Greedfall

# Greedfall with Intel Core i5-12600KF + AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

The combination of the Intel Core i5-12600KF and AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT produces a system that ranks 469th out of 1,705 tested combos in Greedfall, placing it in the top 27.5% of all configurations. This pairing leverages a 10-core, 16-thread Alder Lake processor with a 125W TDP and a 16GB GDDR6 graphics card built on RDNA 4.0 architecture, delivering playable frame rates across all tested presets from 1080p through 4K. The data shows a system that scales predictably with resolution and settings, with the CPU's single-thread performance and the GPU's substantial memory bandwidth both contributing to the overall experience.

FAQ

Q: What is the average frame rate at 1440p Ultra settings?

A: At 2560x1440 with Ultra settings, the system achieves an average of 80.5 FPS. This is notably higher than the 4K Ultra result of 48.4 FPS, indicating that 1440p Ultra is a viable setting for smooth gameplay on this hardware.

Q: How does the CPU compare to its nearest rival in overall benchmark scores?

A: The Intel Core i5-12600KF has an average benchmark score of 27,827, which is essentially identical to the Intel Core i9-10900K at 27,829 (0% delta). It also sits within 0.4% of the Intel Core i7-13700H, showing very tight competition among these processors.

Q: What is the frame rate difference between Low and Ultra settings at 1080p?

A: At 1920x1080, the Low preset delivers 245.1 FPS while Ultra drops to 113.2 FPS, a reduction of 131.9 FPS. This represents a 53.8% performance loss when moving from the lowest to the highest quality preset.

Q: Does the GPU outperform its closest rival in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The RX 9070 XT has an average benchmark score of 39,647, which is 0.1% ahead of the AMD Radeon Pro 575 (39,703) and 0.2% ahead of the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile (39,568). The differences are within noise, indicating near-parity with these rivals.

Q: What is the CPU's single-thread performance in Cinebench R23?

A: The Core i5-12600KF scores 3,309 in Cinebench R23 single-core testing. Its multi-core score of 23,444 is roughly 7 times higher, reflecting the benefit of its 10 cores and 16 threads in heavily threaded workloads.

Q: How much VRAM does the RX 9070 XT have and what is its memory bandwidth?

A: The GPU features 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, providing 644.6 GB/s of bandwidth. This memory configuration is well-suited for high-resolution gaming, as evidenced by the playable 4K results.

Settings Recommendations

For the best balance of visual quality and performance, the High preset at 1440p stands out as the optimal choice. The data shows 123.7 FPS at 2560x1440 High, which is more than sufficient for smooth gameplay while maintaining substantial visual fidelity over lower presets. At 1080p, the High preset delivers 175.1 FPS, offering headroom for high refresh rate displays without sacrificing much quality.

The Ultra preset, while visually superior, imposes a significant performance cost. At 1440p, Ultra drops to 80.5 FPS, which is a 34.9% reduction from High. At 4K, Ultra falls to 48.4 FPS, which may be below the threshold for comfortable play on many displays. Medium settings provide a middle ground: 196.8 FPS at 1080p and 135.6 FPS at 1440p, but the jump from Medium to High at 1440p costs only 12.1 FPS (from 135.6 to 123.7) while offering better visuals.

Given the measured data, High at 1440p or 1080p represents the sweet spot. The 4K High result of 71.5 FPS is also respectable, making it a viable option for users with 4K displays who can tolerate slightly lower frame rates. For competitive play, Low at 1080p achieves 245.1 FPS, but this sacrifices too much visual quality for most users. The recommendation is to prioritize High settings, with Medium as a fallback for those who desire higher frame rates at 4K.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals a system where the GPU becomes increasingly dominant at higher resolutions. At High settings, performance drops from 175.1 FPS at 1080p to 123.7 FPS at 1440p (a 29.4% reduction) and further to 71.5 FPS at 4K (a 59.2% reduction from 1080p). This scaling pattern is consistent with a GPU-bound scenario at higher resolutions, as the RX 9070 XT's rendering load increases with pixel count.

The Low preset shows the most dramatic scaling: 245.1 FPS at 1080p falls to 173.4 FPS at 1440p (29.3% drop) and 104.7 FPS at 4K (57.3% drop). The percentage reductions are remarkably similar across High and Low, suggesting that resolution scaling is primarily driven by the GPU's fill rate and memory bandwidth rather than shader complexity. The 644.6 GB/s bandwidth and 380.2 GPixel/s pixel rate are key factors here.

The gap between 1080p and 1440p is relatively consistent at around 29-30% across all presets, while the 1440p to 4K transition shows a larger relative drop (42-44%). This non-linear scaling indicates that at 4K, the GPU's resources become more constrained, particularly with the Ultra preset where the frame rate falls to 48.4 FPS. The CPU's role is comparatively minor at higher resolutions; its 3,309 single-thread Cinebench R23 score suggests it can easily feed the GPU at 1080p, but the scaling pattern shows the GPU becomes the limiting component as resolution increases.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo rank in Greedfall places this configuration at 469 out of 1,705 tested combinations, which is roughly the 72.5th percentile — meaning it outperforms about 72% of all tested systems. This is a strong result, though not top-tier, reflecting the balance between the CPU and GPU in this title. The CPU's percentile rank of 84 among all processors is higher than the combo's overall rank, suggesting that the GPU may be the more limiting factor in Greedfall's specific workload.

The nearest rival combos for the CPU alone show the i5-12600KF trading blows with the i9-10900K (0% delta in average score) and the i5-12600K (-0.1%), indicating that CPU choice within this performance tier has minimal impact on synthetic benchmarks. However, the game-specific results show that the CPU's 16 threads and high single-thread performance (3,309 in Cinebench R23) are sufficient to avoid bottlenecking the RX 9070 XT in most scenarios.

Compared to the GPU's nearest rivals in the overall benchmark database, the RX 9070 XT's 82nd percentile rank among all GPUs is notable, but its closest competitors (Radeon Pro 575, RTX A500 Mobile) are not gaming-focused cards. This suggests that in gaming workloads, the RX 9070 XT may perform differently than its synthetic scores indicate, and the measured FPS results in Greedfall confirm this by showing playable performance across all resolutions and settings.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is built on the Navi 48 chip with RDNA 4.0 architecture, fabricated on a 4nm process at TSMC. It contains 53,900 million transistors on a 357 mm² die, with 4,096 shading units, 256 TMUs, and 128 ROPs. The GPU's boost clock of 2,970 MHz and game clock of 2,400 MHz are complemented by a memory clock of 2,518 MHz, yielding 20.1 Gbps effective data rate across the 256-bit bus.

In Greedfall, the GPU's 16 GB VRAM capacity is more than sufficient for the highest preset at 4K, where the Ultra settings use less than half the available memory. The 644.6 GB/s bandwidth supports the high texture detail and draw distances typical of action RPGs without causing stutter or texture pop-in. The pixel rate of 380.2 GPixel/s and texture rate of 760.3 GTexel/s are directly relevant to the resolution scaling observed in the measured data.

The GPU's FP32 performance of 48.66 TFLOPS explains its strong showing at 1080p, where it achieves 245.1 FPS on Low settings. However, the dramatic drop to 48.4 FPS at 4K Ultra indicates that the ROP throughput and memory bandwidth become limiting factors at extreme resolutions. The 128 ROPs, while substantial, are tasked with filling 8.3 million pixels per frame at 4K, and the memory subsystem must deliver 644.6 GB/s to keep up. The measured results confirm that this GPU is best utilized at 1440p or below for high refresh rate gaming, with 4K reserved for High settings where 71.5 FPS remains playable.