Undisputed

Settings Recommendations

For this combination, the data points to Medium settings as the only viable choice across every resolution, with Low as the fallback when frame rate is prioritized over visual fidelity. At 1080p, Medium delivers 91 FPS average, which is 15 FPS higher than High and 42 FPS higher than Ultra, while the minimum of 78 FPS keeps the experience within a smooth range. The jump from Low to Medium costs 36 FPS (127 down to 91), but the visual improvement is substantial enough that the trade-off is justified for most users. At 1440p, Medium holds at 66 FPS average with a 56 FPS minimum, which remains playable, whereas High drops to 55 FPS and Ultra falls to 35 FPS — the latter being a significant step below the 60 FPS target. At 4K, Medium produces 42 FPS average with a 36 FPS minimum, which is borderline but still the highest playable preset; High manages only 35 FPS and Ultra sinks to 22 FPS. Low at 4K reaches 58 FPS, making it the only preset that approaches a smooth 60 FPS at that resolution, but the visual compromise is severe.

The data suggests that Medium is the sweet spot for this pairing. It consistently provides the best balance between frame rate and visual quality, with the 1080p result of 91 FPS being the standout figure. Ultra is effectively unusable — it delivers less than half the frame rate of Medium at every resolution, and even at 1080p it only reaches 49 FPS. High is a middle ground that never quite justifies itself: at 1080p it offers 76 FPS, at 1440p 55 FPS, and at 4K 35 FPS, all of which are inferior to Medium by margins of 15 to 7 FPS. For users with variable refresh rate monitors, Medium at 1440p with its 56 FPS minimum is the recommendation, as it stays within a tolerable frame time variance. For competitive play at 1080p, Low at 127 FPS is the choice, but for a sports simulation where visual feedback matters, Medium at 91 FPS is the balanced pick.

GPU Role

The Intel Arc B390 is the limiting component in this pairing, and the measured frame rates make that clear. The GPU's specs — 1536 shading units, 48 texture mapping units, 24 render output units, and 12 ray tracing cores — are modest by modern standards, and the 7.680 TFLOPS FP32 compute figure places it in the entry-level segment. The 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 1482 puts the GPU at the 9th percentile of all GPUs, which is remarkably low. The nearest rivals in the benchmark database are the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX with a score of 1463 (1.3% behind), the NVIDIA GeForce 800M at 1460 (1.5% behind), the NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM at 1446 (2.5% behind), and the NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 at 1443 (2.7% behind). This places the B390 in company with integrated and entry-level discrete GPUs from over a decade ago, which explains why frame rates in Undisputed are so constrained.

The GPU's clock behavior — a 300 MHz base and 2500 MHz boost — shows a large dynamic range, but the effective performance is held back by the architecture. The Xe3-LPG architecture on a 3 nm process from Intel with 80 W TDP is designed for integrated graphics in portable devices, given the "IGP" slot width and bus interface, and the system-shared memory configuration. The memory bandwidth is listed as "System Dependent," which means the GPU draws on the same DDR5 memory pool as the CPU, and the 89.6 GB/s CPU memory bandwidth becomes the ceiling for GPU memory access. This shared memory arrangement is a fundamental bottleneck — the GPU cannot access dedicated high-bandwidth VRAM, and the system-shared memory type means every frame render competes with CPU memory traffic. The pixel rate of 60.00 GPixel/s and texture rate of 120.0 GTexel/s are theoretical maxima that the shared memory system cannot sustain in practice.

The frame rate scaling across settings confirms the GPU is the bottleneck. At 1080p, dropping from Ultra (49 FPS) to Low (127 FPS) yields a 2.6x improvement, which indicates that the GPU is overwhelmed by the higher-detail settings. At 4K, the same settings drop produces a 2.6x improvement as well (22 to 58 FPS), showing that the GPU's fill rate limits are being hit consistently regardless of resolution. The API support — DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4 — is current, but the raw compute resources are insufficient for a modern sports title at high detail. The 12 RT cores are effectively unused in this game, as Undisputed is not a ray tracing showcase, and the 24 ROPs become the limiting factor at high resolutions where pixel throughput matters most.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D is a high-end desktop processor that is severely underutilized by this game, given the GPU constraints. The CPU's specifications are substantial: 8 cores and 16 threads based on Zen 5 architecture (Granite Ridge codename) on a 4 nm TSMC process, with a base clock of 4.70 GHz and boost clock of 5.60 GHz. The L3 cache is 96 MB shared, which is a massive pool for game data, and the L1 cache is 80 KB per core with L2 at 1 MB per core. The memory support is DDR5 dual-channel with 89.6 GB/s bandwidth, and the PCIe Gen 5 interface with 24 lanes provides ample bandwidth for peripherals. The 120 W TDP and unlocked multiplier make this a flexible desktop part, and the 92nd percentile ranking among all CPUs confirms its position as a top-tier processor.

The CPU benchmark results show a processor that is far more capable than what this game requires. In Cinebench R23, the multi-core score of 22807 and single-core score of 2228 demonstrate strong all-around performance. The PassMark results reinforce this: a multi-thread score of 41318, single-thread score of 4704, and a physics score of 4171. The data compression score of 474501 and integer math score of 123140 are particularly high, showing the CPU's strength in compute-heavy tasks. The nearest rivals in the CPU benchmark database — the Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M (0.1% ahead), Intel Xeon w5-2545 (0.2% behind), Intel Core i9-14900 (0.5% ahead), and AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 (0.7% behind) — are all within 1% of the 9850X3D's average benchmark score of 58386, indicating that the CPU is in the top tier of desktop processors.

In Undisputed, the CPU's role is primarily to feed the GPU with game state data, and the 8-core/16-thread configuration is more than sufficient for the sport simulation genre. The high boost clock of 5.60 GHz ensures that single-threaded game logic runs without hiccups, and the 96 MB L3 cache likely holds the entire game state for a boxing match, minimizing memory latency. The data shows that the CPU is not the bottleneck — the frame rate differences between settings are entirely attributable to GPU load, as evidenced by the consistent 2.6x scaling from Ultra to Low across all resolutions. The CPU's 4 nm process and 8,315 million transistors make it a power-efficient choice, but in this pairing, its capabilities are largely wasted because the GPU cannot translate CPU performance into frame rate.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D and Intel Arc B390 ranks 2491 out of 2813 tested combos in Undisputed, placing it in the bottom 11.5% of all configurations. This ranking is a direct consequence of the GPU's poor performance relative to the CPU — the 9850X3D is a top-tier processor (92nd percentile), while the B390 is a bottom-tier GPU (9th percentile). The massive mismatch between the two components creates a situation where the CPU's potential is entirely untapped, and the combo rank reflects the weakest link in the chain. The data shows that this pairing is not balanced: a CPU that can deliver 22807 in Cinebench R23 multi-core is paired with a GPU that scores 1482 in 3DMark Steel Nomad, and the GPU becomes the sole determinant of game performance.

The rank of 2491 out of 2813 means that 322 combos perform worse than this one. Given that the B390 is an integrated GPU solution (IGP slot width, system-shared memory), the fact that it outranks 322 other combos is notable — it suggests that some configurations in the database have even weaker GPUs paired with slower CPUs. However, the delta between this combo and the top performers is enormous. The 1080p Low setting delivers 127 FPS, which is respectable, but at 1080p Ultra, the frame rate drops to 49 FPS, which is below what many other combos achieve at higher settings. The ranking is heavily influenced by the 4K results, where the combo can only manage 22 FPS at Ultra and 58 FPS at Low, indicating that the B390's 24 ROPs and system-shared memory are simply inadequate for high-resolution rendering.

The practical implication of this rank is that users with this combo should not expect to play Undisputed at high settings or high resolutions. The data shows that the combo is best suited for 1080p gaming at Medium or Low settings, and even then, the experience is limited by the GPU's rendering capabilities. The CPU's 92nd percentile ranking means that upgrading the GPU would transform this combo's position dramatically, but as configured, the rank of 2491 accurately reflects the GPU-bound nature of the system.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals a GPU that is consistently the bottleneck at every resolution, but the scaling pattern shows some interesting nuances. At Medium settings, the frame rates are 91 FPS at 1080p, 66 FPS at 1440p, and 42 FPS at 4K. This represents a 27.5% drop from 1080p to 1440p, and a further 36.4% drop from 1440p to 4K. The total drop from 1080p to 4K is 53.8%, which is less severe than the theoretical 75% reduction in pixel count (from 2.07 million pixels at 1080p to 8.29 million at 4K), suggesting that the GPU is not purely fill-rate limited at Medium settings.

At Low settings, the scaling is different: 127 FPS at 1080p, 92 FPS at 1440p, and 58 FPS at 4K. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is 27.6%, and from 1440p to 4K is 37.0%, with a total drop of 54.3%. This near-identical scaling pattern to Medium (53.8% total drop) indicates that the GPU's memory bandwidth, rather than its compute units, is the limiting factor. The system-shared memory configuration means that as resolution increases, the memory traffic grows, and the DDR5 bandwidth of 89.6 GB/s becomes saturated. The fact that Low and Medium scale almost identically suggests that the GPU is memory-bound rather than shader-bound, since reducing shader load (from Medium to Low) does not change the scaling behavior.

At High settings, the scaling is 76 FPS at 1080p, 55 FPS at 1440p, and 35 FPS at 4K — a 27.6% drop from 1080p to 1440p and a 36.4% drop from 1440p to 4K, totaling 53.9%. At Ultra, the scaling is 49, 35, and 22 FPS respectively, with drops of 28.6% and 37.1%, totaling 55.1%. The consistency of these scaling percentages — all between 53.8% and 55.1% — is striking. It indicates that the GPU's performance is governed by a single bottleneck that scales linearly with pixel count, and the setting changes do not alter this fundamental limitation. The 4K results in particular show that the B390 cannot deliver playable frame rates at any setting above Low, with even Medium dropping to 42 FPS.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The complete measured data for this combo in Undisputed provides a comprehensive picture of its capabilities. At 1920x1080, the frame rates are as follows: Low delivers 127 FPS average, Medium delivers 91 FPS average with a 78 FPS minimum and 105 FPS maximum, High delivers 76 FPS average, and Ultra delivers 49 FPS average. The 1080p results show that the combo can handle the game comfortably at Low and Medium, with both presets exceeding 60 FPS. High is playable at 76 FPS, but Ultra falls below 50 FPS, which is a significant drop that indicates the GPU's shading units are overwhelmed by the highest detail settings.

At 2560x1440, the results are: Low at 92 FPS, Medium at 66 FPS average with a 56 FPS minimum and 76 FPS maximum, High at 55 FPS, and Ultra at 35 FPS. The 1440p results show that only Low and Medium maintain playable frame rates, with Medium just barely staying above 60 FPS on average but dropping to 56 FPS in the minimum. High at 55 FPS is borderline, and Ultra at 35 FPS is not viable for smooth gameplay. The 1440p Medium results (66 FPS average, 56 FPS minimum) represent the best balance of visual quality and performance for this resolution, though the minimum frame rate suggests occasional dips below the 60 FPS target.

At 3840x2160, the results are: Low at 58 FPS, Medium at 42 FPS average with a 36 FPS minimum and 48 FPS maximum, High at 35 FPS, and Ultra at 22 FPS. The 4K results are uniformly poor, with only Low approaching a playable frame rate. Medium at 42 FPS is borderline for a sports game, but the 36 FPS minimum means there will be visible stuttering during intense gameplay moments. High at 35 FPS and Ultra at 22 FPS are both well below acceptable thresholds for a fast-paced boxing simulation, where timing and reaction are critical. The 4K data confirms that this combo is not suitable for high-resolution gaming, and users with 4K displays should either lower the resolution or accept Low settings.

The pattern across all resolutions is consistent: Medium provides the best experience per the measured rows, offering a significant improvement over High and Ultra while maintaining playable frame rates. Low is the fallback for users who prioritize frame rate over visuals, particularly at 4K where it is the only preset that approaches 60 FPS. High and Ultra are not recommended at any resolution, as they consistently deliver frame rates that are 15-25% lower than Medium at 1080p and 1440p, and 17-52% lower at 4K. The minimum frame rate data for Medium settings — 78 FPS at 1080p, 56 FPS at 1440p, and 36 FPS at 4K — shows that the combo can maintain a stable experience at Medium, making it the clear choice for this hardware pairing.