Downfall

# Downfall with AMD Ryzen 5 4600G + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

This combination of an AMD Ryzen 5 4600G processor paired with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card delivers remarkably high frame rates in Downfall, a 2016 horror title that clearly favors strong GPU throughput. The measured data places this combo at rank 418 out of 3716 tested configurations, placing it in the top 11.3% of all tested combos for this game. That ranking reflects a system that is heavily GPU-limited in most scenarios, with the RTX 4080's immense rasterization power driving frame rates that frequently exceed 200 FPS at lower resolutions, while the Ryzen 5 4600G's six Zen 2 cores provide sufficient throughput to avoid becoming a bottleneck until resolution drops to 1080p.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo rank of 418 out of 3716 tested combinations translates to a percentile position of roughly 88.7, meaning this setup outperforms nearly nine out of every ten tested configurations in Downfall. This is a strong result, but the data suggests the ranking is carried almost entirely by the GPU rather than the CPU. The RTX 4080 sits at the 86th percentile among all GPUs in the database, with an average benchmark score of 54,247, while the Ryzen 5 4600G sits at the 71st percentile among all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 17,507. The gap between these percentile positions — 15 points favoring the GPU — indicates that the graphics card is the dominant component in this pairing.

Looking at the CPU's nearest rivals, the Ryzen 5 4600G is bracketed by the AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5355GE at 0.1% higher average score, the Intel Core 7 150U at 0.6% higher, and the AMD Ryzen 3 8300GE at 0.6% lower, with the Intel Core i3-14100T trailing at 0.8% lower. These are minuscule deltas, all within 1.4% of each other, suggesting that the Ryzen 5 4600G's processor-level performance is essentially interchangeable with several modern low-power and mid-range chips. For Downfall specifically, this means any of these CPUs would likely produce nearly identical frame rates when paired with the RTX 4080, because the GPU is doing the heavy lifting.

The GPU's nearest rivals tell a similar story of tight competition at the top. The RTX 4080 is virtually tied with the RTX 4080 SUPER at 0.1% higher average score, while the AMD Radeon Pro W5700X sits 1.1% higher and the AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB sits 2.6% higher. The AMD Radeon 8060S leads by 2.7%. These small deltas indicate that the RTX 4080 is positioned in a dense cluster of high-performance graphics cards where benchmark scores alone do not cleanly separate winners from losers. In Downfall, the measured FPS data shows the RTX 4080 delivering 296 FPS at 1080p Low, which is an extraordinary result for a horror game from 2016.

FAQ

Q: Is this CPU-GPU combination balanced for Downfall, or is one component holding the other back?

A: The data indicates a GPU-heavy imbalance. At 1080p Low, the combo produces 296 FPS, but at 4K Ultra it drops to 74 FPS. The RTX 4080's 86th percentile GPU ranking versus the Ryzen 5 4600G's 71st percentile CPU ranking suggests the processor is the weaker link, though at higher resolutions the GPU becomes the limiting factor.

Q: How does the Ryzen 5 4600G compare to its closest CPU rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The Ryzen 5 4600G scores 17,507 on average, which is 0.1% above the AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5355GE (17,482), 0.6% above the Intel Core 7 150U (17,395), but 0.6% below the AMD Ryzen 3 8300GE (17,614) and 0.8% below the Intel Core i3-14100T (17,648). All four chips are effectively within 1.4% of each other.

Q: What is the RTX 4080's benchmark standing relative to its nearest GPU competitors?

A: The RTX 4080's average benchmark score is 54,247, placing it 0.1% below the RTX 4080 SUPER (54,209), 1.1% below the AMD Radeon Pro W5700X (54,828), 2.6% below the AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB (55,698), and 2.7% below the AMD Radeon 8060S (55,757). Despite these lower scores, the 4080 delivers 296 FPS at 1080p Low in Downfall.

Q: Does the 16 GB VRAM capacity of the RTX 4080 matter for Downfall at high resolutions?

A: The RTX 4080 has 16 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit bus with 716.8 GB/s bandwidth. Downfall's measured FPS drops from 168 FPS at 1080p Ultra to 74 FPS at 4K Ultra, suggesting memory bandwidth and GPU compute are more significant factors than VRAM capacity, since even the most demanding preset stays within the card's memory envelope.

Q: How does this combo perform at 1440p compared to 1080p and 4K?

A: At 1440p Ultra, the combo delivers 120 FPS, which is 48 FPS lower than 1080p Ultra (168 FPS) but 46 FPS higher than 4K Ultra (74 FPS). The scaling from 1080p to 1440p reduces performance by 28.6%, while scaling from 1440p to 4K reduces performance by 38.3%.

Q: What is the best settings preset for smooth gameplay on this combo?

A: The data shows that Medium settings provide the most balanced experience across all resolutions, with 276 FPS at 1080p, 233 FPS at 1440p, and 145 FPS at 4K. Ultra settings at 4K drop to 74 FPS, which may be too low for high-refresh-rate displays, while Low settings at 1080p reach 296 FPS.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals a clear pattern of performance degradation as resolution increases, but the rate of decline is not uniform across settings presets. At Low settings, the combo delivers 296 FPS at 1080p, 265 FPS at 1440p, and 178 FPS at 4K. This represents a 10.5% drop from 1080p to 1440p, followed by a 32.8% drop from 1440p to 4K. The relatively modest decline at 1440p suggests the CPU is still capable of feeding the GPU enough data at that resolution, but the jump to 4K begins to strain the GPU's raw throughput.

At Ultra settings, the pattern shifts more dramatically. The combo produces 168 FPS at 1080p, 120 FPS at 1440p, and 74 FPS at 4K. The percentage drops are 28.6% from 1080p to 1440p, and 38.3% from 1440p to 4K. The steeper decline at 1080p-to-1440p under Ultra settings indicates that the increased shading and texture work at higher quality settings amplifies the GPU's workload more aggressively than resolution alone would suggest. The 4K Ultra figure of 74 FPS is the lowest measured value in the entire dataset.

Medium settings, which have complete min/max FPS data, provide additional insight. At 1080p Medium, the average is 276 FPS with a minimum of 234 and maximum of 317. At 1440p Medium, the average drops to 233 FPS with a minimum of 198 and maximum of 268. At 4K Medium, the average falls to 145 FPS with a minimum of 123 and maximum of 167. The consistency of the min-to-max spread — roughly 30% of the average at each resolution — suggests that frame pacing remains stable even as the workload increases.

The limiting component shifts across the resolution spectrum. At 1080p, the gap between Low (296 FPS) and Ultra (168 FPS) is 128 FPS, indicating that the GPU has enough headroom at low settings to be constrained by the CPU's instruction throughput. At 4K, the gap between Low (178 FPS) and Ultra (74 FPS) is 104 FPS, but the absolute values are much lower, pointing to the GPU becoming the primary bottleneck as pixel count quadruples from 1080p to 4K.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo demonstrates its peak performance envelope. Low settings deliver 296 FPS average, Medium delivers 276 FPS with a minimum of 234 and maximum of 317, High delivers 257 FPS, and Ultra delivers 168 FPS. The progression from Low to Ultra shows a 43.2% reduction in frame rate, which is substantial but still leaves every preset above 160 FPS. The Medium preset's min FPS of 234 indicates that even in demanding scenes, the combo rarely drops below 234 FPS at this resolution.

Moving to 2560x1440, the performance remains robust but begins to show the GPU's workload increasing. Low settings produce 265 FPS, Medium produces 233 FPS with a minimum of 198 and maximum of 268, High produces 191 FPS, and Ultra produces 120 FPS. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is 10.5% at Low, 15.6% at Medium, 25.7% at High, and 28.6% at Ultra. The widening percentage drops as settings increase indicate that higher quality presets scale more poorly with resolution, which is consistent with the GPU's shading units and texture units being taxed more heavily.

At 3840x2160, the combo still delivers playable frame rates across all presets, but the margin for error narrows considerably. Low settings achieve 178 FPS, Medium achieves 145 FPS with a minimum of 123 and maximum of 167, High achieves 119 FPS, and Ultra drops to 74 FPS. The 4K Ultra figure is the only measured value that falls below the 100 FPS threshold, and it represents a 56% reduction from the 1080p Ultra score of 168 FPS. The Medium preset at 4K, with its 123 FPS minimum, remains the safest choice for consistent high-refresh-rate gameplay at this resolution.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 is clearly the dominant component in this combo for Downfall, and its specifications illuminate why. The card is built on the AD103 chip using TSMC's 5 nm process, with 45,900 million transistors packed into a 379 mm² die. Its 9,728 shading units, 304 texture mapping units, and 112 raster output pipelines provide the raw compute necessary to push the high frame rates observed in the measured data. The boost clock of 2505 MHz, paired with a base clock of 2205 MHz, allows the GPU to sustain high throughput during extended gaming sessions.

Memory configuration plays a significant role in the resolution scaling observed. The RTX 4080 carries 16 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit bus, delivering 716.8 GB/s of bandwidth. At 4K resolution, the pixel count quadruples compared to 1080p, requiring the GPU to fetch and process significantly more texture and geometry data. The 716.8 GB/s bandwidth appears sufficient for Downfall's demands, as even the 4K Medium preset maintains a 145 FPS average with a 123 FPS minimum, suggesting no memory bandwidth starvation.

The GPU's synthetic benchmark scores place it at the 86th percentile among all GPUs, with an average score of 54,247. Its nearest rival, the RTX 4080 SUPER, scores 54,209 — a 0.1% difference that is essentially negligible. The AMD Radeon Pro W5700X leads by 1.1%, while the AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB and AMD Radeon 8060S lead by 2.6% and 2.7% respectively. These competitors all cluster within 3% of the RTX 4080, yet the measured FPS in Downfall shows the 4080 delivering 296 FPS at 1080p Low, which is an exceptional result for this game.

The GPU's transistor density of 121.1M per mm², combined with its 48.74 TFLOPS of FP32 compute, explains why it can maintain 119 FPS at 4K High settings. Downfall, being a 2016 horror title, does not appear to leverage ray tracing heavily, so the RTX 4080's 76 RT cores and 304 tensor cores may go underutilized. Instead, the traditional rasterization pipeline — the shading units, TMUs, and ROPs — carries the load, and the data shows this architecture excels at it.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 4600G is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 2 architecture, manufactured on TSMC's 7 nm process. Its base clock of 3.70 GHz and boost clock of 4.20 GHz provide moderate single-thread performance, as evidenced by its 3DMark single-thread score of 726 and Geekbench single-core score of 1,460. For Downfall, a game that appears to favor GPU throughput, this CPU must supply the GPU with draw calls and game logic updates fast enough to avoid becoming a bottleneck.

The CPU's multi-threaded capabilities are more robust, with a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 13,593 and a Passmark multi-thread score of 15,992. These scores indicate that the Ryzen 5 4600G can handle the background tasks and physics calculations that Downfall might offload to the CPU, but the measured FPS data shows that at 1080p Low, the combo achieves 296 FPS, which is close to what the GPU can produce when unconstrained. The 8 MB shared L3 cache and 512 KB per-core L2 cache provide adequate data locality for game workloads, though the 51.2 GB/s memory bandwidth on dual-channel DDR4 could limit performance in cache-miss-heavy scenarios.

At the 71st percentile among all CPUs, the Ryzen 5 4600G is a mid-range processor that sits near several modern rivals. Its nearest competitors — the AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5355GE (0.1% higher), Intel Core 7 150U (0.6% higher), AMD Ryzen 3 8300GE (0.6% lower), and Intel Core i3-14100T (0.8% lower) — all have similar average benchmark scores. This tight clustering suggests that for Downfall, any of these CPUs would produce nearly identical results when paired with an RTX 4080, since the GPU is the performance ceiling.

The CPU's integrated Radeon Vega 7 graphics, while not used in this discrete GPU configuration, indicates that the 4600G was designed as an APU. Its 65 W TDP and 7 nm process node make it an efficient chip, but its Zen 2 architecture is one generation behind the Zen 3 and Zen 4 cores found in more recent Ryzen processors. The 3DMark 16-thread score of 4,863 and max-thread score of 4,889 show that the CPU scales reasonably well with thread count, but its single-thread score of 726 suggests that per-core performance is modest by modern standards.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS data provides a clear hierarchy of settings presets for this combo, and the optimal choice depends on the target resolution and refresh rate. At 1080p, all four presets deliver frame rates above 160 FPS, with Low at 296 FPS, Medium at 276 FPS, High at 257 FPS, and Ultra at 168 FPS. For 1080p displays with 240 Hz refresh rates, Medium or High settings provide the best balance of visual quality and frame rate, as both exceed 250 FPS. Ultra at 168 FPS is still smooth but may not saturate a 240 Hz panel.

At 1440p, the Medium preset stands out as the sweet spot. It delivers 233 FPS average with a 198 FPS minimum, which is sufficient for high-refresh-rate 1440p monitors. High settings at 191 FPS are also viable, while Ultra at 120 FPS may be preferable for gamers who prioritize visual fidelity over maximum refresh rate. Low at 265 FPS offers the highest frame rate but sacrifices too much visual quality for a game that likely benefits from atmospheric details.

At 4K, the Medium preset is the clear recommendation. It achieves 145 FPS average with a 123 FPS minimum, which is well above the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay and approaches the 144 Hz refresh rate of many modern 4K displays. High settings at 119 FPS are also playable, but Ultra at 74 FPS, while still above 60 FPS, leaves little headroom for demanding scenes. Low at 178 FPS is the fastest option but undermines the visual experience that 4K resolution is meant to provide.

Across all resolutions, the Medium preset offers the most consistent performance, with the narrowest gap between average and minimum FPS. The min FPS values — 234 at 1080p, 198 at 1440p, and 123 at 4K — indicate that even in worst-case scenarios, the combo maintains smooth frame pacing. For players with adaptive sync displays, Medium settings at any resolution will provide a stutter-free experience. For those with 240 Hz 1080p or 1440p monitors, High settings are a reasonable compromise, delivering 257 FPS and 191 FPS respectively while retaining more visual detail than Medium.