Greedfall

The short answer: yes, but only at 1080p, and only up to the High preset. Pairing the Intel Core i5-14600K with Intel Arc B390 graphics produces a configuration that runs Greedfall acceptably at 1920x1080 yet falls well short of the 60 FPS threshold at 1440p and 4K. The bottleneck is unambiguous. The i5-14600K sits in the 90th percentile of all CPUs in the database with an average benchmark score of 48618, while the Arc B390 sits in just the 9th percentile of all GPUs with an average score of 1482. This is a heavily lopsided pairing: a strong mainstream processor feeding a very weak graphics solution, in a game whose frame rates scale almost entirely with GPU capability.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The recorded data covers three resolutions and four presets, and the numbers tell a consistent story of GPU limitation.

At 1920x1080, the combo averages 84 FPS on Low, 66 FPS on Medium, 60 FPS on High, and 38 FPS on Ultra. The Medium run is the only one with full frame-time detail recorded: it never dropped below 56 FPS and peaked at 76. That min-max spread is tight for an Action RPG, indicating stable frame delivery rather than sporadic spikes. Note the cliff between High and Ultra: 60 FPS down to 38, a drop of 22 FPS for one preset step, the single largest gap in the entire dataset. Ultra is clearly out of reach at this resolution.

At 2560x1440, frame rates slide down across the board: 58 FPS on Low, 46 on Medium (min 39, max 53), 42 on High, and 27 on Ultra. Even the lowest preset misses the 60 FPS target by a small margin, which means no 1440p setting in the database clears the playable threshold.

At 3840x2160, the results are firmly in slideshow territory for an action game: 35 FPS on Low, 27 on Medium (min 23, max 32), 25 on High, and 16 on Ultra. The Medium preset's floor of 23 FPS is the lowest recorded figure in the dataset, and Ultra at 16 FPS is less than half the target.

A pattern worth noting: at every resolution, Low to Medium costs roughly 18 FPS, Medium to High costs a handful of frames, and High to Ultra costs 22 FPS at both 1080p and 1440p. The Ultra preset is where the Arc B390 collapses, suggesting its heaviest features, likely the highest-detail assets and effects, are what break this GPU.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the processor side, the i5-14600K performs almost identically to several other chips in the database. The closest rivals by average score are the Intel Core Ultra 5 245 at 48995 (within one percent), the Intel Xeon Gold 5318H at 48698, the AMD EPYC 4345P at 48470, and the Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX at 48287. Any of these CPUs would deliver effectively the same Greedfall experience in this pairing, because the game results here are not constrained by the processor. The i5-14600K itself brings strong credentials: 14 cores and 20 threads, a 5.30 GHz boost clock, a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 24491 and single-core score of 2064, plus a PassMark single-thread result of 4270, all far beyond what this 2019 Action RPG demands.

On the graphics side, the Arc B390's neighborhood is much lower down the stack. Its nearest rivals are the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX at an average score of 1463 (about one percent behind), the NVIDIA GeForce 800M at 1460, the NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM at 1446, and the NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 at 1443. All of these are aging entry-level parts. A system built around any of them would be expected to produce Greedfall frame rates in the same ballpark as the measurements above, meaning modest 1080p play on reduced settings and nothing more. The B390 does carry modern API support, including DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) and Vulkan 1.4, so compatibility with Greedfall is not in question, only throughput.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data makes the role assignment trivially clear: this is a GPU-bound configuration at every resolution tested.

Consider the resolution scaling on the Medium preset, the one with full min/max data. Moving from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 drops the average from 66 to 46 FPS, and stepping to 3840x2160 drops it further to 27. Resolution changes load the GPU almost exclusively, and frame rates fall steeply at each step while the i5-14600K, a 90th-percentile CPU, is presumably idling through most of the workload. If the processor were the limiting factor, resolution increases would produce much flatter curves.

The preset scaling reinforces this. At 1080p, dropping from Ultra to Low more than doubles the frame rate, from 38 to 84. Settings reductions primarily relieve GPU load, and the large gains confirm the Arc B390 is the component hitting its ceiling. Greedfall, released in September 2019, is an older Action RPG that a 90th-percentile, 20-thread CPU handles without strain; the 9th-percentile GPU is where every lost frame originates. Anyone building around this processor who wants 1440p or 4K play in this game should look at a substantially stronger discrete GPU, since the headroom on the CPU side is clearly there.

How This Combo Ranks

Across the database, the i5-14600K plus Arc B390 combination ranks 3291 out of 3703 tested configurations in Greedfall. That places it in the bottom portion of all recorded pairings for this game, a direct consequence of the graphics side: a GPU in the 9th percentile drags down a CPU in the 90th. The rank is consistent with the raw measurements, since most combos that clear 60 FPS at 1440p will rank far above a pairing that cannot do so even on Low.

The ranking also highlights the wasted potential of the arrangement. With the same processor and a mid-range discrete GPU, this game would be trivial to run given its age and genre. Instead, the integrated-class Arc B390, an 80 W part with system-shared memory and a 3DMark Steel Nomad score of 1482, sets the ceiling for everything.

The Verdict

Can this PC run Greedfall? At 1920x1080, yes, comfortably. The verdict data shows three playable presets at 1080p: Low at 84 FPS, Medium at 66 FPS, and High at exactly 60 FPS. High is the best playable setting, right at the threshold, with a one-preset margin before Ultra drops to 38 FPS.

At 2560x1440, the answer is no. No preset is playable: Low comes closest at 58 FPS but still misses the 60 FPS mark, and everything above it falls away quickly, with Ultra at 27 FPS.

At 3840x2160, definitively not. The best result is 35 FPS on Low, and the Medium floor of 23 FPS would make combat in an Action RPG genuinely unpleasant. Four-K gaming in Greedfall requires a different GPU, not settings adjustments.

The practical summary: this is a 1080p machine for this game, playable on everything except Ultra, with Medium offering the best balance of visuals and headroom thanks to its 56 FPS floor and 76 FPS ceiling.

Best Settings per Resolution

Based on the recorded data, the most demanding preset that stays at or above 60 FPS at each resolution:

• 1920x1080: High, at 60 FPS average. This is the ceiling for playable settings. Players wanting a safety margin should use Medium, which averages 66 FPS and never dips below 56.
• 2560x1440: none. No preset reaches 60 FPS. Low at 58 FPS is the closest and is the only defensible choice if 1440p output is mandatory, accepting a sub-threshold result.
• 3840x2160: none. Low at 35 FPS is the best available and remains far below playable.

The overall recommendation is straightforward: run Greedfall at 1920x1080 on High, or on Medium for frame-rate stability, and treat any higher resolution as off the table for this pairing. The i5-14600K has ample capability to spare, but the Arc B390 defines the experience, and at 1080p it delivers a playable one.