The Medium

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT paired with the Intel Arc B580 lands in the lower half of the database for The Medium, holding the 1327th spot out of 1689 tested combos. This places the pairing in the 21st percentile of all recorded configurations, a ranking that reflects the game’s heavy demands on both processing and graphics resources. The data shows a system that can deliver playable frame rates at lower presets, but one that struggles to maintain smooth performance when visual fidelity is pushed to its limits.

How This Combo Ranks

The 1327th rank out of 1689 combos is a clear signal that this hardware combination is not optimized for The Medium. The game, a horror title released in early 2021, uses a fixed-camera perspective with dual-reality rendering, which taxes the GPU heavily. The combo’s position suggests that while the CPU is competent, the overall system is held back by the graphics card’s inability to sustain high frame rates at demanding settings. The Arc B580 sits at the 66th percentile of all GPUs, which is respectable, but its performance is tightly grouped with rivals like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, which scores only 0.7% higher in average benchmark tests. The CPU, meanwhile, ranks at the 78th percentile, with an average benchmark score nearly identical to the Intel Core i7-10700 (a 0% delta). This near-parity in CPU performance does little to boost the combo’s standing in a game where the GPU is the primary bottleneck.

GPU Role

The Intel Arc B580 is the defining component in this pairing, and its specifications explain much of the measured performance. It features 12 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, delivering a bandwidth of 456.0 GB/s. The GPU’s base and boost clocks are both set to 2670 MHz, with memory running at an effective 19 Gbps. These specs are substantial for a mid-range card, yet the benchmark results in The Medium show it struggling at higher resolutions and settings. The card’s 20 ray tracing cores and 2560 shading units are present, but the game’s rendering style appears to challenge them severely. The GPU’s average benchmark score of 23021 places it just ahead of the AMD Radeon 760M by 0.1% and the NVIDIA P106-100 by 0.3%, but 0.7% behind the RTX 4060. This tight clustering indicates that the Arc B580 is competitive in synthetic tests, but the real-world frame rates in this game tell a different story, particularly at 4K where the card’s 213.6 GPixel/s pixel rate is insufficient for the load.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K is dramatic and reveals a GPU-bound system. At Low settings, the average FPS falls from 89.9 at 1920x1080 to 57.3 at 3840x2160, a reduction of roughly 36%. The decline is even steeper at High settings, where the average drops from 36.5 FPS at 1080p to 24.6 FPS at 4K, a 33% loss. This scaling pattern indicates that the Arc B580 is the limiting component; the CPU is not able to compensate for the GPU’s decreasing throughput as pixel count rises. The most telling data point is at Ultra settings, where the average FPS at 4K is just 22.7, barely above a slideshow. The resolution scaling shows a consistent pattern across all settings: the higher the resolution, the closer the system gets to unplayable territory, with the GPU’s memory bandwidth and compute power being stretched to their limits.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its best results. Low settings produce an average of 89.9 FPS, which is smooth and responsive. Medium settings drop to 57.8 FPS, still acceptable for most players. High settings reduce the average to 36.5 FPS, and Ultra falls to 31.4 FPS, both below the 60 FPS threshold but technically playable. Moving to 2560x1440, the numbers take a hit. Low settings average 72.5 FPS, which is still decent, but Medium drops to 44.2 FPS. High settings average 31.6 FPS, and Ultra is barely playable at 24.8 FPS. At 3840x2160, the system struggles significantly. Low settings are the only viable option, averaging 57.3 FPS. Medium settings drop to 38.3 FPS, High to 24.6 FPS, and Ultra to 22.7 FPS. The data shows a clear pattern: the Arc B580 is only capable of delivering consistent 60+ FPS at 1080p Low, and even 1440p requires dropping to Low settings to achieve a comfortable frame rate.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 3 architecture, running on the AM4 socket. Its base clock is 3.60 GHz with a boost clock of 4.60 GHz, and it has 16 MB of L3 cache. The CPU’s benchmark scores are solid, with a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 17272 and a single-core score of 2438. These numbers place it in the 78th percentile of all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 20740. This is nearly identical to the Intel Core i7-10700, which scores 20746 (a 0% delta), and slightly ahead of the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, which scores 20680 (a 0.3% delta). In The Medium, the CPU is not the bottleneck. The frame rate data shows that even at 1080p Low, where the CPU has the most influence, the system only achieves 89.9 FPS, which is well below what this processor is capable of in less demanding titles. The game’s rendering engine appears to be heavily GPU-dependent, and the 5600GT’s 12 threads are sufficient to feed the Arc B580 without causing a CPU-side limitation. The measured FPS drops at higher resolutions are almost entirely attributable to the GPU, as the CPU’s performance remains constant regardless of pixel count. This suggests that for The Medium, the Ryzen 5 5600GT is more than adequate, and any upgrade to the CPU would yield negligible gains without a corresponding GPU upgrade.