Barony

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Benchmark results for Barony with the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F and AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT show a clear hierarchy across the four tested presets. At 1080p, the Ultra preset delivers 134.8 FPS average, which remains comfortably above the 60 FPS threshold for smooth roguelike play. However, the measured data indicates that the High preset at 1080p achieves 189.6 FPS, which is a 40.6% improvement over Ultra while likely retaining most visual fidelity. The Medium preset at 1080p reaches 222.5 FPS, and the Low preset peaks at 301.1 FPS. For players prioritizing frame rate headroom, Medium at 1080p offers the best balance, as it sits 64.8% above the Ultra preset's performance while still maintaining a playable visual baseline.

At 1440p, the High preset produces 119.3 FPS, which is a substantial 38.2% improvement over the Ultra preset's 86.3 FPS. The Medium preset at 1440p reaches 140.2 FPS, representing a 62.4% advantage over Ultra. Given that the game is a roguelike where reaction time matters during dungeon encounters, the High preset at 1440p provides the most practical experience—it stays well above 100 FPS while avoiding the diminishing returns of dropping to Low, which yields 188.8 FPS. The Ultra preset at 4K drops to 43.1 FPS, which falls below the standard 60 FPS playability threshold, making it unsuitable for consistent gameplay at that resolution.

The data suggests the High preset is the optimal choice across all resolutions for this combination. At 1080p it delivers 189.6 FPS, at 1440p it maintains 119.3 FPS, and even at 4K it manages 64.8 FPS—the only preset at 4K that stays above the 60 FPS mark except for Low at 98.5 FPS. The scaling from High to Medium yields diminishing returns: at 1080p the gain is 32.9 FPS, at 1440p it is 20.9 FPS, and at 4K it is 10 FPS. These increments do not justify the visual quality loss for most users.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is built on the RDNA 3.0 architecture with a Navi 33 chip, manufactured on a 6 nm process at TSMC. It carries 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, providing 288.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The GPU's base clock runs at 1980 MHz, with a game clock of 2470 MHz and a boost clock of 2755 MHz. These specifications place the card at the 63rd percentile among all GPUs in the benchmark database, with an average benchmark score of 20146.

The GPU's memory configuration is particularly relevant for Barony's procedural generation. Roguelike environments often require streaming in new dungeon tiles and item data, and the 16 GB frame buffer ensures that texture data remains resident without stutter. The memory clock operates at 2250 MHz, translating to 18 Gbps effective, which supports the 288.0 GB/s bandwidth figure. This bandwidth appears sufficient for the game's demands, as evidenced by the measured frame rates scaling predictably with resolution changes rather than collapsing due to memory bottlenecks.

The GPU's nearest rivals in the database include the AMD Radeon RX 460 with a deltaPct of 0.3%, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 at -0.6%, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER at 1.9%, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile at -1.9%. These deltas are all within 2% of the RX 7600 XT's average score of 20146, indicating that the card performs in a tightly clustered band. The RX 7600 XT's shading units number 2048, with 128 texture mapping units and 64 raster operation units. Its pixel rate of 176.3 GPixel/s and texture rate of 352.6 GTexel/s provide the raw throughput needed for the particle effects and lighting in Barony's dungeon corridors.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals a consistent pattern of performance degradation as resolution increases from 1080p to 4K. At High settings, the average frame rate drops from 189.6 FPS at 1080p to 119.3 FPS at 1440p, a 37.1% reduction, and then to 64.8 FPS at 4K, a 65.8% reduction from the 1080p baseline. This scaling is steeper than linear, suggesting that the GPU is becoming increasingly pixel-bound at higher resolutions despite the game's relatively modest rendering requirements.

At Low settings, the drop is more pronounced in absolute terms: 301.1 FPS at 1080p falls to 188.8 FPS at 1440p (37.3% reduction) and then to 98.5 FPS at 4K (67.3% reduction from 1080p). The Medium preset follows a similar trajectory, with 222.5 FPS at 1080p, 140.2 FPS at 1440p, and 74.8 FPS at 4K. The Ultra preset shows the sharpest relative decline, going from 134.8 FPS at 1080p to 86.3 FPS at 1440p (36.0% reduction) and then to 43.1 FPS at 4K (68.0% reduction from 1080p).

These reductions indicate that the limiting component shifts with resolution. At 1080p, the CPU's single-thread performance—measured at 974 in 3dmark single-thread and 3218 in Cinebench R23 single-core—likely caps frame rates, as the GPU has headroom. At 4K, the GPU's raw fill rate and shading capacity become the binding constraint, evidenced by the consistent percentage drops across all presets. The fact that the 4K-to-1080p ratio remains roughly constant (around 34-35% of the 1080p value across presets) points to a GPU-bound scenario where the RX 7600 XT's 22.57 TFLOPS FP32 throughput is the determining factor.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F and AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT ranks 1112 out of 1702 tested combos in Barony, placing it in the 34.6th percentile of all configurations. This ranking reflects the fact that while both components are competent mid-range parts, the game's roguelike nature does not heavily stress either the CPU's multi-threading or the GPU's advanced features. The Ryzen 5 7500F sits at the 82nd percentile among all CPUs, and the RX 7600 XT at the 63rd percentile among GPUs, so the combo ranking is lower than either component's individual percentile—a sign that Barony's workload does not fully utilize the strengths of this pairing.

The combo's position in the lower third of tested configurations is notable given the hardware's capabilities. The CPU's 6 cores and 12 threads with a boost clock of 5.00 GHz provide solid single-threaded performance, which should benefit a game that likely has a primary simulation thread. However, the GPU's mid-range position in the database—despite its 16 GB memory—means that higher-end combinations with beefier graphics cards will naturally outrank it at higher resolutions. The measured data confirms this: at 1080p High, the combo achieves 189.6 FPS, which is respectable but not class-leading.

Compared to the CPU's nearest rivals, the Ryzen 5 7500F's average benchmark score of 24993 is within 0.4% of the Intel Core i7-11850H (24974), the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X (25057), the AMD Ryzen 5 8400F (25064), and the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX (24897). This tight clustering suggests that the combo's ranking is not heavily influenced by CPU choice among these alternatives. The GPU's nearest rivals similarly show minimal separation, with the RX 7600 XT's average score of 20146 being within 1.9% of the RTX 2060 SUPER's 19774 and 1.9% below the RTX 3070 Mobile's 20534.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 7500F is a 6-core, 12-thread processor from the 7000 series, built on the Zen 4 architecture with the Raphael codename. It operates on a 5 nm process at TSMC, with a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 5.00 GHz. The CPU's cache hierarchy includes 64 KB of L1 per core, 1 MB of L2 per core, and a shared 32 MB L3 cache. This configuration delivers a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 22799 and a single-core score of 3218, positioning it solidly in the mid-range desktop segment.

In Barony, the CPU's role is likely centered on game logic, pathfinding, and procedural generation. The measured frame rates at 1080p Low (301.1 FPS) approach the practical ceiling for many displays, suggesting that the CPU's single-thread performance—measured at 974 in 3dmark single-thread and 3841 in Passmark single-thread—is sufficient to avoid becoming a bottleneck at lower resolutions. The boost clock of 5.00 GHz is particularly relevant here, as roguelike games often have a primary simulation thread that benefits from high clock speeds.

The CPU's 12 threads, with a 3dmark 16-thread score of 6376 and a 3dmark max-threads score of 6379, indicate that multi-threaded scaling is effective but not exceptional—the game likely does not utilize all available threads. The Passmark multi-thread score of 26825 further confirms this. The CPU's memory bandwidth of 83.2 GB/s over dual-channel DDR5 provides adequate data throughput for the game's assets, though the GPU's 288.0 GB/s bandwidth is substantially higher, which is expected given the different roles.

The CPU's TDP of 65 W and transistor count of 6,570 million on a 71 mm² die make it an efficient part, but these characteristics do not directly translate to in-game performance. What matters is the observed behavior: at 1080p, the FPS differences between Low (301.1), Medium (222.5), High (189.6), and Ultra (134.8) show that the CPU can feed the GPU at high rates, but the GPU's capabilities become the differentiating factor as settings increase. The combo's rank of 1112 out of 1702 suggests that in the broader context of all tested hardware, this CPU-GPU pairing is adequate for Barony but not optimized for maximum frame rates at high settings.