The Technomancer

# The Technomancer with AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

This pairing places the AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 at rank 61 out of 1,656 tested combos in The Technomancer, placing it in the top 4% of all configurations analyzed. The combination leverages a processor that sits at the 78th percentile among all CPUs alongside a GPU at the 94th percentile among all GPUs, but the game's measured results reveal a more nuanced story about where the bottleneck actually lies.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo's rank of 61 out of 1,656 tested configurations places it firmly in elite territory for The Technomancer. This is an Action RPG from 2016, and the data shows that this hardware pairing delivers frame rates that would be considered exceptional even by modern standards. The CPU's average benchmark score of 20,740 places it in a virtual dead heat with the Intel Core i7-10700 at 20,746 (0% delta), while it edges out the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X by 0.3% (20,680). The Intel Core i5-12490F is a mere 0.3% ahead at 20,794, and the AMD EPYC 7J13 leads by 0.5% at 20,845. These sub-1% differences mean the processor is essentially interchangeable with its closest rivals in this workload.

What makes this rank notable is the combination of a mid-range desktop CPU with a flagship GPU. The Ryzen 5 5600GT, with its 6 cores and 12 threads based on Zen 3 architecture, delivers a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 17,272 and a single-core score of 2,438. These figures are competitive, but the real story emerges when examining how the GPU's massive headroom is utilized. The RTX 5090's average benchmark score of 84,306 puts it 0.1% ahead of the RTX 5090 D (84,241), 0.2% ahead of the RTX 5050 Mobile (84,171), and 1.3% ahead of the AMD Radeon PRO W6600 (83,209). The only rival that beats it in this group is the NVIDIA CMP 40HX at 85,637, a 1.6% gap.

GPU Role

The RTX 5090 brings an extraordinary amount of graphics firepower to this pairing. Its 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus provides 1.79 TB/s of bandwidth, which is crucial for high-resolution textures in The Technomancer's detailed environments. The GPU operates at a base clock of 2017 MHz and boosts to 2407 MHz, with memory running at 1750 MHz (28 Gbps effective). The Blackwell 2.0 architecture with 21,760 shading units and 176 ROPs delivers a pixel rate of 423.6 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 1,636.8 GTexel/s.

In The Technomancer specifically, the GPU's role shifts dramatically depending on settings and resolution. At 1080p Low, the system achieves 242.9 FPS, which suggests the CPU is the limiting factor at that point. The GPU's raw compute capability of 104.8 TFLOPS FP32 is far more than this 2016 title needs at lower settings. However, at 4K Ultra, the frame rate drops to 59.8 FPS, indicating that the GPU is now working much harder. The RTX 5090's 170 ray tracing cores and 680 tensor cores are largely idle in this title, as The Technomancer predates widespread RT implementation, but the sheer rasterization throughput still propels it to top-tier results.

FAQ

Q: How does this combo compare to using a Ryzen 5 5600X instead?

A: The Ryzen 5 5600GT scores 20,740 on average benchmarks versus 20,680 for the 5600X, a 0.3% advantage. In practical terms, this translates to no meaningful difference in The Technomancer's frame rates, as the delta is well within measurement noise.

Q: Is the RTX 5090's 32 GB VRAM necessary for The Technomancer?

A: The game's measured results do not indicate VRAM capacity as a limiting factor at any tested setting. The 32 GB GDDR7 memory provides 1.79 TB/s bandwidth, but even at 4K Ultra with 59.8 FPS average, the constraint appears to be compute throughput rather than memory capacity.

Q: What is the best settings/resolution combination for this hardware?

A: At 1440p High, the system delivers 146.2 FPS, which balances visual quality with high refresh rates. For maximum smoothness, 1080p Low reaches 242.9 FPS, while 4K Ultra still maintains a playable 59.8 FPS average.

Q: How does this CPU perform in multi-threaded workloads relevant to gaming?

A: The Ryzen 5 5600GT scores 17,272 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 7,254 in Cinebench R20 multi-core. Its 3DMark scores scale from 1,794 (2 threads) to 5,554 (max threads), showing reasonable scaling across its 12 threads.

Q: What is the GPU's benchmark percentile ranking?

A: The RTX 5090 sits at the 94th percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 84,306. Its PassMark G3D score of 39,650 and Geekbench OpenCL score of 380,114 reflect its position near the top of the graphics hierarchy.

Q: Does the CPU bottleneck the GPU at 1080p?

A: The data suggests yes. At 1080p Low, the system hits 242.9 FPS, while at 1080p Ultra it drops to 176 FPS. The GPU's performance ceiling appears higher than what the CPU can feed at lower settings, as the CPU's single-thread score of 913 in 3DMark indicates a potential limiting factor.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data covers three resolutions and four settings tiers, providing a comprehensive view of performance scaling. At 1920x1080, the system delivers 242.9 FPS on Low, 219.6 FPS on Medium, 206.1 FPS on High, and 176 FPS on Ultra. The spread from Low to Ultra is 66.9 FPS, representing a 27.5% reduction from the lowest to highest settings.

Moving to 2560x1440, the frame rates remain high but show a clearer separation: 210.8 FPS on Low, 170.3 FPS on Medium, 146.2 FPS on High, and 111.6 FPS on Ultra. The Ultra setting at 1440p represents a 47.1% drop from the Low setting at the same resolution.

At 3840x2160, the GPU begins to show its workload. Low settings produce 120.4 FPS, Medium drops to 91.7 FPS, High achieves 77.7 FPS, and Ultra falls to 59.8 FPS. The 4K Ultra result is the only configuration that dips below 60 FPS, and it does so narrowly. The scaling from Low to Ultra at 4K represents a 50.3% reduction, which is the most pronounced settings sensitivity across all resolutions.

Resolution Scaling

Examining resolution scaling reveals where the bottleneck shifts between CPU and GPU. From 1080p to 1440p, the FPS drops are modest: Low goes from 242.9 to 210.8 (13.2% reduction), Medium from 219.6 to 170.3 (22.5% reduction), High from 206.1 to 146.2 (29.1% reduction), and Ultra from 176 to 111.6 (36.6% reduction). These percentages suggest that at higher settings, the GPU becomes more involved even at 1440p.

The jump from 1440p to 4K is far more punishing. Low drops from 210.8 to 120.4 FPS (42.9% reduction), Medium from 170.3 to 91.7 FPS (46.2% reduction), High from 146.2 to 77.7 FPS (46.9% reduction), and Ultra from 111.6 to 59.8 FPS (46.4% reduction). The consistency of these percentage drops across all settings indicates that resolution scaling is the dominant factor at 4K, with the GPU rendering workload increasing roughly in line with pixel count.

The overall scaling pattern from 1080p Low to 4K Ultra shows a drop from 242.9 to 59.8 FPS, a 75.4% reduction. This steep decline points to the GPU as the primary limiter at 4K Ultra, while the relatively small differences between 1080p Low and Medium (242.9 vs 219.6 FPS, a 9.6% gap) suggest the CPU is capable of feeding the GPU adequately at lower resolutions. The data indicates that this 2016 title is not particularly demanding by modern standards, but the RTX 5090's massive compute resources are still taxed heavily at 4K with maximum settings. For competitive or high-refresh gameplay, the 1080p and 1440p results provide ample headroom, while 4K Ultra remains viable for cinematic frame rates.