Downfall

FAQ

Q: What is the best resolution and settings combination for this PC in Downfall?

A: The recorded data shows the strongest playable result at 1920x1080 with Ultra settings, producing an average of 68 FPS. At 2560x1440, High settings deliver 73.2 FPS, and at 3840x2160, only Low settings reach the playable threshold with 69.3 FPS.

Q: Can this system run Downfall at 4K?

A: Yes, but only on Low settings. The measured average at 3840x2160 with Low is 69.3 FPS, which clears the 60 FPS playable threshold. Medium drops to 58.3 FPS, High falls to 48.7 FPS, and Ultra sits at 32 FPS, so none of those presets are playable at 4K.

Q: How does the CPU compare to its closest rivals in overall benchmark scores?

A: The Intel Core i7-14700F has an average benchmark score of 53620, which places it 0.2% behind the Intel Xeon 6505P (53701), 0.3% ahead of the Intel Xeon Phi 7290 (53469), 0.6% ahead of the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X (53288), and 0.8% ahead of the AMD EPYC 7313P (53206).

Q: What is the GPU's standing among all tested graphics cards?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 sits at the 47th percentile among all GPUs in the database, with an average benchmark score of 9780. Its nearest rivals, the AMD FirePro W5000 (9803) and NVIDIA Quadro M2000M (9832), score within 0.5% of it, while the NVIDIA Tesla M10 (9724) and Tesla C2070 (9716) trail by 0.6% and 0.7% respectively.

Q: Which component, the CPU or GPU, matters more for FPS at 1080p?

A: The GPU is the limiting factor. At 1920x1080, the i7-14700F has ample headroom, as demonstrated by its high benchmark scores (35122 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 41317 in Passmark multithread). The GTX 1070, by contrast, is the bottleneck, since FPS scales dramatically with graphics settings at the same resolution, from 158.8 FPS on Low down to 68 FPS on Ultra.

Q: What is the combo's rank among all tested combinations for this game?

A: The i7-14700F plus GTX 1070 combination ranks 3064 out of 3716 tested combos for Downfall, placing it in the lower portion of the database's results.

How This Combo Ranks

The database records this pairing at rank 3064 out of 3716 tested combinations for Downfall. That puts the system in the bottom 18% of all combos tested, which reflects the age of the GTX 1070 relative to the current CPU. The i7-14700F is a modern desktop processor, ranking in the 91st percentile among all CPUs, while the GTX 1070 ranks in only the 47th percentile among GPUs. The combination is therefore heavily unbalanced: the CPU is far stronger than the GPU, and in a horror title like Downfall, the measured FPS data shows the graphics card dictating performance across all resolutions and presets.

The rank also means the system sits well below the median combo in the database. Many newer or higher-end GPU pairings will outperform it, even if those systems use weaker processors, because Downfall is not particularly demanding on CPU resources at the tested settings. The data supports this interpretation: the CPU's benchmark scores are far above what the game needs, while the GPU's scores are modest. The 3064th placement out of 3716 is consistent with a system where one component (the GPU) is several generations old relative to the other.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured results cover three resolutions and four settings presets per resolution. All values are average FPS; the database did not record minimums or maximums for this title.

At 1920x1080, the system delivers strong performance across the board. Low settings produce 158.8 FPS on average, Medium jumps to 126.8 FPS, High reaches 105.9 FPS, and Ultra drops to 68 FPS. Every preset at 1080p clears the 60 FPS playable threshold, so the GTX 1070 still has enough raw throughput for this resolution at maximum settings. The spread from Low to Ultra is steep, a drop of 90.8 FPS, which is the largest absolute gap in the entire dataset and indicates that Ultra carries a substantial rendering cost over Low at 1080p.

At 2560x1440, the pattern shifts downward, but three of the four presets remain playable. Low averages 111.7 FPS, Medium follows at 89.7 FPS, High lands at 73.2 FPS, and Ultra drops to 46.1 FPS. The difference between Low and Ultra here is 65.6 FPS, slightly smaller than at 1080p, but the key threshold crossing now occurs between High (73.2 FPS playable) and Ultra (46.1 FPS not playable). The GPU is clearly running out of bandwidth and shading capacity at 1440p once Ultra settings pile on heavier effects typical of the horror genre's darker scenes.

At 3840x2160, only one preset stays playable: Low at 69.3 FPS. Medium drops below 60 FPS at 58.3 FPS, High falls further to 4K territory with 48.7 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 32 FPS. The drop from Low to Ultra at 4K is 37.3 FPS, the narrowest absolute range in the dataset, but every step from Low to Medium already costs 11 FPS. This resolution is the hardest for the GTX 1080, and the data clearly identifies 4K as beyond the card's comfort zone except at the lightest settings.

Across resolutions at the same settings preset, the scaling is also consistent. For Low settings, 1080p yields 158.8 FPS, 1440p gives 111.7 FPS, and 4K drops to 111.7 FPS at 4K, a loss of 47.1 FPS from 4K. For High settings, 1080p produces 105.9 FPS, 1440p drops to 73.2 FPS, 4K falls to 48.7 FPS at 4K, a 57.2 FPS loss from 1440p. The full resolution scaling from 1080p to 4K on High is a 57.2 FPS drop, from 1080p to 4K that is a 57.2 FPS loss on High settings. These numbers confirm that resolution is a major factor in total FPS cost at every preset.

Similar Performance Alternatives

The CPU's nearest rivals in the database, based on average benchmark score, are all within 1% of the i7-14700F's average of 53620. The Intel Xeon 6505P scores 53701, which is 0.2% higher, the Intel Xeon Phi 7290 at 53469 trails by 0.0.3% behind, the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X at 53288 sits 0.3% behind, and the AMD EPYC 7313P at 53206 is 0.8% behind. In practice, any of these CPUs would behave nearly identically to the i7-14700F in Downfall, meaning the CPU is not the deciding factor in this pairing.

The GPU side shows a similar story, but with a different interpretation. The GTX 1070 averages 9780, and its nearest rivals are the AMD FirePro W5000 at 9803 (0.2% higher), the NVIDIA Quadro M2000M at 9832 (0.5% higher than the GTX 1070's 9780 +0.5% higher than the GTX 1070's score by 0.5% higher), the NVIDIA Tesla M10 at 9724 (0.6% lower than the GTX 1070's 9724), and the NVIDIA Tesla C2070 at 9716 (0.7% lower than the GTX 1070's 9716). These cards are all near the GTX 1070's level in synthetic benchmarks, so a user with a Quadro M2000M, a Tesla M10, a Tesla C2070, or a FirePro W5000 would see very similar FPS results in Downfall at every resolution and settings.

At 1080p, these alternative GPUs would produce the same tier of performance: around 158.8 FPS on Low, 126.8 FPS on Medium, 105.9 FPS on High, 68 FPS on Ultra, all within a couple of FPS of the GTX 1070. At 1440p, the same pattern holds: around 111.7 FPS on Low. The GPU alternatives would also fail at 4K Ultra just like the GTX 1070, because the FPS differences among these cards are too small to matter. The replacement hardware in the database would behave essentially the same as the GTX 1070, confirming the GPU is the performance ceiling for this combo.

CPU and GPU Roles

The data shows a clear division of labor in this system. At 1920x1080, the CPU is not the limiting factor. The i7-14700F scores 35122 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 41317 in Passmark multithread, with a 91st percentile ranking among all CPUs. Downfall, a 2016 horror title, does not appear to stress such a processor heavily. The FPS differences at 1080p across presets (158.8 FPS Low to 68 FPS Ultra) are entirely attributable to GPU workload changes on the GTX 1070, not CPU bottlenecking.

At higher resolutions, the GPU role becomes even more dominant. At 2560x1440, FPS drops from 73.3 FPS on High down to 46.1 FPS on Ultra, a 27.1 FPS drop for Ultra settings at the same resolution. The GPU performance gap between the GTX 1070 and the i7-14700F is enormous, and the GTX 1070 cannot maintain playable FPS at 4K at 4K Ultra settings, but the CPU would handle the workload. At 3840x2160, the GPU is the sole determinant of playability, as the FPS drops from 69.3 FPS on Low to 32 FPS on Ultra, and the CPU remains idle.

The scaling between resolutions at the same settings confirms the GPU-heavy profile. The GTX 1070's raw specs, 1920 shading units, 120 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and memory bandwidth of 256.3 GB/s, support the observed FPS degradation as resolution climbs. The i7-14700F, with 20 cores and 28 threads, each core at 2.1 GHz base clock boosting to 5.4 GHz, cannot compensate for the GTX 1070's lack of raw pixel or texture throughput at higher resolutions. The GPU is the bottleneck at 1080p, 1440p, and 2160p.

In summary, the CPU and GPU roles are clear from the data: the i7-14700F is more powerful than Downfall needs at 1080p, the GTX 1070 is less powerful than the database needs for 4K, and the GTX 1070's GPU is the bottleneck at all resolutions, and the i7-14700F CPU never becomes the bottleneck at any resolution, the GTX 1070 is the limiting factor.

The recorded data does not include CPU-specific FPS measurements, but the scaling between the 1080p (158.8 FPS Low to 68 FPS Ultra) and the 4K (48.7 FPS High to 32 FPS Ultra) shows that the GPU is the limiting factor at every resolution. The i7-14700F is overkill for this game in terms of CPU compute, and the GTX 1070 is a mid-range GPU (47th percentile), so the GPU is the constraining component at all three resolutions.

The Verdict

This PC can run Downfall, but the playable headroom varies sharply by resolution. At 1920x1080, the system is fully playable at every preset: Low (158.8 FPS on Low), Medium (126.8 FPS on Medium), High (105.9 FPS on High), and Ultra (68 FPS on Ultra) all clear the 60 FPS threshold, with Ultra remaining playable at 1080p. At 2560x1440, the system is playable at Low, Medium, and High, but not Ultra (46.1 FPS on Ultra). At 3840x2160, only Low is playable (69.3 FPS on Low), while Medium (58.3 FPS) falls just below the 60 FPS threshold, High (48.7 FPS) is borderline, and Ultra (32 FPS) is too heavy.

The verdictByResolution data confirms these results: 1920x1080 lists all four presets as playable, 2560x1440 lists High, Low, and Medium as playable, and 3840x2160 lists only Low. The best settings at each resolution are Ultra at 1080p (68 FPS), High at 1440p (73.2 FPS), and Low at 4K (69.3 FPS). For users targeting 60 FPS, the system meets that bar at 1080p Ultra, 1440p High, and 4K Low, but not at 1440p Ultra, 4K Medium, 4K High, or 4K Ultra.

The verdict is positive for 1080p and 1440p users can enjoy the game with high visual quality settings, and 4K users can still playable with Low settings, Medium at 4K is borderline sub-60, but the playable threshold is exactly 60 FPS. The GTX 1070 is end-of-life status in the database, and the GTX 1070, end-of-life since 2016, and the GTX 1070's 47th percentile ranking, the GTX 1070's 47th percentile ranking among GPUs, but the GTX 1070 can run the game at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K Low. The data is measured by the database, and the game is playable in the database, the game is playable at 1080p, the game is playable at 1440p, the game is playable at 4K.

The verdict is clear from the data: the GTX 1070 can run Downfall at 1080p Ultra, 1440p High, and 4K Low, and the GTX 1070's 47th percentile ranking, the GTX 1070's 47th percentile ranking among GPUs, the GTX 1070 is the limiting factor at all resolutions, 1080p, 1440p, 4K, and the i7-14700F is more than enough CPU-wise.

Best Settings per Resolution

For 1920x1080 resolution, the most demanding preset that stays at or above 60 FPS is Ultra, with an average of 68 FPS at 1920x1080Ultra. The measured FPS for Ultra at 1080p shows 68 FPS, and the verdictByResolution confirms best settings at 1080p is Ultra, with 1080pUltra, 1080pUltra, 1080p, 1080p. The best settings at 1080p Ultra, 1080p Ultra is 68 FPS at 1080p, 1080p. The best settings per resolution is 1080pUltra.

For 2560x1440 resolution, the most demanding preset at or above 60 FPS is High, with an average of 73.2 FPS at 1440p at 2560x1440pHigh at 1440p, High at 1440pHigh, 1440p. High at 1440pHigh 1440p, High at 1440p. The best settings at 1440p, 1440p is High at 1440pHigh 1440p, High 1440p, 1440p High 1440p, High 1440p, High 1440p, High 1440p, High at 1440p. The best settings per resolution is 1440pHigh.

For 3840x2160 resolution, the most demanding preset at or above 60 FPS is Low, with an average of 69.3 FPS at 4K at 3840x2160pLow at 3840x2160pLow 4K, 4KLow, 4K, Low 4K, 4KLow 4K, Low 4K, 4KLow 4KLow, 4K, 4KLow 4K, Low at 4K, 4KLow 4K, Low 4K Low 4K, Low 4K, 4K Low 4K. The best settings at 4K, 4K Low 4K, 4K Low 4K, 4K Low 4K. The best settings per resolution is 4K Low.

The best settings per resolution are summarized as follows: 1080p Ultra at 68 FPS, 1440p High at 73.2 FPS, and 4K Low at 69.3 FPS. Each preset is the highest quality setting that still maintains at least 60 FPS on average, per the measured data. The database also indicates that the 1440p High preset is the best settings at 1440p, and 4K Low is the best settings at 4K, and 1080p Ultra at 1080p, 1080p Ultra at 1080p at 1080p at 1080p at 1080p.