Palworld

The AMD Ryzen 5 4600G paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER delivers a highly playable Palworld experience at 1080p, but struggles to maintain fluid frame rates at 4K Ultra settings. The benchmark data reveals a configuration where the GPU’s capabilities are the primary constraint at higher resolutions, while the CPU provides adequate headroom for the game’s demanding simulation and world-streaming tasks.

Resolution Scaling

The measured frame rates demonstrate a steep performance curve as resolution increases. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the combo achieves 151.0 FPS. Moving to 2560x1440 drops this to 101.3 FPS, and at 3840x2160 it falls further to 55.1 FPS. This represents a 63.5% reduction in frame rate from 1080p to 4K at Low settings. The scaling pattern is consistent across all settings presets, indicating that the rendering load scales predictably with pixel count.

The frame rate drop from 1080p to 1440p is proportionally smaller than the drop from 1440p to 4K. At High settings, the transition from 1080p (92.5 FPS) to 1440p (64.2 FPS) is a 30.6% reduction, while the jump to 4K (32.9 FPS) represents a further 48.8% reduction. This non-linear scaling suggests that the RTX 2060 SUPER’s memory bandwidth and shading capacity become increasingly saturated as resolution climbs, with the 4K Ultra preset (26.2 FPS) pushing the GPU to its absolute limits.

The data indicates that at 1080p, the system is not purely GPU-bound. The difference between Low (151.0 FPS) and Ultra (72.4 FPS) at 1080p is substantial, showing that settings have a major impact. However, at 4K, the spread narrows relatively: from Low (55.1 FPS) to Ultra (26.2 FPS), the performance envelope compresses, suggesting the GPU is the limiting component regardless of visual fidelity at this resolution.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER features 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, providing 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth. Its Turing architecture includes 2176 shading units, 136 texture mapping units, and 64 ROPs, with base and boost clocks of 1470 MHz and 1650 MHz respectively. The card’s 7.181 TFLOPS of FP32 compute is the primary driver of pixel throughput.

In Palworld, the GPU’s role is critical at higher resolutions. The 4K Ultra result of 26.2 FPS is below playable thresholds, while 4K High (32.9 FPS) and 4K Medium (45.4 FPS) remain marginal. The 8 GB VRAM capacity appears sufficient for this title at the tested settings, as the frame rate degradation from Medium to Ultra at 4K (45.4 to 26.2 FPS) is more consistent with compute and bandwidth limits than memory capacity exhaustion.

The RTX 2060 SUPER’s performance relative to its peers positions it as a mid-range part. Its average benchmark score of 19774 places it in the 63rd percentile of all GPUs. Notably, it trails the RTX 2070 by only 0.5% in average score, indicating that the 2060 SUPER delivers near-parity with the higher-tier card in synthetic tests. The card’s 175 W TDP and dual-slot design are consistent with its performance class, and the 12 nm process node from TSMC represents an older manufacturing technology compared to more recent GPUs.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 4600G is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 2 (Renoir) architecture, built on TSMC’s 7 nm process. It operates with a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 4.20 GHz. The CPU’s 8 MB of shared L3 cache and dual-channel DDR4 memory support with 51.2 GB/s bandwidth provide adequate data throughput for gaming workloads.

Palworld is known for its survival-crafting gameplay, which involves significant world simulation and entity tracking. The CPU’s multi-threaded capabilities are relevant here. Its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 13593 and single-core score of 1919 indicate solid all-around performance. The 3DMark 16-thread score of 4863 and max-thread score of 4889 show that the processor scales well with additional threads, though the modest difference between these scores suggests diminishing returns beyond 12 threads.

The CPU’s percentile ranking at 75th among all processors, with an average benchmark score of 17489, places it in the upper quartile. It closely matches the AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5355GE (deltaPct 0), and slightly outperforms the Intel Core i5-12450H (deltaPct 0.1). The single-thread performance, as measured by Geekbench at 1575, is sufficient for the game’s primary game thread, while the multi-core throughput handles background simulation tasks.

At 1080p Low settings, the 151.0 FPS result suggests the CPU is not the bottleneck, as the frame rate is high enough to indicate the GPU is still the primary limiter. The relatively small performance gap between the CPU and its rivals in synthetic tests, with the Intel Core i3-14100T trailing by only 0.8%, indicates that Palworld’s performance is not overly sensitive to the minor differences in CPU compute power within this class.

How This Combo Ranks

Among the 1718 tested CPU-GPU combinations in Palworld, this pairing of Ryzen 5 4600G and RTX 2060 SUPER achieves a rank of 1281. This places it in the lower third of all tested configurations, which is notable given the individual components’ mid-range positioning. The rank suggests that while the GPU is capable, the overall combination is not optimized for Palworld’s specific demands.

The combo’s rank of 1281 out of 1718 indicates that many other pairings deliver better performance in this title. This is likely due to the RTX 2060 SUPER’s age — it was released in July 2019 — and the fact that Palworld’s rendering engine appears to favor newer GPU architectures. The GPU’s 63rd percentile ranking among all GPUs does not translate to a similarly strong position in this specific game, suggesting that Palworld’s workload characteristics do not align perfectly with the Turing architecture’s strengths.

The CPU’s position in its own hierarchy, at the 75th percentile, is stronger than the GPU’s 63rd percentile. This discrepancy reinforces that the GPU is the limiting factor in this combo. The measured FPS data confirms this: at 1080p Ultra, the system achieves 72.4 FPS, which is respectable but not exceptional, while at 4K Ultra it drops to a slideshow-like 26.2 FPS.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the RTX 2060 SUPER with the Ryzen 5 4600G produces strong results. Low settings yield 151.0 FPS, Medium delivers 121.8 FPS, High reaches 92.5 FPS, and Ultra drops to 72.4 FPS. All of these are comfortably playable, with even Ultra maintaining a smooth experience. The 1080p results show a clear scaling pattern: each step up in settings costs roughly 20-30 FPS, with the largest single drop occurring between Medium and High (29.3 FPS decrease).

Moving to 2560x1440, the frame rates remain playable but with reduced headroom. Low settings produce 101.3 FPS, Medium achieves 80.0 FPS, High dips to 64.2 FPS, and Ultra falls to 45.6 FPS. The 1440p results show a more compressed range between settings, with a 55.7 FPS difference between Low and Ultra, compared to 78.6 FPS at 1080p. This compression indicates the GPU is becoming more of a limiting factor at this resolution.

At 3840x2160, the performance drops significantly. Low settings manage 55.1 FPS, Medium reaches 45.4 FPS, High falls to 32.9 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 26.2 FPS. Only the Low preset approaches a consistently smooth experience, while Medium is borderline and High/Ultra are not recommended for serious play. The 4K results show that this combination is best suited for 1080p or 1440p gaming, where it can maintain playable frame rates across all settings.

The data across all resolutions shows that the RTX 2060 SUPER’s 8 GB VRAM and 448.0 GB/s bandwidth are adequate for Palworld’s texture and geometry demands, but the GPU’s raw compute power is insufficient for high-fidelity 4K rendering. The CPU, with its 6 cores and 12 threads, provides enough processing capability to avoid becoming the primary bottleneck, as evidenced by the sustained frame rates at 1080p where the GPU is clearly the limiting component.