Lockdown Protocol

Lockdown Protocol is a demanding FPS released on March 11, 2024, and this pairing — the AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D driving an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 — handles it without compromise at every tested resolution. The measured data shows all four presets at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K clearing the 60 FPS playable threshold, with even 4K Ultra averaging 83 FPS. This is a top-tier combination: the RTX 5090 sits in the 92nd percentile of all tested GPUs, and the Ryzen 5 7500X3D in the 89th percentile of all tested CPUs. Out of 3,714 tested hardware combinations for this game, this combo ranks 137th.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the ceiling is set by the CPU as much as the GPU, and the numbers are high across the board. Low averages 275 FPS, Medium averages 242 FPS with a minimum of 206 and a maximum of 278, High averages 231 FPS, and Ultra averages 175 FPS. Even the Ultra preset — the heaviest visual configuration — holds an average well past triple digits. The Medium preset's minimum of 206 FPS indicates frame times stay smooth even in the heaviest scenes the benchmark captured.

At 2560x1440, the RTX 5090 stretches its legs. Low averages 248 FPS, Medium averages 196 FPS with a minimum of 167 and a maximum of 226, High averages 171 FPS, and Ultra averages 128 FPS. The Ultra average of 128 FPS at 1440p is a comfortable margin above the 60 FPS threshold — more than double it — and the Medium minimum of 167 FPS means dips stay deep into high-refresh territory.

At 3840x2160, the results remain strong. Low averages 178 FPS, Medium averages 127 FPS with a minimum of 108 and a maximum of 146, High averages 111 FPS, and Ultra averages 83 FPS. The 4K Medium minimum of 108 FPS is the standout data point: even the worst recorded moments at that preset stay above the 60 FPS line with room to spare. 4K Ultra at 83 FPS average is comfortably playable on a high-refresh 4K display.

The scaling pattern is consistent: from 1080p to 1440p, average FPS drops by roughly a quarter to a third depending on the preset, and from 1440p to 4K it drops again by a similar proportion. Nothing falls off a cliff.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 5 7500X3D + RTX 5090 run Lockdown Protocol at 4K Ultra?

A: Yes. The measured average at 3840x2160 Ultra is 83 FPS, comfortably above the 60 FPS playable threshold. Every preset at every tested resolution is playable on this combo.

Q: What is the best-looking setting this combo can run?

A: Ultra, at all three resolutions. At 4K it averages 83 FPS, at 1440p 128 FPS, and at 1080p 175 FPS. There is no need to drop presets to reach playable frame rates anywhere.

Q: How frame-rate-consistent is the experience?

A: Min/max data was captured at the Medium preset. The tightest spread is at 1080p Medium (206 minimum to 278 maximum against a 242 average), and 4K Medium holds a 108 minimum against a 127 average — dips stay proportionally close to the average.

Q: How does this combo rank against other tested pairings for this game?

A: It ranks 137th out of 3,714 tested combinations, placing it in the top tier of results for Lockdown Protocol.

Q: Is the Ryzen 5 7500X3D a capable CPU in general terms?

A: The data says yes. It posts a PassMark single-thread score of 3494, a multithread score of 25047, and sits in the 89th percentile of all tested CPUs. Its nearest rivals — the Intel Core Ultra X9 388H, Core i9-13950HX, Ryzen AI Max 385, and Core i5-14600 — land within 0.7 percent of its average benchmark score of 44573.

Q: How strong is the RTX 5090 in benchmark terms?

A: It averages 79842 across its benchmark suite, sits in the 92nd percentile of all GPUs, and posts a PassMark G3D score of 39650 with a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 18355.

CPU and GPU Roles

The resolution scaling tells you where the bottleneck sits. From 1080p Low (275 FPS) to 1440p Low (248 FPS), average FPS drops by only about 10 percent while pixel count rises by 78 percent — that flattening at the top end is the classic signature of a CPU-limited regime. The Ryzen 5 7500X3D's single-thread score of 3494 and its 96 MB of shared L3 cache give it the frame-delivery speed to feed the RTX 5090, but at 1080p the game engine is drawing frames as fast as the CPU can issue them, not as fast as the GPU can render them.

As resolution climbs, the balance shifts to the GPU. From 1440p Ultra (128 FPS) to 4K Ultra (83 FPS), average FPS drops by about 35 percent — a much larger proportional loss than the 1080p-to-1440p step at the same preset (175 to 128, roughly 27 percent). That deepening decline indicates the RTX 5090 is now doing real work per frame, and its 1.79 TB/s of memory bandwidth and 104.8 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput are what keep 4K Ultra above 80 FPS.

Practical takeaway: at 1080p, upgrading the GPU further would gain almost nothing in this game — the CPU and game logic cap the frame rate. At 1440p and especially 4K, the GPU is the component doing the heavy lifting, and the RTX 5090's headroom shows in the wide gap between the Ultra and Low presets at those resolutions.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the data identifies four rivals clustered within a fraction of a percent of the Ryzen 5 7500X3D's average score of 44573. The Intel Core i5-14600 is marginally faster at 44889 (0.7 percent ahead), the Intel Core Ultra X9 388H sits at 44466 (0.2 percent behind), the Intel Core i9-13950HX at 44342 (0.5 percent behind), and the AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 at 44309 (0.6 percent behind). Any of these would deliver effectively identical CPU-side behavior in Lockdown Protocol — in a CPU-bound 1080p scenario, differences of under one percent are invisible.

On the GPU side, the nearest-rivals list is led by the NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB at 79605 (0.3 percent behind), followed by the Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB at 79396 (0.6 percent behind), the AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT at 78940 (1.1 percent behind), and the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X at 80959 (1.4 percent ahead). The overall benchmark averages of these parts land close to the RTX 5090's 79842, though the RTX 5090's specific strengths — 170 RT cores, 680 tensor cores, DirectX 12 Ultimate support, and 32 GB of GDDR7 — are what the measured Lockdown Protocol results reflect.

Note the asymmetry: the GPU's rivals sit within roughly 1.4 percent of its average, and the CPU's within 0.7 percent. This is a well-balanced pairing with no weak side.

How This Combo Ranks

Out of 3,714 tested hardware combinations for Lockdown Protocol, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D plus RTX 5090 ranks 137th. That places it firmly in the upper echelon — roughly the top four percent of all tested pairings for this game. Given the RTX 5090's 92nd-percentile standing among all GPUs and the CPU's 89th-percentile standing among all CPUs, that ranking is exactly what the component-level data predicts: two near-flagship parts combining into a near-flagship result.

The ranking also contextualizes the raw FPS numbers. A 4K Ultra average of 83 FPS is not merely "playable" — it is a result only a small fraction of tested systems achieve. The same applies to the 128 FPS at 1440p Ultra and 175 FPS at 1080p Ultra.

The Verdict

Yes — emphatically. This combination runs Lockdown Protocol at every tested resolution and every tested preset above the 60 FPS threshold:

• 1920x1080: All settings playable; best is Ultra at a 175 FPS average.
• 2560x1440: All settings playable; best is Ultra at a 128 FPS average.
• 3840x2160: All settings playable; best is Ultra at an 83 FPS average.

There is no configuration decision to make here. Max out the game at 4K and it still averages 83 FPS; the Medium-preset minimum of 108 FPS at 4K confirms that even momentary dips stay well clear of the threshold. For a high-refresh monitor, dropping to 1440p or 1080p pushes averages past 170 FPS. The Ryzen 5 7500X3D and RTX 5090 rank 137th of 3,714 tested combos for this game, and the measured data shows why: nothing in Lockdown Protocol stresses this build beyond its comfort zone.