Palworld

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER pairing in Palworld delivers a performance profile that is heavily dictated by resolution and quality presets, with the data showing a clear shift from CPU-bound behavior at lower resolutions to GPU-bound behavior at 4K. The RTX 4070 SUPER, with its 12 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 192-bit bus, provides ample bandwidth for the Survival title, while the 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen 7 5700G offers enough processing headroom to keep frame rates high in less demanding scenarios.

FAQ

Q: What is the average FPS at 1080p Ultra settings?

A: The benchmark data shows an average of 133.1 FPS at 1920x1080 with Ultra settings, indicating a highly playable experience even at the highest quality preset.

Q: How does the RTX 4070 SUPER compare to its nearest rival in raw benchmark scores?

A: The GPU's average benchmark score is 42576, which places it 0.2% behind the NVIDIA RTX A6000 (score 42653) and 0.3% behind the AMD Radeon RX 7650 GRE (score 42723), according to the nearestRivals data.

Q: What is the performance difference between 1080p and 4K at High settings?

A: At High settings, the average FPS drops from 169.7 at 1920x1080 to 64.6 at 3840x2160, a substantial reduction of 105.1 FPS that highlights the increased load on the GPU at higher resolutions.

Q: Does the CPU hold back performance in this game?

A: The data suggests the CPU is not a primary bottleneck at lower resolutions; at 1080p Low settings the combo achieves 274.9 FPS, but the Ryzen 7 5700G's single-thread score of 899 in 3dmark indicates it may limit ultra-high refresh rates in less GPU-intensive scenes.

Q: How does this combo rank among all tested configurations in Palworld?

A: The combo ranks 292nd out of 1718 tested combinations, placing it in the top 17% of all configurations for this specific game.

Q: What is the FPS difference between Low and Ultra at 1440p?

A: At 2560x1440, the average FPS ranges from 183.9 on Low settings down to 87.8 on Ultra, demonstrating a significant performance cost for the highest quality preset.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is the dominant component in this pairing for Palworld. Its 12 GB of GDDR6X memory, paired with a 192-bit memory bus, delivers a bandwidth of 504.2 GB/s, which is crucial for streaming the game's large open-world textures. The GPU's boost clock of 2475 MHz and base clock of 1980 MHz, combined with 7168 shading units, provide the raw compute power needed for the game's rendering workload.

The measured FPS data shows that the GPU's performance ceiling is reached at higher resolutions. At 4K Ultra, the average FPS falls to 50.6, which is the lowest score recorded for this combo. This represents a 75.2% drop from the 4K Low setting score of 98.7 FPS. The scaling from Low to Ultra at 4K shows a clear progression: 98.7 FPS (Low), 82.7 FPS (Medium), 64.6 FPS (High), and 50.6 FPS (Ultra). This pattern indicates that the RTX 4070 SUPER is the limiting factor at 3840x2160, as the increasing quality presets place more stress on the GPU's shader units and memory subsystem.

The GPU's benchmark scores reinforce its position. With a percentile ranking of 84 among all GPUs and an average benchmark score of 42576, it sits in the upper tier of graphics cards. Its nearest rivals in the data, the NVIDIA RTX A6000 and AMD Radeon RX 7650 GRE, have average scores that are within 0.3% of the RTX 4070 SUPER, showing that this card is competitive with professional and mid-range enthusiast offerings from the same generation.

Resolution Scaling

The resolution scaling data reveals a classic pattern of GPU-bound performance at higher pixel counts. At 1080p High, the combo achieves 169.7 FPS, which jumps to 274.9 FPS at Low settings. This high frame rate at 1080p Low suggests that the CPU is capable of feeding the GPU at these lower resolutions, as the gap between the two settings is substantial.

Moving to 1440p, the average FPS at High settings drops to 110.9, and at 4K High, it falls further to 64.6 FPS. The scaling from 1080p to 4K at High settings shows a 62% reduction in frame rate (from 169.7 to 64.6 FPS). This steep decline is indicative of the GPU becoming the primary bottleneck, as the ray tracing and shading workload at 4K overwhelms the RTX 4070 SUPER's capabilities.

The data also shows a consistent pattern across all settings: the largest performance jump occurs when moving from 4K Ultra (50.6 FPS) to 4K High (64.6 FPS), a 27.7% improvement. This suggests that the Ultra preset at 4K is particularly demanding, likely due to high-resolution textures and advanced lighting effects that heavily tax the 12 GB VRAM buffer and the GPU's compute units. The 1440p Medium score of 148.5 FPS and the 1080p Medium score of 227.5 FPS further illustrate that the GPU maintains high performance until the resolution and settings push it past its memory bandwidth limits.

How This Combo Ranks

In the database of tested configurations, this specific combination of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER ranks 292nd out of 1718 total combos in Palworld. This places the setup in the top 17% of all tested systems, which is a strong showing for a pairing that uses a previous-generation CPU with a current-generation GPU.

The rank of 292 suggests that while the RTX 4070 SUPER provides excellent graphical performance, the Ryzen 7 5700G may be holding back the combo in certain scenarios. The CPU's average benchmark score is 25626, which places it in the 83rd percentile of all CPUs. Its nearest rivals in the CPU benchmark data include the AMD Ryzen 7 6800U (score 25706, deltaPct -0.3%) and the Intel Xeon D-2752TER (score 25532, deltaPct 0.4%), showing that the 5700G is competitive with these parts but not a top-tier performer.

The combo's rank of 292 out of 1718 is likely influenced by the fact that many other tested systems use newer CPUs with higher single-thread performance, which can be critical in Palworld's open-world gameplay. However, the RTX 4070 SUPER's strong showing in the GPU benchmarks, where it ranks in the 84th percentile, helps mitigate this CPU limitation. The data indicates that at 4K, the GPU is the bottleneck, so the combo's rank is primarily driven by GPU performance at that resolution.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G plays a supporting role in this combo, providing 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Zen 3 architecture, codenamed Cezanne. Its base clock of 3.80 GHz and boost clock of 4.60 GHz offer sufficient single-thread performance for Palworld's game logic and physics, but the CPU's benchmark scores tell a nuanced story.

In the 3dmark tests, the CPU scores 899 in single-thread and 6629 in 16-thread tests. The single-thread score is notably lower than its multi-thread results, which suggests that the CPU may struggle in scenarios that rely heavily on a single core. This is relevant for Palworld, which often has a primary game thread that can become a bottleneck if the CPU's single-core performance is insufficient. The Cinebench R23 results show a multicore score of 20755 and a singlecore score of 2930, further confirming this trend.

The CPU's 16 MB of L3 cache and support for DDR4 memory with a bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s are adequate for feeding the RTX 4070 SUPER, but they are not current-generation. The data shows that at 1080p Low, the combo achieves 274.9 FPS, which indicates the CPU can push frames high when the GPU is not heavily loaded. However, the gap between 1080p Low and 1080p Medium (227.5 FPS) suggests that the CPU is still capable of delivering high frame rates without becoming a major constraint.

The CPU's percentile ranking of 83 among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 25626, places it in the upper-midrange of processors. Its nearest rivals, such as the AMD Ryzen 7 6800U and Intel Core 5 210H, have scores within 0.6% of the 5700G, indicating that this CPU is a solid but not exceptional performer. In Palworld, the CPU's role becomes more critical at lower resolutions where the GPU has more headroom, and the data at 1080p Ultra (133.1 FPS) suggests that the CPU can still keep up with the RTX 4070 SUPER's output without being a significant limiting factor.