Undisputed

# Undisputed with Intel Core Ultra 9 185H + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

The Intel Core Ultra 9 185H paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile delivers a thoroughly playable Undisputed experience across all tested presets and resolutions, with the data showing a clear sweet spot at Medium settings for high-refresh displays. The measured frame rates indicate that this combination sits in the top third of tested configurations, ranking 1220th out of 3718 combos in this game, placing it ahead of roughly two-thirds of all tested systems. The performance envelope is broad enough that users can prioritize visual fidelity or raw frame rate without ever falling below playable territory, though the Ultra preset shows the first signs of the GPU becoming the limiting factor at higher resolutions.

Settings Recommendations

The Medium preset represents the best balance of visual quality and performance across all three tested resolutions, with the data showing the narrowest gap between average and minimum frame rates at this setting. At 1920x1080, Medium produces an average of 247 FPS with a minimum of 210 FPS, yielding a 37 FPS spread between the average and the floor; this indicates consistent frame pacing that will feel smooth on high-refresh panels. The High preset at 1080p delivers 205 FPS average, which is still excellent, but the Medium setting's higher headroom makes it the safer choice for competitive play where frame rate consistency matters more than marginal visual improvements.

For users with 1440p displays, the Medium preset again emerges as the recommended choice, producing an average of 179 FPS with a minimum of 152 FPS. The 27 FPS difference between average and minimum at this resolution is the tightest of any 1440p setting, suggesting that Medium maintains stability even during demanding in-ring action sequences. The High preset at 1440p drops to 148 FPS average, which remains playable but leaves less room for dips during intense gameplay moments. At 4K, the Medium preset delivers 113 FPS average with a minimum of 96 FPS, which is the only 4K setting that maintains an average comfortably above 100 FPS while keeping the minimum above 90 FPS.

The Ultra preset is only advisable at 1080p, where it produces 132 FPS average, still comfortably above typical 60 Hz refresh rates. At 1440p, Ultra drops to 95 FPS average, and at 4K it falls to 60 FPS average, which is exactly at the threshold of what most users would consider the minimum for smooth gameplay. The Low preset, while providing the highest frame rates at every resolution, sacrifices too much visual quality for a sports title where player models and arena details contribute significantly to the experience. The data indicates that Medium is the optimal choice for most users, with High as a reasonable alternative for those prioritizing visuals on 1080p displays.

GPU Role

The RTX 4080 Mobile demonstrates substantial headroom in this title, particularly at lower resolutions where frame rates exceed 200 FPS. The GPU's 12 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus provides 432.0 GB/s of bandwidth, which proves sufficient for Undisputed's texture and geometry demands even at 4K resolution, where the Ultra preset still manages a 60 FPS average. The Ada Lovelace architecture with 7424 shading units, 232 texture mapping units, and 80 raster output pipelines delivers a measured 24.72 TFLOPS of FP32 compute, which translates to the strong performance observed across the resolution spectrum.

The GPU's clock behavior shows a base of 1290 MHz and boost up to 1665 MHz, and the benchmark results indicate that this boost headroom is effectively utilized in Undisputed, which appears to scale well with GPU throughput rather than being constrained by other factors. The 58 ray tracing cores and 232 tensor cores present in this mobile implementation are not heavily stressed by this title, as Undisputed is primarily a rasterization-focused sports game. The pixel rate of 133.2 GPixel/s and texture rate of 386.3 GTexel/s are more relevant metrics for this workload, and the measured performance suggests these resources are being well-utilized at Medium settings across all resolutions.

The GPU's 110 W TDP classification as an integrated form factor part reflects its mobile positioning, yet the performance data shows it operating well above what that power envelope might suggest. The nearest GPU rivals in the benchmark database include the NVIDIA GeForce MX570 with an average score of 38299 (0.4% higher than the RTX 4080 Mobile's 38135), the RTX 5080 Mobile at 38349 (0.6% higher), and the RTX 4070 at 37648 (1.3% lower). This clustering indicates that the RTX 4080 Mobile sits in a competitive performance tier where small percentage differences translate to the observed frame rate variations in Undisputed.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals a predominantly GPU-limited scenario, with the average frame rates dropping by approximately 44-55% depending on the settings preset. At Medium settings, the progression goes from 247 FPS at 1080p to 179 FPS at 1440p to 113 FPS at 4K, representing a 27.5% drop from 1080p to 1440p and a 36.9% drop from 1440p to 4K. This scaling pattern is characteristic of a system where the GPU becomes increasingly stressed as pixel count rises, while the CPU maintains sufficient headroom to feed the graphics pipeline even at 4K.

The Low preset shows the most dramatic scaling, going from 344 FPS at 1080p to 248 FPS at 1440p to 157 FPS at 4K, with drops of 27.9% and 36.7% respectively. This consistency across settings suggests that the resolution scaling behavior is driven primarily by the GPU's pixel throughput capabilities rather than by any settings-specific bottleneck. The High preset follows a similar pattern: 205 FPS at 1080p, 148 FPS at 1440p, and 94 FPS at 4K, representing drops of 27.8% and 36.5%.

The Ultra preset exhibits the steepest relative decline, falling from 132 FPS at 1080p to 95 FPS at 1440p (28.0% drop) and then to 60 FPS at 4K (36.8% drop). The fact that the percentage drops are remarkably consistent across all four settings presets — all falling between 27.5-28.0% for the first step and 36.5-36.9% for the second — strongly indicates that resolution scaling in this game is purely a function of GPU workload. The consistency also suggests that the RTX 4080 Mobile's 12 GB VRAM capacity does not become a limiting factor at any tested resolution, as the scaling remains smooth and predictable throughout.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H and RTX 4080 Mobile achieves a combo rank of 1220 out of 3718 tested configurations in Undisputed, placing it in the 67th percentile of all tested systems. This ranking indicates that while this combo is not at the absolute top of the performance hierarchy, it outperforms the majority of systems tested in this title. The top third positioning reflects the strong GPU performance combined with a capable CPU, though the data suggests that higher-ranking combos likely feature desktop-class GPUs or more recent mobile implementations.

The CPU's individual percentile ranking of 85th among all tested CPUs places the Core Ultra 9 185H in the top 15% of processors, while the GPU's 81st percentile ranking places the RTX 4080 Mobile in the top 19% of graphics cards. The combo ranking of 1220/3718 is slightly lower than what these individual percentiles might suggest, which could indicate that Undisputed benefits more from GPU performance than CPU performance in determining overall system ranking. A combo ranking in the 67th percentile with both components ranking in the 81st-85th percentiles individually suggests that the game's performance scaling is not perfectly linear with component benchmarks.

The nearest CPU rivals in the database — the AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350 at 35719 average score (0.1% higher), Intel Core 7 250H at 35728 (0.2% higher), AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5845 at 35802 (0.4% higher), and AMD Ryzen 7 7700X at 35909 (0.7% higher) — all cluster within 0.7% of the Core Ultra 9 185H's 35670 average benchmark score. This tight clustering indicates that the CPU selection has minimal impact on overall system performance in this game, as all these processors perform within statistical noise of each other. The combo ranking is therefore likely determined more by GPU selection, where the RTX 4080 Mobile's nearest rivals show slightly larger performance deltas.

CPU Role

The Intel Core Ultra 9 185H provides 16 cores and 22 threads based on the Meteor Lake architecture, built on Intel's 7 nm process node. The CPU's base clock of 3.90 GHz can boost up to 5.10 GHz, and the benchmark results indicate that this boost capability is effectively utilized in Undisputed's single-threaded and lightly-threaded workloads. The 24 MB of shared L3 cache, along with 2 MB L2 cache per core and 112 KB L1 cache per core, provides sufficient on-die storage for the game's physics and AI calculations without causing memory bandwidth bottlenecks.

The memory subsystem is dual-channel DDR5 with 89.6 GB/s bandwidth, and the CPU supports PCIe Gen 5 with 8 lanes for GPU connectivity. In Undisputed, the CPU appears to have ample headroom, as evidenced by the fact that frame rates scale almost perfectly with resolution changes — a pattern that would not occur if the CPU were limiting performance. At 1080p Medium, the 247 FPS average suggests the CPU can feed the GPU well beyond what is required for typical 60-144 Hz displays, and even the 344 FPS at 1080p Low demonstrates the CPU's ability to handle high instruction throughput without becoming a constraint.

The CPU's multi-threaded performance, measured at 17984.5 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 10356 in Cinebench R20 multi-core, indicates strong parallel processing capability that helps maintain consistent frame times during Undisputed's simulation-heavy moments. Single-threaded performance of 1810.5 in Cinebench R23 and 1462 in Cinebench R20 shows competent per-core speed, which is important for the main game logic thread that cannot be fully parallelized. The PassMark multi-thread score of 29376 and single-thread score of 3697 further confirm the CPU's balanced performance profile, with the 85th percentile ranking indicating it outperforms 85% of all tested CPUs in aggregate benchmarks.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the RTX 4080 Mobile paired with the Core Ultra 9 185H delivers exceptional performance across all settings. The Low preset achieves 344 FPS average, representing maximum frame throughput for competitive play. Medium settings produce 247 FPS average with a minimum of 210 FPS and maximum of 284 FPS, showing excellent consistency. High settings deliver 205 FPS average, while Ultra settings still manage 132 FPS average, ensuring even maximum visual quality remains well above the 60 FPS threshold. The 1080p results demonstrate that this combo has substantial headroom for high-refresh-rate displays, with even the most demanding preset exceeding 120 FPS.

At 2560x1440, performance remains strong but shows expected scaling. Low settings produce 248 FPS average, nearly matching the 1080p Low result and indicating the GPU can still handle this resolution with minimal settings easily. Medium settings deliver 179 FPS average with a minimum of 152 FPS and maximum of 206 FPS, maintaining excellent consistency with only a 27 FPS gap between average and minimum. High settings achieve 148 FPS average, while Ultra settings produce 95 FPS average, which is still comfortably above 60 FPS and suitable for higher refresh displays. The 1440p results show that this combo can drive high-refresh monitors at Medium settings while maintaining smooth gameplay at Ultra.

At 3840x2160, the GPU begins to show its limits at the highest settings, but remains playable throughout. Low settings produce 157 FPS average, still providing smooth gameplay for 4K displays. Medium settings deliver 113 FPS average with a minimum of 96 FPS and maximum of 130 FPS, representing the best 4K experience with a minimum above 90 FPS. High settings achieve 94 FPS average, which is perfectly playable on 60 Hz displays. Ultra settings drop to 60 FPS average, exactly at the threshold for smooth 4K gaming. The 4K results indicate that 4K gaming is viable at Medium and High settings, with Ultra reserved for 60 Hz displays or users who prioritize visual fidelity over frame rate headroom.

FAQ

Q: What is the best settings preset for 1440p gaming with this combo?

A: The Medium preset is optimal at 2560x1440, delivering 179 FPS average with a 152 FPS minimum and 206 FPS maximum. This provides the tightest frame time consistency of any 1440p preset, with only a 27 FPS difference between average and minimum, ensuring smooth gameplay even during intense in-ring action.

Q: Can this system handle 4K gaming in Undisputed?

A: Yes, with some caveats. At 4K, Medium settings produce 113 FPS average with a 96 FPS minimum, which is excellent for high-refresh 4K displays. High settings deliver 94 FPS average, which is still smooth on 60 Hz displays. Ultra settings at 4K produce exactly 60 FPS average, which is playable but leaves no headroom for frame drops.

Q: How does the RTX 4080 Mobile compare to its nearest GPU rivals?

A: The RTX 4080 Mobile has an average benchmark score of 38135, placing it 0.4% below the NVIDIA GeForce MX570 (38299), 0.6% below the RTX 5080 Mobile (38349), and 1.3% above both the RTX 4070 (37648) and NVIDIA Tesla P4 (37628). The GPU ranks in the 81st percentile among all tested GPUs.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the limiting factor in this game?

A: The data strongly indicates the GPU is the limiting factor. Resolution scaling shows consistent percentage drops from 1080p to 1440p to 4K across all settings, with the CPU maintaining sufficient headroom to avoid becoming a bottleneck. The combo's ranking of 1220 out of 3718, combined with the CPU's 85th percentile ranking, suggests the GPU's 81st percentile ranking is the primary constraint on overall system performance.

Q: What frame rates can I expect at 1080p with Ultra settings?

A: At 1920x1080 with Ultra settings, this combo delivers 132 FPS average. This is the highest resolution at which Ultra settings remain comfortable for high-refresh displays, as the 1440p Ultra preset drops to 95 FPS average and 4K Ultra falls to 60 FPS average.

Q: How does the Core Ultra 9 185H compare to its nearest CPU rivals?

A: The Core Ultra 9 185H has an average benchmark score of 35670, which is 0.1% below the AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350 (35719), 0.2% below the Intel Core 7 250H (35728), 0.4% below the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5845 (35802), and 0.7% below the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X (35909). All rivals are within 0.7% of the Intel CPU's score, indicating near-identical performance in this title.