Palworld

Palworld pairs the 12-core AMD Ryzen 9 5900X with the 24 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, delivering an average of success and resolution tested. The data shows a combo that is clearly capable of triple-digit frame rates at 1440p and even several presets pass 60 FPS at 4K. With the game released on 2024-01-18, the measured performance indicates that this hardware setup sits comfortably among the best Palworld configurations.

Resolution Scaling

Measured FPS values track how the system responds to resolution changes. At Low quality, average frame rates are 388 at 1080p, 242 at 1440p, and 138 at 4K. That represents a 30% drop going from 1080p to 1440p (from 330 to 231) a further 44% drop from 1440p to 4K (from 231 to 128). The overall dip from 1080p to 4K is 61%. For Medium preset, the sequence is 285 → 187 → 104, with a 34% drop to 1440p and 44% drop to 4K, again a total drop of 63%. High settings start at 219 at 1080p, fall to 144 at 1440p (34% lower), and then to 80 at 4K (44% lower), totaling a 63% reduction. At Ultra, 1070p yields 158, 1440p 107, and 4K 61, giving the same 34%/44% pattern and a 63% three-resolution drop.

These numbers reveal a clear scaling trend: moving 1080p to 1440p costs about one-third of the frame rate, and moving 1440p to 4K costs an additional 44% at every preset. If the GPU were the only limiting factor, 1080p to 4K (a 4.0× pixel increase) would cut the frame rate to 25% of the original, i.e., a 75% drop. Instead, the measured drop is which is 60–63%. This smaller-than-theoretical decline indicates that at 1080p the system is not purely GPU-limited. The gap between the observed and expected scaling suggests that the CPU or other parts of the platform help keep sub-4K performance. At 4K, the GPU very likely becomes the sole bottleneck, as its occupancy and load scale with pixel count. For the player, this means the RTX 4090 and Ryzen 9 350X combination provide headroom: if you drop the resolution from 4K to 1440p, the average FPS roughly climbs from 61-104 to 109-187 (depending on quality preset while at 1080p the combo saturates well above 200 FPS on most settings).

Settings Recommendations

When choosing a quality preset, the measured data offers a simple guide. At 4K, the only preset with an average above 100 FPS is Low (128 FPS) and Medium (104 FPS). High yields 80 FPS and Ultra 61 FPS. All are technically playable, but for a fluid 4K session, Medium at 104 FPS is the most stable choice that keeps the average above 100, without the large visual reduction of Low. At 1440p, the picture changes: Medium achieves 187 FPS, High 144 FPS, and Low 231 FPS. The High preset at 144 FPS matches a majority of 144 Hz gaming monitors, making it worthwhile to take the visual bump from Medium. At 1080p, even Ultra used to hit 107 FPS; Low sits at 330 and High at 219, meaning every preset is competitive for high-refresh displays. The spread from Low to Ultra is smaller at lower resolutions, so users with a 1080p monitor can just pick Ultra risk-free.

Given the numbers, Medium is the best balance across all three resolutions. It returns 285, 187, and 104 FPS at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K, respectively. None of the other two presets (Low and High) deliver as close to triple-digit frame rates at 4K while still having a visual boost over Low. Ultra is an option only for users who prioritize eye-candy and accept around 60 FPS at 4K, but the 34% drop from High to that point is significant for a modest quality increase. Therefore, the crucially consistent recommendation based purely on frame data is Medium, with High a close runner-up for 1080p or 1440p.

How This Combo Ranks

Out of 3,711 piecewise test combinations, this specific then pairing — the Ryzen 9 5900X and the RTX 4090 — claimed 157th place. That locates it in the top percentile of the database. The specific rank indicates that this pairing excels in Palworld, outperforming nearly 94% of all other CPU/GPU combos tested (158 * 3711 = 4.26% of the top). It is an ultra-enthusiast tier setup that places near the ceiling of what the game demands. No immediate rejoinders are available in the data, but the rank alone is a strong signal that the combination is well matched, though a few other combos may have higher across award across the game.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The following table lists the frame results exactly as measured.

| Resolution | Quality Preset | Average FPS | Min FPS | Max FPS |

|------------|-------------|------------|---------|----------|

| 1920x1080 | Low | 330 | – | – |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 285 | 242 | 327 |

| 1920x1080 | High | 219 | – | – |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 166 | – | – |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 231 | – | – |

| 2560x1440 | Medium| 187 | 159 | 215 |

| 2560x1440 | High | 144 | – | – |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra| 109 | – | – |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 128 | – | – |

| 3840x2160 | Medium 104 | 88 | 120 |

| 3840x2160 | High | 80 | – | – |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra| 61 | – | – |

*Note: dash ("–") indicates no min/max provided.

The table shows a widening gap between presets as resolution rises: at 1080p the spread from Ultra to Low is 164 FPS (166 vs 330), at 1440p it is 112 FPS (109 vs 231), and at 4K it narrows to 67 FPS (61 vs 128). So the settings option matters most at 1080p, where GPU headroom is ample; at 4K, frame rates converge to within a 67-FPS band. Only the Medium preset carries a min/max row, and its minimum values exceed the average of the next-lowest preset: at 1080p, min 242 is above the average High (219), at 1440p min 159 exceeds the High average (144), and at 4K min 88 surpasses High average (80). This stability in the Medium preset is a strong reason to consider it as the going default.

GPU Role

The RTX 4090 is built with 16384 shading units, 512 tensor cores, and 128 ray-tracing cores, using a base clock of 2235 MHz and a boost of 2520 MHz. It has 24 GB of GDDR6X memory on al 384-bit interface, which yields a theoretical bandwidth of 1.01 TB/s. In Palworld, the measured frames at Ultra preset are 166, 109, and 61 at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K, respectively. That the Ultra preset stays above 60 FPS at 4K shows that the GPU has enough raw power. The drop from 1080p to 4K (a factor of 4 on pixels) results in a 63% FPS reduction, indicating the GPU is gradually becoming the limiting factor as pixels increase. The large VRAM capacity (24 GB) and the huge memory bandwith would benefit high texture-loads or draw distances, though no specific VRAM usage was recorded. In synthetic benchmarks, the RTX 4090 posts a G3D score of 38194, some of the highest on record, and the card’s composite score of 60347 places it above 88% of all GPUs. Its nearest rival, the Intel Arc Pro A60, has a very participating average benchmark score within 0% delta, meaning the GPU is demonstrably at the top of its class; however, in actual Palworld frames, the 4090 delivers 128 FPS even at 4K Low, confirming that its raw power translates to headroom for quality settings.

FAQ

Q: What is the highest average FPS measured at 1080p Low?

A: 330 FPS.

Q: What is the average FPS at 4K with Medium settings?

A: 104 FPS (min 88, max 120).

Q: How does this pairing rank among all tested Palworld combos?

A: This combo ranks 158th out of 3711, putting it in the top 4% of tested combinations.

Q: Does the 4K Ultra preset maintain an average above 60 FPS?

A: Yes, the measured avg is 61 FPS at 3840x2160 Ultra.

Q: What are the GPU's benchmark scores?

A: The RTX 4090 has a PassMark G3D score of 38194 and a Geekbench OpenCL score of 255416.

Q: What is the difference in average FPS between 1440p Medium and 1440p High?

A: Medium averages 187 FPS, High 144 FPS, so the drop is 22% (144 vs 187).

CPU Role

The Ryzen 9 5900X contributes 12 cores and 24 threads, with a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 4.80 GHz. The CPU has a 64 MB L3 cache and is built on 7 nm Zen 3, and the measured scores show a single-thread Geekbench result of 2083 and a multi-thread score 14118; with Cinebench R23 the results are 1527 single and 16262 multi (the exact values in the FACT PACK). These processor metrics lie near the top 87th percentile among all CPUs. Being paired with a 24-core GPU such as the GPU, the strongest sign of the CPU’s role is the pattern of frame scaling across resolutions. At 1080p low, the system produces 330 frames per second, an extremely high number that would only be possible if the CPU is capable of feeding the GPU fast enough. If the CPU were too weak, we would expect to see the 1080p to 4K drop to be smaller than the ¾ factor that we measured, because the CPU might limit at 1080p, creating a plateau. But here the 1080p to 1440p drop is 31-34%, which is less than the 44-45% drop from 1440p to 4K. This asymmetrical scaling hints that the CPU is providing enough instruction throughput for high-FPS at 1080p, and only the GPU workload gates the higher resolution render. The 5900X’s 24 threads may help with background processes and game logic, but the data itself only gives us these frame numbers. At 1080p, the lowest frame average (Ultra at 166) is still above 150, so the CPU clearly doesn’t prevent high refresh rate play. The measured single-core performance of 1527 R23 places the CPU on a competitive footing for a game like Palworld, which typically relies on a limited number of strong cores for simulation. Thus, while we cannot attribute FPS deltas directly to the CPU without separate bottleneck measurements, the observed motif at 4K and the very high frame counts at 1080p suggest the 5900X is a balanced partner for the RTX 4090.