The Technomancer

The Technomancer, a 2016 Action RPG, shows a clear performance hierarchy for the AMD Ryzen 5 4600G + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti combination, with the data indicating that the GPU is the primary driver of frame rates across all settings. The measured results reveal that the sweet spot for this pairing is the High preset at 1440p, which delivers a smooth 114.5 FPS, while the Ultra preset at the same resolution remains highly playable at 92.8 FPS. This combo ranks in the 368th position out of 1656 tested combinations, placing it in the top 22% of all systems evaluated for this title.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS data strongly suggests that the High preset offers the best balance of visual fidelity and performance for this hardware combination. At 1080p, the High preset delivers 164.7 FPS, which is only 25.1 FPS below the Low preset’s 189.8 FPS, yet provides substantially better visual quality. Moving to 1440p, the High preset maintains an excellent 114.5 FPS, while the Medium preset at 136.4 FPS offers a modest 21.9 FPS advantage but with reduced graphical detail. The Ultra preset at 1440p drops to 92.8 FPS, which is still above the 60 FPS threshold but represents a 21.7 FPS penalty over High.

For users prioritizing maximum frame rates, the Low preset at 1080p achieves 189.8 FPS, but this comes at the cost of significant visual degradation. The data indicates that the High preset is the recommended choice because it provides a 52.5 FPS improvement over Ultra at 4K (62 FPS vs 50.1 FPS) while maintaining a 26.1 FPS advantage over Medium at 1080p (164.7 vs 175.2 FPS in the opposite direction). The Medium preset serves as a viable alternative for those seeking higher frame rates, particularly at 1440p where it reaches 136.4 FPS, but the visual trade-off is less favorable than the performance gain suggests.

At 4K resolution, the High preset produces 62 FPS, which is just above the 60 FPS playability threshold. The Ultra preset at 4K falls to 50.1 FPS, making it less suitable for smooth gameplay. The measured data shows that the High preset is the optimal choice across all resolutions, providing the best combination of playable frame rates and visual quality without the excessive performance cost of Ultra settings.

FAQ

Q: What is the maximum average FPS achievable with this CPU and GPU combination in The Technomancer?

A: The highest measured average FPS is 189.8, achieved at 1920x1080 resolution with the Low preset. The lowest measured average FPS is 50.1, occurring at 3840x2160 resolution with the Ultra preset.

Q: How does the 4K High preset performance compare to the 1080p High preset?

A: The 4K High preset delivers 62 FPS, while the 1080p High preset reaches 164.7 FPS. This represents a 102.7 FPS difference, indicating that the GPU is heavily stressed at 4K resolution.

Q: Is the Ultra preset viable at 1440p for this hardware?

A: Yes, the Ultra preset at 2560x1440 produces 92.8 FPS, which remains above the 60 FPS threshold. However, the High preset at the same resolution offers 114.5 FPS, a 21.7 FPS advantage with only minor visual differences.

Q: What is the performance drop from 1080p to 4K at the Medium preset?

A: At 1080p Medium, the system achieves 175.2 FPS, while at 4K Medium it drops to 75.4 FPS. This represents a 99.8 FPS reduction, showing the significant impact of resolution scaling on this combination.

Q: How does this combo rank among all tested systems for The Technomancer?

A: The combination ranks 368th out of 1656 tested combos, placing it in the top 22.2% of all systems evaluated for this game.

Q: Does the data suggest the CPU or GPU is the limiting factor at 1080p?

A: At 1080p, the Low preset achieves 189.8 FPS while the High preset reaches 164.7 FPS, a 25.1 FPS difference. This relatively small gap suggests the GPU remains the primary bottleneck, as the CPU’s performance headroom is not fully utilized even at lower settings.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals a clear pattern of resolution scaling that identifies the GPU as the dominant limiting component in this system. Moving from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 at the High preset, the average FPS drops from 164.7 to 114.5, a 50.2 FPS reduction (30.5% decrease). Continuing to 3840x2160 at High, the FPS falls to 62, representing a further 52.5 FPS drop from 1440p (45.9% decrease). This progressive decline is characteristic of GPU-bound performance, where the rendering load increases quadratically with resolution.

The scaling pattern is consistent across all settings. At the Low preset, 1080p produces 189.8 FPS, 1440p drops to 163.3 FPS, and 4K falls to 98.2 FPS. The Medium preset shows a similar trajectory: 175.2 FPS at 1080p, 136.4 FPS at 1440p, and 75.4 FPS at 4K. The Ultra preset exhibits the steepest decline, from 138.8 FPS at 1080p to 92.8 FPS at 1440p and finally 50.1 FPS at 4K.

The data indicates that the CPU, an AMD Ryzen 5 4600G with 6 cores and 12 threads running at a base clock of 3.70 GHz and boost clock of 4.20 GHz, provides sufficient processing power to avoid becoming a bottleneck even at 1080p. The fact that the FPS scales consistently with resolution suggests the GPU’s rendering capacity is the constraining factor. The RTX 4070 Ti, with its 12 GB of GDDR6X memory and 504.2 GB/s bandwidth, handles the increasing pixel count well up to 1440p, but the 4K resolution exposes its limits, particularly at higher settings where the 62 FPS High result and 50.1 FPS Ultra result indicate diminishing headroom.

How This Combo Ranks

In the benchmark database for The Technomancer, this specific combination of the AMD Ryzen 5 4600G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti achieves a rank of 368 out of 1656 tested system configurations. This places the combo in the top 22.2% of all tested systems, demonstrating that it delivers above-average performance for this title. The ranking reflects the balance between the CPU and GPU, where the GPU’s high benchmark scores compensate for the CPU’s more modest performance.

The GPU itself, the RTX 4070 Ti, holds an 85th percentile ranking among all GPUs with an average benchmark score of 44900. Its nearest rival, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile, scores 45152, a negligible 0.6% difference, indicating the 4070 Ti delivers desktop-class performance in this game. Conversely, the CPU, the Ryzen 5 4600G, ranks in the 75th percentile with an average benchmark score of 17489, placing it close to the Intel Core i5-12450H (17475, 0.1% difference) and slightly behind the Intel Core i3-14100T (17636, -0.8% difference).

The combo’s 368th rank out of 1656 suggests that while the GPU contributes significantly to overall performance, the CPU’s position in the 75th percentile creates a mild imbalance. Systems with higher-ranked CPUs paired with similarly powerful GPUs would likely achieve better frame rates, particularly at lower resolutions where CPU performance can become more relevant. However, the measured FPS data shows that this combo still delivers excellent playability across most settings and resolutions, with the weakest result being 50.1 FPS at 4K Ultra.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 4600G, based on the Zen 2 architecture with the Renoir codename, provides 6 cores and 12 threads, running at a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 4.20 GHz. This processor features 8 MB of shared L3 cache and 512 KB of L2 cache per core, with a 65 W TDP. In The Technomancer, the CPU’s role appears secondary to the GPU, as evidenced by the consistent frame rate scaling with resolution changes.

The CPU’s benchmark results show a single-thread score of 726 in 3DMark and a multi-thread score of 4889 in 3DMark max threads. In Cinebench R23, it achieves 1919 single-core and 13593 multi-core scores. These numbers indicate that the CPU has adequate single-thread performance for game logic and physics, while the multi-thread capabilities handle background tasks and streaming. The 3DMark 16-thread score of 4863 suggests that the CPU’s 12 threads are effectively utilized, but the game does not appear to be heavily CPU-bound based on the FPS data.

At 1080p with the Low preset, the system achieves 189.8 FPS, which is likely near the CPU’s maximum frame rate capability for this game. The fact that increasing to High settings only reduces FPS to 164.7 (a 25.1 FPS drop) indicates that the GPU is still handling most of the additional load. The CPU’s 75th percentile ranking among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 17489, positions it as a mid-range processor that does not bottleneck the RTX 4070 Ti in this title, except potentially at very low settings where the GPU has less work to do.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data provides a complete picture of performance across three resolutions and four settings levels. At 1920x1080, the system achieves 189.8 FPS on Low, 175.2 FPS on Medium, 164.7 FPS on High, and 138.8 FPS on Ultra. The spread from Low to Ultra at 1080p is 51 FPS, with the High preset representing a 25.1 FPS drop from Low but a 25.9 FPS improvement over Ultra.

At 2560x1440, the frame rates are 163.3 FPS on Low, 136.4 FPS on Medium, 114.5 FPS on High, and 92.8 FPS on Ultra. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is most pronounced at the High preset, where FPS falls by 50.2 (from 164.7 to 114.5). The Ultra preset shows a 46 FPS decrease from 138.8 to 92.8, while Low only drops by 26.5 FPS from 189.8 to 163.3.

At 3840x2160, the performance is 98.2 FPS on Low, 75.4 FPS on Medium, 62 FPS on High, and 50.1 FPS on Ultra. The transition from 1440p to 4K shows the largest relative drops, with the High preset losing 52.5 FPS (from 114.5 to 62) and the Ultra preset losing 42.7 FPS (from 92.8 to 50.1). The Low preset maintains the smallest loss at 65.1 FPS drop (from 163.3 to 98.2), but still falls below the 100 FPS mark at 4K.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with the AD104 chip, serves as the dominant performance component in this system. Its 12 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 192-bit bus provides 504.2 GB/s of bandwidth, while the GPU operates at a base clock of 2310 MHz and a boost clock of 2610 MHz. The GPU’s 7680 shading units and 80 ROPs contribute to its strong rendering capabilities, with a pixel rate of 208.8 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 626.4 GTexel/s.

The GPU’s benchmark scores demonstrate its high-end positioning, holding an 85th percentile ranking among all GPUs with an average score of 44900. In the Passmark G3D test, it scores 31624, while its 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score reaches 5024. The GPU’s nearest rival, the RTX 5090 Mobile, scores 45152 (0.6% higher), showing that the 4070 Ti delivers near-flagship performance in this title.

The measured FPS data confirms the GPU’s central role. At 4K Ultra, the system hits 50.1 FPS, which is the GPU’s limit for this demanding setting. The progression from 4K Low (98.2 FPS) to 4K High (62 FPS) shows a 36.2 FPS reduction, indicating that the GPU is heavily taxed by the higher graphical settings. The GPU’s 12 GB of VRAM appears sufficient for this game, as no memory-related stuttering is indicated by the data. The RTX 4070 Ti’s performance at 1440p, where it maintains 92.8 FPS at Ultra, demonstrates that this resolution is the sweet spot for maximizing visual quality without sacrificing playability.