Ryzen 5 5600 with RX 7900 XT: Bottleneck & FPS

The Ryzen 5 5600 and RX 7900 XT are an excellent match at 1440p: about 100 FPS on average in AAA games at High settings, with 1% lows around 73 FPS. At 1080p the Ryzen 5 5600 becomes the limit (34% CPU bottleneck at 1080p); from 1440p upward the RX 7900 XT takes over and the CPU has capacity to spare. In esports titles such as CS2 or Valorant expect around 272 FPS, enough for a 240 Hz monitor, while CPU-heavy games like Microsoft Flight Simulator drop to about 58 FPS with a 59% CPU bottleneck. Ray tracing costs this AMD card more than an equivalent NVIDIA GPU: about 46 FPS with RT on at 1440p.