Greedfall

Greedfall, a 2019 Action RPG, presents a demanding workload that scales sharply with visual fidelity. The pairing of the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 produces a range of results that highlight the GPU as the primary constraint in most scenarios, though the CPU’s headroom becomes apparent at lower settings. The data across 1080p, 1440p, and 4K resolutions reveals a system that can deliver smooth gameplay at moderate presets, but struggles to maintain high frame rates at maximum quality.

Settings Recommendations

The benchmark data indicates that the Medium preset offers the most balanced experience for this combination. At 1920x1080, Medium yields an average of 110.8 FPS, which is a substantial 45.9 FPS higher than the High preset’s 99.6 FPS. This headroom ensures smoother frame pacing and better consistency during combat sequences. Moving to 2560x1440, Medium still holds at 73.5 FPS, which is playable for an Action RPG, while High drops to 67.5 FPS and Ultra falls to a less fluid 43.8 FPS.

For users prioritizing visual quality over raw frame rate, the High preset is the highest viable option at 1080p, delivering 99.6 FPS. However, at 1440p, High’s 67.5 FPS is acceptable but noticeably lower. The Ultra preset is not recommended for this GPU, as it produces 64.9 FPS at 1080p and only 26.8 FPS at 4K, indicating a severe performance penalty that outweighs any graphical benefit. The Low preset provides the maximum frame rates—140 FPS at 1080p and 93.4 FPS at 1440p—but the visual downgrade is significant. Consequently, the data supports Medium as the sweet spot, offering a 60 FPS+ experience even at 1440p without sacrificing the game’s core visual identity.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 is the decisive factor in this configuration. Its 6 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, with a bandwidth of 336.0 GB/s, proves sufficient for 1080p and 1440p but becomes a bottleneck at 4K. The GPU’s boost clock of 1680 MHz and base clock of 1365 MHz, combined with 1920 shading units, drive the performance. The core architecture, Turing on a 12 nm process, delivers 6.451 TFLOPS of FP32 compute. This hardware is positioned in the 58th percentile of all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 16074.

The closest rivals in the database—the AMD Radeon RX 7600S with a score of 15996 and the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M with 16351—show that the RTX 2060 is within 1.7% of these parts. This indicates that the RTX 2060 is a mid-range performer, and its limitations are exposed by Greedfall’s demanding Ultra preset. The memory capacity of 6 GB is likely a limiting factor at 4K, where the texture data exceeds the available VRAM, causing the frame rate to plummet to 26.8 FPS on Ultra. The GPU’s 160 W TDP and dual-slot design are consistent with its performance class, but the data clearly shows that it is the component that dictates the overall experience in this game.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the database of tested combinations, this specific pairing of the Ryzen 7 9700X and RTX 2060 ranks at 1407 out of 1705 combinations. This placing in the 82nd percentile of all tested combos indicates that while the system is capable, it is not optimized for maximum performance in Greedfall. The rank is heavily influenced by the GPU, as the CPU is a much stronger component.

The Ryzen 7 9700X, an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 5 part with a boost clock of 5.50 GHz, sits in the 89th percentile of all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 36029. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Core i5-14500HX (0.2% higher) and the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5845 (0.6% lower), showing that the CPU is a high-end performer. This disparity between the CPU’s strong standing and the combo’s low rank confirms that the RTX 2060 is holding the system back. The combo rank suggests that in a database where many users pair high-end CPUs with stronger GPUs, this configuration is a mid-pack performer, suitable for 1080p gaming but not for high-refresh-rate or high-resolution play.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data provides a comprehensive view of performance across all tested settings. At 1920x1080, the results are as follows: Low averages 140 FPS, Medium averages 110.8 FPS, High averages 99.6 FPS, and Ultra averages 64.9 FPS. The gap between High and Ultra is 34.7 FPS, which is a significant drop for a single preset tier, indicating that Ultra introduces effects that heavily tax the RTX 2060.

At 2560x1440, the frame rates decrease proportionally: Low averages 93.4 FPS, Medium averages 73.5 FPS, High averages 67.5 FPS, and Ultra averages 43.8 FPS. The difference between Low and Medium is 19.9 FPS, while the difference between High and Ultra is 23.7 FPS. This pattern shows that the GPU is the limiting factor, as the relative performance drop from 1080p to 1440p is consistent across presets.

At 3840x2160, the performance collapses: Low averages 55.6 FPS, Medium averages 47.1 FPS, High averages 39.6 FPS, and Ultra averages 26.8 FPS. No setting at 4K achieves a 60 FPS average, and even Low falls short of that threshold. The 4K results confirm that this configuration is not viable for 4K gaming in Greedfall, as the GPU’s memory bandwidth and compute resources are overwhelmed. The data shows a linear degradation from Low to Ultra at each resolution, with the most severe drop occurring between High and Ultra at 4K, a 12.8 FPS reduction.

Resolution Scaling

The scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals a clear picture of the system’s bottleneck. At the Low preset, the average FPS drops from 140 at 1080p to 93.4 at 1440p (a 33.3% reduction) and then to 55.6 at 4K (a 60.3% reduction from 1080p). This steep decline indicates that even at Low settings, the GPU is heavily loaded, as the resolution increase directly impacts the fill rate and memory bandwidth requirements.

At the High preset, the drop is from 99.6 FPS at 1080p to 67.5 FPS at 1440p (a 32.2% reduction) and then to 39.6 FPS at 4K (a 60.2% reduction from 1080p). The consistency of these percentage drops across presets—around 33% from 1080p to 1440p and 60% from 1080p to 4K—suggests that the GPU is the sole limiting factor. The CPU, the Ryzen 7 9700X, has ample headroom, as evidenced by its high single-thread score of 4459 in Cinebench R23 and its 89th percentile ranking. If the CPU were the bottleneck, the frame rates would not scale so predictably with resolution.

The data indicates that the RTX 2060’s 6 GB VRAM is insufficient for 4K, as the frame rates at 4K are not merely lower but disproportionately so. At 1080p, the Ultra preset achieves 64.9 FPS, which is playable. At 4K, the same preset achieves 26.8 FPS, a 58.7% reduction. This severe drop, coupled with the fact that even Low at 4K cannot reach 60 FPS, points to a hard limit imposed by the GPU’s memory capacity and bandwidth. The scaling analysis confirms that this system is best suited for 1080p and 1440p gaming, with the GPU being the definitive constraint in all scenarios.