Barony

FAQ

Q: What is the launch MSRP of the AMD Ryzen 5 8400F?

A: The AMD Ryzen 5 8400F has a launch MSRP of $170. It is a 6-core, 12-thread desktop processor built on the Zen 4 (Phoenix) architecture using a 4 nm process at TSMC.

Q: How does the Ryzen 5 8400F compare to its nearest rival, the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X?

A: The Ryzen 5 8400F has an average benchmark score of 25064, which is essentially identical to the Ryzen 7 2700X's 25057, showing a deltaPct of 0%. This places the 8400F in the 82nd percentile among all CPUs.

Q: What is the RTX 5080's position relative to the Intel Arc A580 in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The RTX 5080 scores 59188 on average, which is 2.5% higher than the Intel Arc A580's 57756. The RTX 5080 sits in the 89th percentile among all GPUs, while the Arc A580 is listed as a nearest rival with a deltaPct of 2.5%.

Q: What frame rates can be expected at 1920x1080 with Low settings?

A: At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the measured average FPS is 636.5. This is the highest frame rate recorded in the dataset for this game and hardware combination.

Q: How much VRAM does the RTX 5080 have, and what memory type is used?

A: The RTX 5080 comes with 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus, delivering a bandwidth of 960.0 GB/s. The memory clock is listed as 1875 MHz with 30 Gbps effective speed.

Q: Does the Ryzen 5 8400F support DDR5 memory?

A: Yes, the Ryzen 5 8400F supports DDR5 memory with a dual-channel memory bus, providing a memory bandwidth of 83.2 GB/s. It uses the AMD Socket AM5 platform.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data for Barony shows a clear progression of average FPS across four settings presets at each resolution. At 1920x1080, the Low preset delivers 636.5 FPS, Medium drops to 474 FPS, High reaches 403.5 FPS, and Ultra falls to 290.1 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra is substantial, but even the lowest measured value remains far above typical display refresh rates.

At 2560x1440, the pattern continues: Low produces 404 FPS, Medium 299.6 FPS, High 258.7 FPS, and Ultra 182 FPS. The drop from Low to Medium is about 104 FPS, while the drop from High to Ultra is roughly 77 FPS. At 3840x2160, Low yields 208.5 FPS, Medium 159 FPS, High 132.5 FPS, and Ultra 95.3 FPS. The Ultra preset at 4K is the only measured scenario that falls below the 100 FPS mark.

The data indicates that the High preset offers the most balanced experience across all resolutions. At 4K, High maintains 132.5 FPS, which is 37.2 FPS higher than Ultra but only 26.5 FPS lower than Medium. At 1440p, High's 258.7 FPS is 59.3 FPS below Medium but 76.7 FPS above Ultra. At 1080p, High's 403.5 FPS is 70.5 FPS below Medium but 113.4 FPS above Ultra. Given that Barony is a roguelike where responsiveness matters, High provides a strong compromise between visual fidelity and frame rate headroom.

For users with high-refresh displays, Medium at 1440p or 1080p offers the best combination of smoothness and quality. The 299.6 FPS at 1440p Medium and 474 FPS at 1080p Medium leave ample margin for scene complexity. Conversely, the Ultra preset's 95.3 FPS at 4K is the only result that approaches the 60 FPS threshold, suggesting that Ultra is only advisable when visual quality takes priority over raw frame rate.

CPU Role

The Ryzen 5 8400F is a 6-core, 12-thread processor with a base clock of 4.20 GHz and a boost clock of 4.70 GHz. Its Zen 4 architecture, fabricated on a 4 nm process, delivers strong single-thread performance as evidenced by a PassMark single-thread score of 3684 and a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2943. These single-thread results are particularly relevant for Barony, a roguelike that typically relies on a single primary game logic thread.

In multi-threaded workloads, the 8400F scores 20851 in Cinebench R23 multicore and 24530 in PassMark multithread. The CPU's 3DMark scores show scaling from 951 in single-thread to 6165 in max threads, indicating reasonable multi-threading efficiency across its 12 threads. The 16 MB shared L3 cache and 1 MB L2 per core help maintain low-latency access to game data.

The CPU's percentile ranking at 82 places it above the median processor, and its average benchmark score of 25064 is statistically tied with the Ryzen 7 2700X (deltaPct 0%). The 8400F also sits within 0.3% of the Ryzen 5 7500F, showing that this chip is competitive within its immediate peer group. For Barony specifically, the high single-thread performance ensures that game logic, AI pathfinding, and procedural generation—all typical roguelike bottlenecks—are handled efficiently.

The 65 W TDP and 4 nm process node indicate that thermal headroom is not a limiting factor for sustained performance. With 12 threads available, background tasks and streaming overhead can be absorbed without significantly impacting frame delivery. The CPU's 82nd percentile ranking suggests it outperforms roughly 18% of all tested processors, making it a capable partner for the RTX 5080 in CPU-bound scenarios.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 5 8400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 ranks 85th out of 1702 tested combos in Barony. This places the pairing in the top 5% of all configurations measured, a strong showing for a mid-range CPU paired with a high-end GPU. The rank of 85 out of 1702 corresponds to a percentile of approximately 95, meaning this combo outperforms 95% of all tested hardware pairings in this game.

This ranking is notable given the CPU's position at the 82nd percentile among all CPUs and the GPU's position at the 89th percentile among all GPUs. The combo ranks higher than either component's individual percentile would suggest, indicating that Barony is not heavily CPU-limited in most scenarios. The 8400F's strong single-thread performance appears sufficient to feed the RTX 5080's rendering pipeline effectively at the resolutions tested.

The fact that this combo achieves an 85th rank out of 1702 suggests that many higher-tier CPUs paired with the same GPU may not yield significantly better results in Barony. The roguelike genre's relatively simple graphics pipeline means that the GPU's raw throughput—56.28 TFLOPS FP32 and 879.3 GTexel/s texture rate—can be fully utilized without CPU bottlenecks. The 16 GB of GDDR7 VRAM also ensures that texture memory is never a limiting factor at any tested resolution.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is built on the Blackwell 2.0 architecture using a 5 nm process at TSMC, with 45,600 million transistors on a 378 mm² die. Its 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus provides 960.0 GB/s of bandwidth, which is more than sufficient for Barony's texture and geometry data at all resolutions. The GPU's 10752 shading units, 336 TMUs, and 112 ROPs deliver a pixel rate of 293.1 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 879.3 GTexel/s.

The RTX 5080's boost clock of 2617 MHz and base clock of 2295 MHz contribute to its 56.28 TFLOPS FP32 performance. In synthetic benchmarks, the GPU scores 36565 in PassMark G3D and 8637 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, placing it in the 89th percentile among all GPUs. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Arc A580 (deltaPct 2.5%) and the AMD Radeon Pro W5500X (deltaPct 2.6%), though the RTX 5080 outperforms both by a small margin.

For Barony, the GPU's role is primarily to handle rendering at high frame rates. The measured FPS data shows that the RTX 5080 scales well with resolution: at High settings, frame rates drop from 403.5 FPS at 1080p to 258.7 FPS at 1440p to 132.5 FPS at 4K. This scaling pattern indicates that the GPU is the primary limiter at higher resolutions, while at 1080p, the CPU's single-thread performance becomes more relevant. The 16 GB VRAM capacity ensures that even Ultra settings at 4K do not cause memory pressure, as evidenced by the playable 95.3 FPS result.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the RTX 5080 with the Ryzen 5 8400F produces the following average FPS across settings: Low 636.5, Medium 474, High 403.5, and Ultra 290.1. The progression from Low to Ultra shows a 54.4% reduction in frame rate, with the largest single-step drop occurring from Medium to High at 70.5 FPS. The difference between High and Ultra is 113.4 FPS, indicating that Ultra settings impose a significant rendering cost.

At 2560x1440, the measured averages are Low 404, Medium 299.6, High 258.7, and Ultra 182. The reduction from 1080p to 1440p at each setting is: Low -232.5 FPS, Medium -174.4 FPS, High -144.8 FPS, and Ultra -108.1 FPS. These reductions show that the GPU's rendering load scales predictably with pixel count, with the absolute FPS loss being largest at Low settings where the GPU is not yet saturated.

At 3840x2160, the averages are Low 208.5, Medium 159, High 132.5, and Ultra 95.3. The transition from 1440p to 4K reduces frame rates by roughly half at each settings tier: Low -195.5 FPS, Medium -140.6 FPS, High -126.2 FPS, and Ultra -86.7 FPS. At 4K Ultra, the 95.3 FPS result is the only sub-100 FPS measurement in the entire dataset, but it remains comfortably above 60 FPS. The data shows that this hardware combination can deliver smooth gameplay at any resolution and settings preset, with the only caveat being that 4K Ultra sacrifices over 40% of the frame rate compared to 4K High.