A NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super paired with a AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D lands around 53 fps in Helldivers 2 at 1440p with Ultra+ textures, Ultra shadows and DLSS Quality. Ray tracing is left off on this pairing. These values come from the same model the interactive optimizer uses, applied to this exact hardware pair rather than a generic preset.
Based on benchmark data and community reports for this hardware combination — treat as an estimate, not a guarantee. How we calculate this.
Helldivers 2 scales with chaos. A tutorial run tells you nothing; a level 8 bug breach with four players, orbital strikes and a hundred simultaneous enemies is the real workload, and it is dominated by particle effects rather than terrain or textures.
For that reason the effects and particle settings are the ones to cut first. Aiming feels dramatically better at a locked 90 FPS on medium settings than at a swinging 60–120 on high.
Covers live four-player missions on high difficulties, where particle and enemy counts are far above the tutorial.