Valorant

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data for Valorant with this AMD Ryzen 5 4600G + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 combo reveals an unusual scaling pattern. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the combo delivers 404.6 FPS average. Moving to 2560x1440 Low drops that to 381.8 FPS, a reduction of roughly 5.6%. At 3840x2160 Low, the average falls to 352.6 FPS, another 7.6% step down. The total drop from 1080p Low to 4K Low is about 12.9%.

That is a remarkably shallow scaling curve. For most games, a jump from 1080p to 4K would halve or worse the frame rate. Valorant, being a competitive FPS with relatively simple geometry and lighting, does not stress the GPU the way a AAA single-player title would. The data shows the limiting component is the CPU, not the GPU, even at 4K. The RTX 3080, with its 10 GB GDDR6X memory and 760.3 GB/s bandwidth, is barely breaking a sweat.

Look at the Ultra preset scaling. At 1080p Ultra, the combo hits 334.1 FPS. At 1440p Ultra, it drops to 315.4 FPS (a 5.6% decrease). At 4K Ultra, it lands at 293.5 FPS (a 6.9% decrease from 1440p). The total 1080p-to-4K Ultra drop is just 12.2%. Compare that to the High preset: 337.4 FPS at 1080p, 322.2 FPS at 1440p (4.5% down), and 297.7 FPS at 4K (7.6% down from 1440p). The pattern is consistent — resolution scaling is nearly flat across all settings.

What this means practically: if you own a 144Hz or 240Hz monitor, this combo will max it out at any resolution. Even at 4K Ultra, 293.5 FPS average exceeds every mainstream display refresh rate. The bottleneck is the Ryzen 5 4600G's single-thread performance, not the RTX 3080's rasterization power. The CPU's 3DMark single-thread score of 726 and Passmark single-thread score of 2653 tell the story — Valorant's engine relies heavily on one or two cores.

GPU Role

The RTX 3080 here is operating well below its ceiling. Its 1440 MHz base clock and 1710 MHz boost clock, combined with 8704 shading units, give it enormous headroom for a game like Valorant. The GPU's Passmark G3D score of 25086 and 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 4407 place it in the 80th percentile of all GPUs. But in this title, those resources go largely unused.

The 10 GB of GDDR6X memory is more than sufficient. Valorant's texture and geometry data fit comfortably within that allocation, and the 320-bit bus with 760.3 GB/s bandwidth never approaches saturation. The GPU's 164.2 GPixel/s pixel rate and 465.1 GTexel/s texture rate are far beyond what this game demands, even at 4K Ultra.

The data confirms the GPU is not the constraint. At 1080p Low, the combo produces 404.6 FPS; at 1080p Ultra, it produces 334.1 FPS. That 17.4% gap between Low and Ultra is the GPU responding to increased load. But the fact that 4K Ultra still yields 293.5 FPS — only 12.2% below 1080p Ultra — shows the GPU has massive spare capacity. In a GPU-bound scenario, raising resolution to 4K would typically cost 40-50% performance. Here it costs almost nothing.

The RTX 3080's nearest rivals in the benchmark database include the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE (which scores 36101, 0.9% higher) and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile (35435, 1% lower). This GPU sits comfortably in the high-end tier, and in Valorant specifically, it will never be the reason frame rates drop below 290 FPS.

How This Combo Ranks

This specific combination — Ryzen 5 4600G paired with RTX 3080 — ranks 1158 out of 1650 tested combos in Valorant. That places it in the 70th percentile of all combinations. Using the comboRankInGame field, the data shows this is not a top-tier pairing for this title.

Why so low? The GPU is clearly capable, but the CPU holds the combo back. The Ryzen 5 4600G, based on Zen 2 (Renoir) architecture, has a 3.70 GHz base clock and 4.20 GHz boost clock. Its Cinebench R23 single-core score of 1919 and Geekbench single-core score of 1575 are modest by modern standards. Valorant's frame generation is heavily single-thread dependent, so this CPU becomes the limiting factor.

The CPU's percentileVsAllCpus is 75, meaning it beats 75% of all CPUs in the database's average benchmark score. But its nearest rivals tell a more nuanced story. The AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5355GE scores 17482 (0% delta), the Intel Core i5-12450H scores 17475 (0.1% higher), and the Intel Core i3-14100T scores 17636 (0.8% lower). These are all budget or mobile-oriented chips. The 4600G is competitive with them in synthetic tests, but in a game like Valorant, the lack of high single-thread boost headroom shows.

The combo's rank of 1158 out of 1650 indicates that many cheaper or similar-priced combinations outperform it in this specific game. The data suggests that pairing a stronger CPU with a mid-range GPU would yield higher Valorant frame rates than this high-end GPU with a mid-range APU.

Settings Recommendations

Based on the measured rows, the best experience comes from the Low preset. At every resolution, Low delivers the highest average FPS: 404.6 at 1080p, 381.8 at 1440p, and 352.6 at 4K. The gap between Low and Medium is substantial — at 1080p, Medium drops to 343.5 FPS (15.1% lower), and at 4K, Medium falls to 301.8 FPS (14.4% lower).

However, the difference between Medium, High, and Ultra is minimal. At 1080p, Medium (343.5), High (337.4), and Ultra (334.1) are within 2.8% of each other. At 4K, Medium (301.8), High (297.7), and Ultra (293.5) are within 2.8% as well. This suggests that if you want better visual quality, you can run Ultra without sacrificing much — the drop from Low to Ultra at 1080p is 17.4%, but the drop from Medium to Ultra is only 2.7%.

For competitive play, the Low preset is the clear choice. It maximizes frame rate and minimizes input latency, which matters in an FPS. The 404.6 FPS at 1080p Low gives you maximum headroom for any monitor. If you prefer visual fidelity, Medium offers a balanced compromise — it's only slightly slower than High but likely looks cleaner. Ultra provides marginal visual gains over High with a 1% performance penalty at 1080p and 1.4% at 4K.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The complete measured data set is as follows:

At 1920x1080: Low averages 404.6 FPS, Medium averages 343.5 FPS, High averages 337.4 FPS, Ultra averages 334.1 FPS. The spread from Low to Ultra is 70.5 FPS.

At 2560x1440: Low averages 381.8 FPS, Medium averages 325.9 FPS, High averages 322.2 FPS, Ultra averages 315.4 FPS. The spread narrows to 66.4 FPS.

At 3840x2160: Low averages 352.6 FPS, Medium averages 301.8 FPS, High averages 297.7 FPS, Ultra averages 293.5 FPS. The spread is 59.1 FPS.

The data shows diminishing returns from higher settings. Moving from Low to Medium costs roughly 60 FPS at every resolution — about 15% at 1080p, 14.6% at 1440p, and 14.4% at 4K. But moving from Medium to High costs only 6-8 FPS, and from High to Ultra costs 3-4 FPS. The performance curve flattens dramatically after Medium.

Resolution scaling is also consistent: 1080p to 1440p costs about 5-6% across all settings, and 1440p to 4K costs about 7-8%. This uniformity indicates the CPU is the primary bottleneck — if the GPU were the limit, the percentage drops would accelerate at higher resolutions.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 4600G is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on Zen 2 architecture. Its 3.70 GHz base and 4.20 GHz boost clocks, combined with 8 MB of shared L3 cache, position it as a solid budget performer. The 65 W TDP and 7 nm process node (TSMC) keep it efficient, and the integrated Radeon Vega 7 graphics make it versatile for systems without a discrete GPU.

In Valorant, the CPU's role is dominant. The game's engine is optimized for high frame rates on limited threads, and the 4600G's single-thread performance is its weak point. The Cinebench R23 single-core score of 1919 is roughly half of what top-tier CPUs achieve. The 3DMark single-thread score of 726 and Passmark single-thread score of 2653 confirm this limitation.

The benchmark data shows the combo's frame rates are capped by the CPU. At 1080p Low, the GPU could likely push well beyond 404.6 FPS, but the CPU cannot feed it data fast enough. The fact that 4K Ultra still hits 293.5 FPS — only 27.4% below 1080p Low — proves the GPU is nowhere near its limit. A stronger CPU, even with a weaker GPU, would likely match or exceed these numbers.

The CPU's 12 threads and 6 cores do help with background tasks and streaming overhead, but Valorant primarily uses 1-2 cores. The 4600G's multi-thread performance (Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 13593, Passmark multithread score of 15992) is respectable for productivity, but it does not translate to Valorant frame rates. The 75th percentile ranking among all CPUs in average benchmark score is misleading for this game — in Valorant, the single-thread score matters more, and that is where the 4600G lags behind the 80th-percentile GPU it is paired with.