The Technomancer

Resolution Scaling

The measured frame rates across resolutions reveal a system that transitions from heavily CPU-limited at 1080p to progressively more GPU-bound as pixel count rises. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the combo produces 191.3 FPS, while the jump to 2560x1440 Low drops performance to 165.7 FPS — a reduction of roughly 13.4%. Moving further to 3840x2160 Low yields 91.4 FPS, which represents a 44.8% decline from the 1440p figure. This scaling pattern indicates that at lower resolutions and settings, the AMD Ryzen 5 4600G's six cores and twelve threads are the primary constraint, as the frame rate ceiling appears to cap near the 190 FPS mark regardless of GPU headroom.

The High preset tells a slightly different story. At 1080p High, the system delivers 162.6 FPS, dropping to 110.5 FPS at 1440p (a 32.0% reduction) and then to 57.1 FPS at 4K (a 48.3% reduction from 1440p). The steeper percentage drop between 1440p and 4K under High settings compared to Low settings suggests that the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070's rendering workload becomes more significant as texture quality and shading complexity increase. The 12 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 192-bit bus with 672.0 GB/s bandwidth appears sufficient at 4K High, but the frame rate decline is substantial.

Ultra settings produce the most dramatic scaling curve. From 126.9 FPS at 1080p, the frame rate falls to 83.7 FPS at 1440p (34.1% lower) and then to 46.6 FPS at 4K (44.3% lower than 1440p). The 4K Ultra result of 46.6 FPS sits below the 57.1 FPS High result at the same resolution, indicating that the Ultra preset's additional effects impose a meaningful cost on the GPU's 30.87 TFLOPS FP32 compute throughput. The overall pattern across all settings points to a system where 1080p performance is capped by CPU throughput, while 4K performance is governed by the RTX 5070's rasterization capabilities.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the benchmark database's tested combinations, this pairing of AMD Ryzen 5 4600G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 achieves a rank of 386 out of 1656 combos for The Technomancer. This places the system in the upper 23.3% of all tested configurations, which is a strong showing given the CPU's age relative to the GPU. The Ryzen 5 4600G, built on the Zen 2 architecture with a 7 nm process, holds a 75th percentile ranking among all CPUs in the database, while the RTX 5070 sits at the 83rd percentile among all GPUs. The combo rank being lower than either component's individual percentile suggests that The Technomancer's engine does not fully utilize the available hardware parallelism.

The CPU's nearest rivals in aggregate benchmarks include the AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5355GE with an average score of 17482 and a 0% delta, the Intel Core i5-12450H at 17475 with a 0.1% delta, the Intel Core i3-14100T at 17636 with a -0.8% delta, and the Intel Core i3-13100F at 17665 with a -1% delta. These margins are extremely tight, with the entire rival cluster spanning less than 2% in average score. For the GPU, the nearest rivals are the AMD Radeon Pro 5300 at 41610 (0.2% delta), the NVIDIA Tesla M40 at 41897 (-0.5% delta), the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 at 41441 (0.6% delta), and the AMD Radeon Pro 580X at 41991 (-0.7% delta). The RTX 5070's average benchmark score of 41687 places it in a dense performance band where small architectural differences determine ranking.

The implication for The Technomancer is that the combo's 386th position reflects a balanced pairing where neither component dramatically bottlenecks the other, but the older CPU does limit peak frame rates in less demanding scenes. The 1656 tested combos span a wide range of hardware generations, so ranking in the top quarter indicates that this system delivers competitive performance for this specific title.

Settings Recommendations

Examining the measured rows, the Medium preset offers the most balanced experience across all three resolutions. At 3840x2160 Medium, the system achieves 68.8 FPS, which is comfortably above the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay. The jump from Medium to High at 4K costs 11.7 FPS (from 68.8 to 57.1), a 17.0% reduction that pushes the experience below the 60 FPS line. Conversely, dropping from Medium to Low at 4K gains 22.6 FPS (from 68.8 to 91.4), a 32.8% improvement, but the visual quality loss is substantial given the Low preset's reduced effects.

For 2560x1440 displays, High settings at 110.5 FPS provide an excellent experience with headroom for demanding scenes. The Medium preset at 126.3 FPS is even safer, while Ultra at 83.7 FPS remains playable but introduces the risk of dips during heavy combat sequences. At 1920x1080, all presets deliver playable frame rates, with Ultra at 126.9 FPS and High at 162.6 FPS. The Low preset's 191.3 FPS at 1080p is the maximum measured value across the entire test matrix, but the visual trade-offs are unlikely to be worthwhile on modern displays.

The data suggests that Medium is the sweet spot for 4K, High is the recommended preset for 1440p, and Ultra is viable at 1080p. Users with high-refresh-rate 1080p monitors can comfortably run Ultra and still maintain frame rates well above 120 FPS. For 1440p users with 144 Hz displays, Medium or High will keep the experience smooth without excessive GPU load.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured average frame rates span from 126.9 FPS at Ultra to 191.3 FPS at Low. The Medium preset delivers 175 FPS, and High produces 162.6 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra at 1080p is 64.4 FPS, representing a 50.7% performance difference. This wide spread indicates that the game's settings menu has a significant impact on rendering cost at this resolution.

At 2560x1440, the values are 83.7 FPS at Ultra, 110.5 FPS at High, 126.3 FPS at Medium, and 165.7 FPS at Low. The difference between Low and Ultra here is 82 FPS, which is a 98.0% increase from the Ultra baseline. The scaling from 1080p to 1440p at each preset is: Low drops by 25.6 FPS (13.4%), Medium by 48.7 FPS (27.8%), High by 52.1 FPS (32.0%), and Ultra by 43.2 FPS (34.0%). The percentage losses grow with each step up in settings, confirming that higher presets place more relative burden on the GPU as resolution increases.

At 3840x2160, the measured results are 46.6 FPS at Ultra, 57.1 FPS at High, 68.8 FPS at Medium, and 91.4 FPS at Low. The 4K to 1440p scaling shows: Low drops by 74.3 FPS (44.8%), Medium by 57.5 FPS (45.5%), High by 53.4 FPS (48.3%), and Ultra by 37.1 FPS (44.3%). The consistency of these percentage drops, all falling between 44% and 48%, indicates that the RTX 5070's memory bandwidth of 672.0 GB/s becomes the dominant factor at 4K, with the GPU's 192-bit bus width and 12 GB GDDR7 capacity handling the increased pixel throughput at a steady rate of decline.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, built on the Blackwell 2.0 architecture with a 5 nm process, brings 6144 shading units, 192 texture mapping units, and 80 raster operations pipelines to The Technomancer. Its boost clock of 2512 MHz and base clock of 2325 MHz drive a pixel rate of 201.0 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 482.3 GTexel/s. The memory subsystem consists of 12 GB of GDDR7 on a 192-bit bus, running at 1750 MHz with 28 Gbps effective speed, yielding 672.0 GB/s of bandwidth.

These specifications translate into distinct performance characteristics in this game. The 4K Ultra result of 46.6 FPS suggests that the game's highest settings demand more than the GPU can deliver for consistent 60 FPS gameplay. However, the 4K Medium result of 68.8 FPS shows that dialing back one preset level unlocks smooth performance. The GPU's 83rd percentile ranking among all tested GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 41687, places it in the upper tier of available hardware. Its nearest rival, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, scores 41441 with a 0.6% delta, indicating that the RTX 5070 slightly outperforms the previous generation's flagship in aggregate benchmarks.

The VRAM allocation of 12 GB appears adequate for The Technomancer, as the measured frame rates do not indicate any memory capacity-related stuttering or sudden drops. The GDDR7 memory's high bandwidth is particularly beneficial at 4K, where the pixel fill requirements increase quadratically. The GPU's FP32 throughput of 30.87 TFLOPS provides ample compute for the game's DirectX 12 rendering path, which is supported through the 12 Ultimate (12_2) API level.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 4600G, a Zen 2 architecture processor with the Renoir codename, provides six cores and twelve threads operating at a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 4.20 GHz. Its 8 MB of shared L3 cache and 512 KB L2 per core supply the game's threading model with adequate data locality. The CPU's 65 W TDP and dual-channel DDR4 memory support with 51.2 GB/s bandwidth represent a modest platform that predates the RTX 5070 by several years.

The CPU's benchmark results show a single-thread score of 726 in 3DMark and 1919 in Cinebench R23 single-core, which are moderate figures by modern standards. The multi-threaded scores are more respectable: 13593 in Cinebench R23 multicore and 4889 in 3DMark max threads. The CPU's 75th percentile ranking among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 17489, indicates that it outperforms the majority of processors in the database, but its nearest rivals cluster tightly around it. The Intel Core i5-12450H matches at a 0.1% delta, while the Intel Core i3-14100T trails by 0.8% and the Intel Core i3-13100F by 1%.

In The Technomancer, the CPU's influence is most evident at 1080p Low, where the 191.3 FPS result is likely near the engine's single-threaded draw call limit. The small frame rate gains between Medium (175 FPS) and High (162.6 FPS) at 1080p suggest that the GPU is still able to push higher frame rates, but the CPU's per-core performance caps the absolute maximum. At 1440p and 4K, the CPU's role diminishes as the GPU becomes the limiting factor, evidenced by the consistent percentage drops across settings at higher resolutions. The 3DMark single-thread score of 726 and PassMark single-thread score of 2653 characterize a processor that can feed a powerful GPU adequately at mainstream resolutions but will not extract every last frame at 1080p with a high-end graphics card.