Overpower

The pairing of an AMD Ryzen 7 9700F with an Intel Arc B570 is an unbalanced combination on paper — a 94th-percentile desktop CPU from AMD's Zen 5 Granite Ridge lineup driving a 65th-percentile Battlemage GPU — and the measured Overpower results confirm exactly that shape. This is a GPU-limited configuration in a 2023 action title: every resolution tested from 1920x1080 through 3840x2160 shows the CPU with headroom to spare while the Arc B570 determines the frame ceiling. The good news is that Overpower is not a brutal engine at mainstream settings, and the combo clears the 60 FPS playability threshold at 1080p on High, 1440p on Medium, and even 4K on Low.

Best Settings per Resolution

The best setting at each resolution is the most demanding preset that holds an average of at least 60 FPS:

• 1920x1080 — High, 64 FPS average. Ultra drops to 53 FPS, so High is the ceiling at this resolution, but it clears the threshold with margin.
• 2560x1440 — Medium, 62 FPS average. High falls just short at 57 FPS, making Medium the most demanding playable preset.
• 3840x2160 — Low, 84 FPS average. Medium averages 52 FPS and High 49 FPS, both below threshold, so Low is the only playable preset at 4K — though at 84 FPS it clears the bar comfortably.

Note the pattern: at 1080p and 1440p the playable preset sits only one notch below the top of the stack, while at 4K the required drop is two notches. That asymmetry is the signature of a GPU running out of bandwidth — the B570's 380.0 GB/s across a 160-bit bus is the constraining factor as pixel count quadruples.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the Overpower results database, the Ryzen 7 9700F + Arc B570 combination ranks 2987 out of 3713 tested pairings. That places it in the bottom fifth of the chart for this specific game, and the reason is unambiguous: the GPU. The Arc B570 sits at the 65th percentile of all GPUs with an average benchmark score of 20556, while the Ryzen 7 9700F sits at the 94th percentile of all CPUs with an average score of 69996. In a game where the graphics card is the limiter at every tested resolution, the ranking follows the weaker component.

This is worth emphasizing for anyone building around this CPU. The 9700F's Passmark multithread score of 36470 and single-thread score of 4691 are strong results, but Overpower never asks the CPU to work at that level once the resolution rises — the GPU surrender arrives first. A lower-ranked CPU paired with a stronger GPU would outrank this combo in Overpower despite the 9700F being the technically superior processor.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured averages from the database; min/max figures are available only for Medium preset runs.

1920x1080:

| Settings | Avg FPS | Min | Max |

|---|---|---|---|

| Low | 110 | — | — |

| Medium | 69 | 59 | 79 |

| High | 64 | — | — |

| Ultra | 53 | — | — |

At 1080p the spread from Low to Ultra is 110 down to 53 — a 57 FPS range across the preset ladder. The Medium run is the only one with frame-time detail recorded, dipping to 59 FPS at minimum and peaking at 79 FPS, which indicates the average of 69 is fairly representative rather than being propped up by outlier highs. High at 64 FPS is playable; Ultra is not.

2560x1440:

| Settings | Avg FPS | Min | Max |

|---|---|---|---|

| Low | 98 | — | — |

| Medium | 62 | 52 | 71 |

| High | 57 | — | — |

| Ultra | 47 | — | — |

Stepping up to 1440p costs roughly 10-12 FPS at every preset: Low falls from 110 to 98, Medium from 69 to 62, High from 64 to 57, Ultra from 53 to 47. Medium's minimum of 52 FPS confirms that even the playable preset has moments below 60, so sensitive players may prefer Low's 98 FPS headroom for consistency.

3840x2160:

| Settings | Avg FPS | Min | Max |

|---|---|---|---|

| Low | 84 | — | — |

| Medium | 52 | 44 | 60 |

| High | 49 | — | — |

| Ultra | 40 | — | — |

The 4K ladder compresses into a narrow band: 84 down to 40 across the full preset range. Medium averages 52 with a maximum of just 60 and a minimum of 44, meaning the best moments barely touch the playability threshold. Low at 84 FPS is the only genuinely comfortable 4K configuration, and it does so with real margin.

Across all three resolutions, the Low preset shows the shallowest degradation: 110, 98, 84. That 26 FPS loss from 1080p to 4K is modest relative to the fourfold pixel increase, which suggests Overpower's Low preset shifts enough work off the GPU's shading and memory path to let the B570 scale reasonably. The Ultra preset, by contrast, drops from 53 to 40 over the same span — a 25 percent decline.

Similar Performance Alternatives

For CPUs, the 9700F's nearest rivals by average benchmark score are a tight cluster: the AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX at 69875 (within 0.2 percent), the Intel Core i7-14700KF at 70163 (0.2 percent), the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X at 69515 (0.7 percent), and the Intel Core i7-14700K at 69355 (0.9 percent). Any of these processors would deliver effectively identical Overpower results when paired with the Arc B570, because the game's frame rate at playable settings is set by the GPU. The 9700F is not the bottleneck, and neither would any of its statistical twins be.

For GPUs, the B570's rivals are the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile at 20534 (0.1 percent), the Intel Arc A750 at 20582 (0.1 percent), the NVIDIA Quadro M4000M at 20480 (0.4 percent), and the AMD Radeon R9 M390X at 20662 (0.5 percent). Swapping the B570 for any of these cards — notably the Arc A750, its intra-brand counterpart — should reproduce Overpower behavior within a fraction of a percent at the tested presets. The B570's Passmark G3D score of 14195 and its Vulkan compute result of 96844 in Geekbench sit at the center of this peer group.

The practical takeaway: this build's Overpower performance is a GPU-class phenomenon, not a CPU-specific one. Anyone deciding between the 9700F and its rivals for this game can treat those options as interchangeable and focus entirely on the graphics card.

CPU and GPU Roles

At 1920x1080, the data already points to GPU limitation. The Low preset reaches 110 FPS while Ultra manages only 53 — a 2.1x spread driven purely by graphics settings, with the CPU held constant. If the 9700F were the constraint, increasing visual load would not produce that magnitude of decline; the frame rate would plateau at the processor's ceiling. It does not plateau until the GPU gives out.

The 1080p-to-1440p transition reinforces this. From Low through Ultra, each preset loses roughly 10-12 FPS when moving to the higher resolution — a uniform, proportional loss that is the fingerprint of a GPU-bound game. The Ryzen 7 9700F, with 8 cores, 16 threads, a 5.50 GHz boost clock, and 32 MB of shared L3 cache on the Zen 5 architecture, has ample throughput for an action title of this era; its 94th-percentile ranking among all CPUs stands well above the B570's 65th-percentile GPU ranking.

At 3840x2160 the GPU's dominance is total. The entire preset ladder fits between 40 and 84 FPS, and even Low cannot triple the Ultra frame rate. At this resolution the 9700F is effectively a spectator: the B570's 2304 shading units, 80 ROPs, and 11.52 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput set every number on the board.

The scaling between Medium presets across resolutions tells the cleanest story: 69 FPS at 1080p, 62 at 1440p, 52 at 4K. A CPU-bound configuration would show near-flat numbers across that ladder. This one declines steadily, confirming that Overpower performance in this build tracks graphics load at every tested resolution.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 7 9700F + Arc B570 run Overpower at 1080p?

A: Yes, comfortably. High averages 64 FPS, Medium 69 FPS, and Low 110 FPS. Only Ultra (53 FPS) falls below the 60 FPS threshold.

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

A: Medium, averaging 62 FPS with a minimum of 52 and a maximum of 71. High misses the cut at 57 FPS.

Q: Is 4K playable at all?

A: Only on Low, which averages 84 FPS. Medium (52), High (49), and Ultra (40) all fall short of 60 FPS.

Q: Which component is the bottleneck in this game?

A: The GPU. The Arc B570 ranks in the 65th percentile of all GPUs, while the Ryzen 7 9700F ranks in the 94th percentile of all CPUs, and the measured frame rates scale with graphics settings and resolution rather than plateauing.

Q: Would a different CPU in the same class change the results?

A: No. The 9700F's nearest rivals — the Ryzen 9 7940HX, Core i7-14700KF, Ryzen 9 7950X, and Core i7-14700K — all fall within 0.9 percent of its average benchmark score, and none would shift a GPU-limited frame rate.

Q: How does this combo rank against other tested pairings in Overpower?

A: It ranks 2987 of 3713 combinations, in the bottom fifth — a direct consequence of pairing a strong CPU with a mid-tier GPU in a GPU-bound title.

The Verdict

Yes, this PC runs Overpower — with preset discipline. At 1920x1080 it is playable on High, Medium, and Low, with High at 64 FPS marking the sweet spot. At 2560x1440 it is playable on Low and Medium, with Medium's 62 FPS average being the best usable setting, though its 52 FPS minimum warrants attention from players sensitive to dips. At 3840x2160 only the Low preset clears the bar, doing so decisively at 84 FPS.

The Ryzen 7 9700F is never the limiting factor at any tested resolution; the Arc B570 dictates every result. Players who want higher settings at 1440p or 4K will need a stronger GPU, not a stronger CPU — and the B570's statistical peers, including the Arc A750, would land within a fraction of a percent of these same numbers. As configured, this is a 1080p High machine for Overpower, a competent 1440p Medium machine, and a viable 4K machine only for those willing to accept Low settings in exchange for a smooth 84 FPS.