Archeage

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data for Archeage with the Intel Core i5-13400F and Intel Arc B580 reveals a clear pattern of scaling as resolution increases from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160. At 1080p with Low settings, the combo produces 122.7 FPS, which drops to 83.6 FPS at 1440p and further to 46.2 FPS at 4K. This represents a 62.3% reduction from 1080p Low to 4K Low, indicating that the GPU becomes progressively more stressed as pixel count rises.

The scaling behavior shifts notably when examining the gap between 1440p and 4K. At Medium settings, the system delivers 111.5 FPS at 1080p, 74.4 FPS at 1440p, and 40.3 FPS at 4K. The drop from 1440p to 4K is 45.8%, while the drop from 1080p to 1440p is 33.3%. This accelerating degradation at higher resolutions points to the GPU being the primary limiting factor in this configuration, particularly at 4K where pixel throughput demands exceed what the Arc B580 can sustain at higher quality presets.

Ultra settings exhibit the steepest scaling curve. The system manages 53.1 FPS at 1080p Ultra, falls to 35.5 FPS at 1440p Ultra, and bottoms out at 21.6 FPS at 4K Ultra. The 4K Ultra result is the only measured scenario below 30 FPS, which would be problematic for smooth gameplay. The pattern across all settings suggests that Archeage's rendering load scales nearly linearly with resolution, with the GPU's 456.0 GB/s memory bandwidth and 13.67 TFLOPS FP32 compute becoming the binding constraints at higher pixel counts.

GPU Role

The Intel Arc B580 features 12 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, delivering 456.0 GB/s of bandwidth. For Archeage, a 2014 MMORPG, this memory configuration is more than adequate for texture storage at any resolution tested. The card's base and boost clocks are both 2670 MHz, indicating a fixed clock behavior rather than dynamic boosting. With 2560 shading units, 160 TMUs, and 80 ROPs, the GPU's pixel rate of 213.6 GPixel/s and texture rate of 427.2 GTexel/s directly influence how quickly frames can be rasterized.

The benchmark data shows the GPU's synthetic performance places it at the 66th percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 23021. Its nearest rival, the AMD Radeon 760M, scores 22999, a delta of 0.1%, while the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 scores 23181, putting the Arc B580 0.7% behind. These close margins suggest the Arc B580 performs in a tightly competitive band, yet in Archeage specifically, the GPU's 4K Ultra result of 21.6 FPS demonstrates that even with competitive synthetic scores, the card struggles with the game's heavier settings at maximum resolution.

The 12 GB VRAM capacity is never a limiting factor in these measurements, as even at 4K Ultra the game's memory footprint remains well within the card's allocation. Instead, the GPU's compute throughput and memory bandwidth determine the FPS ceiling. The fact that 1080p Low achieves 122.7 FPS while 4K Ultra drops to 21.6 FPS—a factor of 5.7 difference—illustrates how the same hardware scales across the tested envelope.

FAQ

Q: What is the highest average FPS achieved by this combo in Archeage?

A: The highest measured average FPS is 122.7, achieved at 1920x1080 resolution with Low settings.

Q: How does the Arc B580 compare to its closest rival in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The Arc B580 scores 23021 on average, which is 0.7% behind the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (23181) and 0.1% ahead of the AMD Radeon 760M (22999).

Q: Is the 4K Ultra setting playable with this CPU-GPU combination?

A: No, the 4K Ultra preset produces an average of 21.6 FPS, which is below the 30 FPS threshold generally considered minimally playable for smooth motion.

Q: What is the performance difference between Low and Ultra settings at 1440p?

A: At 2560x1440, Low settings yield 83.6 FPS while Ultra drops to 35.5 FPS, representing a 57.5% reduction in frame rate.

Q: Where does this combo rank among all tested combinations in Archeage?

A: This combo ranks 1341 out of 1727 tested combinations, placing it in the lower portion of the distribution.

Q: Does the CPU or GPU bottleneck at 1080p High?

A: At 1920x1080 High, the system achieves 77.5 FPS, and the scaling pattern across resolutions indicates the GPU becomes the limiting factor as pixel count rises, with the CPU providing sufficient headroom.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the settings ladder shows a clear progression: Low produces 122.7 FPS, Medium delivers 111.5 FPS, High achieves 77.5 FPS, and Ultra drops to 53.1 FPS. The gap between Medium and High is the largest single-step drop at this resolution, a 30.5% reduction, suggesting that High settings enable rendering features that significantly increase GPU load.

Moving to 2560x1440, the same settings order yields 83.6 FPS on Low, 74.4 FPS on Medium, 49.7 FPS on High, and 35.5 FPS on Ultra. The Medium-to-High drop here is 33.2%, slightly larger than at 1080p, indicating that the resolution increase amplifies the cost of the High preset's additional effects.

At 3840x2160, the results compress into a tighter lower band: Low runs at 46.2 FPS, Medium at 40.3 FPS, High at 30.4 FPS, and Ultra at 21.6 FPS. The relative difference between Low and Ultra narrows from 56.7% at 1080p to 53.2% at 4K, but the absolute frame rates are uniformly low. Notably, the gap between Medium and High at 4K is 24.6%, smaller than at lower resolutions, which suggests that at 4K the GPU is already saturated and additional settings changes have diminishing marginal impact on frame rate.

The complete dataset shows that only the 1080p Low and Medium settings exceed 100 FPS, while all 4K presets remain below 50 FPS. The 1440p Low result of 83.6 FPS is the only non-1080p scenario to exceed 80 FPS, making it the best balance of resolution and smoothness among the tested configurations.

How This Combo Ranks

The Intel Core i5-13400F combined with the Intel Arc B580 achieves a rank of 1341 out of 1727 tested combinations in Archeage. This places the combo in the bottom 22.3% of all systems tested for this game, which is a surprisingly low position given the individual component performance profiles.

The CPU's percentile ranking of 82 among all processors indicates it outperforms the vast majority of CPUs in general benchmarks, with an average benchmark score of 25236. Its nearest rival, the Intel Core i7-13620H, scores 25201 (0.1% behind), while the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D scores 25365 (0.5% ahead). Similarly, the GPU's 66th percentile ranking and average score of 23021 place it in the upper half of graphics cards.

Despite these solid individual rankings, the combo's 1341st position suggests that Archeage's performance is heavily influenced by factors beyond raw compute power, likely the game's engine characteristics and its interaction with this specific hardware pairing. The rank indicates that many other combinations—even those with lower synthetic scores—achieve better frame rates in this MMORPG, likely due to driver optimizations or architectural efficiencies that favor other vendors' implementations.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-13400F is a 10-core, 16-thread processor based on the Raptor Lake architecture, with a base clock of 2.50 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz. Its 20 MB of shared L3 cache and 1.25 MB L2 cache per core provide ample data locality for game workloads. The CPU's 3DMark scores show scaling from 960 in single-thread to 7314 in 16-thread tests, with 4-thread and 8-thread scores of 3459 and 5591 respectively.

In Archeage, an MMORPG with potentially many concurrent entities and player interactions, CPU performance directly affects frame pacing and minimum frame rates. The CPU's Cinebench R23 multicore score of 21279 and single-core score of 3004 indicate strong processing capability. However, the measured FPS data reveals that at 1080p Low, where GPU load is minimized, the system reaches 122.7 FPS, suggesting the CPU can feed the GPU adequately at lower resolutions.

The passmark multithread score of 25032 and single-thread score of 3634 further confirm that the i5-13400F is not the bottleneck in most scenarios. The pattern of FPS drops across resolutions—from 122.7 at 1080p Low to 46.2 at 4K Low—is consistent with GPU limitation, as the CPU workload in Archeage does not scale significantly with resolution. The CPU's 65W TDP and 10 nm process node indicate efficient operation, and its 82nd percentile ranking among all CPUs suggests it provides more than sufficient compute for this game's requirements, with the GPU being the clear performance limiter at higher resolutions and settings.