Palworld

FAQ

Q: How does the AMD Ryzen 7 7700 compare to its closest rival in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The Ryzen 7 7700 posts an average benchmark score of 40468, which places it 0.1% ahead of the AMD Ryzen 9 7940H (score 40431) and 0.5% ahead of the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 (score 40262). Against the Intel Core i9-13905H, it trails by 0.6%, while it leads the Intel Core Ultra 5 235T by 1.2%.

Q: What is the GPU's performance percentile, and what does that indicate?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER sits in the 84th percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 42576. Its nearest rival, the NVIDIA RTX A6000, scores 42653 (0.2% higher), while the AMD Radeon RX 7650 GRE is 0.3% ahead. The AMD Radeon Pro 580X and NVIDIA Tesla M40 trail by 1.4% and 1.6%, respectively.

Q: What is the combo's rank within Palworld's tested configurations?

A: This combination of the Ryzen 7 7700 and RTX 4070 SUPER ranks 281st out of 1718 tested combos in Palworld. That places it in the top 16.4% of all configurations tested for this game, indicating a strong but not top-tier pairing.

Q: What memory bandwidth does the CPU provide, and how does it relate to the GPU?

A: The Ryzen 7 7700 supports dual-channel DDR5 memory with a bandwidth of 83.2 GB/s. The RTX 4070 SUPER, by contrast, has its own dedicated 12 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 192-bit bus, delivering 504.2 GB/s of bandwidth. The GPU's memory is independent of system RAM.

Q: Does the GPU support modern API features relevant to Palworld?

A: Yes, the RTX 4070 SUPER supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. Its Ada Lovelace architecture includes 56 ray tracing cores and 224 tensor cores, though Palworld's measured results do not isolate ray tracing or DLSS performance.

Q: What are the CPU's core and thread counts, and how do its multi-threaded scores look?

A: The Ryzen 7 7700 has 8 cores and 16 threads, with a base clock of 3.80 GHz and boost up to 5.30 GHz. In Cinebench R23, it scores 29302 multi-core and 4136 single-core. In 3DMark, it achieves 8484 with 16 threads and 8479 with max threads, showing near-linear scaling beyond 8 threads.

GPU Role

The RTX 4070 SUPER is built on TSMC's 5 nm process with the AD104 chip, containing 35,800 million transistors on a 294 mm² die. Its base clock is 1980 MHz with a boost of 2475 MHz, and memory runs at 1313 MHz (21 Gbps effective). The GPU has 7168 shading units, 224 texture mapping units, and 80 raster output pipelines, giving it a pixel rate of 198.0 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 554.4 GTexel/s. FP32 compute is rated at 35.48 TFLOPS.

In Palworld, the GPU's role becomes evident when comparing settings at the same resolution. At 1080p Low, the combo achieves 277.1 FPS, but dropping to Ultra reduces this to 133.3 FPS — a 51.9% decline. The pattern repeats at 1440p, where Low yields 184.6 FPS and Ultra drops to 89 FPS. At 4K, Low produces 102 FPS while Ultra falls to 48.8 FPS. These gaps scale consistently, indicating the GPU is the primary driver of quality-related performance changes.

The 12 GB VRAM capacity is sufficient for Palworld at all tested settings, as even 4K Ultra maintains playable framerates without hitting memory limits. The 504.2 GB/s bandwidth supports high-resolution texture streaming typical of survival games with large open worlds. The GPU's 84th percentile ranking among all GPUs aligns with its mid-high tier positioning, and its nearest rivals in synthetic tests — the RTX A6000 and RX 7650 GRE — differ by less than 0.3%, suggesting comparable raw performance headroom.

Resolution Scaling

The measured data shows a clear pattern: as resolution increases, framerates drop proportionally, but the magnitude varies with settings. At High settings, moving from 1080p (174.1 FPS) to 1440p (112.7 FPS) results in a 35.3% reduction, while 1440p to 4K (61.3 FPS) drops another 45.6%. The cumulative 1080p-to-4K reduction at High is 64.8%.

Low settings show a steeper relative decline: 1080p Low (277.1 FPS) to 1440p Low (184.6 FPS) drops 33.4%, and 1440p to 4K Low (102 FPS) drops 44.7%. The 1080p-to-4K reduction at Low is 63.2%. Medium settings follow similarly: 1080p (224.6 FPS) to 1440p (147.4 FPS) is a 34.4% drop, and to 4K (84.9 FPS) another 42.4%, totaling 62.2% from 1080p.

Ultra settings show the largest relative drop: 1080p Ultra (133.3 FPS) to 1440p Ultra (89 FPS) falls 33.2%, and to 4K Ultra (48.8 FPS) another 45.2%, for a 63.4% total reduction from 1080p. These near-consistent percentage drops across settings indicate that resolution scaling is largely GPU-bound, with the RTX 4070 SUPER's rendering throughput determining the ceiling. The fact that 4K Ultra still maintains 48.8 FPS suggests the GPU has enough headroom for playable 4K, though not at high refresh rates.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its highest raw numbers. Low settings produce 277.1 FPS average, Medium reaches 224.6 FPS, High hits 174.1 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 133.3 FPS. All four settings exceed 120 FPS, meaning the system can drive high-refresh 1080p monitors even at maximum quality. The spread between Low and Ultra is 143.8 FPS, showing substantial GPU headroom.

Moving to 2560x1440, the averages shift downward but remain smooth. Low yields 184.6 FPS, Medium 147.4 FPS, High 112.7 FPS, and Ultra 89 FPS. The Low-to-Ultra spread narrows to 95.6 FPS, but every setting still clears 60 FPS. At 1440p Ultra, the 89 FPS average is comfortably above console-level performance, and High at 112.7 FPS is ideal for 100 Hz+ displays.

At 3840x2160, the impact of resolution becomes more pronounced. Low averages 102 FPS, Medium 84.9 FPS, High 61.3 FPS, and Ultra 48.8 FPS. The Low-to-Ultra spread is 53.2 FPS. High settings at 4K remain playable at 61.3 FPS, but Ultra dips below 50 FPS, which may be noticeable in fast-paced combat. For 4K gaming, Medium or High settings are the practical ceiling. The data shows a linear progression: each quality tier costs roughly 15-20% performance at 4K, similar to the relative costs at lower resolutions.

How This Combo Ranks

This specific CPU-GPU pairing ranks 281st out of 1718 tested combos in Palworld, placing it in the top 16.4% of all configurations. The rank reflects the balance between the Ryzen 7 7700's 91st percentile CPU performance and the RTX 4070 SUPER's 84th percentile GPU performance. The CPU's synthetic average of 40468 is nearly identical to its nearest rivals — the Ryzen 9 7940H (40431, 0.1% higher) and Ryzen AI 9 365 (40262, 0.5% higher) — while the GPU's 42576 average sits between the RTX A6000 (42653, 0.2% higher) and RX 7650 GRE (42723, 0.3% higher).

The rank suggests that, among the 1718 combos tested, 280 configurations deliver higher Palworld framerates. This is expected given that higher-tier GPUs exist, but the gap is not enormous. The measured FPS at 1080p Ultra (133.3 FPS) and 1440p High (112.7 FPS) indicates this combo is well-suited for high-refresh 1440p gaming. At 4K Ultra, the 48.8 FPS average is below the 60 FPS threshold, which likely explains why the rank is not higher. The data also shows the CPU is not a bottleneck at any tested resolution, as framerates scale predictably with GPU load.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 is an 8-core, 16-thread processor from the 7000 series, built on Zen 4 (Raphael) architecture using TSMC's 5 nm process. It has a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 5.30 GHz, with a 65 W TDP. The cache hierarchy includes 64 KB L1 per core, 1 MB L2 per core, and 32 MB shared L3. Memory support is dual-channel DDR5 with 83.2 GB/s bandwidth, and it offers PCIe Gen 5 with 24 CPU lanes.

In Palworld, the CPU's role is evident from the scaling data. At 1080p Low, where GPU load is minimal, the combo reaches 277.1 FPS — a figure that suggests the CPU is capable of feeding the GPU well beyond typical display refresh rates. The Ryzen 7 7700's 3DMark scores (8484 at 16 threads, 8479 at max threads) show near-perfect multi-thread scaling, which helps in Palworld's open-world survival gameplay that often involves many simultaneous entities.

The CPU's single-thread performance is also strong: 3DMark single-thread scores 1049, and Cinebench R23 single-core hits 4136. This matters because Palworld's game logic, including world simulation and AI, often relies on single-threaded performance. The 91st percentile ranking among all CPUs confirms the processor is well above average. Its nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks are all within 1.2% in average score, indicating that swapping to any of those CPUs would yield nearly identical Palworld performance. The CPU's 65 W TDP and 5 nm process contribute to sustained boost behavior, which maintains consistent framerates across long sessions.