Archeage

# Archeage with Intel Core i5-10400F + Intel Arc B370

This combo ranks 3423rd out of 3708 tested combinations in Archeage, placing it in the bottom 8% of all systems evaluated. The pairing of a 6-core/12-thread Comet Lake processor with an integrated-class Arc GPU produces playable results only at the lowest settings and resolution, with the data indicating a severe GPU bottleneck across all tested configurations.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo rank of 3423 out of 3708 total combos places this system firmly in the lower echelon of tested hardware for Archeage. This position reflects the fundamental performance ceiling imposed by the Intel Arc B370, which sits at the 5th percentile of all GPUs in the database. The GPU's average benchmark score of 1184 puts it within 0.2% of the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570 and 0.5% of the ATI Radeon HD 5770, illustrating its position among legacy mobile and entry-level desktop parts.

The CPU, by contrast, is a mid-pack performer. The Intel Core i5-10400F ranks at the 68th percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 14185. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Xeon 6756E (0.2% faster), the Intel Core 7 160UL (0.3% slower), the AMD EPYC 7552 (0.5% faster), and the AMD Ryzen 3 7320C (0.6% slower). This clustering within a 1.1% band shows the i5-10400F is well-positioned relative to its compute peers, yet the system's overall rank is dragged down almost entirely by the GPU.

In practical terms, the measured FPS data shows this combo achieving a maximum average of 65 FPS at 1080p Low settings. That represents the ceiling; every other configuration delivers lower performance. The delta between CPU capability and GPU output is stark — the processor can handle far more work than the graphics solution can render, making the Arc B370 the singular limiting factor in Archeage.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data reveals a clear hierarchy across settings presets at each resolution. At 1920x1080, the Low preset delivers 65 FPS average, Medium drops to 57 FPS, High falls to 39 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 27 FPS. There is no min FPS data for Low, High, or Ultra at this resolution, but the Medium preset shows a range of 49 to 66 FPS, indicating frame pacing that stays within a playable band.

For the best experience, the 1080p Low preset is the only configuration that consistently exceeds 60 FPS. The Medium preset at 57 FPS average is close but may dip below 60 during heavy scenes, and the 49 FPS minimum recorded suggests potential stutter in crowded MMO areas. Given that Archeage is an MMORPG where large-scale raids and world events can cause performance drops, the headroom provided by Low settings at 1080p is the safest choice.

At 2560x1440, no preset achieves even 45 FPS. Low delivers 43 FPS average, Medium 39 FPS, High 26 FPS, and Ultra 18 FPS. The Medium preset shows a min-max range of 33 to 44 FPS, which is consistent but low for competitive play. At 3840x2160, all presets fall below 25 FPS, with Low at 25 FPS, Medium at 22 FPS, High at 15 FPS, and Ultra at 10 FPS. The Medium preset at 4K shows a range of 19 to 25 FPS, confirming that this resolution is not viable for this combo.

The data suggests that 1080p Low is the only configuration that provides a smooth experience, while 1080p Medium is a compromise for visual quality at the cost of some frame rate stability. For users prioritizing consistency in group content, the Low preset is the recommended choice.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals the GPU-bound nature of this combo. At Low settings, the average FPS drops from 65 at 1080p to 43 at 1440p (a 33.8% reduction) and then to 25 at 4K (a 61.5% reduction from 1080p). This scaling pattern is characteristic of a GPU that is severely limited by its memory bandwidth and compute resources, as the resolution increase directly translates to a near-linear workload increase.

At Medium settings, the progression is 57 FPS at 1080p, 39 FPS at 1440p, and 22 FPS at 4K. The 1440p result represents a 31.6% drop from 1080p, while 4K is 61.4% lower. High settings show 39 FPS at 1080p, 26 FPS at 1440p, and 15 FPS at 4K — a 33.3% drop and then a 61.5% drop. Ultra settings follow the same pattern: 27 FPS at 1080p, 18 FPS at 1440p, and 10 FPS at 4K.

The consistency of these percentage drops across all settings presets is telling. A CPU-bound system would show smaller FPS differences between resolutions, particularly at lower settings where the CPU has more work relative to the GPU. Instead, the uniform ~33% drop at 1440p and ~61% drop at 4K across all presets indicates that the GPU's pixel throughput and shading capacity are the dominant constraints. The Intel Arc B370's system-shared memory architecture means bandwidth scales with system memory configuration, but the data shows no evidence of the CPU becoming the bottleneck at any resolution.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the full settings range was tested. Low settings produce an average of 65 FPS. Medium settings yield 57 FPS average, with a minimum of 49 FPS and a maximum of 66 FPS. High settings drop to 39 FPS average. Ultra settings deliver only 27 FPS average. The gap between Low and Medium is 8 FPS (12.3% reduction), while the jump from Medium to High is 18 FPS (31.6% reduction), and High to Ultra is 12 FPS (30.8% reduction). This suggests that the Medium to High transition carries a disproportionate performance cost relative to the visual improvement.

At 2560x1440, Low settings average 43 FPS. Medium settings average 39 FPS, with a range of 33 to 44 FPS. High settings average 26 FPS. Ultra settings average 18 FPS. The spread from Low to Ultra is 25 FPS, representing a 58.1% performance penalty for the highest preset. The Medium preset's minimum of 33 FPS indicates that even mid-range settings can experience noticeable frame drops in demanding scenes.

At 3840x2160, Low settings average 25 FPS. Medium settings average 22 FPS, with a range of 19 to 25 FPS. High settings average 15 FPS. Ultra settings average 10 FPS. The Medium preset at 4K shows the narrowest absolute range of any configuration tested, suggesting the GPU is operating at its throughput ceiling regardless of scene complexity.

Across all resolutions, the Medium preset is the only one with complete min/max data. This may indicate that the testing methodology captured frame time variance more thoroughly at this setting, or that other presets exhibited too much variability for reliable min/max capture. The available data shows that frame pacing is most consistent at 1080p Medium, where the 49-66 FPS range brackets the 57 FPS average tightly.

GPU Role

The Intel Arc B370 is an integrated graphics solution based on the Panther Lake chip, fabricated on Intel's 3 nm process with the Xe3-LPG architecture. It features 1280 shading units, 40 texture mapping units, and 20 raster output units, along with 10 ray tracing cores. The GPU operates at a base clock of 300 MHz and boosts to 2400 MHz, producing a pixel rate of 48.00 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 96.00 GTexel/s. Its FP32 throughput is 6.144 TFLOPS, with FP16 at 12.29 TFLOPS via a 2:1 ratio.

The memory configuration is system-shared, meaning the GPU uses the host system's DDR4 memory rather than dedicated VRAM. The memory bus width and bandwidth are listed as "System Shared" and "System Dependent" respectively, which means performance scales with the CPU's memory configuration. The i5-10400F supports dual-channel DDR4 with a memory bandwidth of 42.7 GB/s, which is a severe constraint for the GPU at higher resolutions.

The GPU's benchmark performance is minimal — a single 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 1184 places it at the 5th percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rivals are all legacy parts: the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570 (0.2% faster), ATI Radeon HD 5770 (0.5% faster), AMD Radeon HD 7650M (0.7% faster), and AMD FirePro M2000 (1.4% slower). This positions the B370 at the performance level of GPUs from over a decade ago, which explains the measured FPS results in Archeage.

The 25 W TDP and IGP slot width confirm this is a power-efficient integrated solution, not a discrete GPU. The lack of dedicated memory bandwidth is the primary bottleneck — at 1080p Medium, the GPU can sustain 57 FPS average, but doubling the resolution to 1440p at the same settings drops performance by 31.6%, and 4K reduces it by 61.4%. The system-shared memory architecture cannot feed the rasterizers and shaders fast enough at higher pixel counts.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-10400F is a 6-core, 12-thread processor from the Comet Lake architecture, built on Intel's 14 nm process. It runs at a base clock of 2.90 GHz and boosts to 4.30 GHz, with a 65 W TDP. The cache hierarchy includes 64 KB of L1 per core, 256 KB of L2 per core, and 12 MB of shared L3 cache. Memory support is dual-channel DDR4 with 42.7 GB/s bandwidth.

In synthetic benchmarks, the CPU shows balanced performance. Cinebench R23 scores are 10283 multi-core and 1451 single-core. Cinebench R20 shows 4318 multi-core and 609 single-core. Cinebench R15 yields 1036 multi-core and 146 single-core. Geekbench results are 6257 multi-core and 1420 single-core. PassMark scores include 12115 multi-thread, 2541 single-thread, 41471 integer math, 25956 floating point math, 12500 extended instructions, and 185944 data compression.

The CPU's percentile rank of 68 places it above the majority of processors in the database. Its average benchmark score of 14185 is virtually identical to the Intel Xeon 6756E (14163, 0.2% faster) and slightly below the Intel Core 7 160UL (14232, 0.3% slower). The AMD EPYC 7552 (14115, 0.5% faster) and AMD Ryzen 3 7320C (14277, 0.6% slower) round out the immediate competitive set. This indicates the i5-10400F is a solid mid-range performer that should handle MMO gameplay well.

In Archeage, the CPU's role is secondary to the GPU. The measured FPS data shows that even at 1080p Low — the least GPU-intensive configuration — the system only achieves 65 FPS average. Given that the CPU can deliver Cinebench R23 multi-core scores above 10000, it has ample headroom for the game's simulation and network processing. The bottleneck is clearly the GPU, as evidenced by the resolution scaling patterns. The CPU's 12 threads provide sufficient parallelism for MMO workloads, and its 4.30 GHz boost clock ensures responsive single-threaded performance for game logic.

The CPU's memory bandwidth of 42.7 GB/s is the only area where it may indirectly limit performance, as the GPU shares this bandwidth. However, the data does not indicate CPU-side stalls — the consistent FPS drops across resolutions point entirely to GPU throughput limitations.

FAQ

Q: What is the best settings preset for this combo in Archeage?

A: At 1920x1080, the Low preset delivers 65 FPS average, which is the only configuration exceeding 60 FPS. The Medium preset achieves 57 FPS average with a 49-66 range, making it a viable alternative if visual quality is prioritized over frame rate headroom.

Q: Can this combo run Archeage at 4K?

A: The data shows all 3840x2160 presets fall below 25 FPS average. Low settings produce 25 FPS, Medium 22 FPS, High 15 FPS, and Ultra 10 FPS. The Medium preset's minimum of 19 FPS confirms this resolution is not playable with this hardware.

Q: How does the Intel Arc B370 compare to its nearest GPU rivals?

A: The B370 scores 1184 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, placing it 0.2% slower than the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570, 0.5% slower than the ATI Radeon HD 5770, 0.7% slower than the AMD Radeon HD 7650M, and 1.4% faster than the AMD FirePro M2000. It sits at the 5th percentile of all GPUs.

Q: Is the Intel Core i5-10400F a bottleneck in this system?

A: No. The CPU ranks at the 68th percentile with an average score of 14185, and its nearest rivals are within 0.6% of its performance. The FPS scaling from 1080p to 4K shows consistent drops across all settings, indicating the GPU is the sole performance limiter.

Q: What frame rates can be expected at 1440p Medium settings?

A: The measured results show 39 FPS average at 2560x1440 Medium, with a minimum of 33 FPS and a maximum of 44 FPS. This is below the 60 FPS target but may be acceptable for non-competitive play.

Q: How significant is the performance drop from 1080p to 1440p?

A: At every settings preset, the drop from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 is approximately 31-33%. For example, Low goes from 65 to 43 FPS (33.8% reduction), and Medium goes from 57 to 39 FPS (31.6% reduction). This consistent scaling indicates the GPU is the primary constraint.