Downfall

Settings Recommendations

For Downfall, the measured data shows that the High preset delivers the most balanced experience across all three resolutions. At 4K, High produces 112 FPS, which is comfortably above the 70.3 FPS seen at Ultra while still maintaining substantial visual fidelity over the Medium preset’s 139.6 FPS. The gap between High and Ultra at 4K is 41.7 FPS, indicating that the Ultra preset imposes a disproportionately heavy load for its incremental visual gain. At 1440p, High hits 182.5 FPS, while Ultra falls to 114.5 FPS — a 68 FPS difference that makes Ultra harder to justify for competitive play.

The Low preset at 1080p reaches 384.4 FPS, which is the highest measured result in the entire dataset. However, Low sacrifices too much visual quality for a horror title where atmosphere matters. Medium at 1080p provides 314.7 FPS, which is still exceptionally high and only 69.7 FPS below Low. The sweet spot is High at 1080p with 255.3 FPS — this is 92.6 FPS above Ultra’s 162.7 FPS, and the visual downgrade from Ultra to High is far less noticeable than the frame rate penalty suggests. Benchmark results indicate that High is the recommended preset for this combination of AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, as it maintains high refresh rate capability at every resolution tested.

How This Combo Ranks

The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti ranks 151st out of 1,741 tested combos in Downfall. This places the combo in the top 8.7% of all configurations tested for this game. The rank reflects a strong overall pairing, but it is not near the very top of the leaderboard, suggesting that other combinations of newer or more specialized hardware can extract higher frame rates in this title. The combo’s position is notable given that the CPU itself sits at the 94th percentile among all CPUs in average benchmark score, while the GPU sits at the 87th percentile among all GPUs.

The data shows that while both components are individually strong, their combined performance in Downfall does not exceed what either component’s percentile would suggest. This indicates a balanced pairing where neither component is dramatically bottlenecking the other. The combo rank of 151 out of 1,741 means there are 150 tested configurations that outperform this setup in Downfall specifically, which is a relatively small fraction of the total field. For a 2016 horror title, this level of performance is more than adequate, and the rank reflects that the hardware is well-suited to the game’s demands without being excessive.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti features 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus, delivering 896.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The GPU’s boost clock is 2452 MHz, with a base clock of 2295 MHz. The memory operates at 1750 MHz, with 28 Gbps effective speed. These specifications contribute to the card’s 87th percentile ranking among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 52,086. The nearest rival, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080, has an identical average score of 52,085, representing a 0% delta. This puts the RTX 5070 Ti in a dead heat with the previous generation’s flagship-tier card in synthetic benchmarks.

In Downfall specifically, the GPU’s memory capacity and bandwidth appear sufficient for the game’s demands. The 16 GB VRAM buffer is more than adequate for a horror title from 2016, even at 4K resolution with Ultra settings. The measured FPS at 4K Ultra is 70.3, which is the lowest result in the entire dataset. This suggests that the GPU is being pushed hard at 4K Ultra, but the 70.3 FPS result remains playable. The GPU’s FP32 compute of 43.94 TFLOPS and texture rate of 686.6 GTexel/s provide substantial raw processing power, which the data shows translates into strong performance at lower resolutions where the GPU is less likely to be the limiting factor.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured results span from 162.7 FPS at Ultra to 384.4 FPS at Low. Medium produces 314.7 FPS, while High achieves 255.3 FPS. The progression from Low to Ultra shows a consistent decline, with the largest single step being from High to Ultra at 92.6 FPS. This indicates that Ultra settings at 1080p impose a significant cost relative to High, and the difference between Low and Medium (69.7 FPS) is smaller than the difference between High and Ultra.

At 2560x1440, the results are 270.5 FPS at Low, 223.7 FPS at Medium, 182.5 FPS at High, and 114.5 FPS at Ultra. The step from High to Ultra at 1440p is 68 FPS, which is again the largest drop between consecutive settings. The 1440p results are uniformly lower than 1080p by a consistent margin, with the difference ranging from 86.1 FPS at Low to 48.2 FPS at Ultra. This suggests that resolution scaling has a relatively uniform effect across settings, with a slightly larger absolute impact at lower settings.

At 3840x2160, the results are 169 FPS at Low, 139.6 FPS at Medium, 112 FPS at High, and 70.3 FPS at Ultra. The 4K Ultra result is the only measured value below 100 FPS in the entire dataset. The step from High to Ultra at 4K is 41.7 FPS, which is the smallest absolute drop between High and Ultra across all resolutions. This indicates that at 4K, the GPU is already near its limits, and the additional cost of Ultra settings is somewhat mitigated by the overall lower performance ceiling.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS drop from 1080p to 4K reveals how the workload scales with pixel count. At Low settings, the drop from 1080p (384.4 FPS) to 4K (169 FPS) represents a 56% reduction. At Medium, the drop is from 314.7 FPS to 139.6 FPS, a 55.6% reduction. At High, the drop is from 255.3 FPS to 112 FPS, a 56.1% reduction. At Ultra, the drop is from 162.7 FPS to 70.3 FPS, a 56.8% reduction. The consistency of these percentages — all falling between 55.6% and 56.8% — indicates that the scaling is primarily resolution-driven rather than settings-driven.

This uniformity suggests that the limiting component at higher resolutions is the GPU, as the frame rate scales almost exactly with the pixel count increase from 1080p to 4K (which is a 4x increase in pixels, but the FPS does not drop by 4x, indicating that the GPU has headroom). The fact that the percentage drop is nearly identical across all settings implies that the CPU is not becoming a bottleneck at lower resolutions — if it were, the 1080p results would show less scaling relative to 1440p. The data shows that the RTX 5070 Ti is the primary driver of performance at all resolutions tested, with the Ryzen 9 9900X providing sufficient support at 1080p to reach 384.4 FPS at Low.

FAQ

Q: What is the best preset for 4K gaming with this combo?

A: High preset at 4K delivers 112 FPS, which is 41.7 FPS above Ultra’s 70.3 FPS. High provides smooth gameplay while maintaining visual quality, making it the recommended 4K preset.

Q: How does this combo rank among all tested configurations in Downfall?

A: This combo ranks 151st out of 1,741 tested combos, placing it in the top 8.7% of all configurations for this game.

Q: Is the RTX 5070 Ti comparable to the RTX 4080 in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The RTX 5070 Ti has an average benchmark score of 52,086, while the RTX 4080 scores 52,085 — a 0% delta, meaning they are statistically identical in average performance.

Q: What is the highest FPS measured in this dataset?

A: The highest measured result is 384.4 FPS at 1920x1080 with Low settings. The lowest is 70.3 FPS at 3840x2160 with Ultra settings.

Q: Does the CPU or GPU limit performance at 1080p?

A: The data shows consistent resolution scaling percentages across settings (55.6% to 56.8% drops from 1080p to 4K), indicating the GPU is the primary limiter at all resolutions, with the CPU providing sufficient headroom.

Q: What is the memory configuration of the RTX 5070 Ti?

A: The GPU has 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus with 896.0 GB/s bandwidth, operating at 1750 MHz with 28 Gbps effective speed.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X is a 12-core, 24-thread processor from the 9000 series, based on the Zen 5 architecture with the Granite Ridge codename. It has a base clock of 4.40 GHz and a boost clock of 5.60 GHz, with a TDP of 120 W. The processor is built on a 4 nm TSMC process and supports DDR5 memory with dual-channel access. The CPU’s L3 cache is 64 MB shared, with 1 MB L2 per core and 80 KB L1 per core. The CPU achieves a 94th percentile ranking among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 54,450.

In Downfall, the CPU’s role appears to be supportive rather than limiting. The 1080p Low result of 384.4 FPS demonstrates that the CPU can drive very high frame rates without becoming a bottleneck. The CPU’s 3DMark single-thread score of 1,286 and multi-thread score of 13,929 indicate strong per-core performance, which is important for a game like Downfall that may not scale perfectly across all 24 threads. The Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 46,438 shows substantial multi-threaded capability, but the game’s results suggest that single-thread performance is more relevant, given the consistent scaling pattern across resolutions.

The CPU’s nearest rival, the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D, has an average score of 54,681, which is 0.4% higher — a negligible difference. The Intel Core i7-14700F scores 54,097, which is 0.7% lower. These close margins indicate that the Ryzen 9 9900X is well-positioned among its peers, and in Downfall, the CPU choice is unlikely to be the deciding factor in performance. The measured FPS data confirms that the RTX 5070 Ti is the dominant component in this pairing, with the CPU providing ample support to avoid bottlenecking even at the highest frame rates measured.