Minimum

Settings Recommendations

The measured frame rate data for Minimum with the Intel Core i5-13400F and AMD Radeon RX 580 shows a clear hierarchy across the four available presets. At 1920x1080, the Low preset delivers 93.6 FPS average, which is the only setting tier that comfortably exceeds the 60 FPS threshold. Medium follows at 69.8 FPS, still playable but with a noticeable 25% reduction in headroom. High drops further to 61.7 FPS, essentially sitting right at the 60 FPS mark. Ultra falls to 45.5 FPS, which breaks the smoothness barrier.

Stepping up to 2560x1440 changes the calculus dramatically. Low produces 58 FPS, just shy of 60, while Medium yields 42.8 and High 38.8. Ultra at this resolution manages only 31.8 FPS. At 3840x2160, every preset falls below playable thresholds: Low hits 32.2, Medium 23.2, High 18.9, and Ultra 16.7.

The data suggests the optimal experience is the Medium preset at 1080p. It provides 69.8 FPS, which is 13% below the Low preset's peak but delivers substantially better visual fidelity per the settings hierarchy. The High preset at 1080p is a borderline choice at 61.7 FPS, but any frame drops below 60 would be noticeable. For players prioritizing smoothness above all, Low at 1080p is the only preset with substantial margin. At 1440p, Low is the sole viable option, and even it sits at 58 FPS — technically below the 60 FPS target. At 4K, no preset achieves playable performance, making that resolution impractical for this combination.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 580 brings 8 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus, yielding 256.0 GB/s of bandwidth. Its clock speeds are 1257 MHz base and 1340 MHz boost. The GPU's pixel rate is 42.88 GPixel/s and texture rate is 193.0 GTexel/s, with FP32 compute at 6.175 TFLOPS. These specifications place the RX 580 at the 53rd percentile among all GPUs in the benchmark database.

The measured FPS data reveals a GPU-bound scenario at higher resolutions. Looking at the scaling from 1080p to 1440p at Low settings, performance drops from 93.6 to 58 FPS — a 38% reduction. From 1440p to 4K at Low, it falls further to 32.2 FPS, another 44% drop. This steep degradation pattern is characteristic of a GPU that is saturated by pixel throughput demands. The RX 580's nearest rivals in aggregate benchmarks include the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (0% delta), GTX 950 (0.1% ahead), and AMD Radeon Pro 455 (1.1% ahead). These close margins in synthetic tests contrast with the game-specific results, where the RX 580's 8 GB frame buffer becomes relevant.

The game Minimum, released in 2014, was designed for hardware of that era. Yet at 4K Ultra, this GPU manages only 16.7 FPS. The data implies that even older titles can stress the RX 580's 32 ROPs and 2304 shading units when pushed to 4K resolution. The 8 GB VRAM appears sufficient for the game's textures at all tested settings, as no VRAM-related anomalies appear in the frame rate pattern — the bottleneck is raw compute and memory bandwidth.

FAQ

Q: What is the best resolution for this CPU-GPU combo in Minimum?

A: The data shows 1920x1080 is the only resolution where any preset achieves 60+ FPS. Low hits 93.6, Medium 69.8, and High 61.7. At 2560x1440, the best result is 58 FPS on Low, and at 3840x2160, even Low falls to 32.2 FPS.

Q: How much performance does the Ultra preset cost compared to Low?

A: At 1080p, Ultra delivers 45.5 FPS versus Low's 93.6 FPS — a 51% reduction. At 1440p, the gap narrows slightly: Ultra at 31.8 versus Low at 58, a 45% drop. At 4K, Ultra at 16.7 is 48% below Low's 32.2.

Q: Does the CPU become a limiting factor at any tested setting?

A: The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K follows a pattern consistent with GPU limitation throughout. The i5-13400F, with 10 cores and 16 threads boosting to 4.60 GHz, sits at the 82nd percentile among all CPUs. The consistent FPS drops as resolution increases indicate the GPU is the primary constraint at all settings.

Q: Is the RX 580 competitive with its nearest GPU rivals in this game?

A: The aggregate benchmark scores show the RX 580 is essentially tied with the GTX 570 (0% delta) and GTX 950 (0.1% delta). However, the game-specific measurements demonstrate that synthetic parity does not guarantee identical in-game performance, as this combo ranks 1603rd out of 1733 tested combinations.

Q: What settings should a player use for a locked 60 FPS experience at 1080p?

A: The Medium preset at 69.8 FPS provides a 16% buffer above 60 FPS. The High preset at 61.7 FPS has only a 3% margin, meaning any minor scene complexity increase could drop it below 60. Low at 93.6 FPS offers the most safety margin.

Q: How does the 4K performance compare to 1080p at the same settings?

A: At Low settings, 4K delivers 32.2 FPS versus 93.6 at 1080p — a 66% reduction. At Ultra, 4K's 16.7 FPS is 63% below 1080p's 45.5 FPS. The consistent ~65% penalty across settings indicates resolution scaling is the dominant factor.

How This Combo Ranks

The Intel Core i5-13400F paired with the AMD Radeon RX 580 ranks 1603rd out of 1733 tested combinations for Minimum. This places the combo in the bottom 8% of the database, which is a poor showing for a game from 2014. The CPU itself is not the issue — it ranks in the 82nd percentile among all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 25236, nearly identical to the Intel Core i7-13620H (0.1% delta) and slightly below the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D (-0.5% delta).

The GPU is the weak link. The RX 580 sits at the 53rd percentile among all GPUs, and its aggregate benchmark score of 13559 is barely different from the GTX 570 (0% delta) and GTX 950 (0.1% delta). This mid-pack GPU performance translates to bottom-tier game-specific results when paired with a high-end CPU. The data suggests that the CPU is capable of much higher frame rates, but the GPU cannot deliver them.

Notably, the combo rank is far worse than either component's individual percentile would suggest. A CPU at the 82nd percentile and a GPU at the 53rd percentile might imply a combined result around the 60th-70th percentile, yet the actual rank is below the 10th percentile. This discrepancy indicates that Minimum is particularly demanding on the GPU relative to the CPU, or that the RX 580's architecture is not well-optimized for this title's rendering path.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-13400F features 10 cores and 16 threads, with a base clock of 2.50 GHz and boost clock of 4.60 GHz. Its 20 MB shared L3 cache and 1.25 MB per-core L2 cache provide ample data for game logic. The CPU's benchmark results show strong multi-threaded performance: Cinebench R23 multicore scores 21279, and Geekbench multicore hits 10971. Single-thread performance is also solid, with Cinebench R23 singlecore at 3004 and PassMark single-thread at 3634.

In the context of Minimum, the CPU's role appears secondary to the GPU. Evidence comes from the frame rate scaling pattern. If the CPU were the bottleneck, we would expect similar FPS across resolutions at the same settings — but instead, FPS drops dramatically from 1080p to 4K. At Low settings, the 4K result (32.2 FPS) is 66% lower than 1080p (93.6 FPS), confirming the GPU is the limiting component.

The CPU's 65W TDP and Raptor Lake architecture provide more than enough compute headroom. The PassMark multithread score of 25032 and 3DMark 16-thread score of 7314 indicate substantial processing capability. The data implies that swapping in a weaker CPU would not meaningfully change Minimum's frame rates, as the RX 580 is already saturated. Conversely, pairing this CPU with a stronger GPU would likely yield significant FPS gains, especially at 1080p where Low preset already achieves 93.6 FPS.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured average FPS values are: Low 93.6, Medium 69.8, High 61.7, and Ultra 45.5. The spread from Low to Ultra is 48.1 FPS, representing a 51% drop. Medium to High shows a smaller 8.1 FPS difference (12% reduction), suggesting diminishing returns between these presets.

At 2560x1440, results are: Low 58, Medium 42.8, High 38.8, and Ultra 31.8. The Low-to-Ultra spread narrows to 26.2 FPS (45% drop). Medium and High are only 4 FPS apart here, indicating that these presets have similar GPU demands at this resolution.

At 3840x2160, the numbers fall sharply: Low 32.2, Medium 23.2, High 18.9, and Ultra 16.7. The Low-to-Ultra difference is 15.5 FPS (48% drop). The High to Ultra gap narrows to just 2.2 FPS, suggesting that at 4K, the GPU is so constrained that preset differences have minimal impact.

The data shows that the Low preset consistently provides the highest frame rate at every resolution, with Medium always being the next best. The gap between Low and Medium widens with resolution: 23.8 FPS at 1080p, 15.2 at 1440p, and 9 at 4K. This pattern indicates that the Medium preset's additional visual effects become progressively more expensive relative to the GPU's available headroom.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 1440p shows an average reduction of approximately 38% across all settings. From 1440p to 4K, the average additional reduction is approximately 45%. The cumulative 1080p-to-4K penalty averages around 66% across presets.

Breaking down by preset: Low drops from 93.6 to 58 to 32.2 (1080p to 1440p to 4K). The first step costs 35.6 FPS (38% reduction), the second costs 25.8 FPS (44% reduction). Medium goes from 69.8 to 42.8 to 23.2 — first step 27 FPS (39%), second step 19.6 FPS (46%). High: 61.7 to 38.8 to 18.9 — first step 22.9 FPS (37%), second step 19.9 FPS (51%). Ultra: 45.5 to 31.8 to 16.7 — first step 13.7 FPS (30%), second step 15.1 FPS (47%).

The non-linear scaling — where the 1440p-to-4K drop is consistently larger in percentage terms than the 1080p-to-1440p drop — indicates that the GPU is progressively more memory-bandwidth or fill-rate limited at higher pixel counts. The RX 580's 256.0 GB/s bandwidth and 42.88 GPixel/s pixel rate become increasingly strained as resolution climbs.

The data also reveals that the High preset scales most poorly from 1440p to 4K (51% reduction), while Low scales best (44%). This suggests that the High preset includes effects that are particularly expensive at 4K pixel counts. The Ultra preset shows the smallest 1080p-to-1440p drop (30%), implying that its additional cost is somewhat resolution-independent, but it still suffers the 47% penalty from 1440p to 4K.

Overall, the resolution scaling confirms that the RX 580 is the dominant bottleneck across all tested configurations. The CPU's strong single-thread and multi-thread performance does not translate into frame rate headroom at any resolution, as the GPU's pixel throughput and memory bandwidth are fully saturated even at 1080p Medium.