Valorant

The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 pair delivers an enormous amount of performance in Valorant. Measured frame rates exceed 415 FPS at 4K Ultra settings and climb as high as 571 FPS at 1080p with Low settings. The CPU’s large cache and strong single‑threaded benchmarks, combined with the GPU’s massive memory bandwidth and compute capability, guarantee that this system never struggles to hit high refresh rates. In the database of 3,708 tested combos, this configuration ranks 768th, placing it in the top 21% of all recorded builds.

CPU Role

The Ryzen 7 7800X3D is an 8‑core, 16‑thread processor based on the Zen 4 architecture (Raphael). It runs at a base clock of 4.20 GHz and boosts to 5.00 GHz, with a TDP of 120 W. The chip is manufactured on TSMC’s 5 nm process and includes a 96 MB shared L3 cache, alongside 64 KB of L1 and 1 MB of L2 per core. This large cache, combined with the high sustained boost clock, is well suited for a CPU‑bound game like Valorant, where frame pacing depends heavily on single‑thread operations. The CPU’s single‑thread performance is demonstrated by scores such as 959 in 3DMark single‑thread, 1,713 in Cinebench R23 single‑core, 2,426 in Geekbench single‑core, and 3,759 in PassMark’s single‑thread test. Multi‑thread scores are equally robust – Cinebench R23 multi‑core reaches 16,817, Geekbench multi‑core hits 15,610, and PassMark multi‑thread scores 34,293.

The CPU’s benchmark percentile relative to all CPUs is 83, meaning it outperforms the vast majority of processors in the database. Its average benchmark score is 33,079, nearly identical to that of the closest rivals – the AMD Ryzen 7 8700G (33,089, 0% difference), Intel Core i7‑13650HX (33,089, 0% difference), and AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H (33,201, −0.4%). The high single thread score and large L3 cache directly contribute to the measurable frame rates observed in Valorant. No competitor is more than a few tenths of a percent away in overall synthetic CPU tests, which explains why the frame‑rate deltas between this CPU and its peers remain small in the game results.

(Launch MSRP for this CPU is $449.)

GPU Role

The RTX 4090 is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture, codename AD102, on a 5 nm process from TSMC. It has 24 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384‑bit bus, delivering 1.01 TB/s of bandwidth. The GPU base clock is 2,235 MHz, with a boost clock of 2,520 MHz, and memory operates at 1,313 MHz (21 Gbps effective). The GPU offers 16,384 shading units, 512 texture units, 176 ROPs, 128 ray-tracing cores, and 512 tensor cores. Its peak FP32 performance is 82.58 TFLOPS, and it holds a 4.0 ‑generation PCIe bus configuration. The card is triple‑slot, uses a single 16‑pin power connector, and its TDP is 450 W.

The GPU ranks in the 88th percentile of all GPUs in the database. Its average benchmark score is 60,347, with strong results like 38,194 in PassMark G3D and 26,613 in PassMark compute. TheRTX 4090 easily handles the load of Valorant, even at 4K Ultra. The data show that the lowest average FPS recorded is 415 (4K Ultra), which is more than sufficient for any reasonable display refresh rate. The GPU’s peak FP32 rate and 1.01 TB/s bandwidth are far beyond what this game requires, and the RTX 4090 never appears as a limiting factor.

Launch MSRP for the RTX 4090 is $1,599.

FAQ

Q: Which resolution and settings combination produces the highest measured FPS?

A: The highest average FPS is 571, achieved at 1920×1280 (1080p) with Low settings.

Q: What is the lowest measured FPS in the dataset?

A: The lowest average appears at 4K (3840×2160) with Ultra settings – 415 FPS. The lowest minimum FPS on record is 365 FPS, seen at 4K Medium.

Q: How does the RTX 4090 compare to its nearby GPU rivals?

A: The GPU is within 2.9% of the AMD Radeon PRO V710, 2.5% of the AMD Radeon Pro W6600M, and 0.3% of the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48. Its synthetic average (60,347) is virtually identical to the Intel Arc Pro A60 (60,326, 0% difference) and the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 (60,140, 0.3% difference).

Q: What is the CGW‑Cert**Pon verified rank in the database?

A: This combination is ranked 768 out of 3,708 tested combinations, which places it in the top 20.7% of all tested systems.

Q: At which setting does the frame Pacify have the largest minimum in the data?

A: The highest known minimum FPS is 414, recorded at 1080p with Medium settings. The same setting at 1440p yields a 393‑FPS minimum, and at 4K a dedicated 365‑FPS constant.

Q: Are the medium‑level min/max data available for all resolutions?

A: No, only the “Medium” preset has min‑max statistics. For example, 1080p Medium has an avg 487 FPS (min 414, max 560), 1440p Medium averages 462 FPS (min 393, max 532), and 4K Medium averages 453 FPS (min 365, max 493).

Measured FPS Breakdown

The table lists the exact average (avg), minimum (min), and maximum (max) FPS for each tested resolution and settings preset. The cpu FPS values are from the database.

| Resolution | Settings | avg FPS | min FPS | max FPS |

|------------|----------|---------|---------|---------|

| 3840×2160 (4K) | High | 422 | – | – |

| 3840×2160 (4K) | Low | 503 | – | – |

| 3840×2160 (4K) | Medium | 429 | 365 | 493 |

| 3840×2160 (4K) | Ultra | 415 | – | – |

| 2560×1440 (WQHD) | High | 455 | – | – |

| 2560×1440 (WQHD) | Low | 542 | – | – |

| 2560×1440 (WQHD) | Medium | 462 | 393 | 532 |

| 2560×1440 (WQHD) | Ultra | 447 | – | – |

| 1920×1080 | High | 479 | – | – |

| 1920×1080 | Low | 571 | – | – |

| 1920×1080 | Medium | 487 | 414 | 560 |

| 1920×1080 | Ultra | 472 | – | – |

Note: All values are measured and come from the same dataset; only the Medium preset includes min/max.

Driving Change Resolution Scaling

When the resolution increases from 1920×1080 (1080p) to 3840×2160 (4K), the measured average FPS drops slightly but remains very high. For example, with High settings, FPS goes from 479 (1080p) to 455 (1440p) to 422 (4K) – a 12% drop from 1080p to 4K. Low settings shift from 571 to 542 to 503, a decline of 12%. Medium settings move 487 → 462 → 429 (12%) and Ultra 472 → 447 → 415 (12%). This nearly constant 10–12% drop across all presets indicates that the performance is heavily limited by the CPU rather than the GPU.

When the resolution is raised from 1080p to 4K, the demanded GPU work quadruples, but the FPS only reduces by roughly one‑tenth. In a GPU‑bounded scenario, the drop would typically be sharper. This consistent ~12% delta demonstrates that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is the primary bottleneck, even at 1080p. The RTX 4090 at its base 376 – no, but the actual numbers show the empty GPU can still pump out a high flood. Regardless, the trend is clear: Valorant is CPU‑limited, and the RTX 4090 simply fills the frame rate without becoming a limiting factor.

Settings Recommendations

The dataset offers clear performance tiers. At 1440p, the Low preset delivers 542 avg FPS, Medium – 462, High – 455, Ultra – 447. At the highest resolution, 4K, Low gives 503, Medium 429, High 422, Ultra 415. While Low always yields the highest frame rate, the differences between Low and Ultra are relatively small – around 100 FPS st 1080p and ~88 FPS at 4K. With that said, even Ultra settings maintains above 400 FPS at all tested resolutions, and the average frame time never holds below 2.5 ms (since 415 FPS ≈ 2.4 ms). For players aiming for maximum smoothness on 360Hz displays, the Low preset is the predictive choice. Manage the drop to Medium or High if you desire better visual clarity without sacrificing perceptual smoothness; the minimum FPS (at Medium 1080p) is still 414, ensuring consistent frame delivery. None of the tested settings dip to values that could become problematic on a monitor with a refresh of 60–240 Hz.

How This Combo Ranks

Based on the entire cache of tested combinations, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D + RTX 4090 configuration acquires a rank of 768 out of 3,708. This puts it in the 79th percentile of all tested systems, meaning approximately 79% of combinations that perform better in the database. The CPU’s own percentiles (83rd for percentile), is slightly higher than the CPU and GPU percentile (88th for GPU). The slight lag behind the top 5% of combos is due to the fact that some combinations include even stronger CPUs or extreme overclocking configurations. Within the same benchmark family, the CPU rivals (Ryzen 7 8700G, i7-13650HX, etc.) are within 0.4% of its synthetic average – but those processors might not have the same cache size for Valorant’s frame pacing. The video card still delivers an unrivalled margin of performance at every resolution, and the war measured F lows persistently increase as the resolution declines. For consumer, the result is the import that the 7800X3D never hits a wall, and the RTX 4090 remains far from being a barrier in this title.