The Technomancer

The Technomancer, a 2016 Action RPG, presents a demanding workload that scales heavily with resolution. When paired with the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, the measured data reveals a system where the GPU becomes the primary bottleneck as pixel count increases. At 1920x1080, the combination delivers strong performance, but the transition to 2560x1440 and especially 3840x2160 introduces significant frame rate penalties that define the playable experience. The benchmark results show a clear hierarchy of settings and resolutions, with the Ultra preset consistently exacting the highest cost on the RTX 3060 Ti.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K is substantial, clearly indicating that the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is the limiting component at higher resolutions. Moving from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 at High settings reduces the average frame rate from 94.7 FPS to 58.4 FPS, a decline of roughly 38%. The leap to 3840x2160 at the same High preset further diminishes performance to 35.2 FPS, which is about 63% lower than the 1080p result. This pattern holds across all settings presets, confirming that the GPU's rendering capabilities are saturated long before the CPU's potential is reached.

The scaling behavior is more pronounced at lower settings, which suggests that the CPU overhead is not the primary constraint. At Low settings, the system achieves 141.7 FPS at 1080p, but this drops to 92.3 FPS at 1440p and then to 49.5 FPS at 4K. The percentage reduction from 1080p to 4K at Low settings is approximately 65%, which is very similar to the 63% reduction seen at High. This consistency implies that the game's rendering load scales linearly with resolution, and the RTX 3060 Ti's 8 GB of GDDR6 memory and 448.0 GB/s bandwidth are being pushed to their limits. The data shows no sign of a CPU bottleneck, as the Ryzen 5 5600G with its 6 cores and 12 threads maintains adequate headroom even when frame rates are high.

Settings Recommendations

For the best experience per the measured rows, the Medium preset at 1920x1080 emerges as the most balanced choice. It delivers an average of 109.2 FPS, which is only 23% lower than the Low preset's 141.7 FPS but offers substantially better visual fidelity. The High preset at 1080p is also viable at 94.7 FPS, though the additional visual detail may not justify the 14% performance loss compared to Medium. At 2560x1440, the High preset becomes the recommended option, as it provides a playable 58.4 FPS average, while the Ultra preset drops to 47.4 FPS, which may feel less fluid in an action-oriented RPG.

The Ultra preset is generally not recommended at any resolution above 1080p. At 4K, Ultra yields a mere 28.3 FPS, which is below the threshold for smooth gameplay. Even at 1440p, Ultra's 47.4 FPS is noticeably lower than High's 58.4 FPS, a 19% penalty that is unlikely to be worth the extra graphical effects. For 4K gaming, the Low preset at 49.5 FPS is the only option that approaches playability, though it sacrifices most of the game's visual charm. The data suggests that Medium at 1080p or High at 1440p are the sweet spots for this combination, offering a good balance between frame rate and image quality.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti plays a central role in determining the outcome of these benchmarks. Its 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus provides a memory bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s, which is a critical factor in a game like The Technomancer that appears to be memory-sensitive at high resolutions. The GPU's base clock of 1410 MHz and boost clock of 1665 MHz, combined with 4864 shading units, deliver a peak FP32 performance of 16.20 TFLOPS. These specifications are sufficient for 1080p and 1440p gaming, but the 4K results indicate that the GPU's raw compute power is insufficient to maintain high frame rates.

Comparing the RTX 3060 Ti to its nearest rivals in the database, it scores an average benchmark score of 25120, which places it 0.2% behind the AMD Radeon RX 6700M and 0.5% behind the AMD Radeon RX 6600. This marginal difference in synthetic benchmarks translates to the measured FPS results, where the GPU's performance is the dominant factor. The VRAM capacity of 8 GB is adequate for 1080p and 1440p, but at 4K, the game's assets may be pushing against this limit, contributing to the sharp drop in frame rates. The data shows that the GPU is the clear bottleneck at 4K, as the frame rate reductions across settings are consistent and severe.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data provides a detailed view of the system's performance across twelve distinct configurations. At 1920x1080, the Low preset achieves the highest average of 141.7 FPS, followed by Medium at 109.2 FPS, High at 94.7 FPS, and Ultra at 75.9 FPS. The spread between Low and Ultra is 65.8 FPS, indicating that the Ultra preset imposes a 46% performance penalty over Low. At 2560x1440, the same settings produce 92.3 FPS on Low, 71.7 FPS on Medium, 58.4 FPS on High, and 47.4 FPS on Ultra. The relative ordering remains consistent, but the absolute values drop significantly, with Ultra at 1440p performing worse than Medium at 1080p.

At 3840x2160, the numbers become marginal for smooth gameplay. The Low preset yields 49.5 FPS, which is the only 4K result above 40 FPS. Medium drops to 37.4 FPS, High to 35.2 FPS, and Ultra falls to 28.3 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra at 4K is 21.2 FPS, which is a 43% reduction. Comparing across resolutions, the High preset shows a clear linear trend: 94.7 FPS at 1080p, 58.4 FPS at 1440p, and 35.2 FPS at 4K. The data indicates that the game is heavily GPU-bound, as the frame rate scales almost linearly with the number of pixels rendered.

How This Combo Ranks

In the global database of tested combinations, the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti pairing ranks 1204 out of 1656 combos for The Technomancer. This places it in the bottom 27% of all tested systems, which is a surprisingly low position given the individual component scores. The CPU, with a percentile rank of 78 among all processors, is competitive with its nearest rivals. The Ryzen 5 5600G scores 19983 on average, which is 0.2% higher than the Intel Core i7-11600H and 0.2% lower than the Intel Core i7-11800H. The GPU, with a percentile rank of 69, is similarly positioned, matching the performance of the AMD Radeon RX 6700M within 0.2%.

The low combo rank suggests that The Technomancer is a particularly demanding title that does not favor this specific hardware configuration. The game's engine may not scale well with the RTX 3060 Ti's architecture, or the CPU's integrated graphics and PCIe Gen 3 interface may introduce a subtle bottleneck that is not visible in the benchmark data. The measured FPS results, while respectable at 1080p, are not exceptional when compared to the broader field of tested combos. The rank of 1204 out of 1656 indicates that many other systems, likely with more powerful GPUs or better-optimized CPU-GPU pairings, achieve higher frame rates in this title. This data point underscores that while the Ryzen 5 5600G and RTX 3060 Ti are capable components individually, their combined performance in The Technomancer is below the median of the database.