Lockdown Protocol

Lockdown Protocol, a 2024 FPS title, was measured with the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, producing 12 data points across three resolutions and four graphics settings. The Ryzen 9 9900X is a 12-core, 24-thread desktop processor from the 9000 series, with a base clock of 4.4 GHz and a boost clock of 5.6 GHz, while the RTX 3070 is built on the Ampere architecture with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory. The measured frames per second range from a low of 47 FPS at 3840x2160 Ultra to a high of 214 FPS at 1920x1080 Low, offering a clear picture of how the combination scales with resolution and image quality. This analysis walks through the data without inference beyond what is directly present.

Settings Recommendations

From the measured rows, the Medium preset delivers the most balanced experience across all three resolutions. At 3840x2160, Medium yields an average of 72 FPS with a min/max of 61/83, which is firmly above the 60 FPS threshold; High and Ultra drop to 63 and 47 FPS respectively, while Low jumps to 101 FPS but sacrifices fidelity. At 2560x1440, Medium reports an average of 111 FPS (min 95, max 128), making it the only setting at this resolution that comfortably exceeds 100 FPS while preserving image quality above Low. The High preset at 1440p sits at 97 FPS, still playable, but Medium provides over 14 FPS of headroom with essentially no expectation of stutter in the min frame. For 1920x1080, the Medium average of 152 FPS (min 129, max 175) is a substantial step above High’s 133 FPS and only loses to the Low setting, which reaches 214 FPS but with minimal visual detail.

Ultra is the most taxing setting, with lows of 47 FPS at 4K and 99 FPS at 1080p. While 99 FPS at 1080p is playable, the Ultra setting at 4K clearly underperforms, and its averages at 1440p (73 FPS) are within 2 FPS of the Medium’s performance at 4K (72 FPS). The data suggests that Medium is the sweet spot: it scales from 152 FPS at 1080p down to 72 FPS at 4K, only dipping below the 60 FPS line in the highest resolution setting. For users prioritizing framerate over image detail, Low is viable—at 4K Low still delivers 101 FPS—but any increment above Low on Medium costs at most 28 FPS at 1080p and 29 FPS at 4K, making it the recommended starting point for the best experience without pushing boundaries into Ultra.

GPU Role

The RTX 3070 carries 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, with a bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s. The GPU’s base clock sits at 1500 MHz with a boost clock to 1725 MHz, and memory runs at 1750 MHz, effectively 14 Gbps. In this game, the 8 GB VRAM figure is directly relevant: at 3840x2160, the jump from Medium (72 FPS) to Ultra (47 FPS) suggests that the higher settings likely push against the memory capacity, though the data does not explicitly state texture memory usage. What is clear is that the GPU’s compute capability—measured by the 3DMark Steel Nomad TS score of 3162 and the PassMark G3D score of 22214—places it in the 61st percentile among all GPUs. Its nearest rival, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT, shows a delta of 0.7% over the RTX 3070, while the NVIDIA GTX 690 is 1% lower and the Tesla K40c is 1.5% higher, indicating the 3070 sits mid-pack among its direct competitors.

The GPU’s interaction with these measured FPS values shows a clear scaling limit at higher settings. At 4K, the GPU is the primary limiter: the 47 FPS on Ultra is less than half of the 101 FPS on Low, and that gap narrows at lower resolutions. At 1080p, the Low setting achieves 214 FPS, which is more than double the GPU’s 4K Ultra result, confirming that the GPU is the dominant factor at high resolutions. The RTX 3070’s 8 GB capacity is obviously sufficient for the Medium preset at all resolutions, but the Ultra preset at 4K drops to 47 FPS, suggesting that GPU compute—the 20.31 TFLOPS peak performance—becomes taxed when every detail is enabled.

Resolution Scaling

Looking at the average FPS across resolutions reveals a predictable downward trend, though the degree of change varies by preset and reveals the bottling point. Taking the Medium preset, the data shows 1920x1080 at 152 FPS, 2560x1440 at 111 FPS, and 3840x2160 at 72 FPS. That is a drop of 41 FPS from 1080p to 1440p, and another 39 FPS from 1440p to 4K. The linear nature—clutching from 152 to 111 to 72—shows that the GPU is the main constraint; halving resolution does not double frame rate, indicating pixel fill is the demand.

For the Low preset, the reductions are even more pronounced in absolute numbers: 214 FPS at 1080p, 157 FPS at 1440p, and 101 FPS at 4K. The 1440p to 4K drop is only 56 FPS, proportionally smaller than the Medium’s 39% decrease, yet the 1080p to 1440p drop of 57% (rather, 214 to 157) shows that Low still hammers the GPU. On the other side, the High preset goes from 133 to 97 to 63, fairly consistent. Ultra goes from 99 to 73 to 47, also consistent even though 4K drops below 60.

The relative drop from 1080p to 4K is roughly uniform across all settings—about a 2.1-2.5x slowdown—suggesting the CPU is not a limiting factor in these resolution changes; the Ryzen 9900X sustains high enough frame delivery to let the GPU dictate the frame rate ladder. A CPU bottleneck would show similar FPS across resolutions. Since the 1080p Low is at 214 FPS and the 4K Low is at 101, the gap is not limited by the processor.

Measured FPS Breakdown

| Resolution | Settings | Avg FPS | Min | Max |

|-----------|----------|---------|------|-----|

| 3840x2160 | High | 63 | - | - |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 101 | - | - |

| 3840x2160 | Medium | 72 | 61 | 83 |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra | 47 | - | - |

| 2560x1440 | High | 97 | - | - |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 157 | - | - |

| 2560x1440 | Medium | 111 | 95 | 128 |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra | 73 | - | - |

| 1920x1080 | High | 133 | - | - |

| 1920x1080 | Low | 214 | - | - |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 152 | 129 | 175 |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 99 | - | - |

The set shows all twelve points. At 4K, Ultra averages 47 FPS, dipping below the 60 FPS target, while Medium holds a comfortable 72. At 1440p, the Low preset reaches 157 FPS, and the Ultra preset still produces 73 FPS. At 1080p, the frame rate ceiling is already at 214 with High pulling 133. The min/max values for the Medium preset reveal a noticeable consistency: at 1080p the range is 129–175, at 1440p 95–125, and at 4K 61–84, giving a spread of roughly 20–9% around the average, suggesting that framerate keeping is stable.

How This Combo Ranks

This combination holds a combo rank of 1588 out of 3714 tested in Lockdown Protocol, placing it near the top 43% of the data set? To determine exact percentage, one would divide 1588 by 3714, which is about 42.8%, so it is above the median. Since the ranking is based on measured frame rates, the 9900X + RTX 3070 is better than 57.2% of other combinations.

Comparing to the two core parts, the GPU is far below the CPU’s strength. The Ryzen 9 9900X sits in the 92nd percentile of all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 57498, matched against the scores of nearest rivals: the Intel Core i9-14900 has a delta of 1.1% (higher than the 9900X) and the EPYC 9015 is 0.1% behind, while EPYC 7313 is 0.2% ahead. The RTX 3070, though, is only in the 61st percentile, with an average score of 17208, and is outperformed by the RX 7600 XT (delta 0.7%) and GTX 690 (1%). This combination is GPU-bound overall, hence its mid-pack rank despite a top-10% CPU. The measured FPS data corroborates this: at 1080p Low the 214 FPS shows CPU is not the limit, but at 4K Ultra the 47 FPS is hard GPU ceiling.

FAQ

Q: What is the highest FPS recorded in this data?

A: The 1920x1080 Low setting delivers an average of 214 FPS, the highest measurement of all.

Q: How does the Medium preset perform at 4K, and does it have a reported min/max?

A: At 3840x2160, Medium averages 72 FPS with a minimum of 61 FPS and a maximum of 83 FPS.

Q: Is the CPU the bottleneck at 1080p Low?

A: No, the 214 FPS at 1080p Low indicates the Ryzen 9 9900X (12 cores, 5.6 GHz boost) is feeding frames faster than the 8 GB GPU can, making the GPU the limiting component at this setting.

Q: What is the performance of the GTX 3070 relative to its closest looks?

A: The RTX 3070’s average benchmark score is 17208 (GPU percentile 61), and it is 0.7% slower than the RX 7600 XT and 1.5% behind the the Tesla K40c.

Q: At which settings does the framerate drop below 60 FPS at 3840x2160?

A: The Ultra preset drops to an average of 47 FPS, while the Medium preset stays at 72 FPS.

Q: How does this combination rank in the game’s test?

A: The combination is ranked 1588 out of 3714 tested combos, placing it just above the half‑way point.

CPU Role

The 12‑core / 24‑thread Ryzen 9 9900X, code-name Granite Ridge based on Zen 5, has a base clock of 4.4 GHz and a boost to 5.6 GHz. It has 64 MB of L3 cache (as, 3.14 GB/s of DDR5 dual‑channel bandwidth). In this track measured benchmarks reflect a strong single‑thread and multi‑thread, for example Cinebench R23 multi‑core: 32172, single‑core 2253; Geekbench multi‑core 22174, single‑core 3020. That capability lets it produce 214 FPS on the Low 1080p row, and the frame rate remains high under high settings even as the GPU is the is the bottleneck.

The CPU is not responsible for the downward FPS when increasing settings; that is GPU load. The data shows that with Low settings, the gap between 1080p and 4K per 10% equals the GPU load. When comparing CPU to its nearest rivals, the EPYC 7313 sits just 0.2% above in average benchmark (57499 vs its 57498), and the Intel Core i9‑14900 is 1.1% higher. But the measured FPS never collapses under CPU pressure, so the 9900X enables the GPU to leave nothing unrealized.

The CPU’s single-thead performance, evidenced by the Geekbench single-core score of 3010 and Cinebench R23 single 2253, is ample for a physics‑or ESP title. The 214 FPS are enough to keep the RTX 3070 fed, given the ryzen’s L3 cache and dual‑channel DDR5 memory bandwidth of 89.6 GB/s. In the final analysis, the CPU matches maintain a self‑core source of data; scaling matters not.