Greedfall

Greedfall, an Action RPG released on 2019-09-09, is examined here with the Intel Core i5-14600K and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060. The measured FPS data spans 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160 at Low, Medium, High, and Ultra settings. The combination ranks 944th out of 1705 tested combos, placing it near the middle of the field.

Resolution Scaling

At 1080p High, the combo produces 128.1 FPS. Moving to 1440p High drops the average to 88.2, and at 4K High it falls to 52.3. The scaling from 1080p to 4K at High settings reduces the frame rate by more than half, indicating that the GPU becomes the limiting component as pixel count rises. At Low settings, the same pattern appears: 181.2 FPS at 1080p, 127 at 1440p, and 77 at 4K. The 4K Low average of 77 is just under the 1080p Ultra average of 80.7, which shows that the resolution jump costs more performance than the preset jump from Low to Ultra at 1080p.

At Medium settings, the progression is 144.1 (1080p), 101 (1440p), and 59.2 (4K). At Ultra, it is 80.7, 57, and 35.6. The Ultra preset at 4K produces 35.6 FPS, the lowest figure in the dataset. The gap between High and Ultra at 4K is larger than the gap between Medium and High, indicating that the Ultra preset is disproportionately demanding at this resolution. Across all settings, the 4K results show a consistent pattern: the GPU is the primary constraint, with the CPU's influence fading as resolution increases.

FAQ

Q: What is the average FPS at 1080p High in Greedfall with this combo?

A: The measured average is 128.1 FPS.

Q: How does the Intel Core i5-14600K compare to its nearest rival?

A: The i5-14600K has an average benchmark score of 49166, which is 0.2% above the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (49062) and 0.4% below the Intel Core i5-14600KF (49367).

Q: What is the RTX 4060's position relative to its nearest rivals?

A: The RTX 4060 averages 23181, sitting 0.6% below the AMD Radeon RX 6600M (23321) and 0.7% above the Intel Arc B580 (23021).

Q: What is the combo's rank among tested configurations?

A: The combo ranks 944 out of 1705 tested combos.

Q: What is the CPU's percentile standing?

A: The i5-14600K is in the 93rd percentile among all CPUs.

Q: What is the GPU's percentile standing?

A: The RTX 4060 is in the 66th percentile among all GPUs.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with a 5 nm process. It carries 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, providing 272.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The base clock is 1830 MHz, boosting to 2460 MHz, while the memory runs at 2125 MHz (17 Gbps effective). The GPU has 3072 shading units, 96 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 24 RT cores, and 96 tensor cores, with FP32 performance of 15.11 TFLOPS. Its TDP is 115 W. The launch MSRP is 299 USD.

In Greedfall, the GPU's role is most visible at 4K. The Ultra preset produces 35.6 FPS, the lowest in the dataset, while High produces 52.3. The memory configuration is 8 GB GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus, and the data shows a steep drop at Ultra across all resolutions. The GPU's 66th percentile ranking among all GPUs places it in the mid-range, consistent with the 4K results being the weakest in the dataset. At 1080p, the GPU produces 80.7 FPS on Ultra, which is lower than the 1440p High result of 88.2, indicating that the Ultra preset at 1080p is more demanding than the High preset at 1440p.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers 181.2 FPS on Low, 144.1 on Medium, 128.1 on High, and 80.7 on Ultra. The step from High to Ultra is substantial, dropping from 128.1 to 80.7. At 2560x1440, the figures are 127 on Low, 101 on Medium, 88.2 on High, and 57 on Ultra. At 3840x2160, the figures are 77 on Low, 59.2 on Medium, 52.3 on High, and 35.6 on Ultra.

Across all resolutions, the Ultra preset is the most demanding. At 1080p, Ultra is 80.7, which is lower than 1440p High at 88.2. This indicates that the Ultra preset at 1080p is more demanding than the High preset at 1440p. Similarly, 4K High at 52.3 is lower than 1440p Ultra at 57, showing that resolution scaling continues to pressure the GPU even at High settings. The Low preset at 4K (77) is close to the Ultra preset at 1080p (80.7), which further illustrates that resolution has a larger impact than the preset level in this game.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo ranks 944 out of 1705 tested combos, placing it just above the midpoint of the database. The CPU is in the 93rd percentile among all CPUs, while the GPU is in the 66th percentile among all GPUs. The disparity between the two percentiles suggests that the RTX 4060 is the limiting component in this pairing. The CPU's average benchmark score of 49166 is close to its nearest rivals: the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X scores 49062 (0.2% lower), the Intel Core i5-14600KF scores 49367 (0.4% higher), the AMD EPYC 4345P scores 49595 (0.9% higher), and the Intel Xeon Gold 5318H scores 48698 (1% lower). The GPU's average of 23181 is similarly close to its rivals: the AMD Radeon RX 6600M scores 23321 (0.6% higher), the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti scores 23338 (0.7% higher), the Intel Arc B580 scores 23021 (0.7% lower), and the AMD Radeon 760M scores 22999 (0.8% lower).

The rank of 944 out of 1705, combined with the CPU's high percentile and the GPU's mid-range percentile, points to a configuration where the GPU is the bottleneck in Greedfall. The measured FPS data supports this: at 4K Ultra, the combo falls to 35.6 FPS, while at 1080p Low it reaches 181.2.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-14600K is a 14-core, 20-thread processor from the Core 14th Gen series, based on Raptor Lake architecture. It has a base clock of 3.50 GHz and a boost clock of 5.30 GHz, with 24 MB of shared L3 cache. The TDP is 125 W. The launch MSRP is $319.

In synthetic benchmarks, the CPU scores 32881 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 4642 in single-core. Geekbench scores are 15846 multi-core and 2803 single-core. PassMark multithread is 38682 and single-thread is 4270. These figures place the CPU in the 93rd percentile among all CPUs.

In Greedfall, the CPU's strong single-thread performance is reflected in the 1080p Low result of 181.2 FPS, which is the highest figure in the dataset. At 1080p, the gap between Low and Medium is 181.2 versus 144.1, and between Medium and High is 144.1 versus 128.1. The relatively small drop from Medium to High suggests that the CPU is not the primary bottleneck at 1080p; the GPU handles the increased settings load. At 4K, the CPU's influence diminishes further, as the GPU becomes the limiting factor. The boost clock of 5.30 GHz and the 24 MB L3 cache are the key specifications that support the high 1080p frame rates.