Greedfall

The AMD Ryzen 5 2600 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER delivers a solid 1080p and 1440p experience in Greedfall, though 4K Ultra pushes the combination to its limits. The data shows a clear hierarchy of performance across settings, with the card's 8 GB of GDDR6 memory and 448.0 GB/s bandwidth proving sufficient for most scenarios. This pairing ranks in the 61st percentile of all tested combos for this title, making it a capable but not exceptional performer for an Action RPG released in September 2019.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS rows indicate that the High preset offers the best balance of visual fidelity and performance across all resolutions. At 1920x1080, High yields 118 FPS, which is 39.4 FPS below the Low preset's 164.5 FPS but provides substantially better image quality without sacrificing smoothness. The Medium preset sits at 133.8 FPS at the same resolution, but the jump from Medium to High costs only 15.8 FPS, making High the superior choice for most users.

At 2560x1440, the High preset delivers 83.8 FPS, which remains comfortably above the 60 FPS threshold for responsive gameplay. The Low preset at this resolution reaches 117.3 FPS, but the visual degradation in a game focused on exploration and narrative is not worth the 33.5 FPS gain. Medium at 90.4 FPS is a viable alternative for those prioritizing frame rate, but High's 83.8 FPS is still well within playable territory.

The Ultra preset is the outlier in every resolution. At 1920x1080, Ultra drops to 79.4 FPS, which is a 38.6 FPS penalty compared to High. At 2560x1440, the gap widens to 30.7 FPS, landing at 53.1 FPS, which begins to feel less fluid. At 3840x2160, Ultra collapses to 29.4 FPS, making it effectively unplayable. The data suggests that Ultra's additional graphical features are not optimized for this hardware combination, and the performance cost is disproportionate to the visual benefit. For the best experience, High is the recommended preset across all resolutions, with Medium as a fallback for 4K users who want to stay above 55 FPS.

GPU Role

The RTX 2070 SUPER is the dominant component in this pairing, as evidenced by the FPS scaling across settings. The GPU's 8 GB of VRAM is adequate for Greedfall's textures, even at 4K, where the High preset maintains 48.6 FPS. The card's boost clock of 1770 MHz and its 2560 shading units drive the rendering workload, and the 448.0 GB/s memory bandwidth ensures that texture streaming does not become a bottleneck at higher resolutions.

The GPU's Turing architecture, built on a 12 nm process at TSMC, provides 9.062 TFLOPS of FP32 compute. This raw power translates directly into the measured frame rates, with the card's pixel rate of 113.3 GPixel/s and texture rate of 283.2 GTexel/s handling Greedfall's visual effects. The 40 RT cores and 320 tensor cores are present but not heavily utilized in this title, as Greedfall does not rely on ray tracing or DLSS.

The GPU's role becomes more apparent when comparing the Low and Ultra presets. At 3840x2160, Low achieves 71.1 FPS, while Ultra drops to 29.4 FPS. This 41.7 FPS difference demonstrates that the GPU is fully saturated by the Ultra preset's additional rendering passes. The card's 64 ROPs are the likely limiting factor at 4K Ultra, as the fill rate requirements exceed what the RTX 2070 SUPER can deliver. In contrast, at 1080p Low, the GPU has ample headroom, reaching 164.5 FPS, which suggests the CPU could become a bottleneck at even higher frame rates.

How This Combo Ranks

This combination of the AMD Ryzen 5 2600 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER ranks 1048 out of 1705 tested combos in Greedfall, placing it in the lower-middle portion of the database. The CPU itself holds a percentile ranking of 77 among all processors, while the GPU sits at percentile 65 among all graphics cards. The combo's rank of 1048 indicates that the pairing underperforms relative to what the individual component percentiles might suggest, likely due to the CPU's limitations in this specific title.

The Ryzen 5 2600's nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks include the Intel Core i5-1345U, which scores 19691 and is 0.4% ahead, and the AMD Ryzen 5 7530U at 19508, which is 0.6% behind. These small deltas indicate that the CPU's six cores and twelve threads, running at a base clock of 3.40 GHz and boost of 3.90 GHz, are competitive with newer mobile parts. However, in gaming workloads like Greedfall, the Zen architecture's single-thread performance of 1579 in Cinebench R23 may limit the combo's overall ranking.

The RTX 2070 SUPER's nearest rivals show a tighter grouping. The NVIDIA RTX A400 scores 22307, a 0.5% advantage, while the GeForce GTX TITAN Z trails by 0.9% at 22006. The RTX 4060 Mobile is 2.3% ahead at 22729, and the AMD Radeon RX 5700 is 2.5% behind at 21670. This clustering suggests that the GPU is performing as expected for its class, and the combo's rank of 1048 is more influenced by the CPU's gaming capabilities than the GPU's raw compute. The data indicates that pairing this GPU with a stronger CPU would likely improve the combo's standing in Greedfall.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured FPS values range from 164.5 at Low to 79.4 at Ultra. The Medium preset achieves 133.8 FPS, while High reaches 118 FPS. The progression shows a 30.7 FPS drop from Low to Medium, followed by a 15.8 FPS drop from Medium to High, and a final 38.6 FPS drop from High to Ultra. This pattern suggests that the Ultra preset introduces a significant computational burden that is not present in High, likely related to shadow quality or post-processing effects.

At 2560x1440, the same settings hierarchy produces 117.3 FPS at Low, 90.4 FPS at Medium, 83.8 FPS at High, and 53.1 FPS at Ultra. The delta between Low and Medium is 26.9 FPS, while the gap between High and Ultra expands to 30.7 FPS. The percentage drop from 1080p to 1440p is consistent across settings, with Low losing 47.2 FPS, Medium losing 43.4 FPS, High losing 34.2 FPS, and Ultra losing 26.3 FPS. This scaling indicates that higher settings are less affected by resolution increases, as the GPU becomes the bottleneck at lower settings.

At 3840x2160, the results are 71.1 FPS at Low, 55 FPS at Medium, 48.6 FPS at High, and 29.4 FPS at Ultra. The drop from 1440p to 4K is substantial: Low loses 46.2 FPS, Medium loses 35.4 FPS, High loses 35.2 FPS, and Ultra loses 23.7 FPS. The 4K Ultra result of 29.4 FPS is the only measured value below 30 FPS in the entire dataset, confirming that this setting is not viable for this hardware. The 4K High result of 48.6 FPS is playable but not ideal, while 4K Low at 71.1 FPS offers the smoothest 4K experience.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS drop from 1080p to 4K reveals the limiting component in this pairing. At Low settings, the frame rate falls from 164.5 FPS at 1080p to 117.3 FPS at 1440p and then to 71.1 FPS at 4K. This represents a 56.8% reduction from 1080p to 4K. The scaling is nearly linear with pixel count, indicating that the GPU is the primary constraint at Low settings, as the CPU has enough headroom to feed the card at all resolutions.

At High settings, the progression from 118 FPS at 1080p to 83.8 FPS at 1440p and 48.6 FPS at 4K shows a 58.8% reduction. This slightly larger drop suggests that the GPU's workload increases disproportionately with resolution at higher settings, likely due to more complex pixel shaders and higher texture sampling rates. The RTX 2070 SUPER's 8 GB VRAM and 256-bit memory bus are sufficient for these demands, but the 448.0 GB/s bandwidth becomes a limiting factor at 4K.

The Ultra preset exhibits the most dramatic scaling, dropping from 79.4 FPS at 1080p to 53.1 FPS at 1440p and 29.4 FPS at 4K, a 63% reduction. This steeper decline indicates that Ultra settings place an additional burden on the GPU's compute units, and the card's 9.062 TFLOPS of FP32 performance is insufficient to maintain frame rates at 4K. The data overall shows that the RTX 2070 SUPER is the clear bottleneck at 4K, while at 1080p, the Ryzen 5 2600's single-thread performance begins to limit the maximum achievable frame rates, as evidenced by the diminishing returns between Medium and High settings.