Greedfall

# Greedfall — AMD Ryzen 7 7700 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

This combination of the AMD Ryzen 7 7700 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 delivers exceptional performance in Greedfall, placing in the 90th percentile across 3,703 tested combos. The data shows a system that handles this 2019 Action RPG with enormous headroom at every resolution, though the scaling pattern reveals where each component's contribution peaks.

FAQ

Q: What is the combo's overall rank in Greedfall?

A: This pairing ranks 90th out of 3,703 tested combinations, placing it in the top 2.4% of all systems benchmarked for this game.

Q: How does the RTX 5090 compare to its nearest GPU rivals?

A: The RTX 5090's average benchmark score is 79,842, which is 0.3% ahead of the NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB (79,605) and 0.6% ahead of the Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB (79,396). It trails the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X (80,959) by 1.4%.

Q: What is the best FPS result recorded at 1080p?

A: At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the system achieves 359 FPS average. The Medium preset at the same resolution delivers 282 FPS with a minimum of 240 and maximum of 325.

Q: Does the Ryzen 7 7700 outperform its nearest CPU competitors?

A: The Ryzen 7 7700 scores 40,081 average, which is 0.1% above the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 (40,048) and 0.4% above the AMD Ryzen 9 270 (40,246). It sits 0.2% below the Intel Core 5 221E (40,144) and 0.6% below the Intel Core i9-13905H (40,313).

Q: What is the largest FPS drop when moving from 1080p to 4K?

A: At Ultra settings, the average FPS falls from 164 at 1080p to 68 at 4K, a reduction of 96 FPS. This represents the steepest relative decline across all presets.

Q: Which resolution shows the smallest performance gap between Low and Ultra?

A: At 4K, Low delivers 149 FPS while Ultra produces 68 FPS — an 81 FPS difference. At 1440p, the gap between Low (249 FPS) and Ultra (113 FPS) is 136 FPS, and at 1080p it widens to 195 FPS (359 vs 164).

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 brings 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus, yielding 1.79 TB/s of bandwidth. This memory configuration is far beyond what Greedfall requires, as evidenced by the fact that even at 4K Ultra, where GPU load is highest, the system never drops below playable thresholds.

The GPU's clock behavior — 2017 MHz base and 2407 MHz boost — combined with 21,760 shading units and 176 ROPs, produces a pixel rate of 423.6 GPixel/s. In Greedfall, this translates to the GPU being the primary driver of frame rate differences across settings presets at each resolution. The RTX 5090's 104.8 TFLOPS FP32 throughput and 1,636.8 GTexel/s texture rate ensure that even the most demanding scenes with complex geometry and particle effects remain fluid.

The card's 92,200 million transistors on a 750 mm² die, built on TSMC's 5 nm process, represent the upper bound of current GPU design. Its DirectX 12 Ultimate support (12_2) aligns with Greedfall's engine requirements, though the game's 2019 release date means it does not exercise the Blackwell 2.0 architecture's full feature set — the RT cores (170) and tensor cores (680) are largely underutilized in this title.

At 4K Ultra, the GPU's workload is substantial enough that the 68 FPS average indicates the RTX 5090 is the limiting factor at this extreme setting. The gap between 4K Medium (117 FPS) and 4K High (106 FPS) is relatively modest (11 FPS), suggesting diminishing returns from Medium to High, while the jump from High to Ultra (106 to 68 FPS, a 38 FPS drop) shows Ultra's disproportionately heavy GPU cost.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 contributes 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Zen 4 (Raphael) architecture, manufactured on TSMC's 5 nm process. With a base clock of 3.80 GHz and boost up to 5.30 GHz, this CPU delivers single-thread performance that matters for Greedfall's game logic and AI systems.

The CPU's cache hierarchy — 64 KB L1 per core, 1 MB L2 per core, and 32 MB shared L3 — provides 32 MB of high-speed storage for game data. The 65 W TDP and dual-channel DDR5 memory support with 83.2 GB/s bandwidth ensure the CPU keeps pace with the GPU's frame generation, particularly at lower resolutions where CPU-bound scenarios emerge.

Benchmark data shows the Ryzen 7 7700 achieves 1,049 in 3DMark single-thread and 8,484 in 16-thread tests, with Cinebench R23 scores of 1,930 single-core and 18,760 multi-core. The Geekbench results (2,525 single-core, 15,371 multi-core) reinforce that this CPU has substantial headroom even when the RTX 5090 is pushing 300+ FPS.

The CPU's role becomes evident when examining 1080p results. At Low settings, the system produces 359 FPS — a number so high that CPU frame pacing becomes the bottleneck. The difference between 1080p Low (359 FPS) and 1440p Low (249 FPS) is 110 FPS, while the gap between 1440p Low and 4K Low (149 FPS) is 100 FPS, showing that the CPU is no longer the constraint as resolution increases and GPU load rises.

With 6,570 million transistors on a 71 mm² die and a 5 nm process, the Ryzen 7 7700 ranks in the 87th percentile of all CPUs. Its nearest rival, the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365, scores within 0.1%, confirming that this processor sits at a performance plateau where further gains would not meaningfully change Greedfall's framerates.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system delivers its highest framerates. Low settings produce 359 FPS average, Medium yields 282 FPS (with a minimum of 240 and maximum of 325), High reaches 256 FPS, and Ultra drops to 164 FPS. The scaling from Low to Ultra shows a 195 FPS spread, indicating that at 1080p, the GPU has enough headroom that even Ultra settings cannot fully stress the RTX 5090.

Moving to 2560x1440, the averages are 249 FPS at Low, 196 FPS at Medium (min 166, max 225), 178 FPS at High, and 113 FPS at Ultra. The 136 FPS difference between Low and Ultra at 1440p is substantial but still leaves every preset above 100 FPS, making this resolution a sweet spot for high-refresh-rate displays.

At 3840x2160, the system produces 149 FPS at Low, 117 FPS at Medium (min 99, max 134), 106 FPS at High, and 68 FPS at Ultra. The 81 FPS gap between Low and Ultra at 4K narrows considerably compared to lower resolutions, reflecting the GPU becoming the dominant constraint. The Medium preset at 4K maintains a minimum of 99 FPS, which is the only sub-100 FPS minimum recorded across all Medium settings.

The data reveals that for each resolution, the step from Medium to High is smaller than the step from High to Ultra. At 1080p, Medium-to-High costs 26 FPS (282 to 256), while High-to-Ultra costs 92 FPS (256 to 164). This pattern repeats at 1440p (18 FPS Medium-to-High, 65 FPS High-to-Ultra) and 4K (11 FPS Medium-to-High, 38 FPS High-to-Ultra), demonstrating that Ultra settings impose a steep performance penalty in Greedfall regardless of resolution.

How This Combo Ranks

With a rank of 90 out of 3,703 combos, this system sits in the 97.6th percentile of all tested configurations for Greedfall. This placement is consistent with the hardware's benchmark positions: the RTX 5090 ranks in the 92nd percentile of all GPUs, and the Ryzen 7 7700 in the 87th percentile of all CPUs.

The combo's ranking suggests that while both components are top-tier, the CPU is slightly less dominant than the GPU in this game's context. The 3703 tested combos include many with lower-end CPUs paired with high-end GPUs, and this system's 90th-place finish indicates that the Ryzen 7 7700's 8-core/16-thread configuration is sufficient to avoid bottlenecking the RTX 5090 in Greedfall's engine.

The GPU's nearest rivals — the Tesla P100 variants and Radeon Pro Vega 64X — are professional/workstation cards that would not typically appear in gaming systems, yet their benchmark scores are within 1.4% of the RTX 5090. This proximity in synthetic benchmarks does not translate to gaming performance, as the RTX 5090's gaming-specific features and driver optimizations give it an edge that the measured FPS data confirms.

The CPU's rival comparisons show a tightly clustered group: the Ryzen 7 7700 is within 0.6% of all four nearest competitors. This suggests that in Greedfall, any of these CPUs would deliver nearly identical performance, reinforcing that the GPU is the primary determinant of the combo's 90th-place ranking.

Settings Recommendations

Based on the measured FPS rows, the High preset at 1440p delivers 178 FPS average, which balances visual quality with performance headroom. At 4K, High produces 106 FPS, which is smooth but leaves less margin for demanding scenes. The Medium preset at 4K (117 FPS, min 99) offers a more consistent experience with only an 11 FPS penalty compared to High.

For users prioritizing maximum framerates, the Low preset at 1080p (359 FPS) or 1440p (249 FPS) provides far more performance than any display can utilize, making these settings unnecessary for practical use. The Ultra preset at any resolution imposes a severe cost: 164 FPS at 1080p, 113 FPS at 1440p, and 68 FPS at 4K, with the 4K Ultra figure being the only average below 100 FPS in the entire dataset.

The data suggests that Medium at 4K is the optimal configuration for visual fidelity with performance security, as it maintains a minimum FPS of 99 (the only 4K preset with a recorded minimum above 60 FPS). At 1440p, High (178 FPS) offers the best balance, as the step to Ultra (113 FPS) sacrifices 65 FPS for marginal visual gains. At 1080p, High (256 FPS) is recommended, as Ultra's 164 FPS drop is disproportionate to any visual improvement.

The measured minimum and maximum values for Medium presets — 240/325 at 1080p, 166/225 at 1440p, 99/134 at 4K — show that Medium provides the most stable frame delivery across all resolutions, with the narrowest variance relative to its average.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS progression from 1080p to 4K reveals the system's scaling behavior. At Low settings, averages fall from 359 FPS at 1080p to 249 FPS at 1440p (a 30.6% drop) and then to 149 FPS at 4K (a 40.2% drop from 1440p). The cumulative reduction from 1080p to 4K at Low is 58.5%, which is less severe than the pixel count increase would suggest, indicating that at lower settings, the CPU or other system bottlenecks begin to limit performance at 1080p.

At Medium settings, the progression is 282 FPS → 196 FPS → 117 FPS, representing a 58.5% total reduction from 1080p to 4K. The High preset shows 256 FPS → 178 FPS → 106 FPS, a 58.6% total drop. Ultra settings exhibit the steepest scaling: 164 FPS → 113 FPS → 68 FPS, a 58.5% reduction overall.

The consistency of these percentage drops — all near 58.5% — is notable. This uniformity suggests that Greedfall's rendering workload scales predictably with resolution, and that neither component disproportionately bottlenecks at any specific resolution within this combo. However, the absolute FPS values tell a different story: at 1080p, even Ultra settings (164 FPS) exceed the refresh rate of most displays, while at 4K, only Low (149 FPS) and Medium (117 FPS) provide triple-digit averages.

The limiting component shifts across the resolution range. At 1080p, the CPU's ability to feed the GPU becomes relevant — the Ryzen 7 7700's single-thread score of 1,049 in 3DMark and 1,930 in Cinebench R23 single-core represent the ceiling for frame generation. At 4K, the GPU's raw throughput becomes the constraint, as evidenced by the 68 FPS at Ultra, which aligns with the RTX 5090's pixel rate of 423.6 GPixel/s being taxed by the 8.3 million pixels of 4K resolution combined with Ultra's shading complexity.