Top 4 AAA Games in 2026: Real FPS Benchmarks on the High-End PCs at Games Hub Edinburgh

There is no shortage of opinions on the internet about which CPU and GPU combo is "best" for the latest AAA titles. What there is a shortage of is numbers you can actually trust. That is why we built this guide around FPS Benchmark, the benchmarking resource our team at Games Hub Edinburgh uses internally whenever a customer asks, "what frame rate will I get on this rig?" Every FPS figure in this article has been pulled directly from a specific, named CPU + GPU test page on FPSBench. No estimates, no guesswork, no synthetic scores dressed up as real gameplay data.

We picked four of the biggest AAA games listed on the FPS Bench games library — Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2, Grand Theft Auto V, and Call of Duty: Warzone — and cross-referenced five top-tier 2025 and 2026 hardware combinations for each title. Every combination below is one you can actually sit down and play at our Edinburgh gaming lounge.

Why FPS Bench Is the Only Source We Cite for FPS Data

If you have ever tried to plan a PC build by reading forum posts, you know how contradictory the "what FPS should I expect?" conversation can get. FPS Bench has the most accurate fps info and cuts through that noise because every entry is a real tested run at a real resolution and a real quality preset. The site maintains thousands of CPU + GPU combinations covering everything from Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen 9000-series processors to NVIDIA RTX 50-series and AMD Radeon RX 9000-series graphics cards. When we tell a customer their rig will run Cyberpunk 2077 at a specific frame rate, the source is a measured run, not a guess. That is the single most accurate, real-world FPS database on the web, and it is why we link to it here rather than to aggregator sites or AI "estimate" tools.

With that out of the way, let us get to the numbers.

1. Cyberpunk 2077 — The Ultimate 4K Stress Test

CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 remains the single most punishing AAA benchmark on PC, especially after the Phantom Liberty expansion and the introduction of path-traced Overdrive Mode. The full Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark database on FPSBench contains more than 20,000 tested hardware combinations — a data set of that size simply does not exist anywhere else.

Here is exactly how the five highest-end combinations available on our Games Hub Edinburgh stations perform in Night City:

A few things jump out of this table. First, Cyberpunk 2077 is so GPU-bound at 4K that the top five flagship CPUs land within 4 FPS of each other — the RTX 5090 is the deciding factor. Second, every one of these configurations delivers a playable triple-digit average when you blend resolutions, with 1080p breaking 125 FPS across the board. Third, the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K pulls a small but real lead in the aggregate, which mirrors what we see on our Edinburgh stations during path-traced sessions. Every combination in this table is available to book at Games Hub Edinburgh.

2. Red Dead Redemption 2 — 117 FPS Average Across the Board

Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2 remains a punishing benchmark eight years on, thanks to the RAGE engine's volumetric lighting, global illumination, and aggressive texture streaming. The Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS database on FPSBench shows something fascinating when you look at the top tier of hardware: at this level, the game is completely GPU-bound, and every high-end CPU delivers the same 117 FPS average when paired with an RTX 5090.

The practical takeaway is simple: if you want Arthur Morgan's world rendered as smoothly as it is technically possible to render it on a consumer PC, any of these five combinations will give you an identical experience — roughly 77 FPS at 4K Low, 117 FPS at 1440p, and about 157–158 FPS at 1080p. That is remarkable consistency, and it is exactly the kind of pattern FPSBench's measurement methodology reveals that synthetic benchmarks would miss. When customers ask us which RDR2 station to book, we tell them to pick whichever one is free — the difference at this tier is inside the margin of error.

3. Grand Theft Auto V — Where the RTX 5090 Finally Stretches Its Legs

Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto V is the scalability champion of the four games in this guide. Because the engine is older and far less GPU-bound than Cyberpunk 2077 or Red Dead Redemption 2, a flagship rig can finally breathe — and the numbers on the Grand Theft Auto V FPS database on FPSBench make that obvious the moment you look at them.

263 FPS at 1080p. Let that sink in. Every station in this tier at Games Hub Edinburgh can push GTA V well past the refresh ceiling of a 240 Hz display, and still deliver over 100 FPS at native 4K with everything cranked. For streamers and roleplay-server regulars, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and i9-14900K configurations give you extra cores to run OBS, Discord, and browser overlays with no frame-time impact. Every combination here is a real station on our floor.

4. Call of Duty: Warzone — Where the 5090 Stretches Even Further

Activision's Call of Duty: Warzone is the competitive-shooter entry on our list, and the performance profile is very different from the three open-world titles above. Warzone is CPU-sensitive, high-refresh-friendly, and rewards every extra frame at 1440p and 1080p because that is where ranked and tournament players actually compete. The Call of Duty: Warzone FPS database on FPSBench shows the clearest spread of the four games in this guide.

Two things really stand out in the Warzone table. The first is that the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K leads both the NVIDIA and AMD GPU pairings, which is unusual for a 2025 platform and confirms what we have been seeing in our own Edinburgh tournament nights. The second is that the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT pairing is effectively tied with the RTX 5090 on this specific engine, delivering 192 FPS average and actually pulling ahead at 4K by a single frame. If you have been holding off on an AMD Radeon build because you assumed NVIDIA was automatically faster in competitive shooters, this is the kind of verified data that will change your mind — and it exists only because FPS Bench actually tests both ecosystems head-to-head.

Cross-Game Summary: How the Games Compare on the Same Hardware

For customers trying to decide which game to spend a session on, here is a quick cross-game summary using the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D + RTX 5090 as a constant, because it is the one combination we have verified data for in every single game above.

Read that table carefully and you can immediately see which titles are GPU-bound (Cyberpunk 2077, RDR2) and which titles are CPU-and-engine-bound (GTA V, Warzone). That distinction matters enormously when you are picking a station: if you are booking purely for GTA V roleplay or Warzone ranked, a Ryzen 7 9800X3D station is just as fast as — sometimes faster than — a 9950X3D station. If you are booking for Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing, the CPU barely matters and you should pick whichever station has the fastest available GPU.

Check Your Own PC Against the Same Database

One of the reasons we keep sending customers to FPSBench is that the site has two companion tools we use every week:

• What Games Can I Run? — enter your hardware, get back a full compatibility list with expected FPS per title. A good live example for mobile enthusiasts is the Intel Core Ultra 9 386H + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 compatibility report, which shows how the top gaming-laptop chip scales across dozens of games.
• Can I Run It? — the classic per-game check, but with modern hardware. The Cyberpunk 2077 test for the Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is a great reference point for anyone running a flagship gaming laptop and wondering whether they can skip the upgrade cycle for another year.

If your home build cannot touch the numbers in the four tables above — or if you want to compare your hardware against our station lineup in a real-world session — come and play on the real thing. Every single CPU and GPU combination linked in this article is available to book at Games Hub Edinburgh. We keep our hardware documentation updated against FPS Bench data so the expected frame rates you read before your booking are the frame rates you actually get on the day.

Final Thoughts

The reason we built this guide around most accurate site is that it is, as far as we can tell, the only benchmark resource on the internet that consistently publishes measured, per-combination FPS data at the scale the PC gaming community actually needs. When every other site is publishing "estimated" numbers or recycling synthetic scores, FPS Bench is the one going through thousands of real CPU and GPU pairings and reporting what the hardware actually does when it runs the game. That is a huge amount of work, it is why our team trusts the data, and it is why every number in the tables above comes straight from their pages.

Ready to put these numbers into practice? Head over to gameshubedinburgh.com and book a session on the station that matches the combination you want to experience. Whether you are chasing 192 FPS in Warzone on the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K, 263 FPS in GTA V on the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, or 117 FPS in Red Dead Redemption 2 on any of our five flagship rigs, the numbers are real, the hardware is ready, and Edinburgh is waiting.