The Technomancer

The Intel Core i7-13700K paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 lands at rank 146 out of 3696 tested combinations for The Technomancer — comfortably inside the top tier of configurations benchmarked for this 2016 action RPG. The pairing is, on paper, an unusual one: a Raptor Lake CPU from 2022 driving a Blackwell 2.0 GPU released in 2025, all to render a title that predates both by several years. The data raises an obvious question — how much of this hardware does a game like The Technomancer actually need — and the measured framerates provide a clear answer.

How This Combo Ranks

Rank 146 of 3696 combinations places this setup in roughly the top four percent of tested pairings for this game. That standing tracks closely with the raw credentials of each component. The Core i7-13700K sits at the 89th percentile versus all CPUs in the database, with an average benchmark score of 46881; the RTX 5080 sits at the 87th percentile versus all GPUs with an average benchmark score of 56083. Neither part is the absolute flagship of its generation, but both are strong upper-tier performers, and their combined effect on this title is exactly what the ranking suggests: near the front of the field, with only a small cluster of faster combos ahead of it.

What makes the ranking interesting is how little separation matters for a game of this vintage. The Technomancer shipped in mid-2016, and even at its Ultra preset the framerate ceiling here is dominated by the GPU, not the CPU. A higher-ranked combination would likely show a higher average at 4K Ultra, but whether a player could perceive the difference at these numbers is doubtful.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data tells a straightforward story: this is a GPU-bound game on this hardware at every resolution, and the CPU's role is essentially to stay out of the way. Consider the progression at the Ultra preset. Moving from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 drops the average from 159.6 FPS to 105 FPS — a substantial fall. Moving again from 2560x1440 to 3840x2160 drops it further to 57.6 FPS. If the CPU were the limiting factor, framerates would plateau as resolution climbed, because the processor workload stays roughly constant while only the render load grows. That plateau never appears. Every resolution step costs a large slice of performance, which is the classic signature of a GPU-limited scenario.

The preset scaling reinforces this. At 1920x1080, dropping from Ultra to Low nearly doubles the average, from 159.6 to 308.6 FPS. That kind of settings sensitivity means visual quality options — which load the GPU almost exclusively — are the dominant lever. The Core i7-13700K, with 16 cores, 24 threads, a single-thread Passmark score of 4333 and a Geekbench single-core score of 2529, has more than enough per-frame throughput for a 2016 action RPG. Its multi-thread credentials — a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 30745 and a 3DMark max-threads score of 12412 — go largely unused here. The data implies the 13700K could likely drive much weaker GPUs to similar framerates in this title; the RTX 5080 is the component setting the pace.

FAQ

Q: Can this combo run The Technomancer at 4K with all settings maxed?

A: Not at the 60 FPS threshold. At 3840x2160 Ultra, the average is 57.6 FPS — just under the playable cutoff. The High preset is the best setting that clears 60 FPS at 4K, averaging 75 FPS.

Q: Which preset should be used at 2560x1440?

A: Ultra. It averages 105 FPS at that resolution, well above the 60 FPS threshold, so there is no reason to reduce settings.

Q: How does the Core i7-13700K compare to its nearest rivals in general performance?

A: It is effectively tied with them. The AMD Ryzen 9 5900 averages 46971 (-0.2 percent), the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375 averages 47022 (-0.3 percent), and the AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX and Intel Xeon w3-2535 sit at 46654 and 46653 respectively (+0.5 percent each) — all within half a percent of the 13700K's 46881.

Q: How does the RTX 5080 stack up against similar GPUs?

A: Its average score of 56083 sits within a narrow band: the AMD Radeon 8060S (55757, 0.6 percent), Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB (55698, 0.7 percent), Radeon Pro W5700X (54828, 2.3 percent) and Radeon RX 9070 GRE (57367, -2.2 percent). The RX 9070 GRE is the only rival measurably ahead.

Q: What is the highest framerate this combo records in the game?

A: 308.6 FPS average, at 1920x1080 on the Low preset. The lowest is 57.6 FPS at 3840x2160 Ultra.

Q: Is the CPU or the GPU more important for this game?

A: The GPU. Framerates scale steeply with both resolution and preset and never plateau, indicating the RTX 5080 is the bottleneck at all three tested resolutions.

The Verdict

Yes — this PC runs The Technomancer decisively. At 1920x1080, every preset clears 60 FPS, with Ultra averaging 159.6 FPS. At 2560x1440, every preset again clears the threshold, with Ultra averaging 105 FPS and even the highest result, Low, reaching 204.7 FPS. At 3840x2160, three of four presets are playable — Low at 113.5 FPS, Medium at 86 FPS, and High at 75 FPS — while Ultra falls just short at 57.6 FPS. In practical terms, a 1080p or 1440p player can max everything out without a second thought, and a 4K player simply drops one notch from Ultra to High to stay comfortably above 60 FPS. For a game released in 2016, that is about as definitive a verdict as benchmark data can produce.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are average framerates from measured runs; minimum and maximum values were not recorded for this dataset.

At 1920x1080:

• Low: 308.6 FPS
• Medium: 244.5 FPS
• High: 209.3 FPS
• Ultra: 159.6 FPS

At 2560x1440:

• Low: 204.7 FPS
• Medium: 156 FPS
• High: 135.1 FPS
• Ultra: 105 FPS

At 3840x2160:

• Low: 113.5 FPS
• Medium: 86 FPS
• High: 75 FPS
• Ultra: 57.6 FPS

The pattern is remarkably consistent. Each preset step down buys a meaningful framerate increase at every resolution, and each resolution step up costs roughly a third to nearly half of the average. The one number that stands out is 57.6 FPS at 4K Ultra — the sole result below the playable threshold, and only barely. The gap between it and the 75 FPS of 4K High suggests the Ultra preset's final visual additions are disproportionately expensive at 3840x2160 relative to what they cost at lower resolutions.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the 13700K's nearest rivals are all but interchangeable in aggregate performance, and since this game leans on the GPU, any of them should behave similarly in practice. The AMD Ryzen 9 5900 (avgScore 46971, -0.2 percent), AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375 (47022, -0.3 percent), AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX (46654, +0.5 percent) and Intel Xeon w3-2535 (46653, +0.5 percent) all sit within half a percent of the 13700K's 46881 average score. Given that The Technomancer is GPU-bound on this pairing, swapping the 13700K for any of these should change the measured framerates little if at all.

On the GPU side, the closest matches to the RTX 5080's 56083 average are the AMD Radeon 8060S (55757, 0.6 percent behind), the Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB (55698, 0.7 percent behind), and the Radeon Pro W5700X (54828, 2.3 percent behind). The Radeon RX 9070 GRE (57367) is 2.2 percent ahead. Since the GPU is the deciding component in this title, a system built around any of these alternatives would be expected to deliver framerates in the same vicinity as the breakdown above — including the marginal miss at 4K Ultra — though per-title behavior can vary.

Best Settings per Resolution

• 1920x1080 — Ultra: 159.6 FPS average. The most demanding preset available still clears the 60 FPS threshold by nearly three times over.
• 2560x1440 — Ultra: 105 FPS average. Again, the maximum preset is the correct choice, with a comfortable margin above 60 FPS.
• 3840x2160 — High: 75 FPS average. Ultra at 4K averages 57.6 FPS and misses the threshold, so High is the most demanding preset that stays at or above 60 FPS.

The takeaway is simple: max out settings at 1080p and 1440p, and at 4K step down a single preset tier. Nowhere in the entire dataset does this combo fall meaningfully short of a playable experience.