Archeage

The Intel Core i7-13700K paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER delivers a highly playable Archeage experience at 1080p and 1440p, with 4K requiring a more measured approach to settings. The data shows a clear performance hierarchy across the four tested presets, with the sweet spot for this combination being the Medium preset, which provides a substantial frame rate uplift over High settings while maintaining a significant margin over the demanding Ultra preset.

Settings Recommendations

The benchmark data reveals a steep performance cost associated with the Ultra preset. At 1920x1080, the Ultra preset yields an average of 58.2 FPS, which is noticeably lower than the 85.1 FPS achieved on High. This represents a significant drop of 26.9 FPS for the visual fidelity increase. The Medium preset, however, offers a compelling alternative, delivering 125.7 FPS at 1080p—a 40.5 FPS advantage over High and a 67.5 FPS advantage over Ultra. This pattern persists at 2560x1440, where Medium achieves 85 FPS, compared to 60 FPS on High and 36.4 FPS on Ultra. The data suggests that the Ultra preset is disproportionately demanding for this hardware configuration, pushing the RTX 2070 SUPER beyond its optimal efficiency envelope.

For the best balance of visual quality and performance, the Medium preset is the recommended starting point. It delivers frame rates that are more than sufficient for the MMORPG genre at 1080p and 1440p, offering a smooth experience that is almost double the frame rate of the Ultra preset at 1080p. Players prioritizing maximum smoothness can opt for the Low preset, which reaches 141.3 FPS at 1080p and 98.6 FPS at 1440p, but the Medium preset provides a more visually complete experience without the steep performance penalty of the higher tiers. At 4K, the Medium preset is the only viable option for playable frame rates, as it scores 51.3 FPS, while High drops to 34.9 FPS and Ultra becomes untenable at 20 FPS.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, built on the Turing architecture with a TU104 chip, is the primary driver of frame rate in Archeage. Its performance characteristics are defined by its 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, providing 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The GPU's clocks are set at a base of 1605 MHz and a boost of 1770 MHz, which are modest figures for the Turing generation but are supported by 2560 shading units. The benchmark results indicate that the GPU is a significant performance limiter, particularly at higher resolutions and settings.

The data shows a clear scaling pattern where frame rates drop precipitously as resolution and quality settings increase. At 1080p, the GPU can push frame rates well above 100 FPS on Low and Medium settings, but the Ultra preset causes a bottleneck, dropping performance to 58.2 FPS. This suggests that the Ultra preset's additional visual effects, likely including higher-resolution textures and more complex shading, saturate the RTX 2070 SUPER's compute resources. The GPU's 9.062 TFLOPS of FP32 performance is adequate for the game's engine at lower presets but is insufficient for the maximum settings at all resolutions. The 8 GB VRAM capacity is not directly indicated as a limiting factor in the data, but the significant performance drops at Ultra settings suggest the memory subsystem or the GPU's raw compute power is being taxed heavily.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-13700K, with its 16 cores and 24 threads, provides a robust foundation for Archeage, but the benchmark data indicates that it is not the primary bottleneck in this configuration. The CPU's architecture, Raptor Lake, features a base clock of 3.40 GHz and a boost clock of 5.40 GHz, with a 30 MB shared L3 cache. Its synthetic benchmarks are strong, with a Cinebench R23 multicore score of 39000 and a single-core score of 5505, placing it in the 93rd percentile of all CPUs. This level of single-threaded performance is critical for an MMORPG, which often relies heavily on a single main thread for game logic and network processing.

The frame rate data across resolutions suggests that the CPU is sufficiently powerful to feed the GPU at 1080p and 1440p, as the performance scaling is primarily driven by resolution changes, which affect the GPU load. For instance, at High settings, the frame rate drops from 85.1 FPS at 1080p to 60 FPS at 1440p, and 34.9 FPS at 4K. This pattern is consistent with a GPU-bound scenario, where the CPU's frame generation capacity exceeds the GPU's rendering throughput. The CPU's strong performance, indicated by its 3dmark_max_threads score of 12412, ensures that it does not limit the frame rate even at the highest settings, where the GPU is clearly the constraining factor.

How This Combo Ranks

This specific combination of the Intel Core i7-13700K and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER holds a rank of 1046 out of 1727 tested combos in Archeage. This places it in the middle-to-lower tier of the performance spectrum, indicating that while it is a capable setup, there are many more powerful configurations in the database. The ranking is a direct consequence of the GPU's position in the market; the RTX 2070 SUPER sits in the 65th percentile of all GPUs, while the CPU is in the 93rd percentile. This imbalance means the combo is heavily GPU-limited, and its overall rank is dragged down by the older graphics card.

The CPU's nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks include the Intel Core i7-13700KF, which scores a near-identical average benchmark score of 47334, just 0.1% higher than the i7-13700K's 47282. This indicates that the combo's CPU component is competitive with the top of its class. However, the GPU's nearest rivals, such as the NVIDIA RTX A400 and the AMD Radeon RX 5700, show that the RTX 2070 SUPER is in a more contested performance bracket. The combo's rank of 1046 out of 1727 suggests that in Archeage, the RTX 2070 SUPER's performance is the limiting factor, and users with higher-end GPUs will see significantly better results.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data provides a clear picture of how the combo scales across resolutions. At 1080p, the average frame rates across all presets are strong, with Low hitting 141.3 FPS and Medium at 125.7 FPS. Moving to 2560x1440 results in a substantial drop, with the Low preset falling to 98.6 FPS (a 42.7 FPS decrease) and Medium to 85 FPS (a 40.7 FPS decrease). This indicates a significant increase in GPU load when transitioning from 1080p to 1440p, as the number of pixels nearly doubles. The scaling continues to 4K, where the Low preset manages 57.4 FPS, a further drop of 41.2 FPS from the 1440p result.

This scaling pattern is characteristic of a GPU-bound workload. The CPU's performance remains constant, but the GPU's fill rate and shading capacity are increasingly taxed as resolution climbs. The data shows that the frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K is roughly consistent across presets—for example, High settings drop from 85.1 FPS at 1080p to 34.9 FPS at 4K, a 50.2 FPS reduction. This consistent proportional drop confirms that the RTX 2070 SUPER is the limiting component. The combo is well-suited for 1080p and playable at 1440p, but 4K requires the Low or Medium presets to maintain acceptable frame rates, highlighting the GPU's performance ceiling.