Undisputed

# Undisputed with Intel Core i5-12400 + AMD Radeon RX 9070

The pairing of Intel's Core i5-12400 with AMD's Radeon RX 9070 produces a formidable 1080p and 1440p fighting game platform, but the data reveals a clear shift in bottleneck behavior as resolution climbs. Measured results across twelve resolution/settings combinations show this combo delivers triple-digit frame rates in most scenarios, with only the most demanding 4K Ultra preset dipping below 70 FPS. The benchmark database ranks this specific combination at 541 out of 1,580 tested combos in Undisputed, placing it in the upper third of all configurations evaluated for this title.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate trajectory from 1080p to 4K tells a classic story of GPU-bound scaling, but with interesting nuances at the settings extremes. At Low settings, the transition from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 sees average FPS drop from 350.6 to 254.5 — a 27.4% reduction in throughput. Pushing further to 3840x2160 at Low yields 159.8 FPS, meaning the jump from 1440p to 4K costs another 37.2% of performance. This steep decline at lower settings indicates the GPU's shading and memory subsystems are being saturated as pixel count rises, while the CPU has ample headroom to feed frames.

Medium settings show a similar pattern: 251.6 FPS at 1080p, 185.8 at 1440p, and 117.8 at 4K. The percentage drops between resolutions remain consistent, suggesting the Radeon RX 9070's 16 GB of GDDR6 memory and 644.6 GB/s bandwidth are handling the increased resolution demands without hitting capacity limits. High settings follow the same proportional scaling, with 207.4 FPS at 1080p falling to 152.8 at 1440p and 95.6 at 4K.

Ultra settings, however, reveal a more pronounced scaling penalty. At 1080p Ultra, the combo produces 134 FPS; at 1440p Ultra, 99.6 FPS; and at 4K Ultra, just 61.4 FPS. The drop from 1440p to 4K at Ultra represents a 38.4% performance loss, the steepest proportional decline across all settings tiers. This suggests that at Ultra, the combination of increased pixel count and heavier shading effects pushes the GPU's 128 ROPs and 36.13 TFLOPS FP32 compute to their practical limits. The data indicates that while the RX 9070 remains the primary limiting component at higher resolutions, the gap between settings tiers narrows as resolution increases — at 1080p, Low to Ultra spans 216.6 FPS, but at 4K that spread compresses to 98.4 FPS.

How This Combo Ranks

With a combo rank of 541 out of 1,580 tested combinations, this configuration sits comfortably in the 65th percentile of all systems benchmarked in Undisputed. This placement reflects a balanced pairing where neither component drastically underperforms relative to the other. The rank suggests that while there are many faster combinations — likely featuring higher-end CPUs or GPUs — this setup outperforms the majority of systems players might realistically use for this sports title.

The ranking position aligns with the measured FPS data: at 1080p High, the combo delivers 207.4 FPS, which is well above the 144 Hz refresh rate common on modern gaming monitors. Even at 1440p High, 152.8 FPS exceeds most high-refresh displays' capabilities. The 4K Ultra result of 61.4 FPS, while playable, places this combo below the threshold where many competitive players would prefer to operate. The rank of 541 reflects this mixed picture — excellent for high-refresh 1080p and 1440p gaming, but only adequate for 4K enthusiasts who demand maximum visual fidelity.

Compared to the broader database, the combo's position indicates that Undisputed is more sensitive to GPU performance than CPU performance at typical gaming resolutions. The Core i5-12400's 77th percentile ranking among all CPUs and the RX 9070's 79th percentile among all GPUs suggest both components are above-average, yet the combo does not crack the top third of tested systems. This implies that combinations featuring GPUs with higher raw throughput or CPUs with better multi-threaded performance can achieve better results in this title, particularly at 4K where the GPU's 53,900 million transistors on a 357 mm² die are fully utilized.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-12400 brings six physical cores and twelve threads to this pairing, with a base clock of 2.50 GHz and a boost clock of 4.40 GHz. This Alder Lake-S architecture processor, built on Intel's 10 nm process, features 18 MB of shared L3 cache and 1.25 MB of L2 cache per core. In synthetic benchmarks, the CPU achieves a single-thread score of 910 in 3DMark and 2,249 in Cinebench R23 single-core, indicating strong per-thread performance that benefits games with light threading requirements.

Undisputed, as a sports title, typically does not scale heavily with multi-core processors, but the i5-12400's 12 threads provide sufficient parallel capacity. The CPU's 3DMark max-threads score of 5,890 and Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 15,935 show solid multi-threaded capability, though its nearest rivals — the Intel Core i7-9700 (0.1% ahead) and Intel Core i5-11600K (0.4% ahead) — demonstrate that this chip is not class-leading in aggregate throughput. The 4-thread 3DMark score of 3,012 and 8-thread score of 4,745 suggest that scaling from four to eight threads yields a 57.5% improvement, indicating reasonable thread scaling that benefits titles capable of using more cores.

In the context of this game's measured FPS, the CPU's role becomes evident at lower resolutions and settings. At 1080p Low, the combo hits 350.6 FPS, which far exceeds what most displays can show, but the fact that this number is not higher suggests some CPU limitation at such extreme frame rates. The PassMark single-thread score of 3,456 and multi-thread score of 18,747 indicate the i5-12400 can sustain high instruction throughput, yet the architecture's 10 nm process and 65 W TDP mean it cannot match the raw clock speeds of higher-end parts. The CPU's 77th percentile ranking versus all processors confirms it is a competent but not exceptional gaming chip, well-matched to the RX 9070's capabilities in this title.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its strongest results across all settings. Low settings produce an average of 350.6 FPS, Medium reaches 251.6 FPS, High achieves 207.4 FPS, and Ultra drops to 134 FPS. The scaling from Low to Ultra at 1080p shows a 61.8% performance reduction, indicating that the GPU's shading units and texture units are increasingly taxed as visual effects intensify. The 1080p numbers clearly demonstrate that this configuration is well-suited for competitive play at high refresh rates, with even Ultra settings exceeding 130 FPS.

Moving to 2560x1440, the performance envelope shifts downward but remains robust. Low settings yield 254.5 FPS, Medium produces 185.8 FPS, High reaches 152.8 FPS, and Ultra delivers 99.6 FPS. The 1440p results show a 39.9% reduction from 1080p at Low settings, but only a 25.7% reduction at Ultra settings. This differential suggests that at lower settings, where the CPU has more influence, the resolution increase creates a larger relative bottleneck; at Ultra settings, the GPU is already the primary constraint, so the additional pixel count has a smaller proportional impact.

At 3840x2160, the combo's limitations become apparent. Low settings average 159.8 FPS, Medium achieves 117.8 FPS, High reaches 95.6 FPS, and Ultra drops to 61.4 FPS. The 4K Ultra result is the only configuration in the entire dataset that falls below 60 FPS, and it does so by just 1.4 frames. This suggests that players seeking 4K gaming in Undisputed would need to accept Medium settings — which deliver 117.8 FPS — to maintain smooth performance on high-refresh 4K displays. The progression from 1080p to 4K at each settings tier follows a consistent pattern of diminishing returns, with the gap between Low and Ultra narrowing from 216.6 FPS at 1080p to 98.4 FPS at 4K.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 is the dominant component in this pairing, featuring the Navi 48 chip built on TSMC's 4 nm process with 53,900 million transistors across a 357 mm² die. The GPU operates at a base clock of 1330 MHz, a game clock of 2070 MHz, and a boost clock of 2520 MHz, with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus providing 644.6 GB/s of bandwidth. Its 3,584 shading units, 224 texture mapping units, and 128 ROPs deliver 36.13 TFLOPS of FP32 compute, while 56 ray tracing cores support hardware-accelerated ray tracing.

In synthetic benchmarks, the RX 9070 achieves a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 6,290 and a Geekbench Vulkan score of 165,532, placing it in the 79th percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA A2 (0.2% behind in average score) and the NVIDIA Quadro GV100 (0.3% ahead), though these comparisons are based on aggregate benchmark averages rather than game-specific performance. The GPU's PassMark G3D score of 25,381 and PassMark GPU Compute score of 14,737 indicate strong general compute capabilities that benefit modern game engines.

The GPU's role in Undisputed is clearly primary, as evidenced by the frame rate scaling across resolutions. The 16 GB VRAM capacity ensures no memory-related stuttering even at 4K Ultra settings, while the 644.6 GB/s bandwidth supports the high texture throughput demanded by the game's visuals. The RDNA 4.0 architecture's 4 nm process allows for high clock speeds — the 2520 MHz boost is particularly aggressive — which translates to strong rasterization performance. The pixel rate of 322.6 GPixel/s and texture rate of 564.5 GTexel/s provide the fill rate necessary to sustain the observed frame rates, particularly at 1440p where the GPU's 128 ROPs are fully exercised. The measured data shows that at 4K Ultra, the GPU's compute resources become the limiting factor, producing the only sub-70 FPS result in the dataset.