Minimum

The AMD Ryzen 5 8400F and AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT combination delivers a performance curve in Minimum that clearly illustrates the shifting balance between CPU and GPU workload as resolution climbs. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the combo produces 176.8 FPS, but this drops to 113.6 FPS at High settings and further to 89.3 FPS at Ultra. Moving to 2560x1440, the spread narrows in absolute terms: Low settings yield 112.8 FPS, High produces 73.5 FPS, and Ultra falls to 59.1 FPS. At 3840x2160, the pressure on the graphics subsystem becomes dominant, with Low settings hitting 60.8 FPS, High at 38.5 FPS, and Ultra plummeting to 32.0 FPS. The scaling from 1080p Low to 4K Low represents a 65.6% reduction in frame rate, while the same resolution jump at Ultra settings shows a 64.2% drop. This pattern indicates that the Radeon RX 7600 XT is the primary limiter at higher resolutions, whereas the 1080p results, particularly at Low settings, suggest the CPU is capable of pushing well beyond 170 FPS.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the database of tested combinations, this pairing sits at rank 1125 out of 1733 combos for Minimum, placing it in the lower third of all tested systems. The percentile ranking for the CPU alone is 82, meaning the Ryzen 5 8400F outperforms 82% of all processors in the database. The GPU, however, holds a percentile rank of 63, indicating that the graphics card is the weaker link in this pairing. The combo’s overall rank of 1125 out of 1733 suggests that while the CPU is strong, the GPU holds the system back from competing with higher-tier configurations. Compared to similar AMD pairings, the Ryzen 5 8400F’s average benchmark score of 25064 puts it nearly identical to the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, which scores 25057 with a deltaPct of 0. The CPU also sits within 0.3% of the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F, which scores 24993, and within 0.2% of the AMD EPYC 9474F at 25103. This indicates that the processor is well-matched to its peers in raw compute, but the GPU’s performance relative to its rivals — such as the AMD Radeon RX 7600, which scores 20258 with a deltaPct of -0.6, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER at 19774 with a deltaPct of 1.9 — shows the graphics card is only marginally ahead of older-generation parts.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is built on the RDNA 3.0 architecture with the Navi 33 chip, manufactured on a 6 nm process by TSMC. It features 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, providing 288.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The card’s base clock is 1980 MHz, with a boost clock of 2755 MHz and a game clock of 2470 MHz. Memory runs at 2250 MHz, or 18 Gbps effective. The GPU has 2048 shading units, 128 texture mapping units, and 64 render output units, along with 32 ray tracing cores. Its pixel rate is 176.3 GPixel/s, and the texture rate is 352.6 GTexel/s. In terms of compute, the card delivers 22.57 TFLOPS of FP32 performance and 45.14 TFLOPS of FP16 with a 2:1 ratio. The GPU’s average benchmark score is 20146, with a percentile rank of 63 among all GPUs. In Minimum, the 16 GB frame buffer is more than sufficient at all tested settings, as the game’s 2014 release date means texture memory demands are modest. The bottleneck at 4K Ultra, where the combo drops to 32.0 FPS, is clearly the GPU’s raw compute throughput rather than memory capacity. The card’s performance in this title is consistent with its mid-range positioning, as it outpaces the AMD Radeon RX 460 (score 20088, deltaPct 0.3) but trails the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile (score 20534, deltaPct -1.9).

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo demonstrates its peak performance. Low settings produce 176.8 FPS, Medium delivers 134.1 FPS, High reaches 113.6 FPS, and Ultra drops to 89.3 FPS. The transition from Low to Medium represents a 24.2% drop, while Medium to High is a 15.3% reduction, and High to Ultra is a 21.4% decline. These figures suggest that the GPU is handling the workload efficiently at this resolution, with the CPU providing ample headroom. At 2560x1440, the frame rates scale down proportionally: Low yields 112.8 FPS, Medium produces 86.2 FPS, High hits 73.5 FPS, and Ultra settles at 59.1 FPS. The drop from 1080p Low to 1440p Low is 36.2%, while the same resolution change at Ultra settings results in a 33.8% decrease. At 3840x2160, the GPU becomes the clear limiting factor. Low settings achieve 60.8 FPS, which is a 46.1% reduction from 1440p Low. Medium produces 45.4 FPS, High drops to 38.5 FPS, and Ultra falls to 32.0 FPS. The scaling from 1440p Ultra to 4K Ultra is a 45.9% reduction, indicating that the GPU’s compute resources are saturated at this resolution. Notably, the difference between 4K Low and 4K Ultra is 28.8 FPS, or 47.4%, which is a wider gap than at lower resolutions, confirming that the GPU’s shading units and texture rate are the primary determinants of performance at 4K.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 8400F is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 4 architecture, codenamed Phoenix, and built on TSMC’s 4 nm process. It operates with a base clock of 4.20 GHz and a boost clock of 4.70 GHz, with a TDP of 65 W. The CPU features 64 KB of L1 cache per core, 1 MB of L2 cache per core, and 16 MB of shared L3 cache. It supports DDR5 memory in a dual-channel configuration, providing 83.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The processor’s average benchmark score is 25064, with a percentile rank of 82. In single-threaded workloads, the CPU scores 951 in 3DMark single-thread, 296 in Cinebench R15 single-core, and 3684 in Passmark single-thread. Multi-threaded performance is strong, with Cinebench R23 multicore reaching 20851 and Passmark multithread hitting 24530. In Minimum, the CPU’s influence is most apparent at 1080p Low, where the combo achieves 176.8 FPS, suggesting the processor can feed the GPU with frames well above 170 FPS. However, at 4K Ultra, the CPU is not the limiting factor, as the GPU’s 32.0 FPS result is far below what the processor can deliver. The Ryzen 5 8400F’s nearest rival, the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, has a nearly identical average score of 25057, confirming that this CPU performs on par with older 8-core parts despite having fewer cores, thanks to its higher clocks and more efficient architecture. The processor’s 16 MB of L3 cache, while modest by modern standards, is sufficient for this game’s single-threaded and lightly-threaded workloads.