Undisputed

The Intel Core i7-14700KF paired with the Intel Arc B580 lands at rank 1239 out of 1580 tested combos in Undisputed. That places this configuration in the lower-middle tier of the database, a positioning driven almost entirely by the graphics card. The CPU is a top-tier part—it sits in the 96th percentile against all CPUs—but the Arc B580's 66th percentile standing among GPUs pulls the overall combo down. This is a pairing where the processor has substantial headroom, and the benchmark data reflects that imbalance clearly.

How This Combo Ranks

At position 1239 of 1580, this combo outperforms roughly 21.6% of all tested configurations in Undisputed. The ranking is not a reflection of CPU capability. The Core i7-14700KF delivers an average benchmark score of 70104, placing it within 0.4% of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and essentially tied with the Intel Core i7-14700K, which scores 70074. The 20-core, 28-thread processor with a 5.60 GHz boost clock is far more capable than what this game requires at the resolutions tested.

The limiting factor is the Arc B580. Its average benchmark score of 23021 is within 0.7% of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, which scores 23181, and only 0.1% ahead of the AMD Radeon 760M. In synthetic tests, the Arc B580 posts a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 3068 and a Passmark G3D score of 15748. These numbers indicate a mid-range GPU that, while competent, cannot fully leverage the CPU's strength. The combo ranking reflects this bottleneck: the processor could drive far higher frame rates, but the GPU caps the output.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data provides a clear picture of which preset delivers the best experience. At 1080p, the High preset produces 128.7 FPS, which is already well above the threshold for smooth gameplay. However, the Medium preset yields 158.1 FPS, a 22.8% improvement over High. The Low preset reaches 222.3 FPS, but that level of performance comes with significant visual compromises that are unnecessary given the headroom.

At 1440p, the High preset delivers 97 FPS, which remains playable but dips closer to the edge of high-refresh territory. The Medium preset at 115.4 FPS offers a better balance, providing a 19% uplift over High while maintaining visual quality. For 4K, the situation changes: High drops to 57.7 FPS, and Ultra falls to 41.2 FPS. The Medium preset at 4K produces 72 FPS, which is the only 4K option that stays comfortably above 60.

The optimal choice is Medium across all resolutions. It provides the best frame rate headroom without the drastic visual downgrade of Low, and it keeps 4K playable. The data shows that High is only viable at 1080p and 1440p, while Ultra is not recommended at any resolution—even at 1080p it only reaches 81.5 FPS, which is 36% below the Medium result at the same resolution.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K reveals where the bottleneck lies. At Medium settings, the transition from 1080p (158.1 FPS) to 1440p (115.4 FPS) represents a 27% decrease. Moving from 1440p to 4K (72 FPS) costs another 37.6%. The total drop from 1080p to 4K at Medium is 54.5%, which is substantial but not catastrophic.

The pattern is more telling at High settings. From 1080p (128.7 FPS) to 1440p (97 FPS) is a 24.6% drop, and from 1440p to 4K (57.7 FPS) is a 40.5% drop. The total reduction from 1080p to 4K at High is 55.2%. These percentages indicate that the GPU is the primary constraint. A CPU-limited scenario would show a much flatter scaling curve, particularly at lower resolutions where the processor would hold frame rates steady. Instead, the consistent 25-40% penalties per resolution step point to the Arc B580's 192-bit memory bus and 456.0 GB/s bandwidth being saturated as pixel count rises.

The Low preset shows the steepest relative decline: 222.3 FPS at 1080p falls to 161.1 FPS at 1440p (a 27.5% drop) and then to 100.1 FPS at 4K (a 37.9% drop). This steepness at Low settings, where the CPU has more influence, suggests that even the Core i7-14700KF's strong single-thread performance—evidenced by its Cinebench R23 single-core score of 6290—cannot overcome the GPU's memory bandwidth ceiling.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the full settings range is usable. Low produces 222.3 FPS, Medium 158.1 FPS, High 128.7 FPS, and Ultra 81.5 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra is 140.8 FPS, a 63.3% reduction. Notably, the step from Medium to High costs 29.4 FPS (18.6%), while the step from High to Ultra costs 47.2 FPS (36.7%). The Ultra preset is disproportionately expensive here, suggesting that its additional effects tax the GPU heavily without proportional visual gains.

At 2560x1440, the numbers compress. Low reaches 161.1 FPS, Medium 115.4 FPS, High 97 FPS, and Ultra 59.1 FPS. The spread from Low to Ultra is 102 FPS, a 63.3% reduction, identical to the 1080p ratio. This consistency indicates that the GPU's relative performance across settings scales linearly with resolution, reinforcing that the Arc B580 is the binding constraint.

At 3840x2160, the results show the GPU's limits. Low achieves 100.1 FPS, Medium 72 FPS, High 57.7 FPS, and Ultra 41.2 FPS. The Low to Ultra drop is 58.9 FPS, a 58.8% reduction. The High preset at 4K is barely above 60 FPS, and Ultra is firmly in the sub-45 range. The data shows that 4K gaming with this combo is only viable at Low or Medium settings, and even then, the margin above 60 FPS is thin for Medium.

GPU Role

The Intel Arc B580's specifications explain the measured results. With 12 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus delivering 456.0 GB/s of bandwidth, the GPU has enough capacity for modern titles but the bandwidth is a limiting factor at high resolutions. The 2560 shading units and 80 ROPs provide a pixel rate of 213.6 GPixel/s, which is adequate for 1080p and 1440p but strained at 4K.

The clock behavior is unusual: both base and boost are listed at 2670 MHz, meaning the GPU runs at a fixed frequency. The memory clock is 2375 MHz, with an effective data rate of 19 Gbps. This fixed clock strategy means the Arc B580's performance is predictable, but it also means there is no dynamic boost headroom to compensate for heavier loads. The 190 W TDP and single 8-pin power connector suggest a card that is power-limited relative to its transistor count of 19,600 million on a 5 nm TSMC process.

In Undisputed specifically, the GPU's FP32 throughput of 13.67 TFLOPS is the raw compute available for the game's physics and rendering. The benchmark results show that this compute is sufficient for 1080p Medium (158.1 FPS) and even 1440p Medium (115.4 FPS), but the 4K Ultra result of 41.2 FPS indicates that the memory subsystem becomes the choke point. The 456.0 GB/s bandwidth is simply insufficient for 8.3 million pixels at Ultra settings, where texture and shader complexity increase memory pressure.

The GPU's nearest rival, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, scores 0.7% higher on average, and the Arc B580's average benchmark score of 23021 places it just above the NVIDIA P106-100 by 0.3%. This is a mid-pack GPU, and the measured FPS data aligns with that positioning. The Core i7-14700KF, with its PassMark multithread score of 52425 and Cinebench R23 multicore score of 44557, is not the limiting component in any of the 12 measured configurations. The bottleneck is consistently the Arc B580, and the benchmark data quantifies that gap precisely.