Rust

The Intel Core i5-13400F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB delivers a performance curve in Rust that clearly shifts from CPU-bound at lower resolutions to GPU-bound at 4K. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the combo produces 188.3 FPS, which drops to 132.3 FPS at 2560x1440 and further to 76.6 FPS at 3840x2160. That represents a 59.3% reduction in framerate from 1080p Low to 4K Low, indicating that the graphics card becomes the primary constraint as pixel count rises. The scaling pattern at High settings is steeper: 110.7 FPS at 1080p falls to 76.6 FPS at 1440p and then to 44.9 FPS at 4K, a 59.4% total drop. The 4K High result of 44.9 FPS sits below the 60 FPS threshold, while the 1080p High result of 110.7 FPS suggests the CPU is not the limiting factor at that resolution.

The gap between Low and Ultra settings widens dramatically at higher resolutions. At 1080p, the spread from Low (188.3 FPS) to Ultra (80 FPS) is 108.3 FPS, but at 4K, the same settings spread shrinks to 45.9 FPS (76.6 Low versus 30.7 Ultra). This compression of the settings range at 4K points to the GPU saturating; the 4060 Ti simply cannot push enough frames to let the CPU's headroom show. The 1440p results sit in a middle ground: Low produces 132.3 FPS, Medium 86.2 FPS, High 76.6 FPS, and Ultra 54.7 FPS. The transition from 1440p High to 4K High costs 31.7 FPS, while the same resolution change at Low costs 55.7 FPS, meaning lower settings amplify the resolution penalty.

GPU Role

The RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with a 5 nm process from TSMC, featuring 22,900 million transistors on a 188 mm² die. Its base clock is 2310 MHz with a boost clock of 2535 MHz, and the memory runs at 2250 MHz with 18 Gbps effective speed across a 128-bit bus, yielding 288.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The 8 GB GDDR6 frame buffer is paired with 4352 shading units, 136 texture mapping units, and 48 raster output pipelines. These specifications align with the observed 4K results: the 8 GB capacity is sufficient for Rust's textures at High settings, but the 128-bit memory bus limits fill-rate-intensive scenarios.

The GPU's benchmark score in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 is 2913, which places it in the 17th percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M at 2913 (0% delta), the RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB at 2907 (0.2% delta), and the GTX 860M at 2959 (-1.5% delta). The near-identical score to the GT 555M is surprising given the generational gap, but the 4060 Ti's advantage lies in modern features like 34 ray tracing cores and 136 tensor cores, which do not directly impact the rasterized FPS numbers in this dataset. The 160 W TDP and 450 W suggested PSU indicate a power-efficient design, though the PCIe 4.0 x8 interface may slightly constrain bandwidth in memory-heavy scenes.

The 4K Ultra result of 30.7 FPS is the weakest measured outcome, and it aligns with the GPU's 17th percentile ranking. At 1080p, however, the 4060 Ti delivers 188.3 FPS on Low settings, showing that the card can handle esports-level framerates when resolution is low. The memory clock of 2250 MHz (18 Gbps effective) provides enough bandwidth for 1440p Medium at 86.2 FPS, but the 4K Medium result of 52.2 FPS suggests the 128-bit bus becomes a bottleneck beyond 1440p. The 8 GB capacity is adequate for Rust's current asset pool, but the 288.0 GB/s bandwidth is the more limiting factor at higher resolutions.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-13400F is a Raptor Lake-S part with 10 cores and 16 threads, running at a base clock of 2.50 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz. It features 80 KB of L1 cache per core, 1.25 MB of L2 per core, and 20 MB of shared L3 cache. The 10 nm process node and 65 W TDP make it a mainstream desktop chip on the Intel Socket 1700 platform, supporting both DDR4 and DDR5 memory in dual-channel mode. Its 3DMark scores show strong scaling: 1880 for 2 threads, 3459 for 4 threads, 5591 for 8 threads, and 7314 for 16 threads, with a single-thread score of 960. Cinebench R23 results are 21279 multi-core and 3004 single-core, while Geekbench reports 10971 multi-core and 2301 single-core.

The CPU's average benchmark score is 25236, ranking in the 82nd percentile of all CPUs. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Core i7-13620H at 25201 (0.1% delta), the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D at 25365 (-0.5% delta), and the AMD EPYC 9474F at 25103 (0.5% delta). The delta values are tightly clustered within a 0.5% range, indicating that the 13400F's multi-threaded performance is comparable to those parts. In Rust, the single-thread score of 960 in 3DMark is particularly relevant, as the game's simulation logic often relies on a few heavily loaded threads.

The CPU's role is most evident at 1080p Low, where 188.3 FPS is achieved. The boost clock of 4.60 GHz and 20 MB L3 cache help maintain framerates in base-building scenes with many entities. The 10-core configuration provides headroom for background tasks, but the measured data shows that the GPU takes over as the bottleneck at 1440p and above. At 4K Low, the 76.6 FPS result is nearly identical to the 1440p High result of 76.6 FPS, which suggests that the CPU can feed the GPU adequately up to that point, but the 4K Ultra result of 30.7 FPS indicates the GPU's fill rate is the hard limit. The lack of integrated graphics means the 13400F relies entirely on the discrete GPU, and the PCIe Gen 5 support (16 lanes) ensures the CPU can communicate with the 4060 Ti's PCIe 4.0 x8 interface without a bottleneck.

How This Combo Ranks

This specific combination of the i5-13400F and RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB ranks 696th out of 1717 tested combos in Rust, placing it in the 40.5th percentile of all configurations. The rank reflects the balance between the CPU's 82nd percentile standing and the GPU's 17th percentile standing. The CPU is clearly the stronger component in this pairing, but the GPU's lower percentile drags the overall combo ranking down. The 4K results are particularly weak relative to the combo's position: 30.7 FPS at Ultra and 44.9 FPS at High are below the playable threshold for many users, while 1080p results at 188.3 FPS (Low) and 110.7 FPS (High) are competitive.

The combo's rank of 696 out of 1717 suggests that a significant number of configurations outperform it, likely those pairing the 13400F with higher-tier GPUs or pairing stronger CPUs with the 4060 Ti. The data shows that the 4060 Ti's nearest rivals include the GT 555M and GTX 860M, which are much older parts, indicating that the 4060 Ti's raw score does not reflect its modern feature set. In Rust specifically, the measured FPS at 1440p Medium (86.2 FPS) and High (76.6 FPS) are solid for a mid-range pairing, but the 4K Ultra result of 30.7 FPS is the weakest point. The combo's position in the middle of the ranking aligns with its mixed CPU/GPU profile: capable at lower resolutions, but unable to sustain high framerates at 4K with maxed settings.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data covers three resolutions (1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3840x2160) and four settings levels (Low, Medium, High, Ultra). At 1080p, the results are: Low 188.3 FPS, Medium 124.3 FPS, High 110.7 FPS, and Ultra 80 FPS. The step from Low to Medium costs 64 FPS, which is the largest single-settings drop at this resolution. At 1440p, the data shows: Low 132.3 FPS, Medium 86.2 FPS, High 76.6 FPS, and Ultra 54.7 FPS. The 1440p Low result of 132.3 FPS is higher than the 1080p Ultra result of 80 FPS, demonstrating that lowering settings has a greater impact than lowering resolution by one step.

At 4K, the results are: Low 76.6 FPS, Medium 52.2 FPS, High 44.9 FPS, and Ultra 30.7 FPS. The 4K Low result of 76.6 FPS matches the 1440p High result exactly, which is a notable coincidence that suggests the GPU is hitting a similar workload threshold. The 4K Medium result of 52.2 FPS is only 7.4 FPS higher than 4K High, indicating diminishing returns from higher settings at this resolution. The 4K Ultra result of 30.7 FPS is the only measured value below 40 FPS, and it represents a 53.3% drop from 4K Low. The full range across all 12 measurements spans from 188.3 FPS (1080p Low) to 30.7 FPS (4K Ultra), a 157.6 FPS spread. The data shows a consistent pattern: at each settings level, the framerate roughly halves when moving from 1080p to 4K, with the exact ratios varying from 2.46x (Low) to 2.61x (Ultra). These ratios confirm that the GPU is the scaling bottleneck, as a CPU-bound system would show smaller FPS differences across resolutions.