Ready Or Not

Settings Recommendations

The measured data for Ready Or Not with this AMD Ryzen 7 5800X and Intel Arc B390 combination reveals a clear pattern: Medium settings deliver the most balanced experience across all three tested resolutions. At 1080p, Medium produces 109 FPS average, which is 10 FPS higher than High and 40 FPS higher than Ultra, while remaining only 16 FPS behind Low. The Medium preset also provides the only complete frame time data in the entire dataset, with a minimum of 92 FPS and a maximum of 125 FPS at 1080p, indicating consistent frame delivery without severe dips.

Stepping up to 1440p, Medium again emerges as the optimal choice with 69 FPS average, a 7 FPS improvement over High and a substantial 25 FPS advantage over Ultra. The minimum frame rate at 1440p Medium is 58 FPS, which stays above the 60 FPS threshold most of the time but shows that the system is approaching its limits. Low at 1440p reaches 79 FPS, but the visual quality sacrifice is significant for a tactical shooter where target identification matters.

At 4K, the situation becomes more constrained. Medium delivers 36 FPS average with a minimum of 30 FPS and a maximum of 41 FPS, which is playable but not smooth. High drops to 33 FPS, and Ultra falls to 23 FPS, which is below acceptable playability. Low at 4K reaches 41 FPS, but the frame rate is still marginal for a game requiring precise aiming and quick reactions.

The data clearly indicates that Ultra settings are not viable at any resolution with this combination. The gap between Medium and Ultra is consistent: 40 FPS at 1080p, 25 FPS at 1440p, and 13 FPS at 4K. This suggests the GPU is overwhelmed by the additional rendering demands of Ultra, and the performance cost outweighs any visual benefit. For the best experience, Medium at 1080p or 1440p provides the smoothest gameplay while maintaining reasonable visual fidelity.

How This Combo Ranks

This specific combination of AMD Ryzen 7 5800X and Intel Arc B390 ranks 2611th out of 2947 tested combos in Ready Or Not, placing it in the bottom 11% of all configurations. This rank reflects the significant bottleneck created by the GPU, which sits in the 9th percentile of all GPUs based on its average benchmark score of 1482 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12. The CPU, by contrast, performs admirably in synthetic benchmarks, ranking in the 81st percentile of all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 29123.

The disparity between the CPU and GPU performance tiers explains the overall ranking. The Ryzen 7 5800X is a capable processor that can handle modern game workloads, but the Arc B390's performance ceiling limits the entire system. In the 3DMark Steel Nomad test, the Arc B390 scores just 1482, which places it directly alongside legacy NVIDIA parts. Its nearest rivals include the GeForce GT 520MX with a score of 1463 and a deltaPct of 1.3%, the GeForce 800M at 1460 with a 1.5% delta, the GeForce GT 625 OEM at 1446 with a 2.5% delta, and the GeForce GT 710 at 1443 with a 2.7% delta.

These rivals are all entry-level or older discrete GPUs, and the Arc B390 only marginally outperforms them. The data suggests that in Ready Or Not, this combo delivers frame rates typical of a low-end GPU configuration, which aligns with its bottom-quartile ranking. The CPU's strength is essentially wasted in this pairing for this particular game, as the GPU becomes the limiting factor at every resolution and settings level tested.

GPU Role

The Intel Arc B390 is built on Intel's 3 nm process using the Xe3-LPG architecture, with the chip codenamed Panther Lake. It operates with a base clock of 300 MHz and a boost clock of 2500 MHz, providing a wide clock range that allows the GPU to scale performance based on workload demands. The GPU features 1536 shading units, 48 texture mapping units, and 24 raster output units, along with 12 ray tracing cores. Its pixel rate is 60.00 GPixel/s and texture rate is 120.0 GTexel/s, with FP32 performance rated at 7.680 TFLOPS and FP16 at 15.36 TFLOPS.

The memory configuration is notably unusual: the Arc B390 uses system shared memory rather than dedicated VRAM. The memory size, type, bus width, and bandwidth are all listed as "System Shared" or "System Dependent," meaning the GPU relies entirely on the host system's DDR4 memory. This shared memory arrangement directly impacts game performance, particularly at higher resolutions where texture storage demands increase. The Ryzen 7 5800X supports dual-channel DDR4 with a memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s, which becomes the effective memory bandwidth for the GPU.

In Ready Or Not, the GPU's limitations are evident in the frame rate scaling across resolutions. At 1080p High, the system achieves 99 FPS, but this drops to 62 FPS at 1440p High and 33 FPS at 4K High. The performance degradation from 1080p to 4K is severe, indicating that the GPU's computational resources and shared memory bandwidth are insufficient for high-resolution rendering. The GPU's 80 W TDP and IGP form factor with no power connectors or display outputs of its own (portable device dependent) suggest it is designed for integrated use cases rather than high-performance gaming.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system delivers its best performance across all settings. Low settings produce 125 FPS average, which is the highest frame rate recorded in the entire dataset. Medium settings follow at 109 FPS with a minimum of 92 FPS and a maximum of 125 FPS. High settings reach 99 FPS, while Ultra drops significantly to 69 FPS. The 56 FPS difference between Low and Ultra at 1080p demonstrates the heavy performance cost of the highest visual preset, and even Low's 125 FPS is modest by modern gaming standards.

Moving to 2560x1440, frame rates decrease noticeably. Low settings average 79 FPS, which is a 46 FPS drop from the same settings at 1080p. Medium averages 69 FPS with a minimum of 58 FPS and a maximum of 79 FPS, while High averages 62 FPS. Ultra falls to 44 FPS, which is below the threshold for smooth gameplay in a tactical shooter. The 35 FPS gap between Low and Ultra at 1440p is smaller than at 1080p, suggesting the GPU is becoming more constrained at this resolution.

At 3840x2160, the system struggles to maintain playable frame rates. Low settings average 41 FPS, Medium averages 36 FPS with a minimum of 30 FPS and a maximum of 41 FPS, and High averages 33 FPS. Ultra drops to 23 FPS, which is essentially unplayable. The 18 FPS difference between Low and Ultra at 4K is the smallest gap across all resolutions, indicating that the GPU's rendering pipeline is saturated and additional settings changes have diminishing returns. The Medium setting at 4K provides the only complete frame time data at this resolution, with a 30 FPS minimum that barely maintains playability.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals the GPU as the primary bottleneck. At High settings, the system delivers 99 FPS at 1080p, 62 FPS at 1440p, and 33 FPS at 4K. This represents a 37% drop from 1080p to 1440p and a 67% drop from 1080p to 4K. For Low settings, the progression is 125 FPS at 1080p, 79 FPS at 1440p, and 41 FPS at 4K, showing a 37% and 67% drop respectively. Medium settings follow the same pattern: 109 FPS at 1080p, 69 FPS at 1440p, and 36 FPS at 4K, with drops of 37% and 67%.

The consistency of these percentage drops across all settings is telling. A system with ample GPU headroom would typically show less severe scaling, as the CPU would become the limiting factor at lower resolutions. Here, the uniform degradation suggests that the GPU is the limiting component at every resolution tested, and the CPU's capabilities are never fully utilized. The Ryzen 7 5800X, with its 8 cores and 16 threads boosting to 4.70 GHz, has ample processing power for this game, but the Arc B390 cannot keep up with the rendering demands.

The scaling pattern also indicates that the shared memory architecture of the Arc B390 exacerbates the resolution penalty. As resolution increases, the amount of texture data and frame buffer memory grows, and the system shared memory bandwidth becomes a critical constraint. The Ryzen 7 5800X's 51.2 GB/s memory bandwidth is shared between CPU and GPU workloads, and at 4K the GPU's demands likely starve the CPU of memory access, further limiting performance. The data shows that 4K is not a viable resolution for this combination, and even 1440p requires Medium settings to maintain acceptable frame rates.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X is a Zen 3 architecture processor based on the Vermeer codename, manufactured on TSMC's 7 nm process with 4,150 million transistors and a die size of 74 mm². It features 8 cores and 16 threads with a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 4.70 GHz, consuming 105 W TDP. The cache hierarchy includes 64 KB L1 per core, 512 KB L2 per core, and 32 MB L3 cache. Memory support is dual-channel DDR4 with a bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s, and it supports ECC memory. The CPU uses the AMD Socket AM4 interface with PCIe Gen 4, providing 20 lanes from the CPU.

In synthetic benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X demonstrates solid multithreaded performance. Its Cinebench R23 multicore score is 15476, with a single-core score of 1574.5. Geekbench results show 11036 multicore and 2032 single-core. PassMark multithread scores 27732, and the 3DMark 16-thread test yields 7586. The CPU's average benchmark score of 29123 places it in the 81st percentile of all CPUs, with nearest rivals including the Intel Core Ultra 5 135H at 29093 (0.1% delta), Intel Xeon Phi 7210 at 29245 (-0.4% delta), Intel Core i5-13500HX at 29270 (-0.5% delta), and AMD Ryzen 5 5600XT at 28940 (0.6% delta).

Despite this strong CPU performance, Ready Or Not's measured frame rates do not reflect the processor's capabilities. The game's performance is heavily GPU-bound, as evidenced by the severe FPS drops at higher resolutions and the consistent scaling pattern. The CPU's 8 cores and 16 threads are more than sufficient for the game's threading requirements, and the high boost clock of 4.70 GHz ensures strong single-threaded performance. However, the Arc B390's 9th percentile GPU ranking means the CPU is never the limiting factor, and its potential is left untapped in this configuration.

The data suggests that pairing this CPU with a more capable GPU would yield dramatically better results in Ready Or Not, but as tested, the combination's overall rank of 2611th out of 2947 combos reflects the GPU bottleneck. The CPU's 81st percentile ranking contrasts sharply with the GPU's 9th percentile, creating a system where the processor is vastly more capable than the graphics solution. This imbalance is the defining characteristic of this particular hardware pairing.