Dave The Diver

# Dave The Diver — AMD Ryzen 5 3600 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

The combination of AMD's Ryzen 5 3600 and NVIDIA's RTX 5070 produces a remarkably strong showing in Dave The Diver, with measured frame rates that stay well above 100 FPS even at 4K Ultra. The data reveals a system that scales predictably across resolutions and settings, but the shape of that scaling curve raises interesting questions about where the bottleneck truly lies in this particular adventure title.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data shows a clear, consistent pattern of performance degradation as resolution increases from 1080p to 4K. At 1080p Ultra, the combo delivers 228.1 FPS; stepping up to 1440p Ultra drops that to 170.6 FPS, a 25.2% reduction. Moving further to 4K Ultra yields 115.9 FPS, which is 49.2% below the 1080p figure. This scaling behavior is classic GPU-bound territory — the RTX 5070's rendering workload grows with pixel count, and the frame rate responds accordingly.

However, the low settings preset tells a different story. At 1080p Low, the system hits 271 FPS, but at 1440p Low it only falls to 248.8 FPS — a mere 8.2% drop. Even at 4K Low, the average remains at 173 FPS, which is still 36.2% below 1080p but a much shallower decline than what Ultra settings show. This suggests that at lower settings, the CPU begins to assert more influence, particularly at 1080p where the RTX 5070 has ample headroom. The Ryzen 5 3600's six cores and twelve threads, running at a base clock of 3.60 GHz and boost of 4.20 GHz, appear capable of feeding the GPU well enough, but the diminishing returns between 1080p and 1440p Low hint that the processor's single-thread performance is becoming a limiting factor.

The gap between Medium and High settings is consistent across all resolutions. At 4K, Medium produces 143.9 FPS versus 131 FPS for High — a 9.8% difference. At 1440p, the same comparison shows 214.4 versus 195.6 FPS, an 8.8% gap. The Ultra preset exacts the heaviest toll, costing roughly 11-12% performance over High at every resolution. This uniform penalty suggests that Ultra's additional effects are purely GPU-side, with no measurable CPU involvement.

FAQ

Q: What is the highest average FPS this combo achieves in Dave The Diver?

A: The maximum measured average is 271 FPS, achieved at 1920x1080 with Low settings.

Q: Does this combo maintain playable frame rates at 4K Ultra?

A: Yes, the system produces 115.9 FPS at 3840x2160 Ultra, which is well above standard 60 FPS display refresh rates.

Q: How much performance is lost when moving from 1080p to 4K at High settings?

A: At High settings, the average FPS drops from 244.5 at 1920x1080 to 131 at 3840x2160, a 46.4% reduction.

Q: Which settings preset offers the smallest performance penalty?

A: The difference between Medium and High is relatively modest — at 1440p, Medium yields 214.4 FPS versus 195.6 FPS for High, a difference of 18.8 FPS.

Q: Is the RTX 5070's 12 GB VRAM sufficient for this game at maximum settings?

A: The data shows no VRAM-related issues, as Ultra settings at 4K still deliver 115.9 FPS, indicating the 12 GB GDDR7 memory configuration is adequate for Dave The Diver.

Q: How does this combo rank among all tested combinations in this game?

A: It ranks 356th out of 1,626 tested combos, placing it in the top 21.9% of all configurations.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo's rank of 356 out of 1,626 tested configurations places it comfortably in the upper quartile of all systems benchmarked in Dave The Diver. This positioning is notable because the Ryzen 5 3600 is a 2019 processor, while the RTX 5070 is a 2025 GPU — the pairing represents a significant generational gap. The CPU's percentile versus all processors is 76, meaning it outperforms roughly three-quarters of all CPUs in general benchmarks. The GPU's percentile is 83, placing it above a similar proportion of graphics cards.

The rankings suggest that Dave The Diver is not an exceptionally demanding title, allowing this mid-generation CPU to keep pace with much newer processors. The Ryzen 5 3600's nearest rival, the Intel Core i5-11400, scores 18,150 versus the Ryzen's 18,129 in average benchmark score — a delta of only -0.1%. This near-parity means the CPU is unlikely to be a differentiator in this game. Similarly, the RTX 5070's average benchmark score of 41,687 is within 0.6% of the GeForce RTX 3090's 41,441, indicating that the 5070 delivers comparable rasterization performance to a previous flagship. The combination of a 76th-percentile CPU with an 83rd-percentile GPU yields a top-quartile result, which aligns with expectations for a system where the GPU carries most of the rendering load.

Settings Recommendations

For players seeking the optimal balance between visual fidelity and frame rate, the High preset at 1440p represents the sweet spot. The measured 195.6 FPS at 2560x1440 High is nearly double the 4K Ultra result while maintaining substantial graphical quality. Pushing to Ultra at 1440p costs 25 FPS (170.6 versus 195.6) for what the data indicates is a marginal visual upgrade — the 12.8% performance penalty may not justify the additional effects.

At 4K, the Medium preset at 143.9 FPS offers a more compelling case than High at 131 FPS. The 9.8% frame rate advantage of Medium over High at this resolution makes it the better choice for 4K displays, especially since the visual difference between these two presets is typically less pronounced at higher pixel densities. For maximum fidelity, Ultra at 1080p delivers 228.1 FPS, which exceeds the refresh rate of most monitors, making it a viable option for competitive play. The Low preset at any resolution provides diminishing returns — even at 4K, Low only reaches 173 FPS versus 143.9 FPS for Medium, a 20.2% gain that comes with significant visual compromises.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system delivers its highest frame rates across all settings. Ultra produces 228.1 FPS, High reaches 244.5 FPS, Medium hits 252.8 FPS, and Low tops out at 271 FPS. The spread between Ultra and Low is 42.9 FPS, or 15.8% of the Low figure. This relatively narrow range suggests that at 1080p, the CPU is beginning to constrain the GPU — the RTX 5070 could likely render more frames if the Ryzen 5 3600 could feed it faster.

Moving to 2560x1440, the averages fall to 170.6 FPS at Ultra, 195.6 FPS at High, 214.4 FPS at Medium, and 248.8 FPS at Low. The gap between Ultra and Low widens to 78.2 FPS, indicating that the GPU is becoming more dominant in determining performance. At 3840x2160, the figures compress further: Ultra averages 115.9 FPS, High 131 FPS, Medium 143.9 FPS, and Low 173 FPS. The Ultra-to-Low spread at 4K is 57.1 FPS, but the relative performance difference between presets shrinks as resolution increases, confirming that pixel throughput is the primary constraint at this resolution.

CPU Role

The Ryzen 5 3600's six cores and twelve threads represent a Zen 2 architecture design running on the AMD Socket AM4 platform. With a base clock of 3.60 GHz and a boost clock of 4.20 GHz, this processor delivers single-thread performance that scores 2,124 in Cinebench R23, while multi-thread performance reaches 15,045 in the same test. These figures place it in the 76th percentile of all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 18,129.

In Dave The Diver, the CPU's role appears most significant at 1080p with Low settings, where the 271 FPS result likely approaches the processor's practical limit for this game. The relatively small performance delta between Medium and High at 1080p (252.8 versus 244.5 FPS, a 3.3% difference) further suggests that the CPU is handling game logic and draw calls without becoming a bottleneck. However, the fact that 1080p Low only achieves 271 FPS — not higher — indicates that the Ryzen 5 3600's single-thread capabilities, reflected in its 3DMark single-thread score of 696, may cap frame rates in lighter rendering scenarios. The processor's 32 MB of shared L3 cache and dual-channel DDR4 memory support with 51.2 GB/s bandwidth provide adequate data throughput for this adventure title, which does not appear to heavily stress multi-threaded workloads.

GPU Role

The RTX 5070 brings Blackwell 2.0 architecture on a 5 nm process to this pairing, with 6,144 shading units and 192 tensor cores. Its base clock of 2325 MHz boosts to 2512 MHz, and the 12 GB of GDDR7 memory runs at 1750 MHz with a 192-bit bus, yielding 672.0 GB/s of bandwidth. In 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, the GPU scores 5,077, and its Passmark G3D score of 29,137 places it in the 83rd percentile of all GPUs.

The GPU's performance in Dave The Diver is the defining factor at higher resolutions. The consistent scaling from 1080p to 4K across all settings demonstrates that the RTX 5070's 30.87 TFLOPS of FP32 compute power is fully utilized as pixel count increases. The 4K Ultra result of 115.9 FPS indicates that even the most demanding preset in this game does not approach the GPU's limits — the 12 GB VRAM capacity and 672.0 GB/s bandwidth are sufficient for the game's textures and effects. The GPU's 80 ROPs and 192 TMUs handle the fill-rate and texture-mapping demands efficiently, as evidenced by the smooth performance scaling. Notably, the 5070's benchmark scores place it just 0.6% ahead of the RTX 3090, suggesting that players upgrading from that previous-generation flagship would see near-identical performance in this title.