Overpower

The Intel Core i5-11400F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 delivers a highly capable 1080p and 1440p experience in Overpower, with the data showing a clear shift in bottleneck behavior as resolution increases. This combo ranks 1006 out of 1744 tested combinations, placing it in the upper-middle tier of the database. The processor, a 6-core, 12-thread Rocket Lake part with a base clock of 2.60 GHz and a boost clock of 4.40 GHz, provides solid single-threaded performance that scales predictably with the game’s demands. Its 12 MB of shared L3 cache and dual-channel DDR4 memory support are sufficient to feed the GPU without introducing significant frame pacing issues at lower resolutions.

CPU Role — cores, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The i5-11400F’s physical configuration is the first clue to its behavior in Overpower. With 6 cores and 12 threads, it offers a balanced workload distribution that matches the game’s multithreaded engine. The benchmark data supports this: in 3DMark’s 16-thread test, the CPU scores 5619, while the max-thread test yields 5652, indicating that the extra threads beyond 16 provide almost no additional throughput. This suggests Overpower is well-optimized to use the available threads but does not heavily penalize the processor for its lack of additional cores beyond six. The single-thread score of 868 in 3DMark and 2029 in Cinebench R23 single-core highlight the architecture’s strength in lightly threaded tasks, which is critical for maintaining high minimum frame rates in action sequences.

The clock behavior is more telling. The processor boosts to 4.40 GHz, which is a substantial jump from its 2.60 GHz base. This 1.8 GHz difference allows the CPU to ramp up quickly during short, intense computational bursts. In Overpower, this manifests as consistent frame delivery in scenarios with many on-screen entities, as the CPU can sustain high IPC without thermal throttling. The 65W TDP and 14 nm process node mean the chip runs within its power envelope, but the data shows it is not the primary limiter at 1080p. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the combo achieves 155.2 FPS, while the CPU’s Cinebench R23 multicore score of 14372 suggests it can handle the game’s physics and AI calculations without bottlenecking the mid-range GPU. However, at higher settings, the frame rates drop, indicating the CPU’s headroom is being consumed by game logic rather than rendering.

Settings Recommendations — which preset gives the best experience per the measured rows

The measured FPS data across four presets—Low, Medium, High, and Ultra—reveals a clear sweet spot for this combo. At 1920x1080, the Low preset delivers 155.2 FPS, which is excellent for competitive play, but the step to Medium only reduces the average to 95 FPS. That is a 60.2 FPS drop for a single tier of visual fidelity, suggesting that the Medium preset introduces significant post-processing or shadow effects that strain the GPU. High settings bring the average down to 86.4 FPS, while Ultra sits at 74.4 FPS. The difference between Medium and Ultra is 20.6 FPS, which is proportionally smaller than the jump from Low to Medium, indicating diminishing returns on visual quality beyond Medium.

The optimal choice for most users is Medium at 1080p. The 95 FPS average remains well above the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay, while the visual improvements over Low are substantial. At 2560x1440, Medium yields 83 FPS, which is still playable, but High drops to 76.8 FPS. The gap between Medium and High narrows to 6.2 FPS at 1440p, suggesting the GPU is becoming the limiting factor. Ultra at 1440p drops to 64.8 FPS, which is borderline for a 60 Hz display but acceptable for slower-paced action sequences. For 4K, the situation reverses dramatically. At 3840x2160, Medium yields 71.5 FPS, High yields 68.9 FPS, and Low yields 116.5 FPS. The 47.6 FPS difference between Low and Medium at 4K indicates the GPU is overwhelmed by higher-quality textures, making Low the only viable preset for near-60 FPS play at that resolution.

Resolution Scaling — how FPS drops from 1080p to 4K and what it says about the limiting component

The resolution scaling data provides a textbook example of a system transitioning from CPU-bound to GPU-bound. At Low settings, the frame rates scale almost linearly with pixel count: 155.2 FPS at 1080p, 138.5 FPS at 1440p, and 116.5 FPS at 4K. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is 16.7 FPS, and from 1440p to 4K is 22 FPS. This is a relatively shallow decline, indicating that even at 4K Low, the GPU is not fully saturated, and the CPU’s 4.40 GHz boost clock is still able to feed frames efficiently. However, at Medium settings, the scaling becomes steeper: 95 FPS at 1080p, 83 FPS at 1440p, and 71.5 FPS at 4K. The 11.5 FPS drop from 1080p to 1440p is modest, but the 24 FPS drop from 1440p to 4K shows the GPU struggling with higher-resolution textures.

The High preset exhibits the most dramatic scaling. At 1080p, it achieves 86.4 FPS, but at 1440p, it falls to 76.8 FPS—a 9.6 FPS reduction. The 4K result of 68.9 FPS represents a 17.5 FPS drop from 1440p. This pattern confirms that the RTX 4060’s 8 GB of GDDR6 memory and 128-bit bus are the primary constraints at higher resolutions, as the GPU’s 272.0 GB/s bandwidth is saturated by the increased data transfer. The Ultra preset shows the worst scaling: 74.4 FPS at 1080p, 64.8 FPS at 1440p, and 54.5 FPS at 4K. The 9.6 FPS drop from 1080p to 1440p is similar to High, but the 10.3 FPS drop from 1440p to 4K indicates the GPU’s 15.11 TFLOPS compute capability is insufficient for the highest fidelity at 4K. The data unequivocally shows that the GPU is the limiting component above 1080p, as the CPU’s performance headroom is unused when the GPU cannot render frames fast enough.

How This Combo Ranks — use comboRankInGame vs other tested combos

The combo’s rank of 1006 out of 1744 tested combinations places it in the 57.7th percentile of all tested systems. This is a mid-pack result, which is surprising given the individual components’ scores. The CPU’s percentileVsAllCpus is 75, meaning it outperforms 75% of all tested processors, while the GPU’s percentileVsAllGpus is 66. The combination of two above-average parts yielding a below-60th-percentile combo rank suggests that Overpower has a specific hardware preference that this pairing does not fully exploit. The nearest rival data for the CPU shows a tight cluster: the AMD Ryzen 7 5700U scores 17189, a 0% deltaPct, while the Intel Core i7-1260P scores 17212, a -0.2% deltaPct. This indicates the i5-11400F’s performance is nearly identical to these mobile parts, which may explain why the combo rank is not higher—the game may be more sensitive to memory latency or cache hierarchy than raw compute.

For the GPU, the nearest rivals are equally clustered. The AMD Radeon RX 6600M scores 23321, a -0.6% deltaPct, and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti scores 23338, a -0.7% deltaPct. The RTX 4060’s avgBenchmarkScore of 23181 is slightly below these rivals, but the deltaPct values are within 0.8%, meaning the performance difference is negligible. The Intel Arc B580 scores 23021, a 0.7% deltaPct, showing the RTX 4060 is marginally faster. However, the combo’s rank in Overpower is not determined solely by these synthetic scores. The measured FPS data shows the system can achieve 155.2 FPS at 1080p Low, which is excellent, but the rank suggests many other combos achieve higher frame rates at higher settings. The 1006th rank out of 1744 indicates that while this system is capable, it faces stiff competition from combos with more powerful GPUs or CPUs with higher single-thread performance.

GPU Role — VRAM, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 is the dominant component in this pairing, and its specifications directly explain the measured FPS trends. The GPU features 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, providing 272.0 GB/s of bandwidth. This is a modest amount for a modern GPU, and the resolution scaling data confirms it is the primary bottleneck at 4K. The boost clock of 2460 MHz is aggressive, but the 115W TDP and dual-slot design allow for sustained boost behavior without thermal throttling in most cases. The GPU’s 3072 shading units and 24 RT cores provide 15.11 TFLOPS of FP32 performance, which is sufficient for 1080p and 1440p gaming but insufficient for 4K Ultra.

The relationship between VRAM and settings is evident in the measured data. At 1080p, the jump from Low to Medium reduces FPS by 60.2, which is a massive drop. This is likely due to the GPU having to load higher-resolution textures into its 8 GB VRAM, and the 128-bit bus struggles to keep up with the data transfer. The 4K results are even more telling: at Ultra, the GPU produces 54.5 FPS, which is just below the 60 FPS threshold for smooth play. The GPU’s passmark_g3d score of 19545 and passmark_directx_12 score of 76 show it is a capable DirectX 12 performer, but the game’s engine may not be fully optimized for the Ada Lovelace architecture. The 17 Gbps effective memory clock is fast, but the narrow bus width limits the total bandwidth, and the data shows this is the critical constraint at higher resolutions. The GPU’s percentileVsAllGpus of 66 indicates it outperforms 66% of all GPUs, but in Overpower, the measured FPS at 4K Ultra is only 54.5, suggesting the game is more demanding than the average title at that resolution.