Lockdown Protocol

The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 delivers a benchmark profile for Lockdown Protocol that is defined by high absolute frame rates and a clear shift in bottleneck behavior as resolution increases. The data set covers four settings presets across three resolutions, providing a complete picture of how this combination scales under load.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K is substantial but not uniform across settings. At Low settings, the average FPS falls from 296.4 at 1920x1080 to 182.2 at 3840x2160, a reduction of approximately 38.5%. At Medium settings, the drop from 260.3 to 129.2 represents a 50.4% decrease. High settings see a decline from 236.9 to 115, a 51.5% reduction, while Ultra settings drop from 178.6 to 83.6, a 53.2% decrease. The pattern is consistent: the higher the settings preset, the steeper the percentage loss when moving to 4K. This indicates that at Low settings, the CPU is more capable of feeding the GPU, so the scaling penalty is smaller. At Ultra, the GPU workload grows disproportionately, making the 4K resolution the dominant limiting factor.

The scaling between 1440p and 4K is also noteworthy. At 2560x1440 High, the average is 176.7 FPS, dropping to 115 at 4K High, a 34.9% reduction. For Low settings, 266.5 FPS at 1440p falls to 182.2 at 4K, a 31.6% drop. The modest difference in scaling percentages across these two resolution steps suggests that the RTX 5090’s rendering resources are being taxed heavily at 4K, but the transition from 1080p to 1440p still shows the CPU maintaining a strong influence, particularly at lower settings. The data implies that at 1080p, the CPU is frequently the bottleneck, while at 4K, the GPU becomes the primary constraint.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D is an 8-core, 16-thread processor based on the Zen 4 architecture, with a base clock of 4.20 GHz and a boost clock of 5.00 GHz. Its L3 cache is 96 MB shared, which is a defining characteristic of the 3D V-Cache line. The processor’s benchmark scores show strong multi-threaded performance: Cinebench R23 multicore reaches 29149, while single-core is 4115. Geekbench multicore is 15101, and single-core is 2725. The 3DMark tests reveal scaling from 1887 in the 2-thread test to 7967 in the max-thread test, indicating that the CPU benefits from additional threads but does not scale linearly beyond 8 threads, which aligns with its core count.

In Lockdown Protocol, the CPU’s role is most apparent at lower resolutions and settings. At 1080p Low, the average FPS of 296.4 is the highest in the entire data set, and the jump from Low to Medium (260.3) is only 36.1 FPS, a 13.9% drop. This relatively small delta suggests that the CPU is capable of maintaining high frame rates even as the GPU workload increases slightly. However, at 4K Ultra, the average FPS falls to 83.6, which is a 71.8% reduction from the 1080p Low figure. This dramatic drop cannot be attributed to the CPU alone; the GPU is clearly the limiting factor at that extreme setting. The CPU’s 16 threads and high clock speeds provide enough headroom to avoid becoming a severe bottleneck at 1440p, where the averages range from 128.5 at Ultra to 266.5 at Low. The 7800X3D’s percentile rank of 87 among all CPUs places it in the upper tier, and its nearest rival, the Intel Core i7-12700F, scores a deltaPct of 0.1, meaning the two are virtually identical in average benchmark score. This near-parity confirms that the CPU is not an outlier in either direction; its performance is competitive but not singularly dominant.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is built on the Blackwell 2.0 architecture with a base clock of 2017 MHz and a boost clock of 2407 MHz. It features 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus, delivering a bandwidth of 1.79 TB/s. The memory clock is 1750 MHz, which translates to 28 Gbps effective. The GPU’s compute resources are extensive: 21760 shading units, 680 TMUs, and 176 ROPs, with 170 RT cores and 680 tensor cores. The pixel rate is 423.6 GPixel/s, and the texture rate is 1,636.8 GTexel/s, with FP32 performance at 104.8 TFLOPS. These specifications point to a GPU designed for high-resolution rendering, and the measured FPS data confirms this.

At 4K, the RTX 5090 demonstrates its strength. The average FPS at 4K High is 115, which is a playable frame rate for a fast-paced FPS, while 4K Low reaches 182.2. At 4K Ultra, the average drops to 83.6, which is still above the 60 FPS threshold but indicates that Ultra settings impose a significant load. The GPU’s 32 GB of VRAM is ample for Lockdown Protocol’s textures, and the high bandwidth ensures that memory bandwidth is unlikely to be a constraint at any tested setting. The GPU’s percentile rank of 94 among all GPUs is higher than the CPU’s rank, and its nearest rival, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D, has a deltaPct of 0.1, indicating near-identical performance. The RTX 5090’s average benchmark score of 84306 is far above the CPU’s 31580, which is expected given the different nature of the tests, but in gaming workloads, the GPU typically dominates at higher resolutions. The data shows that at 1440p, the GPU still has headroom, as evidenced by the 176.7 FPS at High settings, but the transition to 4K reveals the GPU’s limits when combined with Ultra settings.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the average FPS values are as follows: Low settings produce 296.4 FPS, Medium produces 260.3 FPS, High produces 236.9 FPS, and Ultra produces 178.6 FPS. The spread from Low to Ultra is 117.8 FPS, which is the largest gap across all resolutions. This wide range indicates that at 1080p, the CPU is capable of delivering very high frame rates, and the GPU’s workload is the primary differentiator between settings. The step from Low to Medium is 36.1 FPS, from Medium to High is 23.4 FPS, and from High to Ultra is 58.3 FPS, showing that the Ultra preset imposes a disproportionately larger load than the other settings.

At 2560x1440, the averages are 266.5 FPS for Low, 196.9 FPS for Medium, 176.7 FPS for High, and 128.5 FPS for Ultra. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is most pronounced at Low settings, where the FPS falls by 29.9 FPS (from 296.4 to 266.5), a 10.1% reduction. At Ultra, the drop is 50.1 FPS (from 178.6 to 128.5), a 28.1% reduction. This increasing percentage loss at higher settings reinforces the GPU’s growing influence as resolution climbs.

At 3840x2160, the averages are 182.2 FPS for Low, 129.2 FPS for Medium, 115 FPS for High, and 83.6 FPS for Ultra. The gap between Low and Ultra is 98.6 FPS, which is narrower than at 1080p but still substantial. The step from High to Ultra is 31.4 FPS, the largest single-step drop at 4K, confirming that Ultra settings are the most demanding. The data shows that even at 4K Low, the frame rate remains above 180 FPS, which means the combination is capable of high refresh rates at this resolution with reduced visual fidelity.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 ranks 23rd out of 1637 tested combinations in Lockdown Protocol. This places it in the top 1.4% of all combos, which is a strong position. The rank reflects the overall balance of the two components, and the data suggests that the CPU’s high single-thread performance and large cache are well-suited to the game’s engine, while the GPU’s massive memory pool and compute throughput handle the higher resolutions effectively.

The CPU’s nearest rivals, such as the Intel Core i7-12700F, have a deltaPct of 0.1, meaning the 7800X3D performs essentially the same in synthetic benchmarks. However, in Lockdown Protocol, the measured FPS indicates that the CPU is not the limiting factor at 1080p, where frame rates exceed 290 FPS on Low settings. The GPU’s nearest rival, the RTX 5090 D, also has a deltaPct of 0.1, but the RTX 5090’s higher bandwidth and core count likely contribute to its ability to maintain high FPS at 4K. The rank of 23 out of 1637 suggests that while there are 22 combinations with better overall performance, they likely involve even more specialized or newer hardware. The data does not specify which combos rank higher, but the position indicates that this pairing is among the elite for Lockdown Protocol. The 87th percentile for the CPU and 94th percentile for the GPU further support the notion that both components are high-performing, and their combined rank reflects a synergistic match. The benchmark results show no significant weakness: the lowest average FPS in the entire data set is 83.6 at 4K Ultra, which is still a playable frame rate for most users. This combination is clearly positioned for high-refresh-rate gaming at 1440p and solid 4K performance, with the CPU providing the foundation for high frame rates at lower resolutions and the GPU taking over as the resolution increases.