Palworld

The AMD Ryzen 5 8400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 combination ranks 935th out of 1,718 tested hardware combos in Palworld. That places this pairing in the 54th percentile of all configurations, meaning slightly more than half of the tested setups deliver higher average frame rates in this survival title. The placement reflects a balanced mid-range pairing: the CPU sits at the 82nd percentile among all processors, while the GPU ranks at the 66th percentile among all graphics cards. The combo’s overall rank is dragged down by the GPU’s lower relative standing, as the RTX 4060 is a more modest performer than the Ryzen 5 8400F when compared against their respective peers. In practical terms, this system delivers playable frame rates across most settings, but it is not positioned among the high-refresh-rate elite for Palworld.

How This Combo Ranks

The 935th rank out of 1,718 combos places this pairing in the lower-middle portion of the tested field. The CPU’s 82nd percentile standing is notably stronger than the GPU’s 66th percentile, which suggests the graphics card is the limiting factor in this configuration. The Ryzen 5 8400F’s average benchmark score of 25,064 puts it nearly identical to its nearest rival, the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, which scores 25,057 — a delta of 0%. The CPU also trades blows with the AMD Ryzen AI 5 PRO 340 (25,099, -0.1%), the AMD EPYC 9474F (25,103, -0.2%), and the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F (24,993, +0.3%). These rivals are all within a fraction of a percent, indicating the 8400F sits in a tightly contested performance band for synthetic CPU workloads.

On the GPU side, the RTX 4060’s average benchmark score of 23,181 places it near the AMD Radeon RX 6600M (23,321, -0.6%), the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti (23,338, -0.7%), and the Intel Arc B580 (23,021, +0.7%). The AMD Radeon 760M (22,999, +0.8%) is also close. This clustering shows the RTX 4060 is competitive with older high-end cards and newer mid-range options, but it does not break away from the pack. In Palworld specifically, the combo’s rank suggests that while the CPU has headroom, the GPU’s frame delivery caps the experience at 1080p and 1440p before becoming the clear bottleneck at 4K.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 carries 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, yielding 272.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The memory clock runs at 2125 MHz, effective to 17 Gbps. The GPU’s base clock is 1830 MHz with a boost of 2460 MHz, and it houses 3,072 shading units, 96 texture mapping units, and 48 raster output pipelines. The card also includes 24 ray tracing cores and 96 tensor cores, which support DirectX 12 Ultimate features. The FP32 throughput is 15.11 TFLOPS, a figure that matches its FP16 output at a 1:1 ratio.

In Palworld, the GPU’s 8 GB VRAM is sufficient at 1080p across all tested settings, as evidenced by the frame rates ranging from 87 FPS at Ultra to 180.3 FPS at Low. At 1440p, the VRAM capacity still holds, with the lowest result being 57.4 FPS at Ultra. The 4K results tell a different story: the Ultra preset drops to 33.3 FPS, and even High only reaches 42.9 FPS. These numbers indicate the GPU is the primary constraint at higher resolutions, as the memory bandwidth and 128-bit interface limit how much data can be shuffled for 4K rendering. The boost clock of 2460 MHz helps at lower resolutions, where the card can stretch its legs, but the 4K performance shows the architecture’s limits under heavy pixel throughput demands.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals a steep drop that is characteristic of a GPU-bound scenario. At High settings, the average FPS falls from 110.9 at 1080p to 75.7 at 1440p (a 31.7% reduction), then further to 42.9 at 4K (a 61.3% reduction from 1080p). The Low preset shows the most dramatic scaling: 180.3 FPS at 1080p, 119.1 at 1440p, and 67.4 at 4K. That is a 62.6% drop from 1080p to 4K. The Medium settings follow a similar pattern, with 148.4 FPS at 1080p, 93.4 at 1440p, and 56.1 at 4K — a 62.2% loss from the starting resolution.

The Ultra preset exhibits the steepest relative decline. At 1080p, it manages 87 FPS, which drops to 57.4 at 1440p (a 34% reduction), and then plummets to 33.3 at 4K (a 61.7% drop from 1080p). These scaling patterns strongly indicate that the GPU is the limiting component as resolution increases. The CPU’s performance headroom, suggested by its 82nd percentile ranking, is not sufficient to compensate for the GPU’s bandwidth constraints at 4K. The consistent ~60% loss from 1080p to 4K across all settings points to a fixed hardware limit rather than a software or driver bottleneck.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the RTX 4060 delivers strong results in Palworld. The Low preset averages 180.3 FPS, which is more than double the 87 FPS seen at Ultra. Medium lands at 148.4 FPS, and High sits at 110.9 FPS. These numbers show that the card is well-suited for high-refresh-rate 1080p gaming, especially at lower settings where the frame rates exceed most 144Hz monitors’ capabilities. Even at Ultra, the 87 FPS average is smooth for most gameplay, though it falls short of the highest refresh rates.

Moving to 2560x1440, the frame rates remain respectable. Low averages 119.1 FPS, Medium hits 93.4 FPS, and High produces 75.7 FPS. Ultra drops to 57.4 FPS, which is still playable but indicates the GPU is working harder. The scaling from 1080p to 1440p is roughly a 31-36% reduction across all settings, which aligns with the increased pixel count of about 78%. The fact that the FPS loss is smaller than the pixel increase suggests the GPU is not fully saturated at 1440p.

At 3840x2160, the frame rates become marginal for competitive play. Low averages 67.4 FPS, Medium 56.1 FPS, and High 42.9 FPS. Ultra is the worst performer at 33.3 FPS, which is below the 60 FPS threshold most players prefer. The 4K results show a clear GPU limitation: even at Low settings, the card cannot maintain 60 FPS, and the gap between Low and Ultra narrows to just 34.1 FPS (from 67.4 to 33.3). This compression suggests that at 4K, the GPU’s fixed resources are the bottleneck, and reducing settings yields diminishing returns.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 8400F is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 4 architecture, codenamed Phoenix. It runs on the AMD Socket AM5 platform with a base clock of 4.20 GHz and a boost clock of 4.70 GHz. The CPU’s thermal design power is 65 W, and it supports DDR5 memory with a dual-channel bus, providing 83.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The cache hierarchy includes 64 KB of L1 per core, 1 MB of L2 per core, and 16 MB of shared L3 cache. The chip is fabricated on TSMC’s 4 nm process with 25,000 million transistors on a 178 mm² die.

In synthetic benchmarks, the 8400F scores 20,851 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 2,943 in single-core. Its 3DMark results show 6,165 at max threads and 951 for single-thread. The Passmark multithread score is 24,530, with a single-thread score of 3,684. These numbers indicate a capable mid-range CPU that handles multi-threaded workloads well. In Palworld, the CPU’s role is to feed the GPU with game logic, physics, and AI calculations. The measured FPS at 1080p Low (180.3 FPS) suggests the CPU can drive the GPU to high frame rates, but the 8400F’s 6-core/12-thread configuration is not a limiting factor at any tested resolution.

The CPU’s nearest rivals are all within 0.3% of its average score, showing it is a well-balanced part. The Ryzen 7 2700X matches it exactly at 25,057, while the Ryzen 5 7500F is just 0.3% behind. This parity means the 8400F does not offer a meaningful advantage over these alternatives in CPU-bound scenarios. However, in Palworld, the data shows the GPU is the bottleneck at 4K and partially at 1440p, so the CPU’s performance headroom is never fully exercised. At 1080p Low, the 180.3 FPS result indicates the CPU can keep up with the GPU’s maximum output, but at higher settings, the GPU’s limits dominate. The 8400F’s 82nd percentile ranking among all CPUs means it outperforms the vast majority of processors, but in this pairing, its strengths are underutilized due to the RTX 4060’s more modest capabilities.