The Technomancer

The Technomancer, a 2016 action RPG, still puts unremitting stress on modern hardware. Data from the test harness pairs the AMD Ryzen 5 8400F with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, and the resulting frame rates reveal a system that behaves much as the specs imply: fast at 1080p, very fast at 1440p, but dropping to borderline playable at 4K Ultra yet delivering some of its highest minimums to date. The measurements cover four presets at three resolutions, and that dataset drives this analysis.

Resolution Scaling

The headline is that The Technomancer scales aggressively with resolution, showing a clear GPU limit as pixel count climbs. At 1920×1080 the combo is often unconstrained. On Low settings, the average is 266 FPS. Medium drops to 241 average, High to 221, and Ultra still shows a lofty 173 FPS. That same preset spread persists at 2560×1440: Low hits 220, Medium 169, High 144 and Ultra 113. At 3830×2024 — effectively 4K — the average frame rates fall to 121 (Low), 93 (Medium), 79 (High), and now only 62 FPS on Ultra. The difference between 1080p and 4K is dramatic across every preset: it’s roughly a third to a quarter as fast, which is precisely what you’d expect from a game that is heavily GPU-bound.

The frame rate curve also contributes something important. The 1440p High result of 144 FPS is the same number as the 1080p High captured by another graph — I’m being careful here — but the trend is obvious. The system has enough CPU headroom to push past 200 FPS at 1080p, but the limited engine yields much more to pixel rate at higher resolutions. The GPU is the bottleneck in every scenario except the lowest resolution, where the CPU can still feed it 260+ FPS.

For players chasing a locked 60, 4K is attainable: even Ultra reaches an average of 62, though that’s essentially pegged to 60. Lowering to Medium at 4K sets the average at 93, with a reported minimum of 79 and a maximum of 107, so it’s arguably the better balance of consistency and quality. At 1440p, all presets stay above 100 average, with Medium showing a min of 144 and a max of 195. For pure frame-rate demonstrations, 1080p with any preset is still near-ideal: even Ultra averages 173 FPS.

GPU Role

The RTX 5090 is the attacker here: Blackwell 2.0, 92nd percentile of all GPUs, with a 375 GB GDDR7 memory array. The card runs a base clock of 2017 MHz and a boost of 2407 MHz. Its memory bus is 512‑bit but residual bandwidth is a gaudy 1.79 TB/s. In the simplest reading, the GPU carried most of the weight in this test. The low preset frame rate of 266 FPS at 1080p against 121 FPS at 4K Low shows a 52% drop, but the harder presets show roughly 62–63% of the 1080p frame rate at 4K, signaling that the game uses every one of the GPU’s cores.

The GPU’s raw benchmark scores further outline its position. It sits in the 92nd percentile of test results, with an average benchmark score of 79,842. Nearest rivals converge closely — the Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB trails by just 0.3%, and the older AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT trails by 1.1%, while the Pro Vega 64X leads by 1.4%. Those are slim gaps at the top. None of those cards is in this game’s performance class, but they indicate that the 5090’s relative strength can be replicated only by a narrow handful of bounty-level accelerators.

In The Technomancer, the GPU’s 32 GB V-RAM is overkill, though the bandwidth and backing translate to consistent min frame delivery. At 4K Medium, the min of 79 and max of 107 sharply contrast with the average of 93; the game shows a tight envelope. At 1440p Medium, the min of 144 is exactly the same as the 4K High average, and the average is 169 – these helps to explain how the GPU’s raw memory bandwidth handles both large framebuffers and a 32 GB cache.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 8400F is a 6‑core, 12‑thread Zen 4 part on the Phoenix AAA, built by TSMC at 4 nm. Its base and boost clocks are 4.20 GHz and 4.70 GHz respectively. In Cinebench R23 it produces 20,851 multi‑core and 2,943 single‑core. These place it in the 77th percentile of all CPUs. Despite its mid‑range position, its performance character is unmistakably strong: nearest rivals include the AMD Ryzen 5 7500F with a 0.2% gap and the Intel 13620H with a 0.4% gap, so within any measured pairing it is basically a tie.

The headroom is also visible in the game. At 1080p Low, the system sustains 266 FPS, which is not close to the CPU’s physical limits. At 1080p High we get 221 FPS; even the 1440p High average of 144 indicates that the CPU is not the limit. The fact that 1080p and 1440p High differ by 88 FPS while 1440p and 4K High differ by 65 points the heavier GPU at 4K and a CPU that packs up only at resolutions where the rasterizer is still hungry. In ~other words, an overclocked Ryzen 5 8400F gives the RTX 5090 plenty of room to stretch its legs at 1080p and 1440p; the game’s scaling rules are GPU‑fee, not CPU‑fee.

A quick look at the CPU’s 3DMark multi‑thread score of 6,091 and the 8‑thread score of 5,275 confirms it’s a balanced part, not a single‑thread exhibition. The game’s engine – beware 2016’s queues – seems to use threads efficiently enough: it does not flood the R5 8400F at 1080p. None of the measured frame rates show any kind of CPU stall.

FAQ

Q: What is the average frame rate at 1920×1080 with Ultra settings?

A: 173 FPS.

Q: How much does the frame rate drop between 1080p and 4K at High settings?

A: The average goes from 221 FPS at 1080p to 79 FPS at 4K.

Q: Which combination ranks this CPU/GPU in The Technomancer?

A: The combo rank is 116 out of 3696 tested combos.

Q: What is the measured minimum FPS at 1440p Medium?

A: The minimum is 144 FPS (max 195, average 169).

Q: How much memory does the RTX 5090 have?

A: The card carries 32 GB of GDDR7.

How This Combo Ranks

With a rank of 116 out of 3696 combos, this pairing sits in the top tier of the entire database’s results for The Technomancer. That puts it ahead of an enormous number of setups, and comfortably within the top percentile as a raw number. The rank is based only on the game’s measured results, so it captures actual behavior, not synthetic predictions. In practice, it can achieve a near‑perfect Ultra 60 at 4K, a buttery 1441‑frame 1440p on Ultra, and 200+ FPS in 1080p. That consistency across all three resolutions is what pushes this combo so high.

Looking at the competition, the CPU’s 77th percentile and GPU’s 92nd percentile combine into a system that’s balanced in the right direction. A faster GPU would likely gain a few frames at 4K, but the CPU is never the cause of significant dips. The 116 place reflects the software’s real breadth: it is fast in every corner, yet never at the absolute top, likely because a few other very high‑end CPU/GPU pairs squeeze out slightly higher 4K Ultra numbers. The 62 FPS average at 4K Ultra is still a 60‑class result, so the 116th spot is precisely what a mid‑to‑high combination deserves.

Settings Recommendations

Based on the measured results, the most round‑consistent experience at 1080p is Ultra: the average 173 FPS is still well above the 165 class, and even Medium and Higher have minimums above 200, so there is no risk of dropping out of sync. At 1440p, Ultra reaches 113 FPS on average, High 144, and Medium 169. Since Ultra is only 1 FPS off the High average at 1440p, but High gives 30 more FPS average and a a locked 60, we recommend High for 1440p when using a 60 Hz monitor, or Ultra for 160+ Hz displays. The 1440p High counts of 144 FPS repeated, so this setting suite covers that monitor.

At 4K, the game turns into a class‑10 experiment. It’s Ultra drops the average to 62, which is statistically at the 60 threshold and could cause visual tearing/if the monitor not topped. Better choices: Medium gives 93 FPS average and has a min of 79, so it delivers a tightly rounded gaming experience with proper frames. High is 79 FPS also solid, but the min is unspecified. Given the actual min numbers are provided only for Medium, Medium at 4K is the safest recommended fallback — it will hold better this frame stability than the preset without a reported min. So for 4K, the balanced bulk of 93 FPS + 79 minimum is the strongest. If you can accept a 60‑ish butler, you can try Ultra, but the margin is thin.

For 1080p and 1440p, either of the higher settings is functional, and the data doesn’t favor a processor fallback. There’s no measurable stink in either Medium or High, so the normal rule applies ‑ the highest preset you like without hitting the minutes. This system makes that easy: 1080p Ultra, 1440p High, or 4K Medium. Each of those aligns with the frame envelopes as measured, and each gives the intended comfort of the game.