Lockdown Protocol

Lockdown Protocol, a first-person shooter released on 2024-03-11, paired with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700X (8 cores / 16 threads) and an AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB, produces a data set that spans four quality presets and three resolutions. The measured FPS ranges from 42 at 4K Ultra to 193 at 1080p Low, while the CPU’s 79th percentile across all desktop processors and the GPU’s 24th percentile suggest a lopsided combo that nevertheless delivers playable frame rates in many scenarios.

Settings Recommendations

The most consistent preset in the measured data is Medium. This preset achieves a 60+ FPS average at every tested resolution: 65 FPS at 3840×2160, 100 FPS at 2560×1440, and 137 FPS at 1920×1080. No other preset reaches the 60 FPS threshold at all three resolutions. High, for instance, fails to push past 57 FPS at 4K, and Ultra outright dips to 42 FPS at 4K. Low, while exceeding the others, sacrifices in-game fidelity that many players prefer.

For those who prize smoothness over absolute visual quality, Low delivers the highest average at every resolution (91 / 141 / 193), but Medium adds a valuable buffer against frame drops without a catastrophic loss in graphics. At 1080p, the jump from Medium to Ultra costs 47 FPS (137 → 90), a 34% reduction. At 4K, the same upgrade costs 23 FPS (65 → 42). Based on these numbers, Medium is the recommended preset for a broad experience across all tested resolutions, with Low as the fallback for a maximum frame headroom, especially on 4K displays.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB carries a base clock of 1700 MHz, a boost of 3130 MHz, and a 'game' clock of 2530 MHz, built on 2048 shaders, 128 TMUs, and 64 ROPs with 32 ray-tracing cores (Navi 44). Its 8 GB of GDDR6 memory runs at an effective rate of 20.1 Gbps, using a 128-bit bus for 322.3 GB/s of bandwidth. The GPU’s only listed synthetic benchmark, 3DMark Steel Nomad, yields a score of 4093, placing it 0.4% above the Intel HD Graphics 630 (4093 / 4075 delta 0.4%) and 1.4% below the NVIDIA Quadro K2100M (4093 / 4151 delta −1.4). That puts the RX 9060 XT in the 24th overall percentile for GPUs.

Yet the actual in-game FPS data tells a far more positive story. At 2560×1440 High the card sustains 88 FPS, and at 4K Medium it holds 65 FPS, which would be unattainable for the low-tier rivals listed. The VRAM capacity (8 GB) is modest, and although the fact pack does not provide VRAM usage numbers, the strong FPS drops from Medium to Ultra (e.g., at 4K: 65 → 42, at 1440p: 100 → 66, at 1080p: 137 → 90) are consistent with the engine hitting memory or bandwidth constraints. The data shows that the RX 9060 XT is clearly more gaming capable than its percentile binary ranking implies; the Celtex membership of the 3DMark score is simply not representative of its real-world FPS in this title.

FAQ

Q: Which preset is the only one guaranteed to exceed 60 FPS at all three resolutions?

A: Medium. It delivers 65 FPS at 4K, 100 FPS at 1440p, and 137 FPS at 1080p. High starts to dip below 60 at 4K, and Ultra dips well below at 4K (42 FPS).

Q: How does the GPU’s 3DMark Steel Nomad score compare to its nearest rivals?

A: at 4093 it stands 0.4% higher than the Intel HD Graphics 630 (4075) and 1.4% lower than the Quadro K2100M (4151), but this does not reflect its in-game performance which is many times higher than each of those.

Q: What is the FPS drop when going from Medium to Ultra at 1920×1080?

A: The average drops from 137 to 90 FPS, a 47 FPS reduction (about 34% of the medium figure).

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the limiting factor at 3840×2160 High?

A: The 57 FPS at 4K High, compared with 88 FPS at 1440p and 120 at 1080p, indicates that the GPU is the bottleneck as resolution climbs; the CPU maintains 192 FPS at 1080p Low, scoring far above the GPU’s limit.

Q5: At 1080p Low, what FPS does the combo achieve, and what does that imply about the CPU?

A: It achieves 193 FPS, a value unlikely to be limited by the processor. The hexnet 8-core/16-thread CPU with a 79th percentile rank (over its avg benchmark score of 27578 across all CPUs) appears capable of driving the engine to its gaming limits.

Q6: Are 1% low values available for all presets?

A: Only the Medium preset includes minimum/maximum, and only for each resolution: 4K 55–75, 1440p 85–116, 1080p 116–158. The other presets all have missing Min/Max data in the measured sheet.

How This Combo Ranks

In the global database of 3,714 tested combat The “Ryzen 7 5700X + 9060 XT” lands at the 1897th spot, just past the halfway mark (51%). The CPU, however, is ranked at the 79th percentile among all respected processors, while the GPU holds a 24th percentile. That mixture of a strong CPU and a perceptionally modest GPU yields a comparator in the median tier of gaming systems, indicating that when the game is heavily CPU bound (e.g., 1080p Medium), the combo exceeds expectations, but when the GPU takes over (4K Ultra), it falls behind.

The CPU’s nearest benchmark rivals include the Intel Core i5-12600K with an identical average score (0% delta), the AMD Ryzen 7 5800 (0.2% higher), the Ryzen 5 7600X (−0.2%) and the Intel core Ultra 5 125H (0.3). These tiny deltas show that the 5700X sits in a very crowded single- or multi-thread performance band, contributing to the overall mid-pack ranking for the combination.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700X is an 8-core/16-thread processor from the 5000 series, built on Zen 3 (Vermeer) at 7nm. It is clocked at a base of 3.40 GHz and a boost of 4.60 GHz, with a 65 W TDP and AMD AM4 socket. Cache provisioning is 4-level: 64 KB L1 per core, 512 KB L2 per core, and a shared 32 MB L3. Memory runs dual-channel DDR4 with a maximum bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s. The chip’s 3D XMark multi-thread score of 6858 and multi-core R23 score of 13184 for a 78th percentile overall. Its single-thread Cinebench R23 score is 1499, and Geekbench single-core sits at 2016.

In Lockdown Protocol, the CPU shows its strength at lower resolutions. The 1080p average climbs from 90 to 193 as settings drop from Ultra to Low, while the 1440p frame (from 88 to 141) and the 4K data (57 to 91) scale correspondingly. The 1080p high of 193 averages implies that the processor can feed the GPU quickly enough to reach a high frame ceiling. The identical CPU single-thread benchmarking (this but not limited) indicates that the Ryzen’s even 8-core layout is plentiful for a game that is perhaps more multithreaded, but even on a 16-thread workload it performs admirably (e.g., 0% variance with an i5-12600K). When the settings rise, the GPU (with its 24th percentile) becomes the clear constriction, as the 4K Ultra average (42 FPS) is nearly a quarter of the 1080p Low value.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The following table shows the exact measured average FPS for each resolution and setting, along with the Min–Max pair when the dataset supplies it:

| Resolution | Setting | Avg FPS | Min–Max |

|----------------|---------|---------|-----------|

| 3840×2160 | High | 57 | – |

| 3840×2160 | Low | 91 | – |

| 3840×2160 | Medium | 65 | 55 – 75 |

| 3840×2160 | Ultra | 42 | – |

| 2560×1440 | High | 88 | – |

| 2560×1440 | Low | 141 | – |

| 2560×1440 | Medium | 100 | 85 – 116 |

| 2560×1440 | Ultra | 66 | – |

| 1920×1080 | High | 120 | – |

| 1920×1080 | Low | 193 | – |

| 1920×1080 | Medium | 137 | 116 – 158 |

| 1920×1080p | Ultra | 90 | – |

(Note: The dataset includes min/max only for the Medium preset at each resolution, so the other rows are listed as “–”.)

Looking at the 1080p Medium average of 137 FPS and 1440p Medium of 100, the GPU’s concurrency of ray tracing cores and shaders handle the moderate load acceptably. But the 4K Drop from Medium (65) to Ultra (42) shows that the extra graphical complexity at Ultra settings hammer the 8 GB VRAM and, likely, fewer texture bandwidth.

Resolution Scaling

Examining the performance drop from 1080p to 4Kp across the presets reveals a clear curve. At Medium, the average falls from 137 (1080p) to 100 (1440p) to 65 (4K) – i.e., a 41% reduction from 1080p to 1080p? Actually, 137→100 is a 27% drop; 100→65 is a 35% drop. At High, the drop is 120→88 (−32%) to 87→57 (also 35%). At Low, it is 193→→141 (−27%) to 91 (−35%); at Ultra, 90→66 (−27%) to 42 (−36%). So despite minor variations, the average reduction between 1080p and 4Kp is around 65% of the original value. The figure of 193 tips the Low at 1080p shows that on the low setting the frame rate skyrockets, implying the CPU is idle-waiting; when the resolution climbs, the GPU becomes the bottleneck, and the 528 MB of GDDR6 bandwidth (322.3 GB/s) must handle the increased pixel patch. The fact that Low at 1080p is 193 vs 120 at High, and 4Kp Low is still 91 vs 42 for Ultra — and that the drops from 1080p to 4K are consistent across all settings — underscores the resolution scaling is GPU-bound, with the CPU that is fully able to keep up at every resolution and preset.