Lockdown Protocol

# Lockdown Protocol with Intel Core Ultra 7 165H + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

The Intel Core Ultra 7 165H paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 delivers a solid 1080p and 1440p experience in Lockdown Protocol, though 4K gaming requires compromises. This mobile combo ranks in the 61st percentile of all tested GPUs and the 84th percentile of all CPUs, placing it in the upper-middle tier of the benchmark database. The measured frame rates show a system that can handle high-refresh 1080p gaming with ease, but struggles to maintain smooth 4K Ultra performance, making resolution and settings selection critical for the best experience.

FAQ

Q: What is the average FPS at 1080p with High settings?

A: The system delivers an average of 104 FPS at 1920x1080 with High settings, making it well-suited for smooth competitive play.

Q: How does the RTX 4060 compare to its nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The RTX 4060 has an average benchmark score of 17639, placing it 0.2% behind the AMD Radeon HD 7790 and 0.3% ahead of the AMD Radeon 780M. It sits in the 61st percentile of all GPUs.

Q: What is the combo's overall ranking in Lockdown Protocol?

A: This CPU-GPU combination ranks 2276 out of 3714 tested combos in Lockdown Protocol, placing it in the upper-middle portion of the database.

Q: Does the CPU bottleneck the GPU at any resolution?

A: At 4K Low settings, the system achieves 80 FPS, while dropping to 4K Ultra yields only 37 FPS. The scaling pattern suggests the GPU becomes the primary limiting factor as resolution increases, with the CPU providing sufficient headroom even at lower resolutions.

Q: What is the best settings preset for 1440p gaming?

A: At 2560x1440, the Medium preset delivers 88 FPS average with a minimum of 74 FPS and maximum of 101 FPS, offering the best balance between visual quality and smooth performance.

Q: How much VRAM does the RTX 4060 have, and does it impact Lockdown Protocol?

A: The GPU comes with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus with 272.0 GB/s bandwidth. The measured frame rates show no signs of VRAM-related stuttering at any resolution tested, even at 4K Ultra where the average drops to 37 FPS.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with the AD107 chip, manufactured on TSMC's 5 nm process. The GPU contains 18,900 million transistors on a 159 mm² die, giving it a transistor density of 118.9M per mm². The 4060 operates with a base clock of 1830 MHz and a boost clock of 2460 MHz, with memory running at 2125 MHz (17 Gbps effective). The 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus provides 272.0 GB/s of bandwidth.

In Lockdown Protocol, the GPU's role becomes increasingly dominant as resolution scales upward. At 1080p, the RTX 4060 delivers frame rates ranging from 78 FPS at Ultra to 168 FPS at Low, showing that the card has significant headroom at this resolution. The 3072 shading units, 96 TMUs, and 48 ROPs process the game's geometry and effects efficiently, while the 24 RT cores and 96 tensor cores provide additional capabilities for ray-traced and AI-accelerated features.

The GPU's pixel rate of 118.1 GPixel/s and texture rate of 236.2 GTexel/s directly influence how quickly Lockdown Protocol's environments can be rendered. At 4K resolution, the pixel throughput demands become more challenging, as evidenced by the 49 FPS average at High settings and 37 FPS at Ultra. The 15.11 TFLOPS of FP32 compute power helps maintain playable frame rates even when the resolution increases, but the 128-bit memory bus and 8 GB VRAM capacity become limiting factors at the highest settings.

The RTX 4060's benchmark performance shows it sitting at 61st percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 17639. Its nearest rivals in the database include the AMD Radeon HD 7790, which scores 17666 (0.2% higher), and the AMD Radeon 780M at 17588 (0.3% lower). This clustering indicates that the 4060 occupies a specific performance tier where small differences in synthetic scores translate to meaningful variations in real-world gaming performance.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals a clear pattern of performance degradation as resolution increases from 1080p to 4K. At High settings, the average frame rate drops from 104 FPS at 1080p to 76 FPS at 1440p, then further to 49 FPS at 4K. This represents a 26.9% decrease from 1080p to 1440p, followed by a 35.5% decrease from 1440p to 4K, indicating that the GPU is increasingly stretched at higher pixel counts.

The Low settings preset shows a similar trend with more headroom. At 1080p Low, the system achieves 168 FPS, which drops to 123 FPS at 1440p and 80 FPS at 4K. The percentage drops are 26.8% and 35.0% respectively, suggesting that the scaling behavior is consistent regardless of the quality preset. This consistency points to the GPU's rendering pipeline being the primary bottleneck as resolution increases, rather than any CPU limitation.

Ultra settings exhibit the steepest absolute decline, falling from 78 FPS at 1080p to 57 FPS at 1440p and 37 FPS at 4K. The 4K Ultra result of 37 FPS is below the 60 FPS threshold that most competitive FPS players consider minimum for smooth gameplay. The 52.6% performance loss from 1080p Ultra to 4K Ultra highlights how demanding Lockdown Protocol becomes at maximum quality settings with high pixel counts.

The resolution scaling data suggests that the RTX 4060's 8 GB VRAM and 128-bit memory bus are adequate for 1080p and 1440p gaming but struggle at 4K. The 272.0 GB/s memory bandwidth becomes a limiting factor when the GPU must access larger textures and higher-resolution framebuffers. The medium settings at 4K show a 57 FPS average with a minimum of 48 FPS, barely maintaining playability, while 4K Low at 80 FPS proves that reducing visual quality can overcome memory bandwidth constraints.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080 resolution, the system demonstrates strong performance across all settings presets. The Low preset achieves an average of 168 FPS, providing maximum frame rates for competitive play. Medium settings deliver 119 FPS average with a minimum of 102 FPS and maximum of 137 FPS, offering a good balance between visual quality and smoothness. The High preset produces 104 FPS average, while Ultra settings yield 78 FPS average, still comfortably above the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay.

Moving to 2560x1440, the performance remains respectable but shows the GPU working harder. Low settings achieve 123 FPS average, maintaining high-refresh capability. The Medium preset delivers 88 FPS average with a minimum of 74 FPS and maximum of 101 FPS, providing consistent performance that remains above 60 FPS even during demanding scenes. High settings produce 76 FPS average, while Ultra settings drop to 57 FPS average, approaching the threshold where motion smoothness begins to degrade.

At 3840x2160, the RTX 4060 begins to show its limitations. The Low preset still manages 80 FPS average, making it the only 4K setting that provides a comfortable gaming experience. Medium settings achieve 57 FPS average with a minimum of 48 FPS and maximum of 65 FPS, placing it at the edge of playability. High settings produce 49 FPS average, while Ultra settings fall to 37 FPS average, which is below the smoothness threshold for an FPS title.

The measured data includes minimum and maximum frame rates only for the Medium presets at each resolution. At 1080p Medium, the range spans from 102 to 137 FPS, showing a 35 FPS variance that indicates some scene-to-scene variability. The 1440p Medium preset shows a range of 74 to 101 FPS, a 27 FPS variance, while 4K Medium ranges from 48 to 65 FPS, a 17 FPS variance. The narrowing range at higher resolutions suggests that the GPU becomes more consistently bottlenecked as pixel count increases.

How This Combo Ranks

The Intel Core Ultra 7 165H with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 ranks 2276 out of 3714 tested combos in Lockdown Protocol, placing it in the upper-middle tier of the database. This ranking reflects the combination's ability to handle the game's requirements across various resolutions and settings, though it does not reach the top performance tiers occupied by more powerful desktop configurations.

The combo's ranking position indicates that it outperforms approximately 38.7% of all tested combinations, meaning it sits above the median but below the upper quartile. This positioning is consistent with the individual component benchmarks, where the CPU ranks in the 84th percentile of all processors and the GPU ranks in the 61st percentile of all graphics cards. The GPU's lower percentile ranking relative to the CPU suggests that the graphics card is the constraining factor for overall gaming performance in this combination.

The RTX 4060's nearest rivals in the GPU benchmark database include the AMD Radeon HD 7790 with an average score of 17666 (0.2% higher), the AMD Radeon 780M at 17588 (0.3% lower), the AMD Radeon Pro 560 at 17551 (0.5% lower), and the AMD Radeon Pro 460 at 17509 (0.7% lower). These small percentage differences indicate that the 4060 occupies a tightly contested performance tier where even minor architectural advantages can shift rankings.

For the CPU, the Intel Core Ultra 7 165H's nearest rivals include the Intel Core Ultra 5 338H with an average score of 33989 (0.3% higher), the AMD EPYC 4244P at 34220 (0.4% lower), the AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 at 34222 (0.4% lower), and the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X at 34260 (0.5% lower). The CPU's average benchmark score of 34083 places it in a cluster of processors with similar multi-threaded capabilities, though the specific gaming performance in Lockdown Protocol depends on how well the game utilizes the available cores and threads.

CPU Role

The Intel Core Ultra 7 165H is a mobile processor with 16 cores and 22 threads, based on the Meteor Lake architecture and manufactured on Intel's 7 nm process. The CPU features a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 5.00 GHz, with a TDP of 28 W. The cache hierarchy includes 112 KB of L1 cache per core, 2 MB of L2 cache per core, and 24 MB of shared L3 cache, providing ample fast storage for frequently accessed game data.

In Lockdown Protocol, the CPU's role is most significant at lower resolutions where the GPU has more headroom. At 1080p Low settings, the system achieves 168 FPS average, indicating that the CPU can feed the GPU with enough frames to reach high refresh rates. The 16 cores and 22 threads provide sufficient parallel processing capability for the game's physics, AI, and game logic, while the 5.00 GHz boost clock ensures strong single-threaded performance for the main game thread.

The CPU's memory bandwidth of 89.6 GB/s over a dual-channel DDR5 interface supports fast data transfer between the processor and system memory, which is crucial for loading game assets and streaming level data. The Intel BGA 2049 socket and mobile form factor mean this CPU is designed for laptops, where thermal constraints may affect sustained performance during extended gaming sessions.

Benchmark results show the Core Ultra 7 165H achieving a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 14551 and single-core score of 1759, along with a PassMark multi-thread score of 25933 and single-thread score of 3509. The CPU's percentile ranking of 84 places it in the top 16% of all processors, indicating strong overall computational capability. The PassMark physics score of 1806 provides additional insight into the CPU's gaming-relevant performance, as physics calculations often become a bottleneck in FPS titles.

The CPU's nearest rivals in the benchmark database include the Intel Core Ultra 5 338H with an average score of 33989 (0.3% higher), the AMD EPYC 4244P at 34220 (0.4% lower), and the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X at 34260 (0.5% lower). These comparisons show that the 165H performs competitively with both mobile and desktop processors, though the specific gaming performance depends on how well the game engine utilizes the available cores and the CPU's power management characteristics.

Settings Recommendations

For the best overall experience in Lockdown Protocol, the Medium preset at 1440p offers the optimal balance between visual quality and performance. The measured data shows 88 FPS average with a minimum of 74 FPS and maximum of 101 FPS, providing smooth gameplay that comfortably exceeds the 60 FPS threshold. This configuration ensures that the game remains responsive during intense firefights while maintaining good visual fidelity.

At 1080p, players seeking maximum competitive advantage should consider the Low preset, which delivers 168 FPS average. This high frame rate minimizes input latency and provides the smoothest possible motion, which is particularly beneficial for fast-paced FPS gameplay. For those prioritizing visual quality at 1080p, the High preset at 104 FPS offers a good compromise, while Ultra at 78 FPS remains playable but begins to approach the limits of smoothness.

For 4K gaming, the Low preset at 80 FPS is the only configuration that provides a consistently smooth experience. The Medium preset at 57 FPS average with a 48 FPS minimum may be acceptable for less demanding players, but the frame drops below 50 FPS could impact gameplay in fast-moving scenes. High and Ultra presets at 49 FPS and 37 FPS respectively are not recommended for FPS gameplay, as the reduced frame rates will noticeably affect aiming precision and target tracking.

The data suggests that the RTX 4060's 8 GB VRAM is sufficient for Medium and High settings at 1440p, but the 4K Ultra preset likely exceeds the memory capacity, contributing to the low 37 FPS average. Players with 4K displays should prioritize resolution over quality settings, using the Low preset to maintain playable frame rates. Alternatively, dropping to 1440p with High settings provides a better visual experience than 4K Low, as the higher quality textures and effects at 1440p tend to look better than lower-quality 4K rendering.