Dave The Diver

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The measured data for Dave The Diver with the Intel Core i5-13400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER shows a clear hierarchy across the three preset levels tested. At 1920x1080, the Low preset delivers an average of 215.8 FPS, Medium reaches 177.6 FPS, High produces 160.3 FPS, and Ultra drops to 140.9 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra at 1080p is 74.9 FPS, which is substantial but still leaves even the most demanding preset well above the refresh-rate ceiling of typical high-refresh monitors.

Moving to 2560x1440, the ordering remains consistent: Low averages 163.8 FPS, Medium 133.7 FPS, High 121.3 FPS, and Ultra 108 FPS. At this resolution, Ultra still clears the 100 FPS threshold, which is noteworthy for a game that appears to scale gracefully with GPU load. The 3840x2160 results tell a different story: Low produces 107.2 FPS, Medium 93.4 FPS, High 78.4 FPS, and Ultra 71.9 FPS. The drop from Low to Ultra at 4K is 35.3 FPS, and the margin between High and Ultra narrows to just 6.5 FPS.

The data suggests the High preset offers the most balanced experience across all three resolutions. At 1080p, High delivers 160.3 FPS, which is only 19.4% below Low but 13.8% above Ultra. At 1440p, High's 121.3 FPS represents a 12% reduction from Low while staying 12.3% ahead of Ultra. At 4K, High's 78.4 FPS is 6.5 FPS above Ultra and 28.8 FPS below Low, but the visual quality improvement from Low to High is typically more perceptible than the raw FPS difference suggests. For users prioritizing maximum smoothness, Low at 4K provides 107.2 FPS, but the visual compromise is significant. Medium serves as a middle ground, but the incremental gain over High is modest—at 1440p, Medium is only 12.4 FPS ahead of High, while at 4K the difference shrinks to 15 FPS. The optimal recommendation is High: it maintains playable frame rates at every resolution while retaining visual fidelity.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER is built on the Turing architecture with a TU104 chip manufactured on a 12 nm process. It carries 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s. The GPU's base clock is 1605 MHz with a boost clock of 1770 MHz, and memory runs at 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective). The card has 2560 shading units, 160 texture mapping units, 64 ROPs, 40 RT cores, and 320 tensor cores. Its pixel rate is 113.3 GPixel/s, texture rate is 283.2 GTexel/s, and FP32 throughput is 9.062 TFLOPS.

In Dave The Diver, the GPU's role becomes increasingly dominant as resolution scales. At 1080p, the RTX 2070 SUPER produces frame rates between 140.9 FPS (Ultra) and 215.8 FPS (Low), indicating that the card is not fully saturated at this resolution—the CPU likely contributes to the ceiling. At 1440p, the range shifts to 108–163.8 FPS, and at 4K it drops to 71.9–107.2 FPS. The 8 GB VRAM capacity is sufficient for this title; the measured data shows no anomalous dips that would suggest memory pressure, even at Ultra settings on 4K. The GPU's percentile rank among all tested GPUs is 65, placing it in the upper-middle tier. Its average benchmark score is 22206, and its nearest rival is the NVIDIA RTX A400 (22307, deltaPct -0.5), which is essentially a statistical tie. The GTX TITAN Z trails at 22006 (deltaPct 0.9), while the RTX 4060 Mobile leads by 2.3% (22729) and the RX 5700 sits 2.5% behind (21670). This context suggests the RTX 2070 SUPER is a capable mid-range card for this game, with the 4K Ultra result of 71.9 FPS being the only scenario that approaches the lower boundary of smooth gameplay.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS progression from 1080p to 4K reveals how the workload shifts between CPU and GPU. At High settings, the frame rate drops from 160.3 FPS at 1080p to 121.3 FPS at 1440p (a 24.3% reduction), then to 78.4 FPS at 4K (a 35.4% further reduction). This pattern—a moderate drop at 1440p followed by a steeper decline at 4K—indicates that the GPU becomes the primary limiting factor as pixel count increases. At Low settings, the same trend appears: 215.8 FPS at 1080p falls to 163.8 FPS at 1440p (24.1% reduction) and then to 107.2 FPS at 4K (34.6% reduction). The relative consistency of these percentage drops across presets suggests that the game's rendering pipeline scales predictably with resolution, and the RTX 2070 SUPER's bandwidth and compute capabilities are the binding constraints at higher resolutions.

The total scaling from 1080p Low to 4K Low is a 50.3% reduction in FPS, while from 1080p Ultra to 4K Ultra the reduction is 49.0%. This near-identical scaling ratio implies that the CPU's contribution to the frame rate is roughly constant across settings, and the GPU's workload scales uniformly with pixel count. At 1080p, the gap between Low (215.8 FPS) and Ultra (140.9 FPS) is 74.9 FPS; at 4K, the gap narrows to 35.3 FPS. This compression indicates that at 4K, the GPU is already near its throughput limit, so changing settings has less absolute impact. The data strongly suggests that at 1080p, the i5-13400F can feed the GPU adequately, but as resolution rises, the RTX 2070 SUPER's raw pixel-pushing ability becomes the sole bottleneck.

How This Combo Ranks

This specific combination of Intel Core i5-13400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER ranks 999 out of 1626 tested combos in Dave The Diver. The percentile placement is roughly the 38.6th percentile, meaning 627 combos performed worse and 999 performed better. This mid-pack ranking is consistent with the component choices: the i5-13400F is a solid mid-range CPU (82nd percentile among all CPUs), and the RTX 2070 SUPER is a mid-to-upper-tier GPU (65th percentile among all GPUs). The combination places the system in the upper-middle segment of the database, but not in the top tier.

The CPU's average benchmark score of 25236 places it just above the Intel Core i7-13620H (25201, deltaPct 0.1) and below the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D (25365, deltaPct -0.5). The AMD EPYC 9474F (25103, deltaPct 0.5) and AMD Ryzen AI 5 PRO 340 (25099, deltaPct 0.5) are also within 0.5% of the i5-13400F's score, indicating that this CPU is effectively tied with its nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks. On the GPU side, the RTX 2070 SUPER's average score of 22206 is nearly identical to the NVIDIA RTX A400 (22307, deltaPct -0.5) and GTX TITAN Z (22006, deltaPct 0.9). The ranking in Dave The Diver is lower than what these component percentiles alone might suggest, implying that the game's specific workload favors other configurations. The 999th rank out of 1626 combos means that while this system is capable of high frame rates, many other tested builds deliver better performance in this title, likely due to newer GPU architectures with higher memory bandwidth or more efficient rasterization.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-13400F is a 10-core, 16-thread processor based on the Raptor Lake architecture, manufactured on a 10 nm process. It has a base clock of 2.50 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz, with a 65 W TDP. The cache hierarchy consists of 80 KB L1 per core, 1.25 MB L2 per core, and 20 MB shared L3. It supports DDR4 and DDR5 memory in dual-channel mode, and its PCIe interface is Gen 5 with 16 lanes (CPU only). The CPU's launch MSRP is $196, and its 3DMark scores show a single-thread result of 960, a 4-thread score of 3459, an 8-thread score of 5591, and a 16-thread score of 7314. Cinebench R23 results are 3004 for single-core and 21279 for multi-core, while Geekbench scores are 2301 (single) and 10971 (multi). Passmark multithread score is 25032, and single-thread is 3634.

In Dave The Diver, the CPU's role is most evident at lower resolutions. At 1080p Low, the system produces 215.8 FPS, which is a high enough frame rate that the CPU's single-thread performance could become a limiting factor if the game has any serialized game-logic threads. The i5-13400F's single-thread score of 960 in 3DMark and 3004 in Cinebench R23 indicate strong per-core performance, and the boost clock of 4.60 GHz provides the frequency headroom needed for frame-rate-critical tasks. The 10-core, 16-thread configuration ensures that background threads (physics, audio, AI) do not contend with the main render thread. However, the data shows that at 4K, the FPS drops to 71.9–107.2 FPS depending on settings, which is far below the CPU's potential throughput. The CPU's percentile rank of 82 places it above 82% of all tested CPUs, and its nearest rival, the Intel Core i7-13620H, is within 0.1% of its average score. This suggests the i5-13400F is not the bottleneck in this game; rather, the RTX 2070 SUPER's compute and memory bandwidth are the deciding factors at higher resolutions. The measured FPS at 1080p Ultra (140.9 FPS) versus 1080p Low (215.8 FPS) shows a 74.9 FPS spread, which is primarily a GPU-side effect of increased shading and texture work, not a CPU limitation.