The Long Drive

The Long Drive benchmark results for the Intel Core i5-11400F + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 are measured data, not estimates. The CPU is a 6-core, 12-thread Rocket Lake desktop chip on Intel Socket 1200, with a 2.60 GHz base clock and a 4.40 GHz boost clock. The GPU is a Blackwell 2.0 card with 12 GB of GDDR7 on a 192-bit bus and 672.0 GB/s memory bandwidth. Measured frame rates span 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160 across Low, Medium, High, and Ultra. The CPU launch MSRP was $157; the GPU launch MSRP was 549 USD.

Resolution Scaling

Across every preset, average FPS falls as resolution increases. At High, the pair averages 156.4 at 1920x1080, 99.3 at 2560x1440, and 58.1 at 3840x2160. Low moves from 273.8 to 197 to 107.3. Medium moves from 246.6 to 166.2 to 91.4. Ultra moves from 109.1 to 73.8 to 38.7.

The spread between Low and Ultra is much wider at 3840x2160 — 107.3 vs. 38.7 — than at 1920x1080 — 273.8 vs. 109.1. That points to the GPU becoming the main limiting component at high pixel counts. At 1920x1080, the 273.8 Low result shows the i5-11400F can keep the RTX 5070 fed. At 3840x2160, Ultra drops to 38.7 while Low still holds 107.3, so the render load placed on the GPU is where the bottleneck sits. At 2560x1440 the same pattern exists in a milder form: Low averages 197, while Ultra averages 73.8.

The Low-to-High gap at 4K is also large: 107.3 Low vs. 58.1 High. That means quality preset selection has a bigger effect on the 4K result than simply changing resolution from 2560x1440 to 3840x2160. If a user wants to keep the frame rate high in The Long Drive, lowering the preset matters more at 4K than at 1080p.

GPU Role

The RTX 5070 in this pair runs a base clock of 2325 MHz, a boost clock of 2512 MHz, and memory at 1750 MHz with 28 Gbps effective throughput. It has 12 GB of GDDR7, a 192-bit bus, and 672.0 GB/s bandwidth. The shader setup is 6144 shading units, 192 TMUs, and 80 ROPs. The card’s pixel rate is 201.0 GPixel/s, texture rate is 482.3 GTexel/s, and FP32 throughput is 30.87 TFLOPS. It also carries 48 RT cores and 192 tensor cores.

Those specifications show up most clearly at lower resolutions. At 1920x1080 Low the combo reaches 273.8, and at 2560x1440 Low it reaches 197. At 3840x2160, Low still averages 107.3, High averages 58.1, and Ultra averages 38.7. The 12 GB frame buffer does not appear to cap The Long Drive in these runs; the average FPS differences between presets are larger than a resolution-only VRAM limitation would suggest.

In the database, the RTX 5070 has an avg benchmark score of 41687 and sits at the 83rd percentile of all GPUs. Its closest listed rival by score is the AMD Radeon Pro 5300 at 41610 with a 0.2 deltaPct. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 is listed at 41441 with a 0.6 deltaPct. The NVIDIA Tesla M40 is listed at 41897 with a -0.5 deltaPct, and the AMD Radeon Pro 580X at 41991 with a -0.7 deltaPct. The 5070’s database standing is strong, and the measured Long Drive results reinforce that position.

FAQ

Q: What is the best measured frame rate for this combo in The Long Drive?

A: The highest average FPS in the measured set is 273.8 at 1920x1080 Low. At 1920x1080 Medium it is 246.6, at High it is 156.4, and at Ultra it is 109.1.

Q: What do the 1440p measurements look like?

A: At 2560x1440, Low averages 197, Medium averages 166.2, High averages 99.3, and Ultra averages 73.8.

Q: Does this combo handle 4K in The Long Drive?

A: Yes, but the preset matters. At 3840x2160, Low averages 107.3, Medium averages 91.4, High averages 58.1, and Ultra averages 38.7.

Q: How does the i5-11400F compare to its nearest rivals in the database?

A: Its avg benchmark score is 17181. The AMD Ryzen 7 5700U is 17189 with a 0 deltaPct, the Intel Core i7-1260P is 17212 with a -0.2 deltaPct, the Intel Core Ultra 7 164U is 17215 with a -0.2 deltaPct, and the Intel Core i5-1240U is 17141 with a 0.2 deltaPct.

Q: What is the RTX 5070’s closest listed rival by benchmark score?

A: The closest listed rival is the AMD Radeon Pro 5300 at 41610 with a 0.2 deltaPct. The RTX 5070’s own avg benchmark score is 41687.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination ranks 367th out of 1734 tested combos for The Long Drive. That places it ahead of a large portion of the field. The ranking is consistent with the part-level standings: the i5-11400F is at the 75th percentile of all CPUs, and the RTX 5070 is at the 83rd percentile of all GPUs.

A 367-of-1734 game rank reflects a pairing with strong low-resolution throughput and workable 4K performance. The measured FPS table confirms that this is not a fringe combination. It sits in the upper bracket of the database while not reaching the very top tier. The 1080p Low result of 273.8 is the standout number, but the 4K High result of 58.1 also shows the combo can remain usable at higher resolution without going to Low settings.

CPU Role

The CPU side is a 6-core, 12-thread Rocket Lake processor with a 2.60 GHz base clock, a 4.40 GHz boost clock, 12 MB shared L3 cache, dual-channel DDR4 support, and 51.2 GB/s memory bandwidth. These characteristics matter most at lower resolutions. The measured 1920x1080 results — 273.8 Low, 246.6 Medium, 156.4 High, 109.1 Ultra — are high enough to suggest the CPU is not leaving much performance unused at 1080p.

CPU benchmark data puts the i5-11400F at 3dmark_single_thread 868 and 3dmark_max_threads 5652. Cinebench R23 single-core is 2029 and multicore is 14372. Geekbench single-core is 1979 and multicore is 7579. The avg benchmark score is 17181, with a 75th percentile ranking. In nearest-rival terms, it is effectively tied with the AMD Ryzen 7 5700U at 17189 and the Intel Core i5-1240U at 17141, while it sits slightly below the Intel Core i7-1260P at 17212 and the Intel Core Ultra 7 164U at 17215.

At 3840x2160, CPU throughput matters less. The frame rate difference between High and Ultra is 58.1 to 38.7, a GPU-side drop rather than a CPU limitation. At 1920x1080, the CPU still has enough single-thread and multi-thread capability to support very high average frame rates across all four presets.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The complete measured FPS set for this combo in The Long Drive is below.

| Resolution | Settings | Avg FPS |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 107.3 |

| 3840x2160 | Medium | 91.4 |

| 3840x2160 | High | 58.1 |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra | 38.7 |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 197 |

| 2560x1440 | Medium | 166.2 |

| 2560x1440 | High | 99.3 |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra | 73.8 |

| 1920x1080 | Low | 273.8 |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 246.6 |

| 1920x1080 | High | 156.4 |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 109.1 |