Palworld

The AMD Ryzen 9 7900X and AMD Radeon RX 570 pairing lands near the bottom of the chart for Palworld, holding the 1676th spot out of 1718 tested combinations. This places it in the bottom 2.5% of all CPU-GPU pairings for this title, a position driven entirely by the graphics card's limitations rather than the processor. The data shows a combo that is severely bottlenecked at every resolution, with the CPU's substantial headroom going unused as the GPU struggles to keep pace.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo ranks 1676th out of 1718 tested combinations, putting it in the 3rd percentile of all pairings. This is a remarkably low position for a system built around a processor that sits in the 93rd percentile among all CPUs. The disconnect between the CPU's elite standing (it benchmarks near the top of the charts, with an average score of 50556) and this combo's bottom-tier game performance highlights a fundamental imbalance. The GPU, which sits in the 74th percentile among all GPUs, is the clear limiting factor. In benchmark terms, the CPU's nearest rivals — the Intel Core Ultra 5 235 (0.1% behind), AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT (0.4% behind), and Intel Core i7-13850HX (0.5% behind) — all perform nearly identically in synthetic tests, yet none of that processing power translates to playable frame rates here. The data suggests that pairing this level of CPU with this level of GPU creates a system where the processor's potential is largely wasted in Palworld.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 570 brings 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus, with a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s. Its base clock runs at 1168 MHz with a boost up to 1244 MHz, and the memory operates at 1750 MHz (7 Gbps effective). These are modest figures for a game like Palworld, which appears to demand more from the graphics subsystem than this 2017-era card can deliver. The GPU's 2048 shading units and 32 ROPs provide a theoretical pixel rate of 39.81 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 159.2 GTexel/s, with FP32 performance at 5.095 TFLOPS. In benchmark terms, the RX 570's average score of 30158 places it in a dead heat with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 (0.2% ahead), AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT (0.2% ahead), and NVIDIA Tesla M60 (0.6% ahead). This clustering suggests the RX 570 is performing right at its expected level — the problem is that this expected level is far too low for Palworld at higher settings. The 4 GB VRAM capacity likely becomes a constraint at 4K Ultra, where the game's texture demands exceed what this card can efficiently handle.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 9 7900X is a 12-core, 24-thread Zen 4 processor running on the AM5 socket, with a base clock of 4.70 GHz and a boost clock of 5.60 GHz. Built on TSMC's 5 nm process with 13,140 million transistors across a 2x 71 mm² die, it features 64 MB of shared L3 cache and 1 MB L2 per core. Its memory bandwidth of 83.2 GB/s over dual-channel DDR5 provides ample data throughput. Synthetic benchmarks show this is a top-tier processor: Cinebench R23 multicore scores 43695, single-core hits 6168, and Geekbench multicore reaches 17830. In Passmark, the multithread score is 51406 and single-thread is 4238. The 3DMark results scale from 1093 (single-thread) to 12536 (max threads), showing excellent scaling across core counts. With an average benchmark score of 50556 and a 93rd percentile ranking among all CPUs, the 7900X is unquestionably capable of feeding a much more powerful GPU than the RX 570. The data implies that in this combo, the CPU is likely idle-waiting for the GPU to finish rendering frames, a situation where the processor's 24 threads provide no benefit to Palworld's frame rate.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo produces playable results at lower settings: Low averages 70.9 FPS, Medium drops to 59.0 FPS, and High falls to 44.6 FPS. Ultra, however, collapses to 34.9 FPS. Moving to 2560x1440, the frame rates decline substantially: Low averages 46.4 FPS, Medium 39.0 FPS, High 29.5 FPS, and Ultra plummets to 21.5 FPS. At 3840x2160, the results are largely unplayable: Low averages 24.8 FPS, Medium 20.9 FPS, High 20.1 FPS, and Ultra drops to just 12.9 FPS. The pattern across all resolutions is consistent — Low settings provide the highest frame rates, with a steep drop-off as quality increases. The gap between Low and Ultra is significant at every resolution: at 1080p the difference is 36 FPS, at 1440p it is 24.9 FPS, and at 4K it narrows to 11.9 FPS as the GPU becomes fully saturated even at Low settings.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals where the bottleneck lies. At Low settings, 1080p yields 70.9 FPS, dropping to 46.4 FPS at 1440p (a 34.6% reduction) and further to 24.8 FPS at 4K (a 65% reduction from 1080p). At High settings, the progression is 44.6 FPS at 1080p, 29.5 FPS at 1440p, and 20.1 FPS at 4K. This scaling pattern is characteristic of a GPU-bound system: as resolution increases, the pixel-fill requirements grow, and the RX 570's limited pixel rate (39.81 GPixel/s) becomes the constraining factor. The CPU's 83.2 GB/s memory bandwidth and 64 MB L3 cache are more than sufficient for any resolution, but the GPU's 224.0 GB/s bandwidth and 4 GB VRAM are stretched thin at higher resolutions. Interestingly, the drop from 1080p to 1440p at High settings (44.6 to 29.5 FPS) is a 33.9% decrease, while the drop from 1440p to 4K (29.5 to 20.1 FPS) is a 31.9% decrease — nearly linear scaling that confirms the GPU is the sole limiting factor. If the CPU were the bottleneck, we would expect frame rates to remain relatively flat across resolutions, which they clearly do not.

FAQ

Q: Is this combo capable of running Palworld at 1080p?

A: Yes, but only at lower settings. The data shows 70.9 FPS at Low, 59.0 FPS at Medium, and 44.6 FPS at High settings at 1920x1080, making Low and Medium the only playable options for smooth gameplay.

Q: How does the RX 570 compare to its nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The RX 570's average benchmark score of 30158 places it just 0.2% behind the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, 0.2% behind the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT, and 0.6% ahead of the NVIDIA Tesla M60. This indicates it is performing exactly as expected for its class.

Q: What is the biggest performance drop when increasing resolution?

A: The largest relative drop occurs when moving from 1080p Low (70.9 FPS) to 1440p Low (46.4 FPS), a 34.6% decrease. The absolute largest drop is at Low settings from 1080p to 4K, losing 46.1 FPS.

Q: Why does the combo rank so low despite having a powerful CPU?

A: The CPU is in the 93rd percentile among all processors with an average benchmark score of 50556, but the GPU is only in the 74th percentile. The RX 570's 4 GB VRAM and 224.0 GB/s bandwidth cannot feed Palworld's rendering demands, leaving the 7900X's 12 cores largely idle.

Q: At what settings is Ultra playable?

A: At 1080p Ultra, the combo achieves 34.9 FPS, which is below the standard 60 FPS threshold. At 1440p Ultra it drops to 21.5 FPS, and at 4K Ultra it falls to 12.9 FPS, making Ultra settings impractical at any resolution.

Q: How does the CPU's synthetic performance compare to its rivals?

A: The 7900X scores 50556 on average, which is 0.1% behind the Intel Core Ultra 5 235, 0.4% behind the AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT, and 0.5% behind the Intel Core i7-13850HX. The differences are negligible, confirming the CPU is performing at its expected level.

Settings Recommendations

Based on the measured frame rates, the best experience comes from Low settings at 1080p, where the combo achieves 70.9 FPS. This is the only configuration that consistently stays above the 60 FPS mark. Medium at 1080p offers 59.0 FPS, which is borderline acceptable but requires sacrificing visual quality for minimal frame rate gain. For users who prioritize visual fidelity over frame rate, High at 1080p provides 44.6 FPS, which is playable but noticeably less smooth. At 1440p, Low settings (46.4 FPS) are the only viable option, while Medium (39.0 FPS) and High (29.5 FPS) become increasingly choppy. Ultra settings are not recommended at any resolution — even at 1080p, the 34.9 FPS average falls below playable thresholds, and at 4K the 12.9 FPS result is effectively a slideshow. The data suggests that users should stick to 1080p Low or Medium for the best balance, as the RX 570's 4 GB VRAM and 5.095 TFLOPS of FP32 performance are insufficient for higher quality presets in Palworld. Given the CPU's enormous headroom, upgrading the GPU would yield dramatic improvements, but within this combo's constraints, lower settings are the only path to acceptable performance.