Greedfall

Greedfall is an Action RPG released 2019-09-09. The benchmark database includes measured FPS rows for an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX paired with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile. In Greedfall, that combination ranks 837th out of 3703 tested combinations, with all rows marked as measured.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo rank of 837 out of 3703 places this pairing ahead of most tested systems, though it is not at the very front of the database. The CPU alone sits at the 95th percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 76212. The GPU sits at the 84th percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 43667. The gap between those two percentile positions is noticeable: this is a pairing with a very strong processor and a GPU that is also strong, but ranked slightly lower in the database's overall GPU distribution.

The CPU's nearest rivals are very tightly clustered. The AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX has an average benchmark score of 76212, while the Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX has a deltaPct of 0.1, the AMD EPYC Embedded 8224P has a deltaPct of -0.4, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9945WX has a deltaPct of -0.4, and the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a deltaPct of 0.6. Those tiny deltaPct values imply that, in raw average benchmark terms, a CPU swap among these parts would barely move the needle. Greedfall's measured FPS would likely depend far more on the GPU and on the resolution used.

The GPU's nearest rivals include the NVIDIA Quadro M6000 with a deltaPct of 0.8, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile with a deltaPct of 0.9, the NVIDIA Quadro M6000 24 GB with a deltaPct of 0.9, and the NVIDIA RTX A6000 with a deltaPct of -0.9. The negative deltaPct for the RTX A6000 indicates that its average score sits above the RTX 4090 Mobile in this dataset. These are modest deltas, which means the RTX 4090 Mobile is surrounded by a range of professional and consumer cards in average benchmark performance, rather than being isolated at the top.

Greedfall's measured performance reflects this mixed position. The 1080p Low row reaches 250 FPS, one of the strongest results in the measured set, while the 3840x2160 Ultra row drops to 47 FPS. The rank of 837 out of 3703 therefore makes sense: with a top-tier CPU and a very fast GPU, this combo can produce excellent frame rates at lower resolutions, but the heaviest measured settings still pull it back to a mid-tier position relative to other tested combos.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile is built on the AD103 chip and the Ada Lovelace architecture. It has 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, with a memory bandwidth of 576.0 GB/s. The GPU's base clock is 1335 MHz, its boost clock is 1695 MHz, and its memory clock is listed as 2250 MHz, described as 18 Gbps effective. It contains 9728 shading units, 304 TMUs, 112 ROPs, 76 RT cores, and 304 tensor cores. The listed TDP is 120 W.

In benchmark terms, the GPU reaches a PassMark G3D score of 27212, a Geekbench OpenCL score of 180831, and a Geekbench Vulkan score of 170774. Those numbers corroborate the 84th percentile position: this is a high-end mobile GPU, but not the single fastest entry in the database.

The VRAM capacity and memory bandwidth are directly relevant to Greedfall's measured results. The GPU carries 16 GB of GDDR6, and the 256-bit bus feeds it up to 576.0 GB/s. Even the heaviest measured row, 3840x2160 Ultra, still produces an average of 47 FPS, which suggests that the frame buffer itself is not causing a hard failure; the workload is simply heavy enough to pull the GPU down to 47 FPS. At 3840x2160 Medium the same GPU produces 81 FPS, with a minimum of 69 FPS, and at 3840x2160 Low it averages 103 FPS. The same 16 GB buffer is present in all of those rows, so the differences come from rendering settings and the GPU work they demand, not from a memory capacity limit.

Clocks also matter. The boost clock of 1695 MHz is accompanied by a memory clock of 2250 MHz, and the combination is enough to reach 250 FPS at 1920x1080 Low. That row is the fastest measured in the entire set, so at low resolution and low settings the GPU is far from being a limiting factor. At 3840x2160 Ultra, however, the GPU is clearly under much heavier load, since the average falls to 47 FPS. The data shows a GPU that can saturate high refresh rate 1080p displays, but one that still encounters a steep workload wall when Greedfall is maxed out at 4K.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS rows show what happens when the same CPU and GPU are asked to render Greedfall at progressively higher resolutions. At High settings, the average is 178 FPS at 1920x1080, 123 FPS at 2560x1440, and 74 FPS at 3840x2160. At Low settings, the sequence is 250 FPS, 173 FPS, and 103 FPS. At Medium settings, the averages are 196 FPS at 1920x1080, 136 FPS at 2560x1440, and 81 FPS at 3840x2160. At Ultra settings, the averages are 114 FPS, 79 FPS, and 47 FPS.

Every preset follows the same direction: moving from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 lowers FPS, and moving again to 3840x2160 lowers it further. The Low preset is especially interesting because it strips away much of the GPU's shading burden. At 1920x1080 Low, the combo produces 250 FPS, which is the highest average in the measured set. At 3840x2160 Low, the average is 103 FPS. That is a very large drop caused almost entirely by the increase in rendered pixels, not by extra effects or geometry from higher settings.

This pattern says something about the limiting component. At 1920x1080 Low, the system is working on a relatively small pixel count and the CPU is capable of feeding the GPU fast enough to reach 250 FPS. As resolution rises, the GPU has to process many more pixels, and the FPS declines sharply. By 3840x2160 Ultra, the average falls to 47 FPS, which is far below the 1080p Low result. The data suggests that the GPU becomes the dominant constraint at higher resolutions, while the CPU's contribution is most visible in the very high frame rates seen at 1080p.

The existence of min/max data for Medium settings adds another angle. At 3840x2160 Medium, the minimum is 69 FPS and the maximum is 93 FPS. At 2560x1440 Medium, the minimum is 116 FPS and the maximum is 156 FPS. At 1920x1080 Medium, the minimum is 167 FPS and the maximum is 226 FPS. The 4K Medium frame range is more compressed, which is consistent with a GPU that is closer to its workload ceiling at higher resolution.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The full measured set is listed below. All rows are measured, and the only rows with min/max values are the Medium settings.

| Resolution | Settings | Avg FPS | Min FPS | Max FPS |

|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|

| 3840x2160 | High | 74 | — | — |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 103 | — | — |

| 3840x2160 | Medium | 81 | 69 | 93 |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra | 47 | — | — |

| 2560x1440 | High | 123 | — | — |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 173 | — | — |

| 2560x1440 | Medium | 136 | 116 | 156 |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra | 79 | — | — |

| 1920x1080 | High | 178 | — | — |

| 1920x1080 | Low | 250 | — | — |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 196 | 167 | 226 |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 114 | — | — |

The highest measured average is 250 FPS at 1920x1080 Low. The lowest measured average is 47 FPS at 3840x2160 Ultra. The Medium rows provide the only frame-time bounds in the dataset, and those ranges show that even at 4K Medium, the combo does not dip below 69 FPS in the measured sample. At lower resolutions, the Medium ranges are considerably higher, with a minimum of 167 FPS at 1920x1080 Medium and a maximum of 226 FPS at the same setting. This is a fast and stable dataset overall, with no measured row falling below 47 FPS even at the highest settings.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX is a 16-core, 32-thread processor from the 8000 series, based on Zen 4 and the Dragon Range design. It has a base clock of 2.50 GHz and a boost clock of 5.40 GHz. The cache is listed as 64 KB L1 per core, 1 MB L2 per core, and 64 MB L3. Memory support is DDR5 with a dual-channel bus and 83.2 GB/s bandwidth. The CPU's TDP is listed as 55, and it uses PCIe Gen 5 with 28 CPU lanes. The process node is 5 nm, with 13140 million transistors.

Benchmark results for the CPU include a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 42713 and a single-core score of 6030, a Cinebench R20 multi-core score of 17939 and single-core score of 2532, and a Cinebench R15 multi-core score of 4305 with a single-core score of 607. PassMark results include a multithread score of 51405, a single-thread score of 3907, integer math of 195180, floating point math of 117453, and data compression of 677755. These numbers place the CPU at the 95th percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 76212.

The CPU's role in Greedfall is easiest to see at 1920x1080 Low, where the measured average is 250 FPS. That is the fastest row in the dataset, and it shows a processor with enough cores, threads, and clock speed to avoid becoming an obvious frame rate ceiling at low resolution and low GPU load. The 5.40 GHz boost clock is a relevant factor for the single-threaded work that many action RPGs rely on, while the 16-core, 32-thread configuration gives the system headroom for background tasks and other workloads.

At higher resolutions, the CPU's role becomes less prominent in the numbers. The same CPU paired with the same GPU produces 123 FPS at 2560x1440 High and 74 FPS at 3840x2160 High. Those drops track the GPU's rendering load much more closely than they track CPU capability. The measured FPS at 3840x2160 Ultra is 47 FPS, a figure that is far below the CPU's demonstrated ability to pace 250 FPS at 1080p Low. The CPU is not the component that pushed the Ultra result down to 47 FPS; the GPU workload is the more plausible constraint.

The nearest CPU rivals are all within a very narrow band. The Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX has a deltaPct of 0.1, the AMD EPYC Embedded 8224P has a deltaPct of -0.4, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9945WX has a deltaPct of -0.4, and the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a deltaPct of 0.6. This means that the Ryzen 9 8945HX is not an outlier in raw CPU benchmark performance; it is part of a dense group at the top of the database. In Greedfall, that position is consistent with the very high 1080p frame rates, where CPU strength is most visible.

Settings Recommendations

Based on the measured rows, the best setting depends heavily on resolution. At 3840x2160, Medium provides the strongest combination of smoothness and visual quality. The average is 81 FPS and the minimum is 69 FPS. High at 3840x2160 is also above an average of 74 FPS, but it has no recorded minimum in the dataset. Ultra at 3840x2160 drops to 47 FPS, which is a large penalty relative to Medium and High. Low at 3840x2160 reaches 103 FPS, but it is the least visually demanding preset. For a 4K user, Medium appears to be the most balanced measured option.

At 2560x1440, High is a particularly strong row. The average is 123 FPS, which is higher than the 1920x1080 Ultra average of 114 FPS while also offering a larger resolution. Low at 2560x1440 reaches 173 FPS, Medium reaches 136 FPS, and Ultra reaches 79 FPS. If a user wants maximum quality at 1440p, Ultra still delivers a playable 79 FPS average, but High is only one step below Ultra in preset name and gives a noticeably higher average. Medium gives 136 FPS but trades away some visual quality. The 2560x1440 High row stands out as the best central recommendation in the entire measured set.

At 1920x1080, every preset produces at least 114 FPS. Low reaches 250 FPS, Medium reaches 196 FPS, High reaches 178 FPS, and Ultra reaches 114 FPS. A user who wants the absolute highest frame rate could choose Low and get 250 FPS. A user who wants visual quality could choose Ultra and still get 114 FPS. The most balanced choice for 1080p is likely High or Medium, depending on whether visual fidelity or frame rate is more important. The measured data supports High as a sensible middle ground: it offers 178 FPS, which is well above the Ultra row's 114 FPS, and it uses a higher quality preset than Low or Medium.

Across all resolutions, the 2560x1440 High row delivers the best overall measured balance of pixel count, preset quality, and raw FPS. It is faster than the 1920x1080 Ultra row, and it avoids the heavy FPS cost of 3840x2160 Ultra. For users who prioritize 4K, Medium is the clear measured recommendation. For users who prioritize maximum settings, 1920x1080 Ultra is the only Ultra row that keeps an average above 100 FPS.

FAQ

Q: What is this combo's rank in Greedfall?

A: The AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX plus NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile ranks 837th out of 3703 tested combinations in Greedfall. The CPU is at the 95th percentile among all CPUs, and the GPU is at the 84th percentile among all GPUs.

Q: What is the fastest measured FPS row for this combo?

A: The fastest measured average is 250 FPS at 1920x1080 with Low settings. The next fastest rows are 196 FPS at 1920x1080 Medium, 178 FPS at 1920x1080 High, and 173 FPS at 2560x1440 Low.

Q: How does this combo behave at 3840x2160?

A: At 3840x2160 Low, the average is 103 FPS. At Medium, the average is 81 FPS with a minimum of 69 FPS and a maximum of 93 FPS. At High, the average is 74 FPS. At Ultra, the average drops to 47 FPS.

Q: Which settings have min/max FPS data?

A: Only Medium settings include min/max values in the measured rows. The ranges are 69 to 93 FPS at 3840x2160, 116 to 156 FPS at 2560x1440, and 167 to 226 FPS at 1920x1080.

Q: How close are the CPU's nearest rivals?

A: The Ryzen 9 8945HX has an average benchmark score of 76212. Its nearest rivals are the Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX with a deltaPct of 0.1, the AMD EPYC Embedded 8224P with a deltaPct of -0.4, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9945WX with a deltaPct of -0.4, and the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D with a deltaPct of 0.6.

Q: Does this GPU have enough memory for Greedfall at high resolutions?

A: The RTX 4090 Mobile has 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, with 576.0 GB/s bandwidth. The measured 4K rows range from 103 FPS at Low to 47 FPS at Ultra, so the memory subsystem does not appear to cap frame rates before the GPU's rendering workload does.