Palworld

Settings Recommendations

For Palworld, the measured data reveals a clear hierarchy across the four quality presets. At 1080p, the Low preset delivers an average of 52 FPS, which is the only setting that crosses the 50 FPS threshold. Medium follows at 42 FPS, High at 32 FPS, and Ultra drops to 24 FPS. The gap between Low and Medium is 10 FPS, while the step from Medium to High costs another 10 FPS, and High to Ultra costs 8 FPS. This pattern indicates diminishing returns on visual fidelity versus frame rate as you move up the preset ladder.

The Medium preset at 1080p, with its 42 FPS average and a measured minimum of 36 FPS, offers the most balanced experience. The minimum frame rate of 36 FPS stays above the 30 FPS playability floor, which is not guaranteed at higher presets. Low presets achieve higher averages but typically sacrifice too much visual clarity for a survival game where environmental readability matters. At 1440p, Medium drops to 28 FPS average with a 23 FPS minimum, which begins to feel stuttery in combat scenarios. The data suggests that Medium at 1080p is the optimal choice for consistent playability, as it retains reasonable visual quality while keeping frame times predictable.

At 4K, no preset is genuinely playable. The best 4K result is Low at 19 FPS, followed by Medium at 15 FPS, High at 12 FPS, and Ultra at 9 FPS. These numbers are below any reasonable playability threshold. The recommendation stands: 1080p Medium provides the best experience per the measured rows, offering a 42 FPS average that stays within 10 FPS of the maximum achievable on this hardware while maintaining a minimum above 35 FPS.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 is a 16-core, 32-thread processor based on Zen 5 architecture, running at a 3.00 GHz base clock with a 5.10 GHz boost clock. It features 64 MB of shared L3 cache and 80 KB of L1 cache per core, with 1 MB of L2 per core. The CPU's benchmark results place it in the 95th percentile of all tested processors, indicating top-tier synthetic performance. Its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 35,314 and single-core score of 2,044 show strong scaling across threads, while Geekbench scores of 20,992 multi-core and 2,464 single-core reinforce this position.

In Palworld, the CPU's role is substantial because the game's open-world survival mechanics involve extensive physics calculations, creature AI, and base-building interactions that scale with core count. The 16-core configuration provides ample headroom for these workloads. The CPU's nearest rival, the Intel Core i9-14900K, holds an average score of 79,097, which is 1.7% higher than the Ryzen AI Max+ 395's 77,740 average. This places the AMD chip in close competition with Intel's flagship desktop processor, despite being a mobile part. The AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9945WX and AMD EPYC Embedded 8224P both score approximately 1.6% lower, while the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX trails by 2%.

The CPU's single-thread performance, represented by a PassMark single-thread score of 4,147 and a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2,044, is critical for Palworld's main game thread. The 5.10 GHz boost clock ensures that single-threaded tasks like player character physics and UI updates run efficiently. However, the measured FPS data suggests that at higher resolutions, the GPU becomes the primary bottleneck. The fact that 1080p Low achieves 52 FPS while 4K Low achieves only 19 FPS indicates that the CPU is capable of feeding the GPU at lower resolutions, but the integrated GPU cannot maintain throughput as resolution increases.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon 760M is an integrated GPU based on RDNA 3.0 architecture, manufactured on a 4 nm process with 25,390 million transistors. It operates at a base clock of 800 MHz and boosts to 2599 MHz, with 512 shading units, 32 texture mapping units, and 16 raster output pipelines. The GPU features 8 ray tracing cores and delivers 5.323 TFLOPS of FP32 compute. Its memory is system-shared, with bandwidth dependent on the system configuration, which in this case leverages the CPU's quad-channel LPDDR5X support with 256.0 GB/s bandwidth.

The Radeon 760M's benchmark scores place it in the 35th percentile of all GPUs, with a PassMark G3D score of 5,310 and a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 400. Its nearest rival, the AMD Radeon RX 6400, scores 6,001, which is only 0.3% higher, indicating that this integrated GPU performs nearly identically to a discrete entry-level card. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M also sits 0.3% higher, while the NVIDIA Quadro P2000 scores 0.5% higher. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server is a notable outlier in the rival list, scoring 5,996, which is 0.4% higher despite being a professional workstation part.

In Palworld, the GPU's role becomes dominant as resolution increases. The 16 ROPs and 32 TMUs limit pixel fill rate to 41.58 GPixel/s and texture rate to 83.17 GTexel/s, which are modest figures for modern game rendering. The 2599 MHz boost clock helps mitigate these limitations, but the integrated nature of the GPU means it shares memory bandwidth with the CPU. The measured FPS scaling from 1080p to 4K shows a drop of approximately 63% from Low 1080p (52 FPS) to Low 4K (19 FPS), which is consistent with a GPU-bound scenario where pixel throughput becomes the limiting factor. The GPU's DirectX 12 Ultimate support ensures feature compatibility, but the hardware cannot sustain high frame rates at demanding resolutions.

How This Combo Ranks

This specific combination of AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 and AMD Radeon 760M ranks 2,933 out of 2,944 tested combos in Palworld, placing it in the bottom 0.4% of all configurations. This rank reflects the severe imbalance between the high-end CPU and the entry-level integrated GPU. The CPU's 95th percentile performance is effectively wasted in this game because the GPU cannot translate that processing power into frame rate.

The data indicates that this combo performs near the absolute bottom of the database, with only 11 other combinations scoring worse. This is a critical finding: despite the CPU being one of the strongest mobile processors available, the integrated GPU anchors the entire system's gaming performance. The rank of 2,933 out of 2,944 means that 99.6% of tested combos deliver better Palworld performance. This is not a subtle deficit; it is a fundamental hardware mismatch for gaming purposes. The CPU's 16 cores and 32 threads provide no advantage when the GPU cannot render frames above 52 FPS even at the lowest settings and resolution.

Comparatively, the CPU's nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks—such as the Intel Core i9-14900K and AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9945WX—would typically be paired with discrete GPUs, which explains why this combo ranks so poorly. The integrated GPU's 35th percentile standing, combined with the CPU's 95th percentile, creates a configuration where the GPU is the overwhelming bottleneck. Any discrete GPU in the same performance class as the Radeon 760M would be paired with a much weaker CPU in most systems, but here the pairing amplifies the GPU's inadequacy.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS drops from 1080p to 4K are dramatic and consistent with GPU-bound scaling. At Low settings, the average FPS goes from 52 at 1080p to 34 at 1440p (a 35% drop) and then to 19 at 4K (a 44% drop from 1440p). The total drop from 1080p to 4K at Low is 33 FPS, representing a 63% reduction. At Medium settings, the progression is 42 FPS at 1080p, 28 FPS at 1440p (33% drop), and 15 FPS at 4K (46% drop from 1440p). High settings show 32 FPS at 1080p, 21 FPS at 1440p (34% drop), and 12 FPS at 4K (43% drop). Ultra settings start at 24 FPS at 1080p, drop to 16 FPS at 1440p (33% drop), and reach 9 FPS at 4K (44% drop).

The consistent 33-35% drop from 1080p to 1440p across all settings, followed by a 43-46% drop from 1440p to 4K, indicates that the limiting component is the GPU's pixel throughput. If the CPU were the bottleneck, the scaling would show smaller percentage drops at higher resolutions because the CPU would have more time to prepare frames. Instead, the GPU's ROP and TMU limits are being saturated, as evidenced by the near-linear relationship between resolution and frame rate. The 4K to 1080p pixel ratio is 4:1, and the FPS ratio at Low settings is approximately 2.7:1 (52/19), which is less than 4:1 but still indicates significant GPU strain.

The minimum FPS data available for Medium settings shows 36 FPS at 1080p, 23 FPS at 1440p, and 13 FPS at 4K. These minimums are consistently about 85% of the average FPS, suggesting frame time consistency is maintained even as the GPU struggles. The fixed pattern of scaling across all presets confirms that resolution is the dominant variable, and the integrated GPU cannot handle pixel counts above 1080p for this game.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured results show a clear progression: Low averages 52 FPS, Medium averages 42 FPS with a minimum of 36 and maximum of 48, High averages 32 FPS, and Ultra averages 24 FPS. The Medium preset's frame time range of 36-48 FPS indicates acceptable consistency. The jump from Low to Medium costs 10 FPS but provides noticeable visual improvements. High to Ultra costs 8 FPS, which is relatively less than the 10 FPS step from Medium to High.

At 2560x1440, the averages are: Low at 34 FPS, Medium at 28 FPS with a minimum of 23 and maximum of 32, High at 21 FPS, and Ultra at 16 FPS. The Medium preset at 1440p has a minimum of 23 FPS, which dips below the 30 FPS playability threshold. The High preset at 21 FPS is marginal, and Ultra at 16 FPS is not viable for sustained gameplay. The Low preset at 34 FPS is the only 1440p option that maintains an average above 30 FPS, though its minimum FPS is not recorded.

At 3840x2160, all presets are below playable thresholds: Low averages 19 FPS, Medium averages 15 FPS with a minimum of 13 and maximum of 18, High averages 12 FPS, and Ultra averages 9 FPS. The Medium preset at 4K has the only recorded minimum FPS in the 4K category, showing 13 FPS. Even the best 4K result (Low at 19 FPS) is less than half of the 1080p Low result (52 FPS). The 4K Ultra preset at 9 FPS represents a 83% reduction from 1080p Low, illustrating the severe GPU limitation at this resolution.

The data shows that the Medium preset consistently provides approximately 80% of the Low preset's FPS across all resolutions (42/52 at 1080p, 28/34 at 1440p, 15/19 at 4K). This consistency suggests that the GPU handles the additional visual effects of Medium without disproportionate performance loss, making Medium the most efficient preset in terms of performance per visual quality step.

FAQ

Q: What is the best resolution and settings combination for Palworld on this hardware?

A: Based on measured data, 1080p with Medium settings provides the best experience, averaging 42 FPS with a minimum of 36 FPS. This is the only preset/resolution combination that maintains a minimum above 35 FPS while offering more than minimal visual quality.

Q: How does this combo rank compared to other tested systems in Palworld?

A: This combo ranks 2,933 out of 2,944 tested combinations, placing it in the bottom 0.4% of all configurations. Only 11 other combos perform worse in Palworld.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the limiting factor in this game?

A: The GPU is the overwhelming bottleneck. The CPU ranks in the 95th percentile of all processors, while the GPU ranks in the 35th percentile. The FPS scaling from 1080p to 4K shows a 63% drop at Low settings, which is characteristic of GPU-bound performance. The CPU's 16 cores and 5.10 GHz boost clock are more than sufficient for this game.

Q: Can this system handle 4K gaming in Palworld?

A: No. The best 4K result is Low settings at 19 FPS average. Medium settings at 4K average 15 FPS with a 13 FPS minimum. These frame rates are far below playable thresholds for a survival game requiring quick reactions.

Q: How does the Radeon 760M compare to its closest rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The Radeon 760M's PassMark G3D score of 5,310 is 0.3% lower than the AMD Radeon RX 6400 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M, and 0.5% lower than the NVIDIA Quadro P2000. It scores 0.4% lower than the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server. This indicates performance nearly identical to entry-level discrete GPUs.

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

A: At 1080p, Low averages 52 FPS while Ultra averages 24 FPS, a difference of 28 FPS. This represents a 54% reduction in frame rate when moving from the lowest to the highest quality preset. The step from Low to Medium costs 10 FPS, Medium to High costs 10 FPS, and High to Ultra costs 8 FPS.