Downfall

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER delivers a playable but demanding experience in Downfall, a horror title from 2016. The benchmark data shows a system that is heavily reliant on graphics settings and resolution, with performance scaling that clearly identifies the GPU as the primary bottleneck in most scenarios. This combination ranks 1043rd out of 1741 tested combos, placing it in the lower-middle portion of the database, a position that reflects the age of the graphics card relative to the modern CPU.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K is steep and consistent across all settings, indicating that the rendering workload scales aggressively with pixel count. At Low settings, the average frame rate falls from 208 FPS at 1920x1080 to 96.2 FPS at 3840x2160, a reduction of 111.8 FPS. This represents a 53.8% performance loss, showing that even at the lowest graphical fidelity, the GPU is struggling to maintain high frame rates at 4K resolution.

The scaling pattern becomes more pronounced at higher settings. Moving from 1080p to 1440p at High settings drops the average from 141.3 FPS to 99.7 FPS, a 41.6 FPS decrease. The subsequent jump to 4K at High settings further reduces performance to 64.2 FPS, another 35.5 FPS loss. This consistent degradation suggests that the RTX 2070 SUPER's 8 GB frame buffer and memory bandwidth are being saturated as resolution increases, with the GPU's compute units unable to keep pace with the pixel workload.

The most telling data point is the Ultra preset scaling. At 1080p Ultra, the system achieves 89.6 FPS, which drops to 62.2 FPS at 1440p and then plummets to 39.8 FPS at 4K. The 4K Ultra result is barely above the threshold for smooth gameplay, and the 49.8 FPS difference between 1080p and 4K Ultra indicates that the GPU is the limiting component. The CPU, with its high single-thread performance, is not the constraint here; the data shows the RTX 2070 SUPER's rendering capabilities are exhausted well before the Ryzen 7 7700's processing power is fully utilized.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo's position at rank 1043 out of 1741 tested combinations places it in the 40th percentile of all tested systems. This is a modest standing that reflects the GPU's age relative to the CPU. The Ryzen 7 7700 is a modern 7000-series processor that sits in the 91st percentile among all CPUs, but the RTX 2070 SUPER only reaches the 65th percentile among all GPUs. This mismatch creates a system where the CPU is capable of far more than the GPU can deliver.

The CPU's average benchmark score of 40468 places it just 0.1% ahead of the AMD Ryzen 9 7940H and 0.5% ahead of the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365. It trails the Intel Core i9-13905H by 0.6% and leads the Intel Core Ultra 5 235T by 1.2%. These margins are negligible, showing that the Ryzen 7 7700 is well within the performance envelope of its closest competitors. The GPU, with an average benchmark score of 22206, sits 0.5% behind the NVIDIA RTX A400 and 0.9% ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z. It trails the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile by 2.3% and leads the AMD Radeon RX 5700 by 2.5%.

The ranking data suggests that this combo is balanced in the sense that neither component is dramatically outperforming the other. However, the low rank relative to other combos indicates that many systems with newer GPUs achieve higher frame rates in Downfall, even when paired with less capable processors. The bottleneck is clearly the GPU, and the rank reflects this limitation.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER is built on the Turing architecture using a 12 nm process at TSMC. The chip contains 13,600 million transistors on a 545 mm² die. The GPU operates at a base clock of 1605 MHz and boosts to 1770 MHz, with memory running at 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective). The 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus provides 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth, which is a critical factor in Downfall's high-resolution performance.

The GPU's 2560 shading units, 160 texture mapping units, and 64 render output units are supported by 40 ray tracing cores and 320 tensor cores. This configuration delivers 9.062 TFLOPS of FP32 performance and 18.12 TFLOPS of FP16 performance. The pixel rate of 113.3 GPixel/s and texture rate of 283.2 GTexel/s are respectable for the 20-series generation but are clearly insufficient for 4K Ultra settings in this title.

The measured FPS data shows that the GPU's memory bandwidth is a limiting factor at high resolutions. The 4K High result of 64.2 FPS and 4K Medium result of 79.3 FPS suggest that the 448.0 GB/s bandwidth is being taxed heavily. The gap between Low and Ultra at 4K is 56.4 FPS, indicating that the GPU's shading units are also under pressure. The GPU's TDP of 215 W and dual-slot design are consistent with its performance class, but the end-of-life production status and release date of 2019 place it firmly in the previous generation.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The complete measured FPS table provides a detailed view of performance across all resolutions and settings. At 1920x1080, the system achieves 208 FPS on Low, 169.9 FPS on Medium, 141.3 FPS on High, and 89.6 FPS on Ultra. The 1080p Low result of 208 FPS is the highest recorded value in the entire dataset, showing that the CPU is capable of feeding the GPU at high frame rates when the pixel workload is low.

At 2560x1440, the averages drop to 148.8 FPS on Low, 125.2 FPS on Medium, 99.7 FPS on High, and 62.2 FPS on Ultra. The 1440p results show a more compressed range between settings, with a 86.6 FPS difference between Low and Ultra. This compression indicates that the GPU is starting to become the limiting factor, as the CPU has less headroom to compensate for increased rendering demands.

The 3840x2160 results show the most dramatic drops: 96.2 FPS on Low, 79.3 FPS on Medium, 64.2 FPS on High, and 39.8 FPS on Ultra. The 4K Ultra result is the only sub-40 FPS figure in the dataset, and it represents a 56.4 FPS drop from the 1080p Ultra result. The scaling from 1080p to 4K at Ultra settings shows a 55.6% performance loss, which is a clear indication that the GPU's compute resources are exhausted at this resolution.

The data also shows a consistent pattern of diminishing returns from Low to Medium to High settings, with Ultra representing a disproportionate performance cost. At 1080p, the jump from High to Ultra costs 51.7 FPS, while the jump from Low to Medium costs 38.1 FPS. This pattern is consistent across all resolutions, suggesting that the Ultra preset enables effects that are particularly demanding on the RTX 2070 SUPER's architecture.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 is a 7000-series processor built on the Zen 4 architecture with a 5 nm process at TSMC. It features 8 cores and 16 threads with a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 5.30 GHz. The CPU has a TDP of 65 W and uses the AMD Socket AM5. The cache hierarchy includes 64 KB of L1 per core, 1 MB of L2 per core, and 32 MB of shared L3 cache.

The CPU's benchmark scores show strong single-thread and multi-thread performance. The Cinebench R23 multicore score of 29302 and single-core score of 4136 indicate a processor that is well-suited for gaming workloads. The 3DMark 16-thread score of 8484 and single-thread score of 1049 further confirm this. The PassMark multithread score of 34470 and single-thread score of 4063 place it in the 91st percentile among all CPUs.

The CPU's memory support for DDR5 with dual-channel configuration provides 83.2 GB/s of bandwidth, which is more than sufficient for Downfall's demands. The PCIe Gen 5 interface with 24 lanes ensures that the GPU can communicate without bandwidth limitations. The integrated Radeon Graphics are present but not relevant to this discrete GPU configuration.

The measured FPS data shows that the CPU is not the bottleneck in this combination. The 1080p Low result of 208 FPS demonstrates that the Ryzen 7 7700 can drive frame rates well above what the RTX 2070 SUPER can sustain at higher settings. The 3DMark max-threads score of 8479, nearly identical to the 16-thread score of 8484, indicates that the 8-core/16-thread configuration is fully utilized without thermal or power constraints. The CPU's 5.30 GHz boost clock provides the single-thread performance necessary for Downfall's game logic, while the 32 MB of L3 cache reduces memory latency in scenes with many entities.

The launch MSRP of the CPU is $329, and its 65 W TDP makes it an efficient choice. However, the GPU's 215 W TDP and 550 W suggested PSU requirement mean that the total system power draw is substantial. The GPU's performance is the defining factor in this combo's rank, and the CPU's capabilities are largely untapped at 4K resolution.