Overpower

Overpower, an action title released in 2023, shows a clear performance hierarchy for the Intel Core i5-14400F and AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT combination. The measured data across three resolutions and four settings presets reveals a system that scales predictably, with the most balanced experience found at the High preset. At 1080p, High yields an average of 104.8 FPS, while the Ultra preset drops to 84.8 FPS, a 19% reduction that suggests diminishing returns for the extra visual fidelity. Moving to 1440p, High delivers 91.9 FPS, remaining comfortably playable, and even 4K High holds at 81 FPS. The Low preset pushes frame rates much higher—179.4 FPS at 1080p, 155.5 FPS at 1440p, and 132.6 FPS at 4K—but this comes at a significant visual cost. The Medium preset offers a middle ground, with 110.8 FPS at 1080p, 101.2 FPS at 1440p, and 82.5 FPS at 4K, though the jump from Medium to High at 4K is marginal, only a 1.8% difference in average FPS.

Settings Recommendations

The benchmark results indicate that the High preset provides the optimal balance of visual quality and performance for this combination. At 1080p, High produces 104.8 FPS, which is more than sufficient for smooth gameplay, while the step to Ultra only adds 20% more visual load for a 19% reduction in frame rate. The data shows that the gap between High and Ultra narrows as resolution increases: at 1440p the difference is 15.8%, and at 4K it is 19.2%. This suggests that the GPU is becoming the limiting factor at higher resolutions, making the extra settings in Ultra less impactful. For players prioritizing frame rate, the Low preset at 1080p achieves 179.4 FPS, but this is likely unnecessary for most displays. The Medium preset is a viable alternative, offering 110.8 FPS at 1080p, which is nearly identical to High, indicating that the visual uplift from Medium to High does not come at a large performance cost. However, at 4K, the difference between Medium and High is negligible (1.5 FPS), so High is the clear recommendation for 4K users. The Ultra preset, with 65.5 FPS at 4K, dips below the 70 FPS threshold that many consider the floor for demanding action games, making it less advisable unless the user has a VRR display.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-14400F is a 10-core, 16-thread processor from the Raptor Lake Refresh family, with a base clock of 2.50 GHz and a boost clock of 4.70 GHz. Its benchmark scores show strong multi-threaded performance, with a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 21914 and a single-core score of 3093. The CPU's percentile ranking of 88th among all CPUs indicates it sits in the upper tier of processors, and its average benchmark score of 32508 places it in close competition with the Intel Core i7-12800H, which scores 32513, and the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7645, which scores 32446. In Overpower, the CPU's role appears to be secondary to the GPU, as evidenced by the frame rate scaling. At 1080p, where CPU overhead is typically more pronounced, the difference between Low and High settings is 74.6 FPS, which is a 71% increase. This large delta indicates that the GPU is the primary bottleneck even at lower resolutions, as the CPU has enough headroom to feed the graphics card. The L3 cache of 20 MB shared and dual-channel memory support for DDR4 and DDR5 provide adequate bandwidth for game data, but the processor's 65 W TDP and 10 nm process node suggest it is designed for efficiency rather than extreme overclocking, with the multiplier locked. The benchmark results show that the CPU is not the limiting factor in this pairing, as even at 4K Ultra, where the GPU is heavily stressed, the frame rate remains above 65 FPS, suggesting the processor can keep up with the graphics workload.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT is the dominant component in this configuration, built on the RDNA 3.0 architecture with a 5 nm process node and 28,100 million transistors. It features 12 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, providing 432.0 GB/s of bandwidth, which is sufficient for high-resolution textures. The GPU's base clock is 1435 MHz, with a boost clock of 2544 MHz and a game clock of 2171 MHz, indicating a substantial overclocking headroom out of the box. Its benchmark scores are competitive, with a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 3316 and a Passmark G3D score of 22547, placing it in the 73rd percentile among all GPUs. The nearest rival, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, has a nearly identical average score of 30109, while the AMD Radeon RX 570 scores 30158, showing that the RX 7700 XT is well-positioned in its class. In Overpower, the GPU's performance is the primary driver of frame rates. The data shows that as resolution increases, the average FPS drops consistently across all settings, confirming that the GPU is the bottleneck. For example, at High settings, the frame rate falls from 104.8 FPS at 1080p to 91.9 FPS at 1440p, and then to 81 FPS at 4K. This represents a 12.3% drop from 1080p to 1440p and an 11.9% drop from 1440p to 4K. The GPU's 96 ROPs and 216 TMUs handle rasterization efficiently, and its 54 ray tracing cores provide some future-proofing, though the game's performance at Ultra settings—65.5 FPS at 4K—shows the limits of its 35.17 TFLOPS FP32 throughput.

How This Combo Ranks

In the database of tested combinations, this pairing of the Intel Core i5-14400F and AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT ranks 733rd out of 1744 combos in Overpower. This places it in the 42nd percentile, meaning it outperforms roughly 58% of all tested configurations while trailing the top 42%. The rank is a composite measure that accounts for both CPU and GPU performance, and the data suggests that while the individual components are strong—the CPU at the 88th percentile and the GPU at the 73rd percentile—the combination does not achieve a top-tier result in this specific game. This is likely due to the game's optimization, as the frame rates at 1080p High (104.8 FPS) are respectable but not exceptional, and the 4K Ultra result of 65.5 FPS shows that the system is not capable of maxing out the game at the highest resolution. The combo's rank relative to the total number of tested combos indicates that there is room for improvement, possibly with a more powerful GPU or a CPU with higher single-thread performance. However, the data also shows that this pairing is well-balanced, as the frame rate scaling across resolutions is smooth and predictable, without any sudden drops that would indicate a mismatch between the CPU and GPU.

Resolution Scaling

The resolution scaling analysis reveals how the frame rate responds to changes in pixel count, and this tells us which component is limiting performance. From 1080p to 1440p, the average FPS drops by 12.3% at High settings (from 104.8 to 91.9), by 13.3% at Medium (from 110.8 to 101.2), by 13.3% at Low (from 179.4 to 155.5), and by 8.7% at Ultra (from 84.8 to 77.4). The smaller drop at Ultra suggests that the GPU is already saturated at 1080p Ultra, so the additional pixel count at 1440p does not proportionally reduce performance. From 1440p to 4K, the drops are more pronounced: 11.9% at High (from 91.9 to 81), 18.5% at Medium (from 101.2 to 82.5), 14.7% at Low (from 155.5 to 132.6), and 15.4% at Ultra (from 77.4 to 65.5). The larger drops at 4K indicate that the GPU is the primary limiting factor, as the increased pixel count directly impacts the rendering workload. The CPU's role is less significant, as evidenced by the fact that the frame rate at 1080p Low (179.4 FPS) is more than double the frame rate at 4K Low (132.6 FPS), a 26% reduction. This confirms that the RX 7700 XT is the bottleneck, and the i5-14400F has sufficient headroom to support higher frame rates if the GPU were more powerful.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured average FPS ranges from 179.4 at Low settings to 84.8 at Ultra. The Medium preset yields 110.8 FPS, while High produces 104.8 FPS. The difference between Medium and High is only 5.4%, indicating that the High preset offers a significant visual upgrade for a modest performance cost. The jump from High to Ultra is more substantial, with a 19.1% reduction in frame rate, suggesting that Ultra settings are computationally expensive. At 2560x1440, the frame rates are lower but still playable: Low hits 155.5 FPS, Medium 101.2 FPS, High 91.9 FPS, and Ultra 77.4 FPS. The pattern is similar to 1080p, with a 9.2% drop from Medium to High and a 15.8% drop from High to Ultra. At 3840x2160, the performance becomes more constrained: Low achieves 132.6 FPS, Medium 82.5 FPS, High 81 FPS, and Ultra 65.5 FPS. Notably, the difference between Medium and High at 4K is just 1.8% (1.5 FPS), which is within the margin of measurement error, indicating that the GPU is fully saturated and the visual settings have little impact on performance. The Ultra preset at 4K falls below 70 FPS, which is a common target for high-refresh-rate gaming, making it the least desirable configuration. Overall, the data shows that this combination is best suited for 1080p and 1440p gaming at High settings, with 4K gaming possible but requiring a reduction in settings to maintain smooth frame rates.