Undisputed

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 delivers a dominant performance profile in Undisputed, with the data indicating that the combination provides exceptional headroom for high-refresh-rate displays across all tested resolutions. The benchmark results show a clear relationship between graphical settings and frame pacing, where the scaling behavior reveals a system that is heavily GPU-bound at maximum quality presets but transitions to a CPU-limited state at lower settings.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS data across the three tested resolutions reveals a pronounced scaling pattern that shifts depending on the quality preset. At Ultra settings, the transition from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 results in a drop from 210.5 FPS to 154.4 FPS, a reduction of 56.1 FPS. Moving further to 3840x2160 at Ultra yields 96 FPS, representing a 58.4 FPS decrease from the 1440p result. This steep decline of roughly 27% at each step indicates that the RTX 5090 is being progressively saturated by the pixel count and the demanding Ultra preset, making the GPU the primary limiting component at this quality level.

The scaling story changes dramatically at Low settings. At 1920x1080, the system produces 461.1 FPS. When resolution increases to 2560x1440, the frame rate falls to 397.8 FPS, a modest 63.3 FPS drop. The 4K result at Low settings is 251.2 FPS, which is a substantial 146.6 FPS decrease from the 1440p figure. This pattern—where the 1080p to 1440p transition has a relatively small impact but the 1440p to 4K jump is severe—suggests that at lower settings, the CPU becomes the bottleneck at 1080p and 1440p, preventing the GPU from fully stretching its legs. The 4K Low result shows the GPU finally taking over as the limiting factor, though the 251.2 FPS figure remains exceptionally high.

Medium and High settings occupy the intermediate ground. At High settings, the progression from 326.2 FPS at 1080p to 238.7 FPS at 1440p to 151.7 FPS at 4K shows a near-linear scaling pattern, with each resolution step costing roughly 87 FPS. This consistent decline indicates a balanced workload where both the CPU and GPU contribute to performance. The Medium preset shows a similar shape, with 393.8 FPS at 1080p, 284.3 FPS at 1440p, and 182.5 FPS at 4K. The narrowing gap between settings at higher resolutions—for instance, the difference between Low and Ultra at 4K is 155.2 FPS, while at 1080p that same gap is 250.6 FPS—confirms that resolution scaling has a larger effect on the GPU than on the CPU.

CPU Role

The Ryzen 7 5700X3D brings 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Zen 3 architecture, with a base clock of 3.00 GHz and a boost clock of 4.10 GHz. This processor features 96 MB of shared L3 cache, a substantial amount that is particularly beneficial for gaming workloads that rely on data locality. The CPU’s benchmark scores place it in the 82nd percentile against all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 24673. Its nearest rival, the Intel Core i7-1360P, scores 24627, a delta of just 0.2%, indicating near-identical synthetic performance.

In the context of Undisputed, the CPU’s role becomes evident through the frame rate behavior at lower settings. The 1080p Low result of 461.1 FPS, while impressive, is not dramatically higher than the 393.8 FPS at Medium, suggesting that the CPU is nearing its practical limit for this game’s simulation and physics workload. The single-thread performance, measured at 804 in 3DMark single-thread and 3157 in Cinebench R23 single-core, is competitive but not class-leading, which explains why the 5700X3D cannot push frame rates into the 500+ FPS territory that a more powerful CPU might achieve. The multicore scores—22366 in Cinebench R23 and 26318 in Passmark multithread—indicate solid throughput, but the game appears to be more sensitive to single-thread performance, as evidenced by the relatively flat FPS scaling between Low and Medium at 1080p.

The processor’s 105 W TDP and AM4 socket compatibility position it as a high-end option for its platform, and the data shows it holds its own against recent competitors. The AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D scores 24605, a 0.3% delta, while the Intel Core i5-11600 scores 24559, a 0.5% delta. These margins are negligible in synthetic benchmarks, and the measured FPS in Undisputed confirms that the 5700X3D provides sufficient compute headroom to keep the RTX 5090 well-fed at 1080p and 1440p, particularly at higher settings where the GPU does most of the heavy lifting.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is a flagship Blackwell 2.0 architecture GPU built on a 5 nm process at TSMC, featuring 92,200 million transistors. It operates at a base clock of 2017 MHz and a boost clock of 2407 MHz, with memory clocked at 1750 MHz yielding 28 Gbps effective. The 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus provides 1.79 TB/s of bandwidth, which is crucial for high-resolution textures and complex scenes. The GPU’s 21760 shading units and 176 ROPs deliver a peak FP32 throughput of 104.8 TFLOPS, positioning it as one of the most powerful consumer graphics cards available.

The benchmark results place the RTX 5090 in the 94th percentile against all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 84306. Its nearest rival, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D, scores 84241, a delta of 0.1%, indicating they are effectively identical in performance. The AMD Radeon PRO W6600 scores 83209, a 1.3% delta, while the NVIDIA CMP 40HX scores 85637, a -1.6% delta. In Undisputed, the GPU’s dominance is most apparent at Ultra settings, where the 4K result of 96 FPS demonstrates that even this flagship part is challenged by the combination of maximum quality and 4K resolution.

The GPU’s massive memory capacity and bandwidth become less relevant at lower settings, where the CPU bottleneck limits frame rates. However, at Ultra and High settings, the RTX 5090’s raw compute power drives the 151.7 FPS 4K High result and the 238.7 FPS 1440p High result. The 154.4 FPS at 1440p Ultra and 210.5 FPS at 1080p Ultra show that the GPU scales well with resolution, maintaining high frame rates even under maximum load. The 96 FPS at 4K Ultra, while the lowest measured figure, still exceeds the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay, and the data indicates that the RTX 5090 provides ample performance for all but the most demanding combinations of resolution and settings.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the frame rates span from 461.1 FPS at Low to 210.5 FPS at Ultra. The Medium preset delivers 393.8 FPS, while High achieves 326.2 FPS. The progression from Low to Medium sees a 67.3 FPS drop, from Medium to High a 67.6 FPS drop, and from High to Ultra a 115.7 FPS drop. This pattern shows that the jump from High to Ultra is the most demanding, likely due to the additional visual effects and shadow quality that Ultra enables.

At 2560x1440, the results are 397.8 FPS at Low, 284.3 FPS at Medium, 238.7 FPS at High, and 154.4 FPS at Ultra. The transition from 1080p to 1440p costs 63.3 FPS at Low, 109.5 FPS at Medium, 87.5 FPS at High, and 56.1 FPS at Ultra. Interestingly, the absolute FPS drop from 1080p to 1440p is largest at Medium settings, suggesting that this preset creates a balanced workload where both CPU and GPU are fully utilized. At Ultra, the smaller absolute drop indicates that the CPU is already near its limit at 1080p, so the additional resolution has less impact.

At 3840x2160, the frame rates are 251.2 FPS at Low, 182.5 FPS at Medium, 151.7 FPS at High, and 96 FPS at Ultra. The 4K Ultra result is the only measured figure below 100 FPS, and the 4K Low result of 251.2 FPS demonstrates that even at the highest resolution, the RTX 5090 can deliver high refresh rates when settings are reduced. The gap between Low and Ultra at 4K is 155.2 FPS, compared to 250.6 FPS at 1080p, confirming that the GPU becomes the dominant bottleneck at 4K regardless of settings.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 ranks 30th out of 1580 tested combos in Undisputed, placing it in the top 2% of all configurations. This ranking reflects the exceptional performance measured across all resolutions and settings, with even the lowest result of 96 FPS at 4K Ultra being higher than what many other combos would achieve at lower settings. The combo’s percentile ranking among CPUs (82nd) and GPUs (94th) indicates that the GPU is the stronger component, and the in-game ranking confirms that the pairing works cohesively to deliver top-tier frame rates.

The data shows that the 5700X3D, while not the fastest CPU available, provides sufficient performance to avoid bottlenecking the RTX 5090 at 4K and at higher settings. At 1080p Low, the CPU does become a limiting factor, as evidenced by the relatively small FPS increase from Medium to Low compared to the larger jumps at higher resolutions. However, for the vast majority of gaming scenarios—particularly those involving Ultra settings or 4K resolution—this combo delivers frame rates that place it among the elite configurations in the database. The 30th place ranking out of 1580 combos is a strong indicator that this pairing offers near-flagship performance, with only a handful of more powerful CPU and GPU combinations achieving higher scores in this title.