Lockdown Protocol

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 ranks 69th out of 1,637 tested combinations in Lockdown Protocol. That places this pairing in the top 4.2% of all tested configurations for this FPS title. The combination outperforms the vast majority of setups in the database, though its position is notable given the stark contrast in generation and tier between the two components. The ranking confirms that while the GPU dominates the visual workload, the older CPU does not completely bottleneck the experience.

How This Combo Ranks

In the benchmark database, this combo’s rank of 69 out of 1,637 tested combinations places it in the 95.8th percentile of all CPU-GPU pairings tested in Lockdown Protocol. The high rank is overwhelmingly driven by the RTX 5090’s raw throughput, which sits at the 94th percentile among all GPUs. The CPU, by contrast, holds an 83rd percentile standing among all processors. The gap between the two percentile figures suggests the processor is the limiting factor in this pairing. Benchmark results show the 5700G’s average benchmark score of 25,626 is nearly indistinguishable from its nearest rivals — the AMD Ryzen 7 6800U scores 25,706, a mere 0.3% higher, while the Intel Xeon D-2752TER and Intel Core 5 210H are within 0.4% and 0.5% respectively. This tells a clear story: the 5700G is a mid-pack performer even among its direct competitors, but the RTX 5090’s massive lead over its peers — it sits 0.2% behind the RTX 5090 D but a notable 1.6% ahead of the NVIDIA CMP 40HX — compensates enough to keep the overall combo near the top of the charts.

CPU Role

The Ryzen 7 5700G is an 8-core, 16-thread processor built on the Zen 3 architecture, code-named Cezanne, and fabricated on TSMC’s 7 nm process. Its base clock is 3.80 GHz with a boost clock of 4.60 GHz, and it carries 16 MB of L3 cache alongside 512 KB of L2 per core. The chip supports DDR4 memory in dual-channel configuration with a memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s. In synthetic tests, the processor delivers a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 20,755 and a single-core score of 2,930, while Geekbench results show 8,970 multi-core and 2,016 single-core. Passmark’s multi-thread score of 24,419 and single-thread score of 3,283 reinforce that this is a competent but not exceptional gaming CPU by current standards.

For Lockdown Protocol, an FPS title, the 8-core count and 16 threads are sufficient to handle the game’s threading demands, but the architecture’s age shows. The CPU’s 3DMark 16-thread score of 6,629 and max-thread score of 6,627 indicate that scaling beyond 8 threads yields almost nothing, which aligns with the 16 MB L3 cache limiting cross-core communication efficiency. The 5700G’s integrated Radeon Vega 8 graphics are present but irrelevant in this discrete-GPU configuration. The processor’s PCIe Gen 3 interface with 16 lanes could theoretically constrain the RTX 5090’s PCIe 5.0 bus, but measured FPS suggests this is not a severe bottleneck in practice. The CPU’s 65 W TDP and unlocked multiplier indicate headroom for overclocking, though the boost clock of 4.60 GHz is where the chip spends most of its time under gaming load.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is the dominant force in this pairing. Built on the Blackwell 2.0 architecture with the GB202 chip on TSMC’s 5 nm process, it packs 92,200 million transistors across a 750 mm² die. The GPU features 21,760 shading units, 680 texture mapping units, and 176 raster operation pipelines. Its base clock is 2,017 MHz with a boost clock of 2,407 MHz, and memory runs at 1,750 MHz with 28 Gbps effective speed. The 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus delivers 1.79 TB/s of bandwidth — a figure that dwarfs the CPU’s 51.2 GB/s by a factor of 35. The GPU’s compute capabilities are equally staggering: 104.8 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput and a pixel rate of 423.6 GPixel/s.

In benchmark tests, the RTX 5090 posts a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 14,411, a Geekbench OpenCL score of 380,114, and a Vulkan score of 379,571. Its Passmark G3D score of 39,650 and GPU compute score of 26,756 further demonstrate its dominance. The GPU holds a 94th percentile ranking among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 84,306. Its nearest rival, the RTX 5090 D, is nearly identical at 84,241 (0.1% behind), while the RTX 5050 Mobile trails by just 0.2%. This GPU is engineered to obliterate frame rate targets at any resolution, and the measured FPS data confirms it does exactly that in Lockdown Protocol, even when paired with a CPU that is several generations older.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data shows a consistent pattern across all resolutions: the RTX 5090 delivers playable frame rates even at 4K Ultra, and the 5700G’s limitations become more apparent as resolution drops. At 3840x2160, the combo averages 84.9 FPS on Ultra settings, 113.4 FPS on High, 127.3 FPS on Medium, and 184 FPS on Low. Moving to 2560x1440, averages rise to 133.8 FPS on Ultra, 173.5 FPS on High, 197 FPS on Medium, and 230.4 FPS on Low. At 1920x1080, the numbers climb further: 180.8 FPS on Ultra, 213.7 FPS on High, 224.6 FPS on Medium, and 257.5 FPS on Low.

The setting-to-setting deltas are informative. At 4K, dropping from Ultra to High yields a 28.5 FPS improvement (from 84.9 to 113.4), while High to Medium adds another 13.9 FPS, and Medium to Low jumps 56.7 FPS. At 1440p, similar stepping produces gains of 39.7 FPS from Ultra to High, 23.5 FPS from High to Medium, and 33.4 FPS from Medium to Low. At 1080p, the gains are 32.9 FPS from Ultra to High, 10.9 FPS from High to Medium, and 32.9 FPS from Medium to Low. Notably, the 1080p Ultra result of 180.8 FPS is actually lower than the 1440p Medium result of 197 FPS, which suggests the CPU is beginning to throttle the GPU’s output at lower resolutions where the graphics card has more headroom.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS drop from 1080p to 4K reveals where the bottleneck lies. At Ultra settings, the average FPS falls from 180.8 at 1080p to 133.8 at 1440p (a 26% reduction) and then to 84.9 at 4K (a 53% reduction from 1080p). This scaling pattern is consistent with a GPU-bound scenario at high settings — the RTX 5090’s workload increases with resolution, and the frame rate drops accordingly. At Low settings, the decline is steeper in absolute terms: 257.5 FPS at 1080p drops to 230.4 at 1440p and then to 184 at 4K. The 4K Low result is still 71.5% of the 1080p Low figure, indicating the GPU retains substantial headroom even at 4K.

The critical observation is at 1080p Low, where the combo hits 257.5 FPS. This is the highest recorded average, and the gap between 1080p Low and 1440p Low is only 27.1 FPS, while the gap between 1440p Low and 4K Low is 46.4 FPS. The relatively small delta between 1080p and 1440p at Low settings suggests the CPU is nearing its limit — the 5700G cannot feed the RTX 5090 enough frames to fully exploit its capability at lower resolutions. At 4K Ultra, the opposite is true: the GPU is the clear limiting factor, as the 84.9 FPS average is far below what the CPU could theoretically support. The data shows that this pairing is GPU-bound at 4K and becomes increasingly CPU-bound as resolution drops to 1080p, particularly at lower settings where the graphics workload diminishes. The 5700G’s single-thread performance, reflected in its 3DMark single-thread score of 899 and Passmark single-thread score of 3,283, is sufficient to maintain high frame rates but not enough to push past the 257.5 FPS ceiling observed at 1080p Low.