Assetto Corsa

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data for Assetto Corsa with the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F and Intel Arc B370 shows a steep and consistent drop as resolution increases, which points squarely at the GPU as the primary bottleneck at higher pixel counts. At 1080p with Low settings, the combo averages 106 FPS, but stepping up to 1440p Low drops that to 74 FPS, and at 4K Low it falls further to 45 FPS. That is a 58% reduction from 1080p to 4K at the lowest settings, a scaling pattern typical of a graphics-limited workload where the render target size dominates performance.

The pattern holds across every settings tier. With Medium settings, the average frame rate goes from 75 FPS at 1080p, to 52 FPS at 1440p, to 32 FPS at 4K. At High settings, the numbers are 56 FPS, 39 FPS, and 24 FPS respectively. The Ultra preset shows the same trend but at lower absolute values: 46 FPS at 1080p, 32 FPS at 1440p, and just 19 FPS at 4K. The consistency of these drops—roughly a 30% loss from 1080p to 1440p and another 30-40% from 1440p to 4K—indicates that the Intel Arc B370's compute and memory throughput are saturated well before the CPU becomes a limiting factor.

The fact that even at 1080p Low the combo only reaches 106 FPS, rather than several hundred, suggests the GPU is already the limiting component even at the lowest resolution and settings. If the CPU were the constraint, we would expect the 1080p Low result to be much higher and the scaling to 1440p and 4K to be flatter. Instead, the steady erosion of frame rates with each resolution increase is a textbook GPU-bound signature. The Arc B370's System Shared memory configuration, which relies on system RAM rather than dedicated VRAM, likely exacerbates the bandwidth pressure at higher resolutions, but the data alone cannot separate that effect from raw shader throughput limitations.

How This Combo Ranks

In the benchmark database, this specific CPU-GPU pairing ranks 2669 out of 2897 tested combos for Assetto Corsica. That places it in the bottom 8% of all tested combinations, a poor standing that reflects the GPU's extremely low performance tier. The Arc B370 sits at the 5th percentile among all GPUs in the database, with an average benchmark score of 1184 in the 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 test. Its nearest rivals in that GPU benchmark are the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570 (score 1186, delta -0.2%), the ATI Radeon HD 5770 (score 1190, delta -0.5%), and the AMD Radeon HD 7650M (score 1192, delta -0.7%), all of which are within 1% of the Arc B370's score. The AMD FirePro M2000 trails by 1.4% with a score of 1168.

The CPU, by contrast, is a much stronger component. The Ryzen 5 7500F sits at the 77th percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 24964. Its nearest rivals are all within a fraction of a percent: the Intel Core i7-11850H (score 24935, delta 0.1%), the AMD Ryzen 5 8400F (score 25005, delta -0.2%), the Intel Core i7-13620H (score 24911, delta 0.2%), and the Intel Core 5 210H (score 24872, delta 0.4%). The CPU is clearly not the weak link in this pairing; it is a mid-to-upper-tier processor being held back by an entry-level integrated graphics solution.

The combination of a 77th-percentile CPU with a 5th-percentile GPU creates a massive imbalance. The combo rank of 2669 out of 2897 confirms that this pairing is not competitive for Assetto Corsa at playable frame rates, except at the very lowest settings and resolutions. The benchmark data indicates that the GPU's performance ceiling is so low that the CPU's headroom is essentially irrelevant for gaming performance in this title.

FAQ

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

A: The highest measured average frame rate is 106 FPS at 1920x1080 with Low settings. The next best is 75 FPS at 1080p Medium, followed by 74 FPS at 1440p Low.

Q: Is this combo playable at 4K in Assetto Corsa?

A: At 4K, the average frame rates range from 19 FPS at Ultra settings to 45 FPS at Low settings. The Medium preset averages 32 FPS with a minimum of 27 FPS and a maximum of 36 FPS. These results are below the threshold for smooth gameplay, with only the Low preset approaching playability.

Q: How does the CPU compare to its nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The Ryzen 5 7500F has an average benchmark score of 24964, which is 0.1% ahead of the Intel Core i7-11850H (score 24935), 0.2% ahead of the Intel Core i7-13620H (score 24911), and 0.4% ahead of the Intel Core 5 210H (score 24872). It trails the AMD Ryzen 5 8400F (score 25005) by 0.2%.

Q: What is the GPU's performance percentile and what does that mean?

A: The Intel Arc B370 is at the 5th percentile among all GPUs, meaning 95% of GPUs in the database score higher. Its average benchmark score is 1184 in the 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 test, placing it alongside GPUs from over a decade ago like the ATI Radeon HD 5770.

Q: Does the CPU bottleneck the GPU at any resolution?

A: The data does not indicate CPU bottlenecking. The frame rates scale consistently downward with resolution, which is a GPU-bound pattern. At 1080p Low, the 106 FPS result is still limited by the GPU rather than the CPU, as evidenced by the significant drops at higher resolutions.

Q: What is the difference between Low and Ultra settings at 1080p?

A: At 1920x1080, Low settings average 106 FPS while Ultra averages 46 FPS, a difference of 60 FPS or roughly 57% lower performance. The Medium preset averages 75 FPS, and High averages 56 FPS.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the four settings presets produce a wide spread of results. Low settings deliver the best average at 106 FPS. Medium settings drop to an average of 75 FPS, with a minimum of 64 FPS and a maximum of 86 FPS. High settings average 56 FPS. Ultra settings are the most demanding, averaging 46 FPS. The progression from Low to Ultra represents a 57% reduction in average frame rate, showing that Assetto Corsa's Ultra preset places significant additional load on the GPU.

Moving to 2560x1440, all presets drop substantially. Low settings average 74 FPS, which is still playable. Medium settings average 52 FPS, with a minimum of 44 FPS and a maximum of 60 FPS. High settings average 39 FPS. Ultra settings average 32 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra at 1440p is 42 FPS, a 57% reduction that mirrors the 1080p scaling.

At 3840x2160, the results are largely below playable thresholds. Low settings average 45 FPS, making it the only 4K preset that approaches acceptable performance for a racing sim. Medium settings average 32 FPS, with a minimum of 27 FPS and a maximum of 36 FPS. High settings average 24 FPS. Ultra settings average 19 FPS. The Ultra preset at 4K produces less than half the frame rate of the Low preset, and less than a fifth of the 1080p Low result.

The data shows a consistent pattern: each resolution step up costs roughly 30-40% of the frame rate at a given settings level, and each settings step up at a given resolution costs roughly 20-30%. The combination of 4K and Ultra is the worst case at 19 FPS, while 1080p Low is the only configuration that clears 100 FPS.

GPU Role

The Intel Arc B370 is the clear performance limiter in this pairing. Its benchmark score of 1184 in the 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 test places it at the 5th percentile of all GPUs, and its nearest rivals are the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570, ATI Radeon HD 5770, AMD Radeon HD 7650M, and AMD FirePro M2000—all legacy parts from a much older era. The GPU's architecture is Xe3-LPG on a 3 nm process, with 1280 shading units, 40 texture mapping units, and 20 raster operation pipelines. It has 10 ray tracing cores.

The GPU's clock speeds are a base of 300 MHz and a boost of 2400 MHz. The pixel rate is 48.00 GPixel/s and the texture rate is 96.00 GTexel/s. FP32 throughput is 6.144 TFLOPS, with FP16 at 12.29 TFLOPS using a 2:1 ratio. These specifications are modest for a desktop gaming GPU, and the integrated form factor (IGP slot width, no power connectors, 25 W TDP) confirms this is not a discrete gaming card.

The memory configuration is "System Shared" for size, type, bus width, and bandwidth is "System Dependent." This means the GPU relies on the system's DDR5 memory rather than dedicated VRAM, and the available bandwidth depends on the rest of the system. In this case, the Ryzen 5 7500F supports dual-channel DDR5 with a memory bandwidth of 83.2 GB/s, but that bandwidth is shared between the CPU and GPU. This shared memory arrangement likely contributes to the steep performance drops at higher resolutions, where the demand for texture and framebuffer data increases significantly.

The GPU's DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) API support and Vulkan 1.4 compatibility are modern features, but they do not compensate for the raw throughput limitations. The data shows that the GPU's performance is simply insufficient for Assetto Corsa at 4K with any preset other than Low, and even at 1080p, the Ultra preset only manages 46 FPS.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 7500F is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on Zen 4 architecture, codenamed Raphael, built on TSMC's 5 nm process. It has a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 5.00 GHz. The cache hierarchy includes 64 KB of L1 per core, 1 MB of L2 per core, and 32 MB of shared L3 cache. The CPU supports DDR5 memory in a dual-channel configuration with a memory bandwidth of 83.2 GB/s, and it uses the AMD Socket AM5 platform with PCIe Gen 5 (24 lanes from the CPU). The 65 W TDP and unlocked multiplier make it a versatile desktop part, and it was released on 2023-07-21 with a launch MSRP of $179.

In synthetic benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7500F shows strong single-thread and multi-thread performance. It scores 974 in 3DMark single-thread and 6379 in 3DMark max threads. Cinebench R23 scores are 3218 single-core and 22799 multi-core. Geekbench scores are 2374 single-core and 12362 multi-core. PassMark results include 3841 for single-thread and 26825 for multithread. The CPU's 77th percentile ranking among all CPUs confirms it is a solid mid-range performer.

In Assetto Corsa, the CPU's role appears to be secondary to the GPU. The frame rate scaling with resolution is consistent with a GPU-bound scenario, and the CPU has ample headroom to feed the GPU even at 1080p Low, where the 106 FPS result is likely still GPU-limited. The CPU's 32 MB of L3 cache and 12 threads are more than sufficient for a 2014 racing simulation, which typically does not scale heavily beyond a few cores. The 3DMark results for 2 threads (1902), 4 threads (3621), and 8 threads (5372) show that the CPU scales well with thread count, but Assetto Corsa's workload is unlikely to stress all 12 threads.

The CPU's memory bandwidth of 83.2 GB/s is shared with the GPU's System Shared memory, which could create contention in memory-intensive scenes. However, the benchmark data does not provide a way to isolate this effect from the GPU's raw compute limits. The overall picture is that the Ryzen 5 7500F is a capable processor that is being severely undersold by the Intel Arc B370's performance tier. The combo rank of 2669 out of 2897 reflects this mismatch, with the CPU's 77th percentile ranking unable to compensate for the GPU's 5th percentile standing.