Lockdown Protocol

Lockdown Protocol, a 2024-03-11 release in the FPS genre, is the title used for this measured data set pairing the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB. The combination ranks 1475th out of 1637 tested combos in this game. The CPU sits in the 93rd percentile among all CPUs, while the GPU sits in the 50th percentile among all GPUs, an imbalance that frames much of the analysis below.

How This Combo Ranks

The rank of 1475 out of 1637 places this pairing in the lower portion of the tested field. The CPU, taken on its own, is far stronger. Its average benchmark score is 49062, which puts it in the 93rd percentile. The nearest CPU rivals in the database are extremely close: the Ryzen 9 5950X is 0.2% behind the Intel Core i5-14600K, 0.6% behind the Intel Core i5-14600KF, 0.7% ahead of the Intel Xeon Gold 5318H, and 1.1% behind the AMD EPYC 4345P. Those deltas are small enough that the CPU is effectively competing with a tight cluster of high-end desktop and workstation parts.

The GPU, by contrast, has no benchmark entries in this data set and holds a 50th percentile standing among all GPUs. The measured Lockdown Protocol frame rates therefore become the primary evidence for how the graphics side performs. The combo’s low overall rank, despite a CPU that ranks in the top 7% of all CPUs, points to the graphics card as the component dragging the pairing down. The rank is not a statement about the CPU alone; it is a statement about the balanced result of this specific two-part system.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB is an Ampere-generation card built on GA107 at 8 nm, with 2048 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, 32 ROPs, 16 RT cores, and 64 tensor cores. Its base clock is 1545 MHz, and its boost clock is 1740 MHz. The memory side is 4 GB GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus, delivering 192.0 GB/s of bandwidth, with a memory clock of 1500 MHz / 12 Gbps effective. The card also reports a pixel rate of 55.68 GPixel/s, a texture rate of 111.4 GTexel/s, and FP32 performance of 7.127 TFLOPS.

Those specifications matter when reading the measured FPS rows. At 1080p, the preset ladder runs from 114.4 FPS on Low to 82.9 on Medium, 68.6 on High, and 52.5 on Ultra. At 4K, the same ladder collapses to 53.6 on Low, 39.9 on Medium, 31.4 on High, and 27.2 on Ultra. The 4 GB frame buffer and 192.0 GB/s bandwidth are fixed resources across all resolutions; the steep FPS loss at higher resolutions indicates that the GPU’s memory subsystem and rendering throughput are under increasing strain as pixel count rises. This is particularly visible at Ultra, where the 4K result is roughly half the 1080p result in practical terms, with the measured numbers moving from 52.5 down to 27.2.

Settings Recommendations

The measured rows cover four presets: Low, Medium, High, and Ultra. At 1080p, Low is the only preset above 100 FPS, producing 114.4 FPS. Medium follows at 82.9, High at 68.6, and Ultra at 52.5. If the goal is maximum frame rate in a FPS, 1080p Low is the clear measured outlier. Among 1080p presets, High is the highest setting that still clears 60 FPS, at 68.6. Ultra does not reach 60 at 1080p.

At 1440p, Low produces 81.7 FPS, Medium 61.1, High 53, and Ultra 39.5. Only Low and Medium remain above 60. At 4K, no preset reaches 60: Low is highest at 53.6, followed by Medium 39.9, High 31.4, and Ultra 27.2. The data therefore points to 1080p Low as the best measured row for raw frame rate, while 1080p Medium and High offer higher visual quality while still staying above 60. At 1440p, Medium is the highest measured preset that clears 60. At 4K, the experience at every preset falls short of 60 FPS.

FAQ

Q: What is the combo’s rank in Lockdown Protocol?

A: The AMD Ryzen 9 5950X + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB combo ranks 1475th out of 1637 tested combos in this game.

Q: What average FPS does the combo produce at 1080p Low?

A: 114.4 FPS, which is the highest single measured row in the entire data set.

Q: What average FPS does the combo produce at 4K Ultra?

A: 27.2 FPS, the lowest measured row in the data set.

Q: How does the Ryzen 9 5950X compare to its nearest rivals?

A: It is 0.2% behind the Intel Core i5-14600K, 0.6% behind the Intel Core i5-14600KF, 0.7% ahead of the Intel Xeon Gold 5318H, and 1.1% behind the AMD EPYC 4345P by average benchmark score.

Q: What is the GPU memory configuration?

A: The GPU has 4 GB GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus, with 192.0 GB/s bandwidth and a memory clock of 1500 MHz / 12 Gbps effective.

Q: Which component has the higher percentile standing?

A: The CPU is in the 93rd percentile among all CPUs, while the GPU is in the 50th percentile among all GPUs.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS rows provide a clean resolution ladder. On Low, the progression is 114.4 FPS at 1080p, 81.7 at 1440p, and 53.6 at 4K. On Medium, it is 82.9, 61.1, and 39.9. On High, it is 68.6, 53, and 31.4. On Ultra, it is 52.5, 39.5, and 27.2. Every preset loses frame rate when moving from 1080p to 1440p, and again from 1440p to 4K.

Because the CPU remains constant across all of these rows, the FPS decline is best read as a graphics-side scaling effect. The 4 GB VRAM capacity and 192.0 GB/s bandwidth do not change with resolution, and the measured results show that the pairing cannot sustain high frame rates at 4K. At 1080p Low, the combo produces 114.4 FPS; at 4K Low, it falls to 53.6. At Ultra, the drop is even more pronounced, going from 52.5 at 1080p to 27.2 at 4K. The conclusion from the data is that higher resolutions place a much heavier burden on the GPU, and the GPU’s limited memory pool and bandwidth are the most likely constraints behind the observed pattern.

CPU Role

The Ryzen 9 5950X is a 16-core, 32-thread processor in the 5000 series, based on Zen 3 architecture and codename Vermeer, built on TSMC’s 7 nm process. It has a 3.40 GHz base clock and a 4.90 GHz boost clock, with 64 MB of L3 cache. The memory controller supports DDR4 on a dual-channel bus with 51.2 GB/s bandwidth, and the CPU provides PCIe Gen 4 with 20 lanes. Its average benchmark score is 49062, placing it in the 93rd percentile.

The CPU’s measured synthetic results are strong across both multithreaded and single-threaded workloads. Cinebench R23 multicore reaches 38607, while singlecore reaches 5450. Geekbench multicore scores 12084 and singlecore 2211. 3DMark max threads scores 11597, and 3DMark single-thread scores 944. PassMark multithread scores 45424, and PassMark single-thread scores 3470.

In Lockdown Protocol, the CPU’s single-thread performance is consistent with the ability to produce 114.4 FPS at 1080p Low. The CPU does not appear to be the main bottleneck in this pairing, because the same CPU produces far lower frame rates at higher resolutions. The measured results show the FPS dropping from 114.4 at 1080p Low to 53.6 at 4K Low while the CPU stays exactly the same. The CPU’s 93rd-percentile rank and the GPU’s 50th-percentile rank support the same reading: the Ryzen 9 5950X is providing a high-performance foundation, but the RTX 3050 4 GB limits what this particular combo can deliver in Lockdown Protocol.