Lockdown Protocol

FAQ

Q: What is the average frame rate for this combination at 1920x1080 with Medium settings?

A: The measured average is 185 FPS at 1920x1080 on Medium, with a minimum of 157 FPS and a maximum of 212 FPS, indicating a smooth experience even during demanding scenes.

Q: How does the CPU's multi-threaded performance compare to its nearest rival, the Intel Xeon D-2752TER?

A: The AMD Ryzen 7 5700's average benchmark score is 25,517, which is essentially tied with the Intel Xeon D-2752TER's 25,530, showing a negligible 0.1% deficit in overall compute performance.

Q: What is the GPU's memory bandwidth, and how much VRAM does it have?

A: The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT features 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, providing a total bandwidth of 644.6 GB/s, which is ample for high-resolution textures.

Q: At which resolution and settings does the combo achieve its highest measured frame rate?

A: The highest measured average frame rate is 259 FPS, achieved at 1920x1080 with Low settings, showcasing the system's ability to push extremely high refresh rates when visual fidelity is reduced.

Q: How does the combo rank among all tested combinations in this game?

A: This particular combination of CPU and GPU ranks 920th out of 3,714 tested combos in Lockdown Protocol, placing it in the top quarter of all systems tested.

Q: Is the frame rate difference between 1080p and 1440p at High settings significant?

A: Yes, the average frame rate drops from 161 FPS at 1920x1080 to 118 FPS at 2560x1440 on High settings, a 43 FPS decrease that indicates the GPU is becoming a more significant factor at higher resolutions.

Settings Recommendations

Benchmark results indicate that the ideal settings preset depends heavily on the target resolution and refresh rate. For users with 1080p displays, the Medium preset delivers an outstanding average of 185 FPS, with the minimum staying above 157 FPS, ensuring a consistently fluid experience on high-refresh-rate monitors. The jump to High at this resolution yields 161 FPS, which is still excellent, but the drop of 24 FPS from Medium to High suggests that the visual gains may not justify the performance cost for competitive play. Ultra at 1080p brings the average down to 121 FPS, which is still playable but sacrifices the headroom needed for maximum smoothness.

At 2560x1440, the Medium preset again provides the best balance, with an average of 135 FPS and a minimum of 115 FPS, making it the recommended choice for a responsive experience without compromising too much on visual quality. The High preset at this resolution delivers 118 FPS, which remains playable but begins to show the GPU's workload increasing. For 4K gaming, the data suggests that Medium is the highest viable preset, as it maintains an average of 87 FPS with a minimum of 74 FPS, while the High preset drops to 76 FPS and Ultra falls below 60 FPS to 57 FPS. The Low preset at any resolution offers the highest frame rates but sacrifices the graphical fidelity that the RX 9070 XT is capable of producing.

Resolution Scaling

The measured frame rates reveal a clear pattern of performance scaling as resolution increases. At 1080p with Low settings, the system achieves 259 FPS, which drops to 191 FPS at 1440p and further to 123 FPS at 4K. This represents a 26% decrease from 1080p to 1440p and a 52% decrease from 1080p to 4K, indicating that the GPU is the primary limiting factor at higher resolutions. The scaling is similarly pronounced on the Medium preset, where 185 FPS at 1080p falls to 135 FPS at 1440p and 87 FPS at 4K, showing a consistent reduction in performance as pixel count increases.

This behavior suggests that while the Ryzen 7 5700 is capable of feeding the GPU at lower resolutions, the RX 9070 XT's rendering workload becomes the bottleneck as resolution climbs. The gap between 1080p and 1440p is substantial, but the largest absolute drop occurs between 1440p and 4K, particularly on the Ultra preset, where the frame rate falls from 89 FPS to 57 FPS. The data indicates that for 4K gaming, users should expect to use lower presets to maintain playable frame rates, as the GPU's compute resources are stretched thin at this resolution.

How This Combo Ranks

In the benchmark database for Lockdown Protocol, this combination of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700 and AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT holds a rank of 920 out of 3,714 tested combos. This places the system in the 75th percentile of all tested configurations, meaning it outperforms roughly three-quarters of the systems evaluated. The ranking reflects a strong balance between the CPU and GPU, as the Ryzen 7 5700's 8-core, 16-thread configuration provides sufficient processing power to avoid bottlenecking the RX 9070 XT in most scenarios.

Given the GPU's percentile ranking of 55 among all GPUs, the combo's high overall rank suggests that the pairing is well-matched for this particular game. The CPU's percentile ranking of 78 is notably higher, indicating that the processor is more capable relative to its peers than the graphics card is relative to its own peers. This disparity implies that in CPU-bound scenarios, the system has headroom, but in GPU-heavy workloads, the graphics card is the limiting factor. The combination's rank of 920 demonstrates that while it is not a top-tier enthusiast setup, it delivers performance that places it well above the median for Lockdown Protocol.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is the dominant component in this configuration, and its specifications directly influence the measured frame rates. With 16 GB of GDDR6 memory and a 256-bit bus, the card provides 644.6 GB/s of bandwidth, which is critical for handling high-resolution textures and complex shaders in a modern FPS. The GPU's boost clock of 2970 MHz and game clock of 2400 MHz, built on the RDNA 4.0 architecture with 4096 shading units, allow it to deliver substantial compute throughput, as evidenced by its 48.66 TFLOPS of FP32 performance.

The benchmark data shows that the GPU's performance scales consistently with resolution, but the frame rate drops are more pronounced at 4K, where the card's pixel rate of 380.2 GPixel/s becomes a limiting factor. The GPU's 128 ROPs and 256 TMUs handle the rasterization workload efficiently at 1080p and 1440p, but the 4K Ultra preset, which demands the highest pixel throughput, pushes the card to its limits, resulting in an average of only 57 FPS. The card's 64 RT cores are present but are not specifically stressed in this game's standard rendering path, as the measured data focuses on traditional rasterization. Overall, the GPU's role is to provide the raw graphics horsepower, and its performance ceiling is evident at 4K with higher presets.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured data provides a comprehensive view of performance across three resolutions and four settings presets. At 1920x1080, the system achieves an average of 259 FPS on Low, 185 FPS on Medium (with a minimum of 157 and maximum of 212), 161 FPS on High, and 121 FPS on Ultra. These figures demonstrate that at 1080p, the system is capable of exceeding the refresh rate of most high-end monitors, even on the High preset, making it ideal for competitive play where frame rate is paramount.

Moving to 2560x1440, the averages are 191 FPS on Low, 135 FPS on Medium (minimum 115, maximum 156), 118 FPS on High, and 89 FPS on Ultra. The 1440p results show a slight compression of the frame rate differences between presets, with the gap between Low and Ultra narrowing to 102 FPS compared to 138 FPS at 1080p. At 3840x2160, the averages fall to 123 FPS on Low, 87 FPS on Medium (minimum 74, maximum 100), 76 FPS on High, and 57 FPS on Ultra. The 4K data reveals that only the Low and Medium presets maintain average frame rates above 60 FPS, while High and Ultra dip below this threshold, indicating that 4K gaming requires careful preset selection to ensure smooth gameplay.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700 serves as the processing backbone for this system, and its specifications play a crucial role in determining the frame rates, particularly at lower resolutions. With 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Zen 3 architecture, the CPU operates at a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz, providing strong single-threaded performance that is essential for FPS games. The CPU's benchmark scores, including a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 20,655 and a single-core score of 2,916, indicate that it can handle the game's logic and physics calculations without becoming a bottleneck.

The data shows that at 1080p, the frame rates are sufficiently high that the CPU's role is more pronounced, as the GPU is not fully saturated. The CPU's 16 MB of L3 cache and dual-channel DDR4 memory support with 51.2 GB/s bandwidth ensure that data can be fed to the GPU efficiently. The Ryzen 7 5700's percentile ranking of 78 among all CPUs confirms that it is a strong performer, and its nearest rivals, such as the AMD Ryzen 5 7640U and 6600H, show negligible performance differences of 0.1% to 0.3%. This indicates that the CPU provides consistent, reliable performance that complements the GPU well, allowing the system to achieve its measured frame rates across all resolutions and settings.