score (204.4 FPS) is roughly half of the 1080p Low score (414.6 FPS) suggests that at lower resolutions, the Ryzen 5 4600G begins to show its limits, preventing the RTX 4090 from fully stretching its legs. However, as resolution climbs to 4K, the GPU’s workload becomes so immense that the CPU’s single-thread limitations are masked, and the scaling becomes more predictable.

The data shows a consistent trend: the gap between Low and Ultra settings narrows as resolution increases. At 1080p, the difference between Low (414.6) and Ultra (204.4) is 210.2 FPS. At 1440p, that gap shrinks to 220.2 FPS (368.6 vs. 148.4). At 4K, the gap narrows to 150.1 FPS (245.9 vs. 95.8). This is classic GPU-bound behavior; the RTX 4090’s 82.58 TFLOPS of FP32 compute and 1.01 TB/s of memory bandwidth are the primary drivers at 4K, while the CPU’s 3.70 GHz base and 4.20 GHz boost clocks become more relevant at 1080p.

FAQ

*Q: Does the Ryzen 5 4600G bottleneck the RTX 4090 in Undisputed?*

A: At 1080p with Low settings, the average of 414.6 FPS suggests a CPU ceiling is being approached, given that the CPU’s multi-threaded benchmark scores (e.g., 13,593 in Cinebench R23) are moderate. However, at 4K Ultra, the 95.8 FPS average indicates the GPU is the primary constraint.

Q: What is the best resolution for this combo to achieve 144+ FPS?

A: The data shows 144+ FPS is achievable at High settings across all three resolutions: 314.8 FPS at 1080p, 230.4 FPS at 1440p, and 144.7 FPS at 4K. For Ultra settings, only 1080p (204.4 FPS) and 1440p (148.4 FPS) exceed 144 FPS.

Q: How does the RTX 4090’s 24 GB VRAM influence performance?

A: With 24 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus, the GPU has ample capacity. The 4K Ultra result of 95.8 FPS, while lower than other settings, still indicates no VRAM starvation, as the game’s demands are easily met by the 1.01 TB/s bandwidth.

Q: Is the Ryzen 5 4600G competitive with its direct rivals?

A: The CPU’s average benchmark score is 17,489, placing it nearly identical to the AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5355GE (17,482, 0% delta) and Intel Core i5-12450H (17,475, 0.1% delta). It trails the Intel Core i3-14100T by 0.8% and the Core i3-13100F by 1%.

Q: What does the combo rank of 74 out of 1580 indicate?

A: A rank of 74 places this pairing in the top 4.7% of all tested combinations for Undisputed. This is a very strong showing, primarily driven by the GPU’s dominance.

Q: Does the game favor a particular settings preset for this hardware?

A: High settings provide the best balance. At 4K High, the average is 144.7 FPS, which is exactly at the 144 Hz refresh rate threshold. Medium settings at 4K (177.1 FPS) offer a significant boost with only a minor visual cost.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is the undisputed performance engine in this pairing. Its architecture, Ada Lovelace, is built on a 5 nm TSMC process with 76,300 million transistors. The GPU’s boost clock of 2520 MHz, combined with 16,384 shading units, delivers a staggering 82.58 TFLOPS of FP32 compute. In Undisputed, this translates to frame rates that are, in most scenarios, far beyond what a 60 Hz display can show.

The memory subsystem is equally critical. The 24 GB of GDDR6X memory, running at an effective 21 Gbps, provides 1.01 TB/s of bandwidth. This is crucial for maintaining stable frame pacing at high resolutions, especially when the game’s physics and rendering engines are taxed. The data reflects this: the 4K Low average of 245.9 FPS is still higher than the 1080p Ultra average of 204.4 FPS, proving that the GPU’s compute and memory resources are not depleted until Ultra settings at 4K, where the average falls to 95.8 FPS.

The GPU’s percentile ranking of 91 among all GPUs underscores its elite status. In this game, the RTX 4090’s role is to remove any possible GPU-side limitation, allowing the CPU to be the only potential source of frame rate capping. The measured results show that even at 1080p Low, the CPU does not fully saturate the GPU’s capabilities, as scores of 414.6 FPS are still achievable, but the scaling from Low to Ultra at that resolution is less linear than at 4K, hinting at a CPU influence.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data offers a complete picture across three resolutions and four settings presets. At 1920x1080, the averages are: Low 414.6, Medium 367.3, High 314.8, and Ultra 204.4. The progression shows a 27.1% drop from Low to Medium, a 14.3% drop from Medium to High, and a 35.1% drop from High to Ultra. The Ultra preset’s significant penalty suggests it enables effects that heavily tax the CPU’s 8 MB of shared L3 cache.

At 2560x1440, the averages are: Low 368.6, Medium 277.4, High 230.4, and Ultra 148.4. The drop from Low to Medium is 24.7%, from Medium to High is 16.9%, and from High to Ultra is 35.6%. The 1440p results show a similar pattern to 1080p, but with absolute values that are lower, reflecting the increased pixel count.

At 3840x2160, the averages are: Low 245.9, Medium 177.1, High 144.7, and Ultra 95.8. The scaling from Low to Medium is a 28.0% drop, Medium to High is an 18.3% drop, and High to Ultra is a 33.8% drop. Notably, the 4K High result of 144.7 is nearly identical to the 1440p Ultra result of 148.4, demonstrating that the RTX 4090 can maintain high frame rates at 4K with High settings, but Ultra settings at 4K are the first configuration to drop below the 100 FPS threshold.

How This Combo Ranks

In the comprehensive database of tested combinations for Undisputed, this specific pairing of the AMD Ryzen 5 4600G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 holds a combo rank of 74 out of 1,580 tested combos. This places it in the 95th percentile of all configurations, a remarkable achievement given the CPU’s modest specifications.

The rank is almost entirely attributable to the RTX 4090’s performance ceiling. The CPU’s average benchmark score of 17,489 is only 0.1% higher than the Intel Core i5-12450H, yet the combo rank is elevated by the GPU’s ability to sustain high frame rates even when the CPU is not fully utilized. The data indicates that in a game like Undisputed, which is not heavily multi-threaded, the Ryzen 5 4600G’s 6 cores and 12 threads are sufficient to feed the GPU at most settings.

The gap between this combo and lower-ranked pairings would likely be driven by GPUs with less compute power or VRAM bandwidth. The RTX 4090’s 24 GB frame buffer and 1.01 TB/s bandwidth are unmatched in the tested pool, ensuring that memory capacity is never a limiting factor. While the CPU’s single-thread score of 726 in 3DMark is modest, it does not prevent the combo from reaching a top-5% ranking, proving that for this title, the GPU selection is the dominant factor in overall performance.