Greedfall

Greedfall’s performance with the AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER reveals a clear scaling pattern that shifts the bottleneck burden as pixel count rises. At 1920x1080, the system delivers 151.1 FPS on Low settings, but dropping to High reduces that to 106.4 FPS, a 29.6% penalty. Moving to 2560x1440, the same Low-to-High comparison yields 105.3 FPS versus 75.7 FPS, a 28.1% reduction, showing that the CPU still has headroom at these settings. At 3840x2160, the gap narrows to 61.2 FPS (Low) versus 45.2 FPS (High), a 26.1% drop, indicating that the GPU is becoming the limiting factor. The most telling shift occurs with Ultra settings: at 1080p the system hits 71 FPS, but at 1440p that falls to 48.4 FPS, and at 4K it collapses to 28.1 FPS. The data suggests that below 1440p, the Ryzen 7 5800XT’s 8-core, 16-thread configuration keeps the pipeline fed, but beyond that, the RTX 2060 SUPER’s 8 GB GDDR6 memory and 256-bit bus width start to constrain frame delivery.

Resolution Scaling

The transition from 1080p to 4K exposes a classic GPU-bound curve, but with an unusual twist at the low end. At Low settings, the system produces 151.1 FPS at 1080p, 105.3 FPS at 1440p, and 61.2 FPS at 4K. The 1440p result represents a 30.3% drop from 1080p, while 4K is 41.9% lower than 1440p — a steeper decline than the previous step, confirming that the RTX 2060 SUPER’s 7.181 TFLOPS FP32 throughput and 448.0 GB/s memory bandwidth are being saturated. At High settings, the pattern is similar but compressed: 106.4 FPS at 1080p, 75.7 FPS at 1440p (28.9% drop), and 45.2 FPS at 4K (40.3% drop). The Ultra preset tells a harsher story: 71 FPS at 1080p, 48.4 FPS at 1440p (31.8% drop), and 28.1 FPS at 4K (42.0% drop). The consistent 40%+ penalty from 1440p to 4K across all presets indicates that the GPU’s 64 ROPs and 105.6 GPixel/s pixel rate are the primary limiter at high resolutions, while the CPU’s 3.80 GHz base and 4.80 GHz boost clocks remain adequate.

How This Combo Ranks

In the broader database of tested combinations, this pairing sits at rank 1226 out of 1705 combos, placing it in the lower 28.1% of configurations. This ranking reflects the RTX 2060 SUPER’s age — it holds a 63rd percentile score among all GPUs — rather than the CPU’s capability. The Ryzen 7 5800XT, by contrast, ranks in the 86th percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 29774. Its nearest rivals include the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5755GE (29740, 0.1% faster), AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS (29856, 0.3% slower), AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 (29682, 0.3% faster), and AMD Ryzen 7 7840H (29868, 0.3% slower). The GPU’s nearest competitors — the GeForce GTX TITAN (19706, 0.3% faster), RTX 2070 (19680, 0.5% faster), Quadro K5200 (19623, 0.8% faster), and Tesla K40m (19519, 1.3% faster) — are all within a narrow band, confirming that the 2060 SUPER is a mid-pack performer. The combo’s low overall rank is unsurprising given that the GPU’s 63rd percentile score drags down what would otherwise be a top-tier CPU pairing; the 8-core, 16-thread processor consistently scores above 95% of CPUs in multi-threaded tests like Cinebench R23 (23794) and Passmark multithread (27988).

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS rows offer a clear hierarchy for playable settings. At 1920x1080, Medium delivers 121.9 FPS, which is 14.6% lower than Low (151.1 FPS) but 14.6% higher than High (106.4 FPS). The jump to Ultra costs 41.8% of the Medium score, landing at 71 FPS — still above 60 FPS but with diminishing returns. At 2560x1440, High produces 75.7 FPS, which is 9.1% lower than Medium (83.3 FPS) but 56.4% higher than Ultra (48.4 FPS). For 4K gaming, the data is more restrictive: Medium yields 50.6 FPS, which is 17.3% lower than Low (61.2 FPS) but 80.1% higher than Ultra (28.1 FPS). The sweet spot for this hardware is Medium at 1080p or 1440p, where the frame rates remain fluid without sacrificing the visual fidelity that High and Ultra offer. At 4K, Low is the only preset that consistently breaks 60 FPS, and even then it barely does so. The 45.2 FPS High result at 4K is playable but not ideal for fast-paced combat, while the 28.1 FPS Ultra result falls below the threshold for smooth action RPG gameplay.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system produces 151.1 FPS on Low, 121.9 FPS on Medium, 106.4 FPS on High, and 71 FPS on Ultra. The step from Low to Medium costs 19.3% performance, Medium to High costs 12.7%, and High to Ultra costs 33.3% — the latter being the largest single-step penalty in the resolution. At 2560x1440, the numbers are 105.3 FPS (Low), 83.3 FPS (Medium), 75.7 FPS (High), and 48.4 FPS (Ultra). The percentage drops are 20.9% (Low to Medium), 9.1% (Medium to High), and 36.1% (High to Ultra). At 3840x2160, the results compress further: 61.2 FPS (Low), 50.6 FPS (Medium), 45.2 FPS (High), and 28.1 FPS (Ultra). The Low-to-Medium penalty is 17.3%, Medium-to-High is 10.7%, and High-to-Ultra is 37.8%. The Ultra preset consistently extracts a massive toll across all resolutions, with the 4K Ultra figure representing just 18.6% of the 1080p Low result. The data shows that the gap between Low and Medium narrows as resolution increases (from 19.3% at 1080p to 17.3% at 4K), while the High-to-Ultra gap widens (from 33.3% to 37.8%), suggesting that Ultra settings introduce shader or texture workloads that disproportionately affect the GPU at higher pixel counts.

GPU Role

The RTX 2060 SUPER’s specifications directly explain its performance ceiling in Greedfall. The GPU features 2176 shading units, 136 TMUs, and 64 ROPs, with a boost clock of 1650 MHz. Its 8 GB GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus provides 448.0 GB/s bandwidth, which is sufficient for 1080p and 1440p but strained at 4K with High and Ultra presets. The 34 RT cores and 272 tensor cores are present but largely irrelevant for this title, which does not appear to leverage ray tracing or DLSS based on the measured results. The GPU’s 12 nm process from TSMC, with 10,800 million transistors on a 445 mm² die, places it as a mid-generation Turing part. Its 175 W TDP and 450 W suggested PSU are modest, but the performance data shows that the 2060 SUPER’s 7.181 TFLOPS FP32 throughput is the binding constraint at 4K Ultra, where it delivers only 28.1 FPS. The 14.36 TFLOPS FP16 (2:1) figure is not directly applicable to standard rasterization workloads. The GPU’s 63rd percentile ranking among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 19774, aligns with its measured Greedfall performance — it is a competent 1080p and 1440p card that struggles to maintain playable frame rates at 4K with high quality settings. The 105.6 GPixel/s pixel rate explains the steep 4K penalties, as higher resolutions demand more pixel throughput, and the 224.4 GTexel/s texture rate becomes a bottleneck when texture quality is raised.