Downfall

FAQ

Q: What is the overall performance standing of the AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER combination in Downfall?

A: This combo ranks 1st out of 3,716 tested combinations in the database for this game, placing it at the very top of the performance hierarchy for Downfall.

Q: How does the CPU compare to its nearest rivals in general compute benchmarks?

A: The Ryzen 5 5600GT has an average benchmark score of 20,733, which is effectively tied with the Intel Core i5-12490F (20,802, delta -0.3%), the Intel Xeon 6325P (20,821, delta -0.4%), the Intel Core Ultra 5 125U (20,826, delta -0.4%), and the AMD EPYC 7J13 (20,845, delta -0.5%). The differences are all under one percent.

Q: What is the GPU's benchmark standing relative to its nearest performance rivals?

A: The RTX 2070 SUPER has an average benchmark score of 20,282, sitting just behind the NVIDIA Quadro M4000M (20,480, delta -1%), the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile (20,534, delta -1.2%), the Intel Arc B570 (20,556, delta -1.3%), and the Intel Arc A750 (20,582, delta -1.5%). It trails these cards by roughly one to one-and-a-half percent.

Q: At which resolution and settings does the combo deliver the highest average frame rate?

A: The highest average frame rate is recorded at 1920x1080 with Low settings, achieving 508 FPS on average.

Q: What is the lowest average frame rate recorded for this combination?

A: The lowest average frame rate is 267 FPS, which occurs at 3840x2160 resolution with Ultra settings.

Q: Does the game's measured data indicate any frame rate variance issues?

A: The data includes minimum and maximum FPS only for Medium settings. At 1920x1080 Medium, the range is 367 to 497 FPS (average 432); at 2560x1440 Medium, it is 313 to 424 FPS (average 369); and at 3840x2160 Medium, it is 251 to 339 FPS (average 295). These ranges show a consistent spread of roughly 30% between min and max at each resolution, indicating moderate frame pacing variance.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER is built on the Turing architecture with a TU104 chip manufactured on a 12 nm process at TSMC. It carries 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s. The memory clock is rated at 1750 MHz with 14 Gbps effective transfer rate. The GPU's base clock is 1605 MHz with a boost clock of 1770 MHz, and it contains 2,560 shading units, 160 texture mapping units, and 64 raster output units.

For this specific game, the GPU's role is substantial, but the measured frame rates suggest that the bottleneck shifts depending on resolution. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the combo reaches 508 FPS, a figure so high that the CPU is likely the primary limiting factor even with the Ryzen 5 5600GT's strong single-thread performance. As resolution increases to 3840x2160, the average FPS drops to 447 at Low settings, indicating that the GPU is beginning to take on more of the workload, though the absolute numbers remain high for a horror title.

The RTX 2070 SUPER's 9.062 TFLOPS of FP32 compute and 113.3 GPixel/s pixel rate are more than sufficient for Downfall's rendering demands, as evidenced by the fact that even at 4K Ultra the combo maintains 267 FPS. The GPU also features 40 RT cores and 320 tensor cores, though Downfall's engine may not leverage ray tracing heavily given its 2016 release date. The 12 nm process node and 215 W TDP place this card in the upper-midrange tier of its generation, and its 65th percentile ranking among all GPUs confirms it sits above the median but below the top-tier cards of its era.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data shows a clear pattern of scaling across the three tested resolutions. Moving from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 at High settings, the average frame rate drops from 412 FPS to 351 FPS, a reduction of roughly 15%. From 2560x1440 to 3840x2160 at High, the average drops further to 281 FPS, another 20% reduction. This pattern holds across all settings presets, with the scaling factor being relatively consistent.

At Low settings, the frame rates are 508 FPS at 1080p, 482 FPS at 1440p, and 447 FPS at 4K. The relatively modest drop from 1080p to 4K (about 12%) at Low settings suggests that the system is heavily CPU-bound at lower graphical loads; the GPU has ample headroom and is not the limiting factor even at 4K. At Ultra settings, the frame rates are 392 FPS at 1080p, 334 FPS at 1440p, and 267 FPS at 4K. Here, the drop from 1080p to 4K is about 32%, indicating that the GPU is becoming a more significant constraint as the pixel count and graphical complexity increase.

The data indicates that the limiting component shifts from the CPU at low resolutions and settings to a more balanced workload at 4K Ultra. Even at the most demanding configuration, the system maintains 267 FPS, which is well above the refresh rates of most displays. The RTX 2070 SUPER's 8 GB of VRAM and 448.0 GB/s bandwidth are sufficient for Downfall at all tested settings, as there is no evidence of memory capacity or bandwidth throttling in the measured frame rates.

How This Combo Ranks

This combination of AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER achieves the 1st rank out of 3,716 tested combos in Downfall. This top-tier placement is notable given that neither component is the absolute fastest in its respective category. The CPU ranks in the 74th percentile among all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 20,733, while the GPU ranks in the 65th percentile with an average score of 20,282.

The fact that this mid-to-upper-range pairing outperforms all other tested combinations in this specific game suggests that Downfall is particularly well-optimized for this hardware configuration, or that the game's engine is sensitive to certain architectural features of both the Zen 3 CPU and the Turing GPU. The CPU's 6 cores and 12 threads with a boost clock of 4.60 GHz provide strong single-threaded performance, which is often critical for older game engines. The GPU's 2,560 shading units and 1770 MHz boost clock deliver consistent rasterization throughput.

The large gap between this combo's rank (1st) and the raw benchmark percentiles of its components (74th and 65th) indicates that Downfall rewards the specific balance of CPU and GPU that this pairing offers. It outperforms combinations featuring more powerful components on paper, which reflects the importance of system balance over raw component strength in this title.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured average frame rates are as follows: Low settings produce 508 FPS, Medium produces 432 FPS (with a range of 367 to 497), High produces 412 FPS, and Ultra produces 392 FPS. The progression from Low to Ultra shows a total reduction of 116 FPS, or approximately 23%, which is a relatively modest penalty for the graphical quality increase.

At 2560x1440, the average frame rates are 482 FPS at Low, 369 FPS at Medium (range 313 to 424), 351 FPS at High, and 334 FPS at Ultra. The drop from Low to Ultra is 148 FPS, or about 31%, indicating that the higher resolution amplifies the performance cost of higher settings.

At 3840x2160, the averages are 447 FPS at Low, 295 FPS at Medium (range 251 to 339), 281 FPS at High, and 267 FPS at Ultra. The reduction from Low to Ultra is 180 FPS, or roughly 40%, showing that 4K resolution significantly increases the GPU workload across all settings presets.

Across all resolutions, the Medium preset is the only one with min/max data. The spread between minimum and maximum FPS at Medium settings is 130 FPS at 1080p, 111 FPS at 1440p, and 88 FPS at 4K. This narrowing spread at higher resolutions suggests that frame time consistency improves as the GPU becomes more saturated, reducing the impact of CPU-side frame pacing variations.

Settings Recommendations

Based on the measured FPS data, the Medium preset at any resolution provides the best balance of performance and visual quality. At 1920x1080 Medium, the system delivers 432 FPS on average, which is only 76 FPS lower than Low but 40 FPS higher than High. The min/max range of 367 to 497 FPS indicates that the system rarely dips below the refresh rate of even high-end 360 Hz monitors.

At 2560x1440, Medium produces 369 FPS, which is 113 FPS lower than Low but 18 FPS higher than High. The range of 313 to 424 FPS means that even the minimum frame rate exceeds the refresh rate of most 1440p displays, making this the recommended configuration for high-refresh-rate gaming at this resolution.

At 3840x2160, Medium yields 295 FPS, which is 152 FPS lower than Low but 14 FPS higher than High. The min/max spread of 251 to 339 FPS suggests that the system can maintain smooth gameplay on 4K displays with refresh rates up to 240 Hz.

For users prioritizing maximum visual fidelity, the Ultra preset at 3840x2160 still delivers 267 FPS, which is well above the 240 Hz threshold of the fastest 4K gaming monitors. Given that even the most demanding configuration produces frame rates far exceeding typical display refresh rates, the recommendation is to use the highest settings that the display can support, with Medium serving as the baseline for guaranteed smoothness across all resolutions.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 3 architecture (Cezanne codename), manufactured on a 7 nm process at TSMC. It operates with a base clock of 3.60 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz, with a TDP of 65 W. The CPU features 16 MB of L3 cache and 512 KB of L2 cache per core, with 64 KB of L1 cache per core.

In synthetic benchmarks, the CPU achieves a Cinebench R23 multicore score of 17,272 and a single-core score of 2,438. The Geekbench multicore score is 7,986 with a single-core score of 1,843. These figures place the CPU in the 74th percentile among all CPUs, with its average benchmark score of 20,733 being nearly identical to its nearest rivals, all within 0.5% delta.

For Downfall, the CPU's role is significant, particularly at lower resolutions and settings where the frame rates exceed 500 FPS. At 1920x1080 Low, the system achieves 508 FPS, a figure that would require extremely high single-thread performance from the CPU to avoid becoming the bottleneck. The Ryzen 5 5600GT's 4.60 GHz boost clock and strong Zen 3 IPC (instructions per clock) are well-suited to this task, as evidenced by the PassMark single-thread score of 3,348 and the 3DMark single-thread score of 913.

As resolution increases to 3840x2160, the CPU's relative importance diminishes, but it still provides sufficient throughput to keep the GPU fed. The 3DMark max-threads score of 5,554 and the PassMark multithread score of 20,325 indicate that the CPU can handle multi-threaded workloads without becoming a limiting factor. The 12 threads allow the game engine to distribute tasks across cores efficiently, while the 16 MB L3 cache reduces memory latency for frequently accessed data.

The CPU's memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s (dual-channel DDR4) is adequate for this game, though it is notably lower than the GPU's 448.0 GB/s bandwidth. This disparity does not manifest as a performance issue in the measured data, as the frame rates remain exceptionally high across all configurations. The CPU's 74th percentile ranking, combined with the GPU's 65th percentile ranking, demonstrates that this pairing achieves top-tier results in Downfall despite neither component being in the top quartile of its respective category.