Downfall

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700X paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER delivers a highly capable 1080p and 1440p experience in Downfall, but the data shows that Ultra settings are where this combination stumbles. For the best balance of visual fidelity and frame rate, the Medium preset is the clear recommendation, offering a substantial performance headroom over High while still maintaining the game's atmospheric horror elements. At 1440p Medium, the combo produces an average of 110.3 FPS, which is a comfortable margin above the 60 FPS threshold, and at 1080p Medium it reaches 156 FPS. While High settings are playable, the drop to Medium provides a significant safety margin for demanding scenes, which is crucial in a genre where a single frame drop can break immersion. Ultra settings, conversely, should be avoided for competitive or smooth play, as the average FPS falls to 80.6 at 1080p and 56 at 1440p, with the latter dipping below the 60 FPS baseline.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data indicates a clear hierarchy in Downfall for this hardware. Low settings are technically the fastest, yielding 192.2 FPS at 1080p and 138.6 FPS at 1440p, but they compromise the visual dread that the game relies on. Medium is the sweet spot, delivering 156 FPS at 1080p and 110.3 FPS at 1440p. This preset offers a 19% performance increase over High at 1080p (from 130.7 FPS to 156 FPS) and a 20% increase at 1440p (from 91.9 FPS to 110.3 FPS). This headroom is valuable for maintaining stability during intense sequences. High settings are perfectly playable at both 1080p (130.7 FPS) and 1440p (91.9 FPS), but they don't offer enough visual improvement over Medium to justify the performance cost. Ultra is the outlier, presenting a steep performance cliff. The data shows that enabling Ultra drops the frame rate by 38% compared to High at 1080p (from 130.7 FPS to 80.6 FPS) and by 39% at 1440p (from 91.9 FPS to 56 FPS). The recommendation is unequivocal: use Medium for the best experience, or High if you prefer higher fidelity and can tolerate the reduced headroom. Avoid Ultra for consistent smoothness.

GPU Role

The RTX 2060 SUPER is the primary driver of the performance differences seen across settings. With 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus and a bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s, the card has sufficient memory capacity and throughput for Downfall's textures at 1080p and 1440p. The GPU's boost clock of 1650 MHz and its Turing architecture with 2176 shading units provide the raw compute power needed for the game's rendering. The benchmark results show that the GPU is being stressed heavily at higher settings. The transition from High to Ultra at 4K results in a massive frame rate collapse, from 59.3 FPS to 38.2 FPS, indicating that the card's 7.181 TFLOPS of FP32 performance is saturated by the Ultra preset's additional effects. The card's 64 ROPs and 136 TMUs are also likely bottlenecks at this level. The data suggests that the RTX 2060 SUPER is well-matched for Medium and High settings, but its 12 nm TU106 chip reaches its limits when Ultra effects are enabled, particularly at higher resolutions. The GPU's passmark G3D score of 16462 and its 63rd percentile ranking among all GPUs underscore that it is a mid-range performer that excels when settings are tuned sensibly.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the comprehensive database of tested hardware combinations for Downfall, this specific pairing of the Ryzen 7 5700X and RTX 2060 SUPER lands at rank 1197 out of 1741 total combos. This places it in the lower-middle portion of the performance spectrum, which is consistent with the GPU's 63rd percentile ranking. The combo's position is heavily influenced by the GPU's limitations at high settings, as the CPU is more than capable of keeping up. The data indicates that while this isn't a top-tier configuration, it is far from the bottom, and its ranking is a reflection of the RTX 2060 SUPER's age and position in the market. The GPU's average benchmark score of 19774 is very close to its nearest rivals, including the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 (with a deltaPct of 0.5) and the older NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN (0.3). This suggests that within its performance class, the card is competitive, but it lacks the headroom to push this combo higher in the rankings for a demanding title like Downfall at Ultra settings.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data provides a complete picture of the combo's capabilities across three resolutions and four settings presets.

At 1920x1080, the results are consistently high. With Low settings, the average FPS is 192.2. Medium settings reduce this to 156 FPS, while High settings yield 130.7 FPS. The Ultra preset brings the average down to 80.6 FPS, which is still playable but shows the significant cost of maximum quality.

Moving to 2560x1440, the performance scales down predictably. Low settings produce 138.6 FPS, Medium settings produce 110.3 FPS, and High settings produce 91.9 FPS. The Ultra preset drops to an average of 56 FPS, which is below the ideal smoothness threshold for many players.

At 3840x2160, the GPU becomes the clear limiting factor. Low settings manage an average of 87.3 FPS, Medium settings produce 66.4 FPS, and High settings produce 59.3 FPS. The Ultra preset falls to 38.2 FPS, which is not comfortably playable. The data shows a steady performance degradation as both resolution and settings increase, with the gap between High and Ultra widening at higher resolutions.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K reveals the bottleneck characteristics of this combo. At Medium settings, the average FPS falls from 156 at 1080p to 110.3 at 1440p, a drop of 29%. From 1440p to 4K (3840x2160), the FPS falls to 66.4, a further drop of 40%. This pattern indicates that the GPU is the dominant limiting factor, as the workload scales significantly with pixel count. The CPU, with its 8 cores and 16 threads, has ample headroom to feed the GPU at these resolutions. The fact that the 4K Low setting (87.3 FPS) is higher than the 1080p Ultra setting (80.6 FPS) is telling. It suggests that the GPU's shading units and memory bandwidth are taxed more by the complexity of the Ultra preset's effects than by the sheer resolution increase. This points to a GPU that is powerful enough for high frame rates at lower resolutions but becomes saturated when both resolution and settings are maximized. The data strongly suggests that for 4K gaming, users must dial back settings to Medium or Low to maintain playable frame rates, as the 448.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth is insufficient to sustain Ultra settings at that pixel density.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700X plays a supporting but crucial role in this pairing. With 8 cores, 16 threads, a base clock of 3.40 GHz, and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz, the CPU provides more than enough processing power for Downfall. Its strong multi-threaded performance, evidenced by a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 22620 and a Passmark multi-thread score of 26612, ensures that the game's logic, AI, and physics are all handled without creating a bottleneck. The CPU's 32 MB of shared L3 cache and dual-channel DDR4 memory support with 51.2 GB/s bandwidth provide ample data throughput for the game's assets. In the benchmark results, the CPU's influence is most apparent in the consistency of frame rates at lower resolutions and settings. At 1080p Low, the combo achieves 192.2 FPS, which is a scenario where a weaker CPU might struggle to keep up with the GPU. The fact that the CPU is not the limiting factor is further supported by its 83rd percentile ranking among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 26214. It sits in close competition with the Intel Core i9-11900KF (deltaPct of 0.1), indicating that its processing power is on par with top-tier options from the same era. The data confirms that the Ryzen 7 5700X is a robust partner for the RTX 2060 SUPER, ensuring that the GPU is the only constraint on performance.