Greedfall

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D delivers the top-performing combination in Greedfall, ranking first out of 2,938 tested combos. This pairing produces exceptionally high frame rates across all resolutions and settings, with the GPU's massive memory pool and the CPU's strong multi-threaded performance ensuring no bottleneck in most scenarios.

GPU Role — VRAM, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D is a Blackwell 2.0 architecture GPU built on a 5 nm process at TSMC, packing 92,200 million transistors on a 750 mm² die. This is a 32 GB GDDR7 memory configuration on a 512-bit bus, delivering 1.79 TB/s of bandwidth. For a 2019 action RPG like Greedfall, this memory subsystem is overwhelmingly excessive — the game's texture loads and open-world streaming rarely stress even a fraction of this capacity, but the sheer bandwidth contributes to the consistently high minimum frame rates observed at 4K Medium settings.

The GPU clocks at a 2017 MHz base and 2407 MHz boost, with memory running at 1750 MHz (28 Gbps effective). With 21,760 shading units, 680 TMUs, and 176 ROPs, the card achieves a pixel rate of 423.6 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 1,636.8 GTexel/s. These specifications translate to 104.8 TFLOPS of FP32 performance. In Greedfall, which is not particularly demanding by modern standards, this GPU has enormous headroom — the data shows that even at 4K Ultra, the combo maintains 72 FPS average, which is more than playable for a single-player RPG.

The RTX 5090 D includes 170 RT cores and 680 tensor cores, though Greedfall does not heavily utilize ray tracing or DLSS features. The card's DirectX 12 Ultimate support (12_2) aligns with the game's rendering requirements, but the title's age means it does not exploit the full feature set. The GPU's benchmark scores reflect its dominance: a Passmark G3D score of 44,065 and a Geekbench Vulkan score of 376,915. It sits in the 92nd percentile of all GPUs, with nearest rivals including the AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT (1.6% lower average score) and NVIDIA Tesla P100 variants (2.1-2.4% lower).

In practice, the GPU is rarely the limiting factor in this pairing. At 1080p Low, the combo reaches 383 FPS average, which is well beyond any display's refresh rate and indicates the CPU is doing the heavy lifting at that point. The GPU's role becomes more pronounced at 4K Ultra, where the frame rate drops to 72 FPS — still smooth, but showing the rendering load scaling with resolution and settings.

Measured FPS Breakdown — resolution by resolution, settings by settings, exact numbers

1080p (1920x1080): At Low settings, the combo averages 383 FPS, the highest recorded in the entire dataset. Medium settings drop this to 301 FPS average, with a minimum of 256 FPS and maximum of 346 FPS. High settings yield 273 FPS average. Ultra settings pull the average down to 175 FPS. These numbers indicate that at 1080p, the system is almost entirely CPU-bound — the Ryzen 7 7700's 8 cores and 16 threads are being pushed to their limits, while the RTX 5090 D has massive idle headroom.

1440p (2560x1440): Low settings produce 266 FPS average, a noticeable drop from 1080p Low but still extremely high. Medium settings average 209 FPS, with a minimum of 178 FPS and maximum of 240 FPS. High settings deliver 190 FPS average. Ultra settings reduce the average to 121 FPS. The scaling from 1080p to 1440p shows a roughly 30% reduction in frame rates across most settings, which is typical as pixel count increases by 78% but the GPU still has significant reserve.

4K (3840x2160): Low settings average 159 FPS, which remains exceptionally playable for any display. Medium settings average 125 FPS, with a minimum of 106 FPS and maximum of 143 FPS — the tight min-max spread indicates consistent frame pacing. High settings drop to 113 FPS average. Ultra settings are the only scenario where the GPU is clearly stressed, averaging 72 FPS. This is the only setting combination where the frame rate approaches the 60 FPS threshold, suggesting the GPU is finally the primary constraint.

The data shows a clear hierarchy: 1080p is CPU-limited, 4K Ultra is GPU-limited, and everything in between is a mix where both components have headroom. The Medium settings at each resolution provide the most complete data with min and max FPS, showing a consistent pattern of roughly 15-20% variance between minimum and average frame rates.

How This Combo Ranks — use comboRankInGame vs other tested combos

This AMD Ryzen 7 7700 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D configuration ranks 1st out of 2,938 tested combos in Greedfall. This is a definitive top-tier result, placing this pairing above all other CPU-GPU combinations in the database for this specific game. The rank reflects the combination of the CPU's strong single-threaded performance (Cinebench R23 single-core score of 1,930) and the GPU's overwhelming rasterization power.

The CPU alone sits in the 87th percentile of all processors, with an average benchmark score of 40,081. Its nearest rivals are tightly clustered: the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 (0.1% higher score), Intel Core 5 221E (0.2% lower), AMD Ryzen 9 270 (0.4% lower), and Intel Core i9-13905H (0.6% lower). This clustering suggests the Ryzen 7 7700 is right at the boundary between mid-range and high-end CPU performance, yet when paired with the RTX 5090 D, it achieves the absolute top combo ranking.

The GPU's individual ranking is in the 92nd percentile, with its nearest rivals being the AMD Radeon RX 6650M XT (1.1% higher average score), AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT (1.6% lower), and NVIDIA Tesla P100 variants (2.1-2.4% lower). Interestingly, the GPU is not the single highest-scoring component in its own benchmark category, but the combination with the Ryzen 7 7700 produces the best real-world results in Greedfall. This suggests that the CPU's 8 cores and 16 threads at boost clocks up to 5.30 GHz are well-matched to the game's threading model, while other CPUs might bottleneck the GPU despite similar benchmark scores.

The combo rank of 1 indicates that no other tested pairing achieves higher average FPS across the measured scenarios. This is particularly notable given that the GPU's nearest rivals include mobile parts (RX 6650M XT, RX 6850M XT), which highlights that the RTX 5090 D's desktop-class performance is essential for this top ranking.

FAQ — 4-6 Q&A pairs answerable from FACT PACK data

Q: What is the highest average FPS this combo achieves in Greedfall?

A: The highest recorded average FPS is 383, achieved at 1920x1080 resolution with Low settings.

Q: At which resolution and settings does this combo fall below 100 FPS average?

A: Only at 3840x2160 (4K) with Ultra settings, where the average FPS drops to 72.

Q: How does the CPU's multi-threaded performance compare to its nearest rivals?

A: The Ryzen 7 7700 has an average benchmark score of 40,081, which is 0.1% lower than the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365, 0.2% higher than the Intel Core 5 221E, 0.4% higher than the AMD Ryzen 9 270, and 0.6% higher than the Intel Core i9-13905H.

Q: What is the GPU's Passmark G3D score and how does it rank?

A: The RTX 5090 D achieves a Passmark G3D score of 44,065, placing it in the 92nd percentile of all GPUs.

Q: What are the minimum and maximum FPS recorded at 1440p Medium settings?

A: At 2560x1440 with Medium settings, the minimum FPS is 178 and the maximum FPS is 240, with an average of 209.

Q: How much VRAM does the RTX 5090 D have and what memory type is it?

A: The GPU has 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus, providing 1.79 TB/s of bandwidth.

Resolution Scaling — how FPS drops from 1080p to 4K and what it says about the limiting component

The scaling behavior across resolutions reveals the bottleneck characteristics of this pairing. Moving from 1080p to 1440p, the average FPS drops by approximately 30% across all settings: Low goes from 383 to 266 FPS (a 117 FPS drop), Medium from 301 to 209 FPS (a 92 FPS drop), High from 273 to 190 FPS (an 83 FPS drop), and Ultra from 175 to 121 FPS (a 54 FPS drop). This pattern is consistent with a GPU that is becoming more engaged as pixel count increases, but the CPU is still contributing significantly to the frame rate ceiling.

The transition from 1440p to 4K shows a more dramatic scaling: Low drops from 266 to 159 FPS (a 107 FPS drop), Medium from 209 to 125 FPS (an 84 FPS drop), High from 190 to 113 FPS (a 77 FPS drop), and Ultra from 121 to 72 FPS (a 49 FPS drop). The percentage drops are larger in this transition — roughly 40% for Low, 40% for Medium, 41% for High, and 40% for Ultra. This uniform percentage drop across settings at the 4K transition indicates the GPU is now the primary limiting factor, as the pixel count increase from 1440p to 4K is 2.25x, which aligns with the observed frame rate reductions.

The data shows an interesting inversion: at 1080p, the difference between Low and Ultra settings is 208 FPS (383 vs 175), while at 4K this difference is only 87 FPS (159 vs 72). This compression of the settings gap at higher resolutions is a classic sign of GPU-bound scenarios — when the GPU is saturated, changing settings has less impact on frame rates because the pixel fill rate is the constraint, not the shading complexity. Conversely, at 1080p, the wide gap between Low and Ultra suggests the CPU is the limiting factor, and the GPU has enough headroom to absorb the additional settings load without dropping frame rates proportionally.

The min-max FPS data at Medium settings further illustrates this: at 1080p, the spread is 256 to 346 FPS (a 90 FPS range), at 1440p it's 178 to 240 FPS (a 62 FPS range), and at 4K it's 106 to 143 FPS (a 37 FPS range). The narrowing range as resolution increases indicates more consistent frame pacing at higher resolutions, which is typical when the GPU becomes the bottleneck — the frame rate variability decreases because the rendering workload is more predictable.

CPU Role — cores, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 is a Zen 4 architecture processor (codenamed Raphael) built on a 5 nm process at TSMC, featuring 8 cores and 16 threads. It runs at a 3.80 GHz base clock and boosts up to 5.30 GHz, with a 65 W TDP. The CPU has 64 KB of L1 cache per core, 1 MB of L2 per core, and 32 MB of shared L3 cache, totaling 6,570 million transistors on a 71 mm² die. Memory support is DDR5 with dual-channel configuration and 83.2 GB/s bandwidth.

For Greedfall, which is a 2019 title with a typical action RPG threading model, the CPU's 8 cores and 16 threads are more than sufficient. The game's engine does not heavily scale beyond 8 threads, but the high boost clock of 5.30 GHz ensures strong single-threaded performance, which is reflected in the Cinebench R23 single-core score of 1,930 and Geekbench single-core score of 2,525. These scores indicate that the CPU can handle the game's primary game logic and physics threads without bottlenecking the GPU.

The CPU's multi-threaded performance is equally strong: Cinebench R23 multicore score of 18,760, Geekbench multicore of 15,371, and Passmark multithread of 34,470. The 3DMark 16-thread score of 8,484 and max-thread score of 8,479 are nearly identical, indicating that the CPU's 16 threads scale efficiently without thermal or power throttling. This is important for Greedfall because the game may spawn background tasks for asset streaming and AI, which can utilize additional threads without impacting the main rendering thread.

The CPU's benchmark performance places it in the 87th percentile of all processors, with an average benchmark score of 40,081. Its nearest rivals are all within 0.6% in either direction, showing that the Ryzen 7 7700 sits in a highly competitive performance tier. However, in the context of this combo ranking first in Greedfall, the CPU's contribution is clear: at 1080p Low, the 383 FPS average is limited by the CPU's ability to feed the GPU with draw calls and game state updates, not by the GPU's rendering capacity.

The CPU's 65 W TDP is notably efficient for the performance it delivers, with a boost clock of 5.30 GHz achieved within this power envelope. This efficiency contributes to sustained performance without thermal throttling, which is crucial for maintaining the high frame rates observed in the 1080p and 1440p scenarios. The CPU's PCIe Gen 5 support with 24 lanes ensures the RTX 5090 D's PCIe 5.0 x16 interface is fully utilized, providing ample bandwidth for texture streaming and data transfer between system memory and VRAM.