Lockdown Protocol

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D paired with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti produces the worst kind of imbalance in Lockdown Protocol: a potent 8-core, 16-thread CPU that is never the limiting factor, chained to a 4 GB GPU whose architecture debuted in 2016. The measured data makes this painfully clear — across every resolution and preset, the frame rates sit in the 14–61 FPS range, with only one configuration crossing the 60 FPS threshold. The CPU is a 2022 part with a 96 MB L3 cache and boost clock of 4.50 GHz, yet it effectively waits for the GPU on every frame. This combination ranks 3661st out of 3714 systems measured in the database, placing it within the slowest 1.4% of all validated combos. The practical takeaways are straightforward: treat this as a 1080p machine for this game, only at Low settings, and expect the GPU to be the permanent bottleneck regardless of how much headroom the processor has.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS rows reveal a narrow path to smooth gameplay. At 1920x1080, Low settings average 61 FPS — the only row in the entire dataset that reaches 60 or better. Medium at that resolution drops to 44 FPS, with a minimum of 37 and maximum of 50, meaning you still stay above 30 FPS but fall short of 60. Moving to High reduces the average to 38 FPS, and Ultra now down to 29 FPS, which falls below the stable 30-FPS mark often needed for fluid motion. At 2560x1440, even Low settings only deliver 45 FPS, and Medium at 32 FPS with minimum 27 is borderline stuttery. At 3840x2160, nothing is playable: Low gives 29 FPS, Medium 21, High 18, and Ultra 14. The best measured experience is therefore 1080p Low, which is the only preset delivering a frame rate that matches typical 60 Hz displays. A secondary option is 1080p Medium if you can tolerate occasional drops to the 37 FPS floor, but the data clearly shows that any preset above Low at 1080p sacrifices significant responsiveness. Since the GPU is the decisive factor, the recommendation is to lock the resolution to 1080p and use the Low preset, then consider a higher preset only if you accept the 44 FPS average as playable.

CPU Role

The CPU side of this pairing is all headroom and no benefit. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 3 processor with a base clock of 3.40 GHz and a maximum boost of 4.50 GHz. Its L3 cache is 96 MB, a figure that typically helps cache-sensitive games, and it sits in the 80th percentile of all CPUs according to the database’s aggregate benchmark. Synthetic results reinforce its strong single- and multi-thread capabilities, such as a Cinebench R23 multicore score of 14317 and singlecore score of 1452. None of that matters in Lockdown Protocol with the GTX 1050 Ti. The measured FPS scales nearly linearly with resolution — for example, at 1080p Low the average is 61, dropping to 45 at 1440p and 29 at 4K — which is a textbook indicator of a GPU that is saturated. The CPU does not become the limiting component even at the lowest tested settings because the GPU is simply too weak to feed requests back into the processor. In short, the data shows the CPU idles most of the time while the GPU is at 100% load. If you were to future upgrade the graphics card, this CPU’s 8 cores and strong clock would allow the GPU to work at its full potential, but in the measured configuration, the CPU is not the boundary.

FAQ

Q: What is the average frame rate at 1080p Medium, and what are the minimum and maximum values?

A: At 1920x1080 with Medium settings, the average is 44 FPS, with a minimum measured 37 FPS and a maximum of 50 FPS.

Q: Can this combination reach 60 FPS or more in Lockdown Protocol?

A: No, only one measured preset achieves 60+ FPS: 1080p Low yields 61 FPS average. Every other preset (High, Medium, Ultra) or resolution (1440p and 4K) stays below 46 FPS.

Q: What does the resolution scalability indicate about the bottleneck?

A: The measured values show a clear GPU bottleneck. For instance, at Low settings, 1080p produces 61 FPS, 1440p gives 45 FPS, and 4K falls to 29 FPS — a roughly 50% drop for each resolution step. That scaling pattern is characteristic of a GPU limited by its memory bandwidth and shading units, not a CPU limitation.

Q: How does the CPU rank among all tested CPUs, and what does that mean for gaming?

A: The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is placed in the 80th percentile of all CPUs, and its Cinebench R23 scores (14317 multi, 1452 single) are strong. Yet in this paired system, the CPU remains unused, which means the CPU performance does not translate to higher FPS because the GPU is the constraint.

Q: Are there any settings that produce a stable 4K experience?

A: No. At 3840x2160, the best case is Low with an average of 29 FPS, while Ultra drops to 14 FPS. Minimum FPS is only recorded for the Medium setting, where it is 18 FPS, indicating severe and unstable performance at 4K.

Q: What is the overall ranking of this specific combo in the database?

A: The combination of this CPU and GPU is listed as rank 3661 out of 3714 tested systems, placing it in the slowest 1.4% of all validated configurations. The data suggests this pairing is equally poor, only outranks 53 other combinations.

How This Combo Ranks

The rank comes from a direct comparison of measured results in Lockdown Protocol. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D + GTX 1050 Ti combination holds position 3661 of 3714, meaning only 53 tested combos produce lower average frame rates. This places the pair firmly in the bottom 1.4% of the database, which is not surprising given the GPU’s 25th percentile standing (relative to all GPUs) and the measured average GPU benchmark score of 4193. The CPU’s percentile of 80 tells the other side: the processor itself is a high-quality part that defeats about zrating? Actually 80th percentile means better than 80% of all CPUs, but the GPU sits at the 25th percentile. Combined, the CPU’s strength cannot offset the GPU’s weakness. The rank does not improve across resolutions, because even at 1080p the system is still GPU-limited. A more careful look at the nearest rivals for the GPU the AMD Radeon R5 M330 (delta 0.6%), Quadro K2100M (1%), Quadro K3000M (-1.1%), and Radeon Vega 3 (-1.8%) — shows the 1050 Ti is the best of a weak list, but still far below what this game This data explains why the entire combo from the 3661st place: it is a pairing of an upper-end CPU with a low-end GPU, and the test does not balance the hardware.

Resolution Scaling

The scaling from 1080p to 4K paints a quantifiable picture of the bottleneck. At Low settings, the important step — 1080p to 1440p — drops from 61 to 45 FPS, a reduction of 26%. Going further to 4K brings the average to 29 FPS, an additional 36% drop. The pattern repeats across all four presets: Medium sees 1080p→1440p from 44 to 32 (a 27% drop) and then to 21 at 4K (a 52% drop from 1080p); High drops from 38 to 28 (26% drop) and then to 18 (a 53% drop from 1080p); Ultra goes from 29 to 21 (28% drop) down to 14 (a 52% total drop). The consistency of these percentages — about a 50% decline per double resolution across all presets — indicates the limiting factor is the pixel output capacity of the GTX 1050 Ti, not the CPU than a CPU. The memory bus width is 128-bit and memory bandwidth is 112.1 GB/s, and the card only has 4 GB VRAM, and the clear bottlenecks are the memory interface and pixel fill rate. The CPU’s 4.50 GHz boost clock and 96 MB cache can brute force through calculations, but the GPU is too weak to follow.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The exact numbers below come directly from the measured rows in the test run.

At 1920x1080:

• Low: 61 FPS average (no min/max recorded)
• Medium: 44 FPS average, minimum 37, maximum 50 (average exactly 44, min 37, max 50)
• High: 38 FPS average (no min/max)
• Ultra: 29 FPS average (no min/max)

At 2560x1440:

• Low: 45 FPS average
• Medium: 32 FPS average, minimum 27, maximum 37
• High: 28 FPS average
• Ultra: 21 FPS average

At 3840x2160:

• Low: 29 FPS average
• Medium: 21 FPS average, minimum 18, maximum 24
• High: 18 FPS average
• Ultra: 14 FPS average

At all three resolutions, the Medium preset is the only one where min/max values were captured, and those recorded ranges – 37–50 at 1080p, 27–37 at 1440p, 18–24 at 4K – highlight how the frame time variance increases as resolution climbs. The Low and High presets at 1440p and 4K are disappointingly close to each other, but the consistent pattern is the GPU does not have the computational resources to translate the CPU’s raw power into a playable experience beyond the baseline 1080p Low case that avgs 61 FPS.