Ryzen 7 7700X with RX 7900 XT: Bottleneck & FPS

The Ryzen 7 7700X and RX 7900 XT pair well, with the graphics card setting the pace at 1440p: about 111 FPS on average in AAA games at High settings, with 1% lows around 86 FPS. At 1080p the Ryzen 7 7700X becomes the limit (11% 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 336 FPS, enough for a 240 Hz monitor, while CPU-heavy games like Microsoft Flight Simulator drop to about 79 FPS with a 44% CPU bottleneck. Ray tracing costs this AMD card more than an equivalent NVIDIA GPU: about 46 FPS with RT on at 1440p.