Greedfall

The AMD Ryzen 5 5500 and AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT pairing delivers a robust 1080p experience in Greedfall, but the data reveals a sharp drop-off as resolution climbs. At 1080p High settings, the combo produces an average of 113.6 FPS, which is solidly in smooth-play territory. Dropping to Low settings pushes that figure to 155.3 FPS, while Medium sits at 126 FPS. The Ultra preset, however, yields only 70.7 FPS—a significant decline from the other presets, indicating that the GPU’s 8 GB frame buffer and compute resources are heavily taxed by the game’s maximum visual effects.

Moving to 1440p, the same pattern emerges with lower absolute numbers. High settings average 76.8 FPS, which remains playable, while Low reaches 108.1 FPS and Medium 84.1 FPS. Ultra at 1440p drops to 48.4 FPS, a figure that approaches the edge of acceptable smoothness for many users. The 4K results are the most telling: High settings manage 45.6 FPS, Low hits 64 FPS, Medium 49 FPS, and Ultra falls to a nearly unplayable 27.6 FPS. The scaling from 1080p to 4K is steep—at High settings, the frame rate drops by roughly 60% from 113.6 FPS to 45.6 FPS. This behavior strongly suggests the Radeon RX 6650 XT becomes the primary limiting component at higher resolutions, as the CPU’s six cores and 12 threads are ample for this Action RPG’s workload.

Settings Recommendations

The measured rows point to a clear sweet spot: High settings at 1080p or 1440p. At 1080p High, the 113.6 FPS average provides a fluid experience without the performance penalty of Ultra, which costs 43 FPS over High. The gap between Medium and High at 1080p is only 12.4 FPS (126 vs. 113.6), suggesting that High offers a substantial visual upgrade for a relatively minor frame-rate cost. At 1440p, High’s 76.8 FPS is the best balance, as it stays above the 60 FPS threshold while delivering better image quality than Medium’s 84.1 FPS or Low’s 108.1 FPS.

For users with 4K displays, the data indicates that even Low settings at 64 FPS are preferable to Medium’s 49 FPS or High’s 45.6 FPS, as the latter two fail to maintain a consistent 60 FPS. Ultra is not recommended at any resolution—at 1080p it yields 70.7 FPS, which is playable but represents a 43 FPS loss versus High for marginal visual fidelity gains. The most efficient configuration for this combo is High at 1440p, which offers a 76.8 FPS average and leverages the GPU’s capabilities without overextending its 8 GB memory pool. At 1080p, High is equally viable, but the headroom suggests users could also enable Medium for a slight smoothness boost if they prefer higher frame rates over visual detail.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT is the central driver of Greedfall’s performance, and its specifications explain the measured outcomes. The GPU features 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, providing 280.3 GB/s of bandwidth. Its boost clock of 2635 MHz and game clock of 2410 MHz, paired with 2048 shading units, allow it to handle the game’s environments at 1080p with ease, as evidenced by the 155.3 FPS Low result. The 32 ray accelerators and 64 ROPs contribute to the Ultra preset’s heavy load, which explains the sharp frame-rate decline at higher settings.

The GPU’s 72nd percentile ranking among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 29024, places it in the mid-range tier. Its nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks include the AMD Radeon RX 6800M (deltaPct 0) and the AMD Radeon RX 470 (deltaPct 0.1), while the Intel Arc A370M trails by 0.5 percent and the AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH by 0.6 percent. In Greedfall, the 4K High result of 45.6 FPS indicates the GPU is working near its limits at that resolution, with the 8 GB VRAM likely becoming a constraint when textures and effects are maxed. At 1080p, the GPU has ample headroom, but the Ultra preset’s 70.7 FPS shows that even a capable mid-range card struggles with the game’s maximum settings, likely due to the combination of draw calls and post-processing effects.

How This Combo Ranks

The Ryzen 5 5500 + RX 6650 XT combination ranks 1129th out of 1705 tested combos in Greedfall, placing it in the lower-middle tier of the database. This rank is somewhat surprising given the strong 1080p results, but it reflects the fact that many tested configurations include higher-end GPUs or CPUs that push the game’s frame rates much higher at 4K Ultra settings. The combo’s percentile position suggests it outperforms roughly 34% of all tested pairings, which is consistent with its mid-range hardware. The CPU alone sits at the 79th percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 20875, while the GPU is at the 72nd percentile with an average score of 29024.

The rank of 1129 indicates that this pairing is not optimized for extreme resolutions or maximum presets, where it falls behind combos with more powerful GPUs. However, for 1080p gaming, the data shows it is highly capable, as the 113.6 FPS High result would likely place it well above the median for that specific resolution. The deltaPct values for the CPU’s nearest rivals—Intel Core i5-12500 at -0.1%, AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4655GE at -0.1%, AMD EPYC 7J13 at 0.1%, and Intel Core i5-12600T at -0.2%—indicate that the Ryzen 5 5500 is competitive with these chips, which helps explain why the combo’s rank is driven more by the GPU’s limitations than the CPU’s.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5500 provides the processing backbone for this combo, and its six cores and 12 threads are well-suited to Greedfall’s Action RPG gameplay. The CPU’s base clock of 3.60 GHz and boost clock of 4.20 GHz, combined with 16 MB of L3 cache, deliver strong single-threaded performance that is critical for the game’s physics and AI routines. In synthetic benchmarks, the CPU scores 836 in 3DMark single-thread and 973 in Cinebench R20 single-core, while its multicore results—5411 in 3DMark max threads and 16429 in Cinebench R23—show it can handle the parallel workloads that the game may use for streaming assets.

The CPU’s 79th percentile ranking and average benchmark score of 20875 place it close to the Intel Core i5-12500, which scores 20897 (deltaPct -0.1), and the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4655GE, which scores 20900 (deltaPct -0.1). This proximity suggests that the Ryzen 5 5500 is not a bottleneck in most scenarios. The measured FPS data supports this: at 1080p Low settings, the combo reaches 155.3 FPS, which is unlikely to be CPU-limited given the GPU’s known performance envelope. However, the 4K results show that the CPU is not the limiting factor—the GPU is—since even at 4K Low, the 64 FPS result is far below what the CPU could theoretically support. The CPU’s 65 W TDP and Zen 3 architecture (Cezanne) on 7 nm make it an efficient partner, but in this game, the GPU’s 176 W TDP and 8 GB VRAM are the primary determinants of frame rates, particularly at higher resolutions and settings.