The Technomancer

The Technomancer is a 2016 action RPG, and this pairing — AMD's Ryzen 9 5900X driving Intel's Arc B580 — lands well above what the game demands at mainstream resolutions. The database shows the combo clearing 60 FPS at 1920x1080 on every preset, including Ultra at 72.1 FPS, and holding playable frame rates at 2560x1440 on Low and Medium. Only native 3840x2160 falls short of the 60 FPS threshold across the board. Measured data, not estimates, backs every number below.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the results are uniform in one direction: playable everywhere. Low averages 133.9 FPS, Medium 103.5, High 92.3, and even Ultra stays above the threshold at 72.1 FPS. The spread from Low to Ultra is 61.8 FPS, which tells you the Arc B580 has headroom to spare at this resolution — the gap between presets stays wide rather than collapsing, meaning the GPU is never pushed to its limit.

At 2560x1440, the picture splits. Low delivers 86.8 FPS and Medium 68.5, both above 60. High drops to 56.1 and Ultra to 44.5, both below the playable line. The step from Medium to High costs 12.4 FPS, and High to Ultra costs another 11.6 — a consistent decline with no cliff, so a mid-tier custom setting could plausibly land near 60, though the database records only the four stock presets.

At 3840x2160, nothing clears the bar. Low manages 50.6 FPS, Medium 38.6, High 30.7, and Ultra 26.1. Even the lightest preset sits nearly 10 FPS short of 60. Native 4K is simply beyond this hardware in this title.

Min and max frame rates were not captured for these runs — only averages are recorded in the dataset.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data points squarely at a GPU-bound profile. From 1920x1080 to 3840x2160, Ultra falls from 72.1 to 26.1 FPS — a drop of roughly two-thirds as pixel count quadruples. If the Ryzen 9 5900X were the limiting factor, frame rates would stay flat as resolution rises. They don't. Every preset shows the same pattern: 133.9 to 50.6 on Low, 103.5 to 38.6 on Medium, 92.3 to 30.7 on High.

Within a fixed resolution, the preset-to-preset spread confirms it. At 1080p, dropping from Ultra to Low buys 61.8 additional FPS — that's texture, shadow, and effect load landing on the GPU, not the CPU. The 5900X sits in the 87th percentile of all CPUs in the database with an average benchmark score of 41376, including a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 16262 and a single-core score of 1527 — far more processing power than a 2016 action RPG can engage. Twelve cores and 24 threads on the Zen 3 architecture are essentially idle overhead here.

Practical takeaway: upgrading the GPU is the only lever that moves this game, and even then only at 1440p High/Ultra and 4K. Swapping CPUs would change nothing measurable.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the nearestRivals list shows how little separation exists at this performance tier. The Intel Core Ultra 7 366H sits 0.3% behind the 5900X in average score, the Core Ultra 7 356H is 0.4% behind, the AMD Ryzen AI 5 PRO 440 also 0.4% behind, and the Intel Core i7-14650HX actually leads by 0.5%. Any of these would deliver effectively identical frame rates in The Technomancer, because the game never stresses the processor anyway.

On the GPU side, the rivals are equally interchangeable. The AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP scores within 0.2% of the Arc B580's average, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 within 0.6%, the RTX 3080 within 0.7%, and even the NVIDIA P106-100 lands within 1%. In practical terms: someone running an RTX 2080 or RTX 3080 alongside this class of CPU should expect the same resolution-by-resolution behavior described above — 1080p fully playable, 1440p playable on Low and Medium, 4K below threshold.

The Verdict

Yes, this PC runs The Technomancer — with one clear caveat about resolution.

At 1920x1080, the verdict is unqualified: all four presets clear 60 FPS, and Ultra is the best playable setting at 72.1 FPS average. There is no reason to run anything below Ultra at 1080p.

At 2560x1440, the verdict is conditional: Low (86.8 FPS) and Medium (68.5 FPS) are playable, with Medium the best setting above the threshold. High and Ultra fall short.

At 3840x2160, the verdict is no: no preset reaches 60 FPS. Low at 50.6 FPS is the closest, but it's still below the playable threshold, and dropping settings that far defeats the point of 4K anyway.

For a 2016 release, the practical answer is simple: play at 1080p Ultra or 1440p Medium and the experience is smooth.

How This Combo Ranks

Across the database, this pairing ranks 2830 out of 3696 tested combinations in The Technomancer. That places it below the median — a reflection of how light this game is, since modest hardware scores disproportionately well against it, and a GPU in the 68th percentile of all GPUs can't climb high in the rankings on an old title where the field compresses at the top.

Context matters here. The Arc B580 carries an average benchmark score of 23021, with a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 3068 and a PassMark G3D score of 15748. That's respectable mid-tier throughput — 13.67 TFLOPS of FP32, 12 GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus with 456 GB/s of bandwidth — but the combo ranking is a relative measure against everything tested in this specific game, and plenty of faster GPUs have been run through it.

The ranking is a leaderboard position, not a playability verdict. The measured frame rates in the sections above are what determine whether the game is actually enjoyable, and at 1080p and 1440p they say yes.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 9 5900X and Arc B580 run The Technomancer at 4K? A: Not at the 60 FPS threshold. Even Low settings average only 50.6 FPS at 3840x2160, and Ultra drops to 26.1. No preset is playable at native 4K per the database verdict.

Q: What's the best-looking playable configuration? A: 1920x1080 at Ultra, averaging 72.1 FPS. It's the highest preset that clears 60 FPS at any resolution. If you want 1440p, Medium at 68.5 FPS is the best playable option there.

Q: Is the CPU or the GPU the bottleneck in this game? A: The GPU. Frame rates scale down sharply as resolution rises — Ultra goes from 72.1 FPS at 1080p to 26.1 at 4K — which is the signature of a GPU-bound game. The 5900X, in the 87th percentile of all CPUs, is never the limiting component here.

Q: Would a different CPU change the results? A: No. The nearest rivals — the Core Ultra 7 366H (0.3% behind), Core Ultra 7 356H (0.4% behind), Ryzen AI 5 PRO 440 (0.4% behind), and Core i7-14650HX (0.5% ahead) — are all within a fraction of a percent of the 5900X's average score, and the game doesn't stress the CPU regardless.

Q: How does the Arc B580 compare to other GPUs in similar tests? A: Its average score of 23021 sits within 1% of the Radeon RX 580 2048SP, GeForce RTX 2080, GeForce RTX 3080, and P106-100 in the rivals list, so those cards would produce comparable frame rates in this title.

Q: Does the game hit 60 FPS at 2560x1440? A: Only on the lower presets. Low averages 86.8 FPS and Medium 68.5 FPS, while High (56.1) and Ultra (44.5) fall short of the threshold.