Minimum

Minimum is a 2014 third-person shooter, and the pairing of AMD's Ryzen 5 8400F with the Radeon RX 7900 XT turns out to be dramatically more hardware than this title demands. Measured data shows the combo delivering frame rates that are, at every resolution tested, far beyond the playable threshold of 60 FPS for nearly every preset. What follows is a full breakdown of where this configuration lands, which presets make sense at each resolution, and how the two components rank against the broader field of tested hardware.

Best Settings per Resolution

The most demanding preset that holds at or above 60 FPS varies by resolution, and the cutoff is clean:

• 1920x1080 — Ultra, 146.3 FPS average. Even the heaviest preset clears the threshold by a wide margin; Ultra is the obvious choice.
• 2560x1440 — Ultra, 95.1 FPS average. The jump to 1440p costs roughly a third of the frame rate, but Ultra remains comfortably playable.
• 3840x2160 — High, 66.2 FPS average. Ultra at 4K drops to 50.3 FPS, below the threshold, so High is the most demanding preset that stays at or above 60 FPS.

The pattern is consistent: as resolution climbs, the ceiling drops one preset at a time. At 1080p and 1440p there is no reason to run anything below Ultra. At 4K, High is the ceiling, though Medium at 80.6 FPS and Low at 106 FPS provide headroom if a higher, smoother framerate is preferred over visual fidelity.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the Ryzen 5 8400F sits at the 77th percentile of all tested CPUs with an average benchmark score of 25005. Its nearest rivals are clustered remarkably tightly: the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F averages 24964 (0.2% behind), the Intel Core i7-11850H averages 24935 (0.3% behind), and the Intel Core i7-13620H averages 24911 (0.4% behind). The AMD EPYC 9474F is marginally ahead at 25103 (-0.4%). Any of these processors would deliver effectively identical results in Minimum — the deltas are all under half a percent, and a game of this vintage is nowhere near taxing a six-core, twelve-thread Zen 4 part with a 951 single-thread 3DMark score and a 2943 Cinebench R23 single-core score.

On the GPU side, the RX 7900 XT sits at the 55th percentile of all tested GPUs with an average benchmark score of 13745. Its listed rivals include the AMD Radeon 660M (13812, -0.5%), the NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile (13821, -0.5%), the AMD Radeon RX 570X (13871, -0.9%), and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (13543, 1.5% ahead of it in delta terms). Judged purely by the aggregate database scores, these GPUs cluster near the 7900 XT, and any of them would produce broadly comparable results in a title as light as Minimum. The RX 7900 XT's raw specs — 5376 shading units, 51.48 TFLOPS FP32, 800 GB/s of memory bandwidth across a 320-bit bus — are far in excess of what this game requires.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures are measured average frame rates; minimum and maximum values were not recorded for this test configuration.

1920x1080:

| Preset | Avg FPS |

|---|---|

| Low | 303.1 |

| Medium | 231.7 |

| High | 195.4 |

| Ultra | 146.3 |

Even Ultra delivers more than double the playable threshold. Low pushes past 300 FPS, which is relevant for high-refresh-rate displays.

2560x1440:

| Preset | Avg FPS |

|---|---|

| Low | 191.7 |

| Medium | 148.3 |

| High | 124.4 |

| Ultra | 95.1 |

The scaling from 1080p to 1440p is proportional and predictable — Ultra loses 51.2 FPS in the transition, High loses 71, Medium loses 83.4, and Low loses 111.4. The steeper losses on lighter presets point to the frame-rate ceiling being governed by the CPU at lower settings.

3840x2160:

| Preset | Avg FPS |

|---|---|

| Low | 106 |

| Medium | 80.6 |

| High | 66.2 |

| Ultra | 50.3 |

This is the only resolution where a preset fails: Ultra's 50.3 FPS average sits nearly ten frames below the threshold. High at 66.2 is playable, but the margin is slim — demanding scenes would likely dip below 60.

The Verdict

Yes — this PC runs Minimum without difficulty at every common resolution. The verdict data is unambiguous:

• 1920x1080: All four presets are playable; best setting is Ultra at 146.3 FPS.
• 2560x1440: All four presets are playable; best setting is Ultra at 95.1 FPS.
• 3840x2160: Low, Medium, and High are playable; best setting is High at 66.2 FPS. Ultra is not playable at 4K.

For a 2014 release, this outcome is expected. The only caveat in the entire dataset is 4K Ultra, and even there the shortfall is modest. A player targeting 60 FPS at 4K needs only to drop one preset level.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data indicates that this game is CPU-limited at low resolutions and light presets, transitioning to GPU-limited at 4K and heavy presets. The evidence is in the spread between Low and Ultra at each resolution: at 1080p the spread is 156.8 FPS (303.1 down to 146.3), at 1440p it is 96.6 FPS, and at 4K it narrows to 55.7 FPS (106 down to 50.3). When the GPU is the bottleneck, lowering settings buys large gains; when the CPU caps output, gains compress.

At 1080p Low, the 303.1 FPS result is almost certainly capped by the processor, not the RX 7900 XT — a card with a 459.6 GPixel/s pixel rate and 804.4 GTexel/s texture rate is not straining at 1920x1080 in a decade-old engine. The Ryzen 5 8400F is a capable partner here: its 4.20 GHz base and 4.70 GHz boost clocks, 16 MB of shared L3 cache, and strong single-thread results (3685 PassMark single-thread) keep the frame ceiling high.

At 4K, the balance flips. The GPU becomes the limiting factor, and Ultra's fall to 50.3 FPS confirms it — resolution-driven pixel load, not CPU throughput, is what breaks the threshold. In short: the CPU matters more at 1080p, the GPU matters more at 4K, and at 1440p the two are reasonably balanced.

How This Combo Ranks

Against the full database, the Ryzen 5 8400F + RX 7900 XT pairing ranks 707th out of 3712 tested combinations in Minimum. That places it in the top fifth of all tested setups for this game — percentile-wise, roughly the 81st percentile of combos. Given that the game is a 2014 third-person shooter, the ranking reflects the depth of the database as much as the hardware: there are plenty of faster combos recorded, but this configuration already exceeds the playable threshold at nearly every setting and resolution tested.

Contextualizing the components individually: the CPU sits at the 77th percentile of all CPUs, and the GPU at the 55th percentile of all GPUs. The combo rank in this game lands slightly above what the CPU percentile alone would suggest, consistent with the game being light enough that both components operate well within their limits.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 5 8400F + RX 7900 XT run Minimum at 4K on Ultra settings?

A: No. Ultra at 3840x2160 averages 50.3 FPS, below the 60 FPS playable threshold. High is the best playable preset at 4K, averaging 66.2 FPS.

Q: What is the best settings choice at 1440p?

A: Ultra. It averages 95.1 FPS at 2560x1440, comfortably above the threshold, so there is no reason to reduce quality at this resolution.

Q: How many frames per second does this combo deliver at 1080p on Low?

A: 303.1 FPS on average — the highest result in the entire dataset, and a figure suited to high-refresh-rate monitors.

Q: How does the Ryzen 5 8400F compare to rival CPUs?

A: Its average benchmark score of 25005 is within 0.4% of the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F, Intel Core i7-11850H, and Intel Core i7-13620H, and 0.4% behind the AMD EPYC 9474F. All would perform essentially identically in this game.

Q: Where does this hardware pairing rank among tested combinations for Minimum?

A: It ranks 707th out of 3712 tested combos, placing it in roughly the top fifth of configurations benchmarked for this game.

Q: Is this game more CPU-bound or GPU-bound on this system?

A: It depends on resolution. At 1080p the data suggests a CPU frame-rate ceiling, evidenced by the large 156.8 FPS spread between Low and Ultra. At 4K the GPU is the limiting factor, where Ultra falls to 50.3 FPS.