Lockdown Protocol

FAQ

Q: How does the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X compare to its closest rival in average benchmark score?

A: The Ryzen 5 5600X posts an average benchmark score of 20,680, placing it within 0.3% of the AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT (20,740) and the Intel Core i7-10700 (20,746). The Intel Core i5-12490F sits slightly higher at 20,794, while the Intel Xeon 6325P trails at 20,538 (0.7% lower).

Q: What is the GPU's standing relative to the field of all graphics cards?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER ranks in the 88th percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 53,610. It leads the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (53,489) by 0.2% and the AMD Radeon Pro W6600M (53,414) by 0.4%, with larger margins over the RX 7700S (2.1%) and RTX 5070 Ti (2.9%).

Q: What frame rate does the combo achieve at 1440p with High settings?

A: At 2560x1440 with High settings, the measured average FPS is 149.1. For context, this is nearly double the 4K High result (99.8 FPS) and well above the 1080p High figure of 208 FPS.

Q: How does the CPU's multi-threaded performance compare to its single-threaded score?

A: The Ryzen 5 5600X delivers a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 18,578, while its single-core score is 2,622. The scaling factor is roughly 7.1x, consistent with a 6-core/12-thread design. The 3DMark max-thread score of 5,588 is nearly identical to the 16-thread score of 5,582, indicating the full thread count is being utilized effectively.

Q: What is the GPU's memory configuration and bandwidth?

A: The RTX 4080 SUPER has 16 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 736.3 GB/s. The memory clock runs at 1438 MHz with 23 Gbps effective speed.

Q: How does the combo rank specifically for Lockdown Protocol?

A: The combination of the Ryzen 5 5600X and RTX 4080 SUPER ranks 121st out of 1,637 tested combos for this game, placing it in the top 8% of all configurations.

GPU Role

The RTX 4080 SUPER is the dominant component in this pairing for Lockdown Protocol. With 10,240 shading units, 320 TMUs, and 112 ROPs, the GPU's raw throughput is substantial. The Ada Lovelace architecture provides 80 RT cores and 320 tensor cores, supporting DirectX 12 Ultimate, Vulkan 1.4, and OpenGL 4.6 APIs.

The memory subsystem is critical for this FPS title. The 16 GB GDDR6X frame buffer on a 256-bit bus delivers 736.3 GB/s of bandwidth. At 4K Ultra settings, the game draws heavily on this capacity, and the GPU's pixel rate of 285.6 GPixel/s helps maintain the measured 71.4 FPS average. The texture rate of 816.0 GTexel/s ensures that high-resolution textures at Ultra settings don't stall the rendering pipeline.

Clock behavior shows a base of 2295 MHz boosting to 2550 MHz, which is modest for a high-end card but sufficient given the massive shader count. The FP32 compute of 52.22 TFLOPS (matching FP16 at a 1:1 ratio) means the card has ample headroom for both rasterization and compute-heavy effects. The GPU's 88th percentile ranking among all graphics cards is reflected in the benchmark deltas: it edges out the RX 6900 XT by 0.2% and the Pro W6600M by 0.4%, while the RTX 5070 Ti trails by 2.9%.

The data shows that the GPU becomes the primary constraint at higher resolutions. At 4K, the gap between Low (155.8 FPS) and Ultra (71.4 FPS) settings is 84.4 FPS — a 54% drop. This indicates that the GPU's fixed resources (bandwidth, ROPs, and pixel fill rate) are being saturated as settings increase. The card's end-of-life production status and triple-slot cooler with a 320 W TDP suggest it was designed for sustained high-load scenarios, which Lockdown Protocol at 4K Ultra certainly provides.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X is a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 3 processor (Vermeer) built on TSMC's 7 nm process. With a base clock of 3.70 GHz and boost clock of 4.60 GHz, it delivers strong single-threaded performance for a game that relies on per-core responsiveness. The 32 MB L3 cache (plus 512 KB L2 per core) helps keep frequently accessed game data close to the cores.

In synthetic benchmarks, the CPU shows a clear single-thread advantage relative to its multi-thread scaling. The Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2,622 is competitive, while the multi-core score of 18,578 demonstrates efficient scaling across all 12 threads. The 3DMark results reinforce this: single-thread score of 917 climbs to 4,811 at 8 threads and 5,588 at max threads, showing diminishing returns beyond 8 threads — a pattern typical for FPS titles that favor fewer, faster cores.

The 65 W TDP and dual-channel DDR4 memory support (51.2 GB/s bandwidth) are modest by modern standards, but the CPU's 78th percentile ranking overall shows it holds up well. Its nearest rivals are tightly clustered: the Ryzen 5 5600GT (20,740) and Core i7-10700 (20,746) both sit within 0.3%, while the i5-12490F leads by 0.5%. This indicates that for Lockdown Protocol, the CPU is not a differentiator at lower resolutions where frame rates are high.

However, the CPU's role becomes clearer when examining the FPS scaling. At 1080p Low, the combo hits 266.1 FPS — a figure that likely approaches the engine's CPU-bound ceiling. The single-threaded score of 2,622 in Cinebench R23 and the PassMark single-thread score of 3,364 suggest that the CPU can feed the GPU adequately, but the 4.60 GHz boost clock is the limiting factor for peak frame rates in lightly-threaded sections. The processor has been in production since late 2020, and while it remains active, its Zen 3 architecture lacks the newer IPC improvements seen in later generations.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its highest frame rates. Low settings produce an average of 266.1 FPS, Medium drops to 234.9 FPS (-11.7%), High reaches 208 FPS (-21.9% vs Low), and Ultra falls to 155.5 FPS (-41.6% vs Low). The scaling from Low to Ultra is a 110.6 FPS decline, indicating that even at 1080p, settings have a significant impact on the GPU workload.

At 2560x1440, the pattern intensifies. Low settings average 240.6 FPS, Medium hits 176.2 FPS, High reaches 149.1 FPS, and Ultra drops to 112.2 FPS. The drop from Low to Ultra is 128.4 FPS — a 53.4% reduction. Notably, the gap between Medium and High is 27.1 FPS, while the gap between High and Ultra is 36.9 FPS, showing that Ultra settings carry a disproportionately heavy cost.

At 3840x2160, performance compresses significantly. Low settings still manage 155.8 FPS, but Medium falls to 110.7 FPS, High to 99.8 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 71.4 FPS. The total range from Low to Ultra is 84.4 FPS. The High setting result (99.8 FPS) is just under the 100 FPS threshold, while Ultra remains playable but noticeably below the refresh-rate targets that lower resolutions achieve.

The largest single step-down occurs at 1440p between Low and Medium (64.4 FPS), while at 4K the Low-to-Medium step is 45.1 FPS and at 1080p it's 31.2 FPS. This suggests that Medium settings trigger a significant increase in GPU shading load regardless of resolution.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate decay from 1080p to 4K reveals the system's bottleneck behavior. At Low settings, the progression is 266.1 → 240.6 → 155.8 FPS across 1080p, 1440p, and 4K respectively. The drop from 1440p to 4K is 84.8 FPS (a 35.2% reduction), while the 1080p-to-1440p drop is only 25.5 FPS (9.6%). This steepening curve at 4K indicates the GPU's pixel fill rate and bandwidth become the limiting factor.

At Ultra settings, the same resolutions produce 155.5 → 112.2 → 71.4 FPS. Here, the 1080p-to-1440p drop is 43.3 FPS (27.8%), and the 1440p-to-4K drop is 40.8 FPS (36.4%). The more uniform decline at Ultra suggests that both CPU and GPU constraints are interacting — the CPU handles the higher frame rates at 1080p, while the GPU's rendering load dominates at 4K.

Comparing the Low and Ultra scaling factors from 1080p to 4K: Low settings lose 41.4% of performance, while Ultra loses 54.1%. This divergence is a clear sign that the RTX 4080 SUPER's resources — specifically its 736.3 GB/s bandwidth and 285.6 GPixel/s pixel rate — are being saturated at 4K Ultra. The GPU's 88th percentile ranking, while strong, doesn't prevent the resolution scaling from exposing its limits in a demanding FPS title.

The data also shows that at 1080p, the CPU plays a more significant role. The gap between Low (266.1) and Ultra (155.5) is 110.6 FPS, but the CPU's 78th percentile ranking and 6-core/12-thread configuration appear sufficient to avoid bottlenecking the GPU at these settings. At 4K, however, the GPU's workload increases by roughly 4x the pixel count, and the FPS deltas between settings shrink — indicating the GPU is now the clear limiting component, with the CPU's role diminishing as frame rates drop below 160 FPS.