Ready Or Not

# Ready Or Not with Intel Core i5-14400F + Intel Arc B390

The Intel Core i5-14400F paired with the Intel Arc B390 is a combination that lands near the bottom of the tested field for Ready Or Not, ranking 2611 out of 2947 total CPU-GPU combos. This places the pairing in the 11th percentile of tested configurations, meaning roughly 89% of all tested combos deliver higher frame rates in this tactical shooter. The data shows a system that can produce playable results at 1080p with low-to-medium settings, but struggles significantly as resolution and quality demands increase. The Arc B390, with its integrated-graphics-class performance profile, becomes the dominant bottleneck in nearly every scenario tested, while the i5-14400F’s strong multi-core and single-core compute capabilities remain largely underutilized in this game’s workload.

FAQ

Q: What average FPS does this combo achieve at 1920x1080 with High settings?

A: At 1080p High, the combo delivers 99 FPS average, which is playable for most users. The 1080p Medium preset produces 109 FPS average, while Low reaches 125 FPS average. Ultra drops to 69 FPS average.

Q: How does the Intel Core i5-14400F compare to its nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The i5-14400F has an average benchmark score of 32279, sitting within 0.5% of the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840U (32233, 0.1% slower), Intel Core i9-11900 (32226, 0.2% slower), AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS (32354, 0.2% faster), and Intel Core i7-12800H (32121, 0.5% slower). This places the CPU in the 83rd percentile of all CPUs tested.

Q: What is the Arc B390’s performance rank relative to all GPUs?

A: The Arc B390 scores 1482 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, placing it in the 9th percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rivals are the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX (1463, 1.3% slower), NVIDIA GeForce 800M (1460, 1.5% slower), NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM (1446, 2.5% slower), and NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 (1443, 2.7% slower).

Q: Does this combo maintain 60 FPS at 2560x1440?

A: At 1440p, only the Low preset achieves 60+ FPS, with an average of 79 FPS. Medium averages 69 FPS, High drops to 62 FPS, and Ultra falls to 44 FPS. Users targeting 60 FPS at 1440p should stick to Low or Medium settings.

Q: What is the frame rate behavior at 3840x2160 across all settings?

A: At 4K, all settings produce sub-60 FPS results. Low averages 41 FPS, Medium averages 36 FPS with minimums of 30 and maximums of 41, High averages 33 FPS, and Ultra averages 23 FPS. None of these are suitable for competitive play.

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

A: The GPU is the clear limiting component. The Arc B390’s 9th percentile GPU ranking versus the i5-14400F’s 83rd percentile CPU ranking shows a massive disparity. Frame rate scaling across resolutions follows GPU-bound behavior, with large drops when moving from 1080p to 1440p and further to 4K.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-14400F brings 10 cores and 16 threads to this pairing, with a base clock of 2.50 GHz and a boost clock of 4.70 GHz. This Raptor Lake Refresh part, built on Intel’s 10 nm process, features 20 MB of shared L3 cache and 1.25 MB of L2 per core. The CPU supports DDR4 and DDR5 memory in dual-channel configuration, and includes ECC memory support. For Ready Or Not, a tactical shooter that relies heavily on physics, AI pathfinding, and squad coordination, the multi-threaded capabilities of this CPU are relevant, but the game’s frame rate ceiling is far below what this processor can deliver.

In synthetic testing, the i5-14400F posts a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 21645 and a single-core score of 3055. The Geekbench results show 11268 multi-core and 2058 single-core. PassMark multi-thread score reaches 25470, with single-thread at 3701. These numbers place the CPU in the 83rd percentile of all tested processors, meaning it outperforms the vast majority of CPUs on the market. The nearest rival comparisons show the i5-14400F trading blows with laptop-class chips like the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840U and the Intel Core i7-12800H, with deltas under 0.5% in all cases.

For Ready Or Not specifically, the CPU’s 10-core configuration ensures that background tasks, game logic, and rendering threads have ample resources. The 65 W TDP suggests efficient operation. However, the measured FPS results show that even at 1080p Low, where CPU overhead is highest relative to GPU load, the system only reaches 125 FPS average. This indicates the GPU is already saturated, not the CPU. The i5-14400F could easily push far higher frame rates if paired with a more capable GPU. The data shows no scenario where CPU limitations manifest — even at 4K Ultra, where the GPU is heavily stressed, the 23 FPS average is purely a GPU bottleneck.

GPU Role

The Intel Arc B390 is an integrated graphics solution based on the Xe3-LPG architecture, manufactured on a 3 nm process. It operates with a base clock of 300 MHz and a boost clock of 2500 MHz, featuring 1536 shading units, 48 texture mapping units, and 24 raster operation units. The GPU includes 12 ray tracing cores and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. Memory is system-shared, meaning the GPU draws from the host system’s RAM with bandwidth that is system-dependent. The pixel rate is 60.00 GPixel/s, texture rate is 120.0 GTexel/s, and FP32 throughput is 7.680 TFLOPS.

The Arc B390 scores 1482 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, placing it in the 9th percentile of all GPUs. This is a critically low position, and the nearest rivals are all legacy NVIDIA parts: GT 520MX, GeForce 800M, GT 625 OEM, and GT 710. These are chips from a bygone era, and the Arc B390 sits just 1.3% to 2.7% above them. The 80 W TDP and IGP slot width confirm this is not a discrete gaming GPU. For Ready Or Not, a game that features detailed environments, dynamic lighting, and dense geometry, this GPU is severely underpowered.

The measured FPS data confirms the GPU’s limitations. At 1080p Low, the combo hits 125 FPS average, which is the highest result across all settings and resolutions. The 1080p Medium result of 109 FPS average with a minimum of 92 and maximum of 125 shows some headroom in lighter scenes. However, as settings rise to High (99 FPS) and Ultra (69 FPS), the GPU’s fill rate and shader throughput become increasingly strained. The 4K results tell a clear story: Low averages 41 FPS, Medium 36 FPS, High 33 FPS, and Ultra 23 FPS. These numbers are all well below playable thresholds for a tactical shooter where reaction time matters. The GPU simply cannot feed enough frames to take advantage of the i5-14400F’s computing power.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo rank of 2611 out of 2947 tested combinations places this pairing in the bottom 11% of all configurations tested for Ready Or Not. This is a poor result, and the data indicates that the Arc B390 is the primary cause. To contextualize, the CPU alone ranks in the 83rd percentile of all CPUs, while the GPU ranks in the 9th percentile of all GPUs. The massive delta between these two percentile positions creates an extreme bottleneck scenario where the GPU cannot keep up with the CPU’s ability to feed frames.

Among the 2947 tested combos, this pairing sits 336 spots from the bottom. That means there are 2610 configurations that perform better in this game, and only 336 that perform worse. The practical implication is that anyone running this combo should expect to play at 1080p with reduced settings to achieve playable frame rates. The 1080p Low result of 125 FPS average is the only clearly comfortable mark in the entire dataset. At 1440p, only Low (79 FPS) and Medium (69 FPS) cross the 60 FPS threshold. At 4K, no setting reaches even 45 FPS.

The rank disparity between the CPU and GPU is instructive. The i5-14400F’s nearest rivals in CPU benchmarks — the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840U, Intel Core i9-11900, AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS, and Intel Core i7-12800H — all have average scores within 0.5% of this chip. Yet when paired with the Arc B390, the system performs at a level consistent with integrated graphics from a decade ago. The data strongly suggests that upgrading the GPU alone would dramatically improve this combo’s ranking, while upgrading the CPU would yield negligible gains without a corresponding GPU change.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 1440p to 4K reveals a GPU-bound system. At 1080p High, the combo averages 99 FPS. Moving to 1440p High, the average drops to 62 FPS, a reduction of 37%. Moving further to 4K High, the average falls to 33 FPS, a 47% drop from 1440p and a 67% drop from 1080p. This pattern — large percentage losses with each resolution increase — is characteristic of a GPU that is running out of fill rate and shader throughput.

At Low settings, the scaling is similar. 1080p Low delivers 125 FPS average, 1440p Low delivers 79 FPS (a 37% drop), and 4K Low delivers 41 FPS (a 48% drop from 1440p). Medium settings show 109 FPS at 1080p, 69 FPS at 1440p (a 37% drop), and 36 FPS at 4K (a 48% drop). Ultra settings show 69 FPS at 1080p, 44 FPS at 1440p (a 36% drop), and 23 FPS at 4K (a 48% drop). The consistent ~37% reduction from 1080p to 1440p and ~48% reduction from 1440p to 4K across all settings indicates a purely GPU-limited scenario.

If the CPU were the bottleneck, we would expect frame rates to remain relatively flat across resolutions, as the CPU’s workload does not scale with pixel count. Instead, we see dramatic drops that align with the GPU’s pixel rate of 60.00 GPixel/s and texture rate of 120.0 GTexel/s. At 4K, the GPU is rendering four times the pixels of 1080p, and the 67% average FPS reduction from 1080p High to 4K High reflects the GPU’s inability to sustain its output. The data indicates that for this combo, resolution scaling is entirely governed by the Arc B390’s limits, with the i5-14400F providing ample headroom that remains unused.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the lowest resolution tested, the combo delivers its best results. Low settings produce an average of 125 FPS, which is smooth for a tactical shooter. Medium settings average 109 FPS, with a minimum of 92 and a maximum of 125, showing some scene-to-scene variance. High settings average 99 FPS, still comfortably playable. Ultra settings drop to 69 FPS average, which is borderline for fast-paced gameplay but acceptable for slower, more methodical play. The 1080p results show that the Arc B390 can handle this resolution with low-to-medium settings, but Ultra pushes it too far.

At 2560x1440, the performance drops noticeably. Low settings average 79 FPS, which is playable but not ideal for competitive scenarios. Medium settings average 69 FPS, with a minimum of 58 and maximum of 79, meaning some scenes will dip below 60 FPS. High settings average 62 FPS, right at the edge of playability. Ultra settings average 44 FPS, which is too low for smooth gameplay. The 1440p data shows that this combo can manage 60+ FPS only at Low and Medium presets, and even then, the minimums can fall below that threshold.

At 3840x2160, the results are uniformly poor. Low settings average 41 FPS, which is below the 60 FPS target for most players. Medium settings average 36 FPS, with a minimum of 30 and maximum of 41. High settings average 33 FPS. Ultra settings average 23 FPS, which is nearly unplayable. No 4K setting reaches even 45 FPS average, and the minimums in Medium settings show that frame pacing can be erratic. For 4K gaming, this combo is not viable for Ready Or Not.

The full dataset shows a clear pattern: the Arc B390 is a low-end integrated GPU that can manage 1080p at low-to-medium settings, struggles at 1440p even on Low, and fails at 4K entirely. The i5-14400F’s strong compute results (Cinebench R23 multi-core 21645, single-core 3055) are irrelevant to the frame rates achieved because the GPU is the limiting factor in every measured scenario. Users considering this combo for Ready Or Not should expect to play at 1080p with Medium settings for the best balance of visual quality and performance, or drop to Low for maximum frame rates. Higher resolutions or Ultra settings will result in sub-60 FPS experiences that detract from the game’s tactical gameplay.