Archeage

This analysis covers the measured performance of Archeage running on an AMD Ryzen 5 5600 processor paired with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card. The dataset includes average frame rates at three resolutions and four quality settings, along with synthetic benchmark scores for both components. The combination ranks 80th out of 1727 tested configurations, placing it in the upper echelon of systems tested for this MMORPG.

Resolution Scaling

The measured frame rates for this combo reveal a clear scaling pattern across resolutions. At 1920x1080, the average FPS ranges from 216 at Low settings to 120.9 at Ultra. Moving to 2560x1440, the range shifts to 191.8 (Low) down to 80.9 (Ultra). At 3840x2160, the values drop further to 114.2 (Low) and 46.4 (Ultra). The scaling from 1080p to 4K is steepest at Ultra settings: the average falls from 120.9 to 46.4, a substantial reduction. At Low settings, the drop is from 216 to 114.2, still significant but less severe in absolute terms. This pattern suggests that at lower quality presets, performance is less sensitive to resolution, implying that the CPU or other system components are playing a larger role. At higher settings, the GPU becomes the limiting factor, as the resolution increase produces a larger relative decline in frame rate.

The spread between Low and Ultra also narrows as resolution increases. At 1080p, the gap spans from 216 to 120.9 FPS; at 4K, it spans from 114.2 to 46.4 FPS. The narrower spread at higher resolution indicates that the GPU's workload becomes more uniform across settings, likely due to resolution-driven pixel fill limits. In contrast, at 1080p the difference between Low and Medium is only 216 versus 210.2 FPS, suggesting that the CPU can maintain high throughput even with some graphical overhead. This behavior is typical of a system where the CPU is the primary constraint at low resolutions and low settings, while the GPU dominates at higher resolutions and quality presets.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600 is a 6-core, 12-thread processor with a base clock of 3.50 GHz and a boost clock of 4.40 GHz. It features 32 MB of shared L3 cache and is built on TSMC's 7 nm process, using the Zen 3 architecture. The CPU supports DDR4 memory in dual-channel mode and provides PCIe Gen 4 connectivity. In synthetic benchmarks, it scores 18309 in Cinebench R23 multicore and 2584 in single-core. Its average benchmark score is 21765, placing it in the 79th percentile of all CPUs. Its nearest rivals in average score include the Intel Xeon D-1746TER (0.6% higher) and the AMD EPYC 9554P (0.6% lower). The 3DMark scores further illustrate its thread scaling: single-thread 882, 2-thread 1737, 4-thread 3313, 8-thread 4798, and max-thread 5659.

For an MMORPG like Archeage, which was released in 2014 and often involves many on-screen characters and physics calculations, single-thread performance is critical. The measured frame rates show that at 1080p Low, the combo achieves 216 FPS, the highest value in the dataset. This suggests that the CPU is capable of driving high frame rates when the GPU is not heavily loaded. However, as settings increase to Ultra, the frame rate drops to 120.9 at 1080p, indicating that the GPU is taking over as the primary constraint. The 5600's 12 threads and 4.40 GHz boost provide sufficient headroom for the game's CPU demands, as evidenced by the 216 FPS ceiling at low settings. The fact that the 1080p Low result is nearly identical to the 1440p Low result (191.8 FPS) further implies that the CPU is the limiting factor in that regime, since resolution changes have only a modest impact on the CPU-bound portion of the workload.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with 16384 shading units and 512 texture mapping units. It has 24 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus, delivering a bandwidth of 1.01 TB/s. Its boost clock is 2520 MHz, with a base clock of 2235 MHz. In synthetic tests, it scores 38194 in Passmark G3D and 26613 in GPU compute, placing it in the 91st percentile of all GPUs. The GPU's nearest rivals include the NVIDIA Tesla T4 (0.4% lower) and the NVIDIA Tesla P40 (0.5% higher). The GPU also achieves 9223 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 and 317684 in Geekbench OpenCL.

At 4K Ultra, the combo produces 46.4 FPS, a relatively low figure for such a high-end card, suggesting that Archeage's Ultra preset imposes a heavy load on the GPU. The large VRAM capacity and high bandwidth are likely beneficial at 4K, where texture and geometry demands are highest. The scaling from 1080p to 4K at Ultra shows a drop from 120.9 to 46.4, indicating that the GPU is the limiting component at this quality level. At lower settings, the GPU's headroom allows the CPU to become the bottleneck, as seen in the 216 FPS result at 1080p Low. The GPU's 24 GB frame buffer ensures that even at 4K Ultra, memory capacity is not a constraint; the performance drop is more likely attributable to raw shading and rasterization throughput.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The following table lists the