Barony

The pairing of Intel's Core i5-11400F with the Arc B570 is an interesting generational split for Barony: a 2021-era six-core Rocket Lake CPU feeding a 2025 Battlemage-class discrete GPU. The recorded data shows this combination handles the game comfortably at 1080p and 1440p, while 4K becomes a settings-dependent exercise. Barony itself is a 2015 roguelike, so the raw rendering demand is modest by modern standards, and the measurements bear that out: at 1920x1080 the combo averages 112 FPS even on the Ultra preset, and it only drops below the 60 FPS threshold at 3840x2160 when High or Ultra settings are applied.

Best Settings per Resolution

The playable threshold in the database is 60 FPS average, and the best preset at each resolution is the most demanding one that stays at or above that line.

At 1920x1080, the answer is Ultra, with a recorded average of 112 FPS. Every preset clears the bar here, so there is no reason to compromise.

At 2560x1440, Ultra again qualifies, delivering 71 FPS average. That is an 11 FPS cushion over the threshold, which matters because frame-time consistency in a roguelike with fast combat encounters benefits from headroom.

At 3840x2160, Ultra and High both fail: Ultra averages 37 FPS and High averages 52 FPS. Medium is the ceiling, landing exactly at 60 FPS average with a recorded minimum of 51 and maximum of 69. Low remains the safe fallback at 81 FPS average if a steadier margin is wanted on a 4K display.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data points clearly at a GPU-bound profile at higher resolutions and a balanced one at 1080p. Consider the Medium preset across resolutions: 182 FPS at 1080p, 115 FPS at 1440p, and 60 FPS at 4K. That is roughly a 37 percent drop from 1080p to 1440p and another 48 percent drop to 4K, a pattern consistent with the Arc B570 being the limiter as pixel count rises. If the Core i5-11400F were the bottleneck, frame rates would plateau rather than fall as resolution increases.

At 1080p, the Ultra average of 112 FPS is high enough that CPU throughput starts to matter. The i5-11400F brings 6 cores and 12 threads with a 4.40 GHz boost clock, plus a single-thread Passmark score of 2981 and a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2024, which is respectable single-threaded performance for a Rocket Lake part. Barony, as a 2015 title, predates heavily threaded game engines, so the strong per-core showing matters more than the multi-threaded figures (Cinebench R23 multi-core of 14340, Geekbench multi-core of 7737).

The B570's specification supports its role as the primary frame-rate governor: 10 GB of GDDR6 on a 160-bit bus, 380 GB/s of memory bandwidth, and 11.52 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput, with a Passmark G3D score of 14195. Its percentile placement of 65 against all GPUs in the database sits slightly below the CPU's percentile of 71 against all CPUs, reinforcing that the GPU is the component most likely to cap performance in this pairing.

FAQ

Q: Can the i5-11400F and Arc B570 run Barony at 4K?

A: Yes, but with limits. Low averages 81 FPS and Medium averages 60 FPS, while High (52 FPS) and Ultra (37 FPS) fall below the 60 FPS playable threshold.

Q: What is the highest preset that stays above 60 FPS at 1440p?

A: Ultra, at 71 FPS average. All four presets are playable at 2560x1440.

Q: How many frames per second does this setup deliver at 1080p on Ultra?

A: 112 FPS average. Medium at 1080p reaches 182 FPS average, with a maximum of 209 and a minimum of 155.

Q: Is the CPU or the GPU more important for Barony on this system?

A: The GPU. Frame rates fall steeply as resolution rises (182 to 115 to 60 FPS on Medium), which indicates the Arc B570 is the limiting component rather than the i5-11400F.

Q: What frame-time variation was recorded?

A: The Medium preset is the only configuration with minimum and maximum data recorded. At 4K it spans 51 to 69 FPS, at 1440p it spans 98 to 132 FPS, and at 1080p it spans 155 to 209 FPS.

Q: Does the GPU support the APIs needed for the game?

A: The Arc B570 supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, Vulkan 1.4, and OpenGL 4.6, which comfortably covers the requirements of a 2015 title.

Similar Performance Alternatives

Looking at hardware with equivalent overall standing in the database, several substitutions would behave similarly.

On the CPU side, the i5-11400F's average benchmark score of 17177 places it within a fraction of a percent of several rivals. The AMD EPYC 7H12 scores 17120 on average, just 0.3 percent behind. The Intel Core i5-12450H averages 17239, 0.4 percent ahead. The AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 8300G sits 0.6 percent ahead at 17278, and the Intel Core Ultra 7 164U trails by 0.6 percent at 17074. Any of these processors would deliver effectively indistinguishable CPU-side performance in Barony given the game's light threading demands.

On the GPU side, the B570's average score of 20556 is matched almost exactly by the Intel Arc A750 at 20582 (0.1 percent ahead) and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile at 20534 (0.1 percent behind). The NVIDIA Quadro M4000M averages 20480, 0.4 percent behind, and the AMD Radeon R9 M390X averages 20662, 0.5 percent ahead. Swapping the B570 for any of these would be expected to shift Barony frame rates by only a few percent.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are recorded averages from the database, with minimum and maximum values listed where captured.

At 1920x1080:

• Low: 245 FPS average
• Medium: 182 FPS average, 155 minimum, 209 maximum
• High: 156 FPS average
• Ultra: 112 FPS average

At 2560x1440:

• Low: 154 FPS average
• Medium: 115 FPS average, 98 minimum, 132 maximum
• High: 99 FPS average
• Ultra: 71 FPS average

At 3840x2160:

• Low: 81 FPS average
• Medium: 60 FPS average, 51 minimum, 69 maximum
• High: 52 FPS average
• Ultra: 37 FPS average

Two patterns stand out. First, each step up in preset costs roughly a consistent slice of performance at every resolution, indicating the game's settings scale predictably on this hardware. Second, the 1080p Medium range of 155 to 209 FPS shows the tightest proportional spread, while 4K Medium dips to 51 FPS at its minimum, meaning brief sub-threshold dips occur even at the "best" 4K preset.

The Verdict

Yes, this PC can run Barony, decisively so at mainstream resolutions. The verdict data confirms the following:

• 1920x1080: playable on Low, Medium, High, and Ultra, with Ultra as the best setting at 112 FPS average.
• 2560x1440: playable on all four presets, with Ultra as the best setting at 71 FPS average.
• 3840x2160: playable on Low and Medium only, with Medium as the best setting at exactly 60 FPS average.

For a 60 Hz or 144 Hz display at 1080p or 1440p, the configuration needs no settings compromises whatsoever. For 4K gaming, Medium is the practical ceiling, and Low at 81 FPS average is the better choice if consistently staying above 60 FPS during dips is a priority, since Medium's minimum of 51 FPS dips slightly below the threshold.

How This Combo Ranks

Against the other hardware combinations tested in Barony within the database, this pairing ranks 2985 out of 3717 combos. That places it in the lower fifth of the field, which is notable given how well it performs in absolute terms. The explanation is the nature of the game: Barony's modest demands mean even weak modern hardware posts triple-digit frame rates at 1080p, compressing the field and making ranking position less meaningful than the raw FPS data. A combo that clears 60 FPS at every resolution except 4K High and Ultra is fully functional for this title regardless of its percentile standing. The rank reflects the strength of the competition in the dataset more than any deficiency in this CPU and GPU pairing for Barony specifically.