Ready Or Not

FAQ

Q: What is the launch MSRP of the Intel Core i5-14400F?

A: The Intel Core i5-14400F has a launch MSRP of $196. It is a 10-core, 16-thread Raptor Lake Refresh part with a base clock of 2.50 GHz and a boost clock of 4.70 GHz.

Q: How does the RTX 5070's average benchmark score compare to its nearest rival?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 has an average benchmark score of 41687, which is 0.6% ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (score of 41441) and 0.2% ahead of the AMD Radeon Pro 5300 (score of 41610). It trails the NVIDIA Tesla M40 by 0.5% (score of 41897).

Q: What memory configuration does the RTX 5070 use?

A: The RTX 5070 features 12 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 192-bit bus, delivering a bandwidth of 672.0 GB/s. The memory clock is rated at 1750 MHz with 28 Gbps effective speed.

Q: What are the CPU's single-thread and multi-thread Cinebench R23 scores?

A: In Cinebench R23, the Intel Core i5-14400F scores 3093 in single-core and 21914 in multi-core. Its Geekbench scores are 2333 single-core and 11209 multi-core.

Q: How does the CPU's average benchmark score compare to its closest rival?

A: The i5-14400F's average benchmark score is 32508, which is essentially tied with the Intel Core i7-12800H (32513, 0% delta). It is 0.2% ahead of the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7645 (32446) and 0.2% behind the AMD Ryzen 7 250 (32584).

Q: What is the RTX 5070's percentile ranking among all GPUs?

A: The RTX 5070 sits in the 83rd percentile among all GPUs, with a Passmark G3D score of 29137 and a Geekbench OpenCL score of 185269.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, built on the Blackwell 2.0 architecture with a 5 nm process, is the primary driver in this Ready Or Not configuration. Its 12 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 192-bit bus provides a bandwidth of 672.0 GB/s, which is substantial for a tactical shooter that increasingly stresses texture streaming and environmental detail. The GPU's 6144 shading units, 192 texture mapping units, and 80 ROPs work together to process the game's dense, close-quarters environments.

The clock behavior is noteworthy: a base clock of 2325 MHz and a boost clock of 2512 MHz. In practice, the measured FPS data shows the GPU scaling predictably with settings, but the relationship between clocks and frame rates is not linear due to the game's CPU-bound nature at lower resolutions. The RTX 5070's 48 RT cores and 192 tensor cores are present but not explicitly exercised in these standard benchmark runs — the data reflects rasterization performance across four quality presets.

The GPU's FP32 throughput of 30.87 TFLOPS and texture rate of 482.3 GTexel/s indicate a card capable of handling modern effects. However, the measured results suggest that at 4K Ultra, the card's 12 GB VRAM and memory subsystem are being pushed, as the frame rate drops to 75.7 FPS — a 41% reduction from 4K High. This is more than just a clock-speed effect; it reflects the increased memory pressure and shader complexity at the highest settings.

The GPU's Passmark G3D score of 29137 and 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 5077 place it in the 83rd percentile, but its composite average benchmark score of 41687 is only 0.6% above the RTX 3090 — indicating that in synthetic tests, the 5070 is a modest generational step rather than a leap. The measured game data corroborates this: at 1440p High, the card produces 201.1 FPS, which is strong but not exceptional for a 250 W part with a 600 W suggested PSU.

Resolution Scaling

The resolution scaling pattern reveals a system that transitions from CPU-bound at 1080p to GPU-bound at 4K, with the crossover occurring somewhere around 1440p. At 1080p High, the combo delivers 314.6 FPS, while at 1440p High it drops to 201.1 FPS — a 36% reduction. Moving from 1440p High to 4K High (107.1 FPS) represents another 47% drop. This steepening decline indicates that the GPU becomes the limiting factor as pixel count increases.

The setting sensitivity also changes with resolution. At 1080p, the spread between Low (396.6 FPS) and Ultra (223.8 FPS) is 172.8 FPS — a 77% difference. At 1440p, the spread narrows to 111.1 FPS (252.1 Low vs 141.0 Ultra, a 79% difference). At 4K, the spread compresses to 54.7 FPS (130.4 Low vs 75.7 Ultra, a 72% difference). The relative consistency of these percentages suggests that the game's settings scale similarly across resolutions, but the absolute headroom shrinks.

The data implies that the i5-14400F is not the bottleneck at 1080p — the 396.6 FPS Low result shows the CPU can feed the GPU well beyond typical display refresh rates. However, the 4K Ultra result of 75.7 FPS is where the RTX 5070's memory bandwidth and compute resources hit their wall. The gap between 4K Medium (112.7 FPS) and 4K High (107.1 FPS) is small (5.6 FPS), suggesting that High settings add minimal cost over Medium, while Ultra adds a disproportionate 31.4 FPS penalty over High.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the configuration demonstrates exceptional headroom across all settings. Low produces 396.6 FPS, Medium 347.2 FPS, High 314.6 FPS, and Ultra 223.8 FPS. The step from Medium to High costs 32.6 FPS (a 9.4% drop), while High to Ultra costs 90.8 FPS (a 28.9% drop). This nonlinear scaling indicates that Ultra settings engage significantly heavier shading and post-processing effects.

At 2560x1440, the results are 252.1 FPS (Low), 221.2 FPS (Medium), 201.1 FPS (High), and 141.0 FPS (Ultra). The relative performance hierarchy remains identical to 1080p, but the absolute gaps shrink. The Medium-to-High penalty is 20.1 FPS (9.1%), and the High-to-Ultra penalty is 60.1 FPS (29.9%). The consistency of these percentages across resolutions suggests that the settings' computational cost is resolution-independent.

At 3840x2160, the frame rates are 130.4 FPS (Low), 112.7 FPS (Medium), 107.1 FPS (High), and 75.7 FPS (Ultra). The Medium-to-High gap narrows to just 5.6 FPS (5.0%), while High-to-Ultra remains a steep 31.4 FPS (29.3%). This pattern indicates that at 4K, the GPU's memory bandwidth becomes a binding constraint — Medium and High settings both stress the 672.0 GB/s bus heavily, but Ultra adds enough additional memory traffic to cause a disproportionate drop.

The overall scaling from Low to Ultra at each resolution is: 172.8 FPS at 1080p, 111.1 FPS at 1440p, and 54.7 FPS at 4K. This progressive compression of the settings range is a classic sign of a GPU that is increasingly saturated as pixel count rises. The data shows that the RTX 5070, with its 12 GB VRAM, is comfortable at 1440p High (201.1 FPS) and playable at 4K High (107.1 FPS), but 4K Ultra (75.7 FPS) is where the card's limits are clearly visible.

How This Combo Ranks

The Intel Core i5-14400F + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 combination ranks 356th out of 1748 tested combos in Ready Or Not, placing it in the top 20.4% of all configurations. This percentile position is notable given that the individual components rank lower in their respective pools — the CPU is in the 88th percentile of all CPUs, and the GPU is in the 83rd percentile. The combo's in-game rank is higher than either component's synthetic percentile would suggest, indicating that this pairing is well-balanced for this specific game.

When contextualized against the CPU's nearest rivals, the i5-14400F's average benchmark score of 32508 is effectively identical to the Intel Core i7-12800H (32513, 0% delta). This means the CPU is not a differentiator in this combo — the game's performance is driven by the GPU, as evidenced by the resolution scaling data. The CPU's 10 cores and 16 threads, with a boost clock of 4.70 GHz, are sufficient to avoid bottlenecking the RTX 5070 even at 1080p Low (396.6 FPS).

The GPU's nearest rivals paint a more interesting picture. The RTX 5070's average score of 41687 is 0.6% above the RTX 3090 (41441), yet the 5070 achieves this with fewer resources (12 GB vs 24 GB, 192-bit bus vs 384-bit). In Ready Or Not specifically, the 5070's 12 GB VRAM is sufficient at all tested settings — the 4K Ultra result of 75.7 FPS is a compute/memory bandwidth limitation, not a capacity issue. The combo's rank of 356/1748 suggests that there are 355 configurations that outperform this pairing, but given the component-level percentiles (88th CPU, 83rd GPU), this rank is slightly better than the average of the two percentiles would predict.

The data indicates that this combo occupies a sweet spot: the CPU provides ample single-thread performance (Cinebench R23 single-core score of 3093) to feed the GPU, while the GPU's 30.87 TFLOPS of FP32 compute is well-matched to the game's demands at 1440p and 4K High. The 356th rank in a field of 1748 combos reflects a configuration that will not top charts but delivers consistently high frame rates across all tested resolutions and settings, with the only notable weakness being 4K Ultra where the 75.7 FPS result falls below the 100 FPS threshold that the rest of the settings achieve with ease.