Outriders

Outriders, a looter shooter released on 2021-03-31, was benchmarked with the AMD Ryzen 5 8400F paired with the AMD Radeon RX 570. The measured results span 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160 across Low, Medium, High, and Ultra presets. This combination ranks 1601st out of 1693 measured combinations in the game, and the data is reported as measured, not estimated.

FAQ

Q: What average frame rate does the RX 570 deliver at 1920x1080 with the Medium preset in Outriders?

A: The measured average is 69.6 FPS. The same resolution with Low produces 100.9 FPS, High produces 56.8 FPS, and Ultra produces 37.4 FPS.

Q: Which settings/resolution combination produces the lowest measured average FPS?

A: The lowest average is 15.5 FPS at 3840x2160 Ultra. The 4K High preset is only slightly higher at 16.3 FPS.

Q: What GPU memory configuration does the RX 570 use?

A: The GPU has 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus, with a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s. The memory clock is 1750 MHz, or 7 Gbps effective.

Q: How does the Ryzen 5 8400F compare to its nearest CPU rivals in average benchmark score?

A: The 8400F's average benchmark score is 25064. It is 0.3% above the Ryzen 5 7500F (24993), level with the Ryzen 7 2700X (25057), 0.1% below the Ryzen AI 5 PRO 340 (25099), and 0.2% below the EPYC 9474F (25103).

Q: What is this combo's rank among tested Outriders combinations?

A: It ranks 1601st out of 1693 tested combinations.

Q: Which 2560x1440 preset produces the highest average FPS?

A: The Low preset, at 63 FPS. Medium averages 45.8 FPS, High averages 36.2 FPS, and Ultra averages 25.1 FPS.

GPU Role

The RX 570 is built on the Polaris 20 chip using the GCN 4.0 architecture on a 14 nm process. It has 2048 shading units, 128 TMUs, and 32 ROPs. Clocks are 1168 MHz base and 1244 MHz boost. The 4 GB GDDR5 frame buffer sits on a 256-bit bus and delivers 224.0 GB/s of bandwidth. Pixel throughput is 39.81 GPixel/s, texture throughput is 159.2 GTexel/s, and FP32 compute is 5.095 TFLOPS. The board is rated at 150 W TDP and connects through PCIe 3.0 x16.

These specifications appear directly in the Outriders measurements. At 3840x2160, the Low preset averages 32.2 FPS, while Medium drops to 26.2, High to 16.3, and Ultra to 15.5. The gap between 1080p and 4K grows as the preset gets heavier: Low falls from 100.9 at 1080p to 32.2 at 4K, while High falls from 56.8 to 16.3. This points to the GPU, specifically the 4 GB VRAM and 224.0 GB/s memory pipe, being the resource that saturates first as pixel count increases.

In aggregate benchmarks, the RX 570 scores 30158, putting it at the 74th percentile. Its average score sits 0.2% above the GeForce RTX 5060 (30109), 0.2% above the Radeon RX 7700 XT (30097), 0.6% above the Tesla M60 (29969), and 0.8% above the GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile (29928). These benchmark deltas are small, but in Outriders the game-level results show a GPU that can handle 1080p but is overwhelmed at 4K.

Settings Recommendations

Across the measured rows, the best experience depends on the target resolution. At 1920x1080, the Medium preset averages 69.6 FPS and is the recommended balance: it is above the High preset's 56.8 FPS, while the Low preset's 100.9 FPS is the only measured 1080p row with a higher average. Ultra at 1080p falls to 37.4 FPS, making it the weakest measured choice at this resolution.

At 2560x1440, only the Low preset reaches 63 FPS; Medium drops to 45.8 FPS. The measured data therefore favors Low for a playable 1440p experience. At 3840x2160, Low averages 32.2 FPS and is the highest 4K result; Medium, High, and Ultra trail at 26.2, 16.3, and 15.5 FPS respectively. For players prioritizing smooth motion over visual detail, 1080p Low is the strongest row. For a balance of quality and frame rate, 1080p Medium is the recommended preset.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the Low preset averages 100.9 FPS, Medium 69.6 FPS, High 56.8 FPS, and Ultra 37.4 FPS. The ordering is consistent: each higher preset reduces the average, with the Low-to-Medium step being the largest single drop in the resolution's data. At 2560x1440, Low averages 63 FPS, Medium 45.8 FPS, High 36.2 FPS, and Ultra 25.1 FPS. The same ordering holds, but every preset sits in a lower range.

At 3840x2160, Low averages 32.2 FPS, Medium 26.2 FPS, High 16.3 FPS, and Ultra 15.5 FPS. The 4K High and 4K Ultra results are nearly identical (16.3 vs 15.5), which suggests the Ultra preset adds little beyond High in this configuration while still carrying a similar frame-rate penalty. All measured FPS rows are averages; min and max fields are null in the data.

Resolution Scaling

The resolution scaling pattern is clear from the measured rows. For the Low preset, the average goes from 100.9 FPS at 1920x1080 to 63 FPS at 2560x1440 and then to 32.2 FPS at 3840x2160. Medium moves from 69.6 to 45.8 to 26.2. High moves from 56.8 to 36.2 to 16.3. Ultra moves from 37.4 to 25.1 to 15.5.

The largest relative collapse occurs on High, which falls from 56.8 FPS at 1080p to 16.3 FPS at 4K; even the Low preset loses more than half of its 1080p average by 4K (100.9 to 32.2). Because the CPU's synthetic scores are high across both single-thread and multi-thread tests, and because FPS scales inversely with resolution, the limiting component in these Outriders results is the GPU rather than the CPU. A CPU-bound pairing would show much flatter frame rates as resolution changes.

CPU Role

The Ryzen 5 8400F provides 6 cores and 12 threads at a base clock of 4.20 GHz and boost clock of 4.70 GHz. It is a Zen 4 (Phoenix) part on the AMD Socket AM5 platform, built on a 4 nm process at TSMC with 25,000 million transistors on a 178 mm² die. Cache is 64 KB L1 per core, 1 MB L2 per core, and 16 MB shared L3. It supports DDR5 memory across a dual-channel bus with 83.2 GB/s bandwidth, and offers PCIe Gen 4 with 20 CPU lanes. TDP is 65 W.

Single-thread performance is strong: Cinebench R23 single-core 2943, 3dmark single-thread 951, PassMark single-thread 3684. Multi-thread results are also healthy: Cinebench R23 multicore 20851, 3dmark 16-thread 6091, PassMark multithread 24530. The CPU's average benchmark score is 25064, at the 82nd percentile. Its nearest rivals are essentially tied: Ryzen 7 2700X at 25057 (0% delta), Ryzen AI 5 PRO 340 at 25099 (-0.1%), EPYC 9474F at 25103 (-0.2%), and Ryzen 5 7500F at 24993 (0.3%).

In Outriders, the 8400F's role is most visible in the 1080p Low result: 100.9 FPS, the highest average in the dataset. This indicates the CPU can feed the RX 570 beyond the GPU's capabilities at low settings. As settings and resolution increase, the GPU becomes the bottleneck, so the CPU's strong single-thread and multi-thread scores do not translate into higher FPS in the heavier measured rows.