Overpower

The Intel Core i5-9400 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 produces a highly capable 1080p and 1440p gaming platform in Overpower, with the data showing a clear preference for the Medium preset as the optimal balance of visual fidelity and performance headroom. Across all three tested resolutions, the Medium setting delivers the most consistent experience relative to the quality-per-frame trade-off. At 1920x1080, the Medium preset yields an average of 93.7 FPS, which is 17.6% higher than High's 90.7 FPS and only 3.0 FPS short of the 96.8 FPS average of High. The jump from Medium to Ultra at 1080p costs 21.5 FPS, dropping to 72.2 FPS, a loss of 23.0% that is not justified by the incremental visual gains. At 2560x1440, Medium again proves superior, hitting 84.3 FPS, while High trails at 82.0 FPS and Ultra falls to 66.7 FPS. At 3840x2160, Medium maintains a playable 73.1 FPS, whereas High drops to 66.6 FPS and Ultra falls below the 60 FPS threshold at 57.3 FPS. Given the data, Medium is the recommended preset for consistent frame delivery across all resolutions, with Low serving as the only option for high-refresh-rate 4K play at 116.6 FPS.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 is the primary driver of frame rate in Overpower, and its specifications directly explain the performance deltas observed across settings. The GPU features a boost clock of 2460 MHz and a base clock of 1830 MHz, paired with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 272.0 GB/s. The measured FPS data shows a strong correlation between settings changes and GPU load, indicating that the card is the bottleneck at higher presets. For instance, moving from Low to Ultra at 3840x2160 reduces average FPS from 116.6 to 57.3, a drop of 50.9%, which aligns with the increased pixel and shading work expected from the RTX 4060's 3072 shading units and 48 ROPs. The GPU's 15.11 TFLOPS FP32 performance and 236.2 GTexel/s texture rate are sufficient to handle the demands of the game’s High preset at 1440p, where it delivers 82.0 FPS, but the card struggles to maintain playable rates at 4K Ultra, confirming that the 8 GB VRAM capacity is adequate for 1080p and 1440p but becomes a limiting factor at 4K with maximum details. The 272.0 GB/s memory bandwidth is sufficient for the game's data streaming at Medium settings, where the RTX 4060 posts a 73.1 FPS average at 4K, but the card's PCIe 4.0 x8 interface does not appear to hinder performance in this title, as the data shows consistent scaling from 1080p to 1440p.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-9400, with its 6 cores and 6 threads, plays a supporting role in Overpower, and the benchmark data indicates that it does not bottleneck the RTX 4060 at most settings. The CPU's base clock of 2.90 GHz and boost clock of 4.10 GHz, combined with a 9 MB shared L3 cache, provide adequate single-threaded performance for the game's logic, as evidenced by the Cinebench R23 single-core score of 1125 and multi-core score of 7969. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the system achieves 155.8 FPS, which suggests that the CPU can feed the GPU sufficiently at high frame rates, though the 50th percentile ranking versus all CPUs indicates it is a mid-tier processor. The data shows that the i5-9400’s 6-thread configuration is sufficient for Overpower's action genre, as the FPS differences between 1080p and 1440p at the same settings are modest: High drops from 90.7 to 82.0 FPS, and Medium from 93.7 to 84.3 FPS. However, the CPU's memory bandwidth of 42.7 GB/s, paired with dual-channel DDR4 support, may limit frame pacing in scenes with heavy physics or AI, but the measured averages do not show a significant CPU-induced ceiling, as the RTX 4060 still delivers 66.6 FPS at 4K High. The i5-9400’s 6 cores are enough to avoid major stutters, but its 65W TDP and older Coffee Lake architecture place it behind newer 8-core parts in sustained workloads, which is reflected in the multi-core benchmark scores being 0.2% ahead of the Intel Core i3-10305 but 0.6% behind the Intel Core i7-8809G.

How This Combo Ranks

In the context of the entire benchmark database, the combination of the i5-9400 and RTX 4060 ranks 984th out of 1744 tested combos in Overpower, placing it in the 43.6th percentile of all configurations. This mid-pack ranking is consistent with the individual component standings: the RTX 4060 sits in the 66th percentile among all GPUs, while the i5-9400 is in the 50th percentile among all CPUs. The combo’s rank is primarily driven by the GPU’s strength, as the data shows the system performs closer to GPU-bound configurations than CPU-bound ones. Compared to the RTX 4060’s nearest rivals, the data shows that the GPU is 0.6% behind the AMD Radeon RX 6600M in average benchmark score, 0.7% behind the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti, 0.7% ahead of the Intel Arc B580, and 0.8% ahead of the AMD Radeon 760M, which suggests that the 4060 is a solid mid-range performer. However, the combo’s 984th rank indicates that many other CPU-GPU pairings, likely those with newer 8-core processors, achieve higher frame rates in Overpower due to better CPU headroom at lower resolutions. The system’s measured FPS at 1080p Ultra (72.2 FPS) is competitive, but the rank reflects that the i5-9400’s 6 threads can hold back the RTX 4060 in CPU-light scenes, as evidenced by the 155.8 FPS Low result being the only data point where the system exceeds 150 FPS.

Resolution Scaling

The resolution scaling data reveals a clear trend: the system’s frame rate drops significantly as resolution increases, but the severity of the drop depends on the settings preset. From 1920x1080 to 2560x1440, the average FPS decreases by 9.6% on High (90.7 to 82.0 FPS), by 10.0% on Medium (93.7 to 84.3 FPS), by 7.6% on Low (155.8 to 136.9 FPS), and by 7.6% on Ultra (72.2 to 66.7 FPS). This relatively modest 1440p penalty indicates that the RTX 4060 is still the primary limiter at this resolution, but the CPU is not fully saturated. The transition from 2560x1440 to 3840x2160 is far more punishing: High drops from 82.0 to 66.6 FPS, a 18.8% loss; Medium drops from 84.3 to 73.1 FPS, a 13.3% loss; Ultra drops from 66.7 to 57.3 FPS, a 14.1% loss; and Low drops from 136.9 to 116.6 FPS, a 14.8% loss. The larger absolute FPS drop at 4K, particularly on High and Ultra, confirms that the GPU is the limiting component at higher resolutions, as the 8 GB VRAM and 128-bit memory bus struggle to feed the 3840x2160 pixel count. The data shows that the system is best suited for 1080p and 1440p gaming, where it maintains playable frame rates across all presets, while 4K is only viable on Medium or Low settings. The scaling pattern also indicates that the i5-9400’s 6 cores do not become a bottleneck until frame rates exceed approximately 140 FPS, which only occurs at 1080p Low, suggesting that the CPU’s 4.10 GHz boost clock is sufficient for the game’s demands in most scenarios.