Dave The Diver

The Intel Core i7-14700K paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER delivers an exceptionally high-performance experience in Dave The Diver, with benchmark results indicating that the Ultra preset remains highly playable across all tested resolutions. While the measured average frame rates at Ultra settings—133.1 FPS at 3840x2160, 201.2 FPS at 2560x1440, and 268.7 FPS at 1920x1080—all exceed the threshold for smooth gameplay, the data suggests that the High preset offers the most balanced experience. At High settings, the system achieves 154.5 FPS at 4K, 229.5 FPS at 1440p, and 303.9 FPS at 1080p, representing a performance uplift of approximately 16% at 4K and 14% at 1440p over Ultra while maintaining visual fidelity that is difficult to distinguish in this adventure title. For users with high-refresh-rate displays, the Medium preset provides even greater headroom, with 172.1 FPS at 4K and 257.7 FPS at 1440p, though the jump from High to Medium yields diminishing returns in frame rate relative to the visual quality trade-off.

Settings Recommendations

The measured frame rate data indicates that the High preset is the optimal configuration for this combination of hardware in Dave The Diver. At 1920x1080, the High preset produces an average of 303.9 FPS, which is more than sufficient for even the fastest gaming monitors, while the Ultra preset drops to 268.7 FPS—a difference of roughly 13% that may not be perceptible in a game of this genre. The gap widens at higher resolutions; at 3840x2160, the difference between High (154.5 FPS) and Ultra (133.1 FPS) becomes more significant at approximately 16%, and the High preset still maintains a comfortable margin above the 144 FPS threshold commonly targeted by 4K display owners. The data suggests that the Ultra preset's additional graphical demands do not translate into a proportionally better gameplay experience, making High the recommended choice for maintaining consistently high frame rates without sacrificing meaningful visual quality. The Low preset, while achieving 402.8 FPS at 1080p and 207 FPS at 4K, represents an unnecessary reduction in visual fidelity given that the High preset already delivers excellent performance across all tested resolutions.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, with its 16 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit bus providing 736.3 GB/s of bandwidth, plays a central role in the frame rates observed in Dave The Diver. The GPU's memory configuration is particularly relevant at 3840x2160, where the higher resolution demands more memory bandwidth; the data shows that the system maintains 133.1 FPS at Ultra settings at 4K, indicating that the 16 GB capacity is not a limiting factor in this title. The GPU's boost clock of 2550 MHz, combined with its 10240 shading units, contributes to the substantial performance headroom observed at lower resolutions. The RTX 4080 SUPER's nearest rival, the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, has an average benchmark score that is 0.2% higher, yet the measured results in this game demonstrate the NVIDIA card's capability to drive frame rates well beyond typical display refresh rates. The data indicates that the GPU is not the bottleneck in this configuration; even at the most demanding Ultra preset at 4K, the average frame rate of 133.1 FPS suggests the graphics card has additional capacity to spare.

How This Combo Ranks

Among the 1626 tested combinations in this database, the Intel Core i7-14700K and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER combination ranks 94th in Dave The Diver, placing it in the top 6% of all tested hardware pairings. This ranking is consistent with the individual performance of both components; the CPU holds the 96th percentile among all tested processors, while the GPU sits in the 88th percentile among all tested graphics cards. The measured frame rates reflect this high-tier positioning, with the system delivering over 200 FPS at 1440p on the High preset and over 300 FPS at 1080p on the same settings. The CPU's benchmark scores, including a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 44534 and a single-core score of 6287, indicate that the i7-14700K is well-matched to the GPU's capabilities, with neither component significantly limiting the other in this particular game. The combination's rank of 94 out of 1626 suggests that while there are a handful of more powerful pairings, this configuration delivers near-top-tier performance that will satisfy demanding users.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured frame rate data provides a comprehensive picture of performance across all combinations of resolution and settings. At 1920x1080, the system achieves 402.8 FPS on Low settings, 341.3 FPS on Medium, 303.9 FPS on High, and 268.7 FPS on Ultra. At 2560x1440, the results are 307.3 FPS on Low, 257.7 FPS on Medium, 229.5 FPS on High, and 201.2 FPS on Ultra. At 3840x2160, the system produces 207 FPS on Low, 172.1 FPS on Medium, 154.5 FPS on High, and 133.1 FPS on Ultra. The pattern across all resolutions shows a consistent reduction in frame rate as settings increase from Low to Ultra, with the largest single-step drop occurring between Low and Medium at 4K, where the frame rate falls from 207 FPS to 172.1 FPS—a decrease of approximately 17%. The smallest relative drop is observed between High and Ultra at 1080p, where the frame rate declines from 303.9 FPS to 268.7 FPS, representing a reduction of roughly 12%. These numbers indicate that the scaling between presets is relatively consistent, with each step up in quality costing approximately 10-17% of performance depending on resolution.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate data reveals how the system's performance scales as resolution increases from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160. At High settings, the average frame rate drops from 303.9 FPS at 1080p to 229.5 FPS at 1440p, a reduction of 74.4 FPS or approximately 24%, and then to 154.5 FPS at 4K, a further reduction of 75 FPS or approximately 33%. At Ultra settings, the scaling is similar: 268.7 FPS at 1080p, 201.2 FPS at 1440p (a 25% drop), and 133.1 FPS at 4K (a 34% drop from 1440p). The scaling pattern indicates that the performance penalty for moving from 1080p to 1440p is nearly identical to the penalty for moving from 1440p to 4K, both being roughly 25-34% depending on the preset. This consistent scaling behavior suggests that the workload is primarily GPU-bound at higher resolutions, as the pixel count increases by a factor of 2.25 from 1080p to 1440p and by another factor of 2.25 from 1440p to 4K, yet the frame rate does not halve accordingly. The fact that the frame rate at 4K (133.1 FPS on Ultra) is still nearly half of the 1080p frame rate (268.7 FPS on Ultra) indicates that the CPU, with its 20 cores and 28 threads and boost clock of 5.60 GHz, is providing sufficient processing power to keep the GPU well-fed even at lower resolutions. The diminishing returns in frame rate as resolution increases point to the GPU becoming the primary limiting component at 4K, though the RTX 4080 SUPER's performance at this resolution remains exceptionally high for this game.