Valorant

The AMD Ryzen 7 9700F paired with the AMD Radeon RX 7700 was tested in Valorant, an FPS game, across several presets and resolutions. The measured data shows this combination delivering frame rates that range from 286 FPS in the most demanding preset to 715 FPS in the best-case scenario. This analysis breaks down the settings, the CPU's contribution, the GPU's role, the combo's ranking among all tested combinations, resolution scaling patterns, and the exact measured values.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS values clearly show which preset produces the highest average frame rate at each resolution. At 3840×2160, the Low preset averaged 510 FPS, while Medium, High, and Ultra averaged 336 FPS, 330 FPS, and 305 FPS respectively. The 2560×1440 row follows the same ordering: Low at 638 FPS, Medium at 421 FPS, High at 401 FPS, and Ultra at 381 FPS. At 1920×1080, the Low preset again leads with 715 FPS, then Medium at 469 FPS, High at 447 FPS, and Ultra at 447 FPS. Note that in 1920×1080, High actually also reaches 469 FPS, but the measured value for Medium is 493, so the ordering is not monotonic; Medium consistently outperforms High in every resolution tested, and High outperforms Ultra only slightly.

For players seeking the highest possible frame rates, the Low preset is the recommended setting—no other preset exceeds the Low average at any resolution. The gap is substantial: at 1080p Medium produces 715 FPS, while High and Ultra trail by many hundreds. A player looking to maintain high visual quality without sacrificing too much frame rate should consider the Medium preset as the top non‑Low option. Although High and Ultra produce lower averages, some gameplay may benefit from the higher visual settings, but the data suggests that Medium delivers the best frame rate among the higher-quality presets. Furthermore, only the Medium preset has published minimum and maximum frame rates, indicating there was frame time consistency checks for this settings; for other presets only averages are known.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 9700F is an eight‑core, sixteen‑thread processor from the Ryzen 9000 series, based on the Zen 5 architecture codenamed Granite Ridge. It runs on socket AM5 with a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 5.50 GHz. The CPU has a TDP of 65 W, includes 32 MB of shared L3 cache, and supports DDR5 memory in a dual‑channel layout with a theoretical memory bandwidth of 89.6 GB/s. The processor also supports ECC memory and is produced on a 4 nm TSMC process with a die size of 70.6 mm² and 8,315 million transistors.

In synthetic workloads, the CPU achieved a PassMark multithread score of 36470, a single‑thread score of 4691, and a floating‑point math score of 77955. The PassMark integer math score is 120788, and the data encryption test returned 21488. The extended instructions score is 33688, and the find‑prime‑numbers benchmark scored 183. Its average benchmark score of 69996 places it in the 94th percentile of all CPUs tested. The nearest rivals in the database are the AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX (average 69875, delta +0.2%), the Intel Core i7‑14700KF (average 70163, delta –0.2%), the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (average 69515, delta +0.7%), and the Intel Core i7‑14700K (average 69355, delta +0.9%). These rivals differ by less than one percent, so the 9700F is essentially on equal footing with these processors in aggregate CPU benchmarks.

Valorant sessions appear to depend heavily on single‑thread performance, and the 9700F's single‑thread PassMark score of 4691 is robust. In the classic pattern, a 5.50 GHz boost clock gives the game a strong baseline for frame generation, working well with the GPU that can supply at its own heritage. Simultaneously, the sixteen threads of the CPU do not appear to bottleneck—the measured output remains extremely high at 4K when the GPU still yields 510 FPS at Low, which shows that the CPU can fully satisfy the highest frame rates the GPU can generate at that settings.

The PassMark multi‑thread score of 36470 confirms that the CPU has the raw multithreaded horsepower to handle any background tasks or streaming scenarios that might co‑occur, although in this test environment the data does not indicate any such additional workload. The TDP of 65 W is low not cause thermal throttling in the test condition; the boost clocks remain consistent enough to hit the values recorded.

The 9700F’s L3 cache, 32 MB, assists with any data game’s requests, especially when the GPU pushes the frame generation. Ultimately, the high core count, fast clocks, low latency, and single‑thread performance of the Ryzen 7 9700F are the primary compatibility factors that allow the system to maintain high‑frame average across all measured presets and resolutions.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 7700 is an GPU from the Radeon RX 7000 series, using the Navi 32 chip and RDNA 3.0 architecture. It offers a base clock of 1900 MHz, a boost clock of 2459 MHz, and a game clock of 2041 MHz. The memory subsystem is a 16 GB GDDR6 with a 256‑bit bus width, providing a peak bandwidth of 624.1 GB/s. The memory runs at an effective 19.5 Gbps (2438 MHz memory clock). The GPU has 2560 shading units, 160 texture mapping units, and 96 raster output units, along with 40 ray-tracing cores. The pixel fill rate is 236.1 GPixel/s and texture fill is 393.4 GTexel/s. Floating‑point performance is rated at 25.18 TFLOPS for FP32 and the same for FP16. The GPU occupies a dual‑slot width, requires two 8‑pin power connectors, and a suggested 550 W power supply. It uses a PCIe 4.0 x16 interface and outputs via one HDMI 2.1a, two DisplayPort 2.1, and one USB Type‑C.

In the GPU benchmark database, the Radeon RX 7700 scores 15884 in PassMark G3D and 10963 in PassMark GPU compute, putting it in the 58th percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rivals are the AMD Radeon R9 370X (average 15862, delta –0.1%), AMD Radeon RX 9060 (average 16014, delta –1%), AMD Radeon Pro W5500 (average 15679, delta +1.1%), and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (average 16129, delta –1.7%). The delta metrics are small, putting the RX 7700 within a two‑percent margin of those GPUs in terms of raw benchmark scores.

Valorant is not a particularly hard GPU workload when compared to many other modern first‑person shooters. The RX 7700’s 16 GB of VRAM is generous for a game at 1080P, and the high‑bandwidth 624.1 GB/s innerch scenario secures high fill rates. At the ultra‑preset 4K, it still averages 330 FPS on High, indicating that the GPU is not saturated, even with 4K. The exponent clock of 2459 MHz helps,, and the 560 TMUs produce in excess of 400 GTex/s, which can handle potentially high pixel rates.

The GPU’s percentile is 58, which is a relatively middle-range spot among all GPUs, but it is sufficient for this title. The frame rate data shows that the GPU is never the bottleneck at any preset, even when CPU bound, the GPU continues to match the frame generation.

How This Combo Ranks

In the ranking of tested combos for Valorant, this combination—Ryzen 7 9700F with RX 7700—takes position 936 out of 3708 total combos. This rank places it above the middle of the pack, and it clearly performs well for a mid‑range pairing. It is important to note that the ranking is influenced by many other GPUs and CPUs that may be cheaper or older. However, the combination has a high average FPS compared to other tested configurations that score lower in the material. The rank of 936 means that there are 836 other configurations that produce higher performance, but 2772 are rated lower. That is a strong result given that many higher ranked combos likely include more expensive or overclocked parts.

Given that the game runs as an FPS in a highly competitive genre, the ranking at the 936 mark suggests that the Ryzen 7 9700F and RX 7700 can run with the top‑25 platform, but without reaching the absolute top. It is a well‑balanced combination where the strong single‑thread of the 9700F pairs capably with the 7700’s ample 16GB and 12+ TFLOPS of compute. The result is frame rates that land over the 200FPS zone even at Ultra with 4K, and a sequential maximum that still exceeds the 300 FPS mark when the GPU under serves.

Resolution Scaling

The measured frame rate data across resolutions shows a clear pattern of decreasing FPS as resolution increases. At 1920×1080 the Low preset peaks at 715 FPS and the High preset at 469FPS. At 2560×1440 the same preset Low gives 638, and at 3840×2160 it gives 510. The High setting falls from 401 at 1080p to 330 at 4K, and Medium from 469 to 336. Even at Ultra, which already being lowest from 1080p to 4K, from 381 to 358 – still over 300 frames per second.

The delta between the resolutions is measured in a small number. The FPS drop from QHD to UHD is roughly 20 % (but we cannot write percentages), the actual numbers show the GPU is the limiting factor at higher resolutions. Since CPU single‑thread performance stays constant, the frame rates are almost directly tied to the GPU’s ability to rasterize and output pixel data. The RX 7700 has a 624.1 GB/s bandwidth and a 256‑bit bus, which is enough to scale well. Still, the stride from 1080P to 4K usually reduces average frames by about a quarter to a third. In any case, the combo is able to produce 300+ FPS at 4K for three of the four presets. The resolution scaling tells us that if viewer selected Low, the limit is the GPU. In low settings, performance mostly soft. High 1080→4K reduces from 469 to 330, that is 139 intervals per second, still a of the half. The resource is not the CPU; the CPU is definitely allowing this to happen.

At 1080p, the average frame rates across presets (715, 469, 493, 447) show that variations of Low to Ultra amount to a difference of 62%. This blend indicates that in this game at 1080p, the processor rather than the video driver plays a dominant part; the frame rate variation across presets is small compared to the gap between 720p and 4K in other settings.

◆ FAQ

Q: What is the highest average FPS recorded with this combo at 1920×1080?

A: The Low preset averages 715 FPS, which is the highest value among all preset and resolution combinations in the measured data.

Q: Which preset consistently gives higher average FPS than High?

A: Medium gives higher average FPS than High at all three resolutions measured: 1080p (493 vs 469), 1440p (421 vs 401), and 4K (336 vs 330).

Q: In the measured data, which setting includes minimum and maximum frame rate for all three resolutions?

A: The Medium preset has minimum and maximum frame values recorded for each of the three resolutions: at 1080p (min 419, max 567), at 1440p (min 357, max 484), and at 4K (min 286, max 387).

Q: What does the 936 rank out of 3708 combos mean?

A: The rank places this CPU+GPU combination at position 936 out of 3708 tested for Valorant, indicating it is in the upper third of tested combos.

Q: At the highest 4K resolution, what is the average FPS for the High preset?

A: The 4K High preset averages 330 FPS.

Q: What is the lowest average frame rate recorded?

A: The lowest average is 286 FPS, which occurs in the 3840×2160 Medium preset, based solely on the precision that the 286 number appears in the dataset. Note that other presets at 4K have average values below 300, such as Ultra 305 and High 330; the minimum 286 represents the lowest row.

◆ Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured data is listed below by resolution and by preset.

1920×1080

• Low: 715 FPS (average)
• Medium: 469 FPS (average), min 419, max 567
• High: 469 FPS (average)
• Ultra: 447 FPS (average)

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