Lockdown Protocol

Lockdown Protocol is an FPS, and the measured results for the Intel Core i5-14400F plus NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER place this pairing 258th out of 1,637 tested combos. The CPU sits at the 88th percentile of all CPUs, the GPU at the 84th percentile of all GPUs, and the measured FPS across recorded resolutions and settings shows a configuration that sustains high averages at 1920x1080 and 2560x1440 before becoming more GPU-bound at 3840x2160.

How This Combo Ranks

The in-game rank of 258 out of 1,637 puts this combo in the upper portion of the Lockdown Protocol test pool. It is not the single fastest pairing in the dataset, but its standing is consistent with a high-end CPU plus high-end GPU combination. The CPU’s percentileVsAllCpus of 88 and the GPU’s percentileVsAllGpus of 84 both indicate components that belong in the upper tier of their respective benchmark distributions, and the combo rank aligns with that.

The CPU’s average benchmark score is 32,508. Its nearest rivals by that average are the Intel Core i7-12800H at 32,513 with a deltaPct of 0, the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7645 at 32,446 with a deltaPct of 0.2, the AMD Ryzen 7 250 at 32,584 with a deltaPct of -0.2, and the Intel Core i7-13705H at 32,586 with a deltaPct of -0.2. These scores are extremely close, which means the i5-14400F’s compute standing is competive with a broad set of processors around its performance class.

The GPU’s average benchmark score is 42,576. Its nearest rivals are the NVIDIA RTX A6000 at 42,653 with a deltaPct of -0.2, the AMD Radeon RX 7650 GRE at 42,723 with a deltaPct of -0.3, the AMD Radeon Pro 580X at 41,991 with a deltaPct of 1.4, and the NVIDIA Tesla M40 at 41,897 with a deltaPct of 1.6. The gap to the lowest of those scores is still small in relative terms, so the GPU is also positioned near a tight cluster of high-end compute results.

GPU Role

The RTX 4070 SUPER is an Ada Lovelace part with 7,168 shading units, 224 texture units, 80 ROPs, 56 RT cores, and 224 tensor cores. Its base clock is 1,980 MHz and its boost clock is 2,475 MHz. The memory subsystem is 12 GB of GDDR6X on a 192-bit bus, with memory clock at 1,313 MHz and 21 Gbps effective, producing 504.2 GB/s of bandwidth. The GPU is rated at 35.48 TFLOPS FP32, 554.4 GTexel/s texture fill, and 198.0 GPixel/s pixel fill.

In Lockdown Protocol, those resources show up most clearly at the highest resolution and settings. At 1920x1080 Low, the average FPS is 292.3, which is far beyond what the GPU needs to work hard. At 1920x1080 Ultra, the average is 134.3. Moving to 2560x1440 High produces 130.9, and 3840x2160 High produces 84.8. The lowest measured average in the entire dataset is 62 FPS at 3840x2160 Ultra. That result is the strongest evidence that the GPU becomes the deciding component when both resolution and settings are pushed to their maximum.

The GPU’s 84th percentile standing and its PassMark G3D score of 29,995 support the same picture: this is a capable high-end card, but Lockdown Protocol at 4K Ultra pushes it to the edge of its throughput. The 12 GB frame buffer and 504.2 GB/s bandwidth are the memory-side resources available for those higher-resolution presets, and the data suggests they are sufficient for playable averages at 4K with reduced settings, while the Ultra preset is the clearest GPU bottleneck.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-14400F is a 10-core, 16-thread Raptor Lake processor on Intel Socket 1700. It has a base clock of 2.50 GHz and a boost clock of 4.70 GHz, with a TDP of 65 W. The cache layout is 80 KB L1 per core, 1.25 MB L2 per core, and 20 MB shared L3. It supports DDR4 and DDR5 memory in dual-channel mode and has no integrated graphics.

Benchmark results indicate solid single-thread and multi-thread performance. Cinebench R23 multi-core is 21,914 and single-core is 3,093. Geekbench multi-core is 11,209 and single-core is 2,333. PassMark multithread is 25,783 and single-thread is 3,723. These numbers are high enough that the CPU should not be the limiting component in most of the Lockdown Protocol FPS results above.

The measured frame rate at 1920x1080 Low, 292.3 FPS, is particularly relevant because it is a CPU-sensitive scenario: low settings reduce GPU load and expose the processor’s ability to keep up with very high frame rates. The CPU’s 88th percentile standing among all CPUs reinforces that this part has the single-thread speed and core count needed to feed a GPU like the RTX 4070 SUPER at lower resolutions. At 3840x2160 Ultra, by contrast, the frame rate has already dropped to 62, which is far more plausibly a GPU limit than a CPU limit.

Measured FPS Breakdown

| Resolution | Settings | Average FPS |

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

| 1920x1080 | Low | 292.3 |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 206.1 |

| 1920x1080 | High | 182.9 |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 134.3 |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 214.2 |

| 2560x1440 | Medium | 152.8 |

| 2560x1440 | High | 130.9 |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra | 97.9 |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 138.5 |

| 3840x2160 | Medium | 96.8 |

| 3840x2160 | High | 84.8 |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra | 62 |

The full measured set shows a consistent ordering: Low produces the highest average at every resolution, followed by Medium, then High, then Ultra. At 1920x1080, the difference between Low and Ultra is substantial. At 2560x1440, Ultra remains above 90 FPS at 97.9, which is still a usable average for a fast FPS. At 3840x2160, only the Low setting stays above 100 FPS with 138.5; Medium, High, and Ultra all fall below 100. The dataset does not include minimum or maximum FPS values, so these comparisons are strictly average-FPS based.

Resolution Scaling

The resolution scaling pattern is clear across all settings. For Low, the average goes from 292.3 at 1920x1080 to 214.2 at 2560x1440 and then 138.5 at 3840x2160. For Medium, it goes from 206.1 to 152.8 to 96.8. For High, it goes from 182.9 to 130.9 to 84.8. For Ultra, it goes from 134.3 to 97.9 to 62.

There are two important patterns. First, 2560x1440 preserves a large amount of the 1920x1080 frame rate. Even at Ultra, the average at 2560x1440 is 97.9, and at High it is 130.9. Second, the move to 3840x2160 produces a much larger step down. The High setting falls from 130.9 at 2560x1440 to 84.8 at 3840x2160, and Ultra falls from 97.9 to 62. The Low setting at 3840x2160, 138.5, is actually higher than the Ultra setting at 2560x1440, 97.9, which shows how strongly settings interact with resolution.

This scaling indicates that the limiting component shifts as resolution grows. At 1920x1080 Low, the system can generate an extremely high 292.3 FPS average, so the CPU’s single-thread performance is the more relevant factor in that scenario. At 3840x2160 Ultra, the GPU is the clear constraint: 62 FPS is the lowest result in the dataset, and the GPU’s compute, memory bandwidth, and 12 GB frame buffer are the resources being strained by the 4K render load. The CPU’s 10-core, 16-thread configuration and high single-thread benchmark scores leave enough headroom to support the measured frame rates, but at 4K the GPU decides how far this combo can go.