Ready Or Not

Ready Or Not places the Intel Core i5-14400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 combo in a demanding tactical-shooter environment where frame rates swing wildly based on resolution and quality presets. The measured data shows a system that can dominate at 1080p but struggles to maintain smooth motion at 4K Ultra, revealing a clear performance hierarchy across the twelve tested configurations.

Resolution Scaling

The transition from 1080p to 4K produces a dramatic and consistent drop in frame rates across all settings, with the magnitude of the loss depending heavily on the quality preset. At High settings, the average frame rate falls from 222.4 FPS at 1920x1080 to 141.5 FPS at 2560x1440, then down to 75.3 FPS at 3840x2160. That represents a 66% reduction from the lowest to highest resolution, indicating the GPU becomes the primary bottleneck as pixel count rises.

Low settings show a similar pattern but with higher absolute numbers. The combo delivers 281.8 FPS at 1080p, drops to 177.3 FPS at 1440p, and settles at 95.8 FPS at 4K. Medium settings follow closely behind High, with 246 FPS at 1080p, 155 FPS at 1440p, and 79.4 FPS at 4K. The Ultra preset, however, tells a different story: it starts at 155.1 FPS at 1080p, falls to 98.4 FPS at 1440p, and plummets to 50.7 FPS at 4K.

The scaling behavior suggests that Ready Or Not is heavily GPU-limited at 4K, particularly on Ultra where the frame rate nearly halves compared to High. At 1080p, the gap between Low and High is only about 21%, but at 4K that gap widens to roughly 27%, indicating that the GPU’s shading and memory bandwidth resources are being taxed more severely as resolution increases. The RTX 5060’s 8 GB of GDDR7 memory and 128-bit bus appear sufficient for 1440p gaming but become a limiting factor at 4K Ultra.

Settings Recommendations

The measured rows point to High as the optimal balance for this combo, delivering 222.4 FPS at 1080p, 141.5 FPS at 1440p, and 75.3 FPS at 4K. These numbers are playable across all resolutions, with the 4K result sitting above the 60 FPS threshold that most tactical shooters require. Medium offers a small improvement, with 246 FPS at 1080p and 79.4 FPS at 4K, but the gains are marginal and likely not worth the visual downgrade.

Ultra, by contrast, is a poor choice for 4K. The 50.7 FPS average at 3840x2160 falls below the smoothness needed for a game where precise aiming matters, and even at 1440p the 98.4 FPS result is only a 30% improvement over High. Low settings are unnecessary for this hardware; the 281.8 FPS at 1080p and 95.8 FPS at 4K show that the combo has enough headroom to run higher presets without sacrificing playability.

For players targeting high refresh rate monitors, High at 1440p is the standout configuration, offering 141.5 FPS that comfortably exceeds 120 Hz displays. At 4K, High is the only preset that keeps the experience fluid, as Medium’s 79.4 FPS and Ultra’s 50.7 FPS both introduce noticeable stutter in fast-paced firefights. The data clearly favors High as the default recommendation, with Medium as a fallback for those who prioritize frame rate over visual fidelity.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 is the dominant component in this pairing, and its specifications explain the observed frame rate patterns. The GPU features 3840 shading units, 120 texture mapping units, and 48 render output units, with a boost clock of 2497 MHz. Its 8 GB of GDDR7 memory runs at 28 Gbps effective across a 128-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s.

These specs translate into a Passmark G3D score of 20891, placing the GPU in the 73rd percentile of all tested graphics cards. Its nearest rival, the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT, scores 30097 on average with a deltaPct of 0, meaning the two cards are effectively tied in synthetic benchmarks. The RTX 5060’s 19.18 TFLOPS of FP32 compute and 299.6 GTexel/s texture rate are substantial, but the 4K Ultra result of 50.7 FPS suggests that memory bandwidth and capacity are the limiting factors.

The VRAM situation is particularly telling. At 4K Ultra, the GPU’s 8 GB frame buffer appears insufficient for Ready Or Not’s high-resolution textures, causing the frame rate to collapse from 75.3 FPS on High to 50.7 FPS on Ultra. This is a 33% loss that cannot be attributed to core clock speed alone, as the boost clock remains constant across presets. The 128-bit bus, while efficient for 1440p, struggles to feed the shading units at 4K with Ultra-level asset loads.

How This Combo Ranks

In the benchmark database, this specific combination of the Intel Core i5-14400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 ranks 895th out of 1748 tested combos in Ready Or Not. That places it in the 49th percentile, meaning roughly half of all tested systems perform better in this game. The rank reflects the GPU’s mid-tier positioning rather than any CPU deficiency, as the processor’s own benchmarks are strong.

The CPU, when tested in isolation, achieves an average benchmark score of 32508 and sits in the 88th percentile of all processors. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Core i7-12800H with a deltaPct of 0, the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7645 with a deltaPct of 0.2, and the AMD Ryzen 7 250 with a deltaPct of -0.2. These negligible differences mean the i5-14400F is effectively on par with several higher-tier mobile chips in synthetic tests.

The combo’s 895th rank out of 1748 suggests that while the CPU is a strong performer, the RTX 5060 holds the system back in Ready Or Not’s most demanding scenarios. The GPU’s 73rd percentile ranking and its Passmark G3D score of 20891 place it in the upper mid-range, but the game’s 4K Ultra preset exposes its limitations. For players using this combo, the data indicates that 1440p High is the sweet spot, aligning with the GPU’s strengths rather than its weaknesses.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-14400F plays a supporting but crucial role in this pairing, and its specifications are well-suited to Ready Or Not’s CPU demands. The processor has 10 cores and 16 threads, with a base clock of 2.50 GHz and a boost clock of 4.70 GHz. It features 20 MB of shared L3 cache, with 1.25 MB of L2 cache per core and 80 KB of L1 cache per core. Its 65 W TDP keeps thermals manageable, and it supports both DDR4 and DDR5 memory in a dual-channel configuration.

In synthetic benchmarks, the CPU shines. Its Cinebench R23 multicore score is 21914, and its single-core score is 3093. The Geekbench multicore result is 11209, with a single-core score of 2333. Passmark single-thread performance is 3723, and the multithread score is 25783. These numbers place the processor in the 88th percentile of all CPUs, confirming that it is not a bottleneck in this system.

The game’s frame rate data supports this conclusion. At 1080p Low, the combo achieves 281.8 FPS, which is likely near the CPU’s ceiling for this game engine. The fact that 1080p High still delivers 222.4 FPS shows that the CPU can feed the GPU efficiently at lower resolutions, where the processor’s 4.70 GHz boost clock and 16 threads handle the game’s AI and physics calculations without issue. At 4K, however, the CPU’s role diminishes as the GPU becomes the limiting factor, with frame rates dropping to levels that reflect the RTX 5060’s memory constraints rather than any processor deficiency.