Lockdown Protocol

Lockdown Protocol is a 2024 first-person shooter that scales well across hardware tiers, and the pairing of Intel's Core Ultra 9 185H with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4080 produces measured results that sit comfortably in the upper-middle of the tested field. The data shows a GPU-limited profile at 4K, a smooth transition through 1440p, and high-refresh territory at 1080p across every preset. This page breaks down where the frame rates land, what each component contributes, and which settings deliver the best experience per the measured rows.

Settings Recommendations

The measured rows point to High as the sweet spot for this configuration at both 1080p and 1440p. At 1920x1080, High averages 148 fps — comfortably above the 111 fps delivered by Ultra — and at 2560x1440 High holds 109 fps versus Ultra's 81 fps. The step from High to Ultra costs roughly a quarter of the frame rate at both resolutions, and for a fast-paced FPS where responsiveness matters, that trade rarely favors Ultra.

Medium is the recommendation at 3840x2160. The 4K rows show High dropping to 70 fps and Ultra falling to 53 fps, while Medium sustains an 80 fps average with a 68 fps minimum and a 92 fps maximum. That minimum figure matters: it is the only row in the dataset with min/max data recorded, and a 68 fps floor keeps frame pacing above the threshold where stutter becomes visible in a shooter. Ultra at 4K, averaging 53 fps, is playable but leaves little headroom for dips below that average.

Low remains an option for competitive play. It delivers 239 fps at 1080p, 175 fps at 1440p, and 113 fps even at 4K — the only 4K preset to clear the hundred-fps mark. Players prioritizing raw frame rate over visual fidelity in Lockdown Protocol's multiplayer encounters should treat Low at 1080p as the maximum-refresh configuration for this pairing.

GPU Role

The GeForce RTX 4080 is the primary driver of Lockdown Protocol performance at every resolution measured. Built on TSMC's 5 nm process with the AD103 chip, the card carries 9728 shading units, 304 TMUs, 112 ROPs, 76 RT cores, and 304 tensor cores. Its FP32 throughput is rated at 48.74 TFLOPS, with pixel fill of 280.6 GPixel/s and texture fill of 761.5 GTexel/s — figures that map directly onto the game's steep but stable resolution scaling.

The 16 GB of GDDR6X on a 256-bit bus provides 716.8 GB/s of bandwidth, running at 1400 MHz (22.4 Gbps effective), with core clocks of 2205 MHz base and 2505 MHz boost. For a 2024-release FPS, that buffer size means texture-heavy presets are not memory-constrained; the measured drop from Medium to Ultra at 4K (80 to 53 fps) reflects shader and resolution load rather than a VRAM cliff, since the decline is proportionally consistent with the drop seen at 1440p (124 to 81 fps) and 1080p (170 to 111 fps).

In the broader GPU database, the RTX 4080 sits in the 86th percentile with an average benchmark score of 54247. Its nearest rivals frame the position precisely: the RTX 4080 SUPER posts an average of 54209 (a 0.1% delta), the Radeon Pro W5700X averages 54828 (-1.1%), the RX 6750 GRE 12 GB averages 55698 (-2.6%), and the Radeon 8060S averages 55757 (-2.7%). In other words, the card is effectively indistinguishable from its SUPER sibling on aggregate scores and trails the closest rival group by low single digits — a high-end Ada Lovelace part whose DirectX 12 Ultimate support covers the feature set a modern shooter demands. Note that the card's production status is listed as end-of-life, succeeded by the GeForce 50 series, though that status has no bearing on its measured output here.

CPU Role

The Core Ultra 9 185H is a Meteor Lake mobile processor with 16 cores and 22 threads, a 3.90 GHz base clock, a 5.10 GHz boost clock, and a 45 W TDP, fabricated on Intel's 7 nm node. Its cache hierarchy — 112 KB of L1 per core, 2 MB of L2 per core, and 24 MB of shared L3 — plus dual-channel DDR5 support delivering 89.6 GB/s of bandwidth, gives it the memory latency and throughput profile of a modern mobile flagship rather than a desktop part.

Benchmark data places it in the 85th percentile of all CPUs with an average score of 35670. Single-thread results are solid: 264.5 in Cinebench R15, 1462 in R20, 1810.5 in R23, 1794 in Geekbench, and 3697 in PassMark's single-thread test. Multi-thread results — 2801.5 in R15, 10356 in R20, 17984.5 in R23, 11657 in Geekbench, and 29376 in PassMark multithread — show a chip that spreads load across its hybrid core arrangement without single-core throughput suffering.

The nearest-rival data is unusually tight: the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350 averages 35719 (-0.1%), the Core 7 250H averages 35728 (-0.2%), the Ryzen 7 PRO 5845 averages 35802 (-0.4%), and the desktop Ryzen 7 7700X averages 35909 (-0.7%). All four rivals are marginally ahead on aggregate, but by less than one percent — effectively a dead heat. For Lockdown Protocol specifically, this matters because an FPS at these frame rates leans on single-thread responsiveness and cache; the 185H's 5.10 GHz boost and 24 MB L3 keep the CPU from becoming the constraint except possibly at 1080p Low, where the 239 fps average represents the highest demand on the processor in the entire dataset.

The 185H is a BGA 2049 socket part with a locked multiplier, so there is no tuning headroom to extract further gains. Its launch MSRP was $640. The integrated Arc Xe-LPG Graphics with 128 EU is irrelevant to this configuration given the discrete RTX 4080, but it confirms the mobile heritage of a chip that, paired with a high-end desktop GPU, forms an unconventional but capable combination.

How This Combo Ranks

Against the full set of tested Lockdown Protocol combinations, the Core Ultra 9 185H + RTX 4080 pairing ranks 1202 out of 3714 — roughly the top third of the database. That placement is consistent with the components' individual percentiles: the CPU sits in the 85th percentile of all CPUs and the GPU in the 86th percentile of all GPUs, so a combined rank just above the two-thirds mark of tested configurations is in line with expectations.

The rank also reflects the nature of the pairing. A mobile-segment CPU mated to a high-end desktop GPU is not the typical configuration in the dataset, and the measured results show why the rank doesn't climb higher: the 1080p Ultra figure of 111 fps, while strong, is not extreme for a game of this type, suggesting the CPU half of the combination caps the ceiling even where the GPU has room to spare. Conversely, the 4K results — 53 to 113 fps depending on preset — are governed almost entirely by the RTX 4080, which is where this combo earns its placement.

Resolution Scaling

The scaling pattern across the three measured resolutions tells a clear story about the limiting component. From 1080p to 4K, average frame rates fall as follows on each preset: Low goes from 239 to 175 to 113, Medium from 170 to 124 to 80, High from 148 to 109 to 70, and Ultra from 111 to 81 to 53.

The 4K-to-1080p ratio hovers consistently around 2.1x on Low, 2.1x on Medium, 2.1x on High, and 2.1x on Ultra. That near-uniform proportional decline is the signature of a GPU-bound title: when the graphics card is the constraint, halving the pixel count more than doubles headroom in a predictable way, and the ratios here are remarkably stable across settings. If the Core Ultra 9 185H were the bottleneck, the 1080p figures would flatten relative to 1440p — that flattening is not observed, except possibly a mild hint at Low, where 239 fps at 1080p versus 175 fps at 1440p shows the smallest proportional gain of any preset pair.

The practical reading: at 1080p, the CPU begins to influence the ceiling at the lowest settings; at 1440p and 4K, the RTX 4080 alone determines outcomes. Players on this combination should choose their resolution and preset together — the 1440p High result of 109 fps represents the balanced configuration where neither component is grossly underutilized.

FAQ

Q: What frame rate does this combo deliver in Lockdown Protocol at 1440p on High settings?

A: The measured average is 109 fps at 2560x1440 on High. Dropping to Medium raises that to 124 fps (with a 106 fps minimum and 143 fps maximum), while Ultra lowers it to 81 fps.

Q: Is 4K playable with the RTX 4080 in this game?

A: Yes. At 3840x2160, averages range from 53 fps on Ultra up to 113 fps on Low. The Medium preset averages 80 fps with a 68 fps minimum — the strongest balance of image quality and frame-rate stability at 4K in the dataset.

Q: How does the Core Ultra 9 185H compare to rival CPUs?

A: Its average benchmark score of 35670 places it in the 85th percentile. Nearest rivals are separated by under one percent: the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350 (35719, -0.1%), Core 7 250H (35728, -0.2%), Ryzen 7 PRO 5845 (35802, -0.4%), and Ryzen 7 7700X (35909, -0.7%).

Q: How does the RTX 4080 compare to the RTX 4080 SUPER?

A: On aggregate database scores they are effectively tied: the RTX 4080 averages 54247 against the SUPER's 54209, a 0.1% delta. Lockdown Protocol results on this card would be expected to mirror a SUPER-based configuration closely.

Q: Where does this CPU + GPU combination rank among tested Lockdown Protocol configurations?

A: Rank 1202 out of 3714 tested combinations, placing it in roughly the top third — consistent with the 85th-percentile CPU and 86th-percentile GPU that make up the pairing.

Q: Does the CPU limit performance at 1080p?

A: Mostly no. Frame-rate ratios between resolutions scale uniformly with the GPU, indicating a GPU-bound profile. The one possible exception is the Low preset at 1080p, where 239 fps represents the highest CPU demand in the dataset and the proportional gain over 1440p's 175 fps narrows slightly.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All rows below are measured data from the tested Core Ultra 9 185H + RTX 4080 configuration.

1920x1080:

• Low — 239 avg fps
• Medium — 170 avg fps (min 144, max 195)
• High — 148 avg fps
• Ultra — 111 avg fps

2560x1440:

• Low — 175 avg fps
• Medium — 124 avg fps (min 106, max 143)
• High — 109 avg fps
• Ultra — 81 avg fps

3840x2160:

• Low — 113 avg fps
• Medium — 80 avg fps (min 68, max 92)
• High — 70 avg fps
• Ultra — 53 avg fps

The pattern is consistent at every tier: each step up in settings costs roughly 15–28 fps depending on resolution, and each step up in resolution costs roughly 35–40% of the frame rate on any given preset. The Medium rows are the only ones with minimum and maximum frametime-derived figures recorded, and they show tight spreads — a 51 fps range at 1080p, 37 fps at 1440p, and 24 fps at 4K — indicating stable frame delivery rather than wide variance. For a 2024-release FPS running on a GPU in the 86th percentile and a CPU in the 85th, the dataset describes a configuration that is comfortably above playability thresholds at 1080p and 1440p on High, and best served by Medium when the target is a 4K display.