Core Ultra 7 265K with RX 7900 XT: Bottleneck & FPS

Paired with the RX 7900 XT, the Core Ultra 7 265K delivers roughly 111 FPS at 1440p (1% lows ≈87) in modern AAA games, which our model rates as “GPU-limited, CPU has headroom”. The RX 7900 XT is the limiting part at every resolution, so the 20-core Core Ultra 7 265K (LGA1851) still has headroom for about 150 FPS and room for a faster card later. In esports titles such as CS2 or Valorant expect around 341 FPS, enough for a 240 Hz monitor, while CPU-heavy games like Microsoft Flight Simulator drop to about 82 FPS with a 41% CPU bottleneck. Ray tracing costs this AMD card more than an equivalent NVIDIA GPU: about 46 FPS with RT on at 1440p.