Greedfall

The Intel Core i5-12400F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is a desktop combination that clears Greedfall's performance requirements at every tested resolution, and measured data shows it doing so with substantial headroom in most cases. Greedfall, an Action RPG released on September 9, 2019, is well within reach of this hardware: the RTX 3080 sits at the 68th percentile among all GPUs in the database, and the i5-12400F at the 73rd percentile among all CPUs. The measured frame rates below confirm that the pairing is GPU-limited at higher settings and comfortably CPU-fed at lower ones. Every figure in this analysis is drawn from measured benchmark runs, not estimates.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The dataset covers three resolutions and four presets — Low, Medium, High, and Ultra — with average frame rates recorded for each combination.

At 1920x1080, the combo is never in danger of falling below the 60 FPS threshold. Low settings produce 237.6 FPS on average, Medium rises to 188.9 FPS, High reaches 172.3 FPS, and even Ultra holds 106.9 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra at this resolution — roughly a 55% drop — indicates that Greedfall's top preset imposes a genuine rendering cost even on Ampere-class hardware, but the RTX 3080 absorbs it without dropping out of triple-digit territory.

At 2560x1440, frame rates compress but remain high: 163.4 FPS on Low, 132.4 FPS on Medium, 117.2 FPS on High, and 76.3 FPS on Ultra. The Ultra result deserves particular attention — it stays above 70 FPS despite the resolution increase, meaning the combo sustains maximum image quality at 1440p without compromise.

At 3840x2160, the demands of native 4K finally bite. Low delivers 99.2 FPS, Medium 76.4 FPS, High 67.9 FPS, and Ultra drops to 47.1 FPS — the only result in the entire dataset below the 60 FPS playability line. Minimum and maximum frame rates were not captured for these runs; the averages alone define the verdicts here.

Reading the numbers across presets, each step up in quality costs between roughly 15 and 30 FPS depending on resolution, and the cost of moving from 1080p to 4K at a fixed preset is severe: Ultra falls from 106.9 to 47.1 FPS, while Low falls from 237.6 to 99.2 FPS.

How This Combo Ranks

Across the full database of tested combinations for Greedfall, the i5-12400F plus RTX 3080 ranks 1051 out of 3703. That places it in the top third of tested pairings — not an elite result, but well above median for this title. Given that the game dates to 2019 and the hardware to 2020 (GPU) and 2022 (CPU), a top-third rank reflects the fact that the database includes many newer and faster pairings, while this combo still outperforms the majority of tested configurations.

It is worth contextualizing that rank against the component percentiles. The RTX 3080 ranks at the 68th percentile of all GPUs and the i5-12400F at the 73rd percentile of all CPUs, so a top-third combo rank in Greedfall is consistent with — indeed slightly better than — what the component-level standings alone would predict. Greedfall apparently extracts efficient performance from this pairing, likely because the game's 2019-era workload does not stress modern hardware in unusual ways.

Best Settings per Resolution

Using the 60 FPS threshold as the definition of playable, the most demanding preset that holds at or above 60 FPS at each resolution is:

• 1920x1080 — Ultra, at 106.9 FPS average. No compromise is needed; the highest preset nearly doubles the threshold.
• 2560x1440 — Ultra, at 76.3 FPS average. Maximum settings remain viable at 1440p with a 16 FPS cushion over the threshold.
• 3840x2160 — High, at 67.9 FPS average. Ultra at 4K averages 47.1 FPS and fails the threshold; High is the most demanding preset that clears it, with Medium (76.4 FPS) as a safer alternative if frame-rate stability matters more than image quality.

The verdict data confirms this exactly: playable settings at 1080p and 1440p include all four presets, while at 4K Ultra is excluded and High is the best playable option.

Similar Performance Alternatives

Looking at the nearest rivals by average benchmark score, several nearby hardware options would be expected to behave similarly in Greedfall.

On the CPU side, the i5-12400F's average benchmark score of 19039 is essentially indistinguishable from the AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS (19047, delta 0%), the Intel Core 3 201E (19056, delta -0.1%), the Intel Core i5-1335U (18982, delta 0.3%), and the AMD EPYC 7773X (18979, delta 0.3%). Substituting any of these processors would, on aggregate benchmark grounds, leave overall system throughput effectively unchanged — though in a GPU-bound title like Greedfall at high settings, CPU differences this small would be invisible in frame-rate terms anyway.

On the GPU side, the RTX 3080's average score of 23172 is similarly matched by the NVIDIA P106-100 (23249, delta -0.3%), the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 (23250, delta -0.3%), the AMD Radeon RX 6600M (23273, delta -0.4%), and the AMD Radeon R9 M290X (23276, delta -0.4%). On raw aggregate scores, these GPUs sit within a fraction of a percent of the RTX 3080, so database-wide they would be expected to land in the same performance neighborhood. The RX 6600M in particular is a contemporary discrete GPU that would deliver a comparable experience in aggregate scoring, though game-specific behavior can vary from aggregate trends.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data makes the division of labor clear. At 1920x1080 on Low settings, the combo reaches 237.6 FPS — a workload where the CPU is the most likely limiter, since the GPU has very little to render and the i5-12400F's single-thread and low-thread performance becomes the constraint. The CPU's benchmark profile (909 in 3DMark single-thread, 1699 in 2-thread, 3067 in 4-thread, 4779 in 8-thread, and 5912 at max threads) shows the classic scaling of a 6-core/12-thread part, and Greedfall's 2019-era game engine is unlikely to saturate twelve threads, meaning per-core speed dominates at high frame rates.

As resolution and settings climb, the balance shifts decisively to the GPU. Moving from 1080p Ultra (106.9 FPS) to 1440p Ultra (76.3 FPS) to 4K Ultra (47.1 FPS) shows a near-halving of frame rate purely from pixel count — a textbook GPU-bound signature, since the CPU workload is identical across those runs. The drop from Low to Ultra at 4K (99.2 to 47.1 FPS) further confirms that preset complexity lands almost entirely on the RTX 3080's 8704 shading units, 68 RT cores, and 760.3 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

The practical conclusion: at 1080p, the i5-12400F and RTX 3080 are roughly equally capable of feeding high frame rates; at 1440p and 4K, the GPU is the component that determines the ceiling, and the CPU has headroom to spare.

FAQ

Q: Can the i5-12400F + RTX 3080 run Greedfall at 4K?

A: Yes, at three of four presets. Low averages 99.2 FPS, Medium 76.4 FPS, and High 67.9 FPS at 3840x2160 — all above the 60 FPS threshold. Ultra averages 47.1 FPS and falls short, so High is the recommended 4K preset.

Q: What is the highest frame rate this combo achieves in Greedfall?

A: 237.6 FPS on average, at 1920x1080 on Low settings. High-refresh 1080p gaming is fully within reach at reduced settings.

Q: How does this pairing rank against other tested combinations for this game?

A: It ranks 1051 out of 3703 tested combos — the top third of the database for Greedfall.

Q: Does the RTX 3080 handle Ultra settings at 1440p?

A: Yes. Ultra at 2560x1440 averages 76.3 FPS, comfortably above the 60 FPS playability line, making it the best settings choice at that resolution.

Q: How close are rival CPUs to the i5-12400F in overall performance?

A: Extremely close by aggregate scores. The AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS is statistically identical (0% delta), and the Intel Core 3 201E, Intel Core i5-1335U, and AMD EPYC 7773X are all within 0.3% of its average benchmark score.

Q: Is this a CPU-limited or GPU-limited game for this combo?

A: It depends on resolution. At 1080p with low settings the CPU becomes the likely limiter at very high frame rates; at 1440p and 4K the data shows classic GPU-bound scaling, with Ultra frame rates nearly halving from 1080p (106.9) to 1440p (76.3) and dropping to 47.1 at 4K.

The Verdict

Yes — this PC runs Greedfall, and in most configurations it does so with room to spare. At 1920x1080 and 2560x1440, every preset from Low through Ultra averages above 60 FPS, with best-case playable settings of Ultra at 106.9 FPS (1080p) and Ultra at 76.3 FPS (1440p). At 3840x2160, three of four presets clear the threshold — Low at 99.2 FPS, Medium at 76.4 FPS, and High at 67.9 FPS — while Ultra at 47.1 FPS is the single exception and should be avoided in favor of High. For a 2019 Action RPG met by a top-third-ranked combination, the data is unambiguous: maximum settings at 1440p, or near-maximum at 4K, are the sensible operating points.