Valorant

# Valorant with AMD Ryzen 5 5600G + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600G paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 delivers exceptional performance in Valorant, with average frame rates ranging from 324.8 FPS at 4K Ultra to 482.7 FPS at 1080p Low. This combination ranks 786th out of 1650 tested configurations for the game, placing it in the upper-middle tier of all possible CPU-GPU pairings. The data shows a system that is overwhelmingly capable of driving high-refresh-rate monitors at any resolution, with the CPU emerging as the primary performance governor across all tested scenarios.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals a system that is heavily CPU-bound at lower resolutions, with the GPU only becoming a meaningful constraint at 4K Ultra. At 1080p Low, the system produces 482.7 FPS, while at 4K Low it drops to 424 FPS — a reduction of only 12.2%. This modest scaling strongly suggests that the Ryzen 5 5600G's processing throughput is the limiting factor, not the RTX 3070's rendering capabilities.

Moving from 1080p High to 4K High shows a more pronounced scaling pattern: 405.3 FPS drops to 340.6 FPS, a 16% reduction. The gap between Low and High settings at the same resolution remains consistent — 77.4 FPS at 1080p and 83.4 FPS at 4K — indicating that graphical settings have a relatively uniform impact regardless of resolution. However, the Ultra preset tells a different story: at 1080p Ultra the system hits 398.2 FPS, but at 4K Ultra it falls to 324.8 FPS, a 22.6% drop. This is the largest resolution penalty in the dataset, suggesting that at 4K Ultra, the GPU begins to share the performance burden more equally with the CPU.

The Medium preset shows nearly identical performance to High at both 1080p and 1440p — 409.8 vs 405.3 FPS and 388.3 vs 386.7 FPS, respectively — but at 4K the gap widens to 20.2 FPS (360.8 vs 340.6). This non-linear behavior indicates that the RTX 3070's 8 GB GDDR6 memory and 448.0 GB/s bandwidth are sufficient for most settings, but the Ultra preset at 4K imposes a heavier memory and fill-rate load that the GPU must work harder to satisfy.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600G is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 3 architecture, manufactured on TSMC's 7 nm process. Its base clock of 3.90 GHz boosts to 4.40 GHz, and it carries 16 MB of L3 cache alongside per-core L2 and L1 allocations of 512 KB and 64 KB, respectively. In synthetic benchmarks, this CPU achieves a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 16758 and a single-core score of 2365, with a passmark single-thread result of 3177.

Valorant is a competitive FPS that relies heavily on single-thread performance, and the data reflects this. The Ryzen 5 5600G's single-core throughput is the dominant factor in the measured frame rates, particularly at lower resolutions and settings. The 482.7 FPS result at 1080p Low represents the practical ceiling of what this CPU can feed to the GPU, regardless of how much headroom the RTX 3070 has available. The gap between Low and Ultra at 1080p — 84.5 FPS — is smaller than the gap between 1080p and 4K at Low — 58.7 FPS — which indicates that resolution scaling affects the CPU's ability to maintain frame pacing more than changing graphical fidelity.

The CPU's position relative to its nearest rivals is remarkably tight. The Intel Core i7-11600H scores 19949 in average benchmark, placing it 0.2% below the Ryzen 5 5600G's 19983 average. The Intel Core i7-11800H and AMD EPYC 7713P both score 20024, just 0.2% higher, while the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX sits 0.3% above at 19928. This clustering suggests that the 5600G's performance is representative of mainstream desktop processors, and its 78th percentile ranking among all CPUs confirms that it is a solid mid-range performer rather than a top-tier part.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 is built on the Ampere architecture using Samsung's 8 nm process, with 5888 shading units, 184 texture mapping units, and 96 raster output units. Its base clock of 1500 MHz boosts to 1725 MHz, and it carries 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, delivering 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The GPU's FP32 throughput is 20.31 TFLOPS, and its pixel rate is 165.6 GPixel/s.

In Valorant, the RTX 3070's role is largely secondary until the Ultra preset is engaged at 4K. At 1080p, the difference between Low and Ultra is just 84.5 FPS (482.7 vs 398.2), which is a relatively small penalty for a significant visual upgrade. At 1440p, the same comparison shows a 84.8 FPS gap (460.8 vs 376.0), nearly identical to 1080p. This consistency indicates that the GPU has ample compute headroom for the game's modest graphical demands, and the bottleneck remains the CPU's ability to issue draw calls and process game logic.

The 4K Ultra result of 324.8 FPS is the only data point where the GPU appears to be the primary constraint. The 115.2 FPS difference between 4K Low (424) and 4K Ultra (324.8) is the largest settings-based gap in the entire dataset, and the 39.2 FPS penalty for moving from 4K High (340.6) to 4K Ultra is more than double the equivalent penalty at 1440p (10.7 FPS). This suggests that the RTX 3070's 8 GB VRAM and memory bandwidth are adequate for the game's needs, but the Ultra preset at 4K pushes the GPU's pixel fill rate and shader throughput to a level where it can no longer keep pace with the CPU's frame generation.

The GPU's benchmark position shows it ranks 72nd percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 28238. Its nearest rival, the AMD FirePro S7150, scores 28409 (0.6% higher), while the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT trails by 0.9% at 27985. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 1% behind at 27956, and the AMD Radeon R9 M295X is 1.1% behind at 28541.

FAQ

Q: What is the maximum average frame rate achievable with this combination?

A: The highest measured average is 482.7 FPS, achieved at 1920x1080 with Low settings.

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

A: The average frame rate drops from 405.3 FPS at 1080p High to 340.6 FPS at 4K High, a reduction of 64.7 FPS (approximately 16%).

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the limiting factor in Valorant?

A: The data indicates the CPU is the primary bottleneck at most settings and resolutions, with the GPU becoming co-limiting only at 4K Ultra where the frame rate falls to 324.8 FPS.

Q: How does the Ryzen 5 5600G compare to its closest rival in benchmarks?

A: The Intel Core i7-11600H scores 19949, which is 0.2% lower than the 5600G's 19983 average benchmark score.

Q: What is the difference between Low and Ultra settings at 1440p?

A: The average frame rate drops from 460.8 FPS at Low to 376.0 FPS at Ultra, a gap of 84.8 FPS.

Q: Does the RTX 3070's 8 GB VRAM cause any issues in Valorant?

A: No, the game is not VRAM-limited at any tested setting, as evidenced by the relatively small frame rate penalties from Low to High at each resolution.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system delivers its highest performance across all settings. Low settings produce 482.7 FPS average, Medium achieves 409.8 FPS, High reaches 405.3 FPS, and Ultra settles at 398.2 FPS. The spread from Low to Ultra is 84.5 FPS, with Medium and High nearly identical — a difference of just 4.5 FPS.

At 2560x1440, the frame rates remain exceptionally high. Low settings yield 460.8 FPS, Medium delivers 388.3 FPS, High produces 386.7 FPS, and Ultra achieves 376.0 FPS. The resolution upgrade from 1080p costs between 21.9 FPS (Low) and 22.2 FPS (Ultra), showing that the GPU handles the extra pixel count with minimal impact.

At 3840x2160, the performance is still impressive but shows more variation. Low settings reach 424 FPS, Medium delivers 360.8 FPS, High produces 340.6 FPS, and Ultra drops to 324.8 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra at 4K is 99.2 FPS, significantly wider than the 84.5 FPS gap at 1080p. The step from 1440p to 4K costs 36.8 FPS at Low, 27.5 FPS at Medium, 46.1 FPS at High, and 51.2 FPS at Ultra — the increasing penalties at higher settings confirming that the RTX 3070's rendering resources are being taxed more heavily at 4K.