The Technomancer

The Technomancer is an older action RPG that a modern budget-minded pairing like the Intel Core i5-12400F and Intel Arc B570 handles without drama at mainstream resolutions. The benchmark data shows a clean split: at 1920x1080 the combo clears 60 FPS at every preset including Ultra, at 2560x1440 it stays playable through Medium, and at 3840x2160 it falls short across the board. Below is the full breakdown of what that means in practice.

FAQ

Q: Can the i5-12400F + Arc B570 run The Technomancer at 60 FPS?

A: Yes, depending on the resolution. At 1920x1080, every preset from Low to Ultra averages at or above 60 FPS, with Ultra sitting at 62 FPS. At 2560x1440, Low and Medium both clear the threshold (79 and 61 FPS respectively), while High (52 FPS) and Ultra (41 FPS) do not. At 3840x2160, no preset reaches 60 FPS.

Q: What is the best-looking setting this combo can play at?

A: 1920x1080 Ultra at 62 FPS average, per the verdict data. If a higher resolution matters more than eye candy, 2560x1440 Medium at 61 FPS is the alternative sweet spot.

Q: Is the game CPU-bound or GPU-bound on this hardware?

A: GPU-bound. Average FPS scales steeply with resolution at every preset — for example Medium goes from 93 FPS at 1080p to 61 at 1440p and 33 at 4K. That pattern indicates the Arc B570 is the limiting component, not the i5-12400F.

Q: How does this pairing rank against other tested combinations?

A: It ranks 2972 out of 3696 tested combos in this game. That places it in the lower half of the database, though still comfortably capable of running this title well at 1080p.

Q: What hardware performs similarly to this CPU and GPU?

A: For the CPU, the AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS, Intel Core 3 201E, Intel Core i5-1335U, and AMD EPYC 7773X all land within a fraction of a percent of its average benchmark score. For the GPU, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile, Intel Arc A750, NVIDIA Quadro M4000M, and AMD Radeon R9 M390X are its nearest rivals.

Q: How smooth is the frame rate in practice?

A: At 2560x1440 Medium, the measured range runs from a 52 FPS minimum to a 70 FPS maximum around a 61 FPS average, and at 1920x1080 Medium it spans 79 to 107 FPS around 93 average — a tight spread either way, suggesting consistent frame delivery rather than stuttery highs and lows.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data makes the division of labor obvious. Moving from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 roughly triples the pixel count, and the averages collapse accordingly: Low drops from 121 FPS to 44, Medium from 93 to 33, High from 80 to 29, and Ultra from 62 to 22. When frame rates fall this sharply as resolution climbs while settings stay fixed, the GPU is the bottleneck. The Arc B570, sitting in the 65th percentile of all GPUs in the database with an average benchmark score of 20556, simply runs out of shading and memory bandwidth headroom at higher pixel counts — its 10 GB of GDDR6 on a 160-bit bus delivers 380 GB/s.

The i5-12400F, by contrast, is never the problem here. It sits in the 73rd percentile of all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 19039, backed by six cores and twelve threads and a 4.40 GHz boost clock. The Technomancer is an action RPG released years before this hardware existed, and its engine simply does not demand the kind of thread throughput the 12400F offers — its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 12380 and PassMark multithread score of 19433 are far beyond what this title can exploit. Even at 1080p Low, where CPU limits would normally surface first, the 121 FPS average indicates no meaningful processor ceiling.

The practical takeaway: any tuning you do on this combo should target GPU load. Dropping presets and lowering resolution shift frame rates directly; swapping in a faster CPU would change essentially nothing.

How This Combo Ranks

Against the full field of hardware combinations tested in The Technomancer, this pairing ranks 2972 of 3696 — meaning it outperforms roughly a fifth of the tested field while trailing the majority. That mid-to-low placement reflects the modest positioning of both components: the i5-12400F is a mainstream six-core desktop chip with a launch MSRP of $174, and the Arc B570 is an entry-level Battlemage card with a launch MSRP of 219 USD.

Context matters, though. Rank is measured across every combo in the database, including far more powerful pairings, and this game's demands are modest enough that the ranking says little about playability. The measured data confirms the combo clears 60 FPS at all four presets at 1080p and at two presets at 1440p despite its lower-half rank. A high rank in an older title mostly measures headroom you will never use.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the i5-12400F's average score of 19039 is essentially indistinguishable from its nearest rivals. The AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS matches it at a delta of 0%, the Intel Core 3 201E sits within 0.1%, the Intel Core i5-1335U within 0.3%, and even the AMD EPYC 7773X — a very different class of chip — lands within 0.3% on the aggregate score. Any of these processors would deliver effectively identical results in The Technomancer, though given the game's light CPU load, that equivalence was never in doubt with this pairing.

On the GPU side, the Arc B570's score of 20556 puts it within a hair of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile (0.1% delta), the Intel Arc A750 (0.1% behind it in score terms at -0.1%), the NVIDIA Quadro M4000M (0.4%), and the AMD Radeon R9 M390X (-0.5%). Swapping the B570 for any of these cards should reproduce nearly the same frame rates in this game. The Arc A750 is the most direct comparison since it is Intel's own prior-generation part, and the data shows the generational step from Alchemist to Battlemage bought essentially parity on aggregate scoring — the B570's advantages show up in its modern feature set instead, with DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) support, Vulkan 1.4, and a 5 nm TSMC process with 19,600 million transistors on a 272 mm² die.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured averages for the i5-12400F + Arc B570 pairing in The Technomancer, with minimum and maximum frame rates where captured.

1920x1080:

• Low: 121 FPS average
• Medium: 93 FPS average (min 79, max 107)
• High: 80 FPS average
• Ultra: 62 FPS average

2560x1440:

• Low: 79 FPS average
• Medium: 61 FPS average (min 52, max 70)
• High: 52 FPS average
• Ultra: 41 FPS average

3840x2160:

• Low: 44 FPS average
• Medium: 33 FPS average (min 28, max 39)
• High: 29 FPS average
• Ultra: 22 FPS average

The pattern is remarkably consistent. Each step up in resolution costs roughly a third of the frame rate at every preset, and each step up in preset costs roughly a quarter. The Medium preset rows are the most informative for smoothness judgments because they include full min/avg/max captures: a 28-to-39 FPS window at 4K, 52-to-70 at 1440p, and 79-to-107 at 1080p. Those tight spreads mean the averages are representative rather than inflated by occasional spikes — at 1440p Medium, the worst measured moment (52 FPS) still lands near the 1080p High average.

At 4K, even Low at 44 FPS sits well below the 60 FPS playability threshold, and Ultra at 22 FPS is less than half of it. This resolution is simply off the menu for this GPU in this game.

The Verdict

Yes, this PC runs The Technomancer — comfortably, with the right settings.

At 1920x1080, the verdict data is unambiguous: all four presets — Low, Medium, High, and Ultra — clear 60 FPS, with Ultra topping out at 62 FPS average. Playing this game at maximum settings on a 1080p monitor is entirely viable on this combo, and the Medium capture (79 minimum, 107 maximum) shows there is enormous headroom if you want a high-refresh experience instead.

At 2560x1440, the verdict is more selective. Low (79 FPS) and Medium (61 FPS) are playable; High (52 FPS) and Ultra (41 FPS) are not. Medium at 61 FPS is the sensible target, with a worst-case dip to 52 FPS — noticeable but far from a slideshow for an action RPG.

At 3840x2160, the answer is no. No preset clears 60 FPS; the best case is Low at 44 FPS. If 4K gaming is the goal, this GPU is not the tool for it in this title or anything more demanding.

In short: an i5-12400F and Arc B570 make a straightforward 1080p-max or 1440p-medium machine for The Technomancer. The CPU has headroom to spare, the GPU sets the ceiling, and the measured frame-time consistency at the playable settings is tight enough that the experience will feel as good as the averages suggest.