Barony

# Barony with AMD Ryzen 7 5800X + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 produces a fascinating dataset in Barony, a roguelike that clearly scales well with both CPU and GPU resources. The measured frames-per-second numbers across three resolutions and four quality presets reveal a system that is rarely stressed to its limits, yet the scaling patterns show distinct bottlenecks depending on the workload. This combination ranks 334th out of 1,702 tested combos in this game, placing it in the top 20% of all systems evaluated, which suggests strong overall performance despite the game's modest graphical demands. The data shows a CPU that sits at the 84th percentile among all processors, while the GPU holds the 83rd percentile among all graphics cards, making this a balanced pairing where neither component dramatically outclasses the other in synthetic benchmarks.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS drop from 1080p to 4K is dramatic but uneven across settings, revealing how Barony's rendering load shifts between components. At Low settings, the system delivers 506.7 FPS at 1920x1080, which falls to 322.8 FPS at 2560x1440—a 36.3% reduction—and then to 170.1 FPS at 3840x2160, representing a 47.3% further drop from 1440p. This steep decline at Low settings suggests the GPU becomes increasingly dominant as pixel count rises, since the CPU has ample headroom at these frame rates. In contrast, at Ultra settings, the progression from 234.4 FPS at 1080p to 147.1 FPS at 1440p (a 37.2% drop) and then to 74.4 FPS at 4K (a 49.4% drop) shows a similar pattern but with lower absolute values, indicating that the added visual complexity compounds the resolution burden. The High preset follows this trend: 324.8 FPS at 1080p, 202.5 FPS at 1440p (a 37.7% drop), and 106 FPS at 4K (a 47.7% drop from 1440p). Medium settings show 377.1 FPS at 1080p, 240.9 FPS at 1440p (a 36.1% drop), and 125.7 FPS at 4K (a 47.8% drop). The consistency of these percentage drops across all presets—roughly 36-38% from 1080p to 1440p and 47-49% from 1440p to 4K—indicates that resolution scaling in Barony is primarily GPU-limited, with the RTX 5070's 12 GB of GDDR7 memory and 672.0 GB/s bandwidth being the likely constraint at higher pixel counts. The 4K Ultra result of 74.4 FPS is the only sub-100 FPS figure in the entire dataset, suggesting that this is the point where the GPU's compute resources—30.87 TFLOPS FP32 and 201.0 GPixel/s pixel rate—become the definitive limiting factor.

FAQ

Q: Can this system run Barony at 4K with playable frame rates?

A: Yes, the data shows 106 FPS at 4K High and 125.7 FPS at 4K Medium, both well above typical playability thresholds. Even 4K Ultra achieves 74.4 FPS, which remains playable for most users, though it is the lowest measured result in the entire dataset.

Q: How does the RTX 5070 compare to its nearest GPU rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The RTX 5070's average benchmark score of 41,687 is 0.6% ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (41,441), 0.2% ahead of the AMD Radeon Pro 5300 (41,610), and 0.5% behind the NVIDIA Tesla M40 (41,897). It also trails the AMD Radeon Pro 580X (41,991) by 0.7%.

Q: What is the best resolution to use with a 144Hz monitor?

A: At 2560x1440, all four presets exceed 144 FPS, with Low at 322.8 FPS, Medium at 240.9 FPS, High at 202.5 FPS, and Ultra at 147.1 FPS. This makes 1440p the ideal resolution for high-refresh-rate displays, as even Ultra barely dips below the 144 FPS threshold.

Q: How does the Ryzen 7 5800X perform relative to its closest CPU competitors?

A: The Ryzen 7 5800X has an average benchmark score of 27,606, which is 0.3% ahead of the AMD Ryzen 7 5800 (27,535), 0.4% ahead of the AMD Ryzen 5 8500GE (27,708, actually 0.4% behind), and 0.8% ahead of the Intel Core i5-12600KF (27,827, actually 0.8% behind). It also trails the Intel Core i7-13700H (27,716) by 0.4%.

Q: Is the 12 GB VRAM sufficient for Barony at maximum settings?

A: Yes, the 4K Ultra result of 74.4 FPS confirms that 12 GB of GDDR7 memory is adequate for this game. The RTX 5070's 192-bit memory bus and 672.0 GB/s bandwidth provide enough throughput for even the most demanding preset at the highest resolution tested.

Q: What frame rate can users expect at 1080p with all settings maxed?

A: The measured data shows 234.4 FPS at 1920x1080 with Ultra settings. This is more than sufficient for any current display technology and indicates the system is heavily GPU-bound at this resolution, since the CPU has significant headroom.

Settings Recommendations

The optimal settings depend on the target resolution and refresh rate, but the data strongly favors High settings for most use cases. At 1920x1080, High delivers 324.8 FPS compared to Ultra's 234.4 FPS—a 38.6% performance gain with only a one-step reduction in visual quality. The jump from Medium to High costs 52.3 FPS at 1080p (from 377.1 to 324.8), but the visual difference between these presets is likely more noticeable than the difference between High and Ultra. At 2560x1440, High achieves 202.5 FPS, which remains above the 144 Hz refresh rate common on modern monitors, while Ultra drops to 147.1 FPS—still above 144 FPS but with less margin. For 4K displays, High is the clear recommendation, as it delivers 106 FPS versus Ultra's 74.4 FPS, a 42.5% improvement that makes the difference between a smooth experience and one that may dip below 60 FPS during intense scenes. Low settings provide diminishing returns: at 1080p, Low reaches 506.7 FPS versus 377.1 FPS at Medium, but this 34.4% gain comes at the cost of significant visual degradation in a game where readability of the environment matters. The data suggests that High is the sweet spot across all resolutions, offering the best balance between the 106 FPS at 4K and the 324.8 FPS at 1080p, with no preset showing anomalous behavior that would warrant avoiding it.

How This Combo Ranks

This system's rank of 334 out of 1,702 tested combos places it in the 80.4th percentile of all configurations tested in Barony. This is a strong showing that aligns with the component-level percentiles: the Ryzen 7 5800X sits at the 84th percentile among CPUs, and the RTX 5070 at the 83rd percentile among GPUs. The slight discrepancy between the CPU and GPU percentiles and the combo rank suggests that Barony's performance is not purely determined by raw component strength, but rather by how well these two parts work together. The combination's rank is lower than either component's individual percentile, which could indicate that the game is more sensitive to one component's characteristics—likely the GPU's 12 GB memory capacity or the CPU's 8-core, 16-thread configuration—than to overall benchmark scores. The measured FPS data supports this, as the GPU appears to be the primary bottleneck at higher resolutions and settings, while the CPU has ample headroom even at 1080p Low where it delivers 506.7 FPS. Compared to other combos in the database, this system is clearly in the upper tier, though not at the very top, which is consistent with the 5800X being a previous-generation CPU (released November 2020) paired with a current-generation GPU (released March 2025).

GPU Role

The RTX 5070's 12 GB of GDDR7 memory operates at 1750 MHz with a 28 Gbps effective data rate, providing 672.0 GB/s of bandwidth across a 192-bit bus. In Barony, this memory configuration proves sufficient even at 4K Ultra, where the game demands the most texture and geometry data. The GPU's 6,144 shading units, 192 texture mapping units, and 80 render output units drive the pixel rate of 201.0 GPixel/s and texture rate of 482.3 GTexel/s, which directly translate to the frame rates observed. The clock speeds of 2325 MHz base and 2512 MHz boost are relatively modest for a 250 W TDP card, yet the Blackwell 2.0 architecture's efficiency on a 5 nm TSMC process allows it to deliver substantial performance. The data shows that the GPU becomes the limiting factor at 4K, where frame rates drop by roughly half compared to 1440p across all settings. For instance, 4K Low at 170.1 FPS is only 52.7% of the 1440p Low figure of 322.8 FPS, indicating that the GPU's fill rate and memory bandwidth are being saturated at the higher resolution. The 48 ray tracing cores and 192 tensor cores are present but appear to have minimal impact on this game's performance, as Barony is not a ray tracing title. The GPU's 30.87 TFLOPS FP32 performance provides ample compute for the game's rendering demands, with the PassMark G3D score of 29,137 and 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 5,077 placing it in the 83rd percentile of all GPUs.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system delivers its highest frame rates across all presets. Low settings produce 506.7 FPS, which is the single fastest result in the entire dataset. Medium settings yield 377.1 FPS, representing a 25.6% reduction from Low. High settings reach 324.8 FPS, a 13.9% drop from Medium. Ultra settings achieve 234.4 FPS, which is 27.8% lower than High. The progression from Low to Ultra at 1080p shows a total performance cost of 53.7% when enabling all visual features. At 2560x1440, the frame rates remain high but show the expected resolution penalty. Low produces 322.8 FPS, Medium reaches 240.9 FPS, High delivers 202.5 FPS, and Ultra achieves 147.1 FPS. The percentage drops from Low to Ultra at 1440p are similar to 1080p, with Ultra being 54.4% lower than Low. At 3840x2160, the system's performance becomes more moderate. Low delivers 170.1 FPS, Medium reaches 125.7 FPS, High produces 106 FPS, and Ultra achieves 74.4 FPS. The 4K Ultra figure is the only measurement below 100 FPS in the entire dataset, and it represents a 68.3% reduction from the 1080p Low maximum. The consistency of the settings scaling across resolutions—with Ultra typically being 50-55% slower than Low—indicates that Barony's quality presets have a uniform impact on rendering load regardless of pixel count. The 1440p High result of 202.5 FPS and 4K High result of 106 FPS are particularly notable, as they demonstrate that the system can maintain high frame rates with substantial visual quality at any resolution.

CPU Role

The Ryzen 7 5800X's 8 cores and 16 threads, based on the Zen 3 architecture and codenamed Vermeer, operate between 3.80 GHz base and 4.70 GHz boost clocks. This configuration provides strong single-threaded performance, as evidenced by the 3DMark single-thread score of 943 and Cinebench R23 single-core score of 3,327. In Barony, a roguelike that may not fully utilize all 16 threads, the CPU's strong single-core performance is crucial for maintaining high frame rates at lower resolutions. The data shows that at 1080p Low, the system reaches 506.7 FPS, which is likely near the CPU's maximum frame delivery capability for this game. The 32 MB of L3 cache and 51.2 GB/s memory bandwidth provide sufficient data throughput for game logic and entity management, which are typically CPU-bound in roguelike titles. The 3DMark multi-threaded scores—7,586 for 16 threads and 7,578 for max threads—indicate that the CPU scales well with additional threads, but Barony's performance at higher resolutions is clearly GPU-limited, as the frame rates drop consistently with increased pixel count regardless of settings. The CPU's 84th percentile ranking among all processors, with an average benchmark score of 27,606, places it slightly ahead of the AMD Ryzen 7 5800 (27,535, 0.3% faster) and behind the Intel Core i7-13700H (27,716, 0.4% slower). The 105 W TDP and 7 nm process node contribute to sustained boost clocks during extended gaming sessions, which is evident in the consistent frame rates across all measured scenarios. The CPU's 20 PCIe Gen 4 lanes provide adequate bandwidth for the RTX 5070's PCIe 5.0 x16 interface, ensuring no communication bottleneck between the two components.