Valorant

Valorant is a free-to-play tactical shooter that prizes responsiveness and consistent high frame rates. This write-up covers the measured performance of an AMD Ryzen 9 7900X paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, two components that lean heavily toward high-FPS competition. The collected run includes average, minimum, and maximum frame rates across four quality presets and three resolutions. All results shown here come from the database and represent actual measured data, not estimates.

FAQ

Q: What is the best average FPS for this combo at 1920x1080?

A: The highest average at 1080p is 643 FPS on the Low preset. The next highest is Medium with an average of 548 FPS, followed by High at 539 FPS and Ultra at 530 FPS.

Q: Why does the Medium preset have min and max values but the others do not?

A: In the dataset, Medium is the only preset for every resolution that includes recorded min and max ranges. For example, at 1440p Medium, the min is 442 FPS and the max is 598 FPS. Low, High, and Ultra lists only an average.

Q: Is the combo capable of maintaining 400+ FPS at 4K regardless of settings?

A: Yes. At 3840x2160, even the Ultra preset averages 424 FPS. The Low and Medium 4K results are even higher at 566 and 467 FPS respectively.

Q: How does this configuration rank among all tested CPU-GPU pairs in Valorant?

A: It places 414th out of 3708 tested combinations. That ranking includes a wide variety of hardware, and the position places it within the leading segment of the table.

Q: What are the CPU's key clock frequencies and core counts?

A: The Ryzen 9 7900X has 12 cores and 24 threads, a 4.70 GHz base clock and a 5.60 GHz boost clock. The processor is built on the Zen 4 Raphael architecture, with a 64MB shared L3 cache.

Q: What is the GPU's memory configuration and bus width?

A: The RTX 5070 is equipped with 12GB of GDDR7 memory on a 192-bit interface, giving a bandwidth of 672.0 GB/s. The memory clock is 1750 MHz (28 Gbps effective).

Settings Recommendations

Within the data, the Low preset delivers the highest average framerate at every resolution. At 1920p it reaches 643 FPS, at 1440p it posts 609 FPS, and at 2160p it dips to 566 FPS. Since these numbers stay far above the ceiling of even the fastest consumer displays, the Low preset offers maximum headroom for latency-sensitive gameplay. The Medium preset also sits well: for example, at 1440p Medium averages 520 FPS and shows minimum and maximum values of 442 FPS and 598 FPS respectively. These min/max span, while not using exact intervals, give an idea of the frame concentration in heavy scenes for a typical match.

For players who want a blend of visual fidelity and consistent high FPS, the Medium preset appears to provide the optimal mix according to the measured rows, especially because it is the only row that includes explicit minimum and maximum values across all three resolutions. The Ultra setting, by contrast, can still be used: at 1080p Ultra average falls to 530 FPS, and at 4K Ultra it drops to 424 FPS, both still far above the 240Hz or 360Hz oriented panels that most Valorant players would use. In short, the data suggests Low for absolute maximum generational headroom, Medium as a balanced choice with the extra stability data, and Ultra for players with very high refresh displays where a greater fraction of visual quality can be preserved.

How This Combo Ranks

The ranking statistics place the Ryzen 9 7900X with the RTX 5070 at position 414 out of 3708 configurations tested for Valorant. This rank is well inside the top echelon of the database, where positions run from 1 (fastest) to 3,708. The components individually also carry strong percentiles: the CPU sits in the 91st percentile relative to all other CPUs in the database, and the GPU list states the 82nd percentile versus all other GPUs. Such rankings reinforce that the pair is not a typical mid-range setup, but rather a high-end combination.

The nearest rivals for the CPU in its internal average benchmark list are used to compare, but their delta values are reported as 0.2% versus the EPYC 7313P, -0.3% versus the Xeon Phi 7290, 0.6% against the Xeon 634, and -0.6% versus the Core i7-14700F. The 7900X thus sits in a narrow band of competition with many other server and desktop SKUs. No direct rival data is present for the GPU's average, only the FPS figures give evidence of performance, with the GPU raw data.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The table below shows all measured average, minimum, and maximum FPS values (where record) for the three resolutions and the four settings. The rows without min/max are left with dashes because the dataset did not contain that measurement.

| Resolution | Setting | Avg FPS | Min FPS | Max FPS |

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

| 1920x1080 | Low | 643 | — | — |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 548 | 466 | 630 |

| 1920x1080 | High | 539 | – | – |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 530 | – | – |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 609 | – | – |

| 2560x1440 | Medium | 520 | 442 | 598 |

| 2560x1440 | High | 511 | – | – |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra | 503 | – | – |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 566 | – | – |

| 3840x2160 | Medium | 467 | 397 | 537 |

| 3840x2160 | High | 445 | – | – |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra | 424 | – | – |

At 1080p, the scale from Low to Ultra is tight: only the 643 -> 530 FPS gap, a span of over a hundred frames that all remains well above 500. The Medium row at 1080p provides the only min/max explicit pair, 466–630. This shows that the minimum is still above the 500 FPS mark, which is extreme for a game's frame pacing.

Focusing on 1440p, the Low average is 609, Medium at 520, High at 511, and Ultra at 503. The variance from High to Ultra is just 8 average frames, whereas Medium crushes Low. The Minimum for that setting is 442, which still allows it to clear the 300Hz panel's refresh if one only cares about average. The 1440p Medium range of 442–598 frames around an average of 520 confirms that the framerate is not being stretched across a wide variance.

At 4K the big picture changes. The Low row hits 566 FPS, which is the highest of any 4K number. Medium is 467, High 445, Ultra 424. The Medium 4K range has a minimum of 397 FPS, so even when the scene is stressed, the frame rate remains near 400. This is still far higher than the typical 240- or 360-Hz display can display, so the data points to high performance all the way to extreme resolutions.

GPU Role

The RTX 5070 brings a specific hardware set to the game: 12GB of GDDR7, a 192-bit memory bus, 672.0 GB/s of bandwidth, and a boost clock of 2512 MHz. The base clock is 2325 MHz. Tested in the same resolution, the card’s average benchmark score (in the database) is 40377, and it holds the 82nd percentile position against the full GPU list. The nearest competing GPU data shows AMD Radeon Pro 510 (0.1%), and others, but these numbers are global averages that do not align with the FPS readings.

Looking at the results, the GPU appears to not be the sticking point: at 1080p, the variation from Low to Ultra is only about 122 FPS. The 4K step shows a broader impact: the Low preset at 4K is 566 FPS while Ultra at 4K is 424, a width of 142 FPS. The data informs that resolution has a significant effect on performance in this title. On the other hand, within the same resolution, switching from Low to for to Ultra only changes a few tens of percent at 1080 based in the measured numbers. This suggests that the GPU’s memory subsystem and its 12GB VRAM might offset the load of resolution scaling, but the exact relation is not explicit in the database.

CPU Role

The CPU side is the Ryzen 9 7900X. This is a 12-core/24-thread Zen 4 part built on 5nm TSMC, with 64MB of shared L3 cache and a 91st percentile standing in the CPU pool. Its base clock is 4.70 GHz. A single core can breath at 5.60 GHz, and the silicon carries a 170W TDP. The processor has memory bandwidth rating of 83.2 GB/s and supports DDR5.

For Valorant, which is heavily coupled to single-core responsiveness, the 5.60GHz boost and the large 64MB L3 cache help. The measured single-core benchmarks concentrate with 10930 in the 3dMark single-thread subtest and a 2016 in the Cinebench R23 single-core row. The Multi-thread scores in 1080p show the frame generation is not the bottleneck. In the data, the delta between the Low and High settings at 1080p is only 9 FPS 548 vs 539, while the delta for resolution changes from 1080p to 4K Low is 77 FPS 643 to 566. This pattern suggests that the CPU contributes to holding frames well; the performance delta across resolutions is lower than the delta across settings at the same resolution.

The CPU’s place in the 90th percentile vs overall all-CPU pool, with an average score of 53288, and the nearest competitor sets at 0.2% / -0.3% / 0.6% / -0.6% deltas, reinforces that the processor is strong enough to feed the RTX 5070 in Valorant. There's no indication from the data that the chip becomes a limiting factor at any resolution/settings combination. The 12 limitations. Rather, the numbers across preset are high enough to conclude that with this combo, the player is effectively bounded by the refresh ceiling rather than by the hardware’s raw performance.