Lockdown Protocol

Lockdown Protocol is a demanding FPS released on March 11, 2024, and the pairing of AMD's Ryzen 5 9600X with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080 handles it comfortably at every resolution tested. The data shows measured frame rates spanning from 79.7 FPS at 4K Ultra to 351.8 FPS at 1080p Low, meaning this configuration clears the 60 FPS playability threshold at all four presets across all three resolutions. The Ryzen 5 9600X — a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 5 processor on the AM5 socket — sits in the 81st percentile of all tested CPUs, while the RTX 5080, a Blackwell 2.0 card with 16 GB of GDDR7, ranks in the 87th percentile of all tested GPUs. Together they place 122nd out of 3714 tested combinations in this specific game, a strong placement that reflects both components punching above typical mid-tier expectations.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured averages from this exact hardware pairing; minimum and maximum frame rates were not captured in this dataset, so averages are the definitive metric here.

At 1920x1080, the configuration is untouchable by Lockdown Protocol's demands. Low settings average 351.8 FPS, Medium rises off an already extreme baseline at 253.4 FPS, High lands at 217.6 FPS, and even the Ultra preset holds a 166 FPS average. Every single 1080p result is more than double the 60 FPS playability threshold, and the Ultra figure is nearly triple it.

At 2560x1440, the pattern holds with a predictable step down. Low averages 259.6 FPS, Medium 183.3 FPS, High 161 FPS, and Ultra 121.5 FPS. Even the heaviest preset at 1440p clears 60 FPS by more than a factor of two, which means competitive players can run High at 1440p and still exceed 160 FPS on average.

At 3840x2160, the RTX 5080's 960 GB/s of memory bandwidth and 56.28 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput continue to deliver. Low averages 167.2 FPS, Medium 118.7 FPS, High 104.5 FPS, and Ultra 79.7 FPS. The Ultra result is the closest any configuration comes to the threshold in this dataset, but it still holds a comfortable margin — roughly a third higher than the 60 FPS bar.

Across presets, the spread from Low to Ultra at any given resolution is moderate rather than catastrophic: at 4K, dropping from Ultra to Low buys 87.5 additional frames on average. This indicates the game's visual presets scale smoothly rather than collapsing at maximum settings, which is consistent with the large headroom available at every tier.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 5 9600X + RTX 5080 run Lockdown Protocol at 4K Ultra?

A: Yes. The measured average is 79.7 FPS at 3840x2160 Ultra — the most demanding tested configuration — which is well above the 60 FPS playable threshold.

Q: What is the fastest frame rate this pairing achieves in the game?

A: 351.8 FPS average at 1920x1080 on Low settings, making it a viable option for high-refresh-rate 1080p displays.

Q: Does any resolution and preset combination fall below 60 FPS?

A: No. All twelve measured combinations — four presets across three resolutions — exceed 60 FPS. The lowest result recorded is 79.7 FPS at 4K Ultra.

Q: How much performance is lost moving from 1440p to 4K on Ultra?

A: The Ultra average drops from 121.5 FPS at 2560x1440 to 79.7 FPS at 3840x2160, yet both remain playable.

Q: How does this hardware pairing rank against other tested combinations in Lockdown Protocol?

A: It ranks 122nd out of 3714 tested combinations, placing it in roughly the top few percent of configurations benchmarked for this game.

Q: Is the CPU a bottleneck here?

A: The data suggests not. Frame rates scale steeply with resolution and preset at the top end — 166 FPS at 1080p Ultra versus 79.7 FPS at 4K Ultra — indicating the RTX 5080 is the limiting factor rather than the 9600X.

Best Settings per Resolution

The most demanding preset that stays at or above 60 FPS is Ultra at every resolution tested — there is no need to step down to High, Medium, or Low anywhere in this dataset.

• 1920x1080 — Ultra, 166 FPS average. The obvious choice; nothing else needs saying.
• 2560x1440 — Ultra, 121.5 FPS average. Double the threshold with the maximum preset engaged.
• 3840x2160 — Ultra, 79.7 FPS average. The tightest margin in the dataset, but still comfortably clear of 60 FPS.

Players targeting high-refresh play can trade visual fidelity for frames: High at 4K delivers 104.5 FPS, High at 1440p delivers 161 FPS, and Low at 1080p pushes all the way to 351.8 FPS.

Similar Performance Alternatives

For the CPU side, the Ryzen 5 9600X's nearest rivals by average benchmark score are AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5755GE (within 0.2 percent), AMD Ryzen 7 7840H (0.5 percent apart), AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT (0.6 percent apart), and AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS (0.8 percent apart). Any of these processors would be expected to deliver near-identical Lockdown Protocol results in GPU-limited scenarios — which, as the scaling data shows, is exactly the regime this game occupies at and above 1440p with this class of GPU. The differences between them round to fractions of a percent, making them effectively interchangeable for this title.

On the GPU side, the RTX 5080's closest rivals are the AMD Radeon 8060S (0.6 percent apart), Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB (0.7 percent apart), Radeon Pro W5700X (2.3 percent apart), and Radeon RX 9070 GRE (2.2 percent apart in the faster direction). A system pairing any of these cards with a processor in the 9600X's performance band should reproduce the measured frame rates here within a small margin. The Radeon RX 9070 GRE is the only nearby rival that benchmarks slightly ahead of the RTX 5080 on average; the rest sit marginally behind.

The Verdict

Yes — emphatically. The Ryzen 5 9600X plus RTX 5080 runs Lockdown Protocol at every tested resolution and every tested preset above the 60 FPS threshold. At 1920x1080, all four presets are playable with Ultra as the best setting at 166 FPS. At 2560x1440, all four presets are again playable, with Ultra delivering 121.5 FPS. At 3840x2160, all four presets remain playable, and even Ultra — the heaviest configuration measured — averages 79.7 FPS. There is no compromise required anywhere in this matrix: a player on this hardware simply selects Ultra and plays, at any of the three resolutions. For competitive FPS players chasing maximum refresh, the Low preset's 351.8 FPS at 1080p and 259.6 FPS at 1440p provide enormous ceilings.

How This Combo Ranks

Against the full field of 3714 tested hardware combinations in Lockdown Protocol, this pairing ranks 122nd. That placement puts it among the strongest configurations benchmarked for the game — a reflection of the RTX 5080's 87th-percentile standing among all GPUs and the 9600X's 81st-percentile standing among all CPUs. Individual benchmark context reinforces the ranking: the 9600X posts a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 17528.5 and a single-core score of 2183.5, plus a Geekbench single-core result of 2923 — strong per-thread throughput that matters in a genre where frame pacing depends on quick single-threaded work. The RTX 5080 contributes a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 8637, a Geekbench Vulkan score of 255450, and a PassMark G3D score of 36565. The rank of 122 out of 3714 confirms that only a small slice of tested systems outperforms this duo in this specific title.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data makes the role division clear: Lockdown Protocol is GPU-bound on this configuration at every resolution, and the margin widens as resolution climbs.

Compare the Ultra preset across resolutions: 166 FPS at 1080p, 121.5 FPS at 1440p, and 79.7 FPS at 4K. Frame rate falls by roughly 27 percent moving from 1080p to 1440p and by a further steep margin to 4K — the signature of a GPU-side limit, since pixel count grows while CPU load stays essentially constant. The Ryzen 5 9600X, with its 5.40 GHz boost clock and 1253 3DMark single-thread score, keeps the render pipeline fed: at 1080p Ultra the CPU still permits 166 FPS, and at 1080p Low it allows 351.8 FPS, demonstrating substantial single-thread headroom.

Preset scaling tells the same story. At 4K, going from Low to Ultra costs 87.5 FPS on average (167.2 down to 79.7); at 1080p, the same preset change costs 185.8 FPS (351.8 down to 166). Visual settings tax the GPU's shading and memory subsystems — the RTX 5080's 10752 shading units, 84 RT cores, and 960 GB/s bandwidth absorb that load without dropping below the threshold anywhere.

The practical conclusion: at 1080p the CPU and GPU share the workload more evenly, and players chasing extreme frame rates there benefit most from the 9600X's strong per-core performance. At 1440p and 4K, the GPU is decisively the component that matters, and the RTX 5080 is more than equal to the task — no measured configuration in this dataset falls below 79.7 FPS.