Evolve

Evolve, a 2015 FPS title, shows a wide performance spread across settings and resolutions for the Intel Core i5-13400F paired with the Intel Arc B570. The measured data indicates that the optimal experience depends heavily on the target display resolution, with the combination delivering playable frame rates at 1080p and 1440p but struggling at 4K. The CPU's 10 cores and 16 threads, running at a base clock of 2.50 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz, provide a solid foundation, while the GPU's 10 GB of GDDR6 memory and 380.0 GB/s bandwidth become the primary constraint at higher resolutions.

Settings Recommendations

The benchmark data reveals a clear hierarchy in performance across the four tested settings presets. At 1920x1080, the Low preset delivers an average of 137 FPS, which is the highest frame rate recorded for this combination. The Medium preset also provides a smooth experience with an average of 106 FPS and a minimum of 90 FPS, suggesting it will maintain fluid gameplay even in demanding scenes. The High preset drops to 83 FPS, which remains respectable, while Ultra falls to 58 FPS, which is still playable but demonstrates a significant cost for the highest visual fidelity.

For 2560x1440, the Low preset again leads with 92 FPS, making it the recommended choice for competitive play or high refresh rate monitors. The Medium preset offers a balanced 71 FPS with a minimum of 60 FPS, which is sufficient for most players. High and Ultra produce averages of 56 FPS and 39 FPS respectively, with the latter dipping into territory that may feel less responsive for a fast-paced FPS title.

At 3840x2160, all settings struggle to maintain high frame rates. The Low preset is the only one that exceeds 50 FPS, averaging 52 FPS, while Medium and High average 40 FPS and 32 FPS respectively. The Ultra preset is effectively unplayable at 22 FPS. Given this data, the best experience per the measured rows is achieved by selecting the Medium preset at 1080p or 1440p, as it provides a strong balance between visual quality and frame rate, with the 90 FPS minimum at 1080p ensuring consistency. For 1440p, Medium is the optimal choice to maintain a 60 FPS minimum, while at 4K, Low is the only viable option for acceptable performance.

FAQ

Q: What is the highest average frame rate achievable with this CPU and GPU combination in Evolve?

A: The highest measured average frame rate is 137 FPS, achieved at 1920x1080 resolution with the Low settings preset.

Q: Is the Intel Core i5-13400F a bottleneck for the Intel Arc B570 in this game?

A: The data indicates that the GPU becomes the limiting factor as resolution increases. At 1080p Low, the CPU's 10 cores and 16 threads are sufficient to drive the GPU to 137 FPS, but at 4K Ultra, the average drops to 22 FPS, showing the GPU's workload is the primary constraint.

Q: How does the Ultra preset compare to the High preset in terms of performance?

A: The Ultra preset consistently delivers lower frame rates than High across all resolutions. For example, at 1920x1080, Ultra averages 58 FPS compared to High's 83 FPS, a difference of 25 FPS, representing a substantial performance penalty for the extra graphical detail.

Q: Can this combination maintain a stable 60 FPS at 1440p?

A: Yes, the Medium preset at 2560x1440 delivers an average of 71 FPS with a minimum of 60 FPS, indicating it can hold a stable 60 FPS in most scenarios. The Low preset also exceeds 60 FPS with an average of 92 FPS.

Q: What is the performance difference between 1080p and 4K at Medium settings?

A: At Medium settings, the average frame rate drops from 106 FPS at 1920x1080 to 40 FPS at 3840x2160. This represents a 66 FPS reduction, or approximately 62% lower performance, when moving from Full HD to 4K.

Q: Which settings preset offers the best minimum frame rate at 1080p?

A: The Medium preset has the only recorded minimum frame rate at 1080p, which is 90 FPS. This suggests it is the safest choice for consistent performance, as the Low and High presets do not have recorded minimum frame rates in the data.

GPU Role

The Intel Arc B570, based on the Xe2-HPG architecture and manufactured on a 5 nm process, is the primary driver of performance in Evolve, particularly at higher resolutions. The GPU features 2304 shading units, 144 texture mapping units, and 80 raster output units, with a boost clock of 2500 MHz. Its 10 GB of GDDR6 memory is connected via a 160-bit bus, providing a bandwidth of 380.0 GB/s. This memory configuration is a critical factor, as Evolve (a 2015 title) may have moderate VRAM requirements, but the B570's capacity is more than sufficient.

The GPU's compute capabilities, rated at 11.52 TFLOPS for FP32 operations, are evident in the frame rate scaling. At 1920x1080, the GPU is able to push 137 FPS on Low settings, indicating that it has significant headroom when the load is lighter. However, as the resolution increases to 3840x2160, the pixel throughput demand rises, and the average frame rate at Low settings drops to 52 FPS. This 85 FPS decrease highlights the GPU's fill-rate limits. The pixel rate of 200.0 GPixel/s and texture rate of 360.0 GTexel/s are the specifications that govern this behavior, and the data shows that at 4K, the GPU is saturated even on Low settings.

The performance gap between Low and Ultra settings at the same resolution further demonstrates the GPU's role. At 1080p, Ultra (58 FPS) is less than half the frame rate of Low (137 FPS), showing that the increased shading and texture work on the Ultra preset significantly taxes the 11.52 TFLOPS compute and the 360.0 GTexel/s texture fill rate. The GPU's 18 ray tracing cores are not relevant for this game's rasterized rendering, but the sheer pixel workload at 4K is the dominant factor. The 380.0 GB/s memory bandwidth is also a potential constraint, as higher resolutions require more data to be fetched from VRAM, though the measured FPS drop suggests compute and fill-rate limits are more pronounced.

How This Combo Ranks

In the benchmark database, this specific combination of the Intel Core i5-13400F and Intel Arc B570 ranks 2294 out of 2872 tested combos for Evolve. This places it in the lower percentiles of all configurations, which is notable given the hardware's relative modernity. The CPU alone holds a percentile rank of 77 among all CPUs, and the GPU holds a percentile rank of 65 among all GPUs, yet their combined performance in this specific game is below average.

The ranking suggests that either the game's engine does not utilize the hardware efficiently, or the combination is underperforming relative to its components' individual capabilities. The data shows that the combo's measured FPS at 1080p Low (137 FPS) is high in absolute terms, but the ranking of 2294 out of 2872 indicates that many other combinations achieve higher frame rates in Evolve. This could be due to the GPU's driver maturity or the game's preference for certain architectures. The GPU's nearest rivals, such as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile and the Intel Arc A750, have similar average benchmark scores (20534 and 20582 respectively, with deltaPct of 0.1 and -0.1 versus the B570's 20556), yet in-game performance can vary significantly.

The CPU's nearest rivals, including the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS and the Intel Core 5 120, show negligible performance differences in synthetic benchmarks (deltaPct of 0 and -0.3), implying that the CPU is not the primary cause of the low ranking. The bottleneck lies in the GPU's ability to handle Evolve's specific rendering paths, as evidenced by the sharp FPS drops at higher resolutions. For a game released in 2015, the B570's architecture may not be optimally optimized, leading to a rank that is lower than what the raw specifications might suggest.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data shows a clear and consistent pattern of performance degradation as resolution increases from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160. At Low settings, the average frame rate drops from 137 FPS at 1080p to 92 FPS at 1440p, and then to 52 FPS at 4K. This represents a 45 FPS drop between 1080p and 1440p, followed by a further 40 FPS drop between 1440p and 4K. The scaling is not linear; the percentage drop from 1080p to 1440p is approximately 33%, while the drop from 1440p to 4K is approximately 43%.

This pattern indicates that the limiting component is the GPU, as the CPU's workload does not scale with resolution in the same manner. The CPU's 10 cores and 16 threads are capable of handling the game's logic and draw calls at all resolutions, but the GPU's pixel processing throughput becomes the bottleneck. At Medium settings, the same trend is visible: 106 FPS at 1080p, 71 FPS at 1440p, and 40 FPS at 4K. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is 35 FPS, and from 1440p to 4K is 31 FPS, again showing a substantial performance penalty for each step up in resolution.

The High and Ultra presets exhibit even steeper drops. High goes from 83 FPS at 1080p to 56 FPS at 1440p (a 27 FPS drop) and then to 32 FPS at 4K (a 24 FPS drop). Ultra, while only having a 58 FPS average at 1080p, falls to 39 FPS at 1440p and 22 FPS at 4K. The data suggests that the GPU's fill rate, specified at 200.0 GPixel/s, is being saturated at 4K, as the number of pixels to render quadruples from 1080p. The memory bandwidth of 380.0 GB/s also becomes more critical at higher resolutions, as larger framebuffers require more data transfers. The conclusion is that for 4K gaming in Evolve, this combination is only viable on the Low preset, and even then, the 52 FPS average is marginal.

Measured FPS Breakdown

For the Intel Core i5-13400F and Intel Arc B570 in Evolve, the measured FPS data provides a complete picture across three resolutions and four settings presets. At 1920x1080, the Low preset achieves an average of 137 FPS, with no minimum or maximum recorded. The Medium preset averages 106 FPS, with a minimum of 90 FPS and a maximum of 122 FPS, indicating a tight frame pacing window. The High preset averages 83 FPS, and the Ultra preset averages 58 FPS, with no additional percentile data recorded for either.

Moving to 2560x1440, the Low preset averages 92 FPS, a drop of 45 FPS from 1080p. The Medium preset averages 71 FPS, with a minimum of 60 FPS and a maximum of 82 FPS, showing that the 60 FPS floor is maintained. The High preset averages 56 FPS, and the Ultra preset averages 39 FPS. The data at this resolution shows that only Low and Medium presets are capable of exceeding 60 FPS on average, with High and Ultra falling below that threshold.

At 3840x2160, the performance degrades significantly. The Low preset averages 52 FPS, the Medium preset averages 40 FPS with a minimum of 34 FPS and a maximum of 47 FPS, the High preset averages 32 FPS, and the Ultra preset averages 22 FPS. The minimum FPS of 34 at Medium 4K is notably low, suggesting potential stutter in heavy scenes. Across all resolutions, the trend is consistent: each settings tier costs a significant amount of performance, and resolution scaling exacts a heavy toll on the GPU. The data shows that the 1080p Medium preset, with its 90 FPS minimum, is the most balanced configuration for consistent gameplay, while 4K is only feasible on Low.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-13400F, a 10-core, 16-thread processor from the Raptor Lake architecture, provides the computational foundation for this combination. Its base clock of 2.50 GHz and boost clock of 4.60 GHz, along with a 20 MB shared L3 cache, are the key specifications that influence game performance. In Evolve, the CPU's role is to feed the GPU with draw calls and manage game logic, and the data suggests that it performs this task adequately, as the frame rates at 1080p are not CPU-limited.

The CPU's benchmarks show strong multi-threaded performance, with a Cinebench R23 multicore score of 22604 and a Passmark multithread score of 25032. Its single-thread performance is also solid, with a Geekbench singlecore score of 1996 and a Passmark single-thread score of 3634. These scores indicate that the i5-13400F is more than capable of handling the demands of a 2015 FPS title, even at high frame rates. At 1080p Low, the 137 FPS average suggests that the CPU is not a bottleneck, as the GPU is still able to reach high frame rates without being starved of data.

However, the CPU's role becomes more nuanced at lower resolutions. As the resolution drops, the GPU's frame time decreases, which requires the CPU to deliver frames faster. The data shows that the CPU can sustain 137 FPS at 1080p, which is a demanding workload for any processor. The fact that the frame rate does not increase further at lower resolutions (there is no 720p data) suggests that the CPU may be approaching its limit at this high frame rate. The CPU's percentile rank of 77 among all CPUs and its average benchmark score of 25292 place it in the upper tier, but its nearest rivals, such as the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS (avg score 25284, deltaPct 0) and the Intel Core 5 120 (avg score 25362, deltaPct -0.3), show that it is not an outlier in performance. In Evolve, the CPU provides a stable platform, but the GPU is the deciding factor in overall frame rates, especially as settings and resolution increase.