Overpower

The Intel Core i5-11400F paired with the Intel Arc B570 delivers a consistent, if unspectacular, experience in Overpower. The data shows this combination is positioned in the lower-middle tier of tested hardware, occupying the 2373rd spot out of 2980 recorded combos. With a 6-core/12-thread Rocket Lake processor driving a 10 GB Xe2-HPG graphics card, the system’s performance is heavily dictated by resolution and presets, but it never fully breaks into high-refresh territory. The following analysis breaks down the measured results, component roles, and scaling behavior to explain exactly where this pairing stands.

FAQ

Q: What is the best playable preset at 1080p for this combo?

A: At 1920x1080, the Medium preset yields an average of 69 FPS with a minimum of 59 FPS and a maximum of 79 FPS. This is the only preset at this resolution where the minimum FPS stays above 60, making it the most consistent choice for smooth gameplay.

Q: How much faster is the Low preset compared to Ultra at 1440p?

A: At 2560x1440, the Low preset achieves an average of 98 FPS, which is more than double the 47 FPS average seen on the Ultra preset. The difference represents a 108.5% improvement in average frame rate.

Q: Does the CPU or GPU limit performance at 4K?

A: The data indicates the GPU is the primary constraint at 3840x2160. Dropping from High to Low settings increases the average FPS from 49 to 84, a 71.4% gain, while the CPU’s workload remains unchanged. This response to graphics settings is characteristic of a GPU-bound scenario.

*Q: What is the combo’s rank among all tested systems in Overpower?*

A: This specific configuration is ranked 2373 out of 2980 tested combos, placing it in the 79.6th percentile of all systems. It outperforms roughly 20% of the tested hardware but lags behind the majority.

Q: Are the frame times stable at any resolution?

A: The only preset with recorded minimum and maximum FPS values is Medium. At 1080p, the range is 59 to 79 FPS; at 1440p, it is 52 to 71 FPS; and at 4K, it is 44 to 60 FPS. The narrowing range at higher resolutions suggests more consistent frame pacing when the GPU is more heavily loaded.

Q: How does the Arc B570 compare to its closest GPU rivals in synthetic tests?

A: The Arc B570’s average benchmark score of 20556 is 0.1% lower than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile’s 20534, and 0.1% higher than the Intel Arc A750’s 20582. This places it statistically level with both cards.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS data for this combo provides a clear hierarchy for settings optimization. At 1920x1080, the Medium preset is the only configuration that maintains a minimum FPS above 60, recording an average of 69 FPS with a floor of 59 FPS. While the Low preset pushes the average to 110 FPS, the jump from Low to Medium costs 41 FPS on average, but the Medium preset’s minimum frame rate of 59 FPS is significantly safer for avoiding stutter during busy scenes. The High preset at 1080p drops to a 64 FPS average with no recorded minimum, making it riskier for competitive play. The Ultra preset at 53 FPS average is only suitable for slower-paced exploration.

For 2560x1440, the situation becomes more constrained. The Low preset delivers a usable 98 FPS average, but the Medium preset falls to 62 FPS average with a 52 FPS minimum, which is playable but not ideal for fast action. The High preset at 57 FPS average and the Ultra preset at 47 FPS average both dip below the 60 FPS threshold, making them less desirable. At 3840x2160, only the Low preset at 84 FPS average is smooth, while Medium at 52 FPS and High at 49 FPS are borderline, and Ultra at 40 FPS is too sluggish for the game’s action genre.

The optimal experience balances visual fidelity with frame rate stability. The data suggests that the Medium preset at 1080p offers the best overall experience, as it is the highest quality setting that still guarantees a minimum FPS above 60. At 1440p, users should stick to Low for competitive play or accept the Medium preset’s 52 FPS floor for better visuals. At 4K, the Low preset is the only practical choice, as the higher presets fall below 60 FPS averages and lack recorded minimums to assure stability.

GPU Role

The Intel Arc B570 is the dominant component in this pairing for Overpower, as evidenced by the significant FPS swings when changing graphics settings. The GPU features a 10 GB GDDR6 memory pool on a 160-bit bus, providing 380.0 GB/s of bandwidth. Its clock behavior is unusual: both base and boost clocks are listed at 2500 MHz, meaning the card runs at a fixed frequency under load. The memory clock is set at 2375 MHz with 19 Gbps effective speed, which feeds the 2304 shading units and 80 ROPs.

The synthetic benchmarks for the Arc B570 place it at the 65th percentile among all GPUs, with an average score of 20556. Its closest competitor according to the data is the Intel Arc A750, which scores 20582, a difference of -0.1%, indicating near-identical raster performance in aggregate tests. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile is also within 0.1% of the B570’s score. This GPU is clearly capable of handling the graphical load in Overpower, but its performance ceiling is moderate.

The VRAM capacity of 10 GB is sufficient for the game at all tested settings, as the measured FPS does not show signs of memory capacity throttling. Instead, the performance drop from Low to Ultra presets at each resolution reflects the GPU’s raw compute and fill rate limits. The pixel rate of 200.0 GPixel/s and texture rate of 360.0 GTexel/s are the relevant metrics here, and the data shows that the Ultra preset at 4K saturates these resources, yielding only 40 FPS average. The GPU’s 11.52 TFLOPS FP32 throughput is the primary driver of the measured results, and it is consistently the bottleneck at 4K where the CPU’s 12 threads are not fully taxed.

How This Combo Ranks

In the specific context of Overpower, this combination of the Intel Core i5-11400F and Intel Arc B570 achieves a rank of 2373 out of 2980 tested combos. This places the system in the bottom 20% of all configurations, which is a sobering statistic for a pairing that includes a discrete GPU. The rank reflects the aggregate performance across all presets and resolutions measured, and it indicates that many other CPU-GPU pairings deliver higher frame rates in this title.

The CPU’s individual percentile ranking is 71% among all CPUs, while the GPU sits at the 65th percentile. When combined, the system does not scale to the top of the chart, suggesting that the pairing’s performance is limited by the GPU’s mid-range positioning rather than the CPU’s relative strength. The measured FPS data supports this, as the system struggles to maintain high frame rates at 1440p and 4K, which are typically GPU-bound workloads. The 2980 total combos include systems with both faster CPUs and GPUs, and this specific configuration’s 2373rd place rank means it falls behind the majority of tested hardware, likely due to the Arc B570’s modest compute capacity relative to high-end cards.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-11400F provides 6 cores and 12 threads, with a base clock of 2.60 GHz and a boost clock of 4.40 GHz. This Rocket Lake-S processor is built on Intel’s 14 nm process and supports DDR4 memory with a dual-channel bus providing 51.2 GB/s of bandwidth. The CPU’s synthetic benchmarks show a balanced profile: its 3DMark max threads score is 5652, while the single-thread score is 868, indicating that it can handle both lightly and heavily threaded workloads.

In Overpower, the CPU’s role is secondary to the GPU, as evidenced by the FPS scaling with resolution. At 1080p, the Low preset yields 110 FPS, which is the highest measured value, suggesting the CPU can feed the GPU enough data to reach this level. However, at 4K, the same Low preset only produces 84 FPS, a 23.6% drop, which occurs because the GPU becomes the limiting factor at higher pixel counts. The CPU’s 12 threads are sufficient for the game’s action genre, as the FPS does not collapse at any resolution, but it also does not push the system past the GPU’s limits.

The CPU’s nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks include the AMD EPYC 7H12 with a 0.3% higher score and the Intel Core i5-12450H with a 0.4% lower score. This places the 11400F in a tight competitive band for general processing, but in Overpower, the GPU’s bottleneck means the CPU’s headroom is rarely tested. The 14 nm process and 65 W TDP indicate a power-efficient design, but the data shows that the CPU is not the star of this show; it is the supporting actor that enables the GPU to work, but it does not boost the frame rates beyond what the Arc B570 can render.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data provides a complete picture of this combo’s performance across three resolutions and four presets. At 1920x1080, the Low preset delivers the highest average at 110 FPS, followed by Medium at 69 FPS, High at 64 FPS, and Ultra at 53 FPS. The Medium preset has a recorded minimum of 59 FPS and maximum of 79 FPS, while the other presets lack these details. The 1080p results show a clear degradation from Low to Ultra, with a 51.8% drop in average FPS.

Moving to 2560x1440, the Low preset averages 98 FPS, Medium averages 62 FPS, High averages 57 FPS, and Ultra averages 47 FPS. The Medium preset again has the only min/max data, with a range of 52 to 71 FPS. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is consistent, with the Low preset losing 12 FPS (10.9% decrease), Medium losing 7 FPS, High losing 7 FPS, and Ultra losing 6 FPS. This suggests a proportional scaling with pixel count.

At 3840x2160, the Low preset averages 84 FPS, Medium averages 52 FPS, High averages 49 FPS, and Ultra averages 40 FPS. The Medium preset’s min/max range is 44 to 60 FPS. The 4K results show a more pronounced drop, particularly for the Low preset, which loses 14 FPS compared to 1440p. The Ultra preset at 4K is the worst performer, with a 40 FPS average, which is a 63.6% decrease from the 1080p Low preset. Overall, the data shows that the combo is playable at Low settings across all resolutions, but only the Medium preset at 1080p provides a minimum FPS above 60.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals the nature of the system’s bottleneck. For the Low preset, the average FPS drops from 110 at 1080p to 98 at 1440p (a 10.9% decrease) and then to 84 at 4K (a 14.3% decrease from 1440p). This gradual decline indicates that the GPU is being progressively more taxed, but the CPU is still able to keep up partially. In contrast, the Ultra preset drops from 53 at 1080p to 47 at 1440p (an 11.3% decrease) and then to 40 at 4K (a 14.9% decrease from 1440p). The relative consistency of these percentage drops across presets suggests that the scaling is primarily driven by pixel count.

The fact that the Low preset at 4K (84 FPS) is still higher than the Ultra preset at 1080p (53 FPS) is telling. This indicates that the graphics settings have a larger impact on FPS than resolution changes, which is typical for a GPU-bound system. The GPU’s 10 GB VRAM and 380.0 GB/s bandwidth are sufficient at 4K, as the FPS does not collapse due to memory issues. Instead, the 200.0 GPixel/s pixel rate becomes the limiting factor at higher resolutions.

The data shows that the system is firmly GPU-bound across all tested configurations. The CPU’s 12 threads and 4.40 GHz boost clock are not the limiting factor, as the FPS scales predictably with resolution and settings. The 1080p to 4K drop for the Low preset is 23.6%, while the Medium preset drops 24.6%, suggesting that the GPU’s compute units are the constraint. This means that users seeking higher frame rates would need to reduce resolution or settings, as the CPU has ample headroom to support faster graphics cards.