Minimum

The pairing of AMD's Ryzen 9 9900X3D with Intel's Arc B570 is an unusual one: a flagship-tier 12-core, 24-thread Zen 5 processor (91st percentile among all CPUs tested) feeding a mid-range Battlemage GPU sitting at the 65th percentile of all GPUs. For Minimum, a third-person shooter released in mid-2014, that imbalance doesn't hurt much — the game's demands are modest by modern standards, and the measured data shows this combo clearing the 60 FPS playability threshold at two of the three resolutions tested, including the Ultra preset at 1080p. What follows is a step-by-step walk through the measured numbers.

How This Combo Ranks

Across the benchmark database, this CPU and GPU combination ranks 2984th out of 3712 tested combinations for Minimum. That places it in the lower portion of the field, which is expected given the pairing logic: the Arc B570's average benchmark score of 20556 sits well below the Ryzen 9 9900X3D's average of 54762, and in a game like this the GPU is the component doing the heavy lifting at higher resolutions.

Context matters, though. The B570 is the 65th percentile GPU overall, essentially dead even with its nearest rivals — the Intel Arc A750 (avgScore 20582, deltaPct -0.1), the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile (avgScore 20534, deltaPct 0.1), the NVIDIA Quadro M4000M (avgScore 20480, deltaPct 0.4) and the AMD Radeon R9 M390X (avgScore 20662, deltaPct -0.5). The CPU, by contrast, sits at the 91st percentile, narrowly ahead of the Intel Core Ultra 5 245KF (avgScore 55093, deltaPct -0.6) and Intel Core Ultra 5 245K (avgScore 54053, deltaPct 1.3), with the Xeon 6505P and Core i7-14700F slightly further back at deltaPct 2 and 2.1 respectively. In other words, the ranking for this game is dragged down by the graphics card, not the processor.

Best Settings per Resolution

Applying the 60 FPS playability threshold to the measured averages:

• 1920x1080: Ultra is the most demanding preset that stays at or above the threshold, delivering an average of 71 FPS.
• 2560x1440: High is the ceiling here, averaging exactly 60 FPS. Ultra drops to 46 FPS and fails the cut.
• 3840x2160: No preset qualifies. Low, the least demanding option, averages 50 FPS — still short of 60.

The pattern is consistent: each step up in resolution knocks roughly one preset tier off the playable ceiling. What runs comfortably at Ultra at 1080p becomes a High-only proposition at 1440p and unplayable at 4K regardless of settings.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data points clearly to a GPU-bound profile. Going from 1080p to 1440p at Low drops the average from 145 FPS to 94 FPS — a steep fall for a game from this era, and one that would not occur if the CPU were the limiting factor, since resolution changes barely affect CPU load. At Medium, the average falls from 111 FPS to 72 FPS, and at High from 93 FPS to 60 FPS.

Preset scaling at a fixed resolution reinforces this. At 1080p, moving from Low to Ultra cuts the average from 145 FPS to 71 FPS — a heavy penalty for visual settings, which again implicates the render pipeline rather than simulation logic. Meanwhile the Ryzen 9 9900X3D's credentials — 12 cores, 24 threads, a 5.50 GHz boost clock, 128 MB of L3 cache and a single-thread Passmark score of 4646 — are far beyond anything this game can stress. At 1080p/Low, where CPU limits would normally surface, the combo still manages 145 FPS, indicating the Arc B570 is the ceiling at every tested point.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 9 9900X3D + Arc B570 run Minimum at 4K?

A: No. Every preset fails the 60 FPS threshold at 3840x2160; even Low averages just 50 FPS, and Ultra falls to 25 FPS.

Q: What is the best playable setting at 1440p?

A: High, with an average of exactly 60 FPS. Medium (72 FPS) and Low (94 FPS) also clear the threshold, but Ultra at 46 FPS does not.

Q: Can this combo max out the game at 1080p?

A: Yes. The Ultra preset averages 71 FPS at 1920x1080, comfortably above the 60 FPS playability line.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the bottleneck in this game?

A: The GPU. Average frame rates fall sharply as resolution increases (145 to 94 FPS at Low going from 1080p to 1440p), a signature of graphics-bound performance rather than CPU-bound performance.

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

A: It ranks 2984th of 3712 combos, a reflection of the Arc B570's mid-range standing rather than any weakness in the 91st-percentile Ryzen 9 9900X3D.

Q: Are frame-time dips a concern at 1440p Medium?

A: The measured minimum at 2560x1440/Medium is 61 FPS with a maximum of 82 FPS, so dips stay just above the 60 FPS threshold.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured averages (with min/max where recorded).

1920x1080:

• Low: 145 FPS average (min/max not recorded)
• Medium: 111 FPS average, 95 minimum, 128 maximum
• High: 93 FPS average (min/max not recorded)
• Ultra: 71 FPS average (min/max not recorded)

2560x1440:

• Low: 94 FPS average (min/max not recorded)
• Medium: 72 FPS average, 61 minimum, 82 maximum
• High: 60 FPS average (min/max not recorded)
• Ultra: 46 FPS average (min/max not recorded)

3840x2160:

• Low: 50 FPS average (min/max not recorded)
• Medium: 39 FPS average, 33 minimum, 44 maximum
• High: 32 FPS average (min/max not recorded)
• Ultra: 25 FPS average (min/max not recorded)

The Medium-preset min/max data is the most instructive: at 1080p the frame rate never falls below 95 FPS, at 1440p it never falls below 61 FPS, and at 4K it never rises above 44 FPS. The spread between minimum and maximum is tight at every resolution, indicating consistent frame delivery rather than erratic spikes.

The Verdict

Yes, this PC can run Minimum — with one qualification. At 1920x1080, every preset including Ultra clears 60 FPS, topping out at a 71 FPS average on the highest setting. At 2560x1440, Low, Medium and High are all playable, with High delivering exactly 60 FPS on average and Medium offering more headroom at 72 FPS. At 3840x2160, however, no preset reaches the threshold; Low at 50 FPS is the best on offer, so 4K play on this hardware means accepting sub-60 frame rates. For a 1080p or 1440p display, the combo is fully validated by the measured data.

Similar Performance Alternatives

Because the Arc B570 is the limiting component here, GPU swaps predict the outcome better than CPU swaps. The B570's nearest rivals are all but interchangeable with it: the Intel Arc A750 (deltaPct -0.1), NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile (deltaPct 0.1), NVIDIA Quadro M4000M (deltaPct 0.4) and AMD Radeon R9 M390X (deltaPct -0.5) — average scores within half a percent of the B570's 20556. Any of these paired with a comparable processor should reproduce the measured frame rates in Minimum almost exactly.

On the CPU side, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D's nearest rivals — the Intel Core Ultra 5 245KF (deltaPct -0.6), Core Ultra 5 245K (deltaPct 1.3), Xeon 6505P (deltaPct 2) and Core i7-14700F (deltaPct 2.1) — would all serve as functional equivalents, though given the game's GPU-bound character, substituting them would change nothing in this title. The practical takeaway: to move the 4K numbers into playable territory, the data suggests looking above the B570's performance tier rather than touching the processor at all.