Downfall

Downfall, a horror title, shows a wide performance envelope for the Intel Core Ultra 7 165H paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile. Measured FPS ranges from 263 FPS at 1920x1080 Low to 49 FPS at 3840x2160 Ultra. The CPU is a 16-core, 22-thread Meteor Lake processor with a 3.80 GHz base clock and 5.00 GHz boost clock, while the GPU is a Blackwell 2.0 mobile part with 12 GB of GDDR7 memory.

FAQ

Q: What CPU is in this combo and what are its core and thread counts?

A: The Intel Core Ultra 7 165H has 16 cores and 22 threads, with a base clock of 3.80 GHz, a boost clock of 5.00 GHz, and a 28 W TDP.

Q: What graphics memory does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile use?

A: It uses 12 GB of GDDR7 on a 192-bit memory bus, with 672.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth and a memory clock of 1750 MHz, listed as 28 Gbps effective.

Q: How does this combo rank in Downfall?

A: The combo ranks 1392 out of 3716 tested combinations, with the CPU at the 84th percentile of all CPUs and the GPU at the 80th percentile of all GPUs.

Q: Which measured rows include minimum and maximum FPS?

A: Only Medium settings include min and max FPS: at 3840x2160 the range is 81 to 110 FPS, at 2560x1440 it is 130 to 177 FPS, and at 1920x1080 it is 183 to 247 FPS.

Q: What are the 1080p measured results across presets?

A: At 1920x1080, Low averages 263 FPS, Medium averages 215 FPS, High averages 176 FPS, and Ultra averages 110 FPS.

Q: What are the 4K measured results across presets?

A: At 3840x2160, Low averages 117 FPS, Medium averages 96 FPS, High averages 78 FPS, and Ultra averages 49 FPS.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile is the primary rendering component in this combo. The GPU is built on TSMC's 5 nm process, with the GB205 chip containing 31,100 million transistors on a 263 mm² die. Its base clock is 847 MHz and its boost clock is 1447 MHz. The shading array consists of 5888 shading units, 184 texture mapping units, and 80 ROPs, alongside 46 ray tracing cores and 184 tensor cores. These specifications produce a pixel rate of 115.8 GPixel/s, a texture rate of 266.2 GTexel/s, and 17.04 TFLOPS of FP32 and FP16 compute.

The memory subsystem is equally important for this horror title. The GPU has 12 GB of GDDR7 on a 192-bit bus, with a bandwidth of 672.0 GB/s. The memory clock is 1750 MHz, or 28 Gbps effective. At 3840x2160 Medium, the measured average FPS is 96, with a minimum of 81 and a maximum of 110. At 3840x2160 High, the average is 78 FPS, and at 3840x2160 Ultra, it falls to 49 FPS. The drop from High to Ultra at 4K indicates that the GPU's compute and memory resources are heavily taxed by the highest preset.

The GPU's API support includes DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4, and it connects over PCIe 5.0 x16. Its TDP is 60 W. In synthetic benchmarks, the GPU scores 143870 in Geekbench OpenCL and 139213 in Geekbench Vulkan, with a Passmark G3D score of 24004 and a Passmark GPU compute score of 10101. The average GPU benchmark score is 35435, placing it at the 80th percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rivals by average score include the NVIDIA Quadro GV100 at 35520 with a deltaPct of -0.2, the AMD Radeon Pro Duo at 35860 with -1.2, the NVIDIA A2 at 34690 with 2.1, and the NVIDIA T1000 at 36289 with -2.4.

How This Combo Ranks

In Downfall, this specific processor and graphics card combination ranks 1392nd out of 3716 tested combos. The data is marked as measured, meaning the rank comes from actual runs rather than estimates. The CPU's individual standing is the 84th percentile of all CPUs, and the GPU's individual standing is the 80th percentile of all GPUs. Despite those strong component percentiles, the in-game combo rank does not reach the same tier, which suggests that this particular pairing is strong on paper but lands in the upper-middle region of this game's test database.

The CPU's average benchmark score is 34083. Its nearest rival is the Intel Core Ultra 5 338H, which scores 33989 with a deltaPct of 0.3. Other nearby CPUs include the AMD EPYC 4244P at 34220 with -0.4, the AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 at 34222 with -0.4, and the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X at 34260 with -0.5. The GPU's average benchmark score is 35435. Its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA Quadro GV100 at 35520 with -0.2, the AMD Radeon Pro Duo at 35860 with -1.2, the NVIDIA A2 at 34690 with 2.1, and the NVIDIA T1000 at 36289 with -2.4. These synthetic scores bracket the components closely, but the measured FPS in Downfall determines the final rank.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The full measured FPS table for the Intel Core Ultra 7 165H with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile is below.

| Resolution | Settings | Avg FPS | Min FPS | Max FPS |

| 3840x2160 | High | 78 | — | — |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 117 | — | — |

| 3840x2160 | Medium | 96 | 81 | 110 |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra | 49 | — | — |

| 2560x1440 | High | 126 | — | — |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 188 | — | — |

| 2560x1440 | Medium | 154 | 130 | 177 |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra | 79 | — | — |

| 1920x1080 | High | 176 | — | — |

| 1920x1080 | Low | 263 | — | — |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 215 | 183 | 247 |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 110 | — | — |

Only the Medium rows carry minimum and maximum FPS data. Low, High, and Ultra rows list only the average FPS, so frame consistency for those presets cannot be derived from this data set.

Settings Recommendations

The measured results provide a clear preset hierarchy at each resolution. At 1920x1080, Low averages 263 FPS, Medium averages 215 FPS, High averages 176 FPS, and Ultra averages 110 FPS. For maximum frame rate at 1080p, Low is the strongest measured preset. For a balance of quality and speed, Medium is a strong choice, with a minimum of 183 FPS and a maximum of 247 FPS.

At 2560x1440, Low averages 188 FPS, Medium averages 154 FPS, High averages 126 FPS, and Ultra averages 79 FPS. High remains a playable quality preset at 1440p, while Medium gives additional headroom and shows a minimum of 130 FPS and a maximum of 177 FPS. Low is the only preset that stays above 188 FPS at this resolution.

At 3840x2160, Low averages 117 FPS, Medium averages 96 FPS, High averages 78 FPS, and Ultra averages 49 FPS. Ultra is the weakest measured result and drops below the averages of every other preset. The highest-quality preset that remains near the 4K High result of 78 FPS is High itself, while Medium offers better average headroom at 96 FPS and a minimum of 81 FPS. Across all resolutions, High is the most consistent quality-focused preset, producing 176 FPS at 1080p, 126 FPS at 1440p, and 78 FPS at 4K.

CPU Role

The Intel Core Ultra 7 165H is a Core Ultra Series 1 processor based on Meteor Lake, built on Intel's 7 nm process and packaged for Intel BGA 2049. It has 16 cores and 22 threads. Its base clock is 3.80 GHz and its boost clock is 5.00 GHz. The cache hierarchy includes 112 KB of L1 cache per core, 2 MB of L2 cache per core, and 24 MB of shared L3 cache. Memory support is DDR5, depending on the motherboard, with a dual-channel memory bus and 89.6 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The CPU also includes integrated Arc Xe-LPG graphics with 128 execution units.

Synthetic results show a strong mobile processor. The Cinebench R23 multicore score is 14551 and the single-core score is 1759. Cinebench R20 scores are 9233 multicore and 1303 single-core, while Cinebench R15 scores are 2641 multicore and 257 single-core. Passmark reports a multithread score of 25933 and a single-thread score of 3509. The CPU's average benchmark score is 34083, placing it at the 84th percentile of all CPUs. Its nearest rivals are the Intel Core Ultra 5 338H at 33989 with a deltaPct of 0.3, the AMD EPYC 4244P at 34220 with -0.4, the AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 at 34222 with -0.4, and the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X at 34260 with -0.5.

In Downfall, the CPU's role is most visible at low resolutions and low settings. At 1920x1080 Low, the combo reaches 263 FPS, a result that requires the processor to sustain very high frame delivery. Even at 1920x1080 Medium, the minimum FPS is 183, indicating that the CPU can keep the frame pipeline fed when the GPU is not overburdened. The boost clock of 5.00 GHz and the 22 threads give this combo enough CPU headroom to avoid bottlenecking at 1080p, though the 4K results show that the GPU becomes the limiting factor as resolution increases.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data shows a consistent resolution scaling pattern across every preset. At Low, the average FPS moves from 263 at 1920x1080 to 188 at 2560x1440 and then to 117 at 3840x2160. At Medium, the averages are 215, 154, and 96 for the same resolution progression. At High, the averages are 176, 126, and 78. At Ultra, the averages are 110, 79, and 49.

This pattern indicates that the limiting component changes as resolution increases. At 1920x1080 Low, the CPU is capable of producing 263 FPS, which means the processor is not the dominant constraint at low resolution. As resolution rises to 3840x2160, the GPU must drive a much larger pixel workload, and the average FPS drops at every preset. The 4K Low result of 117 FPS versus the 1080p Low result of 263 FPS shows the scale of GPU demand at higher resolutions.

The GPU's 672.0 GB/s memory bandwidth and 12 GB GDDR7 frame buffer are fixed resources, and the measured FPS decline from 1080p to 4K is consistent with a GPU-bound scenario at high resolution. The CPU has enough multithreaded and single-thread performance to reach very high frame rates at 1080p, but the RTX 5070 Ti Mobile's throughput and memory subsystem become the decisive factor as the rendering resolution scales upward.