The Technomancer

How This Combo Ranks

The AMD Ryzen 5 8400F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 lands at rank 810 out of 1656 tested combos in The Technomancer. This places the combination in the middle of the pack, which is consistent with a hardware pairing that delivers solid but not exceptional performance in this 2016 Action RPG. The rank reflects a balanced system; neither component is a standout at their respective price tiers, but the combination avoids severe bottlenecks in either direction. The CPU’s average benchmark score of 25064 puts it in the 82nd percentile among all processors, while the GPU’s average score of 30109 places it in the 73rd percentile among all graphics cards. The combo’s mid-pack ranking suggests that the game’s workload does not heavily favor one component over the other, resulting in a system that performs competently without breaking into the upper echelon of tested configurations.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 brings 8 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 128-bit bus, yielding a memory bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s. The GPU’s base clock is 2280 MHz, boosting to 2497 MHz, with a pixel rate of 119.9 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 299.6 GTexel/s. Its FP32 performance is 19.18 TFLOPS. In The Technomancer, these specifications translate into a GPU that can handle the game’s demands at most settings, but the 8 GB VRAM capacity becomes a limiting factor at higher resolutions. The memory bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s is adequate for the game’s textures, but the relatively narrow 128-bit bus means that higher resolutions and Ultra settings will strain the memory subsystem. The GPU’s nearest rival, the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT, has an average score of 30097, which is essentially identical to the RTX 5060’s 30109, showing a delta of 0%. This parity suggests that in synthetic benchmarks, the two cards are interchangeable, though the RTX 5060’s lower memory capacity (8 GB vs. the RX 7700 XT’s unspecified, but the comparison indicates similar performance) could impact real-world gaming at 4K. The RTX 5060’s 73rd percentile ranking among all GPUs indicates it performs better than the majority of graphics cards, but it is not a top-tier part. In this game, the GPU’s role is dominant at 4K resolutions, where the frame rates drop significantly from lower resolutions, pointing to the GPU as the primary bottleneck in those scenarios.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 8400F is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 4 (Phoenix) architecture, manufactured on a 4 nm process by TSMC. It has a base clock of 4.20 GHz and a boost clock of 4.70 GHz, with a 16 MB shared L3 cache and 1 MB L2 cache per core. The CPU supports DDR5 memory in a dual-channel configuration, providing 83.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Its Cinebench R23 multicore score is 20851, and its single-core score is 2943. In The Technomancer, the CPU’s role is less demanding than the GPU’s, especially at higher resolutions. The game, released in 2016, does not heavily utilize multi-threading, so the 8400F’s 12 threads are more than sufficient. The CPU’s single-thread performance, as indicated by the 3DMark single-thread score of 951, is strong enough to avoid bottlenecking the GPU at 1080p, where the frame rates are highest. The CPU’s nearest rival, the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, has an average score of 25057, a delta of 0%, indicating that the two processors perform nearly identically in synthetic benchmarks despite the 8400F being a newer architecture. The 8400F’s 82nd percentile ranking among all CPUs shows it is a capable processor, but in this game, the CPU is rarely the limiting factor. At 1080p Low settings, the CPU must work harder to feed the GPU, but the data shows that even at those settings, the frame rates are high, suggesting the CPU keeps up without issue.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the RTX 5060 and Ryzen 5 8400F deliver their highest frame rates. With Low settings, the combination achieves an average of 179.5 FPS, which drops to 136.2 FPS at Medium, 117.6 FPS at High, and 94.6 FPS at Ultra. These numbers indicate that at 1080p, the GPU has plenty of headroom, and the CPU is not a bottleneck, as the frame rates scale predictably with settings. The jump from Low to Ultra represents a 47.3% reduction in frame rate, which is a typical cost for higher graphical fidelity.

At 2560x1440, the average frame rates are 114 FPS at Low, 92.2 FPS at Medium, 73.6 FPS at High, and 61.6 FPS at Ultra. The drop from 1080p to 1440p at High settings is 37.4%, from 117.6 to 73.6 FPS, indicating that the GPU is beginning to feel the pressure of the higher pixel count. At Ultra settings, the 61.6 FPS average is still playable, but the margin for error is smaller.

At 3840x2160, the frame rates take a significant hit. Low settings yield an average of 64.9 FPS, Medium drops to 50.8 FPS, High to 44.7 FPS, and Ultra to 32.3 FPS. The 4K Ultra result is below the 60 FPS threshold, making it unsuitable for smooth gameplay. The gap between Low and Ultra at 4K is 50.2%, which is larger than at 1080p, highlighting the GPU’s struggle with the increased resolution. The 8 GB VRAM capacity likely contributes to this, as the game’s textures at 4K Ultra may exceed the available memory.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals the bottleneck characteristics of this combo. At High settings, the average frame rate drops from 117.6 FPS at 1080p to 73.6 FPS at 1440p, a 37.4% reduction, and then to 44.7 FPS at 4K, a further 39.3% reduction from 1440p. The total drop from 1080p to 4K is 62.0%. This steep decline indicates that the GPU is the primary limiting component at higher resolutions. The CPU’s performance, as measured by its benchmark scores, is sufficient to maintain high frame rates at 1080p, but as the resolution increases, the GPU’s workload grows exponentially, and the RTX 5060 cannot keep up.

At Low settings, the scaling is slightly different. The frame rate drops from 179.5 FPS at 1080p to 114 FPS at 1440p, a 36.5% reduction, and then to 64.9 FPS at 4K, a 43.1% reduction from 1440p. The total drop from 1080p to 4K at Low settings is 63.8%. This suggests that even at the lowest settings, the GPU is still the bottleneck at 4K, as the CPU has more than enough headroom to handle the lower graphical load. The fact that the frame rate reduction is similar across settings indicates that the GPU’s raw rendering capacity, not the settings, is the limiting factor at 4K.

The data shows that the system is well-balanced at 1080p, where the CPU and GPU work in tandem to deliver high frame rates. At 1440p, the GPU begins to dominate the performance equation, and at 4K, the GPU is clearly the bottleneck. The 8 GB VRAM capacity and 128-bit memory bus of the RTX 5060 are likely contributors to the steep 4K performance drop, as the game’s memory requirements at that resolution strain the available resources. For users targeting 4K, the data indicates that this combo will require reduced settings to achieve playable frame rates, while 1080p and 1440p offer a more balanced experience.