The Medium

The Medium is a horror game, and the measured performance data for this combo places the Intel Core i5-12400F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti at 215th out of 1689 tested combinations. The CPU holds the 77th percentile among all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 19221, while the GPU holds the 85th percentile among all GPUs with an average score of 44900. The dataset includes measured FPS at three resolutions and four presets, with no minimum or maximum frame values recorded.

How This Combo Ranks

Combo rank 215 of 1689 is derived from measured FPS rows, not synthetic projections. A rank of 215 puts this pairing in the upper portion of the tested field, meaning the measured game performance is well above the middle of the pool. The RTX 4070 Ti is the stronger half by percentile: 85th versus the CPU's 77th. In the nearest-rival table, the i5-12400F is 0.1% ahead of the Core i7-8700K, 0.3% ahead of the Core i5-1335U, 0.7% behind the Ryzen 5 7533HS, and 1.3% ahead of the EPYC 7773X. The GPU is 0.6% behind the RTX 5090 Mobile, 1.5% behind the Arc A730M, 1.6% ahead of the Radeon Pro 580, and 1.6% behind the Radeon Pro 5500 XT. These synthetic averages place the pair in a tight competitive cluster, and the in-game rank is consistent with that placement. The FPS data supports the rank: 145.7 at 1080p Low and 118.2 at 4K Low are both strong results, and the Ultra row at 4K (43.3) is low enough to show that the combo is not in the very top tier of all 1689 configurations. At the same time, the rank is game-specific; the synthetic scores are general-purpose averages and do not replace the measured rows in The Medium.

Settings Recommendations

At 1080p, all four measured presets stay above 64.6 FPS, so even Ultra is viable for high-refresh play. At 1440p, Ultra at 51.4 is the only preset that drops below 64.8. At 4K, High (55.2) and Ultra (43.3) are both below the 4K Medium result of 73.3. The Medium preset is the best balance across the full resolution range: 113 at 1080p, 93.7 at 1440p, and 73.3 at 4K. Low produces more frames (145.7, 140.4, 118.2) but reduces visual quality. High is the strongest high-settings option at 1080p (75.4) and 1440p (64.8), but it falls below the Medium preset at 4K. Since the measured rows contain only average FPS with no minimum or maximum values, Medium provides extra headroom over High and Ultra for scene-to-scene variation. If the goal is simply the highest frame rate, 1080p Low delivers 145.7, which is the fastest result in the dataset; but for a balanced setting, the 4K Medium figure of 73.3 shows that the game does not require dropping to Low at high resolution to stay fluid.

FAQ

Q: What average FPS does this combo deliver at 4K Medium?

A: 73.3 FPS. The other 4K settings are Low 118.2, High 55.2, and Ultra 43.3.

Q: Is 1440p Ultra playable with this combo?

A: The measured average is 51.4 FPS. High at 1440p averages 64.8, and Medium averages 93.7.

Q: How does the i5-12400F compare to the Core i7-8700K in average benchmark score?

A: The i5-12400F scores 19221, or 0.1% higher than the i7-8700K's 19210.

Q: How does the RTX 4070 Ti compare to the RTX 5090 Mobile?

A: The RTX 4070 Ti averages 44900, which is 0.6% lower than the RTX 5090 Mobile's 45152.

Q: What GPU memory does this combo use?

A: 12 GB of GDDR6X on a 192-bit bus with 504.2 GB/s memory bandwidth, running at 1313 MHz with 21 Gbps effective speed.

Q: What is the CPU configuration?

A: 6 cores, 12 threads, 2.50 GHz base clock, 4.40 GHz boost clock, and 18 MB of shared L3 cache.

Measured FPS Breakdown

| Resolution | Settings | Average FPS |

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

| 3840x2160 | High | 55.2 |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 118.2 |

| 3840x2160 | Medium | 73.3 |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra | 43.3 |

| 2560x1440 | High | 64.8 |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 140.4 |

| 2560x1440 | Medium | 93.7 |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra | 51.4 |

| 1920x1080 | High | 75.4 |

| 1920x1080 | Low | 145.7 |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 113 |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 64.6 |

The preset ordering is consistent at every resolution: Low, Medium, High, Ultra. The fastest row in the dataset is 1080p Low at 145.7; the slowest is 4K Ultra at 43.3. At 1440p, the four settings produce 140.4, 93.7, 64.8, and 51.4 respectively. At 4K, the values are 118.2, 73.3, 55.2, and 43.3. Every preset loses average FPS when moving from 1080p to 1440p and again from 1440p to 4K. The relationship between preset and resolution is not linear: 4K Low (118.2) is much faster than 1080p Ultra (64.6), which shows that preset selection has a larger impact on the measured average than resolution alone. The step sizes are not uniform, and the largest loss occurs between Low and Medium at 1440p and 4K, while at 1080p the largest loss occurs between Medium and High. All rows are average FPS; the dataset has no min or max frame values, so these numbers do not capture worst-case dips.

GPU Role

The RTX 4070 Ti uses the AD104 chip on TSMC's 5 nm process, with 35,800 million transistors on a 294 mm² die. Its memory is 12 GB of GDDR6X across a 192-bit bus, with 504.2 GB/s bandwidth, 1313 MHz memory clock, and 21 Gbps effective speed. Base clock is 2310 MHz, boost 2610 MHz. Compute resources include 7680 shading units, 240 TMUs, 80 ROPs, 60 RT cores, and 240 tensor cores; FP32 throughput is 40.09 TFLOPS, pixel rate 208.8 GPixel/s, and texture rate 626.4 GTexel/s. The card draws 285 W TDP and is paired with a suggested 600 W power supply using one 16-pin connector. It sits at the 85th GPU percentile with an average score of 44900, near the RTX 5090 Mobile (-0.6%), Arc A730M (-1.5%), Radeon Pro 580 (+1.6%), and Radeon Pro 5500 XT (-1.6%). In The Medium, the GPU's influence appears in the preset scaling: 4K Low (118.2) and 4K Medium (73.3) are strong, but 4K High (55.2) and 4K Ultra (43.3) show the load outrunning the card at the highest configurations. The difference between 1440p High (64.8) and 4K High (55.2) is a single resolution step, and the average FPS drops below the 4K Medium mark; this pattern is consistent with the game's higher presets placing most of the additional burden on the GPU's shading and memory resources. The GPU's memory clock of 1313 MHz with 21 Gbps effective speed feeds the 12 GB GDDR6X frame buffer over a 192-bit bus; the resulting 504.2 GB/s bandwidth is the throughput available to the game's higher presets, and the measured results suggest that the card has enough memory bandwidth for Medium at 4K while Ultra exceeds what the architecture can deliver at an average of 43.3 FPS.

CPU Role

The i5-12400F has 6 cores and 12 threads, base 2.50 GHz, boost 4.40 GHz. It is an Alder Lake-S desktop part on Intel's 10 nm process with a 163 mm² die and 65 W TDP. Cache per core is 80 KB L1 and 1.25 MB L2, with 18 MB shared L3. It supports dual-channel DDR4 and DDR5 memory and offers 20 PCIe Gen 5 CPU lanes; integrated graphics are absent, so the RTX 4070 Ti handles display output. Synthetic scores include Cinebench R23 multicore 16518 and single-core 2332, Geekbench multicore 9138 and single-core 2221, 3DMark 2-thread 1699, 4-thread 3067, 8-thread 4779, 16-thread 5895, and max-thread 5912, and PassMark multithread 19433. At the 77th CPU percentile with an average score of 19221, it sits 0.1% above the Core i7-8700K, 0.3% above the Core i5-1335U, 0.7% below the Ryzen 5 7533HS, and 1.3% above the EPYC 7773X. In the game data, Low presets produce the highest FPS: 145.7 at 1080p, 140.4 at 1440p, 118.2 at 4K. These rows keep high frame rates even as resolution rises, which indicates the CPU is not the reason the Ultra preset falls to 43.3 at 4K; the pattern across presets points to the GPU carrying the extra load at Ultra. The 16-thread score of 5895 and max-thread score of 5912 are close, which suggests the chip's 12 threads scale well under multithreaded loads. The 6-core/12-thread layout with 4.40 GHz boost is sufficient to push The Medium well above the 1440p High result of 64.8 when paired with this GPU.