The Technomancer

Resolution Scaling

The measured frame rates for The Technomancer with the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 reveal a clear and predictable scaling pattern as resolution increases. At 1920x1080 with Ultra settings, the combo produces an average of 61.5 FPS. Moving to 2560x1440 on the same settings drops that to 42.1 FPS, a reduction of roughly 32%. Pushing further to 3840x2160 at Ultra yields just 22.2 FPS, which is a 64% drop from the 1080p result. This steep decline indicates that the GeForce GTX 1070 becomes the limiting factor as pixel count rises.

The pattern holds across other settings tiers. On High settings, the system averages 78 FPS at 1920x1080, 50.1 FPS at 2560x1440, and 24.6 FPS at 3840x2160. The gap between 1440p and 4K is particularly severe, suggesting the GPU's 8 GB of GDDR5 memory and 256-bit bus are stretched thin at the highest resolution. Low settings tell a similar story: 117.9 FPS at 1080p, 77.3 FPS at 1440p, and 40.6 FPS at 4K. Even at the lowest quality preset, 4K performance falls below the 60 FPS threshold, underscoring that this combination is not suited for 4K gaming in this title.

What does this say about the limiting component? At 1080p, the Ryzen 5 3600's six cores and twelve threads appear sufficient to feed the GTX 1070, as frame rates scale almost linearly with settings reductions. The jump from Low to Ultra at 1080p costs about 48% of the frame rate. But at 4K, the scaling flattens dramatically: Low yields 40.6 FPS, Medium 32.2 FPS, High 24.6 FPS, and Ultra 22.2 FPS. The small delta between High and Ultra at 4K — just 2.4 FPS — suggests the GPU is fully saturated and additional settings changes have diminishing returns. This is classic GPU-bound behavior, where the Pascal architecture's 6.463 TFLOPS of FP32 compute and 107.7 GPixel/s pixel rate are simply outmatched by the 8.3 million pixels of 4K.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the benchmark database, this specific pairing of the Ryzen 5 3600 and GTX 1070 in The Technomancer ranks 1391 out of 1656 tested combinations. That places it in the lower 16% of all combos, which is a surprisingly weak showing for hardware that performs respectably in isolation. The CPU alone sits at the 76th percentile among all processors, and the GPU is at the 51st percentile among all graphics cards. Yet when paired together in this particular game, the combination underperforms relative to its individual components.

The rank suggests that The Technomancer is not a title where this combo shines. With 1656 combos tested, a rank of 1391 means only 265 configurations deliver worse results. This could be attributed to the game's engine favoring other hardware characteristics, or the GTX 1070's age relative to the game's demands. Notably, the CPU's nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks — the Intel Core i5-11400, AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS, AMD Ryzen 5 1600, and AMD EPYC 9274F — all score within 0.3% of the Ryzen 5 3600 in average benchmark score. That indicates the processor is not the bottleneck; the GPU and its 51st percentile ranking are more likely drag factors.

The GTX 1070's nearest rivals in GPU benchmarks are the NVIDIA Quadro K4200, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER, and NVIDIA Tesla K20Xm. The GTX 1070 trails the GTX 1650 SUPER by 1.4% in average score, a margin that could translate to single-digit FPS differences in real gaming. In a game like The Technomancer, where the combo ranks in the bottom quartile, those small synthetic deltas can become more pronounced.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is built on the Pascal architecture using the GP104 chip, manufactured on a 16 nm process at TSMC. It packs 7,200 million transistors on a 314 mm² die. The card operates with a base clock of 1506 MHz and a boost clock of 1683 MHz, with memory running at 2002 MHz (8 Gbps effective). The 8 GB GDDR5 frame buffer sits on a 256-bit bus, delivering 256.3 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

In The Technomancer, the GPU's memory configuration plays a critical role. At 3840x2160 with Ultra settings, the 8 GB buffer is likely near capacity, which explains why the average FPS collapses to 22.2. The 256-bit bus and 256.3 GB/s bandwidth must feed 1920 shading units, 120 texture mapping units, and 64 ROPs. The texture rate of 202.0 GTexel/s and pixel rate of 107.7 GPixel/s are respectable for 1080p but insufficient for 4K in this title.

The GTX 1070 supports DirectX 12 (12_1), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4, which covers the API requirements of a 2016-era Action RPG. The card's 150 W TDP and dual-slot cooler are modest by modern standards, but the data shows that thermal headroom is not the issue — raw rasterization performance is. The FP32 throughput of 6.463 TFLOPS is the key metric, and it simply does not scale to 4K Ultra in this game. Interestingly, the card's FP16 performance is a minuscule 101.0 GFLOPS (1:64 ratio), meaning it cannot offload any half-precision work to gain headroom.

FAQ

Q: What is the average FPS at 1920x1080 with Ultra settings?

A: The measured average is 61.5 FPS, which is playable but not high-refresh territory.

Q: How does the Ryzen 5 3600 compare to its closest rival, the Intel Core i5-11400?

A: The Ryzen 5 3600 scores 18,129 in average benchmark, which is 0.1% lower than the i5-11400's 18,150. This is a negligible difference in synthetic tests.

Q: Is the GTX 1070 better or worse than the GTX 1650 SUPER?

A: The GTX 1070 averages 12,331 in GPU benchmarks, which is 1.4% lower than the GTX 1650 SUPER's 12,504. In The Technomancer, this gap could manifest as a few frames per second.

Q: What is the best resolution for this combo in The Technomancer?

A: At 2560x1440 with High settings, the combo produces 50.1 FPS. This is the highest resolution where the average stays above 50 FPS on a quality preset. At 3840x2160, even Low settings only yield 40.6 FPS.

Q: How many combos does this pairing outperform in the database?

A: The combo ranks 1391 out of 1656, meaning it outperforms 265 combinations and trails 1390 others.

Q: What is the GPU's memory bandwidth?

A: The GTX 1070 has 256.3 GB/s of bandwidth from its 8 GB GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The complete measured FPS data for The Technomancer with the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is as follows:

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers 117.9 FPS on Low settings, 91.4 FPS on Medium, 78 FPS on High, and 61.5 FPS on Ultra. The spread from Low to Ultra is 56.4 FPS, showing that the CPU and GPU have ample headroom at this resolution. The step from Medium to High costs 13.4 FPS, while High to Ultra costs 16.5 FPS, indicating that Ultra is the most demanding tier per frame.

At 2560x1440, results drop to 77.3 FPS on Low, 58.9 FPS on Medium, 50.1 FPS on High, and 42.1 FPS on Ultra. The Low-to-Ultra spread narrows to 35.2 FPS. The Medium to High transition costs 8.8 FPS, and High to Ultra costs 8 FPS. These smaller deltas suggest the GPU is starting to become the constraint, as each settings tier has less performance to give.

At 3840x2160, the numbers fall to 40.6 FPS on Low, 32.2 FPS on Medium, 24.6 FPS on High, and 22.2 FPS on Ultra. The Low-to-Ultra spread compresses to just 18.4 FPS. Notably, the difference between High and Ultra is only 2.4 FPS, and Medium to High is 7.6 FPS. This compression indicates severe GPU saturation; the GTX 1070 cannot maintain playable frame rates at 4K regardless of settings. Even the best-case scenario at Low settings falls below 41 FPS, which is below the 60 FPS standard for smooth gameplay. The data makes it clear: this combo is best suited for 1080p and acceptable at 1440p with settings compromises, but 4K is not viable in The Technomancer.