Barony

# How This Combo Ranks

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D sits at rank 35 out of 2,935 tested combos in Barony, placing it comfortably inside the top 1.2% of all configurations measured. That rank reflects the entire system's capability in this specific roguelike title, not just the raw processing power of either component. The CPU's percentile ranking of 81 among all tested processors indicates it outperforms the majority of CPUs in general benchmarks, while the GPU's percentile of 92 places it near the top of the graphics card hierarchy. When combined, these two components produce frame rates that are exceptional for a game that is already well-optimized for high refresh rates.

The gap between this combo and the rest of the field is substantial. The CPU's average benchmark score of 29,879 puts it nearly neck-and-neck with the AMD Ryzen 7 7840H (29,868, a 0% difference) and the AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS (29,955, a -0.3% difference), meaning the 5800XT is effectively trading blows with laptop-class chips from newer generations. The AMD Ryzen 5 9600X trails by just 0.6% with a score of 29,713, so the 5800XT's desktop advantage is minimal in synthetic workloads. For the GPU, the RTX 5090 D's average benchmark score of 77,712 puts it 1.1% ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 6650M XT (76,904) but 1.6% behind the AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT (78,940) and 2.1-2.4% behind the NVIDIA Tesla P100 variants (79,396 and 79,605). These rival deltas are small enough that real-world gaming performance will depend heavily on driver optimization and game-specific scaling rather than raw compute potential.

What matters for Barony specifically is that this combo delivers playable-to-extreme frame rates across every resolution and settings preset tested. The data shows a system that never dips below 109 FPS average in any configuration, which means even the most demanding Ultra settings at 4K remain well above the refresh rate of standard 60Hz displays and approach the territory where high-refresh monitors become necessary. The rank of 35 suggests that only a handful of more exotic combinations—likely featuring newer flagship CPUs or more specialized hardware—manage to exceed this pairing's performance in this particular game.

# Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS rows provide a clear picture of how settings impact performance in Barony with this hardware. At 1080p, the jump from Low (658 FPS average) to High (462 FPS average) costs roughly 30% of the frame rate, while the jump from High to Ultra (331 FPS average) costs another 28%. The Medium preset sits between these extremes at 538 FPS average, making it the balanced choice for users who want a significant visual upgrade over Low without sacrificing the massive headroom that this system provides. Given that even Ultra at 1080p maintains 331 FPS, there is no scenario where this combo becomes unplayable at this resolution—the limiting factor becomes the display's refresh rate rather than the hardware.

Moving to 1440p, the pattern repeats with slightly lower absolute numbers. Low delivers 457 FPS average, Medium drops to 340 FPS, High settles at 292 FPS, and Ultra still manages 209 FPS. The drop from High to Ultra at 1440p (292 to 209 FPS) represents a 28% reduction, which is a meaningful cost for the visual fidelity gain. For competitive play or fast-paced roguelike action, High at 1440p is the sweet spot—it keeps the average above 290 FPS while retaining most of the graphical polish. Medium is the next logical step if you want extra visual features and can tolerate a drop to 340 FPS, which is still far beyond what most displays can show.

At 4K, the settings scaling becomes more pronounced. Low delivers 239 FPS, Medium drops to 178 FPS, High falls to 152 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 109 FPS. The difference between High and Ultra at 4K is particularly stark: 152 to 109 FPS represents a 28% loss, pushing the frame rate below the 120Hz threshold that many modern displays target. For a game like Barony where reaction time matters, High at 4K is the recommended preset—it maintains a 152 FPS average while still looking substantially better than Medium. If you have a 144Hz or higher refresh 4K display, you will need to accept Medium (178 FPS) or High (152 FPS) as your realistic options, since Ultra falls below the 120 FPS mark.

The best experience per the measured rows is High settings at 1440p or 4K, depending on your display resolution. At 1440p High, you get 292 FPS average with no min FPS recorded, indicating consistent frame delivery. At 4K High, the 152 FPS average is a better balance of visual quality and speed for a roguelike where clarity matters but frame pacing also affects gameplay feel. Ultra is technically playable at every resolution, but the frame rate cost is steep—particularly at 4K where it nearly halves the Low preset's output.

# Resolution Scaling

The FPS data reveals how this combo scales across resolutions, which tells a clear story about which component is doing the heavy lifting. Moving from 1080p to 1440p at High settings, the average frame rate drops from 462 to 292 FPS—a 37% reduction. From 1440p to 4K at High, the drop is from 292 to 152 FPS, another 48% reduction. The cumulative effect from 1080p to 4K at High is a 67% loss in average FPS, which is a substantial penalty that indicates the GPU is becoming the limiting factor as pixel count rises.

At Low settings, the scaling is even more aggressive. 1080p Low delivers 658 FPS, 1440p Low drops to 457 FPS (a 31% reduction), and 4K Low falls to 239 FPS (a 48% reduction from 1440p). The total drop from 1080p to 4K at Low is 64%, which is remarkably close to the High settings scaling. This consistency suggests that the CPU is not the bottleneck even at low settings—if the Ryzen 7 5800XT were struggling to feed the GPU, we would expect the percentage drops to shrink as settings lower, since the GPU would have more headroom to expose CPU limitations. Instead, the scaling remains proportional across all settings presets, indicating that the GPU's rendering workload is the dominant factor in frame rate changes as resolution increases.

The Medium preset shows the same pattern: 538 FPS at 1080p, 340 FPS at 1440p (a 37% drop), and 178 FPS at 4K (a 48% drop from 1440p). The Ultra preset follows suit with 331 FPS at 1080p, 209 FPS at 1440p (a 37% drop), and 109 FPS at 4K (a 48% drop). The uniformity of these percentage reductions—roughly 37% for the 1080p to 1440p step and 48% for the 1440p to 4K step—across all four settings presets points to a GPU-bound scenario at every resolution. The RTX 5090 D's 32 GB of GDDR7 memory and 512-bit bus provide 1.79 TB/s of bandwidth, which is more than enough to feed the rendering pipeline even at 4K Ultra, so the frame rate declines are attributable to pixel shader workloads rather than memory starvation.

The limiting component at all resolutions is the GPU, not the CPU. The Ryzen 7 5800XT's 8-core, 16-thread configuration with a 4.80 GHz boost clock and 32 MB of shared L3 cache is sufficient to keep the RTX 5090 D fed even at 1080p Low where the GPU is generating 658 FPS. If the CPU were the bottleneck, we would expect the 1080p to 1440p scaling to be shallower than the 1440p to 4K scaling, since lower resolutions put more relative strain on the CPU. The fact that the scaling ratios are nearly identical across all settings confirms that the GPU is the primary constraint throughout.

# Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the RTX 5090 D and Ryzen 7 5800XT combination produces extraordinary frame rates across all settings. Low settings yield an average of 658 FPS, which is the highest measured value in the entire dataset. Medium settings reduce the average to 538 FPS with a recorded minimum of 458 FPS and maximum of 619 FPS, indicating some frame-time variance but still far above any practical refresh rate. High settings deliver 462 FPS average, while Ultra settings drop to 331 FPS average. Even the lowest of these numbers—331 FPS at Ultra—is more than five times the standard 60Hz refresh rate and more than double the typical 144Hz gaming monitor's capability.

At 2560x1440, the performance remains exceptional. Low settings average 457 FPS, which is still above the 1080p Ultra result. Medium settings produce 340 FPS average with a minimum of 289 FPS and maximum of 391 FPS, showing that even the worst-case frame times stay above 280 FPS. High settings average 292 FPS, and Ultra settings deliver 209 FPS. The 1440p Ultra result of 209 FPS is particularly noteworthy because it means this combo can drive a 144Hz 1440p display at maximum settings with significant headroom to spare.

At 3840x2160, the performance drops to levels that are still impressive for 4K gaming. Low settings deliver 239 FPS average, which is more than enough for 144Hz 4K displays. Medium settings produce 178 FPS average with a minimum of 151 FPS and maximum of 204 FPS, meaning the frame rate never dips below 150 FPS even in demanding scenes. High settings average 152 FPS, which remains comfortably above 120Hz. Ultra settings at 4K deliver 109 FPS average, which is the only measured configuration that falls below the 120 FPS threshold—but it still clears 100 FPS, making it playable on high-refresh displays if you prioritize visual fidelity over raw speed.

The Medium preset is the only one with recorded minimum and maximum FPS values across all resolutions, which provides insight into frame pacing stability. At 1080p Medium, the minimum of 458 FPS and maximum of 619 FPS show a spread of 161 FPS, or roughly 30% of the average. At 1440p Medium, the spread narrows to 102 FPS (289 to 391), and at 4K Medium, it tightens to 53 FPS (151 to 204). This pattern suggests that frame pacing becomes more consistent as resolution increases, likely because the GPU workload dominates and reduces the impact of CPU-side frame time spikes that occur at lower resolutions where the CPU is comparatively less taxed.

# GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D is the dominant component in this pairing, and the measured FPS data confirms its capabilities in Barony. The GPU's 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus provides 1.79 TB/s of bandwidth, which is far more than this roguelike requires even at 4K Ultra. The memory clock runs at 1750 MHz (28 Gbps effective), and the boost clock reaches 2407 MHz from a base of 2017 MHz. These specifications support the GPU's 92nd percentile ranking among all tested GPUs, and the benchmark scores—including 44,065 in Passmark G3D and 28,396 in Passmark GPU Compute—position it well above the average graphics card.

The GPU's role in Barony is primarily to handle the game's rendering workload, which scales predictably with resolution and settings. The 32 GB memory capacity is effectively overkill for this title, as Barony is a roguelike with relatively modest texture and geometry demands compared to modern AAA releases. However, the memory bandwidth of 1.79 TB/s ensures that even at 4K Ultra with the highest settings, the GPU never stalls waiting for texture data. The 21,760 shading units, 680 texture mapping units, and 176 render output units provide the raw compute throughput necessary to maintain the high frame rates observed across all configurations.

The RTX 5090 D's architecture—Blackwell 2.0 on a 5 nm process with 92,200 million transistors—delivers 104.8 TFLOPS of FP32 performance, which is the kind of raw compute that pushes Barony's frame rates into the hundreds at lower resolutions. The 170 ray tracing cores and 680 tensor cores are less relevant for this particular game, as Barony's visual style does not heavily utilize ray tracing or AI-enhanced features. The pixel rate of 423.6 GPixel/s and texture rate of 1,636.8 GTexel/s are more indicative of the GPU's rasterization capabilities, which directly translate to the measured FPS numbers.

The comparison to nearest rivals shows that the RTX 5090 D's average benchmark score of 77,712 is within 2.4% of the Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB (79,605) and 1.1% ahead of the RX 6650M XT (76,904). These small differences in synthetic benchmarks do not fully capture the gaming performance gap, as the RTX 5090 D's driver support and feature set are optimized for DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. The GPU's 575 W TDP and dual-slot design with a 16-pin power connector indicate that this is a high-power component that requires robust cooling and a capable power supply, but the benchmark data shows that the power budget translates directly into performance.

# FAQ

Q: What is this combo's rank among all tested combinations in Barony?

A: The AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D ranks 35 out of 2,935 tested combos, placing it in the top 1.2% of all configurations.

Q: Can this system run Barony at 4K Ultra settings smoothly?

A: Yes, the measured data shows 109 FPS average at 3840x2160 Ultra settings. This is above 100 FPS and playable, though it is the only configuration that drops below the 120 FPS threshold.

Q: How does the RTX 5090 D compare to its closest GPU rivals?

A: The RTX 5090 D's average benchmark score of 77,712 is 1.1% ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 665M XT (76,904) but 1.6% behind the AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT (78,940) and 2.1-2.4% behind the NVIDIA Tesla P100 variants (79,396 and 79,605).

Q: Is the Ryzen 7 5800XT a bottleneck for the RTX 5090 D in this game?

A: No. The resolution scaling data shows consistent percentage drops across all settings presets, indicating the GPU is the limiting factor at every resolution. The CPU's 16 threads and 4.80 GHz boost clock keep up even at 1080p Low where the GPU generates 658 FPS.

Q: What is the best settings preset for a 144Hz 4K display?

A: High settings at 3840x2160 delivers 152 FPS average, which exceeds 144Hz. Medium settings at 4K delivers 178 FPS average with a minimum of 151 FPS, providing more headroom if you want to ensure frame rates never dip below 150 FPS.

Q: How much performance is lost when moving from 1080p to 4K?

A: At High settings, the average FPS drops from 462 at 1080p to 152 at 4K, a 67% reduction. At Low settings, the drop is from 658 to 239 FPS, a 64% reduction, and at Ultra settings, from 331 to 109 FPS, a 67% reduction.