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Lockdown Protocol
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Average FPS: resolution vs quality settings
| Ultra | High | Medium | Low | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4K Ultra HD | 56 | 78 | 86 | 123 |
| 1440p QHD | 89 | 116 | 137 | 190 |
| 1080p Full HD | 120 | 163 | 185 | 257 |
Cell color: green is 120+ FPS, teal is 60+, amber is 30+, red is below 30. Cards marked Estimated above have no measured row and are scaled from your GPU benchmark percentile.
Performance Analysis: Lockdown Protocol on Your System
Lockdown Protocol, a first-person shooter released in March 2024, is a light load for a pairing of Intel's Core Ultra 7 265K and AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT. The measured data in this database covers twelve configurations across three resolutions and four presets, and every one of them except 4K Ultra clears the playable threshold. The analysis below walks through those results step by step.
Measured FPS Breakdown
Starting at 1920x1080, the frame rates are high across the entire preset ladder. Low settings average 256.7 FPS, Medium averages 184.9, High averages 162.5, and even Ultra holds 119.5 FPS. That is a comfortable spread: the difference between the cheapest and most expensive preset is roughly 137 FPS, and the Ultra result alone sits at nearly double the playable threshold.
At 2560x1440 the numbers compress but stay strong. Low delivers 190.1 FPS, Medium 137.4, High 116.3, and Ultra 88.6. The Ultra figure is the one that matters most for a high-refresh or quality-focused player, and at 88.6 FPS average it clears the threshold by nearly 29 frames of headroom.
3840x2160 is where the RX 9070 XT finally has to work. Low averages 123.4 FPS, Medium 85.5, High 78, and Ultra drops to 55.6 FPS — the single sub-threshold result in the entire dataset. That 55.6 average means 4K Ultra is close but not comfortable; High is the sensible ceiling at this resolution. Minimum and maximum frame rates were not captured for these runs, so the analysis rests on averages throughout.
CPU and GPU Roles
The scaling pattern across resolutions identifies this as a GPU-driven game on this hardware. From 1080p to 1440p at Ultra, the average falls from 119.5 to 88.6 FPS — a loss of about a quarter of the frame rate. From 1440p to 4K, it falls again from 88.6 to 55.6. If the Core Ultra 7 265K were the bottleneck, the 1080p figure would plateau, because the CPU's contribution does not change with resolution; instead, the frame rate tracks pixel count cleanly at every preset.
Preset scaling tells the same story from the other direction. At 4K, moving from Low to Ultra costs 67.8 FPS (123.4 down to 55.6), a drop of well over half the frame rate — that is render load, not simulation load. At 1080p the same preset change costs 137.2 FPS. The GPU is the component doing the heavy lifting everywhere.
None of this means the CPU is weak. The 265K sits in the 94th percentile of all tested CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 70879, a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 35850 and a single-core score of 2020, plus a PassMark single-thread result of 4928. Twenty cores and threads operating at up to a 5.50 GHz boost give it ample throughput; the data simply shows that in Lockdown Protocol the RX 9070 XT's render pipeline saturates before the CPU does. At 1080p Low, where the GPU load is lightest, the 256.7 FPS average is the closest the game comes to CPU limitation, and even there the frame rate remains exceptional.
Similar Performance Alternatives
On the CPU side, the nearest rivals by aggregate score are the Intel Xeon 6511P (71051 average, within 0.2 percent of the 265K), the Xeon Platinum 8270 (71370, 0.7 percent ahead), the Core i7-14700KF (70163, 1 percent behind), and the AMD Ryzen 7 9700F (69996, 1.3 percent behind). All four are effectively interchangeable with the 265K in overall throughput terms; any of them paired with the same GPU would produce similar results in a game that leans on the graphics card this heavily.
The GPU's nearest-rivals list is more interesting: the Radeon RX 9070 XT's average score of 13543 places it essentially level with the AMD Radeon HD 7770M (13536, 0.1 percent delta), the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (13515, 0.2 percent), the NVIDIA P106-090 (13470, 0.5 percent), and the AMD Radeon Pro 555 (13407, 1 percent). Those aggregate scores span a mixture of test suites, so the more relevant figure for modern gaming is the RX 9070 XT's raw capability: 4096 shading units on RDNA 4.0, 48.66 TFLOPS FP32, 644.6 GB/s of memory bandwidth over a 256-bit bus, and 64 RT cores, with a 3DMark Steel Nomad score of 7260 and a PassMark G3D score of 26795. The database percentile places it at the 55th mark against all tested GPUs, but its in-game Lockdown Protocol numbers are unambiguous.
The Verdict
Yes — this PC runs Lockdown Protocol very well, with one caveat. At 1920x1080 and 2560x1440, every preset is playable, including Ultra, averaging 119.5 FPS and 88.6 FPS respectively. At 3840x2160, High, Medium, and Low all clear the threshold — High being the best playable preset at 78 FPS — while Ultra at 55.6 FPS falls just short and should be avoided or paired with a settings reduction.
In practical terms, a 1440p player can simply max the game out, and a 1080p player has frame-rate headroom to spare even at Ultra. Only the 4K player needs to make a compromise, and it is a small one: drop one preset from Ultra to High and gain over 22 FPS on average.
FAQ
Q: Can the Core Ultra 7 265K and RX 9070 XT run Lockdown Protocol at 4K 60 FPS?
A: Yes, at three of four presets. High averages 78 FPS, Medium 85.5, and Low 123.4. Ultra averages 55.6 FPS and misses the threshold.
Q: What is the highest frame rate recorded for this combo in the game?
A: 256.7 FPS average, at 1920x1080 on Low settings.
Q: Is the CPU or the GPU more important for Lockdown Protocol on this build?
A: The GPU. Frame rates scale consistently with resolution and preset while remaining far above what the 94th-percentile 265K would limit, indicating a graphics-bound workload.
Q: Which CPU would perform similarly to the Core Ultra 7 265K?
A: The Intel Xeon 6511P, Intel Xeon Platinum 8270, Intel Core i7-14700KF, and AMD Ryzen 7 9700F all fall within 1.3 percent of its average benchmark score.
Q: What resolution should I use to play at Ultra settings?
A: 2560x1440. Ultra averages 88.6 FPS there, comfortably above the playable threshold; at 4K it averages only 55.6.
Q: How much performance is lost going from 1440p Ultra to 4K Ultra?
A: The average drops from 88.6 to 55.6 FPS — a fall of 33 frames, pushing the game below the playable line.
Best Settings per Resolution
- 1920x1080: Ultra, averaging 119.5 FPS — the most demanding preset in the game stays nearly double the threshold.
- 2560x1440: Ultra, averaging 88.6 FPS — still comfortably playable with no compromise needed.
- 3840x2160: High, averaging 78 FPS — Ultra's 55.6 FPS misses the mark, so High is the most demanding preset that holds at or above 60 FPS.
How This Combo Ranks
Against the full field of tested hardware pairings in Lockdown Protocol, the Core Ultra 7 265K plus RX 9070 XT ranks 932nd out of 3714 combinations. That places it in roughly the top quarter of tested systems — well above the median, though not in the extreme enthusiast tier. The ranking is consistent with the raw numbers: a mid-to-upper GPU whose averages exceed the playable threshold at nearly every setting, supported by a CPU that never comes close to being the constraint. For a game released in early 2024, this configuration lands in a strong position on the leaderboard.