Lockdown Protocol

Lockdown Protocol, a first-person shooter released in March 2024, pushes this pairing to its limits. The database contains measured frame rates for the AMD Ryzen 5 4600G paired with the AMD Radeon RX 570 across three resolutions and four presets, and the recorded results show a configuration that clears the playable threshold only at one resolution and one preset. The data shows 77.3 FPS at 1080p Low, with every other combination falling short of 60 FPS. This analysis breaks down where the pairing holds up, where it collapses, and what nearby hardware behaves the same way.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 5 4600G + RX 570 run Lockdown Protocol at 60 FPS?

A: Yes, but only at 1920x1080 with the Low preset, where the measured average is 77.3 FPS. At 1440p the best result is 56.2 FPS on Low, and at 4K the best result is 34.8 FPS on Low, so neither of those resolutions reaches the 60 FPS playable threshold on any preset.

Q: What is the highest preset this PC can use at 1080p while staying at or above 60 FPS?

A: Low is the only preset that clears the bar, at 77.3 FPS average. The next step up, Medium, averages 57.5 FPS, which falls just short of the threshold.

Q: How demanding is Lockdown Protocol at 4K on this hardware?

A: Very. Even the Low preset averages only 34.8 FPS at 3840x2160, and Ultra drops to 17 FPS. No preset at 4K comes close to playable frame rates on this pairing.

Q: What CPU is in this configuration?

A: The AMD Ryzen 5 4600G, a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 2 (Renoir) processor built on TSMC's 7 nm process, with a 3.70 GHz base clock, a 4.20 GHz boost clock, and a 65 W TDP. It sits in the 71st percentile of all CPUs in the database.

Q: What GPU is in this configuration?

A: The AMD Radeon RX 570, a Polaris 20 chip on GlobalFoundries' 14 nm node with 2048 shading units, 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus delivering 224.0 GB/s of bandwidth, and 5.095 TFLOPS of FP32 compute. It ranks in the 74th percentile of all GPUs and is end-of-life.

Q: How does this CPU and GPU combination rank in Lockdown Protocol specifically?

A: It ranks 3510 out of 3714 tested combinations in the database for this game, placing it near the bottom of the recorded field.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data points clearly to a GPU-bound configuration. Moving from 1080p to 1440p on the Low preset drops the average from 77.3 FPS to 56.2 FPS, a decline of roughly 27 percent for a 78 percent increase in pixels rendered. Extending to 4K Low costs another large chunk, landing at 34.8 FPS. When frame rates fall this steeply and this consistently as resolution rises while the CPU load stays effectively constant, the graphics card is the limiting component.

The pattern repeats across presets. At 1080p, going from Low to Ultra costs 39.6 FPS (77.3 down to 37.7). At 1440p the same jump costs 27.6 FPS (56.2 down to 28.6). Settings scaling of this magnitude, where visual quality changes alone cut frame rates by half, indicates the RX 570's 4 GB of GDDR5 and its Polis-class throughput are saturated well before the processor becomes a factor.

The Ryzen 5 4600G is not the constraint here. Its database scores, including 13593 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 1919 in single-core, sit in the 71st percentile of all CPUs, and for a fast-paced FPS title that class of processor is more than sufficient to feed frames to the renderer. If the GPU were replaced with something substantially faster while keeping this CPU, the results would scale upward; conversely, upgrading the CPU alone would change almost nothing, because the recorded bottleneck sits squarely on the RX 570 at every tested resolution and preset.

Best Settings per Resolution

At 1920x1080, the only preset that holds at or above 60 FPS is Low, at 77.3 FPS average. Medium at 57.5 FPS misses the threshold by a small margin, so players who insist on 60 FPS must stay on Low; players tolerant of a slight dip could stretch to Medium.

At 2560x1440, no preset qualifies. Low is the closest at 56.2 FPS, about 4 frames short of the threshold, and Medium falls to 43.1 FPS.

At 3840x2160, no preset qualifies by a wide margin. Low manages 34.8 FPS, Medium 24.2 FPS, High 24.1 FPS, and Ultra 17 FPS. The near-identical Medium and High averages at 4K, separated by a single tenth of a frame, suggest the GPU is so bandwidth- and fill-rate-limited at that resolution that the preset difference barely registers.

The Verdict

The verdict from the recorded data is qualified: this PC can run Lockdown Protocol, but only in a narrow window. At 1920x1080 on the Low preset it delivers 77.3 FPS average, clearing the 60 FPS threshold with room to spare. Every other resolution and preset combination in the database fails: 1080p Medium, High, and Ultra all fall below 60 FPS, and at 1440p and 4K no preset reaches even 57 FPS.

Competitive FPS players, who benefit most from high frame rates, will find the 1080p Low configuration acceptable. Players who want higher visual fidelity or a higher-resolution display will need different hardware, because this pairing's measured ceiling sits well below those targets.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the database's nearest rivals for the Ryzen 5 4600G are all within a fraction of a percent of its average benchmark score of 17507. The AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5355GE sits 0.1 percent behind, the Intel Core 7 150U sits 0.6 percent ahead, the AMD Ryzen 3 8300GE sits 0.6 percent ahead at an average score of 17614, and the Intel Core i3-14100T leads by 0.8 percent. Any of these processors would produce effectively identical results in Lockdown Protocol given how GPU-bound the title is on this pairing, and since the CPU is not the limiter here, substituting any of them changes nothing about the verdict.

On the GPU side, the RX 570's average benchmark score of 28766 has equally close neighbors: the AMD Radeon RX 6800M at 0.4 percent ahead, the AMD Radeon R9 M295X at 0.7 percent behind, the AMD Radeon RX 470 at 0.8 percent ahead, and the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 at 1.2 percent behind. The RX 470 in particular is a near-twin in the database records, and a system built around it with a comparable CPU would be expected to land within a frame or two of these results at every resolution and preset. Systems pairing the RX 6800M or Quadro RTX 8000 with this class of processor would behave similarly, since the database rates them within roughly one percent of the RX 570's average.

How This Combo Ranks

Out of 3714 CPU and GPU combinations tested in Lockdown Protocol in the database, this pairing ranks 3510. That places it in the bottom portion of the recorded field, with only about 200 combinations ranking below it. The rank is consistent with the measured frame rates: a configuration that clears 60 FPS at a single resolution-preset combination is, by the database's standards, among the weaker ways to experience this particular title.

The rank also contextualizes the CPU and GPU percentiles. Individually, the 4600G sits in the 71st percentile of all CPUs and the RX 570 in the 74th percentile of all GPUs, which are respectable mid-pack positions. The low game rank shows that component percentiles do not translate directly into game performance, because Lockdown Protocol's demands at higher resolutions and presets exceed what this class of GPU can deliver.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured averages from the database; minimum and maximum frame rates were not recorded for these runs.

At 1920x1080:

• Low: 77.3 FPS average, the only result across the entire test matrix that exceeds the 60 FPS threshold.
• Medium: 57.5 FPS average, roughly 2.5 frames short of the threshold.
• High: 46.4 FPS average, a 24 percent drop from Medium.
• Ultra: 37.7 FPS average, less than half of the Low result.

At 2560x1440:

• Low: 56.2 FPS average, the closest miss of the threshold at any resolution.
• Medium: 43.1 FPS average.
• High: 35.2 FPS average.
• Ultra: 28.6 FPS average, only about a third of the 1080p Low figure.

At 3840x2160:

• Low: 34.8 FPS average, less than half of the 1080p Low result despite the same preset.
• Medium: 24.2 FPS average.
• High: 24.1 FPS average, statistically indistinguishable from Medium.
• Ultra: 17 FPS average, the lowest figure in the entire matrix.

Two patterns stand out in the raw numbers. First, the Low preset degrades most gracefully with resolution, losing 42.5 percent of its frame rate between 1080p and 4K, while Ultra loses 55 percent over the same span. Second, the convergence of Medium and High at 4K (24.2 versus 24.1 FPS) signals that the RX 570's 4 GB frame buffer and 224.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth are exhausted at that resolution, so additional detail settings cost almost nothing additional in performance, the card is already at its floor. For practical play, the data supports exactly one configuration: 1920x1080 at Low, at 77.3 FPS.