Greedfall

The Intel Core i5-10400F paired with the AMD Radeon RX 580 delivers a playable but constrained experience in Greedfall, with the data showing that the system’s performance ceiling is heavily dependent on resolution and quality settings. The sweet spot for this combination is 1080p with High settings, which achieves an average of 60.5 FPS, narrowly clearing the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay. Pushing to Ultra at 1080p drops the average to 35.5 FPS, a significant penalty that makes the preset impractical for consistent action. The data indicates that this combo ranks 1578th out of 1705 tested combinations, placing it in the lower quartile of all systems benchmarked for this title.

Settings Recommendations

For this hardware pairing, the optimal balance between visual fidelity and frame rate is found at 1080p with High settings, where the measured average of 60.5 FPS provides a stable baseline for gameplay. The jump from Medium to High at 1080p is modest — 63.6 FPS to 60.5 FPS — while the leap from High to Ultra is severe, collapsing from 60.5 FPS to 35.5 FPS, a drop of over 40% for marginal visual gains. At 1440p, the situation tightens: High settings produce 37.8 FPS, which is below the ideal smoothness threshold, while Low settings reach 57.1 FPS, making Low the only practical choice at that resolution for maintaining near-60 FPS performance. 4K resolution is effectively off the table for this combo, as even Low settings yield only 32.3 FPS, and Ultra falls to a slideshow-like 17.1 FPS. The verdict is clear: 1080p High represents the best measured experience, with 1440p Low as a fallback for users prioritizing resolution over quality.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 580’s specifications directly explain the performance pattern observed in the measured data. With 8 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus delivering 256.0 GB/s bandwidth, the card has sufficient memory capacity for Greedfall’s textures, but the raw compute power — 6.175 TFLOPS FP32 from 2304 shading units — becomes the limiting factor at higher resolutions and settings. The GPU’s boost clock of 1340 MHz and base clock of 1257 MHz are modest by modern standards, and the 42.88 GPixel/s pixel rate struggles to fill 4K frames, as evidenced by the 17.1 FPS result at Ultra 4K. The card’s 53rd percentile ranking among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 13559, places it in the mid-range, and its nearest rivals — the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (deltaPct 0.0) and GTX 950 (deltaPct 0.1) — are similarly aged parts, confirming the RX 580’s position as a capable but dated solution. The 185 W TDP and 1x 8-pin power connector are consistent with a card of this era, but the data shows that the GPU’s memory bandwidth, not capacity, is the bottleneck at 4K where frame rates collapse regardless of settings.

How This Combo Ranks

Benchmark results place this combination at rank 1578 out of 1705 tested combos in Greedfall, positioning it in the bottom 8% of all systems measured for this game. This low ranking is unsurprising given the individual components: the CPU sits at the 73rd percentile among all processors with an average benchmark score of 14168, while the GPU is at the 53rd percentile with an average score of 13559. The disparity between the CPU’s relative strength and the GPU’s mediocrity suggests the graphics card is the primary drag on the combo’s overall standing. The CPU’s nearest rivals — the AMD EPYC 7552 (deltaPct 0.4), AMD Ryzen 3 7320C (deltaPct -0.8), and Intel Core i5-8500 (deltaPct -1.1) — all score within 1.2% of the i5-10400F, indicating the processor is not the differentiator here. Instead, the GPU’s nearest rivals, including the GTX 570 (deltaPct 0.0) and GTX 950 (deltaPct 0.1), highlight that the RX 580 is competing with hardware from a previous generation, which explains why the combo languishes near the bottom of the ranking table for this action RPG.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data across all resolutions and settings reveals a consistent pattern of diminishing returns as quality increases. At 1080p, the progression is: Low 81.6 FPS, Medium 63.6 FPS, High 60.5 FPS, and Ultra 35.5 FPS. The gap between Medium and High is only 3.1 FPS, making High an efficient choice, while Ultra’s 35.5 FPS represents a 41% reduction from High — a punishing trade-off. At 1440p, the numbers shift downward: Low 57.1 FPS, Medium 44.7 FPS, High 37.8 FPS, and Ultra 27.1 FPS. Notably, 1440p Ultra produces the same 27.1 FPS as 4K Medium, indicating that the GPU hits a hard computational wall around that performance level. At 4K, the results are uniformly poor: Low 32.3 FPS, Medium 27.1 FPS, High 22.8 FPS, and Ultra 17.1 FPS. The data shows that every settings increase at 4K costs roughly 5 FPS on average, whereas at 1080p, the cost is more variable, with Ultra exacting a disproportionate toll. Across all resolutions, the RX 580’s 8 GB VRAM is never explicitly exhausted in the data, but the frame rates suggest that compute throughput, not memory, is the binding constraint.

Resolution Scaling

The transition from 1080p to 1440p to 4K demonstrates how sharply this combo’s performance degrades as pixel count rises. At High settings, the average FPS drops from 60.5 at 1080p to 37.8 at 1440p (a 38% reduction) and then to 22.8 at 4K (a 40% reduction from 1440p). This near-linear scaling with pixel count — 1080p has 2.07 million pixels, 1440p has 3.69 million, and 4K has 8.29 million — indicates that the GPU is the limiting component, as the CPU has ample headroom. The same pattern holds at Low settings: 81.6 FPS at 1080p, 57.1 FPS at 1440p, and 32.3 FPS at 4K, with the 1440p-to-4K drop of 43% being slightly steeper. This consistent scaling suggests that the i5-10400F, with its 6 cores and 12 threads boosting to 4.30 GHz, is not bottlenecking the system at any resolution, since frame rates scale inversely with pixel load. The CPU’s 3DMark single-thread score of 688 and multi-thread score of 4735 indicate sufficient processing power for Greedfall’s game logic, leaving the RX 580’s 256.0 GB/s bandwidth and 6.175 TFLOPS as the decisive factors in resolution scaling.

FAQ

Q: What is the best resolution and settings combo for this system?

A: The data shows 1080p High is optimal, delivering 60.5 FPS, which is the only settings level above 60 FPS besides 1080p Low (81.6 FPS) and 1080p Medium (63.6 FPS).

Q: Can this combo handle 4K gaming?

A: No. Even at Low settings, 4K yields only 32.3 FPS, and Ultra drops to 17.1 FPS, making the experience unplayable at that resolution.

Q: How does the RX 580 compare to its nearest rivals?

A: The RX 580’s average benchmark score of 13559 is virtually tied with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (13564, deltaPct 0.0) and GTX 950 (13549, deltaPct 0.1), confirming it performs at the level of those older cards.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the bottleneck in Greedfall?

A: The GPU is the bottleneck. The i5-10400F ranks at the 73rd percentile among CPUs, while the RX 580 sits at the 53rd percentile among GPUs, and FPS scales with resolution, indicating GPU-bound performance.

Q: What frame rate can I expect at 1440p with High settings?

A: The measured average is 37.8 FPS, which is below the 60 FPS target but still playable for slower-paced RPG combat.

Q: How does the combo rank overall for this game?

A: It ranks 1578th out of 1705 tested combos, placing it in the bottom 8% of all systems benchmarked for Greedfall.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-10400F provides a stable foundation for this combo, with 6 cores and 12 threads running at a base clock of 2.90 GHz and boost clock of 4.30 GHz. The CPU’s 12 MB of shared L3 cache and dual-channel DDR4 memory support with 42.7 GB/s bandwidth are adequate for feeding the GPU, and the benchmark scores reflect a processor that outperforms its rivals: Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 10297 and single-core score of 1453, along with a Geekbench single-core score of 1454. The CPU’s 73rd percentile ranking and average benchmark score of 14168 place it slightly ahead of the AMD EPYC 7552 (deltaPct 0.4) and behind the Ryzen 3 7320C (deltaPct -0.8), but these differences are negligible in gaming workloads. In Greedfall, the CPU’s role is to maintain frame pacing and handle game logic, which the data confirms it does without issue — the FPS drops from 1080p to 4K are consistent with GPU-bound scaling, not CPU limitations. The 3DMark 16-thread score of 4748 and 2-thread score of 1350 show solid multi-threading capability, but the game’s demands are modest enough that the CPU never becomes the constraining factor in this pairing.