Evolve

Resolution Scaling

The measured frame rates across resolutions paint a clear picture of where this pairing's bottleneck lives. At 1080p with Low settings, the Core i5-14400F and RX 6600 combination delivers 146.3 FPS, but stepping up to 1440p drops that to 96.7 FPS, a 34% reduction. Pushing further to 4K at Low settings yields 53.9 FPS, which is 63% below the 1080p figure. This steep decline as pixel count rises points squarely at the GPU as the limiting component at higher resolutions.

At High settings, the scaling pattern shifts slightly. The combo produces 89.7 FPS at 1080p, 59.3 FPS at 1440p, and 36.3 FPS at 4K. The gap between 1080p and 1440p is 34%, while the 1440p to 4K drop is 39%. This consistent degradation suggests that the Radeon RX 6600's 8 GB of GDDR6 memory and 128-bit bus width start to struggle as resolution increases, with the 224.0 GB/s bandwidth becoming a limiting factor.

Ultra settings reveal the harshest scaling. The combo manages 59.9 FPS at 1080p, which is already marginal for competitive play. At 1440p, that falls to 40.4 FPS, and at 4K it collapses to 22.1 FPS — barely above slideshow territory. The fact that Ultra at 1080p produces nearly identical frame rates to High at 4K (59.9 vs 59.3 at 1440p High) indicates that the GPU is saturated regardless of whether the burden comes from resolution or graphical fidelity. The data shows this is not a CPU-limited configuration at any resolution tested.

How This Combo Ranks

In the database of tested combinations, this pairing holds position 1386 out of 1695 total combos for Evolve. That places it in the 18th percentile of all tested systems, meaning roughly 82% of combinations deliver higher average frame rates in this game. This is a below-median result for a game released in 2015, which suggests that Evolve's engine and rendering demands are not particularly well-matched to this hardware pairing.

The CPU itself ranks at the 88th percentile among all processors tested, with an average benchmark score of 32508. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Core i7-12800H at 32513 (0% delta), the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7645 at 32446 (0.2% delta), and the AMD Ryzen 7 250 at 32584 (-0.2% delta). The GPU, meanwhile, sits at the 69th percentile among all graphics cards, with an average benchmark score of 25235. Its nearest rivals are the AMD Radeon 890M at 25246 (0% delta), the AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP at 25287 (-0.2% delta), and the AMD Radeon RX 6700M at 25180 (0.2% delta).

The discrepancy between the CPU's high percentile ranking and the combo's low overall rank underscores that the graphics card is the limiting factor. A processor performing at the 88th percentile paired with a GPU at the 69th percentile should theoretically land higher than the 18th percentile of game-specific combos — but Evolve's specific workload apparently favors other hardware configurations. The combo rank data indicates that many systems with weaker processors but stronger GPUs outperform this pairing in this particular title.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-14400F brings 10 cores and 16 threads to the table, with a base clock of 2.50 GHz and a boost clock of 4.70 GHz. This Raptor Lake Refresh part, built on Intel's 10 nm process, delivers strong multi-threaded performance as evidenced by its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 21914 and single-core score of 3093. The 20 MB of shared L3 cache and 1.25 MB L2 per core provide ample on-die storage for game data.

For a game like Evolve, which launched in 2015, the CPU's capabilities far exceed what the title demands. The 65 W TDP and active production status indicate this is a mainstream desktop part, and its PassMark multi-thread score of 25783 places it well above average. The data shows that at 1080p Low settings, the combo achieves 146.3 FPS — a figure that approaches the refresh rate limits of many displays and suggests the CPU is not the constraint even at lower resolutions where CPU overhead typically matters more.

The CPU's single-thread performance, measured at 3723 in PassMark single-thread tests and 2333 in Geekbench single-core, is more than sufficient for Evolve's game logic and physics. The benchmark results indicate that the processor maintains high frame rates across all settings at 1080p, with the drop from Low to Ultra at 1080p being 59% (146.3 to 59.9 FPS). This scaling is characteristic of a GPU-bound scenario rather than a CPU limitation, as the processor's workload does not increase proportionally with graphical settings.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its strongest performance. Low settings produce 146.3 FPS average, Medium settings yield 116.6 FPS, High settings manage 89.7 FPS, and Ultra settings drop to 59.9 FPS. The progression from Low to Ultra represents a 59% performance penalty, which is substantial but expected given the graphical feature load. The 1080p results show that this pairing can handle Evolve at playable frame rates even at High settings, with the Ultra preset being the only configuration that dips below the 60 FPS threshold.

Moving to 2560x1440, the performance envelope tightens considerably. Low settings still deliver a smooth 96.7 FPS, and Medium settings maintain 78 FPS. However, High settings fall to 59.3 FPS, and Ultra drops to 40.4 FPS. The data reveals that 1440p High is the practical ceiling for maintaining 60 FPS with this combination, and even that requires the player to accept frame rates just below the target. The 1440p results show a 58% reduction from Low to Ultra, mirroring the 1080p scaling pattern but at lower absolute values.

At 3840x2160, the combo struggles across all settings. Low settings produce 53.9 FPS, Medium drops to 44.7 FPS, High falls to 36.3 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 22.1 FPS. None of these results reach the 60 FPS threshold, and even Low settings cannot maintain a consistent 60 FPS experience. The 4K Ultra result of 22.1 FPS is a 85% reduction from the 1080p Low figure, underscoring the GPU's inability to handle the pixel throughput demands of 4K in this title. The measured data shows that 4K gaming is not viable with this pairing for Evolve, regardless of settings.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 6600 is built on the RDNA 2.0 architecture using TSMC's 7 nm process, with a chip containing 11,060 million transistors on a 237 mm² die. The GPU operates at a base clock of 1626 MHz and boosts to 2491 MHz, with a game clock of 2044 MHz. The 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus delivers 224.0 GB/s of bandwidth, which is a modest figure for modern standards but adequate for a game from 2015.

The GPU's 1792 shading units, 112 texture mapping units, and 64 render output units provide a compute throughput of 8.928 TFLOPS FP32. The 28 ray tracing cores are present but irrelevant for Evolve, which predates widespread RT adoption. The card's DirectX 12 Ultimate support (12_2) ensures compatibility with modern APIs, though Evolve's 2015 release means it likely relies on DirectX 11 paths — the PassMark DirectX 11 score of 152 and DirectX 12 score of 51 suggest the card is substantially better at legacy workloads.

The GPU's benchmark percentile of 69 places it above the median, but its average score of 25235 puts it in close competition with the AMD Radeon 890M (25246, 0% delta) and slightly behind the AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP (25287, -0.2% delta). The 0.5% delta versus the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (25120) is negligible in real-world terms. For Evolve specifically, the GPU's performance ceiling appears to be around 146 FPS at 1080p Low, which is the best case scenario in the measured data. The 8 GB VRAM allocation is never a constraint at 1080p or 1440p, but at 4K the memory bandwidth becomes the primary bottleneck, explaining the dramatic frame rate collapse at that resolution.