Lockdown Protocol

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 delivers a robust 1080p and 1440p experience in Lockdown Protocol, with the data indicating a clear performance ceiling shift toward the GPU as resolution climbs. The measured frame rates show this combo ranks 414th out of 1637 tested combinations in this title, placing it in the upper quartile of all tested systems, a solid position that aligns with the component pair’s individual percentile standings.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS data across four presets and three resolutions reveals a distinct pattern: the Ultra preset imposes a significant performance penalty that is largely disproportionate to its visual return in this FPS title. At 1920x1080, the transition from High to Ultra costs 37.7 FPS on average (from 158.6 to 120.9), a 23.8% drop that will be noticeable on high-refresh monitors. Meanwhile, the Medium preset delivers 185.1 FPS at 1080p, which is 16.7% higher than High and 53.1% higher than Ultra, making it the optimal balance for competitive play at this resolution.

At 2560x1440, the same trend holds but with tighter margins. Medium produces 138.6 FPS, comfortably above the 117.8 FPS from High, while Ultra drops to 87.8 FPS. The 50.8 FPS gap between Medium and Ultra at 1440p suggests that the Ultra preset’s additional effects are straining the GPU without providing proportional frame rate stability. For 4K gaming, the data shows that High settings yield 75.3 FPS, while Medium produces 90 FPS and Low reaches 125.8 FPS. Given that the 4K Ultra preset falls to 56.8 FPS, which approaches the lower threshold for smooth gameplay, the recommendation is clear: select Medium for 4K to maintain a 90 FPS average.

The data suggests that the Medium preset is the sweet spot across all resolutions, offering the best frame rate per unit of visual fidelity. At 1080p, Medium’s 185.1 FPS is sufficient for high-refresh displays, while at 1440p it provides 138.6 FPS, which is ideal for 144Hz panels. For 4K, Medium’s 90 FPS is the only preset that bridges the gap between visual quality and playability, as Low at 125.8 FPS sacrifices too much detail and High at 75.3 FPS sits below the 90 FPS threshold.

How This Combo Ranks

The comboRankInGame field places this AMD and NVIDIA pairing at rank 414 out of 1637 tested combinations, which translates to roughly the 75th percentile of all systems tested in Lockdown Protocol. This is a strong showing, especially considering that the CPU alone sits at the 84th percentile against all CPUs in the database, while the GPU holds the 81st percentile against all GPUs. The slight discrepancy between the component percentiles and the combo rank suggests that Lockdown Protocol is sensitive to the balance between CPU and GPU, and this particular pairing extracts near-maximum performance from both.

The CPU’s nearest rival data provides context for its contribution. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X scores an average benchmark of 27606, which is 0.3% ahead of the AMD Ryzen 7 5800 (27535) and 0.4% ahead of the AMD Ryzen 5 8500GE (27708). Interestingly, the 5800X trails the Intel Core i7-13700H by 0.4% (27716) and the Intel Core i5-12600KF by 0.8% (27827). This indicates that the 5800X is competitive with modern mid-range processors, though it is not a class leader in raw multi-threaded benchmarks.

On the GPU side, the RTX 4070’s average benchmark score of 37283 places it 0.6% ahead of the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (37507) and 2.5% ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 5300M (36371). However, it trails the NVIDIA GeForce MX570 A by 1.9% (38008) and the RTX 4080 Mobile by 2.2% (38135). These deltas are small, indicating that the RTX 4070 is positioned in a tightly contested performance band where minor architectural differences dictate ranking. The combo’s 414th rank out of 1637 is consistent with these mid-pack to upper-mid-pack component standings.

GPU Role

The RTX 4070’s memory subsystem plays a critical role in Lockdown Protocol’s performance, particularly at higher resolutions. The GPU features 12 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 192-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 504.2 GB/s. This bandwidth is sufficient for the game’s texture streaming at 1440p and 4K, as evidenced by the measured FPS scaling. The GPU’s base clock of 1920 MHz and boost clock of 2475 MHz, combined with 5888 shading units, deliver a raw FP32 throughput of 29.15 TFLOPS. This compute capacity is what drives the High preset’s 158.6 FPS at 1080p and 117.8 FPS at 1440p.

The memory clock of 1313 MHz, which translates to 21 Gbps effective, is a key differentiator for this card. The 504.2 GB/s bandwidth allows the GPU to maintain consistent frame pacing even when the Ultra preset increases memory pressure. However, the data shows that Ultra at 4K drops to 56.8 FPS, suggesting that the 12 GB VRAM capacity, while ample, is not the limiting factor; rather, the shading and rasterization throughput (158.4 GPixel/s pixel rate and 455.4 GTexel/s texture rate) becomes the bottleneck when all effects are enabled.

The GPU’s 46 ray tracing cores and 184 tensor cores are present but do not appear to be the primary drivers of performance in this title, as the measured FPS values align closely with traditional rasterization expectations. The 64 ROPs handle pixel output, and the 184 TMUs manage texture filtering, which are the components that scale with resolution. The transition from 1080p Medium (185.1 FPS) to 1440p Medium (138.6 FPS) represents a 25.1% drop, while the 4K Medium (90 FPS) shows a further 35.1% drop from 1440p, illustrating how the GPU’s fixed resources are stretched as pixel count increases.

FAQ

Q: What is the best preset for 1080p gaming with this combo?

A: The Medium preset delivers 185.1 FPS at 1920x1080, which is 26.5 FPS higher than High (158.6 FPS) and 64.2 FPS higher than Ultra (120.9 FPS). This makes Medium the optimal choice for high-refresh monitors.

Q: How does this combo perform at 4K resolution?

A: At 3840x2160, the Medium preset achieves 90 FPS, High reaches 75.3 FPS, and Ultra drops to 56.8 FPS. Only Low (125.8 FPS) and Medium (90 FPS) provide consistently smooth frame rates above 60 FPS at 4K.

Q: Is the Ryzen 7 5800X a bottleneck for the RTX 4070 in this game?

A: The data does not indicate a CPU bottleneck. The combo ranks 414th out of 1637, and the CPU’s 84th percentile standing versus the GPU’s 81st percentile suggests they are well matched, with the GPU becoming the limiting factor at higher resolutions.

Q: How does the RTX 4070 compare to its nearest GPU rivals?

A: The RTX 4070’s average benchmark score of 37283 is 0.6% higher than the RX Vega 56 (37507) and 2.5% higher than the RX 5300M (36371), but it trails the MX570 A by 1.9% and the RTX 4080 Mobile by 2.2%.

Q: What is the FPS difference between Low and Ultra at 1440p?

A: At 2560x1440, Low produces 188.8 FPS while Ultra produces 87.8 FPS, a difference of 101 FPS. This indicates that Ultra’s visual effects cost over half the frame rate compared to Low.

Q: Does the combo maintain 60 FPS at 4K Ultra?

A: No, the 4K Ultra preset averages 56.8 FPS, which is below the 60 FPS threshold. For a stable 60 FPS at 4K, the Medium preset (90 FPS) or High preset (75.3 FPS) are required.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals a consistent scaling pattern as resolution increases from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160, with the GPU becoming the dominant limiting factor at higher pixel counts. At the Medium preset, the frame rate drops from 185.1 FPS at 1080p to 138.6 FPS at 1440p, a reduction of 25.1%, and then further to 90 FPS at 4K, a 35.1% reduction from 1440p. This near-linear scaling with pixel count (1080p has 2.07 million pixels, 1440p has 3.69 million, 4K has 8.29 million) indicates that the RTX 4070’s rendering throughput is the primary constraint, not the CPU.

The High preset exhibits a similar trend: 158.6 FPS at 1080p, 117.8 FPS at 1440p (a 25.7% drop), and 75.3 FPS at 4K (a 36.1% drop from 1440p). The consistency of these percentage drops across presets suggests that Lockdown Protocol’s rendering load scales predictably with resolution, and the GPU’s fixed resources (5888 shading units, 64 ROPs) are being taxed uniformly. The Ultra preset shows the steepest proportional decline, from 120.9 FPS at 1080p to 87.8 FPS at 1440p (a 27.4% drop) and then to 56.8 FPS at 4K (a 35.3% drop from 1440p), which aligns with the GPU’s pixel rate of 158.4 GPixel/s being the limiting factor.

The Low preset, which removes most post-processing and shadow effects, exhibits the smallest absolute FPS loss: 261.3 FPS at 1080p, 188.8 FPS at 1440p (a 27.7% drop), and 125.8 FPS at 4K (a 33.4% drop from 1440p). This indicates that even at minimal settings, the GPU’s memory bandwidth (504.2 GB/s) and texture rate (455.4 GTexel/s) become the bottleneck at higher resolutions, as the game must process more geometry and textures per frame. The data shows that the RTX 4070 is best utilized at 1080p and 1440p, where the CPU (8 cores, 16 threads from the Ryzen 7 5800X) can feed frames fast enough to keep the GPU saturated, but at 4K the GPU’s raw compute (29.15 TFLOPS) is insufficient to maintain high FPS on Ultra settings.