Greedfall

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600 paired with the AMD Radeon RX 580 produces a frame rate curve in Greedfall that clearly illustrates the GPU as the primary bottleneck, with the processor’s substantial headroom going largely unused as resolution and settings escalate. At 1080p Low, the combo delivers 79.7 FPS, a figure that suggests adequate performance for the game’s action-RPG combat. However, this is the absolute ceiling of the pairing; stepping up to 1080p High drops the average to 55.5 FPS, and 1080p Ultra falls to 38.3 FPS. The scaling from Low to Ultra at 1080p represents a 41.4 FPS swing, indicating that the graphics card’s fillrate and shading capabilities are the limiting factor even at the most forgiving resolution tested.

Moving to 1440p, the frame rate degradation becomes more pronounced. The 1440p Low setting yields 56.3 FPS, which is a sharp 23.4 FPS decline from the 1080p Low result. This steep drop-off is a classic sign of a GPU that is running out of memory bandwidth or raw compute, as the RX 580’s 256-bit bus and 256.0 GB/s bandwidth struggle to feed the increased pixel count. The 1440p High setting manages 38.0 FPS, while 1440p Ultra plummets to 24.8 FPS. At 4K, the results are largely unplayable for consistent action: 4K Low yields 32.5 FPS, 4K High drops to 22.1 FPS, and 4K Ultra bottoms out at 16.8 FPS. The gap between 1080p Low and 4K Low is a 47.2 FPS difference, demonstrating that the RX 580’s 6.175 TFLOPS of FP32 performance is overwhelmed by the 4K resolution’s 8.3 million pixels.

Resolution Scaling

The resolution scaling data reveals a GPU-bound scenario across the board. The frame rate drop from 1080p to 1440p at Low settings is 23.4 FPS, which is a 29.4% reduction; the drop from 1440p to 4K at Low settings is 23.8 FPS, a 42.3% reduction. This pattern shows that the RX 580’s performance scales almost linearly with pixel count, which is typical for a card with a fixed 32 ROPs and 144 TMUs. The 4K Ultra result of 16.8 FPS is particularly telling—it is less than half of the 1080p Ultra score of 38.3 FPS, confirming that the GPU is saturated at every quality preset. The Ryzen 5 7600, with its 3.80 GHz base and 5.10 GHz boost clocks, is not the constraint here; if it were, the frame rate would remain relatively flat as resolution increases, since the CPU workload does not change with pixel count. Instead, the data shows a consistent decline, indicating that the graphics card’s memory system—8 GB of GDDR5 at 2000 MHz—is the limiting resource.

How This Combo Ranks

In the broader context of all tested CPU-GPU combinations for Greedfall, this pairing sits near the bottom of the pack. The combo ranks 1585 out of 1705 total combinations, placing it in the 7th percentile of all tested systems. This low ranking is not a reflection of the CPU, which is a modern Zen 4 part, but rather the legacy GPU dragging the overall score down. The RX 580’s percentile vs all GPUs is 53, meaning it sits just above the median for all graphics cards, but in a game like Greedfall with its dense environments and lighting effects, that mid-pack GPU performance translates to a bottom-tier combo ranking. The rank of 1585 suggests that the vast majority of tested systems—likely those with newer GPUs or higher-tier cards—outperform this pairing by a significant margin. The 120 combos ranked below this one likely feature even older or weaker graphics hardware, but the data clearly shows that this is not a competitive configuration for modern action RPGs at high settings.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600 is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 4 architecture, built on a 5 nm process at TSMC. Its boost clock of 5.10 GHz is among the highest in the CPU benchmarks, and its single-thread score of 999 in 3DMark and 3,246 in Cinebench R23 indicate excellent per-core performance. In Greedfall, which is a game that tends to favor single-thread performance for game logic and AI, this CPU should theoretically provide a strong foundation. However, the measured FPS data shows that the CPU’s potential is never fully realized. At 1080p Low, the 79.7 FPS result is likely close to what the CPU can feed the GPU, but at higher settings, the frame rate is dictated entirely by the GPU’s rendering speed. The CPU’s 32 MB of shared L3 cache and DDR5 memory support (with 83.2 GB/s bandwidth) are more than sufficient for this game’s data streaming needs. The processor’s 83rd percentile ranking vs all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 26,617, places it in the top tier of gaming processors, but this advantage is moot when paired with a GPU that is 53rd percentile. The data suggests that the Ryzen 5 7600 is effectively idle in many frames, waiting for the RX 580 to finish its work.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data provides a comprehensive view of the combo’s capabilities across three resolutions and four quality settings. At 1920x1080, the results are as follows: Low produces 79.7 FPS, Medium 67.1 FPS, High 55.5 FPS, and Ultra 38.3 FPS. The step from Medium to High is a 11.6 FPS drop, while the step from High to Ultra is a 17.2 FPS drop, showing that the Ultra preset’s additional effects (likely shadows and draw distance) disproportionately tax the RX 580. At 2560x1440, the numbers are 56.3 FPS (Low), 43.7 FPS (Medium), 38.0 FPS (High), and 24.8 FPS (Ultra). The 1440p Medium result of 43.7 FPS is just below the 1080p Ultra score of 38.3 FPS, indicating that 1440p Medium is roughly equivalent in GPU load to 1080p Ultra. At 3840x2160, the results fall into the unplayable range for most gamers: 32.5 FPS (Low), 26.7 FPS (Medium), 22.1 FPS (High), and 16.8 FPS (Ultra). The 4K Low result is the only 4K setting that approaches playability, but it still falls short of a smooth 30 FPS threshold. Across all resolutions, the Low-to-Ultra scaling shows a consistent pattern: the RX 580 loses roughly 50-52% of its frame rate when moving from the lowest to the highest quality preset, regardless of resolution.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 580 is a Polaris 20 chip built on a 14 nm process at GlobalFoundries, featuring 2,304 shading units, 144 TMUs, and 32 ROPs. Its boost clock of 1340 MHz and memory clock of 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) provide a theoretical peak of 6.175 TFLOPS. The card has 8 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus, yielding 256.0 GB/s of bandwidth. In Greedfall, these specifications are simply not enough for modern high-fidelity graphics. The 4K Ultra result of 16.8 FPS and the 1440p Ultra result of 24.8 FPS show that the card’s 32 ROPs are a severe limitation for pixel-heavy workloads. The GPU’s percentile vs all GPUs is 53, and its average benchmark score of 13,559 places it in the same league as the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (13,564) and GTX 950 (13,549), which are both significantly older architectures. The RX 580’s nearest rivals in the benchmark database are within a 1.1% delta, confirming that it is a mid-2010s GPU struggling in a 2019 game. The 8 GB VRAM is sufficient for Greedfall’s textures at 1080p, but at higher resolutions, the memory bandwidth becomes the choke point. The FP32 performance of 6.175 TFLOPS is roughly half of what a modern mid-range GPU offers, and the data shows that this deficit directly translates to the sub-60 FPS results seen at 1440p and above. The RX 580 is the clear performance ceiling for this combo, and any meaningful improvement in frame rates would require a GPU upgrade.