Palworld

Palworld with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D delivers a fascinating performance profile that is heavily dictated by resolution and settings. The data shows a system capable of extreme frame rates at lower resolutions, but one that becomes increasingly constrained as graphical load intensifies at 4K. This pairing of a 2021 mid-range CPU with a flagship 2025 GPU creates a bottleneck dynamic that is clearly visible in the measured FPS across the board.

Resolution Scaling

The performance scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals a classic case of a CPU-bound system at lower resolutions giving way to a GPU-bound one at higher ones. At 1080p with Low settings, the combo achieves an average of 310 FPS. Moving to 1440p Low drops that to 252 FPS, a 58 FPS decrease. At 4K Low, the average falls further to 140 FPS. This steep decline—more than half the 1080p frame rate lost at 4K—indicates that the GPU is being fed progressively more work, but the CPU's ceiling is still high enough to keep up at these settings.

The pattern shifts dramatically when looking at Ultra settings. At 1080p Ultra, the average FPS is 181. At 1440p Ultra, it drops to 119 FPS, and at 4K Ultra, it plummets to 66 FPS. The delta between 1080p and 1440p Ultra is 62 FPS, while the delta between 1440p and 4K Ultra is 53 FPS. This relatively consistent drop suggests that at Ultra settings, the GPU is the primary limiting factor across all resolutions, as the sheer pixel and shader workload scales almost linearly with resolution.

The most telling data point for bottleneck analysis is the 1080p High vs. 4K High comparison. At 1080p High, the system averages 239 FPS. At 4K High, it averages 87 FPS. The 152 FPS difference is substantial, but the fact that 1080p High does not reach the 310 FPS ceiling seen at 1080p Low suggests the CPU is already nearing its limit. Conversely, the 4K Ultra result of 66 FPS shows the RTX 5090 D is being pushed to its absolute limit, as the 32 GB frame buffer and massive compute resources are fully engaged. The data indicates that Palworld is highly scalable, but the scaling is not linear; the CPU's Zen 3 architecture with 8 cores and 16 threads provides a solid foundation, but it cannot fully exploit the GPU's potential at lower resolutions.

FAQ

Q: What is the highest average frame rate this combo achieves in Palworld?

A: The highest recorded average frame rate is 310 FPS, achieved at 1920x1080 resolution with Low settings.

Q: How does the combo perform at 4K Ultra settings?

A: At 3840x2160 with Ultra settings, the average frame rate is 66 FPS, which is the lowest average recorded in the dataset.

Q: Is the system more CPU-bound or GPU-bound at 1440p Medium?

A: At 2560x1440 Medium, the average FPS is 205, with a minimum of 174 and a maximum of 235. This wide variance and high average suggest the CPU is still a significant factor, but the GPU is beginning to take on more load.

Q: What is the frame rate difference between Low and Ultra settings at 1080p?

A: The difference is 129 FPS, with Low averaging 310 FPS and Ultra averaging 181 FPS at 1920x1080.

Q: Does the combo ever drop below 60 FPS in the measured data?

A: No. The lowest average is 66 FPS at 4K Ultra. The only listed minimum FPS values are 96 at 4K Medium, 174 at 1440p Medium, and 244 at 1080p Medium, all of which are above 60 FPS.

Q: How does the 4K Medium result compare to the 4K High result?

A: The 4K Medium average is 114 FPS, while the 4K High average is 87 FPS. This indicates a 27 FPS penalty for moving from Medium to High at that resolution.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G is a Zen 3 (Cezanne) processor with 8 cores and 16 threads. It has a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz, with a 65 W TDP. The chip features a 16 MB L3 cache and 512 KB of L2 per core. In terms of synthetic benchmarks, it scores 12,830.5 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 1,494 in single-core. Its Geekbench scores are 9,950 multi-core and 1,894 single-core. The CPU holds a 79th percentile ranking against all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 27,051.

The CPU's nearest rivals in benchmark averages include the Intel Core i9-9900K with a score of 27,097 (0.2% faster), the AMD Ryzen AI 7 445 with 26,936 (0.4% slower), the Intel Core i5-14400T with 27,166 (0.4% faster), and the Intel Core i7-1370P with 26,900 (0.6% slower). This places the 5700G in a competitive bracket, but its age is evident. In Palworld, the CPU's role is most apparent at lower resolutions. At 1080p Low, the 310 FPS average is likely near the CPU's maximum throughput for this game engine. The fact that 1080p Medium only reaches 287 FPS and 1080p High reaches 239 FPS shows that as settings increase, the GPU takes over more of the workload.

The data suggests that the 5700G's 16 threads are sufficient for Palworld, which is a survival game with complex world simulation. However, the CPU's single-thread performance, as indicated by its 899 score in 3DMark single-thread and 1,494 in Cinebench R23 single-core, may limit maximum frame rates in less GPU-intensive scenarios. The 8-core, 16-thread configuration is a solid baseline, but the results show that it cannot fully feed a GPU of the RTX 5090 D's caliber at 1080p, where frame rates plateau around the 300 FPS mark with less demanding settings.

How This Combo Ranks

In the database of tested hardware combinations for Palworld, this specific pairing of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D ranks 46th out of 2,944 total combos. This places it in the top 1.5% of all tested configurations. The rank is a composite of the CPU and GPU's ability to handle the game's demands across all measured resolutions and settings.

Given the GPU's extreme performance—it holds a 92nd percentile ranking against all GPUs and has an average benchmark score of 77,712—the 46th place ranking might seem low. However, the CPU's 79th percentile ranking tempers the overall result. The RTX 5090 D is clearly the stronger component in this pairing, as evidenced by its benchmark scores, but the 5700G holds it back in certain scenarios. The combo rank of 46 indicates that while there are faster CPUs that could push this GPU even higher, this configuration is still exceptionally fast for Palworld.

The GPU's nearest rivals in average benchmark scores include the AMD Radeon RX 6650M XT at 76,904 (1.1% slower), the AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT at 78,940 (1.6% faster), and the NVIDIA Tesla P100 variants at 79,396 and 79,605 (2.1% and 2.4% faster). This shows that the RTX 5090 D is not just a step above, but in a different tier of performance. The fact that the combo still ranks 46th suggests that the game is not purely GPU-bound, and the CPU's performance ceiling is a real factor in the overall ranking.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D is a Blackwell 2.0 architecture GPU with 21,760 shading units, 680 texture mapping units, and 176 raster output units. It has 170 ray tracing cores and 680 tensor cores. The GPU operates at a base clock of 2017 MHz and a boost clock of 2407 MHz. It features 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus, providing a massive 1.79 TB/s of memory bandwidth. The GPU is built on a 5 nm process at TSMC and has a TDP of 575 W.

In synthetic benchmarks, the RTX 5090 D scores 14,326 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, 310,674 in Geekbench OpenCL, and 376,915 in Geekbench Vulkan. Its Passmark G3D score is 44,065, and its Passmark GPU Compute score is 28,396. The GPU's performance is clearly dominant, but in Palworld, the role of the GPU is to manage the visual fidelity and resolution scaling.

The 32 GB VRAM is a significant asset for Palworld at 4K Ultra, where texture and geometry data can be extensive. The measured data shows that at 4K Ultra, the combo averages 66 FPS, which suggests the GPU is working at its limits. The memory bandwidth of 1.79 TB/s is likely crucial for maintaining frame rates at high resolutions. The difference between 4K High (87 FPS) and 4K Medium (114 FPS) is 27 FPS, indicating that the GPU's compute and memory resources are heavily taxed by the higher settings. The data confirms that the RTX 5090 D is the primary driver of performance at 4K, as the CPU's influence diminishes at that resolution.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The dataset provides a comprehensive look at performance across three resolutions and four settings levels. At 1920x1080, the combo achieves an average of 310 FPS at Low, 287 FPS at Medium, 239 FPS at High, and 181 FPS at Ultra. The Medium setting has a minimum of 244 FPS and a maximum of 331 FPS, showing a 87 FPS variance that indicates some scene-dependent fluctuations.

Moving to 2560x1440, the averages are 252 FPS at Low, 205 FPS at Medium, 157 FPS at High, and 119 FPS at Ultra. The Medium setting at 1440p has a minimum of 174 FPS and a maximum of 235 FPS, a 61 FPS variance. The step from 1080p to 1440p costs roughly 58 FPS at Low, 82 FPS at Medium, 82 FPS at High, and 62 FPS at Ultra. This shows a consistent penalty for the higher pixel count.

At 3840x2160, the averages drop significantly: 140 FPS at Low, 114 FPS at Medium, 87 FPS at High, and 66 FPS at Ultra. The Medium setting at 4K has a minimum of 96 FPS and a maximum of 131 FPS, a 35 FPS variance. The transition from 1440p to 4K costs 112 FPS at Low, 91 FPS at Medium, 70 FPS at High, and 53 FPS at Ultra. Interestingly, the absolute FPS drop from 1440p to 4K is larger at lower settings, but the percentage drop is more severe at higher settings.

The data shows a clear hierarchy: 1080p is CPU-limited, 4K Ultra is GPU-limited, and the middle ground is a mix. The 4K Ultra result of 66 FPS is the only measurement below 100 FPS, and it still clears the 60 FPS threshold. The 1080p Low result of 310 FPS is the only measurement above 300 FPS. Overall, this combo is capable of high refresh rate gaming at 1080p and 1440p, and solid 4K performance, with the caveat that Ultra settings at 4K will require a high-refresh-rate display to fully utilize the 66 FPS average.