Minimum

# Minimum — AMD Ryzen 7 7700 + Intel Arc B390

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 paired with the Intel Arc B390 produces a heavily GPU-limited experience in Minimum, a 2014 third-person shooter. The Arc B390 sits at the 9th percentile of all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 1482, placing it just 1.3% above the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX and 2.7% above the GT 710. The Ryzen 7 7700, meanwhile, sits at the 87th percentile of all CPUs, so the processor is not the bottleneck in any measurable sense — the data confirms this is a case where the integrated graphics solution dictates playability across all resolutions and settings.

FAQ

*Q: Is the Intel Arc B390 capable of running Minimum at 1080p?*

A: Yes, but only at lower presets. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the average FPS is 95. Medium settings drop that to 72 FPS average, while High falls to 61 FPS. Ultra is the only 1080p preset that dips below 60 FPS, averaging 46 FPS.

Q: What is the best resolution for this combo if I want a stable 60 FPS experience?

A: The 1920x1080 Low preset delivers 95 FPS average, and 1080p Medium delivers 72 FPS. At 2560x1440, only the Low preset clears 60 FPS, averaging 61 FPS. At 4K, no preset reaches 60 FPS — the best is Low at 33 FPS.

Q: How does the Ryzen 7 7700 compare to its closest CPU rivals?

A: The 7700 has an average benchmark score of 40081, which is 0.1% higher than the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 (40048), 0.2% lower than the Intel Core 5 221E (40144), 0.4% lower than the AMD Ryzen 9 270 (40246), and 0.6% lower than the Intel Core i9-13905H (40313). These are all within a fraction of a percent, so the 7700 is essentially at parity with its nearest competitors.

Q: What GPU does the Arc B390 perform like?

A: The Arc B390's average benchmark score of 1482 places it 1.3% above the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX (1463), 1.5% above the GeForce 800M (1460), 2.5% above the GT 625 OEM (1446), and 2.7% above the GT 710 (1443). These are all very low-end parts, confirming the Arc B390 is an entry-level graphics solution.

Q: Does the Ryzen 7 7700's integrated graphics matter here?

A: The Ryzen 7 7700 includes Radeon Graphics as its integrated GPU, but the measured FPS data comes from the Intel Arc B390. The CPU itself has a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 5.30 GHz across 8 cores and 16 threads, which is far more processing power than Minimum needs.

Q: What is the combo's rank in this game?

A: The Ryzen 7 7700 + Intel Arc B390 combination ranks 2602 out of 2939 tested combos for Minimum, placing it in the bottom 12% of all configurations. This ranking reflects the GPU's low percentile standing rather than any CPU deficiency.

GPU Role

The Intel Arc B390 is the defining component in this configuration. Its architecture is Xe3-LPG, built on Intel's 3 nm process, with a base clock of 300 MHz and a boost clock of 2500 MHz. The chip, codenamed Panther Lake, contains 1536 shading units, 48 texture mapping units, and 24 raster output pipelines. It also includes 12 ray tracing cores. The pixel rate is 60.00 GPixel/s, and the texture rate is 120.0 GTexel/s, with FP32 performance rated at 7.680 TFLOPS and FP16 at 15.36 TFLOPS (2:1).

Memory is entirely system-shared, meaning the GPU draws from the same DDR5 pool as the CPU. The memory bus width, size, and type are all listed as "System Shared," with bandwidth described as "System Dependent." This is a fundamental constraint — the Arc B390 has no dedicated VRAM to work with, so performance scales with system memory configuration and bandwidth. The CPU's dual-channel memory bus provides 83.2 GB/s of bandwidth, but the GPU must share that with the processor.

The GPU's benchmark results reflect its low-end positioning. Its single 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 1482 puts it at the 9th percentile of all GPUs. The nearest rivals are all NVIDIA parts from a much older era: the GT 520MX (1463, 1.3% slower), the GeForce 800M (1460, 1.5% slower), the GT 625 OEM (1446, 2.5% slower), and the GT 710 (1443, 2.7% slower). This clustering of scores in the low 1400s to 1500s range tells a clear story: the Arc B390 performs like a legacy entry-level GPU, not a modern gaming part.

In Minimum, the GPU's limitations show immediately. At 1080p Low, the game averages 95 FPS, which sounds fine, but the frame rate drops by roughly 24% when moving to Medium (72 FPS) and another 15% when going to High (61 FPS). Ultra further reduces performance to 46 FPS. This steep scaling with settings is typical of a GPU that is running out of raw throughput and fill rate — the 24 ROPs are working hard even at 1080p.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 is a desktop processor from the 7000 series, built on Zen 4 architecture (codename Raphael) using TSMC's 5 nm process. It has 8 cores and 16 threads, with a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 5.30 GHz. The thermal design power is 65 W, and it supports DDR5 memory on the AMD Socket AM5 platform. The CPU die contains 6,570 million transistors on a 71 mm² die.

Cache is substantial: 64 KB of L1 per core, 1 MB of L2 per core, and 32 MB of shared L3. This is a modern high-end desktop CPU with an average benchmark score of 40081, placing it at the 87th percentile of all CPUs. Its 3DMark scores scale well with thread count: 1049 single-thread, 2043 at 2 threads, 3931 at 4 threads, 6933 at 8 threads, and 8484 at 16 threads. The max-thread score of 8479 confirms near-linear scaling beyond 8 threads.

Cinebench results reinforce this. The R23 multicore score is 18760, with a single-core score of 1930. Geekbench shows 15371 multicore and 2525 single-core. PassMark scores are similarly strong: multithread at 34470, single-thread at 4063, integer math at 110295, floating-point math at 66246, and data compression at 405084.

In Minimum, the CPU is never the limiting factor. The game is a third-person shooter from 2014, and even the highest FPS measured in this dataset (95 FPS at 1080p Low) is far below what the 7700 can deliver. The CPU's nearest rivals — the Ryzen AI 9 365, Core 5 221E, Ryzen 9 270, and Core i9-13905H — all score within 0.6% of the 7700, confirming that this processor sits in a tightly contested performance band. But none of that matters for this game, because the GPU holds everything back.

The CPU does provide one important benefit: its 24 PCIe Gen 5 lanes and DDR5 memory support give the system a solid foundation. The Arc B390 relies on system-shared memory, so the Ryzen's dual-channel DDR5 controller and 83.2 GB/s bandwidth are directly relevant to GPU performance. A weaker memory subsystem would make the already-limited Arc B390 perform even worse.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data covers three resolutions (1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3840x2160) and four settings presets (Low, Medium, High, Ultra). Not all cells have min/max FPS recorded, but the averages tell a consistent story.

1920x1080:

• Low: 95 FPS average
• Medium: 72 FPS average, 62 min, 83 max
• High: 61 FPS average
• Ultra: 46 FPS average

2560x1440:

• Low: 61 FPS average
• Medium: 47 FPS average, 40 min, 54 max
• High: 39 FPS average
• Ultra: 30 FPS average

3840x2160:

• Low: 33 FPS average
• Medium: 25 FPS average, 21 min, 29 max
• High: 21 FPS average
• Ultra: 16 FPS average

The 1080p Medium preset shows a min FPS of 62 and max of 83, giving a 21 FPS spread. The 1440p Medium preset shows 40 min and 54 max, an 14 FPS spread. The 4K Medium preset shows 21 min and 29 max, an 8 FPS spread. The narrowing frame range at higher resolutions indicates the GPU is becoming more consistently saturated — there is less headroom for variation when every frame is a struggle.

At 1080p, the difference between Low and Ultra is 49 FPS (95 vs 46), a 51% drop. At 1440p, the spread is 31 FPS (61 vs 30), a 51% drop. At 4K, the spread is 17 FPS (33 vs 16), again a 51% drop. The proportional impact of settings is remarkably consistent across resolutions, which is a hallmark of a GPU-bound scenario where the same bottleneck applies at every pixel count.

Resolution Scaling

Moving from 1080p to 1440p to 4K shows how quickly the Arc B390 runs out of capability. At Low settings, the FPS drops from 95 at 1080p to 61 at 1440p — a 36% reduction — and then to 33 at 4K, another 46% reduction. The total drop from 1080p Low to 4K Low is 65%, meaning the card loses nearly two-thirds of its frame rate when moving from 2.1 million pixels to 8.3 million pixels.

At Medium settings, the progression is 72, 47, and 25 FPS. From 1080p to 1440p that is a 35% drop; from 1440p to 4K it is a 47% drop. High settings show 61, 39, and 21 FPS (36% and 46% drops). Ultra shows 46, 30, and 16 FPS (35% and 47% drops).

The pattern is consistent: roughly a 35% FPS loss from 1080p to 1440p, then roughly a 46% loss from 1440p to 4K. This is not linear scaling with pixel count. Going from 1080p to 1440p increases pixels by 78%, yet FPS drops by only about 35%. That suggests some other bottleneck is partially masking the pixel count increase — likely memory bandwidth or fill rate limits that cap performance more at lower resolutions, so the relative impact of more pixels is dampened.

At 4K, the GPU is thoroughly overwhelmed. The best average is 33 FPS on Low, and the worst is 16 FPS on Ultra. Even the most forgiving preset fails to reach 30 FPS on average at 4K. The limiting component is unequivocally the GPU; the Ryzen 7 7700 has the compute headroom to run this game at hundreds of FPS if paired with a capable discrete GPU.

Settings Recommendations

The data points to one clear conclusion: at 1080p, the Low preset is the only safe choice for consistent playability, and even that has a 95 FPS average with no recorded minimum. Medium at 1080p delivers 72 FPS average (62 min), which is also playable, but High at 61 FPS average is borderline — it clears 60 FPS on average but leaves very little headroom for drops. Ultra at 46 FPS is not recommended for a game that benefits from smooth frame pacing.

At 1440p, the situation tightens considerably. Low averages 61 FPS, which is technically playable but leaves no margin. Medium averages 47 FPS with a 40 FPS minimum, which will feel stuttery in a third-person shooter. High at 39 FPS and Ultra at 30 FPS are not practical for responsive gameplay. If 1440p is the target resolution, Low is the only sensible preset, and even then, expect occasional dips below 60 FPS.

At 4K, there is no playable preset. Low averages 33 FPS, Medium 25 FPS, High 21 FPS, and Ultra 16 FPS. None of these are acceptable for a shooter. The recommendation is to avoid 4K with this configuration entirely.

The best experience per the measured rows is 1080p Low, which delivers 95 FPS average — more than enough for smooth gameplay in a title from 2014. If visual quality matters more than raw frame rate, 1080p Medium at 72 FPS average with a 62 FPS minimum is the highest preset that still maintains a playable floor. The 1080p High preset at 61 FPS average is too close to the 60 FPS threshold to recommend, as any demanding scene could push it below.

Given the GPU's 9th percentile standing and its clustering with decade-old NVIDIA parts, the Arc B390 is simply not built for high-fidelity gaming. The Ryzen 7 7700 is doing everything it can to feed the GPU, but the integrated-class graphics solution is the hard ceiling. For Minimum, the practical choice is 1080p Low or Medium — anything higher is an exercise in diminishing returns that the hardware cannot sustain.