Lockdown Protocol

Lockdown Protocol, the FPS released in March 2024, is a forgiving title for modern hardware, and the pairing of AMD's Ryzen 5 9600X with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070 proves it comprehensively. The data shows this combination clearing the 60 FPS playability threshold at every tested resolution and every preset, from 1920x1080 Low up to 3840x2160 Ultra. What follows is a measured breakdown of where the frame rates land, which component dictates them, and how the combo stacks up against the other configurations in the database.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured average frame rates from the benchmark database; minimum and maximum values were not recorded for these runs, so averages are the sole basis for verdicts.

At 1920x1080, the pairing is untouchable in practical terms. Low settings deliver 282 FPS, Medium raises the visual load and still returns 199.3 FPS, High holds 176.6 FPS, and even Ultra — the most demanding preset — averages 128.6 FPS. The spread between Low and Ultra at this resolution is enormous: dropping from Ultra to Low nearly buys back well over double the frame rate.

At 2560x1440, the numbers remain high. Low averages 205.2 FPS, Medium 148.9 FPS, High 128 FPS, and Ultra 97.5 FPS. Note the interesting overlap: 1440p Ultra (97.5 FPS) runs slower than 1080p Ultra (128.6 FPS) but faster than what many weaker configurations manage at 1080p Medium. That tells you the RTX 5070 has headroom to spare at this pixel count.

At 3840x2160, the story tightens but holds. Low averages 132.9 FPS, Medium 96.5 FPS, High 84.4 FPS, and Ultra 61.5 FPS. The Ultra result is the closest any configuration in this dataset comes to the 60 FPS threshold — just 1.5 frames above it. That makes 4K Ultra technically playable per the database's standard, but with the thinnest of margins; any scene more demanding than the benchmark pass could dip below it.

Across all twelve measured cells, no result falls under 60 FPS. The lowest recorded average is the 61.5 FPS at 4K Ultra; the highest is the 282 FPS at 1080p Low.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling between resolutions tells you clearly which component is doing the heavy lifting. Going from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 — quadrupling the pixel count — costs frame rate at every preset, and the cost is substantial: Ultra drops from 128.6 to 61.5 FPS, High from 176.6 to 84.4, Medium from 199.3 to 96.5, and Low from 282 to 132.9. Frame rates falling steeply as resolution climbs is the classic signature of a GPU-bound game, and Lockdown Protocol behaves that way on this combo. The RTX 5070, with its 6144 shading units, 12 GB of GDDR7 on a 192-bit bus, and 672 GB/s of memory bandwidth, is the component setting the ceiling at every tested resolution.

The CPU's role is to stay out of the way, and the Ryzen 5 9600X does. Its single-thread performance is strong in the database's own numbers: a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2183.5, a Geekbench single-core score of 2923, and a PassMark single-thread result of 4570. Multi-threaded scores — Geekbench multi at 14438, Cinebench R23 multi at 17528.5, PassMark multithread at 30027 — are respectable for a 6-core, 12-thread part, but Lockdown Protocol never leans on them hard enough for that to be the limiting factor here. The evidence is in the preset scaling: at a fixed resolution, stepping presets changes frame rate dramatically (1080p spans 128.6 to 282 FPS between Ultra and Low), which is a GPU-side workload shift, not a CPU-side one.

There is a hint of a CPU ceiling at the extreme low end. The 1080p Low result of 282 FPS represents the highest frame rate the pairing produces, and at that point the GPU's job is nearly trivial — pushing that much harder would require more CPU throughput than the game or the chip delivers. For a competitive FPS player chasing maximum refresh, that's the relevant corner. For everyone else, the GPU is the component that matters, and at 1440p and 4K it is unquestionably in charge.

Best Settings per Resolution

Using the database's 60 FPS playable threshold, the most demanding preset that clears the bar at each resolution:

• 1920x1080: Ultra at 128.6 FPS. Every preset is playable, and Ultra more than doubles the threshold. There is no reason to drop settings at this resolution; the headroom is over 68 frames per second beyond the bar.
• 2560x1440: Ultra at 97.5 FPS. Again, all four presets clear 60 FPS, and Ultra does it with 37.5 frames to spare. Medium (148.9 FPS) and High (128 FPS) offer very high refresh-rate territory if that matters to your display.
• 3840x2160: Ultra at 61.5 FPS. Technically the best playable preset, but the margin is only 1.5 FPS. The safer choice for consistent play is High at 84.4 FPS, which trades a small amount of visual fidelity for a buffer of more than 24 frames per second over the threshold.

In short: max the game out at 1080p and 1440p, and make a judgment call at 4K depending on how tolerant you are of a borderline Ultra result.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 5 9600X + RTX 5070 run Lockdown Protocol at 4K?

A: Yes. Every preset at 3840x2160 averages at or above 60 FPS, from Low at 132.9 FPS up to Ultra at 61.5 FPS. Ultra passes the playability threshold, though narrowly.

Q: What is the single highest frame rate this combo achieves in the game?

A: 282 FPS, at 1920x1080 on the Low preset.

Q: Does the game run at 144 FPS or higher for high-refresh displays?

A: At 1920x1080, yes — Low (282 FPS), Medium (199.3 FPS), and High (176.6 FPS) all exceed 144 FPS. At 2560x1440, Low (205.2 FPS) and Medium (148.9 FPS) do. At 3840x2160, only Low (132.9 FPS) comes close but falls short of 144.

Q: Is the CPU ever the bottleneck?

A: Not at 1440p or 4K, where frame rates scale down with resolution — a GPU-bound pattern. Only at 1080p Low, where the result is 282 FPS, does the CPU plausibly become the ceiling.

Q: What CPU is the Ryzen 5 9600X, briefly?

A: A 6-core, 12-thread Zen 5 desktop chip on the AM5 socket, built on TSMC's 4 nm process, with a base clock of 3.90 GHz, a boost clock of 5.40 GHz, and a 65 W TDP.

Q: What GPU is the RTX 5070, briefly?

A: A Blackwell 2.0 card on the GB205 chip, manufactured on TSMC's 5 nm node, with 12 GB of GDDR7 across a 192-bit bus, 672 GB/s of memory bandwidth, and 30.87 TFLOPS of FP32 compute.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the database's tested configurations for Lockdown Protocol, this pairing ranks 651 out of 3714 combos. That places it in roughly the top fifth of all tested hardware pairings for this game — consistent with the component-level percentiles, where the 9600X sits in the 81st percentile against all CPUs and the RTX 5070 in the 82nd percentile against all GPUs.

For context on the components themselves: the 9600X's average benchmark score of 29713 lands it within a fraction of a percent of its nearest rivals — 0.2 percent ahead of the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5755GE (29656), 0.5 percent behind the Ryzen 7 7840H (29868), 0.6 percent behind the Ryzen 7 5800XT (29879), and 0.8 percent behind the Ryzen 7 8845HS (29955). On the GPU side, the RTX 5070's average score of 40377 sits 0.1 percent ahead of the AMD Radeon Pro 580 (40318), 0.8 percent ahead of the Radeon Pro WX 7100 (40063), and 2 percent ahead of the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile (39568), while trailing the Radeon Pro 5300 (40870) by 1.2 percent.

The takeaway is straightforward: neither component is an outlier, but both are comfortably above the median, and in a GPU-bound title like this one that combination translates into a ranking that beats roughly five out of every six tested configurations.

The Verdict

Yes — this PC runs Lockdown Protocol, and it does so without compromise at two of the three tested resolutions. At 1920x1080, every preset from Low through Ultra is playable, with Ultra averaging 128.6 FPS. At 2560x1440, every preset is playable, with Ultra averaging 97.5 FPS. At 3840x2160, every preset also clears the 60 FPS bar, with Ultra averaging 61.5 FPS — a pass, but a tight one; High at 84.4 FPS is the dependable 4K choice. The game rewards the pairing's GPU strength, the Ryzen 5 9600X never gets in the way, and the only decision a player has to make is whether a 1.5-frame margin at 4K Ultra is worth taking.