Minimum

This pairing of the Intel Core Ultra 5 245 with Intel Arc B370 integrated graphics asks a straightforward question: can modern silicon with a very modest iGPU handle Minimum, a third-person shooter that shipped back in 2014? The recorded data answers it clearly. The CPU sits in the 90th percentile of all processors in the database, while the Arc B370 lands in just the 5th percentile of GPUs. That asymmetry defines everything about how this game runs here.

FAQ

Q: Can the Intel Core Ultra 5 245 + Arc B370 run Minimum at 60 FPS?

A: Only at 1920x1080. The Medium preset averages 65 FPS there, with a minimum of 56 and a maximum of 75. The Low preset averages 85 FPS. At 2560x1440 and 3840x2160, no preset reaches the 60 FPS threshold.

Q: What is the highest setting that clears 60 FPS at 1080p?

A: Medium, at 65 FPS average. High falls short at 55 FPS, and Ultra manages only 42 FPS.

Q: How does the Arc B370 compare to other GPUs?

A: It sits in the 5th percentile of all GPUs tested. Its nearest rivals by average score are the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570 (-0.2%), ATI Radeon HD 5770 (-0.5%), AMD Radeon HD 7650M (-0.7%), and AMD FirePro M2000 (+1.4%), meaning the B370 performs within roughly one to two percent of these older discrete and mobile parts.

Q: How strong is the Core Ultra 5 245 relative to other CPUs?

A: It ranks in the 90th percentile. Its closest rivals are the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5755G (-0.4%), AMD Ryzen 9 7900 (-0.5%), Intel Xeon Gold 5318H (+0.6%), and Intel Core i5-14600K (+0.8%), so CPU performance is essentially indistinguishable from that group.

Q: Is the CPU or the GPU the limiting factor?

A: The GPU, decisively. Frame rates drop sharply as resolution climbs, from 85 FPS at 1080p Low to 30 FPS at 4K Low, a classic fill-rate and shader-bound pattern. The 90th-percentile CPU is never the constraint.

Q: Where does this combination rank among tested combos for this game?

A: It ranks 3425 out of 3712 tested combinations, placing it near the bottom of the leaderboard.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data leaves no ambiguity: Minimum is GPU-bound on this configuration at every resolution tested. Moving from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 at the Low preset cuts the average from 85 FPS to 30 FPS, a drop of nearly two-thirds. The Medium preset shows the same trajectory, from 65 FPS at 1080p to 23 FPS at 4K, with the recorded minimum sliding from 56 to 19 and the maximum from 75 to 26. When pixel count quadruples and frame rate collapses by a comparable proportion, the renderer, not the processor, is the gate.

The Core Ultra 5 245 has ample headroom for this game. With 14 cores and 14 threads, a 5.10 GHz boost clock, a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 32924 and single-core score of 4648, and a PassMark single-thread result of 4394, it delivers 90th-percentile CPU performance. Nothing in the recorded frame-rate data suggests the CPU ever becomes the limiter, since High and Ultra presets at 1080p (55 and 42 FPS) still track the GPU's capabilities rather than any processor ceiling.

The Arc B370 is the story. It is an integrated Xe3-LPG design on Intel's 3 nm Panther Lake silicon, with 1280 shading units, 40 TMUs, 20 ROPs, 10 RT cores, a 2400 MHz boost clock, 6.144 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput, and a 25 W TDP. Its only recorded database benchmark, 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, scores 1184, placing it in the 5th percentile of all GPUs. That is a very low position, and it shows in the frame rates.

Best Settings per Resolution

At 1920x1080, the most demanding preset that stays at or above 60 FPS is Medium, averaging 65 FPS (minimum 56, maximum 75). Low is faster at 85 FPS but is not the ceiling; High and Ultra at 55 and 42 FPS fall below the threshold.

At 2560x1440, no preset qualifies. The best result is Low at 55 FPS average, followed by Medium at 42, High at 35, and Ultra at 27, all short of 60.

At 3840x2160, nothing comes close. Low averages 30 FPS, Medium 23, High 19, and Ultra 15.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the GPU side, the recorded rivals indicate that the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570, ATI Radeon HD 5770, AMD Radeon HD 7650M, and AMD FirePro M2000 would all deliver nearly identical frame rates, with average-score deltas between -0.7% and +1.4% relative to the Arc B370. A system built around any of those graphics solutions should reproduce the results in this dataset to within a small margin.

On the CPU side, the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5755G (-0.4%), AMD Ryzen 9 7900 (-0.5%), Intel Xeon Gold 5318H (+0.6%), and Intel Core i5-14600K (+0.8%) are statistically indistinguishable from the Core Ultra 5 245 in aggregate benchmark scoring. Since this game is GPU-limited here, any of those processors paired with the Arc B370, or the B370's equivalent integrated output, would behave the same in Minimum. The bottleneck travels with the graphics side of the equation.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are recorded measurements from the database.

1920x1080:

• Low: 85 FPS average
• Medium: 65 FPS average (minimum 56, maximum 75)
• High: 55 FPS average
• Ultra: 42 FPS average

2560x1440:

• Low: 55 FPS average
• Medium: 42 FPS average (minimum 36, maximum 48)
• High: 35 FPS average
• Ultra: 27 FPS average

3840x2160:

• Low: 30 FPS average
• Medium: 23 FPS average (minimum 19, maximum 26)
• High: 19 FPS average
• Ultra: 15 FPS average

The pattern is consistent and steep. Each step up in resolution roughly halves headroom relative to 1080p, and each step up in preset quality costs a further chunk of performance. Even the Medium preset's maximum frame rate at 4K, 26 FPS, sits below the playable threshold, which rules out any "it occasionally spikes" argument for high resolutions.

The Verdict

Yes, this PC can run Minimum, but only in a narrow window: 1920x1080 at Low (85 FPS) or Medium (65 FPS average, minimum 56, maximum 75). That is the entire playable envelope. The 1440p and 2160p verdicts contain no playable settings at all, with best-case averages of 55 and 30 FPS respectively on the Low preset. Anyone satisfied with frame rates below the 60 FPS threshold could tolerate 1440p Low, but the recorded data is explicit about where the line sits. For a comfortable experience at or above 60 FPS, 1080p Medium is the optimal configuration on this hardware.

The irony is sharp: the game dates from 2014 and the CPU from 2025 is dramatically overqualified, yet the integrated GPU, released into the database in 2026, still cannot push this older title to 60 FPS beyond 1080p. GPU capability, not age of the game or strength of the processor, sets the ceiling here.

How This Combo Ranks

This configuration ranks 3425 out of 3712 tested combinations for Minimum, placing it in the bottom tranche of the leaderboard. That position is fully explained by the component split: a 90th-percentile CPU tethered to a 5th-percentile GPU. The Arc B370's Steel Nomad score of 1184, within about one percent of graphics hardware from ATI's and AMD's older lineups, is what drags the pairing down despite the Core Ultra 5 245 averaging 48995 across its benchmark suite, comparable to the Ryzen 7 PRO 5755G, Ryzen 9 7900, Xeon Gold 5318H, and Core i5-14600K.

For ranking purposes, the lesson is simple: in Minimum on this class of integrated graphics, the CPU contributes almost nothing to the combination's standing. A weaker processor with a stronger GPU would rank higher; a stronger processor with this GPU would rank no higher. The 3425th position is effectively the Arc B370's position, with the Core Ultra 5 245 as a spectator.