Archeage

Archeage is an older MMORPG, but its performance landscape in 2025 is surprisingly demanding at higher presets. This analysis of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER combination reveals a pairing that is capable at 1080p but struggles to maintain playable frame rates at 4K on higher settings. The data indicates a system that is heavily influenced by both CPU and GPU limitations depending on the resolution and graphical preset selected.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K is steep and reveals a clear shift in the bottleneck. At 1080p with Low settings, the combo achieves an average of 141.9 FPS. Dropping to 1440p Low reduces this to 96.1 FPS, a significant 32% decrease. Moving to 4K Low brings the average down to 56.5 FPS, which is a 60% drop from the 1080p baseline. This scaling pattern indicates that at lower resolutions, the CPU is doing a substantial amount of the work, but the GPU quickly becomes the limiting factor as pixel count increases.

The trend is even more pronounced at Ultra settings. The combo manages 57.3 FPS at 1080p, which falls to 39.8 FPS at 1440p. At 4K Ultra, the average plummets to just 21.1 FPS. This is a 63% reduction from the 1080p result and is firmly in unplayable territory for a game requiring responsive input. The massive gap between Low and Ultra at 4K (56.5 vs 21.1 FPS) underscores that the RTX 2070 SUPER's 8 GB of GDDR6 memory and 448.0 GB/s bandwidth are being overwhelmed by the combination of high resolution and intense graphical effects.

The scaling suggests that 4K is not a viable target for this pairing except at the lowest settings. The 1440p results are more balanced, showing a spread from 96.1 FPS at Low to 39.8 FPS at Ultra. The data shows that the transition from 1080p to 1440p is where the GPU begins to take over as the primary performance limiter, but the 4K jump is where the GPU's architectural limits are fully exposed.

Settings Recommendations

For a smooth experience, the measured data points to specific presets per resolution. At 1080p, the High preset delivers a very playable 89 FPS average. The Medium preset offers an even higher 129.9 FPS, which would be ideal for high-refresh-rate monitors. The Ultra preset, while visually superior, drops the average to 57.3 FPS, which is a significant penalty for marginal visual gains. For competitive play or maximum fluidity at 1080p, Medium is the sweet spot, offering a 46% performance increase over High.

At 1440p, the High preset is the best balance, hitting a 60.4 FPS average. This is right at the threshold for smooth gameplay. The Medium preset provides a more comfortable margin with an 82.6 FPS average, making it the recommended choice for maintaining high frame rates without sacrificing too much visual quality. The Ultra preset at 1440p is not advisable, as its 39.8 FPS average will feel stuttery and unresponsive.

At 4K, the options are limited. The High preset's 35.5 FPS is below the playable threshold. The Low preset is the only viable option, delivering a 56.5 FPS average. This allows the game to be played at 4K, but with significantly reduced visual fidelity. The data clearly shows that the Ultra preset at 4K (21.1 FPS) is a non-starter for actual gameplay. The best experience for this combo is to prioritize resolution scaling: use Medium at 1080p for high refresh, High at 1440p for a balanced experience, and only Low at 4K.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER is a Turing-architecture card with a base clock of 1605 MHz and a boost clock of 1770 MHz. Its 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus provides a memory bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s. In Archeage, the GPU's role becomes dominant as resolution and settings increase. The benchmark results clearly show that the card's compute power, rated at 9.062 TFLOPS FP32, is insufficient for the most demanding configurations.

The card's performance relative to its peers is middling. It sits in the 65th percentile of all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 22206. Its nearest rival, the NVIDIA RTX A400, scores slightly higher with a deltaPct of -0.5%, meaning the RTX 2070 SUPER is essentially on par. The AMD Radeon RX 5700 is a close competitor, trailing by 2.5%. This suggests that in this game, the RTX 2070 SUPER is performing as expected for its class, but it lacks the headroom needed for 4K Ultra.

The data shows that the GPU is the primary constraint at 4K. The difference between Low and Ultra at 4K is a 35.4 FPS swing, highlighting how much the card struggles with the increased shader and texture loads. The 40 RT cores and 320 tensor cores are present, but Archeage, being a 2014 title, does not appear to leverage these features, meaning the raw rasterization performance of the 2560 shading units is what matters most. The card's 215 W TDP and dual-slot design are typical for its generation, but its end-of-life status means it is now a legacy part.

How This Combo Ranks

In the database of tested combinations, this specific pairing of AMD Ryzen 7 5700 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER ranks 1036 out of 1727 combos for Archeage. This places it in the 40th percentile of all tested systems, indicating a below-average performance tier for this specific title. This ranking is a direct consequence of the GPU's limitations at higher settings, despite the CPU's strong showing in synthetic benchmarks.

The combo's rank is more a reflection of the RTX 2070 SUPER's age than the CPU's capability. The Ryzen 7 5700 is a modern 8-core processor that sits in the 84th percentile of all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 27220. Its nearest rival, the Intel Core i9-9900K, scores nearly identically with a deltaPct of 0.7%. This means the CPU is providing a solid foundation, but the GPU's 65th percentile ranking drags the overall combo down. The rank suggests that a large portion of the 1727 tested combos are using more powerful GPUs, which are able to push higher frame rates in this game's more demanding scenarios.

The data implies that the system is balanced for 1080p gaming, but the combo's ranking suffers because it cannot handle 4K Ultra, a test that many other combos likely pass. The 1036th rank is a clear signal that this pairing is not optimized for maximum settings at high resolutions. It is a mid-tier setup that will require careful settings management to provide a good experience, as the measured FPS data confirms.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700 is a Zen 3 architecture processor with 8 cores and 16 threads. It has a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz. In Archeage, the CPU's role is most apparent at lower resolutions and settings. At 1080p Low, the combo achieves 141.9 FPS, a figure that is likely CPU-limited. As the resolution increases, the CPU's influence on the average frame rate diminishes, and the GPU takes over as the bottleneck.

The CPU's multi-threaded performance is strong, with a Cinebench R23 multicore score of 20655 and a single-core score of 2916. This single-core performance is crucial for an MMORPG like Archeage, which often relies heavily on a few main threads for game logic and world interactions. The 16 MB of L3 cache and 512 KB of L2 cache per core help ensure data is readily available to the cores. The CPU's performance relative to rivals is excellent, with the Intel Core i9-9900K being a nearly identical match in average benchmark score.

The data suggests that the CPU is not a limiting factor in this pairing for most scenarios. The processor's strong 3DMark scores, such as 6628 in the 16-thread test and 901 in the single-thread test, indicate it has the headroom to feed the GPU at 1080p and 1440p. The bottleneck at those resolutions is the GPU. However, the CPU's performance ceiling appears to be hit at 1080p Low, where the frame rate is high. The system is well-balanced for high-refresh 1080p gaming, with the CPU capable of pushing frame rates well beyond what the GPU can render at higher settings.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data provides a complete picture of the combo's performance across all tested configurations.

At 1920x1080, the average frame rates are as follows:

• Low: 141.9 FPS
• Medium: 129.9 FPS
• High: 89 FPS
• Ultra: 57.3 FPS

At 2560x1440, the average frame rates drop significantly:

• Low: 96.1 FPS
• Medium: 82.6 FPS
• High: 60.4 FPS
• Ultra: 39.8 FPS

At 3840x2160, the average frame rates are the lowest:

• Low: 56.5 FPS
• Medium: 47.1 FPS
• High: 35.5 FPS
• Ultra: 21.1 FPS

The numbers show a consistent pattern of roughly a 30-50% performance reduction for each step up in resolution, and a similar reduction for moving from Low to Ultra within a resolution. The 1080p Medium result of 129.9 FPS is the best high-fidelity option, while the 1440p Medium result of 82.6 FPS offers a good middle ground. The 4K Low result of 56.5 FPS is the only playable 4K option, and it comes with a major visual compromise. The performance cliff at 4K Ultra, with a 21.1 FPS average, is the definitive data point that defines this combo's limits.