Overpower

The Intel Core i5-10400F paired with the AMD Radeon RX 580 delivers a strictly entry-level experience in Overpower, landing at rank 1619 out of 1744 tested combinations. The data shows a configuration that is consistently playable only at lower resolutions and settings, with frame rates collapsing under 4K Ultra loads. The CPU’s strong multi-threaded throughput is effectively neutralized by the GPU’s aging GCN architecture, making this a textbook case of a graphics-limited pairing in a demanding action title.

FAQ

*Q: What is the best average frame rate this combo achieves in Overpower?*

A: The highest average FPS recorded is 68.3, achieved at 1920x1080 with Low settings. This is the only setting/resolution combination where the system approaches high-refresh territory, though it remains below the 75 FPS threshold often sought by competitive players.

Q: How does the combo perform at 4K Ultra settings?

A: At 3840x2160 with Ultra settings, the average frame rate drops to 26.2 FPS. This is below the 30 FPS playability floor, indicating a stutter-prone experience. The GPU’s 8 GB GDDR5 memory and 256-bit bus cannot sustain the fill-rate demands of 4K Ultra in this action title.

Q: Is the i5-10400F a bottleneck in this configuration?

A: Benchmark results indicate the CPU is not the limiting factor. The i5-10400F posts a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 10297 and a PassMark multithread score of 12115, which are far above what Overpower requires for its thread scheduling. The GPU’s PassMark G3D score of 8813 is the clear performance ceiling.

Q: How much performance does the system gain by moving from Ultra to Low at 1080p?

A: At 1920x1080, the average FPS increases from 30.5 (Ultra) to 68.3 (Low), a gain of 37.8 FPS. This represents a 124% improvement, demonstrating that the GPU has significant headroom when pixel shading and texture complexity are reduced.

Q: What is the GPU’s standing compared to its direct competitors?

A: The RX 580’s average benchmark score of 13559 places it at the 53rd percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rival, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570, scores 13564 (0% delta), while the AMD Radeon Pro 455 trails at 13416 (1.1% behind). This places the card in a tight cluster with no clear generational advantage.

Q: Does the combo rank better at lower resolutions?

A: The data shows a clear resolution-dependent trend. At 1920x1080, the system maintains an average of 42.5 FPS on High settings, which is 21.9% faster than the 34.9 FPS at 2560x1440 High. However, the overall combo rank of 1619/1744 is fixed and does not improve with resolution changes, as the rank reflects absolute performance across all tested scenarios.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 580 is the dominant component in this pairing, and its specifications explain the observed frame rates. Operating with a base clock of 1257 MHz and a boost clock of 1340 MHz, the Polaris 20 chip delivers a peak FP32 throughput of 6.175 TFLOPS. This is respectable for a 14 nm part, but the architecture’s age shows in Overpower’s modern rendering pipeline.

The card’s 8 GB of GDDR5 memory runs at 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) across a 256-bit bus, yielding 256.0 GB/s of bandwidth. This memory configuration is sufficient for 1080p and 1440p textures, but the 4K results (28.2 FPS High, 26.2 FPS Ultra) reveal that the memory subsystem and the 32 ROPs are overwhelmed by the pixel fill demands of 4K. The texture rate of 193.0 GTexel/s and pixel rate of 42.88 GPixel/s are the hard limits here.

The GPU’s benchmark profile corroborates its mid-range standing. A PassMark G3D score of 8813 sits near the 53rd percentile, and its DirectX 12 score of 43 is notably lower than the DirectX 11 score of 60. This suggests that Overpower’s DX12 path is not a strength for the GCN 4.0 architecture, which likely contributes to the sub-60 FPS averages at High settings across all resolutions.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals a predictable but steep degradation as resolution increases. At 1920x1080 with High settings, the system averages 42.5 FPS. Moving to 2560x1440 High drops this to 34.9 FPS (a 17.9% decrease), and at 3840x2160 High, the average falls to 28.2 FPS (a 33.6% decrease from 1080p). This scaling pattern indicates that the GPU is the primary limiting component, as the CPU’s 6 cores and 12 threads are not stressed by resolution changes.

The Low settings data confirms this. At 1920x1080 Low, the average is 68.3 FPS; at 2560x1440 Low, it is 60.7 FPS; and at 3840x2160 Low, it is 53.3 FPS. The delta between 1080p Low and 4K Low is 15 FPS (22%), which is smaller than the 14.3 FPS (33.6%) delta for High settings. This suggests that even at Low settings, the GPU’s shading units and texture units are the bottleneck, not the CPU. The lack of min FPS data prevents a full latency analysis, but the average FPS trends are consistent with a GPU-bound scenario.

How This Combo Ranks

In the absolute rankings for Overpower, this combination sits at position 1619 out of 1744 tested combos, placing it in the bottom 7.2% of all configurations. This is a poor result for a system with a CPU that performs at the 73rd percentile of all processors. The i5-10400F’s average benchmark score of 14168 is nearly identical to that of the AMD EPYC 7552 (14115, 0.4% delta), yet the combo rank is dragged down entirely by the GPU.

The GPU’s percentile rank of 53 is the defining factor. With an average score of 13559, the RX 580 is statistically indistinguishable from the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (13564, 0% delta) and only 0.1% ahead of the GeForce GTX 950 (13549). In Overpower, this places the system in the same performance tier as those older cards, which is insufficient for smooth 4K gameplay and only marginally adequate for 1440p.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-10400F is a Comet Lake part built on a 14 nm process, featuring 6 cores and 12 threads. Its base clock of 2.90 GHz boosts to 4.30 GHz, and it carries 12 MB of shared L3 cache. This CPU is clearly not the performance limiter here. Its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 10297 and single-core score of 1453 indicate strong headroom for Overpower’s thread utilization.

The CPU’s PassMark multithread score of 12115 and 3DMark max-threads score of 4735 show that it can feed the GPU adequately at 1080p. However, the data shows that the GPU saturates before the CPU. For instance, at 1080p Ultra, the average FPS is 30.5, which is 55% lower than the 68.3 FPS at 1080p Low. If the CPU were the bottleneck, the frame rate would remain relatively flat across settings changes.

The i5-10400F’s memory bandwidth of 42.7 GB/s (dual-channel DDR4) is sufficient for this GPU, but the PCIe Gen 3 x16 interface (16 lanes) is a generation older than current standards. Despite this, the CPU’s 73rd percentile ranking and nearest rival comparisons (0.4% ahead of EPYC 7552) confirm that the processor is a capable partner. The system’s rank of 1619/1744 is a direct reflection of the GPU’s 53rd percentile standing, not the CPU’s. In summary, the i5-10400F provides ample compute, but the RX 580’s 6.175 TFLOPS and 256.0 GB/s bandwidth cap the experience at 1080p medium-quality levels for Overpower.