Undisputed

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and AMD Radeon RX 580 combination delivers playable frame rates in Undisputed at 1080p, but the data reveals a hard ceiling imposed by the graphics card as resolution climbs. The measured results show a clear pattern: the RX 580 is the limiting component at 1440p and 4K, while the Ryzen 5 5600’s six Zen 3 cores provide ample headroom at lower resolutions.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K is steep and consistent across all settings, indicating that the RX 580’s 256-bit memory bus and 8 GB of GDDR5 are saturated long before the CPU becomes a factor. At Low settings, the average FPS falls from 120.5 at 1920x1080 to 90.1 at 2560x1440, a reduction of 30.4 FPS, and then to 58.2 at 3840x2160, representing a 51.7% decline from the 1080p baseline. This scaling curve is nearly linear with pixel count, which is characteristic of a GPU-bound workload.

The High preset tells a similar story: 72.7 FPS at 1080p drops to 52.8 at 1440p and 33.6 at 4K. The gap between 1440p and 4K is 19.2 FPS, which is slightly larger than the 19.9 FPS gap between 1080p and 1440p, showing that the memory bandwidth constraint becomes more pronounced at higher pixel densities. Ultra settings amplify this effect, with the average FPS collapsing from 44.5 at 1080p to 33.8 at 1440p and finally 23.3 at 4K — the latter figure is below the 30 FPS threshold typically considered the minimum for consistent motion.

The data strongly suggests that at 1080p, the Ryzen 5 5600’s 6 cores and 12 threads are sufficient to feed the RX 580, as the FPS differences between settings are proportionally large. At 4K, however, even the Low preset (58.2 FPS) is barely above the 60 FPS target, and the Medium preset (37.8 FPS) falls well short. The limiting component is unambiguously the GPU, given that the CPU’s 3.50 GHz base and 4.40 GHz boost clocks are not changing with resolution.

Settings Recommendations

For 1080p displays, the Medium preset provides the best balance in the measured data, delivering 88.3 FPS average. This is 47.8 FPS higher than Ultra (44.5) and only 32.2 FPS below Low (120.5), while offering substantially better visual quality than Low. The High preset at 72.7 FPS is also viable, but it sacrifices 15.6 FPS compared to Medium for what is typically a marginal visual improvement in a sports title.

At 1440p, the choice narrows considerably. Low at 90.1 FPS is the only preset that maintains a comfortable margin above 60 FPS. Medium falls to 63.1 FPS, which is technically playable but leaves little headroom for frame-time spikes. High (52.8) and Ultra (33.8) are not recommended for competitive play, as the former dips below 60 and the latter approaches the 30 FPS floor. The data indicates that 1440p users should either accept Low settings or consider the Medium preset only if they can tolerate occasional drops below 60.

For 4K, no preset achieves a consistent 60 FPS. Low at 58.2 FPS is the only option that approaches playability, while Medium (37.8), High (33.6), and Ultra (23.3) are all below the 40 FPS mark. The recommendation is straightforward: if 4K is mandatory, use Low settings; otherwise, the 1440p Medium or 1080p Medium presets offer the best experience per the measured rows.

FAQ

*Q: Can this combo run Undisputed at 4K with playable frame rates?*

A: Only at Low settings, where the average FPS is 58.2. Medium drops to 37.8, High to 33.6, and Ultra to 23.3, all of which are below the 60 FPS threshold and increasingly stutter-prone.

Q: What is the highest FPS recorded for this system?

A: The maximum average FPS in the data is 120.5, achieved at 1920x1080 with Low settings. This is the only measured result that exceeds 120 FPS.

Q: How does the Ultra preset compare to Low at 1080p?

A: Ultra delivers 44.5 FPS, which is 76.0 FPS lower than Low’s 120.5. This represents a 63.1% reduction in average frame rate for the highest visual quality settings.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the bottleneck at 1440p?

A: The GPU is the limiting factor. The RX 580’s average FPS at 1440p ranges from 33.8 (Ultra) to 90.1 (Low), while the Ryzen 5 5600’s 6-core/12-thread configuration has the single-thread performance (3,256 in Passmark) to handle the game’s physics and logic without constraining these results.

Q: What is the FPS difference between 1080p and 4K at Medium settings?

A: The average FPS drops from 88.3 at 1920x1080 to 63.1 at 2560x1440 and 37.8 at 3840x2160. The total reduction from 1080p to 4K is 50.5 FPS, a 57.2% decrease.

Q: Does the RX 580’s 8 GB VRAM cause issues at any resolution?

A: The data does not indicate VRAM capacity as a separate bottleneck. The FPS scaling pattern is consistent with memory bandwidth (256.0 GB/s) being the constraint, as the 256-bit bus width is fixed across all resolutions.

How This Combo Ranks

The Ryzen 5 5600 + RX 580 combination ranks 1471 out of 1580 tested combos in Undisputed, placing it in the bottom 6.9% of all configurations. This low ranking is primarily driven by the GPU’s age: the RX 580 has a percentile of 53 among all GPUs, meaning it sits just above the median, but its average benchmark score of 13,559 is nearly identical to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (13,564, deltaPct 0%) and GTX 950 (13,549, deltaPct 0.1%). In practical terms, this puts the GPU in the same performance tier as graphics cards from nearly a decade earlier.

The CPU, by contrast, is a stronger component. The Ryzen 5 5600 has a percentile of 79 among all CPUs and an average benchmark score of 21,765. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Xeon D-1746TER (21,635, deltaPct 0.6%) and the AMD EPYC 9554P (21,899, deltaPct -0.6%), which are enterprise processors. The combo’s low rank is therefore not a reflection of CPU weakness but rather a consequence of pairing a mid-range 2022 processor with a 2017 GPU that was end-of-life at the time of testing.

The rank of 1471 means that 109 other tested combos performed worse, but the vast majority of systems — 1,471 of them — delivered higher average FPS in Undisputed. This places the combo in the lower quartile of the database, consistent with the measured FPS results that show 4K Ultra at 23.3 FPS and 1440p Ultra at 33.8 FPS.

CPU Role

The Ryzen 5 5600 provides 6 cores and 12 threads based on the Zen 3 architecture, manufactured on a 7 nm process at TSMC. Its base clock of 3.50 GHz and boost clock of 4.40 GHz are competitive for its generation, and the 32 MB of shared L3 cache helps with game-level data reuse. In synthetic benchmarks, the CPU achieves a single-thread score of 3,256 in Passmark and 2,584 in Cinebench R23, indicating strong per-core performance that is well-suited to Undisputed’s sports simulation logic.

The CPU’s role in this game is secondary to the GPU, as evidenced by the FPS scaling. At 1080p Low, the system hits 120.5 FPS, which suggests the CPU can drive frame rates well above 120 when the GPU is not the constraint. However, at 4K Ultra, the FPS drops to 23.3, a value that is far below what the CPU’s 18,309 Cinebench R23 multicore score would suggest is possible. The 8-thread and 16-thread 3DMark scores (4,798 and 5,641, respectively) confirm that the CPU has ample parallel throughput for a game that is unlikely to use more than 8 threads effectively.

The data shows no evidence of CPU bottlenecking at any resolution. If the Ryzen 5 5600 were the limiting factor, the FPS would remain roughly constant across resolutions at a given setting. Instead, the average FPS changes by 30-50% when moving from 1080p to 4K, which is a classic GPU-bound signature. The CPU’s 65 W TDP and dual-channel DDR4 memory support (51.2 GB/s bandwidth) are adequate for this workload, and the PCIe Gen 4 interface (20 lanes) provides sufficient bandwidth for the RX 580’s PCIe 3.0 x16 connection.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the full range of settings shows the GPU’s capability: Low averages 120.5 FPS, Medium 88.3, High 72.7, and Ultra 44.5. The spread from Low to Ultra is 76.0 FPS, with the largest single drop occurring between Medium and High (15.6 FPS) and between High and Ultra (28.2 FPS). The Ultra preset’s 44.5 FPS is the only 1080p result below 60.

At 2560x1440, the averages are 90.1 (Low), 63.1 (Medium), 52.8 (High), and 33.8 (Ultra). The reduction from 1080p is 30.4 FPS for Low, 25.2 for Medium, 19.9 for High, and 10.7 for Ultra. Notably, the absolute FPS drop due to resolution increases as settings decrease, because the GPU is less constrained by shading work and more by memory bandwidth.

At 3840x2160, the averages are 58.2 (Low), 37.8 (Medium), 33.6 (High), and 23.3 (Ultra). The 4K results show that Low is the only preset above 50 FPS, and Ultra is the only result below 25. The gap between Low and Medium at 4K is 20.4 FPS, which is larger than the 15.6 FPS gap at 1080p, indicating that the memory subsystem’s limitations become more pronounced at higher resolutions.

The data set includes only average FPS values; no minimum or maximum frame times were recorded. This means the analysis relies solely on mean performance, which can hide frame pacing issues. However, the consistency of the scaling pattern across all four settings and three resolutions provides confidence that the RX 580’s 6.175 TFLOPS FP32 compute and 193.0 GTexel/s texture rate are the primary determinants of performance, with the CPU contributing minimal overhead.