The Technomancer

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 delivers a playable experience in The Technomancer, with performance heavily dependent on the selected graphics preset. The measured data shows a clear hierarchy across settings, with the Medium preset offering the most balanced trade-off between visual fidelity and frame rate. At 1080p, Medium produces an average of 101.5 FPS, which is a substantial improvement over the High preset’s 83.4 FPS while remaining visually acceptable. The Low preset reaches 129 FPS, but the jump from Low to Medium costs only 27.5 FPS while providing significantly better image quality. At 1440p, Medium maintains a solid 66.6 FPS, whereas High drops to 56.2 FPS. For users prioritizing smoothness, Medium is the recommended starting point, with Low serving as a fallback for higher refresh rate displays or more demanding scenes.

Settings Recommendations

The optimal preset for this combination is Medium across all tested resolutions. The data indicates that Medium provides the best experience per the measured rows, delivering 101.5 FPS at 1080p, 66.6 FPS at 1440p, and 37.4 FPS at 4K. These figures represent a consistent 21-26% improvement over High settings at each resolution while sacrificing relatively little visual quality. The Ultra preset, while offering maximum fidelity, produces only 65.4 FPS at 1080p and 43.9 FPS at 1440p, making it unsuitable for smooth gameplay at higher resolutions. Low settings provide the highest frame rates—129 FPS at 1080p and 85.7 FPS at 1440p—but the gains over Medium are modest and come with noticeable visual degradation. For 4K, Medium is the only preset that approaches acceptable playability, though 37.4 FPS is still below the 60 FPS threshold. The High preset at 4K falls to 28.9 FPS, which is marginal, while Ultra at 4K is effectively unplayable at 23.2 FPS.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 serves as the primary performance limiter in this configuration, particularly at higher resolutions and settings. The GPU features 6 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, providing 336.0 GB/s of bandwidth. Its Turing architecture includes 1920 shading units, 120 texture mapping units, and 48 raster operations pipelines. The boost clock of 1680 MHz and base clock of 1365 MHz are standard for this class of GPU. Benchmark results place the RTX 2060 in the 58th percentile of all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 16074. Its nearest rivals include the AMD Radeon RX 7600S, which scores 0.5% higher, and the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M and Radeon Pro 5700, both scoring 1.7% higher. The 6 GB VRAM capacity is sufficient for The Technomancer, but the GPU’s raw compute power—6.451 TFLOPS FP32—limits performance in demanding scenes. The data shows that frame rates scale predictably with settings, indicating that the GPU is the bottleneck rather than the CPU.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS demonstrates a consistent and significant drop as resolution increases from 1080p to 4K. At Medium settings, performance falls from 101.5 FPS at 1080p to 66.6 FPS at 1440p, a 34% reduction, and then to 37.4 FPS at 4K, a further 44% reduction from 1440p. This pattern is consistent across all settings presets. For High settings, the numbers are 83.4 FPS at 1080p, 56.2 FPS at 1440p, and 28.9 FPS at 4K. The Low preset shows 129 FPS at 1080p, 85.7 FPS at 1440p, and 48.4 FPS at 4K. The resolution scaling behavior indicates that the GPU is the limiting component. The pixel throughput requirements increase quadratically with resolution, and the RTX 2060’s 80.64 GPixel/s pixel rate becomes insufficient at 4K. The CPU’s role is minimal in this scaling, as the AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D’s strong multi-threaded performance—evidenced by its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 22366—ensures it does not bottleneck even at lower resolutions. The 1080p to 1440p transition shows the largest absolute FPS loss, suggesting the GPU is already near its limits at 1440p with higher presets.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The complete dataset of measured frames per second reveals the performance envelope of this combination. At 1920x1080, the Low preset achieves an average of 129 FPS, which is the highest recorded for any configuration. Medium follows at 101.5 FPS, High at 83.4 FPS, and Ultra at 65.4 FPS. The spread from Low to Ultra is 63.6 FPS, representing a 49% reduction in performance when enabling maximum visual features. At 2560x1440, the same settings produce 85.7 FPS (Low), 66.6 FPS (Medium), 56.2 FPS (High), and 43.9 FPS (Ultra). The drop from Low to Ultra at 1440p is 41.8 FPS, or 49% again, showing proportional scaling. At 3840x2160, the performance becomes marginal: Low yields 48.4 FPS, Medium 37.4 FPS, High 28.9 FPS, and Ultra 23.2 FPS. The 4K Ultra result is only 18% of the 1080p Low result, illustrating the extreme load placed on the GPU. The data shows that the RTX 2060 cannot maintain 60 FPS at 4K under any settings preset, and even at 1440p, only Low settings exceed the 60 FPS threshold. At 1080p, all presets except Ultra provide frame rates above 60 FPS, with Medium and High offering a good balance.

How This Combo Ranks

In the database of tested combinations for The Technomancer, this pairing of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 ranks 1352 out of 1656 total combinations. This places it in the lower 18th percentile of all tested configurations, reflecting the GPU’s age and mid-range positioning. The CPU, on the other hand, is a strong performer, ranking in the 82nd percentile of all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 24673. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Core i7-1360P, which scores 0.2% higher, and the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D, which scores 0.3% higher. The GPU’s 58th percentile ranking and average benchmark score of 16074 are significantly below the CPU’s capabilities. This imbalance means the system is heavily GPU-limited in The Technomancer, and the CPU’s potential is not fully utilized. The combo rank of 1352 indicates that most other tested combinations deliver higher frame rates in this game, primarily due to more powerful GPUs. The 1656 total combinations include systems with both newer and older hardware, and this specific pairing falls near the bottom quartile. For context, the GPU’s nearest rivals—the AMD Radeon RX 7600S (0.5% faster), AMD Radeon Pro 5600M (1.7% slower), and AMD Radeon Pro 5700 (1.7% slower)—suggest that the RTX 2060 is competitive within its immediate class, but the overall system rank is dragged down by the GPU’s inability to deliver high frame rates at 1440p and 4K. The data confirms that this combination is best suited for 1080p gaming, where it can achieve playable frame rates across all settings presets.