Dave The Diver

# Dave The Diver with AMD Ryzen 7 7700 + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 delivers strong performance in Dave The Diver, a game that proves far less demanding at higher resolutions than typical AAA titles. The measured data shows this combo achieving 92.7 FPS at 4K High settings, rising to 183.7 FPS at 1080p High, indicating a system that scales well across the resolution spectrum while maintaining playability even at the most demanding settings. The benchmark results reveal a configuration where the GPU becomes progressively more influential as resolution increases, though the CPU's 8-core/16-thread design ensures it never becomes a bottleneck in this adventure title.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS progression from 1080p to 4K shows a predictable decline, but the magnitude of that decline reveals important characteristics about this game's engine and the hardware driving it. At High settings, the average frame rate drops from 183.7 FPS at 1920x1080 to 135.6 FPS at 2560x1440, a reduction of approximately 26%. Pushing further to 3840x2160 yields 92.7 FPS, which is roughly 32% lower than the 1440p result and 50% lower than the 1080p baseline. This scaling pattern suggests that Dave The Diver is not exceptionally GPU-bound at lower resolutions, as the frame rates remain high enough that CPU limitations could be masking some of the GPU's potential headroom.

Examining the Low settings tier provides additional insight into the scaling behavior. At 1080p Low, the system produces 242.5 FPS, while 1440p Low reaches 183.2 FPS and 4K Low manages 126.1 FPS. The percentage deltas between successive resolution steps are remarkably consistent across settings tiers, indicating that the game's rendering pipeline scales linearly with pixel count rather than exhibiting sudden bottlenecks. However, the gap between High and Low settings at 4K (92.7 vs 126.1 FPS, a 36% difference) is proportionally larger than the same comparison at 1080p (183.7 vs 242.5 FPS, a 32% difference), suggesting that the GPU's shading units and memory bandwidth become more critical as pixel throughput increases.

The Ultra settings tier shows the most pronounced resolution sensitivity, with 4K Ultra dropping to 78.4 FPS compared to 120.8 FPS at 1440p and 161.4 FPS at 1080p. This represents a 51% reduction from 1080p to 4K at Ultra, versus a 48% reduction at Low settings. The data indicates that the RTX 5060's 8 GB GDDR7 memory and 448.0 GB/s bandwidth are adequate for this title even at maximum settings, but the 128-bit bus width and 48 ROPs begin to show their limits at 4K Ultra. The overall scaling profile points to a game that is moderately GPU-limited at 4K, but at 1080p and 1440p, the combination of the Ryzen 7 7700's strong single-thread performance and the RTX 5060's modern architecture keeps frame rates well above competitive thresholds.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 plays the dominant role in determining Dave The Diver's performance envelope, particularly at higher resolutions where pixel throughput becomes the primary constraint. The GPU's 3840 shading units, operating at a boost clock of 2497 MHz, deliver 19.18 TFLOPS of FP32 compute, which proves sufficient for this adventure title's relatively modest visual demands. The 8 GB GDDR7 memory, running at 28 Gbps effective across a 128-bit bus, provides 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth — a figure that appears well-matched to the game's texture and geometry requirements based on the measured frame rates.

The GPU's benchmark standing places it in the 73rd percentile of all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 30109. Its nearest rival, the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT, scores 30097 (a 0% delta), indicating that the RTX 5060 sits in a tightly contested performance tier. Interestingly, the AMD Radeon RX 570 achieves a slightly higher average score of 30158 (-0.2% delta relative to the RTX 5060), suggesting that synthetic benchmarks may not fully capture the architectural advantages of the Blackwell 2.0 design in real-world gaming scenarios. The RTX 5060's 30 RT cores and 120 tensor cores provide features that Dave The Diver may not heavily utilize, but the raw rasterization performance from its 120 TMUs and 48 ROPs delivers the observed 119.9 GPixel/s pixel rate.

At 4K Ultra, the GPU's limits become apparent with 78.4 FPS, yet this remains comfortably playable. The fact that 4K Low achieves 126.1 FPS indicates that the GPU has considerable headroom when visual effects are reduced, and the 48% frame rate uplift from Ultra to Low at 4K demonstrates that shading complexity, not memory capacity, is the limiting factor. The GPU's 5 nm TSMC process node and 21,900 million transistors fit within a 181 mm² die, and the 145 W TDP with a 300 W suggested PSU indicates this is a power-efficient solution that does not require exotic cooling or power delivery.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 7 7700 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 achieves a combo rank of 819 out of 1626 tested combinations in Dave The Diver, placing it in the 50th percentile of all tested systems. This mid-pack ranking might seem surprising given the strong individual component performance, but it reflects the fact that Dave The Diver is not an exceptionally demanding title, allowing many older or lower-tier CPUs paired with high-end GPUs to achieve similar frame rates. The ranking indicates that while this combo delivers excellent absolute performance (92.7 FPS at 4K High), the game's modest requirements compress the performance spread across different hardware configurations.

The CPU's individual standing helps contextualize the combo rank. The Ryzen 7 7700 sits in the 91st percentile of all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 40468. Its nearest rivals include the AMD Ryzen 9 7940H (40431, +0.1% delta), the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 (40262, +0.5%), and the Intel Core i9-13905H (40712, -0.6%), showing that the 7700 is competitively positioned within a tight performance cluster. The GPU's 73rd percentile standing is lower, but its average benchmark score of 30109 puts it in a similarly tight grouping with the RX 7700 XT and RTX 5070 Mobile.

The 819th rank out of 1626 combos suggests that the RTX 5060's GPU performance, while solid, is not exceptional enough to push this pairing significantly higher in the rankings for this particular game. The data implies that in Dave The Diver, many combinations with slower CPUs but faster GPUs would outperform this setup, while combinations with similar GPUs but faster CPUs would also rank higher. The ranking reflects a balanced but not optimized pairing for this specific title's workload profile.

FAQ

Q: What frame rate can this system achieve at 1080p High settings in Dave The Diver?

A: The measured average frame rate at 1920x1080 with High settings is 183.7 FPS, which is well above the 1440p High result of 135.6 FPS and the 4K High result of 92.7 FPS.

Q: How does the RTX 5060 compare to its nearest GPU rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The RTX 5060 has an average benchmark score of 30109. The AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT scores 30097 (0% delta), the AMD Radeon RX 570 scores 30158 (-0.2%), and the NVIDIA Tesla M60 scores 29969 (+0.5%).

Q: Is the Ryzen 7 7700's performance competitive with other CPUs in its class?

A: Yes, with an average benchmark score of 40468, it is 0.1% ahead of the AMD Ryzen 9 7940H (40431), 0.5% ahead of the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 (40262), and 0.6% behind the Intel Core i9-13905H (40712).

Q: What is the maximum frame rate observed across all tested settings and resolutions?

A: The highest measured average frame rate is 242.5 FPS, achieved at 1920x1080 with Low settings. The lowest is 78.4 FPS at 3840x2160 with Ultra settings.

Q: How does the performance gap between High and Ultra settings change from 1080p to 4K?

A: At 1080p, Ultra delivers 161.4 FPS versus 183.7 FPS on High, a 12% reduction. At 4K, Ultra delivers 78.4 FPS versus 92.7 FPS on High, a 15% reduction, showing slightly larger performance impact at higher resolution.

Q: Where does this CPU+GPU combination rank among all tested combos in Dave The Diver?

A: It ranks 819th out of 1626 tested combinations, placing it just above the median of all tested systems for this game.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 provides substantial computational headroom for Dave The Diver, though the game's relatively lightweight CPU demands mean that its full potential is not always exercised. The processor features 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Zen 4 architecture, with a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 5.30 GHz. This configuration delivers strong single-threaded performance, evidenced by a 3DMark single-thread score of 1049 and a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 4136, which helps maintain high frame rates at lower resolutions where the CPU must feed frames to the GPU quickly.

The CPU's multi-threaded capabilities are robust, with a Cinebench R23 multicore score of 29302 and a 3DMark max-threads score of 8479. The 32 MB of shared L3 cache provides ample capacity for game data, and the 83.2 GB/s memory bandwidth from dual-channel DDR5 support ensures that the 8 cores have sufficient data throughput. The PassMark multithread score of 34470 and floating-point math score of 66246 indicate that the CPU can handle physics calculations and game logic without presenting a bottleneck, even at the highest frame rates observed.

The 65 W TDP and 5 nm process node from TSMC, with 6,570 million transistors on a 71 mm² die, make this an efficient processor that maintains high clock speeds without excessive power draw. The 91st percentile ranking among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 40468, places it among the top tier of processors, and its nearest rivals include mobile and desktop parts with similar performance envelopes. In Dave The Diver specifically, the CPU's role is to ensure that frame times remain consistent, and the measured results — such as 242.5 FPS at 1080p Low — demonstrate that the 7700 can sustain very high frame rates without becoming the limiting factor. The combination of strong single-thread performance and ample multi-thread capacity makes this CPU well-suited to maintaining the high average frame rates observed across all resolution and settings combinations.