Palworld

The Intel Core i3-12100F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 handles Palworld comfortably at every resolution tested, with only one exception: 4K Ultra settings, where the average frame rate dips below the 60 FPS playability threshold. The data shows this is a GPU-driven pairing — the RTX 4080 sits in the 86th percentile of all GPUs, while the quad-core i3-12100F lands in the 68th percentile — and Palworld rewards exactly that balance at higher resolutions while remaining trivially light at lower ones.

FAQ

Q: Can the i3-12100F + RTX 4080 run Palworld at 60 FPS?

A: Yes at nearly every setting. At 1920x1080 and 2560x1440, all four presets (Low through Ultra) clear 60 FPS. At 3840x2160, Low, Medium, and High clear the threshold; Ultra does not, averaging 55 FPS.

Q: What is the best playable setting at 4K?

A: High, with an average of 72 FPS. Dropping to Medium raises the average to 94 FPS, and Low pushes it to 116 FPS.

Q: Does the CPU bottleneck Palworld?

A: The benchmark data does not indicate a meaningful bottleneck. Frame rates continue scaling upward as resolution drops — 318 FPS at 1080p Low versus 116 FPS at 4K Low — which is characteristic of a GPU-limited workload rather than a CPU-limited one. The i3-12100F's single-thread performance (a Geekbench single-core score of 1932, Cinebench R23 single-core of 1674) keeps pace with the demands of this survival title.

Q: How does this combo rank among tested Palworld configurations?

A: It ranks 247 out of 3711 tested combinations, placing it in roughly the top seven percent of configurations benchmarked for this game.

Q: What frame rate can be expected at 1440p Ultra?

A: An average of 99 FPS — well above the 60 FPS threshold, making 1440p Ultra a comfortable choice for high-refresh play.

Q: What CPU and GPU does this pairing use, in brief?

A: The CPU is Intel's Core i3-12100F: 4 cores, 8 threads, a 4.30 GHz boost clock, 12 MB of shared L3 cache, and a 58 W TDP on Socket 1700. The GPU is NVIDIA's RTX 4080: AD103 silicon on TSMC's 5 nm process, 9728 shading units, 16 GB of GDDR6X on a 256-bit bus delivering 716.8 GB/s of bandwidth.

CPU and GPU Roles

Palworld is a game where the graphics card does the heavy lifting, and this pairing's composition makes that explicit. The RTX 4080 occupies the 86th percentile among all GPUs with an average benchmark score of 54247, while the i3-12100F sits in the 68th percentile of CPUs with an average score of 13494. In raw silicon terms, the GPU is the star: 48.74 TFLOPS of FP32 compute, 76 RT cores, 304 tensor cores, and a pixel fill rate of 280.6 GPixel/s.

The scaling data confirms where the work is being done. Moving from 3840x2160 to 2560x1440 at Medium settings lifts the average from 94 FPS to 169 FPS — a large jump driven entirely by the reduced pixel count the GPU must render. Dropping further to 1920x1080 at Medium raises it again to 257 FPS. If the CPU were the limiting factor, frame rates would plateau as resolution fell; instead they climb steeply, indicating the i3-12100F feeds the RTX 4080 adequately at every tested configuration.

Within presets the same pattern holds. At 4K, going from Ultra to High raises the average from 55 FPS to 72 FPS; at 1080p, the Ultra-to-High step moves 150 FPS to 198 FPS. Preset changes shift the load on the GPU almost exclusively — texture and shading work — while the CPU-side simulation of Palworld's world remains a constant the quad-core Alder Lake chip handles without issue. Its threaded throughput (an 8-thread 3DMark score of 4026, nearly identical to its max-thread score of 4023) shows the eight logical threads are fully exploited, and the single-thread figure of 893 in 3DMark is strong enough for the genre's per-frame logic.

There is one caveat worth noting: the i3-12100F is a 4-core part, and its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 11860 reflects that ceiling. Palworld does not punish that limit in this dataset, but the CPU is unambiguously the junior partner in this configuration.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured, not estimated, with the 60 FPS playable threshold applied per resolution and preset.

1920x1080:

• Low: 318 FPS average — the highest result in the entire dataset.
• Medium: 257 FPS average, with a minimum of 219 and a maximum of 296.
• High: 198 FPS average.
• Ultra: 150 FPS average — the verdict's best setting at this resolution.

Every 1080p preset clears 60 FPS by enormous margins. Even Ultra more than doubles the threshold, and the Medium minimum of 219 FPS means frame dips never approach unplayable territory.

2560x1440:

• Low: 209 FPS average.
• Medium: 169 FPS average, with a minimum of 144 and a maximum of 195.
• High: 130 FPS average.
• Ultra: 99 FPS average — the best playable setting at 1440p.

1440p costs roughly a quarter to a third of the frame rate relative to 1080p depending on preset, yet Ultra still lands at 99 FPS. The Medium minimum of 144 FPS is itself a strong result for high-refresh displays.

3840x2160:

• Low: 116 FPS average.
• Medium: 94 FPS average, with a minimum of 80 and a maximum of 108.
• High: 72 FPS average.
• Ultra: 55 FPS average — the sole result below the 60 FPS threshold.

At 4K, High is the ceiling for a 60 FPS experience at 72 FPS average. Medium provides a healthier 94 FPS average with a measured minimum of 80 FPS, and Low delivers 116 FPS. Ultra at 55 FPS falls short, missing the threshold by a small margin; players wanting 4K Ultra would need to accept an average below the playable bar or step down one preset.

The min/max data, where captured, shows tight frame consistency: 219–296 FPS at 1080p Medium and 80–108 FPS at 4K Medium.

Similar Performance Alternatives

For the CPU, the i3-12100F's nearest rivals by aggregate score cluster remarkably tightly, meaning Palworld performance would be nearly indistinguishable with any of them:

• Intel Core 3 N355 — average score 13492, a 0% delta.
• Intel Core i5-9500 — average score 13452, 0.3% behind.
• Intel Core 5 120UL — average score 13594, 0.7% ahead.
• Intel Core i7-1250U — average score 13351, 1.1% behind.

With deltas of one percent or less across all four, any of these processors would substitute for the i3-12100F in this game with no measurable difference in the results above.

For the GPU, the RTX 4080's rivals span a slightly wider but still narrow band:

• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER — average score 54209, a 0.1% delta. Effectively identical hardware for this purpose.
• AMD Radeon Pro W5700X — average score 54828, 1.1% ahead.
• AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB — average score 55698, 2.6% ahead.
• AMD Radeon 8060S — average score 55757, 2.7% ahead.

Interestingly, all four rivals sit slightly ahead of the RTX 4080 in aggregate score, though by margins small enough that Palworld frame rates would shift by only a few FPS at most. Anyone running an RTX 4080 SUPER should expect identical numbers to those listed here.

The Verdict

Yes — this PC runs Palworld, and runs it well.

• 1920x1080: Fully playable at Low, Medium, High, and Ultra. Best setting: Ultra at 150 FPS average.
• 2560x1440: Fully playable at all four presets. Best setting: Ultra at 99 FPS average.
• 3840x2160: Playable at Low, Medium, and High. Best setting: High at 72 FPS average. Ultra at 55 FPS is the single non-playable configuration in the dataset.

The practical takeaway: 1440p Ultra is the sweet spot for this pairing, delivering near-triple-digit averages with the 60 FPS threshold cleared by a wide margin. Players targeting 4K should use High settings; the 72 FPS average is comfortable, and Medium at 94 FPS (minimum 80) adds headroom for consistency. Only 4K Ultra falls short, and only modestly.

How This Combo Ranks

Across 3711 tested hardware combinations in Palworld, the i3-12100F plus RTX 4080 ranks 247th. That places it in approximately the top 6.6 percent of configurations — a strong standing that reflects the RTX 4080's 86th-percentile GPU performance doing the bulk of the work while the 68th-percentile CPU avoids holding it back in this particular title.

The ranking also frames the pairing's character: it is an asymmetric build, pairing one of the fastest Ada Lovelace GPUs with an entry-tier Alder Lake quad-core. Palworld's workload tolerates that asymmetry completely. In a game where the frame-rate ceiling is set by pixel count and preset rather than simulation depth, the RTX 4080's 16 GB of GDDR6X and 716.8 GB/s of memory bandwidth translate directly into the 4K Medium result of 94 FPS and the 1080p Low result of 318 FPS — numbers that keep this combination firmly inside the top tier of tested systems.