Lockdown Protocol

# Lockdown Protocol with AMD Ryzen 5 7400F + Intel Arc B370

This combination of an AMD Ryzen 5 7400F processor paired with an Intel Arc B370 integrated GPU delivers playable frame rates at 1080p only when settings are tuned appropriately, with performance falling below playable thresholds at higher resolutions. The measured data shows this combo ranking at 2611 out of 2828 tested configurations in Lockdown Protocol, placing it in the bottom 7.7% of all tested combos. The Ryzen 5 7400F is a strong modern desktop processor with substantial headroom, but the Arc B370's integrated nature and low benchmark standing dominate the gaming experience, creating a system where CPU capability is largely untapped by the graphics bottleneck.

FAQ

Q: What is the best resolution and settings combination for this system?

A: The data shows 1920x1080 with Low settings delivers 80 FPS average, which is the highest measured frame rate across all tested configurations. Medium settings at 1080p still achieves 57 FPS average, making it the best balance of visual quality and performance, while High settings at 1080p drops to 49 FPS average.

Q: How does this combo rank among all tested systems in Lockdown Protocol?

A: The combination ranks 2611 out of 2828 tested combos, placing it in the bottom percentile of systems. This low ranking is primarily attributable to the GPU, which sits at the 5th percentile among all GPUs, while the CPU sits at the 83rd percentile among all CPUs.

Q: Can this system handle 1440p gaming in Lockdown Protocol?

A: At 2560x1440, the best measured result is 58 FPS average at Low settings. Medium settings at this resolution yields 42 FPS average, and High settings drops to 36 FPS average. While Low settings at 1440p is technically playable, the 58 FPS average is significantly below the 80 FPS achievable at 1080p Low.

Q: Is 4K gaming viable with this hardware combination?

A: No. At 3840x2160, even the lowest settings produce only 38 FPS average, with High settings at 23 FPS and Ultra settings at 18 FPS. These frame rates fall below acceptable playability thresholds for a competitive FPS title.

Q: How does the Arc B370 compare to its nearest GPU rivals?

A: The Arc B370 scores 1184 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, placing it within 0.7% of the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570 and ATI Radeon HD 5770, which score 1186 and 1190 respectively. It is 1.4% ahead of the AMD FirePro M2000's score of 1168.

Q: What is the CPU's benchmark position relative to its nearest rivals?

A: The Ryzen 5 7400F has an average benchmark score of 32750, placing it 0.1% above the Intel Core i5-14600T (32707), 0.2% above the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H (32697), and 0.3% above the AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 (32662). It sits 0.2% below the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H (32812).

Settings Recommendations

The measured frame rate data reveals a clear hierarchy of playability across settings presets. At 1920x1080, Low settings produce 80 FPS average, which is the only configuration in the entire dataset that approaches high-refresh-rate territory. Medium settings at the same resolution yield 57 FPS average, still comfortably playable for a competitive FPS. High settings drop to 49 FPS, and Ultra falls to 37 FPS.

For the best experience balancing visual quality and performance, Medium settings at 1080p represents the optimal choice. The 57 FPS average is 28.75% lower than Low settings but provides substantially better visual fidelity, and the minimum frame rate of 48 FPS (as measured in the Medium preset) indicates reasonable frame pacing stability. The 1080p Medium configuration also delivers 15 FPS more than the next best non-Low option (1440p Low at 58 FPS is actually higher, but at a significantly lower visual quality tier relative to its resolution).

Players prioritizing smoothness above all else should select Low settings at 1080p for the 80 FPS average. This represents a 40% improvement over Medium settings. However, the jump from Low to Medium costs 23 FPS (from 80 to 57), while the jump from Medium to High costs only 8 FPS (from 57 to 49), suggesting diminishing returns at the top end of the settings spectrum.

At 1440p, only the Low preset (58 FPS) achieves playable frame rates, and even that falls 22 FPS short of the 1080p Low result. At 4K, no settings preset reaches 40 FPS, making this resolution impractical for this hardware combination. The data strongly suggests that users should remain at 1080p and choose between Medium (57 FPS) and Low (80 FPS) depending on their preference for visuals versus frame rate.

GPU Role

The Intel Arc B370 is an integrated GPU based on the Xe3-LPG architecture, fabricated on Intel's 3 nm process node. It operates with a base clock of 300 MHz and a boost clock of 2400 MHz, featuring 1280 shading units, 40 texture mapping units, and 20 raster operation pipelines. The GPU includes 10 ray tracing cores and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4.

Critically, the Arc B370 uses System Shared memory, meaning its VRAM allocation and bandwidth are system-dependent rather than fixed. This is a fundamental limitation for gaming performance, as the GPU must compete with CPU memory demands and lacks dedicated high-bandwidth VRAM. The pixel rate is 48.00 GPixel/s and texture rate is 96.00 GTexel/s, with FP32 performance rated at 6.144 TFLOPS.

The GPU's benchmark position is stark: it scores 1184 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, placing it at the 5th percentile among all GPUs. Its nearest rivals are legacy parts from the early 2010s — the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570 (1186), ATI Radeon HD 5770 (1190), and AMD Radeon HD 7650M (1192) — all of which are within 0.7% of the Arc B370's score. This places the integrated GPU at roughly the performance level of a mid-range discrete GPU from over a decade ago.

The measured game data reflects this GPU limitation. The 23 FPS average at 4K High settings and 18 FPS at 4K Ultra indicate that the GPU is overwhelmed at high pixel counts. Even at 1080p Ultra, the 37 FPS average suggests the Arc B370 cannot sustain high settings in a modern FPS title. The substantial frame rate drops when moving from Low to Ultra settings at any resolution quantify the GPU's limited fill rate and shading throughput.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 3840x2160, the system produces average frame rates of 38 FPS at Low settings, 27 FPS at Medium settings (with a minimum of 23 FPS and maximum of 31 FPS), 23 FPS at High settings, and 18 FPS at Ultra settings. The progression from Low to Ultra represents a 52.6% reduction in frame rate, confirming that the GPU cannot handle 4K rendering loads.

At 2560x1440, the measured averages are 58 FPS at Low, 42 FPS at Medium (with a minimum of 35 FPS and maximum of 48 FPS), 36 FPS at High, and 27 FPS at Ultra. The Medium preset's minimum of 35 FPS indicates noticeable frame dips during intense scenes, which could affect gameplay smoothness in a competitive FPS.

At 1920x1080, the system achieves 80 FPS at Low, 57 FPS at Medium (with a minimum of 48 FPS and maximum of 65 FPS), 49 FPS at High, and 37 FPS at Ultra. This is the only resolution where any settings preset exceeds 60 FPS average, and the 1080p Low result is the single highest measured frame rate in the entire dataset.

The incremental cost of each settings tier is consistent across resolutions. Moving from Low to Medium costs roughly 23-29% performance, from Medium to High costs 14-15%, and from High to Ultra costs 20-25%. The 1080p Medium configuration's minimum FPS of 48 is the second-highest minimum recorded, after only the 1080p Low result (which has no reported minimum, suggesting it was stable enough to not record a significant dip).

How This Combo Ranks

This combination ranks 2611 out of 2828 tested combos in Lockdown Protocol, placing it in the bottom 7.7% of all tested systems. The ranking reflects the massive disparity between the CPU and GPU capabilities: the Ryzen 5 7400F sits at the 83rd percentile among all CPUs, while the Arc B370 sits at the 5th percentile among all GPUs.

The combo's position suggests that the GPU is the overwhelming performance limiter in this pairing. A CPU at the 83rd percentile combined with a GPU at the 5th percentile creates a severely imbalanced system for gaming workloads. The CPU's high benchmark scores — including a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 21765 and single-core score of 3072 — indicate it could support far more powerful graphics solutions without becoming a bottleneck.

The nearest GPU rivals (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570, ATI Radeon HD 5770, AMD Radeon HD 7650M) are all legacy products that would similarly bottleneck modern CPUs. The Arc B370's 5th percentile GPU ranking is the primary determinant of the combo's 2611th place finish. Systems ranked above this combo likely feature either more powerful integrated graphics or entry-level discrete GPUs that provide meaningful performance improvements over the Arc B370.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 7400F is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 4 architecture (codenamed Raphael), built on TSMC's 5 nm process node with 6,570 million transistors on a 71 mm² die. It operates with a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 4.70 GHz, with a 65 W TDP. The CPU supports DDR5 memory via a dual-channel interface with 83.2 GB/s bandwidth, and includes 32 MB of shared L3 cache plus 1 MB of L2 cache per core.

The CPU's benchmark performance is robust across both multi-threaded and single-threaded workloads. It scores 21765 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 3072 in single-core, with corresponding R20 scores of 9141 and 1290. PassMark results show a multi-thread score of 25645, a single-thread score of 3689, and strong data compression (289999) and encryption (16712) performance.

In Lockdown Protocol, the CPU's role is diminished by the GPU bottleneck. The measured frame rates are consistently low enough that the Ryzen 5 7400F's processing power is unlikely to be the limiting factor at any resolution or settings combination. The 83rd percentile CPU ranking versus the 5th percentile GPU ranking means the CPU has substantial headroom that goes unused.

The CPU's nearest rivals — Intel Core i5-14600T (0.1% lower score), Intel Core Ultra 7 155H (0.2% lower), and AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H (0.2% higher) — all represent competitive mid-range processors. However, none of these comparisons translate into meaningful gaming differences when paired with the Arc B370, as the GPU constrains performance to roughly the same levels regardless of which of these CPUs is installed.

Resolution Scaling

The measured frame rate data reveals how performance scales from 1080p to 4K across settings presets. At Low settings, the system delivers 80 FPS at 1080p, 58 FPS at 1440p, and 38 FPS at 4K. This represents a 27.5% drop from 1080p to 1440p and a 34.5% drop from 1440p to 4K, totaling a 52.5% reduction from 1080p to 4K.

At Medium settings, the progression is 57 FPS (1080p), 42 FPS (1440p), and 27 FPS (4K) — drops of 26.3% and 35.7% respectively. High settings show 49 FPS at 1080p, 36 FPS at 1440p, and 23 FPS at 4K, representing 26.5% and 36.1% reductions. Ultra settings produce 37 FPS at 1080p, 27 FPS at 1440p, and 18 FPS at 4K, with drops of 27.0% and 33.3%.

The consistent percentage drops across all settings tiers indicate that resolution scaling is governed by the GPU's pixel throughput capabilities rather than CPU limits. The Arc B370's render output pipeline (20 ROPs) and pixel rate of 48.00 GPixel/s are clearly insufficient for high-resolution rendering, as demonstrated by the fact that even the lowest settings at 4K (38 FPS) fall well below the 1080p Ultra result (37 FPS) — meaning the GPU is so constrained at 4K that it can barely match the performance of a much higher visual quality setting at 1080p.

The scaling pattern suggests the system is purely GPU-limited across all resolutions. If the CPU were the limiting factor, we would expect to see smaller percentage drops at higher resolutions (where GPU load increases) and larger drops at lower resolutions (where CPU load becomes relatively more significant). Instead, the uniform scaling across settings presets and resolutions points to the GPU being the sole performance constraint, with the Ryzen 5 7400F's capabilities remaining largely untapped throughout the resolution range.