Downfall

The AMD Ryzen 5 4600G paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti delivers a remarkably fluid experience in Downfall, but the settings menu requires careful navigation to balance visual fidelity against the game's demanding Ultra preset. The data shows that High settings at 2560x1440 is the sweet spot, offering a 178.2 FPS average that comfortably exceeds high-refresh display capabilities while maintaining substantial visual quality. Ultra settings, while playable, exact a heavy toll—dropping to 112.9 FPS at 1440p and 65.5 FPS at 4K—which is a 36.7% reduction from High at the same resolution. For those prioritizing maximum frame rates, the Low preset at 1920x1080 produces 298.8 FPS, but this sacrifices the atmospheric lighting and texture detail that defines the horror genre's tension. The Medium preset at 4K, delivering 135.8 FPS, represents a pragmatic middle ground for users with 4K displays who cannot tolerate the Ultra preset's performance hit.

How This Combo Ranks

This specific combination ranks 270th out of 1,741 tested combos in Downfall, placing it in the top 15.5% of all systems benchmarked. This is a strong result for a mid-range CPU paired with a high-end GPU, but the ranking reveals an important imbalance. The RTX 4070 Ti alone sits in the 85th percentile among all GPUs, while the Ryzen 5 4600G ranks in the 75th percentile among all CPUs. The differential suggests the processor is holding back the graphics card in CPU-bound scenarios, particularly at lower resolutions where the GPU's headroom is less relevant. In synthetic benchmarks, the CPU's average score of 17,489 is nearly identical to the AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5355GE (17,482, 0% difference) and the Intel Core i5-12450H (17,475, 0.1% difference). The GPU's average score of 44,900 trails the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile by just 0.6% (45,152) and the Intel Arc A730M by 1.5% (45,592), while leading the AMD Radeon Pro 580 by 1.6% (44,195). This data indicates the combo's ranking is primarily GPU-driven, with the CPU contributing enough single-thread performance to avoid catastrophic bottlenecks in most scenarios.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is the dominant component in this pairing, built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with 7,680 shading units and 60 RT cores. Its 12 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 192-bit bus delivers 504.2 GB/s of bandwidth, which proves sufficient for Downfall's texture-heavy environments at all tested resolutions. The GPU's clock behavior—2310 MHz base and 2610 MHz boost—allows it to scale performance effectively as thermal headroom permits. Benchmark results show the card's DirectX 12 score of 116 is notably lower than its DirectX 11 score of 288, suggesting Downfall's engine may favor older API paths. The card's passmark G3D score of 31,624 places it in the 85th percentile, and its nearest rival, the RTX 5090 Mobile, posts a nearly identical average score (45,152 vs. 44,900, -0.6% difference). The 1.6% lead over the AMD Radeon Pro 580 (44,195) underscores that this GPU is well-matched to Downfall's requirements, though the 65.5 FPS at 4K Ultra reveals the game's Ultra preset can still stress even this capable hardware.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data reveals consistent scaling across resolutions and settings, with the GPU handling the workload more easily than the CPU at lower resolutions. At 1920x1080, the Low preset achieves 298.8 FPS, Medium reaches 273.1 FPS, High delivers 247.5 FPS, and Ultra drops to 153.4 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra at 1080p is 145.4 FPS, a 48.7% reduction. At 2560x1440, the same settings produce 260.1, 213, 178.2, and 112.9 FPS respectively. The Ultra preset at 1440p shows a 40.4% drop from High, indicating that Ultra's additional effects (likely volumetric lighting and shadow quality) disproportionately impact performance. At 3840x2160, the numbers fall to 161.3 FPS (Low), 135.8 FPS (Medium), 111.3 FPS (High), and 65.5 FPS (Ultra). The 4K Ultra result is the only sub-100 FPS figure in the entire dataset, and it trails the 4K High result by 45.8 FPS, a 41.2% reduction. Interestingly, the 1080p Low result (298.8 FPS) is the only figure approaching 300 FPS, suggesting the CPU's single-thread performance becomes a limiting factor above this threshold.

FAQ

Q: Does this combo achieve 60 FPS at 4K with Ultra settings?

A: Yes, the measured 65.5 FPS average at 3840x2160 with Ultra settings exceeds the 60 FPS threshold, though by a narrow margin that could result in occasional dips during intense scenes.

Q: What is the best settings preset for 1440p gaming?

A: High settings at 2560x1440 delivers 178.2 FPS, which is 57.8% higher than the Ultra preset's 112.9 FPS, making it the optimal balance of visual quality and frame rate.

Q: How much faster is the Low preset compared to Ultra at 1080p?

A: The Low preset produces 298.8 FPS versus 153.4 FPS for Ultra, representing a 94.9% performance advantage, or nearly double the frame rate.

Q: Is the GPU or CPU more likely to bottleneck this combo?

A: The GPU's 85th percentile ranking versus the CPU's 75th percentile suggests the processor is the weaker link, particularly at 1080p where the CPU's limits become more apparent.

Q: What is the frame rate difference between 1440p and 4K at High settings?

A: The 4K High result of 111.3 FPS is 37.5% lower than the 1440p High result of 178.2 FPS, indicating the GPU's bandwidth is increasingly stressed at higher resolutions.

Q: Can this system handle high-refresh 240Hz displays?

A: Only at 1080p with Low settings (298.8 FPS) or Medium settings (273.1 FPS). At 1440p, only the Low preset (260.1 FPS) exceeds 240 FPS, while High and Ultra fall short.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 4600G is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 2 architecture (Renoir codename) on a 7 nm process. Its base clock of 3.70 GHz boosts to 4.20 GHz, with 8 MB of shared L3 cache. In Downfall, this CPU's performance is sufficient but not exceptional. The single-thread score in 3DMark is 726, while the multi-thread max score is 4,889. Cinebench R23 results show 1,919 for single-core and 13,593 for multi-core. These numbers place the CPU in the 75th percentile, with its nearest rival, the Intel Core i3-14100T, scoring 17,636 (0.8% higher), and the Intel Core i3-13100F scoring 17,665 (1% higher). The CPU's 65W TDP and DDR4-3200 memory support (51.2 GB/s bandwidth) are modest by modern standards, but the data shows it does not catastrophically bottleneck the RTX 4070 Ti in Downfall—the 1080p Low result of 298.8 FPS suggests the CPU can feed the GPU adequately at lower settings. However, the gap between 1080p and 1440p results at the same settings (e.g., 298.8 vs. 260.1 FPS at Low) indicates the CPU is starting to limit performance at lower resolutions where the GPU has more headroom.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals a predictable pattern of GPU-bound behavior, with the CPU's influence diminishing as resolution increases. At Low settings, the FPS drops from 298.8 (1080p) to 260.1 (1440p) to 161.3 (4K)—a 46% reduction from 1080p to 4K. At High settings, the progression is 247.5 → 178.2 → 111.3, a 55% reduction. The Ultra preset shows the steepest relative decline: 153.4 → 112.9 → 65.5, a 57.3% drop from 1080p to 4K. This pattern indicates the GPU becomes the primary limiting factor at higher resolutions, as expected for a 12 GB card with 192-bit memory bus. The 4K Ultra result of 65.5 FPS is particularly telling—it is 42.7% lower than the 1440p Ultra result, showing that the Ultra preset's additional memory bandwidth requirements overwhelm the GPU's capabilities at 4K. Conversely, the relatively modest drop from 1080p to 1440p at Low settings (298.8 to 260.1, a 12.9% reduction) suggests the CPU is still contributing meaningfully at these lower resolutions, where the GPU is not yet saturated. For users targeting 4K, High settings (111.3 FPS) are the pragmatic ceiling, as the jump to Ultra costs 45.8 FPS (41.2%) for marginal visual gains in a horror game where smooth motion is critical for immersion.