Undisputed

The Intel Core i5-14600KF paired with the AMD Radeon RX 580 produces a functional but heavily GPU-bound experience in Undisputed. The measured frame rates show a clear ceiling imposed by the graphics card, regardless of the processor’s capabilities. For most users, the Medium preset at 1080p offers the best compromise between visual quality and playable performance, delivering an average of 89 FPS. While Low settings push the average to 120.8 FPS, the jump to Medium is relatively small in cost and provides a noticeably better visual presentation for a sports title where readability matters. At 1440p, Medium remains the target, yielding 63.8 FPS, but High drops to 51.2 FPS, which may feel less consistent. The Ultra preset is not recommended at any resolution, as it falls below 50 FPS even at 1080p.

Settings Recommendations

The data indicates that the Ultra preset is largely unusable with this combination. At 1080p, Ultra produces an average of 48.2 FPS, which dips to 31.6 FPS at 1440p and a stutter-prone 21.5 FPS at 4K. These figures suggest that the settings demand more from the RX 580 than it can deliver, likely due to the combination of shading units and memory bandwidth struggling with the higher visual load. High settings are more viable but still present a challenge; the 1080p average of 72.9 FPS is acceptable, yet the 1440p result of 51.2 FPS is borderline, and the 4K result of 34.8 FPS is not smooth. The sweet spot is clearly Medium. At 1080p, it delivers 89 FPS, which is only 31.8 FPS lower than Low but offers significantly better visual fidelity. At 1440p, Medium’s 63.8 FPS is the highest playable average above the 60 FPS threshold. For a competitive or fast-paced sports game, prioritizing a stable frame rate is key, so Medium is the recommended starting point, with Low as a fallback for users targeting 1440p high-refresh displays.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-14600KF is a high-end processor with 14 cores and 20 threads, capable of boosting up to 5.30 GHz. Its benchmark results are strong, with a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 32889 and a single-core score of 4643. In the context of Undisputed, the CPU's role appears to be secondary, given that the measured frame rates do not scale with resolution in a way that indicates a CPU bottleneck. For instance, moving from 1080p Low (120.8 FPS) to 1440p Low (90.9 FPS) shows a 29.9 FPS drop, which is a typical sign of increased GPU load rather than CPU limitation. The processor’s high single-thread performance, evidenced by its Geekbench single-core score of 2778, ensures that the game’s simulation and AI logic are handled without introducing frame-time inconsistencies. The CPU’s 24 MB of shared L3 cache also helps with data throughput, but the benchmark data suggests that even at 4K Ultra, where the average FPS is 21.5, the CPU is not the limiting factor. The processor is effectively idle in terms of bottlenecking, as the RX 580’s performance ceiling is reached well before the i5-14600KF’s capabilities are taxed.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 580 is the clear bottleneck in this pairing. With 8 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus, it offers 256.0 GB/s of bandwidth, but its Polaris 20 chip, based on the GCN 4.0 architecture, is dated. The GPU’s average benchmark score of 13559 places it in the 53rd percentile of all GPUs, and its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, indicating its performance tier. The measured FPS data confirms this limitation. At 1080p, the jump from Low to Medium costs 31.8 FPS (from 120.8 to 89), but the jump from Medium to High costs only 16.1 FPS (from 89 to 72.9). This non-linear scaling suggests that the RX 580’s 2304 shading units and 32 ROPs are saturated by the Medium preset’s effects. The GPU’s boost clock of 1340 MHz and FP32 performance of 6.175 TFLOPS are simply not enough to maintain high frame rates at higher settings. At 4K, the GPU is overwhelmed, with even Low settings producing only 55.2 FPS, and Ultra dropping to 21.5 FPS. This is a classic case where the GPU’s memory bandwidth and compute throughput cannot keep up with the resolution’s pixel count.

How This Combo Ranks

In the overall database of tested combinations, this specific pairing of the Intel Core i5-14600KF and AMD Radeon RX 580 ranks 1473 out of 1580 combos for Undisputed. This places it in the bottom 7% of all tested configurations, which is a poor showing. The low rank is almost entirely attributable to the GPU, as the CPU is a top-tier performer (93rd percentile among all CPUs). The disparity is stark: the CPU’s average benchmark score is 49367, while the GPU’s is 13559. This mismatch means that the combo’s overall performance is dragged down by the graphics card. For context, the CPU’s nearest rivals in its own benchmarks, such as the Intel Core i5-14600K with a deltaPct of 0.4%, are all similarly capable, but none of them can compensate for the GPU’s limitations in a graphics-intensive game like Undisputed. The rank of 1473 suggests that users would need to upgrade the GPU to see any meaningful improvement in this title, as the CPU is not the limiting factor.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS drops from 1080p to 4K clearly demonstrate that the GPU is the primary constraint. At Medium settings, the average FPS falls from 89 at 1080p to 63.8 at 1440p, a reduction of 25.2 FPS, and then to 37.9 at 4K, another 25.9 FPS drop. This near-linear decline with pixel count is a hallmark of a GPU-bound scenario. The CPU’s performance is constant across resolutions, so the scaling is purely a function of the RX 580’s rendering load. At Low settings, the pattern is similar: 120.8 FPS at 1080p drops to 90.9 at 1440p (a 29.9 FPS loss) and then to 55.2 at 4K (a 35.7 FPS loss). The larger absolute drops at lower settings indicate that the GPU is still the limiting factor, but the relative drop from 1440p to 4K (39.3% loss) is less severe than from 1080p to 1440p (24.8% loss), suggesting a slight easing of the bottleneck at lower settings. At Ultra, the scaling is brutal: 48.2 FPS at 1080p, 31.6 at 1440p, and 21.5 at 4K. The 4K Ultra result is only 44.6% of the 1080p Ultra result, showing that the GPU is completely overwhelmed. This data advises against playing at 4K with this combo, as even Low settings struggle to hold 60 FPS.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1080p, the measured results are as follows: Low settings produce an average of 120.8 FPS, which is the only setting that clears the 120 FPS mark for high-refresh displays. Medium delivers 89 FPS, which is solid for a 75Hz or 90Hz monitor. High drops to 72.9 FPS, still playable but with less headroom. Ultra falls to 48.2 FPS, which is below the 60 FPS target and will feel less responsive. Moving to 1440p, Low yields 90.9 FPS, which is excellent for a 1440p monitor with a 75Hz refresh rate. Medium is at 63.8 FPS, just above the 60 FPS threshold, making it the highest playable setting. High is at 51.2 FPS, which is playable but not ideal for fast action. Ultra is at 31.6 FPS, which is not recommended. At 4K, the results are largely unplayable for smooth gameplay: Low is at 55.2 FPS, which is borderline, Medium at 37.9 FPS, High at 34.8 FPS, and Ultra at 21.5 FPS. The data shows that the RX 580 is best suited for 1080p gaming in Undisputed, and even then, users must choose between high frame rates at Low settings or a balanced experience at Medium. The GPU’s 8 GB of VRAM is sufficient for 1080p and 1440p textures, but the rendering pipeline is the limiting factor, not memory capacity.