Outriders

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data for Outriders with the Intel Core i5-13400F and AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT reveals a clear pattern of GPU-bound scaling across resolutions. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the combo produces 214.7 FPS, but this falls to 134.1 FPS at 2560x1440 and 69.6 FPS at 3840x2160. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is a 37.5% reduction in average frame rate, while moving from 1440p to 4K costs another 48.1%. This steep decline indicates that the Radeon RX 7600 XT becomes the limiting factor as pixel count rises, with the CPU's performance headroom at lower resolutions going unused.

The High preset tells a similar but more compressed story. At 1080p High, the combo achieves 116.9 FPS; at 1440p High, it drops to 71.6 FPS; and at 4K High, it falls to 35.6 FPS. The gap between Low and High at 4K is substantial — 69.6 FPS versus 35.6 FPS — which suggests that the GPU's shading units and memory bandwidth are being saturated by the higher-quality effects. The Ultra preset shows the most dramatic scaling: 84.3 FPS at 1080p, 51.4 FPS at 1440p, and 29.3 FPS at 4K. This 65.2% reduction from 1080p to 4K on Ultra confirms that the RX 7600 XT's 288.0 GB/s memory bandwidth and 2048 shading units are stretched to their limits at 4K Ultra.

What is curious is the Low preset's behavior at 4K. The 69.6 FPS result at 4K Low is nearly double the 35.6 FPS at 4K High, indicating that the game's high-quality shadows and post-processing effects impose a heavy cost on the GPU. The data implies that for 4K gaming, even modest setting reductions yield outsized gains. At 1080p, however, the Low preset's 214.7 FPS versus Ultra's 84.3 FPS shows a 154.7% performance spread, but both are well above playable thresholds — the limiting component at 1080p is likely the GPU's ability to feed frames, not the CPU's processing capacity.

FAQ

Q: What is the best resolution for maintaining 60+ FPS with this combo?

A: At 2560x1440, the High preset delivers 71.6 FPS and Medium delivers 98.6 FPS, both above 60 FPS. At 3840x2160, only the Low preset (69.6 FPS) exceeds 60 FPS, while High (35.6 FPS) and Ultra (29.3 FPS) fall below.

Q: How does the CPU's core configuration influence performance?

A: The Intel Core i5-13400F has 10 cores and 16 threads with a boost clock of 4.60 GHz. Its benchmark scores, such as 21,279 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 3,004 in single-core, suggest ample headroom for Outriders' engine, which appears GPU-limited in most scenarios.

Q: Is the RX 7600 XT's 16 GB VRAM sufficient for 4K?

A: The GPU's memory size is 16 GB GDDR6 with a 128-bit bus and 288.0 GB/s bandwidth. While the VRAM capacity is high, the 4K results (35.6 FPS on High, 29.3 FPS on Ultra) indicate that bandwidth and compute throughput, not capacity, are the restricting factors.

Q: What is the combo's ranking among all tested systems?

A: The combo ranks 1072 out of 1693 tested combinations in Outriders. This places it in the lower-mid tier, which aligns with the GPU's 63rd percentile among all GPUs and the CPU's 82nd percentile among all CPUs.

Q: How does the RX 7600 XT compare to its nearest GPU rivals?

A: In aggregate benchmarks, the RX 7600 XT scores 20,146, which is 0.3% above the AMD Radeon RX 460 and 1.9% above the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER. It trails the RX 7600 by 0.6% and the RTX 3070 Mobile by 1.9%.

Q: Does the Low preset at 1080p exceed typical monitor refresh rates?

A: Yes, the Low preset at 1920x1080 achieves 214.7 FPS, which exceeds 144 Hz and even 165 Hz displays. At 1440p Low, the 134.1 FPS result still supports high-refresh 1440p monitors.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-13400F brings 10 cores and 16 threads to this pairing, with a base clock of 2.50 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz. Its Raptor Lake architecture, built on a 10 nm process, delivers benchmark results that place it in the 82nd percentile among all CPUs. The multi-threaded performance is strong — a Cinebench R23 score of 21,279 and a Geekbench multi-core score of 10,971 — while single-thread performance is respectable at 3,004 in Cinebench R23 and 2,301 in Geekbench.

In Outriders, the CPU's role appears secondary to the GPU. At 1080p Low, the combo hits 214.7 FPS, which is far beyond what most games need, yet the frame rate still scales down with resolution and settings. This suggests the CPU is not the bottleneck at any tested configuration. The 3DMark scores reinforce this: 7,314 in the 16-thread test and 7,307 at max threads show consistent scaling, meaning the 13400F can feed the GPU without stalling. The single-thread score of 960 in 3DMark is modest, but Outriders does not appear to demand extreme single-core performance given the observed frame rates.

Compared to its nearest CPU rivals, the 13400F's average benchmark score of 25,236 is 0.1% above the Intel Core i7-13620H and 0.5% above the AMD EPYC 9474F. It sits 0.5% below the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D. These tiny deltas indicate that the 13400F is well-matched to its peers, and any performance difference in Outriders would be negligible. The CPU's 20 MB of shared L3 cache and dual-channel memory support (DDR4 or DDR5) provide adequate bandwidth for the GPU's requests, though the exact memory configuration was not part of the measured data.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The dataset provides average FPS for three resolutions and four settings presets, with no minimum or maximum values recorded. At 1920x1080, the combo produces 214.7 FPS on Low, 157.0 FPS on Medium, 116.9 FPS on High, and 84.3 FPS on Ultra. The progression from Low to Ultra represents a 60.7% performance loss at 1080p, which is consistent with the GPU's 22.57 TFLOPS FP32 compute being increasingly taxed by higher-quality rendering.

At 2560x1440, the results are 134.1 FPS on Low, 98.6 FPS on Medium, 71.6 FPS on High, and 51.4 FPS on Ultra. The 1440p Ultra result drops below 60 FPS, making it marginal for smooth gameplay. The gap between Low and Ultra at 1440p is 82.7 FPS, a 61.7% reduction, slightly steeper than at 1080p. This suggests that the GPU's pixel throughput — rated at 176.3 GPixel/s — becomes more critical as resolution increases.

At 3840x2160, the results are 69.6 FPS on Low, 53.1 FPS on Medium, 35.6 FPS on High, and 29.3 FPS on Ultra. The 4K Low result is the only one above 60 FPS, and 4K High and Ultra both fall below 40 FPS. The drop from 1080p Low to 4K Low is 145.1 FPS, a 67.6% reduction, while the drop from 1080p Ultra to 4K Ultra is 55.0 FPS, a 65.2% reduction. These percentages are remarkably similar, indicating that the GPU's scaling penalty is roughly proportional regardless of settings preset.

How This Combo Ranks

Among 1,693 tested combinations in Outriders, this pairing of the Intel Core i5-13400F and AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT ranks 1,072nd. This position places it in the bottom 36.7% of all combos, which may seem surprising given the CPU's high percentile ranking. The explanation lies in the GPU's 63rd percentile standing — the RX 7600 XT is a mid-tier card, and Outriders appears to favor GPUs with higher memory bandwidth or more shading units.

The rank suggests that while the CPU is capable (82nd percentile), the GPU holds the combo back. In the nearest rival comparisons, the RX 7600 XT's average benchmark score of 20,146 is nearly identical to the RX 460 (0.3% higher) and the RX 7600 (0.6% lower). This tight grouping implies that the 7600 XT's performance class is well-defined, and the combo's rank reflects that ceiling. The data does not include other combos' specific FPS results, so it is impossible to say exactly which systems outrank this one, but the GPU's percentile is the likely differentiator.

The rank also indicates that Outriders is not particularly CPU-sensitive at the tested settings. If the game were CPU-bound, this combo would rank higher given the 13400F's strong multi-threaded scores. Instead, the 1,072nd rank aligns with a GPU that sits at the 63rd percentile, suggesting that the limiting factor is the graphics card's compute throughput and memory bandwidth.

Settings Recommendations

For the best experience measured in the data, the 1080p Medium preset at 157.0 FPS offers a strong balance for high-refresh displays. It delivers 65.2% more FPS than High at 116.9 FPS and is nearly double the Ultra result of 84.3 FPS. At 1440p, the Medium preset at 98.6 FPS is the recommended choice, as it comfortably exceeds 60 FPS while High at 71.6 FPS is also viable but with a 27.4% lower frame rate. For 4K, the Low preset at 69.6 FPS is the only option above 60 FPS, making it the default recommendation for playable 4K performance.

If visual fidelity is prioritized over frame rate, the High preset at 1080p (116.9 FPS) and 1440p (71.6 FPS) provides a smoother experience than Ultra without the steep performance penalty. The Ultra preset is only advisable at 1080p, where 84.3 FPS remains playable, but the 27.4% drop from High to Ultra at 1080p is hard to justify given the modest visual gains typical of Ultra settings. At 4K, no preset above Low achieves 60 FPS, so users should either accept 4K Low or drop to 1440p for higher quality settings.

The data suggests that the RX 7600 XT's 16 GB VRAM does not prevent high settings, but the GPU's 288.0 GB/s bandwidth and 22.57 TFLOPS compute limit its ability to push high pixel counts. The Medium preset appears to be the sweet spot across all resolutions — it offers the best frame rate per visual step before the GPU's resources become severely constrained.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is built on the RDNA 3.0 architecture with the Navi 33 chip, fabricated on a 6 nm process by TSMC. It has 2,048 shading units, 128 texture mapping units, and 64 raster operation processors, with 32 ray tracing cores. The GPU's boost clock is 2755 MHz, and its game clock is 2470 MHz. Memory is 16 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus, providing 288.0 GB/s of bandwidth. These specifications place the GPU in the 63rd percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 20,146.

In Outriders, the GPU's role is clearly the limiting factor. The frame rates scale almost linearly with resolution and settings, and the CPU's high percentile ranking does not compensate for the GPU's mid-tier performance. The GPU's texture rate of 352.6 GTexel/s and pixel rate of 176.3 GPixel/s are sufficient for 1080p and 1440p gaming, but at 4K they struggle to maintain high frame rates. The 4K Ultra result of 29.3 FPS indicates that the GPU's compute resources are exhausted, likely due to the game's shading complexity.

The GPU's nearest rivals — the RX 460, RX 7600, RTX 2060 SUPER, and RTX 3070 Mobile — all have average scores within 1.9% of the 7600 XT. This tight clustering suggests that Outriders' performance would be nearly identical across these cards, and the 7600 XT's 16 GB VRAM does not provide a measurable advantage in this game because the bottleneck is throughput, not capacity. The GPU's 63rd percentile ranking is a fair representation of its capabilities, and the combo's 1,072nd rank out of 1,693 reflects this mid-tier positioning.