The Technomancer

The Technomancer is a 2016 action RPG that still appears in benchmark databases today, and this entry evaluates the pairing of an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU with an Intel Arc B580 GPU. The data package includes measured frame rates across three resolutions (1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160) and four presets (Low, Medium, High, Ultra), along with synthetic benchmark results for both components. The CPU carries 8 cores and 16 threads, with a base clock of 3.40 GHz and a boost clock of 4.50 GHz, while the GPU offers 12 GB of GDDR6 memory and 2670 MHz boost on the Xe2-HPG architecture. The combination ranks 2787th out of 3696 tested combos for this specific game, and both parts have individual percentile placements: the CPU at the 80th percentile and the GPU at the 68th percentile among their respective pools. Launch MSRP for the CPU is $449 and for the GPU is $249 USD. The measured FPS data reveals that the system is capable of hitting 138 FPS at 1080p Low, but only 25 FPS at 4K Ultra, indicating a clear performance scaling pattern driven by resolution and preset.

Resolution Scaling

The measured frame rates show a consistent decline as resolution increases, with a steep drop from 1080p to 1440p and an additional fall moving to 4K. At 1080p, the average FPS at Low is 138, Medium is 106, High is 90, and Ultra is 70. Stepping up to 1440p brings these down to 90, 75, 59, and 46 for Low, Medium, High, and Ultra respectively. At 4K, the numbers are 49, 38, 32, and 25 for the same settings ladder. Notably, the gap between Low and Ultra widens as resolution increases: for 1080p the difference is 68 FPS (70 to 138), for 1440p it is 44 FPS (46 to 90), and for 4K it is 24 FPS (25 to 49). This means the Ultra preset costs more at lower resolutions, but the relative drop is steeper at 4K, where the configurable overhead of Ultra settings over Low is only 24 FPS. The medium preset at 4K has a minimum and maximum of 32 and 44 FPS, showing some variance within the run; at 1440p Medium the min/max are 59 and 79, while at 1080p Medium they are 90 and 121. The scaling behavior suggests that the CPU is not the limiting factor below 1440p, because the frame rate achieves 138 at 1080p Low and 90 at 1440p Low, numbers that demand strong single-thread performance. The drop to 49 at 4K Low confirms that the GPU enters its limit zone at that resolution, regardless of preset.

GPU Role

The Intel Arc B580 is the engine responsible for the majority of this performance. Its specification sheet includes 2560 shading units, 160 texture mapping units, 80 render output units, and 20 ray tracing cores, but the concrete memory configuration is 12 GB of GDDR6 over a 192-bit bus with 456.0 GB/s bandwidth. The boost clock is listed as 2670 MHz for both base and boost, which means the chip is essentially fixed at a high frequency. The synthetic benchmarks in the pack show a PassMark G3D score of 15748 and a PassMark DirectX 11 score of 128, while DirectX 12 and 9 score 76 and 183 respectively. In terms of average benchmark score, the GPU sits at 23021, and its nearest rivals include the AMD Radeon RX 5800 SP (delta +0.1% to -0.2%), and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 (delta 0.6% higher). These rival deltas are small, indicating that the Arc B580’s raw compute is close to those parts in synthetic tests. However, the measured FPS in The Technomancer shows that the GPU can only push 49 FPS at 4K Low, which is far below the 138 FPS at 1080p Low. The data indicates that the GPU is heavily bound at 4K, likely due to the high number of pixels and anisotropic filtering or shadow effects that scale with resolution. The 12 GB frame buffer is not maxed out by any of the measured presets, as the largest reported FPS drop to 25 at 4K Ultra suggests the limiting factor is raw shading throughput rather than memory capacity. The GPU’s percentile of 68 places it in the upper third of all tested graphics cards, but in this game it falls short of delivering 60 FPS at 1440p with medium or high quality settings.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination rank is 2787th out of 3696 total combos in the game’s benchmark database. That places it in the third quartile of all combinations, meaning roughly 75% of other tested CPU/GPU pairings manage a higher average FPS in this title. The individual components have higher standings – the CPU at the 80th percentile and the GPU at the 68th percentile – yet the combination does not reach the same tier. This suggests that the game’s workload is sensitive to something else, such as CPU-to-GPU data transfer or memory latency, which is not captured by the synthetic benchmark scores. The CPU’s average benchmark score is 27,896 and its nearest rivals are the Ryzen 7 6800U (avg score 27,887, delta 0.0), Intel Core i9-10900K (27,872, delta 0.1%), AMD Ryzen AI 5 PRO 340 (27,932, delta -0.1%), and Intel Core i5-12600KF (27,799, delta 0.3%). These are all extremely close, showing that the 5800X3D is performance-neutral among premium CPUs. The GPU’s average score is 23,021, and its nearest rivals include a 0.6% margin over the RTX 2080 and -0.7% versus the RTX 3080, which is a wider spread. At 1440p High, the combo achieves a measured 59 FPS, which is barely below the 60 threshold, while at 4K Ultra it drops to 25 FPS. The ranking reinforces that the combination is not tuned for high frame rates at high pixel counts, but it is not an outlier either.

Settings Recommendations

The measured rows allow for clear guidance on preset choices per resolution. At 1920x1080, all four presets deliver average FPS of 60 or above: Low yields 138, Medium 106, High 90, and Ultra 70. Therefore, the player can safely run Ultra at 1080p without dropping below 60, with a decent margin of 10 FPS above the threshold. At 2560x1440, the presets are 90, 75, 59, and 46 for Low, Medium, High, and Ultra. To maintain 60 FPS, the highest possible preset is Medium, which hits 69 FPS, while High falls to 59 and Ultra to 46. So for 1440p gaming, Medium is the top tier if the target is a consistent 60-frame average. At 3840x2160, none of the presets reach 60 FPS: Low is largest at 49, Medium 38, High 32, and Ultra 25. To get any reasonable frame rate, the user would need to opt for Low, which still misses 50, but is playable for a slow-paced action RPG. If lowering internal resolution is not an option, then 4K must be run on the lowest preset and accept a sub-60 experience. In summary, the data suggests that the sweet spot for this hardware is 1080p with Ultra, or 1440p with Medium to gain a strong balance of image quality and FPS.

FAQ

What is the average FPS at 1080p Ultra for this combo?

The measured average FPS at 1920x1080 with Ultra settings is 70.

What is the minimum frame rate on Medium settings at 1440p?

The minimum FPS is 59, according to the Medium row of the 2560x1440 data.

How many cores and threads does the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D have?

It has 8 cores and 16 threads.

What is the GPU memory capacity of the Intel Arc B580?

It has 12 GB of GDDR6 memory.

What position does this combo hold in the game’s benchmark list?

It ranks 2787th out of 3696 total tested combos.

What is the TDP of the Arc B580?

The TDP is 190 watts.

CPU Role

The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is built on the Zen 3 architecture, fabricated on a 7 nm process by TSMC, and uses the AM4 socket. Its cache structure is particularly large: 96 MB of shared L3 cache with 512 KB L2 per core and 64 KB L1 per core. The base clock is 3.40 GHz with a boost clock of 4.50 GHz, and it has a 105 W TDP. The synthetic benchmark scores from the pack give a full picture: Cinebench R23 multi-core delivers 14,317 points, while single-core is 1,452, and Geekbench multi-core 11,765 and single-core 2,017. PassMark's multithread score is 28,309, and the average CPU benchmark score is 27,896. With an 80th percentile across all CPUs, the 5800X3D sits above the vast majority of processors. In practice, the game’s performance at 1080p Low indicates 138 FPS, which aligns with the CPU not being a bottleneck at that resolution. The maximum observed average FPS is 138, which is limited by the GPU at 1080p; when we scale to 4K, the CPU headroom is even greater because the GPU only manages 49 FPS. The CPU’s multi-threaded performance is relevant for other workloads, but in The Technomancer, the game’s engine likely uses only a handful of cores, and the single-threaded performance of 884 in 3DMark single-thread and 1,452 in Cinebench R23 single-core is sufficient to keep frame pacing consistent. The CPU’s nearest rival list shows it trading places with Ryzen 7 6800U and i9-10900K with deltas under 0.5%, meaning that For most games, the performance difference to those parts is trivial. In this combination, the CPU is not a limiting factor; the frame rate across resolutions remains below GPU-bound conditions even at the highest settings, so the 5800X3D does its part without constraining the eventual output.