Lockdown Protocol

Lockdown Protocol launched in March 2024, and this pairing of AMD's Ryzen 5 5600GT with the Radeon RX 570 asks an old Polaris card to run a brand-new FPS. The database contains measured frame rates for this exact combination across three resolutions and four presets, and the results tell a consistent story: playable only at 1080p with heavily reduced settings. The RX 570 is an end-of-life card built on a 14 nm Polaris 20 die with 2048 shading units and 4 GB of GDDR5, while the 5600GT is a current Zen 3 six-core, twelve-thread processor on the AM4 socket. The mismatch between a modern CPU and an aging GPU defines everything that follows.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the recorded averages are 77.2 FPS on Low, 54.3 FPS on Medium, 49.4 FPS on High, and 35.3 FPS on Ultra. Only the Low preset clears the 60 FPS threshold, and it does so with a comfortable margin of over seventeen frames. Medium sits nearly six frames below the playable line, meaning a small dip in demanding scenes would push it further away from smoothness rather than closer to it.

At 2560x1440, the averages drop to 58.3 FPS on Low, 42.2 FPS on Medium, 34.2 FPS on High, and 24.9 FPS on Ultra. The Low result is the cruelest number in the dataset: 1.7 frames short of 60, close enough to feel almost playable yet formally below the threshold. The remaining presets fall off rapidly, with Ultra delivering barely a third of the target frame rate.

At 3840x2160, the averages are 34.3 FPS on Low, 26.2 FPS on Medium, 21.8 FPS on High, and 16.5 FPS on Ultra. Nothing at this resolution approaches playability. Even the lightest preset manages barely more than half the 60 FPS target, and Ultra dips close to slideshow territory. The 4 GB frame buffer and 224 GB/s of memory bandwidth on the RX 570 are clearly saturated at this pixel count.

The recorded data set contains average frame rates only, with no minimum or maximum frame figures captured for these runs, so consistency under load cannot be assessed from the database.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the Lockdown Protocol results table, this CPU and GPU pairing ranks 3533 out of 3714 tested combinations. That places it in the bottom handful of percentiles for this game, near the tail end of all hardware configurations in the database. For context on the components themselves, both the 5600GT and the RX 570 sit in the 74th percentile of their respective component pools, which is respectable midrange territory in each case.

The nearest CPU rivals by aggregate score are the Intel Core i5-12490F (average score 20802, a 0.3 percent gap), the Intel Xeon 6325P (20821, 0.4 percent), the Intel Core Ultra 5 125U (20826, 0.4 percent), and the AMD EPYC 7J13 (20845, 0.5 percent). The 5600GT's own average score of 20733 lands within a fraction of a percent of all four, confirming it is a capable processor held back here by its graphics partner.

On the GPU side, the RX 570's average score of 28766 places it near the AMD Radeon RX 6800M (28874, 0.4 percent gap), the AMD Radeon R9 M295X (28580, 0.7 percent ahead of it), the AMD Radeon RX 470 (28996, 0.8 percent gap), and the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 (28421, 1.2 percent ahead of it). The component scores are close on paper, but the in-game ranking is what matters: the combination slots deep into the lower region of the Lockdown Protocol chart.

Best Settings per Resolution

Using the 60 FPS threshold, the recommended preset at each resolution is as follows.

At 1920x1080, Low is the only preset that qualifies, at 77.2 FPS average. Medium at 54.3 FPS is the nearest alternative but falls short of the line.

At 2560x1440, no preset qualifies. Low is the closest at 58.3 FPS, below the threshold by nearly two frames. There is no recommendable setting at this resolution according to the recorded data.

At 3840x2160, no preset qualifies by a wide margin. Low at 34.3 FPS is the best result available, well under half the target.

The verdict data confirms this directly: the only resolution with a playable settings list is 1920x1080, where Low is the best setting at 77.2 FPS.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 5 5600GT + RX 570 run Lockdown Protocol at 1080p?

A: Yes, but only on the Low preset. The measured average is 77.2 FPS at 1920x1080 Low, the sole configuration in the entire dataset that clears 60 FPS. Medium at the same resolution averages 54.3 FPS and does not qualify.

Q: Can this combo handle 1440p?

A: Not by the 60 FPS standard. The best 2560x1440 result is 58.3 FPS on Low, which falls just under the threshold. Medium, High, and Ultra at 1440p average 42.2, 34.2, and 24.9 FPS respectively.

Q: Is 4K possible at all?

A: No. At 3840x2160 the averages range from 34.3 FPS on Low down to 16.5 FPS on Ultra. Every preset is far below the playable threshold.

Q: How does this hardware combination rank against other tested setups for this game?

A: It ranks 3533 out of 3714 combinations, placing it near the bottom of the recorded results for Lockdown Protocol.

Q: Which component is the limiting factor?

A: The GPU. The Ryzen 5 5600GT posts a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 17272 and a single-core score of 2438, and it sits in the 74th percentile of all CPUs in the database. The RX 570, an end-of-life Polaris card with 4 GB of GDDR5, is the component that caps frame rates at every resolution tested.

Q: Does the CPU have integrated graphics as a fallback?

A: Yes, the 5600GT includes Radeon Vega 7 integrated graphics, but the benchmark data in the database covers the RX 570 pairing, and the Vega iGPU was not measured for this game.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling pattern in the measured data points squarely at GPU limitation. Moving from 1080p Low to 1440p Low, a pure resolution change with identical settings, drops the average from 77.2 to 58.3 FPS. Pushing further to 4K Low yields 34.3 FPS. Frame rate falls steeply as pixel count rises at a fixed preset, which is the classic signature of a graphics-bound configuration.

The preset scaling reinforces this. At 1080p, going from Low to Ultra cuts the average from 77.2 to 35.3 FPS, a reduction of well over half, driven by visual settings that load the GPU's 2048 shading units and 4 GB frame buffer. If the CPU were the bottleneck, raising resolution would produce flatter frame rates, because the processor load is largely independent of pixel count. That flatness is absent from this data.

The processor side of the equation looks healthy. The 5600GT's six cores and twelve threads run at a 3.60 base and 4.60 boost clock on the Zen 3 architecture, with 16 MB of L3 cache and DDR4 support over a dual-channel bus offering 51.2 GB/s of bandwidth. Its synthetic results, including a Geekbench multi-core score of 7986 and a PassMark multithread score of 20325, place it in the 74th percentile of all CPUs, essentially on par with the Core i5-12490F and within half a percent of the EPYC 7J13 by aggregate score. For a contemporary FPS like Lockdown Protocol, that class of CPU is more than sufficient. Every frame rate ceiling in this dataset is set by the Radeon RX 570.

The Verdict

This PC can run Lockdown Protocol, but only in one specific configuration: 1920x1080 at Low settings, where the measured average of 77.2 FPS clears the 60 FPS threshold with room to spare. That is the sole playable combination in the recorded data.

At 1440p the verdict is no, narrowly. Low settings average 58.3 FPS, just under the line, and every higher preset is further adrift. At 4K the verdict is a firm no across the board, with even Low managing only 34.3 FPS.

The ranking of 3533 out of 3714 tested combinations frames the situation honestly: this is one of the slower pairings in the database for this game. The Ryzen 5 5600GT is not the problem, as its benchmark profile matches processors that sit well above it in general rankings. The RX 570, a 14 nm Polaris card with a 150 W TDP and DirectX 12 support, simply lacks the throughput and memory capacity for a 2024 title at modern resolutions. Players willing to accept reduced visual fidelity at 1080p will get a smooth experience. Everyone else needs a stronger graphics card.