AMD Ryzen 5 2600 + Radeon RX 5600 XT
AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Radeon RX 5600 XT
The AMD Ryzen 5 2600 paired with the Radeon RX 5600 XT produces a 9.94% bottleneck. The two parts are well matched, so neither spends meaningful time waiting on the other. Nothing here needs fixing.
Estimated FPS at 1080p, high preset
Ranges, not exact figures: identical builds vary by roughly a quarter in real use depending on drivers, thermals and background load. Bars are scaled against the fastest title here, and each row states which component sets its ceiling.
Method: estimated from measured GPU baseline framerates and PassMark CPU scores, capped by whichever component limits first. Workload factors derived from the OpenML "fps-in-video-games" dataset (CC-BY, Sven Peeters).
AMD Ryzen 5 2600 and Radeon RX 5600 XT: FPS by game and resolution
High preset. Each cell is a range; the label marks which component sets the ceiling. Blank cells mean this pairing has no measured data for that combination, and nothing is estimated in.
| Game | 720p | 1080p | 1440p |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fortnite | 144-239 CPU | 156-259 GPU | 110-183 GPU |
| CS:GO | 230-383 CPU | 254-424 GPU | 178-296 GPU |
| PUBG | 93-155 CPU | 101-169 GPU | 84-140 GPU |
| GTA V | 79-132 CPU | 88-147 CPU | 68-113 GPU |
| Apex Legends | - | 100-167 GPU | - |
| Overwatch | - | 153-255 GPU | 110-183 GPU |
| League of Legends | - | 198-331 CPU | - |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 | - | 102-170 GPU | - |
| Battlefield 1 | - | 102-170 GPU | - |
| Battlefield 4 | - | 128-213 GPU | - |
| Rust | - | 78-130 GPU | - |
| Minecraft | - | 230-383 GPU | - |
| World of Tanks | - | 98-164 CPU | - |
| ARK: Survival Evolved | - | 72-120 GPU | - |
How quality settings affect this build: Fortnite at 1080p
Dropping settings only helps while the GPU is the limit. Once the label reads CPU, lowering quality stops buying frames on this pairing.
Every preset here is GPU-limited, which is exactly why the bars barely move.
Bottleneck by resolution
Raising resolution shifts load from the CPU to the GPU, so the balance of this pairing changes with the display it drives. Note this measures imbalance, not speed: the lowest figure is usually the lowest resolution, which is not the one to play at. Read it alongside the limiting part.
On this chart a longer bar is worse: it measures imbalance, not speed.
How these parts rank
Position within the 1,255 processors and 268 graphics cards in our database, by the same benchmark scores this calculator runs on.
Upgrade options
ASUS ROG Strix NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 4070 Ti
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Intel Core i7-13700K
Related pairings
Other processors with the Radeon RX 5600 XT
Other graphics cards with the AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Try a different pairing
Swap either component and see how the balance moves. Changing the resolution alone often matters more than changing a part.