Undisputed

# Undisputed with AMD Ryzen 5 5600X + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 delivers a remarkably consistent performance profile across Undisputed, with the data showing this combination ranks 246th out of 3,718 tested combos — placing it comfortably in the top 7% of all configurations. The measured FPS values across three resolutions and four quality presets reveal a system that is heavily GPU-limited at lower settings, but which transitions to a more balanced workload as resolution and visual fidelity increase. This analysis examines what the numbers say about where the bottleneck shifts, which settings provide the best experience, and how this particular pairing of a 2020-era six-core CPU with a 2022 flagship GPU behaves in a sports title that seems to scale unusually well with raw rasterization power.

Resolution Scaling

The resolution scaling behavior in Undisputed tells a clear story about where the performance ceiling lives. At 1080p Low, the combo produces 479 FPS average; dropping to 1440p Low yields 346 FPS (a 27.8% reduction), and 4K Low still manages 219 FPS (an additional 36.7% drop from 1440p). The scaling from 1080p to 4K at Low settings represents a 54.3% overall performance reduction, which is substantial but not catastrophic — the game remains playable even at 4K with the lowest preset.

Examining the Ultra preset reveals a different scaling pattern. At 1080p Ultra, the average is 184 FPS; at 1440p Ultra, it drops to 133 FPS (a 27.7% reduction); and at 4K Ultra, it falls to 84 FPS (a 36.8% drop from 1440p). The percentage reductions are nearly identical between Low and Ultra presets when moving from 1080p to 1440p, suggesting that the rendering workload scales primarily with pixel count rather than with the complexity of the effects being applied. However, the 4K-to-1440p transition shows slightly steeper declines at Ultra settings, which hints that the heavier preset does increase memory bandwidth pressure at the highest resolution.

The Medium preset offers the most complete data, with minimum and maximum FPS values recorded alongside averages. At 1080p Medium, the average is 345 FPS with a minimum of 293 and maximum of 396 — a 103 FPS spread between min and max. At 1440p Medium, the average drops to 249 FPS with a 212 minimum and 286 maximum (a 74 FPS spread). At 4K Medium, the average is 158 FPS with a 134 minimum and 181 maximum (a 47 FPS spread). The narrowing frame time variance as resolution increases suggests that the CPU is less able to feed the GPU at lower resolutions, creating larger frame-to-frame fluctuations, while at 4K the GPU becomes the primary constraint and frame delivery becomes more consistent.

The scaling behavior points to a system where the RTX 4080 is the dominant factor at 4K across all settings, but where the Ryzen 5 5600X begins to show its age at 1080p with high frame rates. The fact that 1080p Low produces 479 FPS — nearly 2.2 times the 4K Low result — indicates that the GPU is nowhere near saturated at the lowest resolution, and the CPU's six cores and twelve threads are doing the heavy lifting to sustain those extreme frame rates.

Settings Recommendations

The measured rows provide clear guidance on which preset delivers the best experience per the data. At 4K, the Medium preset stands out as the sweet spot: 158 FPS average with a 134 FPS minimum and 181 FPS maximum. This represents a 46.8% improvement over Ultra's 84 FPS while maintaining frame times that are well above typical display refresh rates. The High preset at 4K offers 130 FPS, which is 17.7% lower than Medium, suggesting that the jump from Medium to High carries a meaningful performance cost that may not be justified for a marginal visual gain.

At 1440p, the High preset at 206 FPS appears to be the optimal choice. The Medium preset delivers 249 FPS, but the difference between Medium and High (43 FPS) is less significant proportionally than the difference between High and Ultra (73 FPS). The Ultra preset at 133 FPS is still perfectly playable, but the data shows that High provides 54.9% more performance than Ultra at 1440p, making it the better trade-off for competitive play.

For 1080p, the High preset at 285 FPS is the recommended starting point. The Medium preset delivers 345 FPS, and Low reaches 479 FPS, but the High setting appears to balance visual quality with headroom for frame rate dips. The Ultra preset at 184 FPS is the only option that dips below 200 FPS at 1080p, and given that the Medium preset has a recorded minimum of 293 FPS, there is ample room to choose High without worrying about drops below typical high-refresh displays.

The data suggests that Undisputed is forgiving enough that even the heaviest preset remains playable at all tested resolutions. However, for users with 120Hz or 144Hz displays, the Medium preset at 4K and High preset at 1440p or 1080p provide the best combination of visual fidelity and frame rate stability. The Ultra preset should be reserved for scenarios where frame rate is secondary to image quality, as the 84 FPS at 4K Ultra is the only measurement that approaches the threshold where input latency could become noticeable in a sports title.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo rank of 246 out of 3,718 tested configurations places this pairing in the 93.4th percentile — meaning it outperforms approximately 3,472 other CPU-GPU combinations in Undisputed. This is a strong result for a CPU that was released in November 2020 with a launch MSRP of $299, paired with a GPU that launched in September 2022. The ranking reflects the game's apparent preference for raw GPU throughput, as the RTX 4080's substantial compute resources are able to compensate for the Ryzen 5 5600X's older architecture.

Looking at the individual component rankings provides context. The Ryzen 5 5600X sits in the 75th percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 21,771. Its nearest rivals include the AMD Ryzen 7 4800H (21,749 average, 0.1% delta), the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 6650U (21,874 average, -0.5% delta), the Intel Core i7-11700 (21,891 average, -0.5% delta), and the AMD EPYC 9554P (21,899 average, -0.6% delta). These are all very closely matched scores, indicating that the 5600X performs essentially on par with a wide range of CPUs from different generations and market segments.

The RTX 4080, by contrast, ranks in the 86th percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 54,247. Its nearest rivals include the RTX 4080 SUPER (54,209 average, 0.1% delta), the AMD Radeon Pro W5700X (54,828 average, -1.1% delta), the AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB (55,698 average, -2.6% delta), and the AMD Radeon 8060S (55,757 average, -2.7% delta). The GPU's percentile ranking is notably higher than the CPU's, which aligns with the resolution scaling data showing that the RTX 4080 is the dominant component in this pairing.

The gap between the combo's 93.4th percentile ranking and the GPU's 86th percentile suggests that the CPU-GPU combination is greater than the sum of its parts in this specific game. Undisputed appears to scale well with the RTX 4080's 16 GB of VRAM and high bandwidth, while the 5600X's 32 MB L3 cache and single-thread performance are sufficient to avoid creating a significant bottleneck at most settings.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The complete measured FPS dataset reveals a consistent hierarchy across all resolutions. At 1080p, the settings order from fastest to slowest is: Low at 479 FPS, Medium at 345 FPS, High at 285 FPS, and Ultra at 184 FPS. The progression shows that moving from Low to Medium costs 28.0% performance, Medium to High costs 17.4%, and High to Ultra costs 35.4%. The largest single-step penalty occurs between High and Ultra, indicating that the Ultra preset introduces substantially heavier effects that disproportionately impact frame rates.

At 1440p, the order remains the same: Low at 346 FPS, Medium at 249 FPS, High at 206 FPS, and Ultra at 133 FPS. The percentage penalties are: Low to Medium costs 28.0%, Medium to High costs 17.3%, and High to Ultra costs 35.4%. These percentages are nearly identical to the 1080p results, which is striking — it suggests that the relative cost of each preset tier is consistent regardless of resolution, and that the rendering pipeline in Undisputed scales effects independently of pixel count.

At 4K, the numbers are: Low at 219 FPS, Medium at 158 FPS, High at 130 FPS, and Ultra at 84 FPS. The penalty percentages are 27.9% for Low to Medium, 17.7% for Medium to High, and 35.4% for High to Ultra. Once again, the same proportional relationships hold. This consistency across resolutions is notable because it implies that the game's settings presets have a multiplicative effect on rendering cost rather than an additive one — each tier adds a fixed percentage of workload regardless of the base resolution.

The Medium preset's min/max data provides additional insight into frame time stability. At 1080p Medium, the spread between minimum (293 FPS) and maximum (396 FPS) is 103 FPS, or 29.9% of the average. At 1440p Medium, the spread is 74 FPS, or 29.7% of the average. At 4K Medium, the spread is 47 FPS, or 29.7% of the average. The remarkably consistent relative variance across resolutions suggests that frame time fluctuations scale proportionally with the average frame rate, which is characteristic of a GPU-bound scenario where the workload varies with scene complexity.

GPU Role

The RTX 4080's specifications paint a picture of a GPU that is well-suited to Undisputed's demands. With 16 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit bus providing 716.8 GB/s of bandwidth, the card has ample resources for even the most demanding 4K textures. The 76 RT cores and 304 tensor cores are likely underutilized in a sports title, but the 9,728 shading units and 304 texture mapping units deliver the raw rasterization throughput that this game appears to favor.

The clock behavior is notable: the base clock of 2205 MHz boosts to 2505 MHz, and memory runs at 1400 MHz with 22.4 Gbps effective speed. The pixel rate of 280.6 GPixel/s and texture rate of 761.5 GTexel/s are substantial, and the FP32 performance of 48.74 TFLOPS places this GPU among the most powerful consumer cards. The fact that Undisputed at 4K Ultra still manages 84 FPS with this hardware suggests that the game's Ultra preset is genuinely demanding, rather than being a token option that barely differs from High.

The GPU's benchmark results reinforce its positioning. In 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, it scores 6,567; in Geekbench OpenCL, it reaches 214,739; and in Geekbench Vulkan, it achieves 263,779. The Passmark G3D score of 34,457 and GPU compute score of 20,671 indicate strong general-purpose performance. The RTX 4080's 86th percentile ranking among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 54,247, shows that this is a top-tier card that sits just below the absolute fastest options.

The 16 GB VRAM capacity is worth noting in the context of Undisputed's resolution scaling. At 4K with Ultra settings, the game is likely approaching the memory limits of cards with less VRAM, but the RTX 4080's 16 GB buffer provides comfortable headroom. The memory bandwidth of 716.8 GB/s appears sufficient to feed the shading units without causing the frame rate to collapse at higher resolutions, as evidenced by the relatively smooth scaling from 1440p to 4K.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X brings six cores and twelve threads based on the Zen 3 architecture, manufactured on TSMC's 7 nm process. With a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz, this CPU provides strong single-thread performance — a critical factor for sports games that often rely on a primary simulation thread. The 32 MB L3 cache is generous for a six-core part, and the 51.2 GB/s memory bandwidth from dual-channel DDR4 support is adequate for feeding the RTX 4080 at most settings.

The CPU's benchmark results show a balanced profile. In Cinebench R23, it scores 11,838 multicore and 1,541 single-core. Geekbench results are 9,173 multicore and 1,989 single-core. The Passmark multithread score of 21,858 and single-thread score of 3,364 demonstrate that this CPU remains competitive in both multi-threaded and single-threaded workloads. The 3DMark results — 5,582 for 16 threads, 1,793 for 2 threads, 3,363 for 4 threads, and 4,811 for 8 threads — show a linear scaling pattern that is typical of Zen 3's design.

The 75th percentile ranking with an average benchmark score of 21,771 places the 5600X in the upper-middle tier of all CPUs. Its nearest rivals are all within 0.6% of its average score, indicating that there is a dense cluster of CPUs performing at this level. The fact that this CPU is paired with a top-14% GPU in the combo ranking at the 93.4th percentile suggests that the 5600X is not limiting the RTX 4080 in Undisputed to any significant degree.

The CPU's role becomes more apparent when examining the 1080p Low results. At 479 FPS, the CPU is likely the limiting factor, as the GPU could theoretically render even faster given its 4K Low performance of 219 FPS. However, the six cores and twelve threads are sufficient to maintain frame rates well above any current display's refresh rate. The CPU's TDP of 65 W and the fact that it is an unlocked multiplier part (enabling overclocking) suggest that there is headroom for users who want to squeeze additional performance, though the data does not measure overclocked results.

FAQ

Q: What is the best resolution for this combo in Undisputed?

A: The data shows that 1440p High at 206 FPS offers an excellent balance of visual quality and performance. At 4K, the Medium preset at 158 FPS is the strongest option, providing 88% more performance than 4K Ultra while maintaining frame rates above 134 FPS minimum.

Q: How does the RTX 4080 compare to its closest rival, the RTX 4080 SUPER?

A: The RTX 4080 scores 54,247 in average benchmark performance, while the RTX 4080 SUPER scores 54,209 — a delta of just 0.1%. This effectively means the two cards are performance equivalents in synthetic benchmarks, with the RTX 4080 holding a marginal edge in this dataset.

Q: Is the Ryzen 5 5600X a bottleneck for the RTX 4080 in this game?

A: The evidence suggests minimal bottlenecking. The combo ranks in the 93.4th percentile, and the resolution scaling shows consistent proportional performance drops across all settings. At 1080p Low, the CPU may be limiting the 479 FPS result, but this is far beyond any practical display requirement.

Q: What are the minimum FPS values for the Medium preset across resolutions?

A: The measured data shows: 293 FPS minimum at 1080p Medium, 212 FPS minimum at 1440p Medium, and 134 FPS minimum at 4K Medium. These minimums represent 84.9%, 85.1%, and 84.8% of their respective averages, showing consistent frame time behavior.

Q: How does the RTX 4080's VRAM capacity affect 4K performance?

A: With 16 GB of GDDR6X memory and 716.8 GB/s bandwidth, the RTX 4080 maintains 84 FPS at 4K Ultra. The memory subsystem appears sufficient for Undisputed's demands at all tested settings, as the performance scaling from 1440p to 4K is consistent across presets.

Q: What is the frame rate difference between Low and Ultra settings at each resolution?

A: At 1080p, the difference is 295 FPS (479 vs 184). At 1440p, the difference is 213 FPS (346 vs 133). At 4K, the difference is 135 FPS (219 vs 84). The proportional cost of Ultra versus Low is consistent at approximately 61-62% across all resolutions.