Barony

Barony, the 2015 roguelike, is a light render load by modern standards, and the recorded data for the Intel Core i3-12100F paired with the Intel Arc B390 confirms exactly that at mainstream resolutions while revealing a hard ceiling at 4K. The pairing is unusual on paper: a 68th-percentile desktop CPU sitting next to a GPU that ranks in just the 9th percentile of all graphics hardware in the database. The consequence is a configuration that is decisively GPU-limited at higher settings, and comfortably playable everywhere below 2160p. The measurements below cover Low, Medium, High, and Ultra presets at 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160, and they paint a consistent picture of a fill-rate-bound graphics solution doing respectable work with an undemanding title.

Best Settings per Resolution

At 1920x1080, the most demanding preset that holds at or above the 60 FPS playability threshold is Ultra, with a measured average of 73 FPS. Low delivers 159 FPS, Medium 118 FPS, and High 102 FPS, so every single preset at 1080p clears the threshold with a large margin.

At 2560x1440, the ceiling drops one notch. Ultra falls to 46 FPS average, below the 60 FPS line, while High sustains 64 FPS. That makes High the most demanding playable preset at 1440p. Medium averages 75 FPS and Low averages 100 FPS, both comfortably above threshold.

At 3840x2160, no preset qualifies. Low is the best result at 53 FPS average, followed by Medium at 39, High at 34, and Ultra at 24. Even the least demanding preset misses 60 FPS, so the database records no best settings for this resolution.

In short: Ultra at 1080p, High at 1440p, and nothing at 4K.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data identifies the Arc B390 as the limiting component at every resolution where settings matter. Consider the progression at High settings: 102 FPS at 1080p, 64 FPS at 1440p, and 34 FPS at 4K. Each step up in pixel count produces a proportional collapse in frame rate, which is the signature of GPU-side limitation rather than CPU-side saturation. If the Core i3-12100F were the bottleneck, frame rates would plateau as resolution increased, because the CPU workload is largely resolution-independent. That plateau never appears.

The preset scaling reinforces the same conclusion. At 1440p, dropping from High (64 FPS) to Low (100 FPS) recovers 36 FPS, and at 4K the gap between Low (53 FPS) and Ultra (24 FPS) spans more than a factor of two in performance. When visual settings change frame rate this dramatically, the render pipeline is the constraint.

The CPU's contribution should not be dismissed, however. The Core i3-12100F posts a single-thread score of 893 in the database's threaded benchmark suite and 1674 in Cinebench R23 single-core, figures strong enough that a 2015 roguelike poses no meaningful per-frame logic burden. Its multi-threaded results, including 11860 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 14015 in PassMark multithread, sit at the 68th percentile of all CPUs, well above what Barony requires. The i3-12100F launches at $97 MSRP with four cores, eight threads, a 3.30 base and 4.30 boost clock, and a 58 W TDP on the 10 nm Alder Lake-S process, a specification profile that is generous for this genre. The CPU is never the story here; the Arc B390 is.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured averages from the database for this exact CPU and GPU pairing.

At 1920x1080:

• Low: 159 FPS average
• Medium: 118 FPS average, with a recorded minimum of 101 and maximum of 136
• High: 102 FPS average
• Ultra: 73 FPS average

The Medium preset is the only configuration at any resolution with full min/max telemetry in the record, and its 101 FPS minimum is itself above the 60 FPS threshold, indicating frame times stay playable even at the worst recorded moments.

At 2560x1440:

• Low: 100 FPS average
• Medium: 75 FPS average, minimum 64, maximum 86
• High: 64 FPS average
• Ultra: 46 FPS average

Medium again carries full min/max data, and its minimum of 64 FPS means the 1440p Medium experience holds the threshold even in troughs. High, at 64 FPS average, is playable on average but sits close enough to the line that dips below 60 are likely in heavier scenes, since no minimum was recorded for that preset.

At 3840x2160:

• Low: 53 FPS average
• Medium: 39 FPS average, minimum 33, maximum 45
• High: 34 FPS average
• Ultra: 24 FPS average

The 4K Medium minimum of 33 FPS and maximum of 45 bracket the 39 FPS average tightly, showing a narrow dynamic range, which suggests consistent, uniformly constrained output rather than stuttery spikes. The constraint here is raw pixel throughput: the Arc B390 is rated at 60.00 GPixel/s and 120.0 GTexel/s, and 2160p saturates that capacity even with Barony's modest scene complexity.

Across all three resolutions, Medium is the telemetry-rich preset, and the min-to-max spreads at that setting (101 to 136, 64 to 86, 33 to 45) scale cleanly with resolution, further confirming the GPU-bound character of this configuration.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the database's Barony leaderboard, this pairing ranks 3300 out of 3717 tested combinations. That places it in the bottom tranche of configurations measured for this game, which is expected given the Arc B390's 9th-percentile standing among all GPUs. The ranking reflects the graphics side almost entirely: the Core i3-12100F, at the 68th percentile of CPUs, is a far stronger component than the rank suggests, and pairing it with a more capable discrete GPU would lift the combination's standing considerably.

The Arc B390's sole recorded synthetic result is 1482 in the Steel Nomad DirectX 12 benchmark, which anchors its low aggregate score. The GPU is an integrated solution built on Intel's 3 nm Panther Lake silicon with the Xe3-LPG architecture, featuring 1536 shading units, 48 texture mapping units, 24 render output units, 12 RT cores, 7.680 TFLOPS of FP32 compute, an 80 W TDP, and system-shared memory. It supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), Vulkan 1.4, and OpenGL 4.6. Those are modern API credentials wrapped around modest throughput, and Barony's age means the game leans on none of the advanced features the hardware offers.

For context on the CPU side, the i3-12100F's aggregate benchmark score of 13494 places it essentially dead even with its nearest rivals: the Intel Core 3 N355 at 13492 (a 0% delta), the Intel Core i5-9500 at 13452 (0.3% behind the i3), the Intel Core 5 120UL at 13594 (0.7% ahead), and the Intel Core i7-1250U at 13351 (1.1% behind). This tight cluster means the CPU contributes almost nothing to the pairing's relative rank; identical results would be expected from those chips in this game.

FAQ

Q: Can the Intel Core i3-12100F and Arc B390 run Barony at 4K?

A: Not at the 60 FPS threshold. The best 4K result is 53 FPS average on Low, and no preset at 3840x2160 reaches a playable average. Medium manages 39 FPS, High 34, and Ultra 24.

Q: What are the best settings for 60 FPS at 1440p?

A: High is the most demanding playable preset at 2560x1440, averaging 64 FPS. Ultra drops to 46 FPS and fails the threshold.

Q: Can this setup max out Barony at 1080p?

A: Yes. Ultra at 1920x1080 averages 73 FPS, clearing the 60 FPS threshold even at maximum settings.

Q: Which component is the bottleneck?

A: The GPU. Frame rates scale steeply with both resolution and preset, dropping from 102 FPS at 1080p High to 34 FPS at 4K High, a pattern consistent with graphics-side limitation. The CPU sits at the 68th percentile of all processors and is more than sufficient for a 2015 roguelike.

Q: Where does this combination rank among tested Barony setups?

A: It ranks 3300 out of 3717 combinations, a low standing driven by the Arc B390's 9th-percentile GPU performance rather than the CPU.

Q: Does frame rate stay stable in practice?

A: At 1080p Medium the recorded minimum is 101 FPS against a 136 FPS maximum, so even the worst moments exceed the threshold. At 1440p Medium the minimum is 64 FPS, still above the line, though 1440p High at a 64 FPS average leaves little headroom for dips.

The Verdict

Yes, this PC can run Barony, with a clear resolution ceiling. At 1920x1080 the game is playable on every preset from Low through Ultra, with Ultra averaging 73 FPS. At 2560x1440 it is playable on Low, Medium, and High, with High the best option at 64 FPS average; Ultra is not playable. At 3840x2160 the verdict is negative across the board: even Low manages only 53 FPS, so no preset clears the threshold. Players wanting maximum settings should stay at 1080p; players wanting higher resolution should accept High settings at 1440p as the practical ceiling of this hardware.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the graphics side, the Arc B390's nearest rivals in the database are all within a few percent of its 1482 aggregate score: the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX at 1463 (1.3% delta), the NVIDIA GeForce 800M at 1460 (1.5%), the NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM at 1446 (2.5%), and the NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 at 1443 (2.7%). Because these parts sit so close to the B390, Barony frame rates on any of them would land within a few percent of the numbers recorded here, meaning the same 1080p Ultra and 1440p High conclusions would broadly apply, with the B390 holding a slight edge.

On the CPU side, substituting the Intel Core 3 N355 (0% delta), Intel Core i5-9500 (0.3% delta), Intel Core 5 120UL (0.7% delta), or Intel Core i7-1250U (1.1% delta) for the Core i3-12100F would leave the Barony experience effectively unchanged, since the game is GPU-bound in this configuration and all four CPUs cluster within roughly one percent of the i3's 13494 aggregate score. The practical takeaway: any combination built from these CPU rivals and these GPU rivals will behave nearly identically in Barony, limited by the same modest graphics throughput, and the fastest way to move up the game's leaderboard from rank 3300 is a stronger GPU rather than a different processor.