Greedfall

FAQ

Q: What is the combo rank of the Intel Core i5-9400 with the AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT in Greedfall?

A: This combo ranks 1705 out of 3703 tested combinations in Greedfall, placing it in the upper-middle tier of all tested CPU-GPU pairings for this game.

Q: What average frame rate does this combo achieve at 1080p with High settings?

A: At 1920x1080 with High settings, the combo delivers an average of 136 FPS. With Medium settings at the same resolution, it averages 150 FPS, and with Low settings, it reaches 191 FPS.

Q: How does the CPU's multi-core performance compare to its nearest rivals?

A: The Intel Core i5-9400 scores 6629 in Cinebench R23 multi-core. Its closest rival, the Intel Core i7-1068NG7, scores 2259 on average across benchmarks, just 0.2% higher. The AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 trails by 0.4% with an average score of 2246.

Q: What is the GPU's VRAM capacity and memory bandwidth?

A: The AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT features 12 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, delivering 432.0 GB/s of bandwidth. Its memory clock runs at 2250 MHz, translating to 18 Gbps effective.

Q: Does the combo maintain playable frame rates at 4K?

A: At 3840x2160 with Medium settings, the combo averages 62 FPS with a minimum of 53 FPS. With High settings at 4K, it drops to 56 FPS average. Ultra settings at 4K yield only 36 FPS average, which is below typical playability thresholds.

Q: What is the GPU's percentile ranking among all GPUs?

A: The Radeon RX 6750 XT sits at the 71st percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 26011. Its nearest rival, the AMD Radeon R9 M395X, scores 25891, just 0.5% lower.

How This Combo Ranks

The pairing of the Intel Core i5-9400 with the AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT occupies position 1705 out of 3703 tested combinations in Greedfall. That places it in the 46th percentile of all tested combos — a solidly mid-pack result. The rank reflects a balanced pairing: the CPU is not a bottleneck at most settings, and the GPU carries the load at higher resolutions.

The data shows a clear scaling pattern. At 1080p, the combo is heavily GPU-bound at lower settings, with Low settings producing 191 FPS average. That number drops to 150 FPS at Medium and 136 FPS at High. At 1440p, the same settings yield 132, 104, and 94 FPS respectively. At 4K, the average falls to 79 FPS on Low, 62 FPS on Medium, and 56 FPS on High. The Ultra preset is the outlier across all resolutions: 87 FPS at 1080p, 60 FPS at 1440p, and just 36 FPS at 4K.

The rank of 1705 suggests this combo is neither exceptional nor disappointing for Greedfall. It outperforms roughly 55% of tested combinations, which aligns with the CPU's 47th percentile among all CPUs and the GPU's 71st percentile among all GPUs. The CPU is the weaker link in this pairing, but not by a margin that cripples performance at typical gaming resolutions.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-9400 is a 6-core, 6-thread processor based on the Coffee Lake architecture, manufactured on Intel's 14 nm process. It runs at a base clock of 2.90 GHz and boosts up to 4.10 GHz. The chip has 64 KB of L1 cache per core, 256 KB of L2 per core, and 9 MB of shared L3 cache. It supports dual-channel DDR4 memory with 42.7 GB/s of bandwidth, and connects via PCIe Gen 3 with 16 lanes. The integrated UHD 630 graphics are present but irrelevant for this discrete GPU pairing.

Benchmark data shows the i5-9400 scoring 6629 in Cinebench R23 multi-core, 2784 in Cinebench R20 multi-core, and 668 in Cinebench R15 multi-core. Single-core scores are 935 in R23, 392 in R20, and 94 in R15. Geekbench results show 5141 multi-core and 1389 single-core. The average benchmark score across all tests is 2254, placing the CPU at the 47th percentile among all CPUs.

In Greedfall, the CPU's 6 cores and 6 threads are sufficient to feed the RX 6750 XT at 1080p and 1440p. The game is not heavily threaded, and the i5-9400's boost clock of 4.10 GHz provides adequate single-thread performance for the game's logic and physics. The CPU's nearest rivals — the Intel Core i7-1068NG7 (avg score 2259, delta -0.2%), the Intel Core i7-10710U (2248, +0.3%), the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 (2246, +0.4%), and the Intel Core i3-10305 (2264, -0.4%) — are all within a 1% band of the i5-9400's average score. This indicates that swapping the CPU for any of these would produce nearly identical results in Greedfall.

The CPU's 47th percentile ranking means it sits just below the median of all tested CPUs. For a game like Greedfall, which launched in 2019 and does not demand high core counts, this is not a limiting factor. The data confirms: at 1080p Low, the combo reaches 191 FPS, which is far beyond what the CPU could bottleneck at that resolution.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data covers three resolutions (1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3840x2160) and four settings presets (Low, Medium, High, Ultra). All numbers are average FPS unless otherwise noted.

At 1920x1080:

• Low: 191 FPS average
• Medium: 150 FPS average, with a minimum of 128 FPS and maximum of 173 FPS
• High: 136 FPS average
• Ultra: 87 FPS average

At 2560x1440:

• Low: 132 FPS average
• Medium: 104 FPS average, with a minimum of 88 FPS and maximum of 120 FPS
• High: 94 FPS average
• Ultra: 60 FPS average

At 3840x2160:

• Low: 79 FPS average
• Medium: 62 FPS average, with a minimum of 53 FPS and maximum of 71 FPS
• High: 56 FPS average
• Ultra: 36 FPS average

The scaling from 1080p to 1440p is roughly linear: dropping from 191 to 132 FPS at Low settings represents a 31% reduction, while at High settings the drop is from 136 to 94 FPS, a 31% reduction as well. At Medium settings, the drop is from 150 to 104 FPS, a 31% reduction. The resolution scaling is consistent across settings, indicating the GPU is the primary bottleneck at all three resolutions.

The jump from 1440p to 4K is steeper. At Low settings, the drop is from 132 to 79 FPS, a 40% reduction. At Medium, it's from 104 to 62 FPS, a 40% reduction. At High, it's from 94 to 56 FPS, a 40% reduction. This suggests that at 4K, the GPU's memory bandwidth (432.0 GB/s) and pixel throughput (166.4 GPixel/s) become more significant factors.

The only settings with reported minimum and maximum frame times are Medium at all three resolutions. At 1080p Medium, the minimum of 128 FPS and maximum of 173 FPS indicate a 45 FPS spread. At 1440p Medium, the spread is 32 FPS (88 to 120). At 4K Medium, the spread narrows to 18 FPS (53 to 71). This tightening of frame time variance at higher resolutions is typical — the GPU becomes more consistently saturated.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT is built on the RDNA 2.0 architecture, using the Navi 22 chip manufactured on TSMC's 7 nm process. The die contains 17,200 million transistors on a 335 mm² area, with a transistor density of 51.3 million per square millimeter. The GPU has 2560 shading units, 160 texture mapping units, and 64 render output units. It also includes 40 ray tracing cores.

Clock speeds are substantial: a base clock of 2150 MHz, a boost clock of 2600 MHz, and a game clock of 2495 MHz. Memory runs at 2250 MHz, which translates to 18 Gbps effective across the 192-bit bus. The 12 GB of GDDR6 memory provides 432.0 GB/s of bandwidth. Pixel rate is 166.4 GPixel/s, texture rate is 416.0 GTexel/s, and FP32 performance is 13.31 TFLOPS. FP16 performance is 26.62 TFLOPS at a 2:1 ratio.

The GPU's benchmark results include a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 2548, a Geekbench Metal score of 137249, OpenCL score of 16360, and Vulkan score of 98089. PassMark scores are 125 for DirectX 10, 180 for DirectX 11, 80 for DirectX 12, and 263 for DirectX 9. The G2D score is 972, G3D is 20700, and GPU compute is 9550. The average benchmark score is 26011, placing the GPU at the 71st percentile among all GPUs.

In Greedfall, the RX 6750 XT's 12 GB of VRAM is more than sufficient — the game's maximum memory usage at 4K Ultra is well under that figure. The 192-bit memory bus and 432.0 GB/s bandwidth handle the game's texture streaming without issue. The GPU's nearest rivals — the AMD Radeon R9 M395X (25891, +0.5%), AMD FirePro W7100 (25856, +0.6%), AMD FirePro D700 (25842, +0.7%), and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile (25740, +1.1%) — are all within a 1.1% band of the RX 6750 XT's average score, though these are largely compute-oriented or older gaming parts.

The GPU's 71st percentile ranking is notably higher than the CPU's 47th percentile. This asymmetry explains the combo's overall mid-pack rank of 1705/3703: the GPU is clearly the stronger component, but at lower resolutions and settings, the CPU becomes the limiting factor. At 1080p Low, the combo hits 191 FPS, which is likely near the CPU's practical ceiling for this game. As resolution increases, the GPU takes over as the primary bottleneck.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data provides clear guidance for optimal settings. At 1920x1080, the High preset delivers 136 FPS average, which is well above the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay. Ultra at 1080p yields 87 FPS, still playable but with diminishing returns. The sweet spot at 1080p is High: it offers 136 FPS, which is 49 FPS higher than Ultra's 87 FPS, at a visual quality that is only marginally reduced.

At 2560x1440, the High preset produces 94 FPS average. This is the recommended choice for 1440p gaming. Ultra at 1440p drops to 60 FPS average, which is exactly at the playability threshold. Medium at 1440p gives 104 FPS, but the visual quality reduction is noticeable. The data suggests High at 1440p is the best balance: 94 FPS is comfortably above 60, and the quality is high.

At 3840x2160, the situation is more constrained. High settings yield 56 FPS average, slightly below the 60 FPS target. Medium at 4K gives 62 FPS average with a minimum of 53 FPS, which is the only 4K preset that stays above 60 FPS on average. Low at 4K reaches 79 FPS, but the visual fidelity is severely compromised. For 4K, Medium is the recommended preset: it delivers 62 FPS average and the minimum of 53 FPS is acceptable for most players.

The Ultra preset is not recommended at any resolution. At 1080p it produces 87 FPS, at 1440p it produces 60 FPS, and at 4K it produces 36 FPS. The visual improvements from High to Ultra are marginal in Greedfall, but the performance cost is steep — a 36% reduction from High to Ultra at 1080p, 36% at 1440p, and 36% at 4K. The consistent 36% penalty across resolutions indicates that Ultra settings tax the GPU uniformly, likely through increased draw distances and shadow quality.

For players with 60 Hz displays, the High preset at 1440p is the best experience: 94 FPS average provides headroom for frame time spikes, and the visual quality is near-maximum. For 1080p displays, High at 136 FPS is ideal for high refresh rate monitors. For 4K displays, Medium at 62 FPS is the only preset that maintains an average above 60 FPS, making it the default recommendation. The data does not support using Ultra in any scenario for this combo.