Greedfall

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS rows for Greedfall with the AMD Ryzen 5 2600 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 reveal a clear hierarchy across the four settings presets. At 1080p, the Low preset delivers 248 FPS average, which is the highest raw number recorded for this combination. However, the Medium preset at 1080p produces 228 FPS average with a minimum of 193 FPS and a maximum of 262 FPS, indicating that the frame time consistency remains strong while the visual quality improves substantially over Low. The High preset at 1080p drops to 220 FPS average, which is only 8 FPS behind Medium, yet the jump from High to Ultra costs 75 FPS, falling to 145 FPS average.

At 1440p, the pattern shifts. Low yields 220 FPS, Medium produces 173 FPS with a 147-199 FPS range, High delivers 157 FPS, and Ultra drops to 100 FPS. The gap between Medium and High at this resolution is 16 FPS, while the gap between High and Ultra is 57 FPS. At 4K, the margins compress significantly: Low provides 131 FPS, Medium gives 103 FPS with an 88-119 FPS range, High reaches 94 FPS, and Ultra falls to 60 FPS exactly.

The data suggests that the Medium preset offers the best balance of measured performance and visual fidelity across all three resolutions. It maintains playable averages everywhere — 228 FPS at 1080p, 173 FPS at 1440p, and 103 FPS at 4K — while the frame time data (88-119 at 4K, 147-199 at 1440p, 193-262 at 1080p) shows no severe dips. High is acceptable but only marginally better visually, and the 4K High average of 94 FPS is notably lower than Medium's 103 FPS. Ultra pushes 4K to exactly 60 FPS, which is the minimum threshold for smooth gameplay, but the headroom is nonexistent. For users prioritizing frame rate stability, Medium is the recommended preset; for those who want higher fidelity without sacrificing too much speed, High at 1080p or 1440p remains viable.

FAQ

Q: What is the highest average FPS recorded for this combination?

A: The highest average FPS is 248, achieved at 1920x1080 with the Low settings preset.

Q: How much does the Ultra preset cost in performance compared to Medium at 4K?

A: At 3840x2160, Ultra delivers 60 FPS average while Medium delivers 103 FPS average, a difference of 43 FPS. This represents a 41.7% reduction in average frame rate.

Q: Does the Medium preset have recorded minimum FPS values at all resolutions?

A: Yes. At 1920x1080 the minimum is 193 FPS, at 2560x1440 the minimum is 147 FPS, and at 3840x2160 the minimum is 88 FPS. These are the only settings with min/max data in the measurements.

Q: How does the RTX 4080's average benchmark score compare to its closest rival?

A: The RTX 4080 has an average benchmark score of 54247. Its nearest rival, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, scores 54209, which is a delta of 0.1%. The RTX 4080 is effectively tied with the SUPER variant in aggregate benchmarks.

Q: What is the combo's rank among all tested combinations for Greedfall?

A: This combo (AMD Ryzen 5 2600 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080) ranks 404 out of 3703 tested combinations, placing it in the top 10.9% of all tested combos.

Q: Is the Ryzen 5 2600's single-thread performance closer to its multi-thread performance relative to rivals?

A: The Ryzen 5 2600 scores 2239 in Passmark single-thread and 13160 in Passmark multithread. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Core Ultra 5 228V (avg score 21440, delta 0.2%) and the Intel Core i9-11900H (avg score 21367, delta 0.5%), indicating the CPU's aggregate performance sits within a tight 1.2% band of these competitors.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with the AD103 chip, fabricated on a 5 nm process at TSMC. It features 9728 shading units, 304 texture mapping units, and 112 raster output pipelines. The GPU operates at a base clock of 2205 MHz and boosts to 2505 MHz, with memory running at 1400 MHz (22.4 Gbps effective). The 16 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit bus provides 716.8 GB/s of bandwidth, which is substantial for a game like Greedfall that was released in 2019 and can be demanding at high resolutions.

The RTX 4080's measured FPS across Greedfall settings shows that the GPU is rarely the bottleneck at lower resolutions. At 1080p Low, the frame rate reaches 248 FPS, and at 1080p Medium it stays at 228 FPS, suggesting the CPU or engine limits are coming into play above that threshold. However, at 4K Ultra, the frame rate drops to exactly 60 FPS, which indicates the GPU's rendering load becomes the dominant constraint. The pixel rate of 280.6 GPixel/s and texture rate of 761.5 GTexel/s provide the raw throughput needed for 4K, but the 48.74 TFLOPS FP32 compute is what handles the shading work in Greedfall's outdoor environments and combat effects.

The GPU's 76 ray tracing cores and 304 tensor cores are present in the architecture, though Greedfall's 2019 release predates widespread ray tracing adoption, so these units likely see limited utilization in this title. The benchmark scores reflect the GPU's overall capability: a Passmark G3D score of 34457 and a Geekbench OpenCL score of 214739 place it in the 86th percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rival, the RTX 4080 SUPER, is only 0.1% ahead in average benchmark score, confirming that this is a top-tier card. The 16 GB VRAM capacity is more than sufficient for Greedfall at any setting, as the game's texture requirements from 2019 are far below what would stress this memory pool.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured data shows a progression from 248 FPS at Low, to 228 FPS at Medium (with a 193-262 FPS range), 220 FPS at High, and 145 FPS at Ultra. The delta between Low and Medium is 20 FPS, between Medium and High is 8 FPS, and between High and Ultra is 75 FPS. This suggests that the Ultra preset introduces disproportionately heavy effects that tax the GPU even at 1080p.

Moving to 2560x1440, the averages are 220 FPS at Low, 173 FPS at Medium (147-199 FPS range), 157 FPS at High, and 100 FPS at Ultra. The resolution increase from 1080p to 1440p costs 28 FPS at Low, 55 FPS at Medium, 63 FPS at High, and 45 FPS at Ultra. The Medium preset maintains a 147 FPS minimum, which is still comfortably above 144 Hz refresh rates. High at 1440p falls to 157 FPS average, which is close to Medium's 173 FPS but with a larger relative drop from 1080p.

At 3840x2160, the data shows 131 FPS at Low, 103 FPS at Medium (88-119 FPS range), 94 FPS at High, and 60 FPS at Ultra. The jump from 1440p to 4K reduces frame rates by 89 FPS at Low, 70 FPS at Medium, 63 FPS at High, and 40 FPS at Ultra. Notably, the absolute drop from 1440p to 4K shrinks as settings increase, meaning the Ultra preset loses fewer frames to resolution scaling than Low does. The Medium preset at 4K retains an 88 FPS minimum, which is still above 60 FPS, while Ultra's 60 FPS average leaves no headroom for demanding scenes.

Resolution Scaling

The transition from 1080p to 4K reveals how the balance between CPU and GPU shifts across resolutions. At Low settings, the frame rate drops from 248 FPS at 1080p to 131 FPS at 4K, a reduction of 47.2%. This relatively moderate decline suggests that at Low settings, the CPU is partially limiting performance even at 1080p, because the GPU has headroom to render more pixels without proportionally losing frame rate. The Ryzen 5 2600's 6 cores and 12 threads at 3.40 GHz base and 3.90 GHz boost clock may struggle to feed the RTX 4080 at lower settings, where the GPU could otherwise produce even more frames.

At Medium settings, the scaling from 1080p to 4K goes from 228 FPS to 103 FPS, a 54.8% drop. This is a more typical GPU-bound scaling pattern, where doubling the pixel count roughly halves the frame rate. The 1440p Medium average of 173 FPS fits this pattern, as it sits between the 1080p and 4K values. At High settings, the drop from 220 FPS at 1080p to 94 FPS at 4K is 57.3%, and at Ultra, the drop from 145 FPS to 60 FPS is 58.6%. The trend shows that as settings increase, the resolution scaling becomes more consistent with pure GPU-bound behavior.

The limiting component analysis: at 1080p Low, the 248 FPS ceiling indicates CPU constraints, since the RTX 4080 is capable of far more. At 4K Ultra, the 60 FPS result shows the GPU is fully saturated. The data indicates that the Ryzen 5 2600 becomes less of a bottleneck as resolution increases, because the GPU's rendering workload grows faster than the CPU's draw call overhead. By 4K, the GPU is the clear limiting factor at all settings except possibly Low, where 131 FPS still suggests some CPU involvement in frame pacing.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 2600 is a 6-core, 12-thread processor from the 2000 series, based on the Zen+ architecture (Pinnacle Ridge). It operates at a base clock of 3.40 GHz and boosts to 3.90 GHz, with a 65 W TDP. The CPU has 96 KB of L1 cache per core, 512 KB of L2 per core, and 16 MB of shared L3 cache. Its memory bandwidth is 46.9 GB/s over dual-channel DDR4, which is modest by modern standards. The processor was released in April 2018 with a launch MSRP of $199.

In Greedfall, the CPU's role is most apparent at lower resolutions and settings. At 1080p Low, the 248 FPS average suggests the Ryzen 5 2600 is approaching its limit in feeding the RTX 4080, since the GPU could theoretically render more frames in this older title. The CPU's Passmark single-thread score of 2239 and multithread score of 13160 indicate moderate single-core performance that may not fully saturate the GPU's potential in lightly threaded scenarios. However, Greedfall from 2019 likely utilizes multiple threads, and the 12 threads of the Ryzen 5 2600 provide adequate parallel processing for the game's AI, physics, and world streaming.

The CPU's benchmark performance places it in the 75th percentile of all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 21484. Its nearest rivals show close competition: the Intel Core Ultra 5 228V is 0.2% ahead, the Intel Core i9-11900H is 0.5% ahead, the Intel Xeon D-1746TER is 0.7% behind, and the AMD EPYC 9454 is 1.2% ahead. This tight grouping indicates the Ryzen 5 2600 performs comparably to much newer processors in aggregate benchmarks, though its single-thread performance (2239 Passmark) lags behind what modern CPUs achieve. In Greedfall, the CPU appears to sustain frame rates above 200 FPS at 1080p Low, which means it handles the game's processing demands adequately, but the 4K Ultra result of 60 FPS is firmly GPU-bound, showing the CPU is not the primary constraint at high resolutions.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 5 2600 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 ranks 404 out of 3703 tested combinations in Greedfall. This places the combo in the top 10.9% of all tested systems, which is a strong result given that the CPU is from 2018 while the GPU is from 2022. The rank reflects the fact that Greedfall, released in September 2019, is not extremely demanding on CPU threads, allowing the older Ryzen 5 2600 to remain relevant when paired with a high-end GPU.

The ranking is driven primarily by the GPU's enormous headroom. The RTX 4080's 86th percentile standing among all GPUs, combined with its 48.74 TFLOPS FP32 compute and 16 GB of GDDR6X memory, ensures that even at 4K Ultra, the combo maintains a 60 FPS average. The CPU's 75th percentile standing among all CPUs means it is not a weak link in this pairing, especially at 1440p and 4K where the GPU workload dominates. The data shows that at 1080p Low, the combo reaches 248 FPS, which is only 9 FPS below the 1440p Low result of 220 FPS, indicating the CPU is the limiting factor at those settings.

The 404th rank out of 3703 combos means there are 403 combinations that outperform this setup in Greedfall, likely featuring newer CPUs with higher single-thread performance or more cores, paired with equally powerful or better GPUs. However, the significant majority of tested combos (over 89%) perform worse. The combo's ranking is particularly notable because the Ryzen 5 2600 was a mid-range CPU at launch, while the RTX 4080 is a flagship GPU; the pairing works well in Greedfall because the game does not heavily penalize the older CPU's Zen+ architecture. The measured FPS data confirms that in most settings and resolutions, the combo delivers well above 60 FPS, with only 4K Ultra hitting the 60 FPS floor exactly.