Ryzen 7 8700F bottleneck & gaming FPS

Ranked 70 of 201 desktop processors for gaming in our database (65th percentile). It can sustain roughly 144 fps in a typical AAA title regardless of resolution — that ceiling is what decides whether a graphics card is worth pairing with it.

SpecificationsZen 4 · 2024

Architecture	Zen 4
Cores	8
Threads	16
Boost clock	5,000 MHz
L3 cache	16 MB
TDP	65 W
Released	2024

Processor ceiling by game1080p, high

The frame rate this chip could sustain with an infinitely fast graphics card. It is almost the same at every resolution, because rendering more pixels gives the processor no extra work.

Game	CPU ceiling	With GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
Cyberpunk 2077	146 fps	98 fps
Fortnite	185 fps	182 fps
Counter-Strike 2	208 fps	205 fps
Baldur's Gate 3	125 fps	123 fps
Red Dead Redemption 2	164 fps	109 fps
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024	82 fps	81 fps

Best matched graphics cards1080p, high

Ranked by how little performance the pairing wastes. Anything much faster than the top entry will sit partly idle at this resolution — though it may still be worth it if you plan to move to 1440p or 4K.

Graphics card	Est. FPS	Unused
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti	142	0.1%
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti	137	3.4%
Radeon RX 7900 GRE	136	4.4%
Radeon RX 7900 XT	142	6.8%
GeForce RTX 4070 Super	130	8.8%
GeForce RTX 3090	127	10.3%

What a Ryzen 7 8700F is good for

A strong mainstream gaming chip. It will keep up with most graphics cards at 1440p and above, and only starts to show its limits at 1080p with a fast card and a high refresh rate panel.

For the majority of builds this is enough processor, and money is better spent on the graphics side.

A small cache holds this chip back

16 MB of L3 is modest by current standards, and it costs this chip more in games than its clock speed suggests. Game engines walk large, scattered data structures, so a small cache means more trips to main memory and more stalls on the render thread. Memory speed and timings matter unusually much on a part like this.

Where it sits

Ranked 70 of 201 desktop processors for gaming. Nearest faster: Core i5-13600KF, Ryzen 9 5900X. Just below: Core i9-12900, Core i9-12900F. Full method on the methodology page.