Archeage

# FAQ

Q: How well does this CPU+GPU combo perform in Archeage compared to other tested configurations?

A: The AMD Ryzen 7 5700 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti combo ranks 954th out of 3708 tested combos in Archeage, placing it in the top 26% of all configurations tested for this game.

Q: What is the best frame rate this combo achieves in Archeage?

A: The highest measured average FPS is 209 at 1920x1080 with Low settings. At the same resolution, Medium settings yield 186 FPS, High yields 127 FPS, and Ultra yields 86 FPS.

Q: How does the CPU's multi-threaded performance compare to its nearest rivals?

A: The Ryzen 7 5700 has an average benchmark score of 25517. Its closest rival, the AMD Ryzen 5 7640U, scores 25485 (0.1% lower), while the Intel Xeon D-2752TER scores 25530 (0.1% higher). The AMD Ryzen 7 5825U trails by 0.3%.

Q: What is the GPU's VRAM capacity and memory bandwidth?

A: The RTX 3080 Ti features 12 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus, delivering 912.4 GB/s of bandwidth. Its memory clock runs at 1188 MHz, translating to 19 Gbps effective.

Q: How does the combo scale from 1080p to 4K at High settings?

A: At High settings, average FPS drops from 127 at 1920x1080 to 85 at 2560x1440 (a 33% reduction), and further to 49 at 3840x2160 (a 61% reduction from 1080p). This scaling curve indicates growing GPU limitation at higher resolutions.

Q: What are the CPU's core and thread counts, and its clock speeds?

A: The Ryzen 7 5700 has 8 cores and 16 threads, with a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz. It is built on TSMC's 7 nm process with a 65W TDP.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti achieves a rank of 954 out of 3708 tested combos in Archeage. This places the configuration in the 74th percentile of all tested systems — a strong result for an MMORPG that tends to favor CPU performance in crowded scenes, but not a top-tier showing given the GPU's capabilities.

Breaking down the ranking, this combo sits behind roughly 25% of all tested configurations. That gap is notable because the RTX 3080 Ti ranks in the 83rd percentile among all GPUs, while the Ryzen 7 5700 ranks in the 78th percentile among all CPUs. The combo's overall rank (74th percentile) closely tracks the CPU's percentile, suggesting that in Archeage, the processor is the more influential component in determining where this combo lands relative to others.

The CPU's nearest rivals include the Intel Xeon D-2752TER (average score 25530, 0.1% ahead), the AMD Ryzen 5 7640U (25485, 0.1% behind), and the AMD Ryzen 5 6600H (25550, 0.1% ahead). These sub-1% differences indicate that the Ryzen 7 5700 sits in a tightly competitive cluster of processors — within this group, the choice of CPU makes almost no measurable difference in raw benchmark averages. Yet in Archeage specifically, the combo's rank of 954 suggests that game-specific optimization matters more than raw synthetic scores.

The GPU's nearest rivals paint a similar picture: the AMD Radeon Pro 5300 scores 40870 (0.8% lower), while the NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB scores 41707 (1.2% higher). The RTX 3080 Ti's average benchmark score of 41187 places it comfortably ahead of the RTX 5070 (40377, 2% lower), showing that this previous-generation card still holds its own against newer silicon in synthetic workloads.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is a substantial piece of hardware: 12 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus, providing 912.4 GB/s of bandwidth. The memory clock runs at 1188 MHz (19 Gbps effective), while the GPU core operates at 1365 MHz base and 1665 MHz boost. With 10240 shading units, 320 TMUs, and 112 ROPs, the card delivers 34.10 TFLOPS of FP32 compute and a texture rate of 532.8 GTexel/s.

In Archeage, the GPU's role becomes more pronounced as resolution increases. At 1920x1080, the GPU is rarely the bottleneck — even at Ultra settings, the combo achieves 86 FPS, which is well above playable thresholds. The data shows a clear pattern: at 1080p, the frame rate is more sensitive to settings changes (from 209 FPS at Low to 86 FPS at Ultra), indicating that the CPU can feed the GPU efficiently at this resolution.

At 2560x1440, the GPU begins to assert itself. High settings produce 85 FPS, which is still excellent, but the drop from 1080p High (127 FPS) to 1440p High (85 FPS) represents a 33% reduction — a larger percentage drop than the pixel count increase (78% more pixels), suggesting that the GPU is starting to become the limiting factor. At 3840x2160, this trend accelerates: High settings yield 49 FPS, and Ultra drops to 33 FPS.

The 12 GB VRAM capacity is more than sufficient for Archeage at any resolution or settings combination tested. The game's textures and draw distances do not appear to stress the memory subsystem, as evidenced by the smooth scaling of FPS across settings at each resolution. The bandwidth of 912.4 GB/s is also ample for this MMORPG, which is not known for being VRAM-hungry.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data covers three resolutions (1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3840x2160) and four settings levels (Low, Medium, High, Ultra). At 1920x1080, the combo delivers: 209 FPS at Low, 186 FPS at Medium (with a min of 158 and max of 214), 127 FPS at High, and 86 FPS at Ultra. These numbers indicate that at 1080p, even Ultra settings remain highly playable, and Low settings approach the 240Hz territory favored by competitive players.

Moving to 2560x1440, the frame rates remain strong but begin to show the GPU's influence: 141 FPS at Low, 125 FPS at Medium (min 107, max 144), 85 FPS at High, and 58 FPS at Ultra. The gap between Low and Ultra narrows from 123 FPS at 1080p to 83 FPS at 1440p, confirming that the GPU is taking on more work at the higher resolution.

At 3840x2160, the combo still produces playable frame rates but with more significant compromises: 81 FPS at Low, 72 FPS at Medium (min 61, max 83), 49 FPS at High, and 33 FPS at Ultra. The Ultra setting at 4K drops below the 60 FPS threshold, indicating that this configuration cannot maintain high-refresh gameplay at maximum settings in 4K. High settings at 4K, at 49 FPS, are borderline — playable for a slow-paced MMORPG but not ideal for action-heavy encounters.

The Medium setting at 4K, with an average of 72 FPS and a minimum of 61, represents the sweet spot for 4K gameplay: it stays above 60 FPS even in minimums, providing a smooth experience. At 1440p, all settings except Ultra exceed 60 FPS, with High (85 FPS) offering the best balance of visual quality and performance. At 1080p, every setting exceeds 86 FPS, making this resolution the most flexible for players who prioritize frame rate.

Resolution Scaling

The scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals where the bottleneck shifts between CPU and GPU. At High settings, the progression is: 127 FPS at 1080p → 85 FPS at 1440p → 49 FPS at 4K. This represents a 33% drop from 1080p to 1440p and a 61% drop from 1080p to 4K. In an ideal GPU-bound scenario, the FPS should scale inversely with pixel count: 1080p to 1440p (1.78x pixels) would yield a 44% FPS reduction, and 1080p to 4K (4x pixels) would yield a 75% reduction.

The measured drops are smaller than these theoretical values, which indicates that the CPU is still contributing to frame generation even at 4K. At 1080p, the CPU is likely the primary limiter — the GPU is capable of rendering more frames than the processor can feed. As resolution increases, the GPU takes on more work, but the CPU's influence remains visible in the form of better-than-expected scaling.

At Low settings, the scaling pattern is similar: 209 FPS at 1080p → 141 FPS at 1440p → 81 FPS at 4K (33% and 61% drops, respectively). This consistency across settings suggests that the CPU overhead per frame is relatively constant, and the GPU's workload scales predictably with resolution. The fact that Low settings at 4K (81 FPS) exceed Ultra settings at 1080p (86 FPS) only marginally demonstrates that resolution has a larger impact on FPS than settings in this game.

The Medium settings data includes min/max FPS values, which provide additional insight. At 1080p Medium, the range is 158-214 FPS (average 186); at 1440p Medium, it's 107-144 FPS (average 125); and at 4K Medium, it's 61-83 FPS (average 72). The minimum FPS values scale more steeply with resolution than the averages: the 1080p minimum (158) is 47% higher than the 1440p minimum (107), and 159% higher than the 4K minimum (61). This suggests that frame-time consistency degrades at higher resolutions, with more pronounced dips in demanding scenes.

The limiting component shifts from CPU-bound at 1080p to GPU-bound at 4K, but the transition is gradual. At 1440p, the combo appears balanced — neither component is fully saturated, resulting in the best overall efficiency. At 4K Ultra (33 FPS), the GPU is clearly the bottleneck, as the CPU's 8 cores and 16 threads are more than capable of handling Archeage's MMO workloads.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700 is an 8-core, 16-thread processor built on TSMC's 7 nm process (Zen 3 architecture, codename Cezanne). It runs at 3.70 GHz base and 4.60 GHz boost, with a 65W TDP. The CPU features 16 MB of L3 cache, 512 KB of L2 per core, and 64 KB of L1 per core. Memory support is DDR4 on a dual-channel bus, delivering 51.2 GB/s of bandwidth.

In synthetic benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700 posts a Cinebench R23 multicore score of 20655 and a single-core score of 2916. Its Geekbench scores are 9959 (multicore) and 1907 (single-core). The Passmark multithread score is 24303 with a single-thread score of 3296. These numbers place the CPU in the 78th percentile of all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 25517.

For Archeage, an MMORPG that relies heavily on single-thread performance for game logic and network handling, the Ryzen 7 5700's strong single-core scores are particularly relevant. The 3DMark single-thread score of 901 and the Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2916 indicate that this CPU can handle the game's primary thread efficiently. The 8 cores and 16 threads also provide ample headroom for background tasks, add-ons, and the game's multi-threaded rendering paths.

The CPU's role in this combo becomes evident when examining FPS at 1080p Low: 209 FPS. This high frame rate at low resolution suggests that the CPU can drive the GPU to substantial output when graphical load is minimal. The fact that 1080p Low (209 FPS) is more than double 4K Low (81 FPS) indicates that the CPU is not the limiting factor at any resolution tested — the GPU's workload scales faster than the CPU's ability to feed it.

Comparing to its nearest rivals, the Ryzen 7 5700's average benchmark score of 25517 is within 0.3% of the AMD Ryzen 5 7640U (25485) and within 0.1% of the Intel Xeon D-2752TER (25530). This clustering suggests that in Archeage, any of these CPUs would produce nearly identical frame rates when paired with the same GPU. The CPU's 78th percentile ranking among all CPUs, combined with the combo's 74th percentile ranking in Archeage, indicates that the processor is slightly more influential than the GPU in determining this game's performance — a common trait for MMOs where draw calls and entity updates tax the CPU heavily.