Downfall

FAQ

Q: How does the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G + RX 6700 XT combo rank in Downfall?

A: The combo ranks 947th out of 1,741 tested combinations, placing it in the middle of the pack. This position reflects the balance between a strong 8-core CPU and a capable GPU in a horror title that is not extremely demanding at lower settings.

Q: What is the best performance setting for this combo at 1080p?

A: At 1920x1080, the Low preset delivers the highest average frame rate at 229.2 FPS. Medium and High follow at 186.9 FPS and 154.7 FPS respectively, while Ultra drops to 96.7 FPS, still comfortably above 60 FPS.

Q: Can this combo handle 4K Ultra settings?

A: At 3840x2160 with Ultra settings, the average frame rate falls to 40.7 FPS, which is below the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay. Low settings at 4K reach 99.5 FPS, showing the game scales significantly with settings.

Q: How does the RX 6700 XT compare to its nearest rival in raw GPU benchmarks?

A: The RX 6700 XT has an average benchmark score of 33,721. Its closest rival, the AMD Radeon RX 6800, scores 33,493 (0.7% higher), while the NVIDIA RTX A5000 scores 33,294 (1.3% lower). The differences are marginal.

Q: What is the CPU's multi-threaded capability relative to its peers?

A: The Ryzen 7 5700G scores 20,755 in Cinebench R23 multi-core, with an average benchmark score of 25,626. It sits 0.3% below the AMD Ryzen 7 6800U (25,706) and 0.5% above the Intel Core 5 210H (25,490).

Q: Does the CPU's integrated graphics affect gaming performance here?

A: No, the Radeon Vega 8 iGPU is present on the chip but the discrete RX 6700 XT handles all rendering. The CPU's 8 cores and 16 threads are the relevant factors for game logic and frame pacing.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G and AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT achieves a rank of 947 out of 1,741 tested combos in Downfall. This places it in the 54th percentile of all combinations tested, meaning roughly half of all setups outperform it and half fall behind.

This mid-pack ranking is noteworthy because the GPU itself sits in the 77th percentile among all GPUs, while the CPU is in the 83rd percentile among all CPUs. The gap between component-level percentiles and the combo-level rank suggests that Downfall's engine is not fully leveraging the hardware's potential, or that the game's horror-focused rendering places unusual demands that this specific pairing does not fully satisfy.

The ranking becomes clearer when examining the GPU's nearest rivals. The RX 6700 XT averages 33,721 in benchmark scores, with the RX 6800 just 0.7% ahead at 33,493 and the RTX A5000 1.3% behind at 33,294. These are near-identical performance tiers, so the combo's rank is driven more by how the CPU interacts with the game than by GPU headroom alone.

For a horror title from 2016, the rank suggests the game is not particularly demanding at lower settings but becomes punishing at Ultra presets, especially at higher resolutions. The data shows a clear pattern: the combo's standing improves dramatically as settings drop, consistent with a GPU-bound title at high quality levels.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is built on the RDNA 2.0 architecture with the Navi 22 chip, featuring 2,560 shading units, 160 texture mapping units, and 64 raster operations pipelines. It carries 12 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 384.0 GB/s. These specifications place it in the upper-midrange tier of GPUs from its generation.

The card's clock behavior is central to its Downfall performance. The base clock runs at 2,321 MHz, the game clock at 2,424 MHz, and the boost clock reaches 2,581 MHz. Memory operates at 2,000 MHz with 16 Gbps effective speed. In practice, the game clock is the sustained frequency during typical gaming loads, and the boost clock provides headroom for lighter scenes.

In Downfall, the GPU's role shifts dramatically with resolution. At 1080p Low, the combo produces 229.2 FPS, indicating the GPU is not the bottleneck. At 4K Ultra, performance collapses to 40.7 FPS, a 82% reduction from the 1080p Low figure. This scaling is typical of a horror game that relies on heavy post-processing and volumetric effects at high settings.

The 12 GB VRAM buffer is ample for this title, even at 4K, since the measured FPS drops are more attributable to compute and memory bandwidth than capacity limits. The 384.0 GB/s bandwidth and 13.21 TFLOPS FP32 throughput are the limiting factors at Ultra settings, not the frame buffer size.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data reveals a consistent pattern across resolutions and settings. At 1920x1080, the combo delivers 229.2 FPS on Low, 186.9 FPS on Medium, 154.7 FPS on High, and 96.7 FPS on Ultra. The jump from Medium to High costs 32.2 FPS, while High to Ultra costs 58 FPS, showing diminishing returns as settings climb.

Moving to 2560x1440, the same settings produce 166.8 FPS (Low), 135.1 FPS (Medium), 109.7 FPS (High), and 70.8 FPS (Ultra). The resolution increase from 1080p to 1440p reduces frame rates by roughly 27% across all settings, which aligns with the pixel count increase of about 78% — the game scales better than raw pixel math suggests.

At 3840x2160, the numbers become 99.5 FPS (Low), 81.6 FPS (Medium), 68.7 FPS (High), and 40.7 FPS (Ultra). The 4K Ultra result is the only configuration below 60 FPS in the entire dataset. Even 4K High maintains 68.7 FPS, which is playable for a horror title where frame pacing matters less than atmosphere.

The delta between Low and Ultra is consistent: 57.4% at 1080p (229.2 to 96.7), 57.5% at 1440p (166.8 to 70.8), and 59.1% at 4K (99.5 to 40.7). This uniformity suggests the game's settings scale linearly with GPU load, with no sudden bottlenecks at any resolution.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G provides 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Zen 3 architecture (Cezanne codename), manufactured on a 7 nm process by TSMC. It operates at a base clock of 3.80 GHz and boosts to 4.60 GHz, with a 65 W TDP. The CPU supports DDR4 memory in dual-channel mode with 51.2 GB/s bandwidth.

In Downfall, the CPU's role is secondary to the GPU at most settings, but becomes more relevant at lower resolutions where frame rates exceed 200 FPS. At 1080p Low, the combo hits 229.2 FPS, which requires the CPU to feed the GPU with enough draw calls and physics updates to sustain that rate. The 8-core/16-thread configuration provides ample headroom for the game's threading model.

Benchmark data shows the CPU's strengths: Cinebench R23 multi-core scores 20,755, single-core 2,930. PassMark multi-thread reaches 24,419, with single-thread at 3,283. The nearest rival, the AMD Ryzen 7 6800U, scores nearly identically at 25,706 average (0.3% higher), while the Intel Core 5 210H trails by 0.5%.

The CPU's 16 MB L3 cache and 512 KB L2 per core help with the random memory access patterns common in horror games, which often load many unique assets for environmental storytelling. The 83rd percentile ranking among all CPUs indicates this processor is well above average for gaming workloads, even if it is not a flagship part.

At 4K Ultra, where the GPU is fully saturated, the CPU's influence diminishes. The frame rate drops to 40.7 FPS regardless of CPU capability, confirming the GPU is the sole bottleneck. The data suggests that for Downfall, this CPU is never the limiting factor — the GPU determines performance at all tested resolutions and settings.