Lockdown Protocol

# Lockdown Protocol with AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER delivers a playable but uneven experience in Lockdown Protocol, depending heavily on resolution and quality preset. At 1080p, the combo ranges from 82 FPS at Ultra to 175 FPS at Low, while at 4K it drops to between 39 FPS at Ultra and 83 FPS at Low. The CPU, a Zen 5 Granite Ridge part with 8 cores and 16 threads boosting to 5.60 GHz, sits in the 92nd percentile among all CPUs, while the GPU, a Turing-based 12 nm card with 8 GB GDDR6, ranks in the 65th percentile. This gap suggests the graphics card is the primary constraint at higher resolutions, but the data reveals a more nuanced story at lower settings.

FAQ

Q: What is the best average frame rate this combo achieves in Lockdown Protocol?

A: The highest recorded average is 175 FPS at 1920x1080 with Low settings. The next best is 129 FPS at 2560x1440 Low, followed by 125 FPS at 1080p Medium, showing that lower settings unlock significantly higher headroom.

Q: How does the CPU compare to its nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The Ryzen 7 9850X3D has an average benchmark score of 58,386, which is 0.1% ahead of the Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M (58,323) and 0.5% ahead of the Intel Core i9-14900 (58,115). It trails the Intel Xeon w5-2545 by 0.2% (58,504) and the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 by 0.7% (58,826).

Q: What is the lowest average FPS recorded across all tested settings?

A: The lowest average is 39 FPS at 3840x2160 with Ultra settings. This is the only configuration that falls below 50 FPS average, indicating that 4K Ultra is the most demanding scenario in the measured data.

Q: Does the GPU outperform or underperform its nearest rivals?

A: The RTX 2070 SUPER scores 20,282 on average, which is 1% below the NVIDIA Quadro M4000M (20,480) and 1.2% below the RTX 3070 Mobile (20,534). It also trails the Intel Arc B570 by 1.3% (20,556) and the Arc A750 by 1.5% (20,582), placing it at the bottom of its immediate comparison group.

Q: How much does the Ultra preset cost in performance compared to Low at 1080p?

A: At 1920x1080, Ultra averages 82 FPS while Low averages 175 FPS. This represents a drop of 93 FPS, or roughly 53%, when moving from the lowest to the highest quality preset at the same resolution.

Q: What is the combo's ranking among all tested combinations in this game?

A: The combo ranks 1,634 out of 2,828 tested combinations, placing it in the lower-middle portion of the overall distribution. This rank reflects the GPU's 65th percentile standing rather than the CPU's higher 92nd percentile.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data points to Low or Medium presets as the most sensible choices for this hardware, depending on the resolution target. At 1080p, Low delivers 175 FPS average, which is far beyond what most displays can refresh, while Medium still provides 125 FPS average with a minimum of 106 FPS. Ultra at 1080p drops to 82 FPS average, which is playable but sacrifices the headroom that this CPU-GPU pairing can otherwise achieve. At 1440p, Low hits 129 FPS average, Medium drops to 91 FPS with a minimum of 78 FPS, and High comes in at 80 FPS. The Medium preset at 1440p appears to be the sweet spot, as it maintains an average above 90 FPS while offering improved visuals over Low. At 4K, even Low only reaches 83 FPS average, and Medium falls to 59 FPS with a minimum of 50 FPS. Given that the 4K Ultra configuration averages just 39 FPS, users targeting 4K should stick with Low or Medium, accepting that the experience will be less fluid than at lower resolutions. The data suggests that Medium at 1440p provides the best balance of visual quality and performance, staying comfortably above 60 FPS average while keeping the minimum above 75 FPS. For competitive play, 1080p Low at 175 FPS offers the maximum responsiveness, but the 1440p Medium configuration is likely the most versatile recommendation for general use.

GPU Role

The RTX 2070 SUPER is the limiting factor in most of the measured scenarios, particularly as resolution climbs. Its 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus provides 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth, which is substantial for a card from the GeForce 20-series but increasingly constrained at 4K. The GPU's boost clock of 1770 MHz and base clock of 1605 MHz drive its 9.062 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput, yet the benchmark results show that this compute capability is insufficient to maintain high frame rates at 4K Ultra, where the average falls to 39 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra at 4K is 44 FPS (83 vs. 39), which is a 53% reduction, indicating that the GPU's shading units (2,560) and texture units (160) are heavily taxed by the higher-quality settings. At 1080p, the same settings gap is 93 FPS (175 vs. 82), showing that the GPU has more headroom at lower resolutions but still cannot fully keep pace with the CPU's capabilities. The GPU's 65th percentile ranking among all GPUs, alongside an average benchmark score of 20,282, places it slightly below peers like the RTX 3070 Mobile and Intel Arc B570, which aligns with the observed performance ceilings in this game. The 64 ROPs and 40 RT cores contribute to the card's feature set, but in Lockdown Protocol, the traditional rasterization workload dominates, and the 8 GB VRAM may be a bottleneck at 4K Ultra where texture and geometry demands increase.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured averages are 175 FPS on Low, 125 FPS on Medium, 109 FPS on High, and 82 FPS on Ultra. The Medium preset shows a minimum of 106 FPS and a maximum of 143 FPS, indicating a relatively stable frame delivery within that range. The spread from Low to Ultra at 1080p is 93 FPS, with each step up in quality costing roughly 20-30 FPS. Moving to 2560x1440, the averages are 129 FPS on Low, 91 FPS on Medium, 80 FPS on High, and 60 FPS on Ultra. The Medium preset at 1440p records a minimum of 78 FPS and a maximum of 105 FPS, which shows a tighter range than the 1080p Medium but still maintains playability. The drop from 1080p to 1440p at Low settings is 46 FPS (175 to 129), while at High settings it is 29 FPS (109 to 80), suggesting that the GPU becomes more of a factor as resolution increases. At 3840x2160, the averages are 83 FPS on Low, 59 FPS on Medium, 51 FPS on High, and 39 FPS on Ultra. The Medium preset at 4K has a minimum of 50 FPS and a maximum of 68 FPS, which places it just above the 60 FPS threshold on average but with dips below it. The 4K Low setting at 83 FPS is the only 4K configuration that exceeds 60 FPS average, while Ultra at 39 FPS is the only measured setting that falls below 40 FPS. Across all resolutions, the Low preset consistently delivers roughly double the frame rate of Ultra, with the ratio being approximately 2.1x at 1080p, 2.15x at 1440p, and 2.1x at 4K, indicating a consistent scaling factor regardless of resolution.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo's rank of 1,634 out of 2,828 tested combinations places it in the 58th percentile of all tested hardware pairings for Lockdown Protocol. This rank is notably lower than what the CPU alone would suggest, given that the Ryzen 7 9850X3D sits in the 92nd percentile among all CPUs. The GPU's 65th percentile ranking pulls the overall combo down, as the RTX 2070 SUPER's average benchmark score of 20,282 lags behind more modern cards. The delta between the CPU's strong synthetic performance and the GPU's mid-range standing is reflected in the game's frame rates: at 1080p Low, the combo produces 175 FPS, which is excellent, but at 4K Ultra it drops to 39 FPS, which is below the threshold for smooth gameplay. Compared to the GPU's nearest rivals, the RTX 2070 SUPER trails the Quadro M4000M by 1%, the RTX 3070 Mobile by 1.2%, the Arc B570 by 1.3%, and the Arc A750 by 1.5%. These small deltas in synthetic benchmarks translate to similarly small differences in real-world performance, meaning that swapping the GPU for any of these alternatives would likely yield only marginal FPS changes in Lockdown Protocol. The CPU's nearest rivals show a tighter grouping, with the Ryzen 7 9850X3D sitting between 0.7% behind and 0.5% ahead of its comparison set, which reinforces that the CPU is not the bottleneck in most scenarios. The overall rank suggests that this combo is positioned for 1080p and 1440p gaming rather than 4K, and the data supports that interpretation.

CPU Role

The Ryzen 7 9850X3D provides 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Zen 5 architecture, with a base clock of 4.70 GHz and a boost clock of 5.60 GHz. Its 96 MB of shared L3 cache and 1 MB of L2 cache per core contribute to strong single-threaded performance, as evidenced by a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2,228 and a Passmark single-thread score of 4,704. The CPU's multi-threaded capabilities are also robust, with a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 22,807 and a Passmark multi-thread score of 41,318. In Lockdown Protocol, the CPU's role appears to be secondary to the GPU at higher resolutions, but at 1080p Low, the 175 FPS average suggests that the CPU is capable of feeding the GPU well beyond what the RTX 2070 SUPER can render at higher settings. The CPU's 92nd percentile ranking and average benchmark score of 58,386 place it in the top tier of desktop processors, and its nearest rivals include the Intel Core i9-14900 and Xeon w5-2545, both of which show similar synthetic scores. The 4 nm process node and 120 W TDP indicate efficient operation, and the DDR5 dual-channel memory support with 89.6 GB/s bandwidth provides ample data throughput for gaming workloads. The CPU's Passmark physics score of 4,171 and floating-point math score of 81,998 further indicate that it can handle complex game logic and physics calculations without becoming a limiting factor. Given that the combo's frame rates drop proportionally with resolution and settings, the data suggests that the CPU has significant headroom remaining, particularly at 1080p where the GPU is clearly the bottleneck.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data shows a consistent pattern of degradation as resolution increases from 1080p to 4K. At Low settings, the average drops from 175 FPS at 1080p to 129 FPS at 1440p and 83 FPS at 4K, representing a 26% decline from 1080p to 1440p and a 53% decline from 1080p to 4K. At Medium settings, the averages are 125 FPS, 91 FPS, and 59 FPS respectively, with the 4K figure falling below the 60 FPS threshold. High settings show 109 FPS, 80 FPS, and 51 FPS, while Ultra shows 82 FPS, 60 FPS, and 39 FPS. The scaling from 1440p to 4K is particularly steep: at Low, the drop is 46 FPS (129 to 83), at Medium it is 32 FPS (91 to 59), at High it is 29 FPS (80 to 51), and at Ultra it is 21 FPS (60 to 39). This pattern indicates that the GPU is the primary limiting factor at 4K, as the pixel count quadruples from 1080p to 4K while the frame rate does not scale proportionally. The fact that the 1080p to 1440p drop (which is a 1.78x increase in pixels) results in a 26-35% FPS reduction across settings suggests that the GPU is already being stressed at 1440p. The CPU's strong performance, as indicated by its 92nd percentile ranking and high single-threaded scores, means that it is unlikely to be the constraint at any resolution. Instead, the RTX 2070 SUPER's 8 GB VRAM and 448.0 GB/s bandwidth appear to be the limiting factors, particularly at 4K where the Medium preset's minimum of 50 FPS shows that frame times become less consistent. The resolution scaling data implies that users should target 1080p or 1440p for the best experience, with 4K only viable at Low settings where the 83 FPS average remains playable but sacrifices visual fidelity.