Lockdown Protocol

# Lockdown Protocol with AMD Ryzen 5 7600 + Intel Arc B580

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600 paired with the Intel Arc B580 ranks 1303rd out of 1637 tested combos in Lockdown Protocol, placing it in the lower-middle tier of the database for this title. That rank reflects a combination where neither component dominates the other, and the results show a pairing that is consistently playable at mainstream resolutions but begins to strain as resolution and settings climb. The data here is measured, not estimated, and it paints a clear picture of how these two parts interact in a fast-paced FPS environment.

How This Combo Ranks

At position 1303 of 1637 tested combinations, this pairing sits below the median performance tier for Lockdown Protocol. The rank suggests that while the system is fully capable of running the game, a substantial portion of tested configurations deliver higher average frame rates. The CPU, however, is a strong contributor relative to its peers: the Ryzen 5 7600 holds an 83rd percentile rank against all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 26617. Its nearest rivals include the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D (average score 26574, delta of 0.2%), the Intel Core i9-12900HK (26672, delta of -0.2%), the AMD EPYC 8024P (26555, delta of 0.2%), and the Intel Core i9-11900K (26546, delta of 0.3%). These deltas are negligible—within a fraction of a percent—meaning the 7600 is statistically tied with those processors in general compute workloads. The bottleneck in Lockdown Protocol, then, is not the CPU but rather the GPU's position relative to its own competition.

The GPU ranks in the 66th percentile against all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 23021. Its nearest rivals include the AMD Radeon 760M (average score 22999, delta of 0.1%), the NVIDIA P106-100 (22950, delta of 0.3%), the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (23181, delta of -0.7%), and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile (22729, delta of 1.3%). The Arc B580 is essentially on par with the RTX 4060 in aggregate benchmarks, trailing by just 0.7%, which places it in a competitive mid-range tier. Yet the combo rank of 1303rd suggests that Lockdown Protocol's specific demands do not favor this pairing as much as other games might.

GPU Role

The Intel Arc B580 is built on the Xe2-HPG architecture, codenamed Battlemage, and fabricated on a 5 nm process at TSMC with 19,600 million transistors on a 272 mm² die. It features 2560 shading units, 160 texture mapping units, and 80 render output units, along with 20 ray tracing cores. The GPU operates at a base clock of 2670 MHz and a boost clock of 2670 MHz, indicating a fixed-frequency design rather than a variable boost curve. Memory is 12 GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus, delivering a bandwidth of 456.0 GB/s, with memory clocks at 2375 MHz (19 Gbps effective). These specs position the card as a solid 1080p and 1440p performer, but the measured results in Lockdown Protocol show that its strengths are more pronounced at lower resolutions and settings.

The 12 GB VRAM capacity is ample for this game at 1080p and 1440p, where the frame rates suggest the card is not running into memory limits. At 4K, however, the combination of higher resolution and demanding settings likely increases memory pressure, though the data does not explicitly indicate VRAM exhaustion. The pixel rate of 213.6 GPixel/s and texture rate of 427.2 GTexel/s are indicative of a card that can handle modern rasterization, but the FP32 throughput of 13.67 TFLOPS places a ceiling on raw compute-heavy scenes. In Lockdown Protocol, which is an FPS that likely relies on a mix of geometry and effects, the GPU's role becomes the primary limiter as resolution climbs.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data shows a clear and predictable scaling pattern from 1080p to 4K, with the GPU becoming progressively more dominant as the limiting factor. At 1080p with Low settings, the combo achieves 150.8 FPS, which is a strong result that indicates the CPU is capable of feeding the GPU adequately at this level. Moving to 1440p Low drops the frame rate to 113.1 FPS, a reduction of 25%, while 4K Low yields 71.7 FPS, another 36% drop from 1440p. This scaling is consistent with a GPU-bound scenario at higher resolutions, where the Arc B580's raw throughput becomes the bottleneck.

The pattern holds across settings. At High settings, 1080p delivers 97.6 FPS, 1440p drops to 66.9 FPS (a 31% reduction), and 4K falls to 43.8 FPS (a 35% reduction from 1440p). At Ultra settings, the drop is even steeper: 1080p runs at 69.3 FPS, 1440p at 51.8 FPS (a 25% reduction), and 4K at 32.5 FPS (a 37% reduction from 1440p). These percentages reveal that the scaling from 1440p to 4K is consistently more severe than from 1080p to 1440p, which is typical for a GPU that has a finite memory bandwidth of 456.0 GB/s. The 4K results, particularly at Ultra (32.5 FPS), indicate that this pairing is not suitable for 4K gaming in Lockdown Protocol unless settings are lowered substantially.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its best results. Low settings produce an average of 150.8 FPS, which is high enough for competitive play on high-refresh monitors. Medium settings yield 107.3 FPS, High settings yield 97.6 FPS, and Ultra settings drop to 69.3 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra is approximately 54%, showing that the GPU has headroom at this resolution but that Ultra settings impose a significant penalty. The 1080p results suggest that the Ryzen 5 7600, with its 6 cores and 12 threads, is not the limiting factor here; even at Ultra, the frame rate stays above 60 FPS, indicating a balanced pairing at this resolution.

At 2560x1440, the frame rates remain playable but the GPU's limitations become more evident. Low settings average 113.1 FPS, which is still excellent. Medium settings drop to 81.2 FPS, High settings to 66.9 FPS, and Ultra to 51.8 FPS. The Ultra result falls below the 60 FPS threshold, which may be noticeable in a fast-paced FPS where smoothness is critical. The scaling from Low to Ultra at 1440p is a 54% reduction, similar to 1080p, but the absolute numbers are lower across the board, confirming that the GPU is the primary constraint.

At 3840x2160, the results are marginal for most settings. Low settings average 71.7 FPS, which is playable, but Medium drops to 49 FPS, High to 43.8 FPS, and Ultra to 32.5 FPS. The jump from Low to Medium at 4K is a 32% reduction, and the Ultra result is well below what most players would consider acceptable for an FPS. The data shows that this combo is only viable at 4K with Low settings, and even then, the 71.7 FPS average leaves little headroom for demanding scenes. The 4K results reinforce the notion that the Arc B580, with its 13.67 TFLOPS of FP32 performance, is not designed for 4K gaming at high quality settings.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600 is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 4 architecture, codenamed Raphael, and manufactured on a 5 nm process at TSMC. It has a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 5.10 GHz, with a 65 W TDP. The cache hierarchy includes 64 KB of L1 per core, 1 MB of L2 per core, and 32 MB of shared L3 cache. Memory support is DDR5 with a dual-channel bus, providing a bandwidth of 83.2 GB/s. The CPU's integrated graphics are Radeon Graphics, though they are not used in this discrete GPU configuration. The processor supports PCIe Gen 5 with 24 lanes from the CPU, which exceeds the GPU's PCIe 4.0 x8 interface.

Benchmark results for the Ryzen 5 7600 show strong single-thread and multi-thread performance. In 3DMark, the single-thread score is 999, the 4-thread score is 3686, the 8-thread score is 5508, and the max-thread score is 6503. Cinebench R23 scores are 3246 for single-core and 22992 for multi-core. PassMark results include a single-thread score of 3910 and a multi-thread score of 27058. These figures place the CPU in the 83rd percentile, indicating that it is a capable processor for gaming workloads. The 3DMark 16-thread score of 6499 is nearly identical to the max-thread score of 6503, suggesting that the CPU is fully utilized with 12 threads and that adding more threads does not provide additional performance.

In Lockdown Protocol, the CPU's role is clearly secondary to the GPU. At 1080p Low, the frame rate of 150.8 FPS is likely near the CPU's practical limit for this game, but the fact that Ultra settings at the same resolution still achieve 69.3 FPS indicates that the GPU is the limiting factor even at lower settings. The 12 threads of the Ryzen 5 7600 are sufficient to avoid bottlenecking the Arc B580 in most scenarios, as evidenced by the consistent frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K. The CPU's high single-thread performance, with a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 3246, ensures that game logic and physics are processed efficiently, but the measured data suggests that Lockdown Protocol is not CPU-intensive enough to expose any weaknesses in this processor. The combo rank of 1303rd out of 1637 is therefore more a reflection of the GPU's mid-range standing than any CPU deficiency.