Undisputed

# Undisputed with Intel Core i7-14700KF + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

The Intel Core i7-14700KF paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 delivers a robust performance profile in Undisputed, a sports title released in October 2023. The measured frame rates span from a demanding 54 FPS at 4K Ultra to a fluid 308 FPS at 1080p Low, indicating that this combination is capable of high-refresh-rate play at lower resolutions while requiring careful settings management at higher ones. The 20-core, 28-thread Raptor Lake processor, with its 5.60 GHz boost capability, provides substantial headroom, while the 8 GB Ampere GPU shapes the performance ceiling in the most demanding scenarios.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data suggests that the Medium preset offers the most balanced experience across all three tested resolutions, as it is the only settings tier with complete min/max FPS data, indicating it was the most thoroughly evaluated configuration. At 1080p, Medium produces an average of 221 FPS with a minimum of 188 and a maximum of 255 FPS — a range that comfortably exceeds the refresh rate of most high-end monitors while maintaining consistent frame pacing. At 1440p, the Medium preset averages 160 FPS with a minimum of 136 and a maximum of 184 FPS, which remains well above the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay and approaches the territory of 144 Hz displays.

For 4K, the Medium preset is the strongest recommendation, delivering an average of 101 FPS with a minimum of 86 and a maximum of 116 FPS. This is the only 4K configuration that maintains an average above 100 FPS while providing complete frame time data; the High preset at 4K averages 84 FPS but lacks min/max measurements, suggesting less consistent performance. The Low preset at 4K does reach 141 FPS on average, but the visual quality trade-off is substantial. The Ultra preset at 4K falls to 54 FPS average, which dips below the 60 FPS target for many users. The data indicates that Medium is the optimal balance for the RTX 3070 in this title, providing a 17 FPS improvement over High at 4K and a 28 FPS improvement at 1080p, while the jump to Ultra yields diminishing returns relative to the frame rate cost.

How This Combo Ranks

The Core i7-14700KF and RTX 3070 combination ranks 1591 out of 3718 tested combos in Undisputed, placing it in the upper-middle tier of the benchmark database. This percentile position — roughly the 57th percentile — reflects a system that handles the game competently but is not at the absolute top end of performance. The CPU alone sits in the 94th percentile against all processors, while the GPU rests in the 61st percentile, indicating that the graphics card is the limiting factor in this pairing.

The CPU's nearest rivals show how close the top end of processor performance is: the AMD Ryzen 7 9700F trails by only 0.2% with an average score of 69996 versus 70163, the AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX is 0.4% behind at 69875, and the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X lags 0.9% at 69515. The Intel Core Ultra 7 265K actually leads by 1% with a score of 70879. These narrow margins underscore that the 14700KF is performing at the competitive frontier of CPU capability, yet the overall combo ranking is dragged down by the GPU's more modest standing. The RTX 3070's rivals — the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT at 0.7% ahead, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 at 1% ahead, and the AMD Radeon HD 7970M at 1.1% ahead — all cluster within 2% of the 3070's average benchmark score of 17208, confirming that the GPU sits in a crowded mid-range performance band.

GPU Role

The RTX 3070's 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus provides 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth, which becomes a critical constraint at higher resolutions. The GPU's 5888 shading units, 184 texture mapping units, and 96 raster output units are complemented by 46 ray tracing cores and 184 tensor cores, though Undisputed's sports genre likely places less emphasis on ray tracing than on raw rasterization throughput. The memory clock runs at 1750 MHz with 14 Gbps effective speed, while the base clock of 1500 MHz boosts to 1725 MHz under load.

The VRAM capacity is the most telling limitation in this game's measured results. At 4K, the average frame rate drops from 141 FPS on Low to 84 FPS on High and 54 FPS on Ultra — a 62% reduction from Low to Ultra. This steep degradation pattern suggests that the 8 GB frame buffer is being saturated at 4K with higher settings, forcing the GPU to manage memory more inefficiently. The GPU's FP32 compute of 20.31 TFLOPS and texture rate of 317.4 GTexel/s are sufficient for the game's demands at lower settings, but the memory bandwidth and capacity become the deciding factors at 4K. The card's 220 W TDP and dual-slot design are standard for this performance class, and the PCIe 4.0 x16 interface provides ample bandwidth for the game's data transfer requirements.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the RTX 3070 demonstrates its strength with a wide spread of averages: Low delivers 308 FPS, Medium 221 FPS (min 188, max 255), High 183 FPS, and Ultra 118 FPS. The 1080p results show that even at Ultra, the frame rate exceeds 100 FPS, making this resolution entirely playable at maximum settings for competitive play. The 90 FPS gap between Low and Ultra at 1080p is substantial, but the minimum of 188 FPS on Medium indicates consistent performance without significant drops.

At 2560x1440, the averages are 222 FPS on Low, 160 FPS on Medium (min 136, max 184), 132 FPS on High, and 85 FPS on Ultra. The 1440p data reveals a 137 FPS difference between Low and Ultra, with Ultra dropping below the 90 FPS mark. The Medium preset's minimum of 136 FPS demonstrates that this settings tier maintains playable frame rates even in demanding scenes. The High preset at 132 FPS average is also respectable, though it lacks the min/max data that would confirm stability.

At 3840x2160, the performance envelope tightens considerably: Low averages 141 FPS, Medium 101 FPS (min 86, max 116), High 84 FPS, and Ultra 54 FPS. The 4K results show a 87 FPS spread between Low and Ultra, with Ultra barely maintaining 54 FPS — below the 60 FPS threshold that many consider the minimum for smooth gameplay. The Medium preset at 4K is the only configuration that balances playability with visual fidelity, as its 86 FPS minimum stays above the 60 FPS line while the 101 FPS average provides headroom for demanding sequences.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals the GPU-bound nature of this configuration. At Medium settings, the average FPS drops from 221 at 1080p to 160 at 1440p (a 27.6% reduction) and then to 101 at 4K (a 36.9% reduction from 1440p). This scaling pattern is consistent with a GPU that is increasingly constrained by pixel throughput rather than CPU limitations. The 14700KF's strong single-thread performance of 6235 in Cinebench R23 and 2578 in Geekbench makes it unlikely to bottleneck even at 1080p, where the CPU must feed frames at rates exceeding 300 FPS.

At High settings, the scaling is similar: 183 FPS at 1080p, 132 FPS at 1440p (a 27.9% drop), and 84 FPS at 4K (a 36.4% drop from 1440p). The consistency of these percentage reductions across settings tiers indicates that the resolution scaling is driven by the GPU's rasterization and memory bandwidth limits rather than settings-specific effects. At Low settings, the 1080p average of 308 FPS drops to 222 FPS at 1440p (a 27.9% reduction) and 141 FPS at 4K (a 36.5% reduction from 1440p), confirming that the RTX 3070's performance scales predictably with pixel count.

The limiting component is clearly the GPU. The CPU's 20 cores and 28 threads, with a boost clock of 5.60 GHz, provide far more processing capability than the game requires even at 1080p Low, where the 308 FPS average approaches the practical display refresh limits. The RTX 3070's 8 GB VRAM and 448.0 GB/s bandwidth become the binding constraints at 4K, where the Ultra preset's 54 FPS average represents a 82.5% reduction from the 1080p Ultra result of 118 FPS.

FAQ

Q: What is the best preset for a 60 FPS experience at 4K?

A: The Medium preset at 3840x2160 averages 101 FPS with a minimum of 86 FPS, providing comfortable headroom above the 60 FPS threshold. The High preset at 84 FPS average also works, but Ultra falls to 54 FPS, which is below the 60 FPS target.

Q: Can this combo achieve 144 FPS at 1080p?

A: Yes. The Medium preset at 1080p averages 221 FPS with a minimum of 188 FPS, and even the High preset maintains 183 FPS. The Ultra preset at 118 FPS is the only 1080p configuration that falls short of 144 FPS.

Q: How does the RTX 3070 compare to its nearest GPU rivals in this system context?

A: The RTX 3070's average benchmark score of 17208 is 0.7% behind the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT, 1% behind the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690, and 1.1% behind the AMD Radeon HD 7970M, while leading the NVIDIA Tesla K40c by 1.5%. These margins are within 2%, indicating near-parity performance across these cards.

Q: Is the 14700KF holding back the RTX 3070 in this game?

A: No. The CPU ranks in the 94th percentile against all processors and scores 44167 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 6235 in single-core. The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K shows the GPU is the limiting factor, as the CPU's performance far exceeds the game's demands.

Q: What is the frame time consistency at Medium settings?

A: At Medium, the min/max ranges are: 188-255 FPS at 1080p, 136-184 FPS at 1440p, and 86-116 FPS at 4K. These ranges show consistent performance with no extreme frame time spikes, making Medium the most reliable preset for smooth gameplay.

Q: How much performance is lost moving from 1080p to 4K at High settings?

A: The average FPS drops from 183 at 1080p to 132 at 1440p, then to 84 at 4K. This represents a 27.9% reduction from 1080p to 1440p and a further 36.4% reduction from 1440p to 4K, totaling a 54.1% loss from 1080p to 4K.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-14700KF brings substantial processing power to this pairing, with 20 cores and 28 threads arranged in the Raptor Lake architecture on Intel's 10 nm process. The base clock of 3.40 GHz boosts to 5.60 GHz, and the 33 MB shared L3 cache, alongside 2 MB L2 per core and 80 KB L1 per core, provides ample data locality for game logic and physics calculations. The CPU's 125 W TDP and unlocked multiplier allow for overclocking headroom, though the measured results suggest no such tuning was needed for Undisputed.

Benchmark results show the CPU's strength: Cinebench R23 multi-core scores 44167 and single-core 6235, Geekbench multi-core reaches 21462 with single-core at 2578, and Passmark multi-thread scores 52425. The CPU sits in the 94th percentile against all processors, with an average benchmark score of 70163. Its closest rival, the AMD Ryzen 7 9700F, scores 69996 — just 0.2% behind — while the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K leads by 1% with 70879. These margins confirm that the 14700KF performs at the leading edge of CPU capability, though the differences among top-tier processors are negligible in real-world gaming.

In Undisputed, the CPU's role is to maintain high frame delivery at low resolutions and prevent bottlenecks in CPU-intensive scenes. The 1080p Low average of 308 FPS demonstrates that the processor can feed frames at rates far exceeding typical display refresh rates, and the consistent resolution scaling pattern indicates the CPU never becomes the limiting factor. The 14700KF's 28 threads allow for efficient background task handling while gaming, and its 5.60 GHz boost clock ensures single-threaded performance that sports games typically require. The CPU's memory support for both DDR4 and DDR5 over a dual-channel bus provides flexibility for system builders, though the measured data does not differentiate between memory types. The processor's release date of October 2023 aligns closely with the game's launch, making this pairing a contemporary combination for Undisputed.