Downfall

The AMD Ryzen 5 2600 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 delivers a highly playable experience in Downfall, though the data reveals a clear performance ceiling defined by the CPU. At 1080p, the combo achieves a 152.2 FPS average on High settings, which is well above the threshold for smooth gameplay. The sweet spot for this pairing is the Medium preset across all resolutions, where the balance between visual fidelity and frame rate is most consistent. While the Ultra preset is technically playable at 1080p with a 96.5 FPS average, the steep performance cost at higher resolutions makes it impractical; at 4K Ultra, the average drops to 39.9 FPS, which is below the standard for fluid motion. For the best experience, Medium at 1440p (132.9 FPS) or High at 1080p (152.2 FPS) provides the most headroom, while Low settings are only necessary for pushing frame rates past 200 FPS at 1080p.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data shows a clear hierarchy in Downfall's presets. The Low preset at 1080p delivers a 228.9 FPS average, which is excellent for high-refresh-rate displays, but the visual compromise is substantial. The Medium preset at 1080p yields 187.3 FPS, representing a 18% reduction in performance compared to Low, while offering a noticeable improvement in image quality. For most users, the High preset at 1080p (152.2 FPS) or 1440p (108.6 FPS) is the best balance, as it maintains frame rates above 100 FPS without the extreme performance penalties of Ultra. The Ultra preset is the outlier: at 1080p it produces 96.5 FPS, but at 1440p it drops to 68 FPS, and at 4K it collapses to 39.9 FPS. This indicates that Ultra is only viable at 1080p for this combo, and even then, the 36% performance hit compared to High is hard to justify given the diminishing visual returns. The data suggests that High is the recommended preset for a consistent experience, with Medium as a fallback for those prioritizing higher frame rates.

GPU Role

The RTX 4060's 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus provides 272.0 GB/s of bandwidth, which is sufficient for Downfall's demands at most settings. The GPU's 1830 MHz base clock and 2460 MHz boost clock, paired with its 3072 shading units, drive the rendering workload. The benchmark data shows that the GPU is the primary bottleneck at 4K, where the 68.6 FPS average on High settings is still respectable, but the Ultra preset's 39.9 FPS average reveals the memory bandwidth strain. At 1080p, the GPU has ample headroom, as evidenced by the 228.9 FPS Low preset result, but the CPU begins to limit performance in lower resolutions. The RTX 4060's FP32 throughput of 15.11 TFLOPS is adequate for this horror title, and the 24 RT cores provide hardware support for any ray-traced effects, though the measured data does not include RT-specific settings. The GPU's 66th percentile ranking among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 23181, places it slightly below the AMD Radeon RX 6600M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti in raw compute, but its modern architecture handles Downfall efficiently.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 2600, with its 6 cores and 12 threads, presents a significant constraint in this pairing. Its base clock of 3.40 GHz and boost clock of 3.90 GHz are modest by modern standards, and its 16 MB of shared L3 cache is adequate but not generous. The CPU's benchmark scores—particularly the Cinebench R23 multi-core result of 11186 and single-core of 1579—indicate that it trails contemporary processors. The data shows this limitation clearly: at 1080p Low, the FPS average of 228.9 is likely capped by the CPU's single-thread performance, as the GPU could theoretically push higher frame rates. The 77th percentile ranking among all CPUs places it below the Intel Core i5-11600KF, which has an average score of 19740 compared to the Ryzen's 19616. In Downfall, the CPU's influence is most pronounced at 1080p, where the gap between Low (228.9 FPS) and High (152.2 FPS) is 33%, but the gap between High and Ultra (96.5 FPS) is 37%, suggesting the GPU becomes more involved as settings increase. For a 6-core, 12-thread processor from 2018, the Ryzen 5 2600 handles the game's physics and AI calculations adequately, but it prevents the RTX 4060 from reaching its full potential at lower resolutions.

How This Combo Ranks

This specific combination of the AMD Ryzen 5 2600 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 ranks 958th out of 1741 tested combos in Downfall. This places it in the 55th percentile of all combinations, indicating that it is a mid-tier performer. The ranking reflects the imbalance between the CPU and GPU: the RTX 4060 is a capable modern card, but the Ryzen 5 2600 is a previous-generation budget processor. In the context of the benchmark database, this combo sits below configurations pairing the RTX 4060 with newer CPUs, which would likely score higher due to reduced CPU bottlenecks. The data shows that the combo's performance is respectable for 1080p and 1440p gaming, but it does not excel in any specific area. The 958th rank suggests that there are 957 other combinations that achieve better overall frame rates in this game, most of which likely feature more balanced CPU-GPU pairings. For a user with this specific hardware, the ranking indicates that upgrading the CPU would yield a more substantial performance improvement than upgrading the GPU, particularly at 1080p where the CPU bottleneck is most evident.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals the shifting bottleneck between CPU and GPU. At High settings, the average frame rate drops from 152.2 FPS at 1080p to 108.6 FPS at 1440p (a 29% decrease), and then to 68.6 FPS at 4K (a 37% decrease from 1440p). This pattern indicates that the GPU becomes the limiting factor as resolution increases. At Low settings, the drop is more dramatic: from 228.9 FPS at 1080p to 161.4 FPS at 1440p (a 30% decrease), but only to 103.1 FPS at 4K (a 36% decrease from 1440p). The 4K Low result of 103.1 FPS is notably higher than the 4K High result of 68.6 FPS, showing that the GPU's workload scales significantly with settings. The Ultra preset tells a different story: at 1080p, the 96.5 FPS average is already lower than High's 152.2 FPS, and at 4K, the 39.9 FPS result represents a 59% drop from 1080p Ultra. This steep decline suggests that Ultra settings place an excessive load on the GPU's 8 GB memory buffer, causing performance to suffer disproportionately at high resolutions. The data indicates that the CPU is the limiting factor at 1080p, where the frame rates plateau regardless of settings (228.9 FPS Low vs. 96.5 FPS Ultra), while the GPU takes over as the bottleneck at 4K, where even Low settings cannot maintain 120 FPS.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its highest frame rates. The Low preset achieves a 228.9 FPS average, which is the maximum measured in this dataset. Medium produces 187.3 FPS, High yields 152.2 FPS, and Ultra drops to 96.5 FPS. The scaling from Low to Ultra represents a 58% reduction in performance, demonstrating the significant cost of the highest preset.

At 2560x1440, the frame rates remain strong. Low averages 161.4 FPS, Medium 132.9 FPS, High 108.6 FPS, and Ultra 68 FPS. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is consistent across settings, with an average decrease of 31%, indicating that the GPU is beginning to feel the resolution increase.

At 3840x2160, the performance becomes more variable. Low averages 103.1 FPS, Medium 82.3 FPS, High 68.6 FPS, and Ultra 39.9 FPS. The Ultra preset at 4K is the only configuration that falls below 60 FPS, making it unsuitable for smooth gameplay. The data shows that this combo can handle 4K on Low settings with playable frame rates, but High and Ultra require a more powerful GPU. The measured results indicate that the RTX 4060's 8 GB memory capacity is the primary constraint at 4K Ultra, where the 39.9 FPS average reflects the card's inability to maintain performance under extreme load. Overall, the combo is best suited for 1080p and 1440p gaming, where it consistently exceeds 60 FPS on all settings except 1440p Ultra, which sits right at the 68 FPS mark.