The Technomancer

# The Technomancer with AMD Ryzen 5 5600G + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

This combination of the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 ranks 88th out of 1,656 tested combos in The Technomancer, placing it in the top 5.3% of all configurations. The pairing leverages a 6-core Zen 3 CPU with a top-tier Ada Lovelace GPU, and the benchmark results show a system that is heavily GPU-bound at higher resolutions while the CPU becomes increasingly relevant as resolution drops. The measured FPS data spans three resolutions and four quality presets, revealing a performance curve that favors high-refresh 1080p and 1440p play, with 4K remaining smooth but demanding.

How This Combo Ranks

The 88th position out of 1,656 tested combinations places this pairing well within the upper echelon of configurations for The Technomancer. This ranking reflects the substantial GPU headroom provided by the RTX 4090, which sits at the 91st percentile among all GPUs in the database. The Ryzen 5 5600G, by contrast, holds the 78th percentile among all CPUs, suggesting the processor is not the limiting factor in most scenarios tested.

Compared to its nearest CPU rivals, the Ryzen 5 5600G shows remarkably tight margins. It sits 0.2% ahead of the Intel Core i7-11600H, 0.3% ahead of the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX, and 0.2% behind both the Intel Core i7-11800H and AMD EPYC 7713P in average benchmark scores. This clustering indicates that the CPU's performance envelope is well-established, with negligible differences among these competitors in synthetic workloads. For a game like The Technomancer, which is not particularly CPU-intensive, this parity means the choice of processor has minimal impact on the final frame rates.

The GPU's nearest rivals tell a similar story of tight competition. The RTX 4090 trails the NVIDIA Tesla T4 by 0.4%, leads the NVIDIA Tesla P40 by 0.5%, falls 0.9% behind the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56, and sits 1.3% below the NVIDIA Quadro P6000 in average benchmark scores. These delta percentages are small enough to be considered noise, but they contextualize the GPU's raw compute capability relative to professional-grade cards that are not typically used for gaming.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600G is a 6-core, 12-thread processor built on the Zen 3 architecture with the Cezanne codename, fabricated on a 7 nm process at TSMC. Its base clock of 3.90 GHz boosts to 4.40 GHz, and it carries 16 MB of L3 cache alongside 512 KB of L2 cache per core. The processor supports DDR4 memory over a dual-channel bus with 51.2 GB/s of bandwidth, and it includes Radeon Vega 7 integrated graphics—though in this pairing, the discrete RTX 4090 renders all frames.

Synthetic benchmarks show a processor that scales well with thread count. The Cinebench R23 multicore score of 16,758 is substantially higher than the single-core score of 2,365, reflecting the benefit of 12 threads in heavily parallel workloads. The 3DMark results follow a similar pattern: 5,451 with 16 threads, 4,694 with 8 threads, 3,258 with 4 threads, and 1,705 with 2 threads. The single-thread 3DMark score of 872 indicates solid per-core performance.

For The Technomancer, the CPU's role is to feed the GPU without bottlenecking. At 1080p, where frame rates reach 226.7 FPS on Low settings, the processor's single-thread performance becomes more critical. The PassMark single-thread score of 3,177 and Geekbench single-core score of 1,933 suggest the 5600G can sustain high instruction throughput, which matters for maintaining those elevated frame rates. However, the game's Action RPG genre typically involves moderate CPU load, and the 6-core configuration provides ample headroom for background tasks without impacting frame pacing.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is the dominant component in this pairing, built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with the AD102 chip on a 5 nm TSMC process. It packs 16,384 shading units, 512 TMUs, and 176 ROPs, along with 128 RT cores and 512 tensor cores. The GPU operates at a base clock of 2,235 MHz with a boost clock of 2,520 MHz, and its 24 GB of GDDR6X memory runs at an effective 21 Gbps across a 384-bit bus, yielding 1.01 TB/s of bandwidth.

The 4090's compute capabilities are extraordinary: 82.58 TFLOPS of FP32 performance, a pixel rate of 443.5 GPixel/s, and a texture rate of 1,290.2 GTexel/s. These specifications translate directly into the high frame rates observed in The Technomancer. The GPU's PassMark G3D score of 38,194 and Geekbench OpenCL score of 317,684 confirm its position in the 91st percentile of all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 66,473.

In this game, the RTX 4090's vast memory bandwidth and shading throughput are the primary drivers of performance. At 4K Ultra, the game still manages 61.6 FPS, which is a demanding workload that stresses the GPU's raw compute. The 24 GB VRAM capacity is far beyond what The Technomancer requires, so memory capacity is not a constraining factor. Instead, the GPU's clock speeds and shader count determine the frame rates, and the data shows the 4090 delivers consistently high performance across all tested settings.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the RTX 4090 produces frame rates that exceed most high-refresh displays. On Low settings, the average FPS reaches 226.7, while Medium yields 209.8 FPS and High drops slightly to 198.2 FPS. The Ultra preset at 1080p still delivers 170.8 FPS, which is a 24.6% reduction from Low but remains exceptionally smooth. These numbers suggest that at 1080p, the GPU is not fully saturated, and the CPU's single-thread performance begins to influence the upper bounds of frame delivery.

Moving to 2560x1440, the frame rates remain high but show the expected scaling. Low settings produce 197.4 FPS, Medium achieves 168.5 FPS, High drops to 140.5 FPS, and Ultra settles at 108.6 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra at 1440p is 45%, which is a more pronounced spread than at 1080p. This indicates that as resolution increases, the GPU's shading workload grows, and the performance difference between quality presets becomes more visible.

At 3840x2160, the 4090 still delivers playable frame rates across all settings. Low averages 118 FPS, Medium reaches 89.2 FPS, High produces 74.9 FPS, and Ultra dips to 61.6 FPS. The 4K Ultra result is notable because it remains above 60 FPS, which is a common target for smooth gameplay. The scaling from Low to Ultra at 4K shows a 47.8% performance drop, indicating that the GPU is heavily loaded at this resolution and the quality settings have a substantial impact on frame delivery.

Resolution Scaling

The transition from 1080p to 4K reveals how the limiting component shifts across resolutions. At 1080p Low, the system achieves 226.7 FPS, but at 4K Low, it drops to 118 FPS—a 48% reduction. This scaling is less severe than the theoretical 4x pixel count increase would suggest, which indicates that at 1080p the CPU is partially limiting performance, preventing the GPU from reaching its full potential.

The 1440p results show a more balanced workload. Moving from 1440p Low at 197.4 FPS to 4K Low at 118 FPS represents a 40.2% drop, while the pixel count increases by 2.25x. This suggests that the GPU is becoming the primary bottleneck at 1440p and fully at 4K. The Ultra preset tells a similar story: 1080p Ultra produces 170.8 FPS, 1440p Ultra drops to 108.6 FPS, and 4K Ultra falls to 61.6 FPS. The step from 1440p to 4K Ultra is a 43.3% reduction, which aligns closely with the pixel count scaling.

The data indicates that the RTX 4090 is the dominant performance factor across all resolutions, but the Ryzen 5 5600G's influence is measurable at 1080p. The frame rate difference between 1080p Low (226.7 FPS) and 1440p Low (197.4 FPS) is only 12.9%, despite a 2.25x increase in pixel count. This compressed scaling at lower resolutions is a classic sign of CPU limitation—the GPU has enough headroom to render more pixels, but the CPU cannot feed frames fast enough to fully utilize that headroom. As resolution climbs, the GPU's workload grows, and the frame rate scaling becomes more proportional to pixel count, confirming that the 4090 is the limiting component at 1440p and above.