Undisputed

CPU Role — cores, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The Intel Core i5-9400 is a six-core, six-thread desktop processor built on the Coffee Lake architecture and Intel's 14 nm process node. It runs at a 2.90 GHz base clock and can boost up to 4.10 GHz, with a 65 W TDP and 9 MB of shared L3 cache. In synthetic benchmarks, this CPU posts a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 7969 and a single-core score of 1125, placing it at the 50th percentile among all CPUs. Its average benchmark score of 2305 sits within 0.2% of the Intel Core i3-10305 and 0.2% of the Core i3-1125G4, while trailing the Core i7-8809G by just 0.6%. The i5-9400 is effectively a mid-pack processor, and in Undisputed, that positioning shows up clearly in frame rate behavior.

In this boxing title, the CPU's six threads are adequate but not overwhelming. At 1080p with Low settings, the i5-9400 helps the system reach 326.5 FPS, but that number drops to 263.3 FPS at High and 170.1 FPS at Ultra. The scaling from Low to Ultra at 1080p is steep — a 47.9% reduction in frame rate — which indicates that while the CPU can feed the GPU at lower settings, the game's higher presets add enough draw-call and physics workload that the six-thread chip begins to constrain throughput. The i5-9400 lacks hyper-threading, so its six cores handle all game threads directly; with only 6 threads and a 4.10 GHz boost, it is not a high-end gaming processor, but benchmark results show it is competent for sustained high-FPS output in this specific title.

The CPU's memory bandwidth of 42.7 GB/s over a dual-channel DDR4 interface is another limiting factor. At 1440p Ultra, the frame rate drops to 122.8 FPS, and at 4K Ultra it falls to 79.6 FPS. These numbers suggest that as resolution rises, the GPU becomes the primary bottleneck, but the CPU's modest memory throughput still plays a role in how quickly the game can feed geometry data to the graphics card. The i5-9400's 50th percentile ranking among all CPUs means half of all tested processors outperform it, yet its measured performance in Undisputed remains playable at every resolution and preset combination in the data.

FAQ

Q: How does the Intel Core i5-9400 compare to its nearest CPU rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The i5-9400's average benchmark score of 2305 is essentially tied with the Intel Core i3-10305 (2300, +0.2%) and the Intel Core i3-1125G4 (2299, +0.2%). It is 0.4% ahead of the Intel Xeon E-2134 (2295) and 0.6% behind the Intel Core i7-8809G (2319). These are all within a 1% band, so the i5-9400 offers no meaningful synthetic advantage over its immediate rivals.

Q: What is the best resolution and settings combination for this CPU/GPU pairing in Undisputed?

A: At 1440p High, the combo delivers 187.7 FPS, which is well above the 60 FPS threshold and leaves headroom for a high-refresh-rate display. At 4K High, it still achieves 119.1 FPS, making 4K High the most balanced option for visual fidelity and smoothness. The data shows no resolution or preset drops below 79.6 FPS, so every combination is playable.

Q: Does the CPU bottleneck the GPU at 1080p?

A: Yes, at 1080p Low the system reaches 326.5 FPS, but at 1080p Ultra it falls to 170.1 FPS. The 156.4 FPS gap between Low and Ultra at 1080p is larger than the 121.3 FPS gap at 1440p (293.0 to 122.8) and the 124.1 FPS gap at 4K (203.7 to 79.6). This indicates that at 1080p, the CPU's six threads are more likely to limit maximum frame rates, while at higher resolutions the GPU takes over as the dominant constraint.

Q: How does the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER's benchmark positioning affect game performance?

A: The GPU sits at the 86th percentile among all GPUs with an average benchmark score of 48704. That is 1.6% ahead of the NVIDIA RTX A2000 (47915) and 2.0% ahead of the RTX A1000 Mobile (47743), while trailing the NVIDIA CMP 50HX by 0.7% (49071) and the Intel Arc A550M by 2.1% (49737). This high percentile ranking translates to consistently high frame rates in Undisputed across all settings.

Q: What is the frame rate difference between Low and Ultra settings at 4K?

A: At 4K Low, the system produces 203.7 FPS. At 4K Medium, it drops to 143.7 FPS. At 4K High, it hits 119.1 FPS, and at 4K Ultra, it falls to 79.6 FPS. The total reduction from Low to Ultra is 124.1 FPS, or a 60.9% decrease, showing that Ultra settings roughly cut frame rates by more than half compared to Low.

Q: Is the i5-9400 a bottleneck for the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER at 4K?

A: At 4K, the frame rate scaling from Low (203.7 FPS) to Ultra (79.6 FPS) is primarily driven by the GPU's workload. However, the CPU still matters: the i5-9400's 6-thread design and 42.7 GB/s memory bandwidth cap how fast the game can process physics and AI. The 4K Ultra result of 79.6 FPS is high enough to suggest the CPU is not a severe bottleneck, but the 50th percentile CPU ranking means a stronger processor would likely push 4K Ultra frame rates higher.

Resolution Scaling — how FPS drops from 1080p to 4K and what it says about the limiting component

The measured data for Undisputed shows clear resolution scaling behavior. At 1080p Low, the system produces 326.5 FPS; at 1440p Low, it drops to 293.0 FPS (a 10.3% reduction); and at 4K Low, it falls to 203.7 FPS (a 37.6% reduction from 1080p). This pattern — a modest drop from 1080p to 1440p and a much larger drop from 1440p to 4K — indicates that the GPU becomes increasingly dominant as pixel count rises. At 1080p Low, the i5-9400's six threads are likely the limiting factor, given that the frame rate exceeds 300 FPS and the CPU is only at the 50th percentile.

At High settings, the scaling is more uniform: 263.3 FPS at 1080p, 187.7 FPS at 1440p (a 28.7% drop), and 119.1 FPS at 4K (a 54.8% drop from 1080p). The High preset adds more shading and geometry work, which shifts the balance toward the GPU. At Ultra settings, the drop is steeper: 170.1 FPS at 1080p, 122.8 FPS at 1440p (a 27.8% drop), and 79.6 FPS at 4K (a 53.2% drop from 1080p). The fact that 4K Ultra still holds above 60 FPS suggests the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is the primary driver at that resolution, while the CPU's role is more pronounced at lower resolutions where frame rates exceed 200 FPS.

The data shows that from 1080p to 4K, the frame rate reduction is roughly 50-60% regardless of preset, but the absolute headroom differs. At Low settings, the 4K result of 203.7 FPS still leaves plenty of GPU headroom, so the CPU's 6-thread limit becomes more apparent at 1080p. At Ultra settings, the 4K result of 79.6 FPS is closer to the GPU's limit, meaning the i5-9400 is less of a constraint at higher resolutions. Overall, the scaling profile points to a balanced pairing where the CPU limits maximum frame rates at 1080p and the GPU limits performance at 4K.

Measured FPS Breakdown — resolution by resolution, settings by settings, exact numbers

At 1920x1080, the system delivers a wide range of frame rates depending on preset. Low settings produce 326.5 FPS, Medium settings yield 289.1 FPS, High settings drop to 263.3 FPS, and Ultra settings fall to 170.1 FPS. The step from Medium to High is a 25.8 FPS reduction, while the step from High to Ultra is a much larger 93.2 FPS reduction. This suggests that Ultra settings introduce a significant rendering cost, likely from higher shadow quality and post-processing effects, which taxes the GPU more heavily than the CPU.

At 2560x1440, the frame rates are still high but show the GPU's growing influence. Low settings achieve 293.0 FPS, Medium hits 231.1 FPS, High reaches 187.7 FPS, and Ultra drops to 122.8 FPS. The reduction from Low to Ultra at 1440p is 170.2 FPS, which is proportionally similar to the 1080p reduction of 156.4 FPS. Notably, the 1440p Ultra result of 122.8 FPS is still above the 1080p Ultra result of 170.1 FPS by a margin of 47.3 FPS, showing that resolution scaling is not perfectly linear.

At 3840x2160, the data shows the most dramatic settings impact. Low settings produce 203.7 FPS, Medium yields 143.7 FPS, High hits 119.1 FPS, and Ultra drops to 79.6 FPS. The gap between Low and Medium is 60.0 FPS, while the gap between High and Ultra is 39.5 FPS. The 4K Ultra result of 79.6 FPS is the lowest in the entire dataset, but it remains comfortably above the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay. Across all resolutions, the Low-to-Ultra spread is consistent: 156.4 FPS at 1080p, 170.2 FPS at 1440p, and 124.1 FPS at 4K. The 4K spread is narrower because the GPU's rendering workload at that resolution compresses the frame rate range.

GPU Role — VRAM, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture using a 5 nm process at TSMC, with the AD103 chip containing 45,900 million transistors on a 379 mm² die. It runs at a base clock of 2340 MHz and boosts to 2610 MHz, with 16 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit bus delivering 672.3 GB/s of bandwidth. The GPU has 8448 shading units, 264 texture mapping units, and 96 ROPs, along with 66 ray tracing cores and 264 tensor cores. Its FP32 compute throughput is 44.10 TFLOPS, and it supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, Vulkan 1.4, and OpenGL 4.6. The GPU draws a 285 W TDP and requires a 600 W suggested PSU, with a triple-slot cooler that is 310 mm long.

In synthetic benchmarks, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER posts a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 5569 and a Geekbench OpenCL score of 223091. Its PassMark G3D score of 31811 and GPU compute score of 18372 place it at the 86th percentile among all GPUs. The average benchmark score of 48704 puts it 1.6% ahead of the NVIDIA RTX A2000 (47915) and 2.0% ahead of the RTX A1000 Mobile (47743), while trailing the NVIDIA CMP 50HX by 0.7% (49071) and the Intel Arc A550M by 2.1% (49737). This positioning explains why the GPU can drive 4K Ultra at 79.6 FPS in Undisputed — it is a high-end part with substantial memory bandwidth and compute resources.

The 16 GB VRAM capacity is more than sufficient for Undisputed's highest presets at any resolution. The measured frame rates show no signs of VRAM-related stuttering or texture thrashing, as the 4K Ultra result of 79.6 FPS remains stable in the average data. The memory clock of 1313 MHz with 21 Gbps effective speed provides the bandwidth needed for 4K textures and high-resolution shadows. The GPU's 86th percentile ranking means it outperforms the vast majority of graphics cards, and in Undisputed, that translates to frame rates above 170 FPS at 1080p Ultra and above 79 FPS at 4K Ultra. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is clearly the dominant component in this pairing, with the i5-9400 serving as a capable but less powerful partner that only becomes a limiting factor at the lowest resolutions and highest frame rates.