Lockdown Protocol

The pairing of Intel's Core Ultra 5 125H with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile is a modern mobile combination: a 14-core Meteor Lake processor sitting in the 79th percentile of all tested CPUs, matched with a Blackwell-based GPU in the 67th percentile of all tested graphics hardware. Lockdown Protocol, a first-person shooter released in March 2024, is a relatively light workload for this hardware at mainstream resolutions, and the measured data confirms smooth playability across nearly the entire preset range at 1080p and 1440p, with 4K requiring settings reductions to hold the 60 FPS line.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the Core Ultra 5 125H (avgBenchmarkScore 27507) sits in a tight cluster of rivals. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800 averages 27535, just 0.1% ahead; the Intel Core i5-12600K and AMD Ryzen 7 5700X both average 27578, 0.3% ahead; and the AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5355G trails at 27382, 0.5% behind. In practical terms, any of these processors would produce near-identical behavior in Lockdown Protocol — the deltas are fractions of a percent, far below the run-to-run variance of a typical FPS benchmark. The game's frame delivery will be governed almost entirely by the GPU at higher resolutions, so systems built around these CPUs with similar graphics hardware should mirror the results measured here.

For the GPU, the RTX 5060 Mobile (avgBenchmarkScore 22435) is bracketed by the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT at 22549 (0.5% ahead), the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile at 22729 (1.3% ahead), the AMD Radeon RX 5700 at 22170 (1.2% behind), and the AMD Radeon RX 6700S at 22154 (1.3% behind). A laptop with the RTX 4060 Mobile would land within roughly a frame per second of this configuration at any given preset, and desktop machines with the RX 7700 XT would behave comparably. Anyone shopping for equivalent performance — or comparing their existing rig against this data — can treat all four of these GPUs as statistical siblings in Lockdown Protocol.

FAQ

Q: Can the Core Ultra 5 125H + RTX 5060 Mobile run Lockdown Protocol at 1080p?

A: Yes, comfortably. At 1920x1080, every preset from Low through Ultra clears the 60 FPS threshold, ranging from 163 FPS on Low down to 76 FPS on Ultra. The verdict data lists all four presets as playable.

Q: Can it run the game at 4K?

A: Only with reduced settings. At 3840x2160, only the Low preset exceeds 60 FPS (77 FPS average). Medium averages 55 FPS, High averages 48 FPS, and Ultra averages 36 FPS — all below the playability threshold.

Q: Is 1440p a good target for this hardware?

A: Yes. At 2560x1440, Low (120 FPS), Medium (85 FPS), and High (74 FPS) are all playable; only Ultra, at 56 FPS, falls short of 60 FPS.

Q: How does the CPU compare to its nearest rivals?

A: The Core Ultra 5 125H's average benchmark score of 27507 is within 0.5% of the Ryzen 7 5800, Core i5-12600K, Ryzen 7 5700X, and Ryzen 3 PRO 5355G — effectively identical performance for this game.

Q: How does the GPU rank against the broader market?

A: The RTX 5060 Mobile sits in the 67th percentile of all tested GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 22435 — essentially tied with the RX 7700 XT and RTX 4060 Mobile.

Q: Where does this specific combo rank in the Lockdown Protocol database?

A: This pairing ranks 2473 out of 3714 tested combinations — roughly the middle of the field, ahead of about a third of tested configurations.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured average frame rates from the database; minimum/maximum values are recorded where available.

1920x1080:

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

2560x1440:

• Low: 120 FPS average
• Medium: 85 FPS average (min 72, max 98)
• High: 74 FPS average
• Ultra: 56 FPS average

3840x2160:

• Low: 77 FPS average
• Medium: 55 FPS average (min 47, max 63)
• High: 48 FPS average
• Ultra: 36 FPS average

The 1080p Medium data is particularly informative: with a floor of 99 FPS and a ceiling of 133, frame delivery stays above the 60 FPS threshold even at its worst moments. The 1440p Medium range of 72–98 FPS behaves similarly. At 4K Medium, however, the maximum recorded value is 63 FPS — meaning the game only briefly touches playable territory and dips to 47 FPS, confirming that the 55 FPS average understates how often frames fall short. The step from 1080p Ultra (76 FPS) to 1440p Ultra (56 FPS) crosses the playability line, which is the single most consequential transition in the dataset for this hardware.

The Verdict

Yes — this PC runs Lockdown Protocol, and runs it well at the resolutions that matter most for a mobile platform.

At 1920x1080, the verdict data is unambiguous: all four presets are playable, and the best setting is Ultra at 76 FPS average. Competitive players will prefer Low or Medium for the 163 and 116 FPS headroom, but nothing at 1080p forces a settings compromise.

At 2560x1440, three of four presets clear 60 FPS. The best playable setting is High at 74 FPS, with Medium (85 FPS) and Low (120 FPS) offering progressively more margin. Ultra at 56 FPS is the only casualty, missing the threshold by four frames.

At 3840x2160, the situation tightens considerably. Only Low is playable, at 77 FPS. Medium (55), High (48), and Ultra (36) all fall short, and the Medium preset's 47 FPS minimum indicates sustained sub-60 gameplay rather than occasional dips. 4K is achievable on this hardware, but strictly on the game's terms — the lowest preset, nothing else.

Best Settings per Resolution

• 1920x1080: Ultra — 76 FPS average. Every preset is playable; Ultra is the most demanding preset that stays at or above 60 FPS.
• 2560x1440: High — 74 FPS average. Ultra drops to 56 FPS, so High is the ceiling at this resolution.
• 3840x2160: Low — 77 FPS average. Medium's 55 FPS falls below the threshold, making Low the only setting that holds 60 FPS.

Note the pattern: at 1080p and 1440p, the best playable preset sits in the mid-70s FPS range — 76 and 74 respectively — indicating the hardware lands at a similar performance target once the settings ladder is climbed to its limit. At 4K the frame rate is capped not by preset choice but by pixel throughput: even Low only reaches 77 FPS, essentially identical to the best-playable figures at lower resolutions.

How This Combo Ranks

Against the 3714 hardware combinations tested in Lockdown Protocol, this CPU+GPU pairing ranks 2473 — a lower-middle placement. That ranking deserves context. The component percentiles (CPU 79th, GPU 67th) suggest stronger hardware than the in-game rank implies, which is consistent with Lockdown Protocol being a title where the top of the combo leaderboard is dominated by configurations with substantially faster GPUs pushing very high frame rates at low settings. For a mobile pairing — a 45 W-class GPU and a 28 W-class processor — mid-pack standing in a field of 3714 is a reasonable outcome, and the measured frame rates at 1080p and 1440p are far above the 60 FPS playability bar regardless of rank.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data points clearly to a GPU-bound profile at every tested resolution. From 1080p Low to 4K Ultra, the frame rate collapses from 163 FPS to 36 FPS — a drop driven entirely by rising pixel count and preset load, since the CPU workload is constant across those runs. If the Core Ultra 5 125H were the limiting factor, increasing resolution would not produce such steep decline; instead, frame rates would plateau.

Within a fixed resolution, the preset ladder tells the same story. At 1080p, moving from Low (163 FPS) to Ultra (76 FPS) costs 87 frames; at 1440p, Low (120) to Ultra (56) costs 64 frames. The CPU — with a PassMark single-thread score of 3399 and a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 1647.5, sitting in the 79th percentile of all processors — clearly feeds frames fast enough that the RTX 5060 Mobile's 3328 shading units and 384 GB/s of GDDR7 bandwidth determine the ceiling.

The one place the CPU could matter is high-refresh, low-settings play: at 1080p Low the 163 FPS average may approach what the processor's 18 threads can schedule in an FPS title. But for the mainstream case — 60 FPS or better at 1080p and 1440p at elevated settings — this configuration is decisively GPU-limited, and the Core Ultra 5 125H's near-parity with the Ryzen 7 5800, Core i5-12600K, and Ryzen 7 5700X means no processor-side bottleneck worth worrying about.