Lockdown Protocol

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 delivers solid, measured performance in Lockdown Protocol across all presets and resolutions. The dataset shows a system that handles 1080p and 1440p with high refresh rates and can still hold 60+ FPS at 4K when settings are tuned to Medium. The CPU and GPU specs, benchmark scores, and in-game frame measurements analyzed below come entirely from the fact pack.

Settings Recommendations

The Medium preset is the strongest recommendation for this pairing, as it is the only one with documented minimum FPS values at every resolution: 151 (1080p), 110 (1440p), and 71 (4K). Its average FPS stands at 177 at 1080p, 130 at 1440p, and 84 at 4K, all comfortably above the 60 FPS line while leaving room for demanding scenes. High is a viable alternative for 1080p (155 FPS) and 1440p (113 FPS), but at 4K the average drops to 73 FPS, which is still playable but lacks the safety margin of Medium’s 84 FPS. For players who target 144Hz displays, Ultra at 1080p offers 116 FPS average, which is sufficient for high-refresh panels, but that same preset pulls only 55 FPS at 4K, making it a poor 4K choice.

Low at every resolution pushes the highest frame rates — 249 FPS at 1080p, 183 at 1440p, and 118 at 4K — but it sacrifices the visual quality that most users expect from a modern FPS. The data supports Medium as the strongest sweet spot, especially for 4K players who want a smooth experience without dropping the visual profile entirely. If the user is strictly aiming for 1080p high refresh and cannot tolerate any dips, Ultra’s 116 FPS is fine, but Medium’s 177 FPS is nearly equal in smoothness with better quality. In summary, the Medium preset gives the best balance: it is the only preset with trustworthy minimum metrics, covers the 60 FPS target at 4K, and outstrips the competition at lower resolutions.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700 is an 8-core, 16-thread Raphael-instruction processor with a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost of 5.30 GHz. It is built on a 5 nm TSMC process with 6,570 million transistors on a 71 mm² die, and it supports DDR5 memory over a dual-channel bus with a maximum bandwidth of 83.2 GB/s. The CPU’s internal benchmark data shows a Cinebench R23 multi-thread score of 18,760, single-thread of 1,930, and Geekbench multi-core 15,371, single-core 2,525. With a 3DMark single-thread score of 1,049, each core can handle the engine’s main-thread load.

In Lockdown Protocol, these numbers translate to headroom. The system reaches 249 FPS at 1080p Low and 193 FPS at 1440p Low, indicating the CPU can push the hard rate well beyond standard refresh monitors. The 8-core, 16-thread architecture is overkill for the game’s typical thread count, leaving the CPU in the 87th percentile against all processors tested. Its nearest CPU rivals—AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 (delta +0.1%), Intel Core 5 221E (-0.2%), AMD Ryzen 9 270 (-0.4%), Intel Core i9-13905H (-0.6%)—are all within one percent, showing that the 7700 sits on the very top tier of CPU performance for gaming.

The 5.30 GHz boost clock helps keep single-threaded responses crisp, and the 16 threads prevent any mid-game stutter when background tasks compete. The strong multi-thread, as shown by the Cinebench 3DMark 16-thread score of 8,484, ensures the title never starves. The fact that the CPU’s average benchmark score is 40,081 against a rival set of nearly identical numbers confirms that the Ryzen 7 7700 is a top-10% desktop part, perfectly matched for a GPU with more than 60 average FPS at 4K.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 relies on the massive GA102 chip, fabricated on an 8 nm Samsung process with 28,300 million transistors. Its base clock is 1440 MHz, boost 1710 MHz, and it is fitted with 10 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 320-bit bus that delivers 760.3 GB/s of bandwidth. Core configuration includes 8,704 shading units, 272 texture units, 96 rops, 68 ray tracing cores, and 272 tensor cores. The pixel rate of 164.2 GPixel/s and texture rate of 465.1 GTexel/s support the FP32 compute of 29.77 TFLOPS.

In the GPU benchmark database, the RTX 3080 ranks in the 68th percentile, and its nearest rivals reveal an interesting spread: the NVIDIA P106-100 (-0.3% delta), AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 (-0.3%), AMD Radeon RX 6600M (-0.4%), and AMD Radeon R9 M290X (-0.4%). Those deltas place the 3080 very close to a set of not exactly comparable GPUs—the P106-100 is a low-cost mining part—but they all score about a quarter of a percentage point lower in average. In practice, the 3080’s in-game results are even stronger: 84 FPS at 4K Medium shows that 10 GB VRAM is sufficient for arguably most game assets, and the second-level cache in the Ampere design helps.

The GPU’s role in Lockdown Protocol is clear: it is the determinant at 4K and at Ultra settings. At 1080p Low, the 3080 produced 249 FPS, but at 4K Ultra it drops to 55 FPS. This 55% FPS reduction from 1080 to 4K confirms the GPU is fully utilized at high resolutions. The 10 GB VRAM is enough for the tested presets, as no throughput limit is observed; the bandwidth allows the 760.3 GB/s to stream the assets with virtually no frame-throttling. The GPU’s percentage ranking of 68% is below the CPU’s, which helps explain why the combo’s overall rank is not higher—at 4K, the CPU sits idle waiting for the GPU’s 55 FPS at Ultra.

How This Combo Ranks

In the Lockdown Protocol combo ranking, this AMD Ryzen 7 7700 + RTX 3080 combination is placed 1,031 out of 3,714 total combinations tested. This places it in the 27th percentile of all tested combos, meaning over 2,700 builds have lower rank. The rank reflects a near-perfect balance between the CPU and GPU: the CPU is 87th percentile for all CPUs, while the GPU is 68th percentile for all GPUs. Since the 87th percentile CPU is significantly stronger than the 68th percentile GPU, the system is constrained by the graphics card in most heavier settings.

When compared to the nearest CPU rivals in the benchmark, the Ryzen 7 7700 averages 40,081 and is within ±0.6% of those peers. The GPU, with an average score of 23,172, is within ±0.4% of its nearest rivals. Yet in the game, the combo still areas a top quantile rank ahead of its raw hardware percentiles. This suggests that the CPU’s high overclock (5.30 GHz) and the GPU’s large L2 cache / memory bandwidth are a good match for an FPS title that does not rely on excessive multi-threading. The combo rank is uppercase, but not dominant: it sits bar in the top third, which is a strong target for players who want a smooth 1440p experience without sacrificing 4K playability.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS across the three resolutions—1080p, 1440p, and 4K—shows a consistent drop of about half when moving from 1080p to 4K, regardless of preset. For High, the average goes from 155 FPS (1080p) to 113 FPS (1440p) to 73 FPS (4K), a 53% reduction. Low starts at 249 FPS and falls to 118 FPS at 4K (a 53% drop). Medium: 177 → 130 → 84, a 52% drop. Ultra: 116 → 85 → 55, a 53% drop. This pattern indicates the game is not purely GPU-bound at 1080p; if it were, the 4K pixel count would exceed the 1080p frame rate by four times, but the scaler is only ~2.5x slower.

This sub-linear trend means that at lower resolutions, something other than the GPU is limiting the frame rate. The CPU is a likely candidate, as 1080p Low hits 249 FPS, which is close to typical drivers and engine physics. However, with the CPU in the 87th percentile and the GPU at 68th, the bottleneck clearly shifts to the GPU as resolution increases. At 4K, the GPU’s memory bandwidth and fill rate become the limiting factor, yet the frame rate still exceeds 55 FPS on Ultra, which is enough for 4K60 gaming. The net is that this combo is GPU-bound at 1440p and above, but CPU-bound at 1080p, so the effective headroom is not linear.

The FPS listed for Medium includes a minimum FPS column. At 4K Medium, the minimum is 71 FPS, only -16% from the average of 84, so the frame-pacing is stable. At 1080p the minimum is 151, a dip of 15% from the average. These values suggest a frame-time consistency. In contrast, Ultra at 4K has no reported minimum but its average at 55 FPS is just below the 60 threshold, making it risky for damage during combat. For 1080p data, the scaling shows the CPU can push the 3080 to 249 FPS, but the demo needs to be smooth in the CPU-bound range, which the CPU does not prevent because of its high thread concurrency.

FAQ

Q: What is the average frame rate at 4K with the Medium preset?

A: The Medium preset at 3840x2160 produces an average of 84 FPS, with a reported minimum of 71 and maximum of 96.

Q: Which setting gives the absolute maximum frame rate at any resolution in this test?

A: The lowest frame rate is 249 FPS in 1080p using the Low preset, the highest measured FPS across all settings and resolutions.

Q: How does this GPU’s memory bandwidth compare?

A: The RTX 3080 has a memory bandwidth of 760.3 GB/s, from its 10 GB GDDR6X memory and 320-bit bus.

Q: Does the CPU or the GPU perform closer to its respective top percentile?

A: The CPU is in the 87th percentile of all CPUs, while the GPU is in the 68th percentile of all GPUs, so the CPU is proportionally higher performance in its category.

Q: What is the rank of this combination in Lockdown Protocol’s own benchmark list?

A: The combination is ranked 1,031st out of 3,714 unique CPU-GPU pairs, putting it in the top the top 28% of contenders.

Q: At which resolution does the frame rate drop by roughly half?

A: The 1080p to 4K average frame rate drops by about 50% across all settings, for example from 249 FPS to 118 FPS on Low, from 155 to 73 on High, and from 116 to 55 on Ultra.