Minimum

The Intel Core i5-11400F and AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT pairing delivers a robust experience in Minimum, with the data showing that the "High" preset offers the most balanced performance across all tested resolutions. At 1920x1080, the combo achieves 111.4 FPS on High, which is a substantial 26.5 FPS improvement over the 84.8 FPS recorded on Ultra, while still providing a significant visual uplift over the 133.9 FPS of Medium. Moving to 2560x1440, High remains the sweet spot at 71.4 FPS, staying comfortably above the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay, whereas Ultra dips to 58.1 FPS. At 3840x2160, High drops to 40.1 FPS, which is playable but not ideal for fast-paced action; here, Medium at 48.8 FPS is the better choice if visual fidelity is a priority, while Low at 63.1 FPS is the only 4K setting that maintains a fluid frame rate. The Ultra preset is consistently the most demanding, costing 23.7% performance at 1080p compared to High, and it pushes the system to its limits at higher resolutions. Therefore, High is the recommended preset for a effortless experience, with Medium serving as a viable fallback for 4K displays.

GPU Role

The Radeon RX 7600 XT is the primary driver of frame rates in Minimum, and its memory configuration plays a critical role in sustaining performance. The GPU’s 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus provides 288.0 GB/s of bandwidth, which is ample for this title’s asset streaming at high resolutions. The data indicates that the card’s 2048 shading units and 64 ROPs, running at a boost clock of 2755 MHz, are well-utilized; the transition from Low to Ultra settings at 1920x1080 shows a performance scaling from 175.1 FPS down to 84.8 FPS, a 51.6% reduction that demonstrates the GPU’s compute load increasing with graphical complexity. The GPU's 22.57 TFLOPS of FP32 compute is the bottleneck at 4K, where even on Low settings the frame rate drops to 63.1 FPS, suggesting that the card’s raw throughput is being saturated by the pixel count. The 63rd percentile ranking among all GPUs places it in a solid mid-range tier, and the benchmark data shows it is effectively 0.6% behind the non-XT Radeon RX 7600, indicating that the extra VRAM does not translate to a major compute advantage in this specific workload. The pixel rate of 176.3 GPixel/s and texture rate of 352.6 GTexel/s are the key specs for understanding 4K performance; the former dictates fill-rate limits, which explains why Ultra at 3840x2160 only manages 27.4 FPS.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-11400F provides a stable foundation for the GPU, with its 6 cores and 12 threads ensuring that frame pacing remains consistent. The processor’s 2.60 GHz base clock and 4.40 GHz boost clock are sufficient to feed the Radeon RX 7600 XT, as evidenced by the fact that at 1080p, the frame rates scale linearly with GPU load, suggesting no CPU-induced stutter. The 12 MB of shared L3 cache is adequate for the game’s logic, and the single-thread performance, as measured by a 3DMark score of 868, is strong enough to handle the game’s primary simulation thread. The CPU’s 75th percentile ranking among all processors shows it is a capable partner, and its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 14372 indicates that it will not bottleneck the GPU in a title like Minimum, which is not heavily threaded. The data shows that at 1920x1080 Low, the system reaches 175.1 FPS, which is a high enough ceiling to expose any CPU limitations; the fact that the GPU is still the limiting factor at this resolution, rather than the CPU, reflects the i5-11400F’s efficiency. The processor’s 65W TDP and dual-channel DDR4 memory support with 51.2 GB/s bandwidth are sufficient for this workload, and the benchmark results indicate that the CPU’s role is to maintain a consistent data stream to the GPU rather than to push raw frame rates.

How This Combo Ranks

In the broader context of all tested system combinations, this pairing of the Intel Core i5-11400F and AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT holds a rank of 1148 out of 1733 combos for Minimum. This places it in the lower-mid tier of the database, indicating that while it is not a top-tier configuration, it is far from the bottom of the barrel. The CPU’s average benchmark score of 17181 is nearly identical to its nearest rivals, with the AMD Ryzen 7 5700U scoring 17189 (a 0% delta) and the Intel Core Ultra 7 164U scoring 17215 (a -0.2% delta), showing that the processor is a known quantity in this performance bracket. The GPU’s average score of 20146 is similarly clustered, with the AMD Radeon RX 460 at 20088 (a 0.3% delta) and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER at 19774 (a 1.9% delta), which means the graphics card is performing as expected for its class. The combo’s rank is a function of both components working in concert, and the measured FPS data shows that the system’s overall capability is limited by the GPU at higher resolutions, while the CPU holds its own. This ranking suggests that users with this combo are getting a balanced, mid-range experience that is adequate for 1080p and 1440p gaming, but it will not compete with high-end rigs that occupy the top 100 ranks.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate progression from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 reveals a clear pattern of GPU-bound scaling, with the average FPS dropping by 63.6% when moving from 1080p High to 4K High (from 111.4 FPS to 40.1 FPS). This dramatic decline indicates that the Radeon RX 7600 XT is the limiting component, as the CPU’s workload does not increase proportionally with resolution. At Low settings, the scaling is less severe but still pronounced: 175.1 FPS at 1080p falls to 114.5 FPS at 1440p and then to 63.1 FPS at 4K, a 64% reduction from the lowest to highest resolution. This pattern holds across all presets, with Ultra experiencing the most significant drop from 84.8 FPS at 1080p to 27.4 FPS at 4K, a 67.7% decrease. The data suggests that the GPU’s 288.0 GB/s memory bandwidth and 176.3 GPixel/s fill rate are the primary constraints at 4K, as the number of pixels quadruples from 1080p to 4K, overwhelming the card’s bandwidth. Conversely, the CPU’s role becomes less relevant at higher resolutions, as the frame rate is dictated by the GPU’s ability to process geometry and textures. The 1440p results show a more moderate drop, with High at 71.4 FPS being a 35.9% reduction from 1080p, indicating that this resolution is the practical ceiling for maintaining high visual quality without sacrificing smoothness. Overall, the scaling behavior confirms that for 4K gameplay, users must reduce settings to Low or Medium to achieve playable frame rates, while 1440p High offers the best balance of visual fidelity and performance.