Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is the sequel to Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and a prequel to the original Metal Gear. The game has a complex story with long cut-scen...
Developer: Kojima Productions · Publisher: Konami
Official websiteHow this title tends to pressure your system during typical gameplay.
Estimated VRAM floor for stable high settings at 1080p.
Reference FPS target before applying your exact CPU, GPU, and resolution.
Recommended Settings for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
These are title-specific settings with the biggest FPS gain for the least visual tradeoff.
Improves frametime stability without visual degradation.
Boosts effective 1% low fps and reduces GPU load.
Build Configuration
Algorithm
Resolution-scaled hardware vectors combined with per-game load offsets. Details on Methodology.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain · 1080p · realistic optimized settings.
Percentage of frames capped by the weaker component.
CPU-bound at 1080p
Intel Core i5-12400F can't keep NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super fully fed in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Lower resolution amplifies the gap; a faster CPU would unlock frames.
Estimated System Load
Smart Upgrade Path
Auto-derived from your current build imbalance.
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
Rebalances your NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super — pushes projected bottleneck under 8%.