Palworld

The measured frame rates for Palworld on an Intel Core i7-13700K (Raptor Lake, 16 cores / 24 threads, boost up to 5.40 GHz) paired with an AMD Radeon RX 9060 (RDNA 4, 8 GB GDDR6, 128-bit bus, 288.0 GB/s bandwidth) show a clear pattern: the system handles 1080p and 1440p with headroom, but the RX 9060 becomes the primary limiting component as resolution climbs to 4K. The best result in the dataset is 167 FPS at 1080p Low, while the worst is 29 FPS at 4K Ultra. In the aggregate combo ranking for Palworld, this part lands at position 2,181 out of 3,711 tested configurations. The CPU sits in the 89th percentile of all processors, while the graphics card is in the 59th percentile of all GPUs, reinforcing a workload that favors the GPU at high resolution.

Resolution Scaling

The resolution scaling is straightforward to read from the measured rows.

• High preset: 1080p yields 104 FPS, 1440p drops to 69 FPS, and 4K falls to 38 FPS.
• Low preset: 1080p reaches 167 FPS, 1440p falls to 110 FPS, and 4K closes at 61 FPS.
• Medium preset: 1080p gives 135 FPS, 1440p produces 89 FPS, 4K averages 49 FPS.
• Ultra preset: 1080p runs at 79 FPS, 1440p at 52 FPS, 4K at 29 FPS.

Every preset loses a significant portion of its delivery as the render load increases. Taking the High rendering from 1080p to 1440p results in a run from the 60–70 FPS territory, and then to 4K the FPS collapses below 40. Low is the only preset that stays continuously above 60 FPS all the way to 4K, and even that lands at 61 FPS. The scaling continues across all quality levels—each higher resolution cuts the FPS roughly proportional to the pixel count added.

This scaling behavior implies that the performance limiter is the RX 9060. At 1080p, where the CPU can feed many draw calls, the fastest row reads 167 FPS, but the GPU cap comes quickly when the pixel count climbs. At 4K, the GPU’s 8 GB frame buffer and memory bandwidth are better than they appear, but the render load simply outpaces the card’s compute. The fact that the Ultra preset goes from 79 FPS at 1080p down to 29 at 4K is not a system-level issue; it is the GPU hitting a heavy term. The CPU’s high sustained 16-core / 24-thread performance does not yield a higher FPS at 4K, because the resolution does not load the CPU more; it shifts the workload entirely to the rasterizer and memory pipeline of the GPU.

Settings Recommendations

The most usable settings per resolution vary based on the FPS rows. If your goal is a stable 60+ FPS experience, the measured data identifies very specific presets to adopt.

At 1080p, every preset exceeds the 60 FPS mark: Low (167), Medium (135), High (104), and Ultra (79). The visual tier is up to the user’s preference, but Ultra still delivers close to 80 frames per second, so for a high-refresh 1080p panel, Ultra is immediately viable. The Medium row also leaves a lot of headroom for drops during scenes with many building particles.

At 1440p, the range narrows. Low gives 110 FPS, which is strong, and Medium gives 89 FPS, which is smooth. High yields 69, still above 60 but not with a huge margin. Ultra falls to 52 FPS, clearly below the 60 FPS line, and should be avoided if you need frame pacing. For a 120 Hz or 75 Hz monitor, Medium offers the best FPS ceiling (89 avg) and can accommodate brief dips. For a 70+ Hz panel, High at 69 is acceptable, but Medium is the better recommendation for steady play.

At 4K, only the Low preset touches the 60 FPS boundary—61 FPS—so that is the only preset that works if you demand a half-motion experience. Medium yields 49 FPS, which may be tolerated in slower Palworld moments, but it is not a comfortable frame rate for combat or fast travel. High drops to 38 and Ultra to 29, both of which are largely unusable for action. The rank of 2,181 out of 3,711 reflects this compromise: the combo is not a native 4K pal but is very serviceable for 1440p with Medium or High.

GPU Role

The RX 9060 is built on the RDNA 4 architecture (Navi 44) with 1792 shading units, 112 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and 28 RT cores. Its base clock is 1700 MHz, boost reaches 2990 MHz, and the memory runs at 2250 MHz across an 8 GB GDDR6 interface that delivers 288.0 GB/s. In this game, those specs show up as noticeable raw rasterization power, but the fact that the GPU has an 8GB capacity at narrow 128-bit bus explains why the 4K numbers are disappointing. The card’s benchmark percentile is below its two main rivals: it is placed just ahead of or behind the RTX 3060 Ti, RX 7700, and R9 370X in terms of average GPU score. For Palworld, which benefits from a strong rasterizer, the model’s 17631 G3D score from PassMark aligns with the measured FPS.

The RX 9060 with 8 GB VRAM is not an extreme-LUX card. When you look at the data for 1080p medium even 135 FPS, then see it drop to 89 at 1440p and 49 at 4K, the GPU is the exclusive culprit. At 4K, a stress the 128-bit bus as well as the 8GB buffer is insufficient to hold the larger texture and compute work. The memory bandwidth of 288.0 GB/s is solid for its class, but Palworld’s open world geometry significantly increases the per-pixel load, which justifies the heavy FPS drop. The GPU matches intrusion on the top–level. Even at 1080p Ultra, the % lower frame time is still high enough that the CPU rarely bottlenecks.

GPU Role

The Radeon RX 9060 is the workhorse of this pair. The card has 8 GB GDDR6 memory, a 128-bit bus, and 288.0 GB/s bandwidth, with a boost clock of 2990 MHz. Its PassMark G3D score is 17,631, hovering near the average of 16,014. The nearest rivals are the RTX 3060 Ti (average 16,129) and RX 7700 (15,852), and the RX 9060 lands within a tiny 0.7%–1.0% delta of both. This means in raw rasterization it is on par with that mid-round tier of cards.

Given that at 4K Low the RX 9060 still manages 61 FPS, the card is far from unusable at high resolutions. But the gap from 1080p Low (167) to 4K Low (61) tells the same story as the more demanding presets: the pixel rate is the constraint. The GPU has lower fillrate per inch relative to the CPU’s capacity, so it is the limiting component for all four presets above 1080p Medium. If you increase the resolution to 4K, the GPU needs to fill over four times the spread of triangles, and the 288.0 GB/s bandwidth is not enough to keep the frame data inflow saturated.

Because of this, game optimization at 4K should target the Low preset as the only viable, which the data supports. At lower resolutions, the GPU gives headroom, but the true bottleneck is the card the frame spacing.

FAQ

Q: Which resolution is the sweet spot for a stable 60 FPS?

A: At 1080p, every preset stays above 60 FPS, including Ultra at 79. At 1440p, High gives 69 and Medium gives 89—both are safe, but Ultra drops to 52.

Q: Can this combo run Palworld at 4K?

A: Only the Low average (61 FPS) reaches a playable frame rate. Medium averages 49 FPS, High 38, Ultra 29.

Q: Which card is the primary bottleneck in this setup?

A: The GPU. The CPU sits high in the percentile (89th percent) and holds up the frame, but the 8GB RX 9060 falls from 167 FPS at 1080p Low to 61 FPS at 4K Low, showing the GPU is the one.

Q: How does the RX 9060 compare to its closest GPU rivals?

A: Its average score of 16,014 is 0.7% behind the RTX 3060 Ti (16,129) and 1.0% ahead of the RX 7700 (15,852).

Q: Why does the 4K Ultra result drop to 29 FPS?

A: The RX 9060 simply does not have enough fill power to drive 4K at any preset above 4K Low; the data confirms the GPU resources are exhausted—average drops from 38 at High to 29 at Ultra.

Q: What is the CPU’s boost capability?

A: The Intel Core i7-13700K has a boost clock of 5.40 GHz and 24 threads, but at 4K the CPU is underutilized because the GPU becomes the pioneer of the FPS.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-13700K is a 16-core, 24-thread processor with a 3.40 GHz base clock and a 5.40 GHz boost, built on Raptor Lake and launched at 10 nm. Its benchmark performance is strong: it scores 30,745 in CineBench R23 multi-thread, 2,116 in single-thread, and 459 P in PassMark multi-thread. The percentile vs all CPUs is 89, meaning it is far above almost all other desktop chips. That power shows in the 1080p numbers, where it is not holding back the card—the CPU is still capable of feeding 167 FPS in the Low preset.

At 1440p and 4K, the CPU does not become a contributor to low frames—it does not even become less saturated. Instead, the GPU is overwhelmed. The CPU’s high throughput does matter for open-world games like Palworld, where many individual entities need logic updates, but its performance is already high enough to not become a obstacle. The CPU’s boost clock of 5400 MHz makes short work of the single-threaded game logic; even at 4K, the FPS is limited by the GPU.

The strong single-core throughput of 2,116 CineBench R23 is particularly relevant for survival games, which often rely on one or two main threads. The 13700K’s 24 threads allow background AI and physics to spread across the other cores, but the dominant core often remains the same pipeline. In the measured rows, the difference between Low and GPU raises FPS at 1080p—from Low to Medium (167 vs 135) and Low to High (167 vs 104)—is a purely GPU difference when resolution is high. At 1080p, the CPU still delivers 104 and 79 at High and Ultra, so even at low resolution it is not a drag. The overall rating of 2,181/3,711 reflects this combination is already above average for the game, and the CPU is never the weak point in the equation.

Measured FPS Breakdown

Below is the full listing of measured FPS rows for Palworld with the Intel Core i7-13700K and AMD Radeon RX 9060. Only the Medium preset includes both minimum and maximum frame times; the other presets list only the average.

| Resolution | Settings | Average FPS | Min FPS | Max FPS |

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

| 1920x1080 | Low | 167 | – | – |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 135 | 115 | 156 |

| 1920x1080 | High | 104 | – | – |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 79 | – | – |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 110 | – | – |

| 2560x1440 | Medium | 89 | 76 | 103 |

| 2560x1440 | High | 69 | – | – |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra | 52 | – | – |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 61 | – | – |

| 3840x2160 | Medium | 49 | 42 | 57 |

| 3840x2160 | High | 38 | – | – |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra | 29 | – | – |

The Medium preset also reveals the variability: at 1080p the observed range is between 115 and 156 FPS; at 1440p it widens to 76–103; at 4K it narrows to 42–57. That pattern indicates consistent GPU-driven scaling, with the 4K Medium staying under 60 FPS even in its best case (57). For a stable play session, the 1440p Medium preset provides the best mix of visual fidelity and headroom—a 76 FPS floor and an 89 average. At 1080p, Ultra still gives 79 FPS, which is a good visual result; at 4K, only Low squeezes to 61 average. The numbers clearly show that 4K output is for Low only, while 1440p and 1080p can tolerate higher presets without falling below the 60 FPS line.