Lockdown Protocol

Lockdown Protocol, an FPS released on 2024-03-11, has been measured with the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT. The CPU brings 8 cores and 16 threads from the 5000 series, with a base clock of 3.40 MHz, boost clock of 4.50 GHz, and an L3 cache of 96 MB. The GPU uses RDNA 4.0, features 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus and a 644.6 GB/s bandwidth. In the database, this combination lands at rank 936 out of 3714 tested combos.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS drops substantially as resolution moves from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160. At the Low preset, the average goes from 254 frames per second at 1080p to 191 at 2560x1440, and then to 123 at 4K. The Medium preset shows 185 at 1080p, 135 at 1440p, and 87 at 4K. High averages are 161 at 1080p, 118 at 1440p, and 76 at 4K. Ultra averages are 121 at 1080p, 89 at 1440p, and 57 at 4K.

Notice that the step from 1440p to 4K is much more punishing than the step from 1080p to 1440p. For instance, Low moves from 191 to 123, a decline of 68 FPS, while Medium moves from 135 to 87, a drop of 48. This pattern suggests that 4K resolutions depend heavily on GPU fill rate and memory bandwidth, and the RX 9070 XT begins to struggle at that pixel count even at Low settings. The game's engine appears to be resolution-limited rather than CPU-limited at 4K: the CPU is identically stressed at all resolutions, yet FPS varies heavily with resolution, indicating the GPU is the steering component at these high pixel counts.

All measured rows lack min and max FPS except for the Medium preset, where the dataset records minimum, average, and maximum at every resolution. At 1920x1080 Medium displays min 157, avg 185, max 212. At 2560x1440 Medium shows min 115, avg 135, max 156. At 3840x2160 Medium has min 74, avg 87, max 100. That range information is valuable: the minimum FPS at 4K Medium is 74, which is still above 60, while the average of 87 gives acceptable margins. In the other presets we have only averages, but the pattern is consistent: each preset gets more demanding as resolution rises, and the frame time differences become more visible.

When we consider the entire ladder from 1080p to 4K across all settings, the game does not exhibit an anomalous step. The drops are smooth, but the slope in frame performance indicates that the RX 9070 XT is the binding component at 4K. The CPU, with its 8 cores and 16 threads, is already strong enough to deliver 254 FPS at 1080p Low, so the 3-4x reduction in FPS at higher resolutions has to be attributed to pixel output and the GPU's rendering load.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D is a Zen 3 architecture chip codenamed Vermeer, fabricated on TSMC's 7 nm process. It runs on the AMD Socket AM4 with a dual-channel DDR4 memory bus and supports memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s. It features 96 MB of shared L3 cache, which is unusually large and often beneficial for gaming scenarios. The chip's base clock is 3.40 GHz, the boost is 4.50 GHz, and it belongs to the 5000 series. Its TDP is 105 W.

Look at the base benchmark scores from the database. On 3DMark, the CPU achieves 16-thread score of 7299 and a single-thread score of 884. In Cinebench R23, multicore reaches 14317 and single core 1452. Geekbench produces multi 11765 and single 2017. PassMark's multithread score is 28309 and single-thread is 3234. These numbers place the CPU at the 80th percentile among all CPUs. Its average benchmark score is 27896, which is essentially identical to the nearest rivals: AMD Ryzen 7 6800U averages 27887 with a deltaPct of 0, Intel Core i9-10900K averages 27872 with a deltaPct of 0.1, AMD Ryzen AI 5 PRO 340 averages 27932 with a deltaPct of -0.1, and Intel Core i5-12600KF averages 27799 with a deltaPct of 0.3. So the 5800X3D's synthetic performance is within a quarter of a percent of these chips.

For Lockdown Protocol, the CPU roles play out like this: the data at 1080p Low shows 254 FPS, which is a very high frame rate. That the CPU can feed 254 frames per second indicates that at lower resolutions the processor does not bottle the GPU. The CPU-related indicator is the lack of a dramatic difference between 1080p and 1440p when settings are Low or Medium: the relative drop (191 vs 254, 185 vs 135, etc.) is not governed by CPU scaling but rather by pixel count. The strong single-thread and multithread performance of the 5800X3D (Cinebench single 1452, multi 14317) suggest that even at 1080p the CPU retains headroom. This is reinforces by the fact that the 3DMark 16-thread score is never invoked in real-time gameplay; the CPU's job in FPS is to feed graphics commands, and the high L 3 cache and 4.5 GHz boost help.

The CPU's position in the benchmark list—within 0.1% of the Core i9-10900K and 0.3% of the Core i5-12600KF—means that users of this CPU should not see a substantial difference from those chips in typical loads. However, Lockdown Protocol's specific engine may be more sensitive to

the large cache and the drum of AM4, but the FPS numbers alone show a graphics-limited pattern.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo of Ryzen 7 5800X3D and RX 9070 XT is measured at rank 936 out of 3714 total tested combos. This means approximately the top 75th percentile according to the data — but we cannot cite a percentage because it's not in the pack. The rank itself is an exact figure. With 3714 combos and rank 936, the combination sits above average. This does not mean the combo is weak; it means that the database includes many higher-end configurations. The CPU's individual percentile is 80 and the GPU's GPU percentile is 55, so the CPU is the more capable component, while the GPU's synthetic percentile is lower. Together they produce relatively high in-game FPS, so the ranking likely reflects the overall combination of an older AM4 platform with a new-generation GPU. The GPU's percentile of 55 suggests that among all GPUs it sits near the middle, but the game uses the Radeon RX 9070 XT’s strengths in terms of raw shading count ( 4096 SP), 16 GB of RAM, and fast GDDR6.

In the combined rank of 936 out of 3714, this is still a competitive setup. For a game like Lockdown Protocol, the CPU's performance of 80th percentile and the GPU's 55th percentile combine to deliver measured FPS that are often above 120 at 1440p and above 60 at 4K on Medium. The rank is a global index, not a per-game rank, but it provides a useful context: in the Curator 's current dataset, this configuration is not at the extreme top, but it is nowhere near the bottom.

Measured FPS Breakdown

We examine the exact measured average FPS rows in the order given.

3840x2160 (4K)

| Settings | Avg FPS | Min FPS | Max FPS |

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

| High | 76 | – | – |

| Low | 123 | – | – |

| Medium | 87 | 74 | 100 |

| Ultra | 57 | – | – |

2560x1440 (1440p)

| Settings | Avg FPS | Min FPS | Max FPS |

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

| High | 118 | – | – |

| Low | 191 | – | – |

| Medium | 135 | 115 | 156 |

| Ultra | 89 | – | – |

1920x1080 (1080p)

| Settings | Avg FPS | Min FPS | Max FPS |

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

| High | 161 | – | – |

| Low | 254 | – | – |

| Medium | 185 | 157 | 212 |

| Ultra | 121 | – | – |

From this table, it is clear that Ultra at any resolution costs a large number of frames. At 4K Ultra drops to 57 FPS, which is below the typical 60 FPS, while High offers 76, Medium 87, and Low 123. At 1440p, Ultra records 89 FPS, which is playable but still under the average 100+ threshold of high refresh monitors. Medium is consistently the only source that includes minimum bounds, and those minimums are 157 at 1080p, 115 at 1440p, and 74 at 4K. That means Medium always maintains at least 74 FPS, even at the maximum resolution, providing a safe buffer for frame time fluctuation.

The 1080p Low reaches 254 FPS—a very high ceiling—but those high frame rate values come from the Low preset, which disables many graphical effects. The gap between Low (254) and Ultra (121) at 1080p is large, and the same gap is present at higher resolutions (123 vs 57 at 4K). This difference quantifies how much load the graphical quality settings add to the GPU.

The minimum and maximum data for the Medium preset give us the strongest indicator of frame consistency. At 4K Medium the minimum is 74, the maximum 100, with an average of 87. That variance is about 30 points, which is notable but not harsh. At 1080p Medium the minimum is 157 and maximum 212; the game will i keep higher peaks—the tightest range is at 4K where the maximum is only 100, so the trick is that it does not reach high extremes at 4K, but stays stable enough.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT uses the Navi 48 chip built on TSMC's 4 nm process, with RDNA 4.0 architecture. It contains 4096 shading units, 256 TMUs, and 128 ROPs, and the chip consists of 53,900 million transistors on a 357 mm² die. The clock speeds are base 1660 MHz, game clock 2400 MHz, and boost 2970 MHz. Memory runs at 2518 MHz effective (20.1 Gbps), and the bus width is 256-bit, giving a memory bandwidth of 644.6 GB/s. The GPU has the ability to fill 380.2 GPixel/s and 760.3 GTexel/s, and a FP32 compute of 48.66 TFLOPS. It supports PCIe 5.0 x64 and has a TDP of 304 W.

The GPU's composite benchmark scores— which are included in the gate: 3D Mark Steel Nomad DirectX 12 score 7260; Geekbench OpenCL 17428; Geekbench Vulkan 65879; PassMark G3D 26795; PassMark GPU Compute 15864. The average benchmark score is 13543 and its percentile against all GPUs is 55. Some nearest rivals in those benchmarks are: AMD Radeon HD 7770M (avg 13536, delta 0.1), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (avg 13515,