Lockdown Protocol

The Intel Core Ultra 7 165H paired with AMD's Radeon 760M is an unusual combination on paper — an Intel Meteor Lake mobile processor running alongside an AMD RDNA 3 integrated graphics chip — but the benchmark database treats it as one tested configuration, and the measured results for Lockdown Protocol tell a blunt story. Across every resolution and every preset, this pairing falls short of the 60 FPS playability threshold. The following analysis walks through the measured frame rates, situates the hardware against its nearest rivals, and explains why the GPU side of the equation dominates the outcome.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The data covers three resolutions — 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160 — each tested at four presets: Low, Medium, High, and Ultra.

At 1920x1080, the Low preset averages 54 FPS. Medium drops the average to 39 FPS, with a recorded minimum of 33 and a maximum of 44. High falls further to an average of 34 FPS, and Ultra lands at 25 FPS. Even the least demanding combination at the least demanding resolution misses 60 FPS by six frames.

Moving to 2560x1440, the picture erodes quickly. Low averages 40 FPS, Medium averages 28 FPS with a minimum of 24 and a maximum of 32, High averages 25 FPS, and Ultra averages 18 FPS. Note that the Medium-preset frame-rate band at 1440p — 24 to 32 — brackets the 1080p Ultra average almost exactly, which illustrates how steeply performance degrades as pixel count rises.

At 3840x2160, every preset is effectively a slideshow relative to the playability threshold. Low manages 26 FPS, Medium averages 18 FPS with a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 21, High sits at 16 FPS, and Ultra at 12 FPS. The gap between the best and worst 4K results is only 14 frames across the entire preset range, meaning that at this resolution quality settings barely matter — the hardware is simply out of headroom.

The scaling between resolutions is consistent and unforgiving. Going from 1080p to 1440p costs roughly 26 percent of the frame rate at Low (54 to 40) and about 28 percent at Medium (39 to 28). Going from 1440p to 4K cuts Low performance by a further 35 percent (40 to 26). These are the hallmarks of a GPU-limited configuration: render load scales with pixels, and the graphics side cannot absorb the increase.

Similar Performance Alternatives

The CPU sits at the 84th percentile against all tested processors, with an average benchmark score of 34083. Its nearest rivals are remarkably close: the Intel Core Ultra 5 338H averages 33989 — a delta of just 0.3 percent — while the AMD EPYC 4244P and AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 both average within 0.4 percent, and the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X within 0.5 percent. In practical terms, any of these processors would deliver effectively identical compute performance, and none of them is the limiting factor in this game.

The Radeon 760M is a different story. It ranks at the 35th percentile of all GPUs with an average score of 6019. Its closest rivals include the AMD Radeon RX 6400 at an average of 6001 (0.3 percent delta), the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M at 6000 (0.3 percent), and the NVIDIA Quadro P2000 at 6049 (0.5 percent delta behind). A configuration built around any of these graphics solutions would be expected to behave very similarly in Lockdown Protocol — that is to say, well below the playability threshold at all standard resolutions.

The data also lists an unusual neighbor: the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server with an average score of 5996, a 0.4 percent delta. Its presence in this scoring band is an artifact of aggregate averaging rather than a statement about real-world equivalence, but the scoring system nonetheless places it nearby in overall rank.

For anyone considering hardware that would produce comparable Lockdown Protocol results, the Radeon 760M itself is an integrated solution on the Phoenix chip: RDNA 3.0 architecture, 512 shading units, 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs, 8 RT cores, a boost clock of 2599 MHz, and 5.323 TFLOPS of FP32 compute, sharing system memory over the PCIe 4.0 x8 bus interface. Discrete cards scoring in the same band, like the RX 6400 or Quadro P2000, would be the closest behavioral equivalents.

CPU and GPU Roles

Lockdown Protocol is clearly GPU-bound on this configuration, and the evidence is in the scaling pattern. When frame rates drop proportionally with resolution while the CPU load stays constant, the graphics side is the bottleneck. Here, 1080p Low delivers 54 FPS while 4K Low delivers only 26 — the frame rate roughly halves as pixel count quadruples. If the Core Ultra 7 165H were the constraint, raising resolution would have far less effect.

The CPU itself has ample credentials for an FPS title. The Core Ultra 7 165H offers 16 cores and 22 threads, a 3.80 GHz base clock and 5.00 GHz boost, 24 MB of shared L3 cache, and dual-channel DDR5 support with 89.6 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Its single-thread results — 257 in Cinebench R15, 1303 in Cinebench R20, 1759 in Cinebench R23, and 3509 in PassMark single-thread — place it comfortably in the upper tier of the database at the 84th percentile. Its multi-thread figures (2641 in R15, 9233 in R20, 14551 in R23, 25933 in PassMark multithread) confirm substantial parallel throughput. None of these numbers translate into higher game frame rates here because the Radeon 760M runs out of capacity first.

The preset scaling reinforces this. At 1080p, dropping from Medium (39 FPS) to Low (54 FPS) recovers 15 frames — a meaningful gain, but one that comes from reducing GPU render cost, not from freeing the processor. The Medium-preset min/max spreads are also telling: 33 to 44 at 1080p, 24 to 32 at 1440p, and 15 to 21 at 4K. Those bands stay proportionally tight at each resolution, consistent with a graphics subsystem steadily saturating rather than a CPU stuttering under variable load.

One architectural note matters for context: this pairing pairs a Meteor Lake processor whose own integrated graphics is the Arc Xe-LPG 128EU with an external AMD integrated GPU. The 760M, built on TSMC's 4 nm process with 25,390 million transistors on a 178 mm² die, is a 15 W part. That power envelope, combined with system-shared memory, defines its ceiling in a way no amount of CPU headroom can overcome.

The Verdict

No. This configuration cannot run Lockdown Protocol at the 60 FPS playability threshold at any tested resolution or preset. The verdict data makes this explicit: at 1920x1080 the list of playable settings is empty, at 2560x1440 it is empty, and at 3840x2160 it is empty. There is no best-settings recommendation at any resolution because no preset clears the bar.

The closest approach is 1080p Low at 54 FPS — six frames short. Every other combination is progressively worse, bottoming out at 12 FPS for 4K Ultra. For a fast-paced FPS where frame rate directly affects playability, the measured results place this pairing firmly outside the playable range. The game released on March 11, 2024, and the data reflects measured results against this hardware, not estimates.

FAQ

Q: Can the Core Ultra 7 165H + Radeon 760M run Lockdown Protocol at 60 FPS?

A: No. Every tested resolution and preset falls below the 60 FPS threshold. The best result is 54 FPS at 1920x1080 on the Low preset.

Q: What is the highest frame rate recorded for this configuration?

A: 54 FPS average, at 1920x1080 with Low settings. The Medium preset at the same resolution records a maximum frame rate of 44 FPS.

Q: How does the CPU compare to its rivals?

A: The Core Ultra 7 165H sits at the 84th percentile of all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 34083, within roughly half a percent of the Intel Core Ultra 5 338H, AMD EPYC 4244P, AMD Ryzen AI 7 350, and AMD Ryzen 7 3700X.

Q: How does the Radeon 760M rank among GPUs?

A: It sits at the 35th percentile with an average score of 6019, placing it near the AMD Radeon RX 6400, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M, and NVIDIA Quadro P2000.

Q: Is 4K playable at any settings level?

A: No. At 3840x2160 the results range from 26 FPS on Low down to 12 FPS on Ultra, with the Medium preset averaging 18 FPS and dipping to a minimum of 15.

Q: Is the CPU or the GPU the bottleneck?

A: The GPU. Frame rates scale down sharply with resolution — 54 FPS at 1080p Low versus 26 FPS at 4K Low — while the CPU's strong benchmark scores indicate it is not the limiting component.

Best Settings per Resolution

There are none. Because the playable threshold is 60 FPS and no configuration reaches it, no preset qualifies as "best" at any resolution. For completeness, the highest-measured option at each resolution is 1920x1080 Low at 54 FPS, 2560x1440 Low at 40 FPS, and 3840x2160 Low at 26 FPS — all below threshold. Even these represent the floor of visual quality, with no room to trade down further. Users restricted to this hardware would be limited to sub-threshold frame rates at reduced settings, which the database does not classify as playable for this title.

How This Combo Ranks

Within Lockdown Protocol specifically, this configuration ranks 3702 out of 3714 tested combinations. That places it among the bottom dozen results in the entire field for this game — a rank consistent with everything else in the data. The combination of an 84th-percentile CPU with a 35th-percentile GPU produces an outcome driven almost entirely by the weaker half, and in a GPU-bound title the weaker half decides the rank.

The contrast is instructive. Individually, the Core Ultra 7 165H is a strong mobile processor with competitive multi-thread and single-thread results. The Radeon 760M, despite respectable integrated graphics specifications — RDNA 3.0 shading hardware, 8 ray-tracing cores, DirectX 12 Ultimate and Vulkan 1.4 support — simply lacks the throughput for this game at standard resolutions. Its 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 400, Geekbench Vulkan score of 30336, and PassMark G3D score of 5310 all point to the same conclusion the game data does: this is entry-level graphics performance, and Lockdown Protocol demands more than entry-level graphics can deliver at 60 FPS.

In summary, the measured data is unambiguous. The Core Ultra 7 165H + Radeon 760M pairing cannot reach 60 FPS in Lockdown Protocol at any tested resolution or preset, ranks near the bottom of all tested combinations for this game, and is constrained by its graphics subsystem rather than its processor.