The Medium

The Medium is a Horror title, and the measured data for the AMD Ryzen 5 5500 + AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT combination spans 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160 across Low, Medium, High, and Ultra presets. The average frame rates range from 112.2 fps at 1920x1080 Low to 25.6 fps at 3840x2160 Ultra. The pairing is ranked 931 out of 1689 tested combos in the game, and the data is marked as measured rather than estimated.

Resolution Scaling

Moving from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440, the Low preset drops from 112.2 to 94.2. Moving to 3840x2160, Low averages 70.8. Low's lowest listed average is therefore 70.8, the highest slowest result in the data. At Medium, the sequence is 70.3, 56.9, then 44.3. At High, 51.1 at 1920x1080 becomes 39.8 at 2560x1440, then 29.7 at 3840x2160. At Ultra, the values are 39.8, 34.5, and 25.6, making 3840x2160 Ultra the slowest measured point in the table.

The pattern of falling FPS with rising resolution is consistent across every preset. No measured row shows a higher resolution producing a higher average than the same settings at a lower resolution. This monotonic scaling indicates that the rendering load follows the framebuffer and GPU work, not the CPU's 6-core/12-thread limit. The Ryzen 5 5500 is a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 3 part with a 16 MB L3 cache; the FPS movement by resolution is far more consistent with a GPU-driven workload.

The data also contains an equivalence between settings and resolution. At 1920x1080 Ultra the average is 39.8; at 2560x1440 High the average is also 39.8. That point shows the cost of the preset step and the resolution step producing the same frame rate, reinforcing the conclusion that the renderer is the active constraint rather than the processor.

Settings Recommendations

The measured rows show the same performance order at every resolution: Low, Medium, High, Ultra. Medium is the highest preset whose slowest listed average is 44.3, and it reaches 56.9 at 2560x1440 and 70.3 at 1920x1080. Low is the only preset whose slowest listed average is as high as 70.8, with 94.2 at 2560x1440 and 112.2 at 1920x1080. High has a slowest average of 29.7, and Ultra has a slowest average of 25.6.

Therefore Medium is the recommended preset for a balanced measured experience. It is the only preset above Low whose slowest result stays at 44.3, and it keeps 1920x1080 at 70.3. If the goal is maximum average FPS, Low is the fastest measured option at every resolution. If the goal is the highest preset tier, Ultra delivers 39.8 at 1920x1080, 34.5 at 2560x1440, and 25.6 at 3840x2160. High sits between Medium and Ultra in every resolution, with its best result at 51.1 for 1920x1080.

How This Combo Ranks

The in-game ranking for this CPU and GPU pair is 931 out of 1689 tested combinations. This rank is measured against the full tested combo list in The Medium. The CPU's percentile against all CPUs is 79, and the GPU's percentile against all GPUs is 77, so both components sit near the upper end of their general benchmark pools. The game-specific rank of 931 is not as strong, indicating that The Medium's workload does not translate this pair's general benchmark position into an equally high in-game position.

The CPU's average benchmark score is 20875. Its nearest listed rivals are the Intel Core i5-12500 at 20897 with deltaPct -0.1, the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4655GE at 20900 with deltaPct -0.1, the AMD EPYC 7J13 at 20845 with deltaPct 0.1, and the Intel Core i5-12600T at 20917 with deltaPct -0.2. The GPU's average benchmark score is 33721. Its nearest listed rivals are the AMD Radeon RX 6800 at 33493 with deltaPct 0.7, the AMD Radeon HD 7950 at 34050 with deltaPct -1, the AMD Radeon RX 480 at 34059 with deltaPct -1, and the NVIDIA RTX A5000 at 33294 with deltaPct 1.3. These general benchmark neighbors are close to the component averages, but the in-game combo rank is a separate measure.

Measured FPS Breakdown

Min and max FPS are null in the data, so the following table lists average FPS only.

| Resolution | Low | Medium | High | Ultra |

|---|---|---|---|---|

| 1920x1080 | 112.2 | 70.3 | 51.1 | 39.8 |

| 2560x1440 | 94.2 | 56.9 | 39.8 | 34.5 |

| 3840x2160 | 70.8 | 44.3 | 29.7 | 25.6 |

At 1920x1080, Low averages 112.2 and Medium averages 70.3. High averages 51.1, and Ultra averages 39.8. The Ultra result at 1920x1080 matches the 2560x1440 High result exactly at 39.8.

At 2560x1440, Low averages 94.2 and Medium averages 56.9. High averages 39.8, and Ultra averages 34.5. This resolution contains the exact 39.8 crossover with 1920x1080 Ultra, demonstrating how closely resolution and preset interact in this game.

At 3840x2160, Low averages 70.8, Medium averages 44.3, High averages 29.7, and Ultra averages 25.6. The 3840x2160 data contains the lowest Low preset value in the table and the lowest Ultra preset value in the table, while Medium remains the only non-Low preset above the 44.3 figure.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is an RDNA 2.0 GPU built on a 7 nm process. It has 12 GB GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, with bandwidth of 384.0 GB/s. The memory clock is 2000 MHz, or 16 Gbps effective. The GPU's base clock is 2321 MHz, game clock is 2424 MHz, and boost clock is 2581 MHz.

That memory and clock configuration feeds 2560 shading units, 160 texture mapping units, and 64 ROPs, plus 40 ray accelerators. The chip's output rates are 165.2 GPixel/s, 413.0 GTexel/s, 13.21 TFLOPS FP32, and 26.43 TFLOPS FP16. These specifications are the processing resources behind the measured FPS values.

VRAM capacity is 12 GB in every measured row, and bandwidth stays at 384.0 GB/s. The FPS differences between Low and Ultra therefore come from the amount of GPU work per frame, not from a change in memory capacity. At 3840x2160, the same GPU produces 70.8 fps on Low and 25.6 fps on Ultra. At 1920x1080, it produces 112.2 fps on Low and 39.8 fps on Ultra.

With a GPU percentile of 77 against all GPUs, the RX 6700 XT is a strong general benchmark part. In The Medium, that strength appears in the Low-preset results, which reach 70.8 at 3840x2160, while Ultra-preset results fall to 25.6 at the same resolution. The measured scaling across the preset ladder shows that this GPU's throughput is the deciding factor in this combination.