Lockdown Protocol

Lockdown Protocol, a first-person shooter released on 2024-03-11, is a light lift for a pairing of AMD's Ryzen 7 9700F and NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080 — and the measured data confirms it emphatically. Across every resolution and every preset tested, from 1920x1080 Low through 3840x2160 Ultra, this combination never dips below the 60 FPS playability threshold. In fact, the slowest single result in the entire dataset is 76 FPS average at 4K Ultra, which means the question is not whether this PC can run the game, but how much headroom it leaves on the table. This combo ranks 163 out of 3714 tested configurations for this title, placing it in elite territory for Lockdown Protocol specifically.

Best Settings per Resolution

Because every preset clears the 60 FPS playable threshold at every resolution, the "best settings" answer is simple across the board: Ultra, the most demanding preset, is the correct choice everywhere.

• 1920x1080 — Ultra: 160 FPS average. Even the heaviest settings at 1080p deliver frame rates more than double the playability threshold, leaving enormous room for high-refresh-rate displays.
• 2560x1440 — Ultra: 118 FPS average. Nearly double the threshold at 1440p with all settings maximized.
• 3840x2160 — Ultra: 76 FPS average. The tightest result in the dataset, but still comfortably above 60 FPS, making 4K Ultra a fully playable configuration rather than a compromise.

There is no resolution in this dataset where a step down to High, Medium, or Low is required for playability. Settings reductions are purely optional, useful only for chasing higher refresh rates on capable displays.

Similar Performance Alternatives

For the CPU side, the Ryzen 7 9700F sits in the 94th percentile of all tested processors with an average benchmark score of 69996. Its nearest rivals are remarkably close: the AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX averages 69875 (a delta of just 0.2 percent), the Intel Core i7-14700KF averages 70163 (0.2 percent ahead), the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X averages 69515 (0.7 percent behind), and the Intel Core i7-14700K averages 69355 (0.9 percent behind). Any of these processors would deliver effectively indistinguishable Lockdown Protocol behavior when paired with comparable graphics hardware, since the game's performance here is dominated by the GPU.

On the graphics side, the RTX 5080 occupies the 87th percentile of all GPUs with an average benchmark score of 56083, built on the Blackwell 2.0 architecture with 10752 shading units, 16 GB of GDDR7 memory, and 960.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Its nearest rivals include the AMD Radeon 8060S at an average score of 55757 (0.6 percent behind), the AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB at 55698 (0.7 percent behind), the AMD Radeon Pro W5700X at 54828 (2.3 percent behind), and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE at 57367 (2.2 percent ahead). Given that Lockdown Protocol runs comfortably at 4K Ultra on the RTX 5080, a Radeon RX 9070 GRE or Radeon 8060S in the same CPU class should produce broadly similar frame rates — the deltas among these GPUs are all within roughly two percent on aggregate benchmark scoring, so the in-game experience would be near-identical at these settings.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured results, not estimates.

1920x1080:

• Low: 345 FPS average
• Medium: 245 FPS average (min 208, max 282)
• High: 214 FPS average
• Ultra: 160 FPS average

At 1080p the combo scales from 345 FPS at Low down to 160 FPS at Ultra — a substantial drop in percentage terms, but the floor remains more than 2.5 times the playable threshold. The Medium preset's frame time consistency is documented: a minimum of 208 and a maximum of 282 FPS frame a tight band around the 245 FPS average.

2560x1440:

• Low: 253 FPS average
• Medium: 180 FPS average (min 153, max 207)
• High: 157 FPS average
• Ultra: 118 FPS average

The 1440p pattern mirrors 1080p with a uniform downward shift. Medium again shows the tightest characterization, with minimums of 153 FPS and maximums of 207 FPS bracketing the 180 FPS mean. Even Ultra at 118 FPS clears the threshold with room to spare.

3840x2160:

• Low: 163 FPS average
• Medium: 116 FPS average (min 99, max 133)
• High: 101 FPS average
• Ultra: 76 FPS average

This is where the RTX 5080's 16 GB of GDDR7 gets stressed hardest, yet the results remain strong. Medium holds a 99-to-133 FPS band around its 116 FPS average. High stays above the century mark at 101 FPS. Ultra lands at 76 FPS — the lowest average in the entire dataset, but still a comfortable margin above 60.

The Verdict

Yes — unambiguously, and at maximum settings. The verdict-by-resolution data shows that at 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160 alike, all four tested presets (Low, Medium, High, Ultra) are playable, with Ultra designated the best setting at each resolution: 160 FPS at 1080p, 118 FPS at 1440p, and 76 FPS at 4K. No resolution requires settings reduction to reach the 60 FPS threshold.

For competitive players, the calculus changes only slightly: 4K Ultra's 76 FPS average is fine for casual play, but players seeking high-refresh competitive frame rates in this FPS title can drop to 4K Medium (116 FPS) or 4K Low (163 FPS), or simply play at 1440p, where Medium already averages 180 FPS with a 153 FPS minimum. The data shows this configuration has no playability cliff anywhere in Lockdown Protocol's settings matrix.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data points clearly to a GPU-bound profile at every resolution, which is expected for a fast CPU paired with a heavy rendering load. The Ryzen 7 9700F — eight cores, sixteen threads, a 5.50 GHz boost clock, 32 MB of shared L3 cache, and a single-thread benchmark score of 4691 — provides more processing throughput than Lockdown Protocol can consume.

The evidence is in the frame-rate deltas. Moving from 1080p Ultra to 4K Ultra drops the average from 160 FPS to 76 FPS — a cut of more than half — purely by increasing the pixel load on the RTX 5080. If the CPU were the limiting factor, that resolution change would have produced a much smaller decline, since the processor's workload is largely resolution-independent. Similarly, within each resolution, stepping presets from Ultra to Low at 4K lifts performance from 76 to 163 FPS, showing that the game responds strongly to GPU rendering cost changes rather than being pinned at a CPU ceiling — at 1080p, a CPU-limited configuration would flatten out across presets, yet the data shows 160 FPS at Ultra climbing to 345 FPS at Low.

That said, the CPU is not irrelevant. The 9700F's multithreaded score of 36470 and physics score of 2122 indicate ample headroom for an FPS title's simulation, AI, and netcode threads, and its 4691 single-thread score — in the 94th percentile of all processors — ensures frame pacing stays consistent even during heavy scenes. The practical takeaway: at 4K, performance is entirely GPU-driven; at 1440p and 1080p, the RTX 5080 remains the dominant factor, with the 9700F simply never becoming the constraint at the frame rates this game produces. Players tuning this system for Lockdown Protocol should direct all optimization effort at the graphics side; the CPU offers nothing to tune.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the Lockdown Protocol results database, the Ryzen 7 9700F plus RTX 5080 pairing ranks 163rd out of 3714 tested combinations — a placement that puts it ahead of the overwhelming majority of configurations measured for this game. That ranking is consistent with the component-level standings: a GPU in the 87th percentile paired with a CPU in the 94th percentile, with a passmark G3D score of 36565 for the graphics card and an average CPU benchmark score of 69996.

The ranking also contextualizes the verdict. This is not merely a configuration that "runs" Lockdown Protocol — thousands of lower-ranked combinations can make that claim at reduced settings. It is a combination that runs the game at Ultra across all three mainstream resolutions while maintaining averages well above 60 FPS, and which can push into the hundreds of frames per second at 1440p and 1080p when presets are relaxed. For a 2024-era FPS in the Lockdown Protocol mold, the data indicates this pairing sits firmly in the upper tier of tested hardware, limited only by how demanding 4K Ultra rendering is on even a GPU of this class — and even that limit lands at a comfortable 76 FPS.