Undisputed

# Undisputed with AMD Ryzen 5 5600G + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600G paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D produces a striking performance profile in Undisputed, with the combination ranking 51st out of 2,813 tested combos. This places the pairing in the top 2% of all configurations tested, though the data reveals a significant imbalance between the two components that becomes increasingly apparent as resolution drops. The RTX 5090 D, with its 32 GB of GDDR7 memory and 1.79 TB/s bandwidth, is clearly the dominant force in this pairing, while the Ryzen 5 5600G's six Zen 3 cores at 3.90 GHz base and 4.40 GHz boost create a bottleneck that manifests most clearly at 1080p. The measured frame rates across three resolutions and four quality presets tell a consistent story: this is a GPU-limited system at 4K, transitioning to a CPU-limited system at 1440p, and firmly CPU-bound at 1080p.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 4K to 1080p reveals how the balance of power shifts between the GPU and CPU as pixel count decreases. At 4K Ultra, the system produces 101 FPS on average; dropping to 1440p Ultra raises that to 160 FPS, a 58% improvement. Moving from 1440p to 1080p Ultra yields 222 FPS, a further 39% gain. This progressive scaling pattern indicates that at Ultra settings, the RTX 5090 D remains the limiting factor even at 1440p, with the CPU only beginning to constrain performance at 1080p.

The Low preset tells a different story. At 4K Low, the system achieves 264 FPS, which rises to 418 FPS at 1440p Low — a 58% increase. However, moving from 1440p Low to 1080p Low only improves performance to 496 FPS, a modest 19% gain. This compressed scaling between 1440p and 1080p at Low settings is the clearest evidence of CPU limitation: the Ryzen 5 5600G cannot feed the RTX 5090 D enough frames to maintain the same scaling ratio once the GPU load drops significantly.

The Medium preset shows a similar pattern. At 4K Medium, the average is 190 FPS with a minimum of 162 and maximum of 219. At 1440p Medium, the average climbs to 301 FPS (min 256, max 346), representing a 58% uplift. At 1080p Medium, the average reaches 416 FPS (min 354, max 478), a 38% gain over 1440p — again showing diminishing returns as the CPU becomes the constraint. The High preset follows the same trajectory: 157 FPS at 4K, 249 FPS at 1440p (59% higher), and 344 FPS at 1080p (38% higher).

The data indicates that the RTX 5090 D is fully utilized at 4K across all settings, with the CPU becoming progressively more involved as resolution decreases. The 1440p-to-1080p scaling ratios of 1.38 to 1.39 for Medium, High, and Ultra settings, contrasted with the 4K-to-1440p ratios of 1.58 to 1.59, quantify this transition precisely. At Low settings, the 1440p-to-1080p ratio drops to 1.19, showing that with minimal GPU work, the CPU bottleneck dominates almost entirely.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D is a Blackwell 2.0 architecture GPU built on TSMC's 5 nm process, featuring 21,760 shading units, 680 texture mapping units, and 176 render output units. Its 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus provides 1.79 TB/s of bandwidth, which is more than sufficient for Undisputed at any resolution. The GPU's 170 ray tracing cores and 680 tensor cores are largely irrelevant for this title, which is a traditional sports simulation rather than a ray-traced showcase.

Clock speeds are substantial: the base clock of 2017 MHz boosts to 2407 MHz, with memory operating at 1750 MHz (28 Gbps effective). The GPU's peak performance figures — 104.8 TFLOPS FP32, 423.6 GPixel/s pixel rate, and 1,636.8 GTexel/s texture rate — are all far beyond what Undisputed requires. The benchmark results confirm this: the GPU scores 44,065 in Passmark G3D and 28,396 in Passmark GPU Compute, with a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 14,326.

The RTX 5090 D's percentile ranking of 92 among all GPUs underscores its position, though the nearest rival data is instructive. The GPU's average benchmark score of 77,712 places it just 1.1% above the AMD Radeon RX 6650M XT (76,904), 1.6% below the AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT (78,940), and 2.1-2.4% below the NVIDIA Tesla P100 variants (79,396 and 79,605). This suggests that while the RTX 5090 D is a high-end part, its synthetic benchmark scores are not dramatically separated from some mid-range mobile GPUs — a reflection of the benchmark database's diverse testing conditions rather than the card's actual gaming capability.

In Undisputed specifically, the GPU's role is to deliver extreme frame rates at 4K. The 4K Ultra average of 101 FPS demonstrates that even this flagship GPU cannot reach 144 FPS at maximum settings in 4K, while the 4K High average of 157 FPS and 4K Medium average of 190 FPS show the headroom available when settings are reduced. The 4K Low average of 264 FPS indicates that the GPU is never the bottleneck at 4K Low — the CPU begins to limit even at this resolution with minimal settings.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600G is a 5000-series desktop processor with six cores and twelve threads based on the Zen 3 architecture (Cezanne codename), manufactured on TSMC's 7 nm process. It operates at 3.90 GHz base and 4.40 GHz boost, with 16 MB of L3 cache and 512 KB of L2 cache per core. The CPU's 65 W TDP and unlocked multiplier make it a flexible part, but its PCIe Gen 3 interface (16 lanes from the CPU) and dual-channel DDR4 memory support with 51.2 GB/s bandwidth are modest by 2025 standards.

The CPU's benchmark scores reveal its mid-range positioning. In Cinebench R23, it scores 10,551 multi-core and 1,409 single-core; in Geekbench, 8,428 multi-core and 1,801 single-core. Passmark results show 19,717 multi-thread and 3,177 single-thread scores. The CPU's percentile ranking of 74 among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 21,088, places it in the upper-middle tier. The nearest rivals are tightly clustered: the Intel Core i3-1220P (21,066, 0.1% lower), Intel Core Ultra 7 256V (21,112, 0.1% higher), AMD Ryzen 5 7530U (21,133, 0.2% higher), and Intel Core Ultra 7 155U (21,174, 0.4% higher). This clustering indicates that the 5600G's synthetic performance is essentially interchangeable with several modern mobile and low-power parts.

In Undisputed, the CPU's role is critical at lower resolutions. The 1080p Low average of 496 FPS represents the practical ceiling of this CPU-GPU combination — beyond this, the Ryzen 5 5600G cannot process the game's simulation and physics workloads fast enough to feed the RTX 5090 D. The 1080p Medium average of 416 FPS, 1080p High of 344 FPS, and 1080p Ultra of 222 FPS all show the CPU handling increased per-frame work gracefully, but the scaling between Medium and Low (496 to 416, a 19% drop) is smaller than the scaling between High and Medium (416 to 344, a 21% drop), suggesting the CPU is approaching its limits even at Medium settings.

The 3DMark thread scaling data provides context: the CPU scores 872 single-thread, 1,705 in 2-thread, 3,258 in 4-thread, 4,694 in 8-thread, and 5,451 in 16-thread tests. This shows good scaling up to 8 threads, with diminishing returns beyond that — a pattern consistent with a 6-core, 12-thread part where the first six threads represent physical cores and the remaining six are SMT threads. Undisputed, being a sports title, likely benefits from the 12 threads but not to the extent that it would fully utilize the CPU's multithreaded capacity at 1080p.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D ranks 51st out of 2,813 tested combinations in Undisputed, placing it in the top 1.8% of all configurations. This ranking is notable because the CPU is decidedly mid-range while the GPU is flagship-tier, yet the combo still achieves a top-50 position. The ranking suggests that Undisputed is not an exceptionally CPU-demanding title at higher resolutions, allowing the RTX 5090 D to carry the pairing to an elite standing.

The data shows that the combo's ranking is driven almost entirely by GPU performance. The Ryzen 5 5600G's 74th percentile CPU ranking and the RTX 5090 D's 92nd percentile GPU ranking combine to produce a 51st-place finish out of 2,813 combos — a result that exceeds what the CPU's percentile alone would predict. This indicates that for Undisputed specifically, the GPU weighs more heavily in the final frame rate outcome than the CPU, particularly at 4K where the combo achieves playable-to-excellent frame rates across all settings.

However, the combo's ranking does not account for the inefficiency of pairing a $259 launch MSRP CPU with a $2,299 launch MSRP GPU. The data shows that the CPU limits performance at 1080p, and a stronger CPU would likely push the combo higher in the rankings at lower resolutions. The 4K results, where the GPU is the primary determinant, are where this pairing shows its true strength — the 4K High average of 157 FPS and 4K Medium average of 190 FPS are exceptional results that justify the combo's high ranking. The 4K Ultra average of 101 FPS is competitive, though not at the level of the 1440p or 1080p results.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system delivers its highest frame rates across all settings. Low settings produce an average of 496 FPS, Medium yields 416 FPS (minimum 354, maximum 478), High achieves 344 FPS, and Ultra reaches 222 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra is 274 FPS, a 55% reduction, indicating that each settings tier imposes a meaningful load increase on both CPU and GPU. The Medium preset's minimum of 354 FPS is higher than the High preset's average of 344 FPS, showing that the Medium-to-High transition costs more than the Low-to-Medium transition.

At 2560x1440, frame rates remain high but show the CPU's growing influence. Low settings average 418 FPS, Medium averages 301 FPS (minimum 256, maximum 346), High averages 249 FPS, and Ultra averages 160 FPS. The Low-to-Ultra spread is 258 FPS, a 62% reduction from Low. The Medium preset's minimum of 256 FPS matches the 4K Low average of 264 FPS closely, suggesting that the CPU is beginning to constrain performance at this resolution when settings are low. The High preset's 249 FPS average is still well above the 240 Hz refresh rate that many competitive displays offer.

At 3840x2160, the GPU dominates the performance equation. Low settings average 264 FPS, Medium averages 190 FPS (minimum 162, maximum 219), High averages 157 FPS, and Ultra averages 101 FPS. The Low-to-Ultra spread is 163 FPS, a 62% reduction from Low — the same relative drop as at 1440p, confirming that at 4K the GPU is the primary scaling factor. The Medium preset's minimum of 162 FPS exceeds the High preset's average of 157 FPS, and the Ultra preset's 101 FPS average is the only sub-144 FPS result in the entire measured dataset.

Settings Recommendations

For 4K displays, the High preset at 3840x2160 offers the best balance of visual quality and performance, with an average of 157 FPS. This provides a comfortable margin above 144 Hz displays while maintaining substantially better visual fidelity than Medium. The Medium preset at 190 FPS is the better choice for 240 Hz 4K monitors, but such displays are rare; for most users, High is the recommended starting point. The Ultra preset at 101 FPS remains viable for 100 Hz displays, but the 56 FPS drop from High to Ultra (a 36% reduction) is significant for what is likely a modest visual improvement in a sports title.

For 1440p displays, the Ultra preset at 160 FPS is the recommended choice for standard 144 Hz monitors, as it delivers the best visual quality while staying above the refresh rate. For 165 Hz or 240 Hz displays, the High preset at 249 FPS provides ample headroom, though the visual difference between High and Ultra may be noticeable to discerning players. The Medium preset at 301 FPS is only recommended for competitive play where maximum frame rates are prioritized over image quality, and the Low preset at 418 FPS offers no meaningful competitive advantage given the CPU limitation evident at this resolution.

For 1080p displays, the Ultra preset at 222 FPS is recommended for the vast majority of users, as it delivers the best visual quality while still exceeding 144 Hz and approaching 240 Hz territory. The High preset at 344 FPS is the choice for 360 Hz esports displays, though the visual compromise may not be worth the frame rate gain for most players. The Medium preset at 416 FPS and Low preset at 496 FPS are only relevant for the highest refresh rate displays (480 Hz and above), and the data shows that the CPU is the limiting factor at these settings — a stronger CPU would be required to fully exploit the RTX 5090 D's capabilities at 1080p.

FAQ

Q: What is the best resolution to use with this CPU-GPU combination?

A: Based on the measured data, 2560x1440 with Ultra settings provides the best overall experience, delivering 160 FPS average while maintaining maximum visual quality. This resolution avoids the CPU bottleneck visible at 1080p while still offering frame rates well above 144 Hz.

Q: Is the RTX 5090 D being fully utilized at 1080p?

A: No. The frame rate scaling from 1440p Low (418 FPS) to 1080p Low (496 FPS) shows only a 19% improvement, compared to the 58% improvement from 4K Low (264 FPS) to 1440p Low (418 FPS). This compressed scaling indicates the Ryzen 5 5600G limits the GPU at 1080p.

Q: How does this combo rank compared to other tested configurations?

A: The combination ranks 51st out of 2,813 tested combos in Undisputed, placing it in the top 1.8% of all configurations. This high ranking is primarily driven by the RTX 5090 D's performance at 4K, where the GPU is the dominant factor.

Q: Can this system maintain 144 FPS at 4K Ultra settings?

A: No. The measured average at 3840x2160 Ultra is 101 FPS, which is below 144 FPS. To achieve 144 FPS at 4K, you would need to use High settings (157 FPS average) or Medium settings (190 FPS average).

Q: What is the minimum FPS recorded in the measured data?

A: The lowest minimum FPS recorded is 162 FPS, observed at 3840x2160 with Medium settings. The same setting at 2560x1440 shows a minimum of 256 FPS, and at 1920x1080 a minimum of 354 FPS. No minimum FPS data is available for the other preset combinations.

Q: Is the Ryzen 5 5600G a bottleneck for the RTX 5090 D in this game?

A: At 4K, the GPU is the limiting factor across all settings. At 1440p, the CPU begins to constrain performance when using Low settings, as evidenced by the reduced scaling to 1080p. At 1080p, the CPU is the primary bottleneck, particularly at Low and Medium settings where frame rates plateau around 416-496 FPS.