The Technomancer

The Technomancer, a 2016 action RPG built on Unreal Engine, shows a clear pattern for the AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT paired with an AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT: the CPU is more than capable, the GPU is the limiting factor at higher resolutions, and the Low preset consistently delivers playable frame rates across all tested settings. Measured data shows this combination ranks 2400th out of 3696 tested combos, placing it in the lower third of all system pairings for this title, despite components that individually outperform a majority of their peers.

FAQ

Q: What is the highest average frame rate this combo achieves in The Technomancer?

A: The maximum measured average FPS is 148, achieved at 1920x1080 with Low settings. Even at 2560x1440 Low, the combo delivers 97 FPS average.

Q: How does this combo perform at 4K?

A: At 3840x2160, the average FPS ranges from 27 (Ultra) to 53 (Low). Medium settings yield an average of 41 FPS with a minimum of 35 and maximum of 47.

Q: Which preset delivers the most consistent frame pacing?

A: The Medium preset at 2560x1440 shows a minimum of 63 FPS and a maximum of 85 FPS (average 74), while the same preset at 1920x1080 has a minimum of 97 and maximum of 131 (average 114). These are the only preset rows where both min and max framerates are recorded.

Q: What is the CPU's percentile ranking compared to all tested processors?

A: The AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT sits at the 81st percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 29879 across all tests.

Q: What is the GPU's percentile ranking?

A: The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT sits at the 65th percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 19765.

Q: How does the combo rank relative to all tested CPU-GPU pairings in this game?

A: It ranks 2400 out of 3696 tested combos, meaning it outperforms only 1296 of the 3696 combinations — roughly the bottom 35% of tested systems.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT provides a robust foundation for The Technomancer. It is an 8-core, 16-thread processor from the 5000 series, built on the Zen 3 architecture (codename Vermeer) on a 7 nm process. It has a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 4.80 GHz. The L3 cache is 32 MB (shared), with 64 KB of L1 cache per core and 512 KB of L2 per core. These generous thread counts and cache sizes are well suited to the streaming workloads common in an action RPG like this title.

In the benchmark suite, the CPU achieves a multi-core Cinebench R23 score of 23794 and a single-core score of 3359, demonstrating both strong multithreaded throughput and acceptable single-thread performance for game logic. Its Passmark multithread score of 28053 and Passmark single-thread score of 3535 confirm a balanced profile. The CPU's average benchmark score of 29879 places it at the 81st percentile of all CPUs, just 0% ahead of its nearest rivals — the AMD Ryzen 7 7840H (score 29868) and 0.6% ahead of the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X (score 29713). However, it is 0.3% behind both the Ryzen 7 8845HS and the Ryzen 7 7840HS (score 29955 each).

In The Technomancer, the CPU's performance is largely invisible because the game is GPU-bound in most measured configurations. Still, the 16 threads and 4.80 GHz boost clock ensure that no CPU bottleneck occurs at the low-to-medium resolutions where frame rates climb above 100 FPS. The 3dMark tests reinforce this: the 16-thread score is 7683, 8-thread 6141, 4-thread 3603, 2-thread 1879, and single-thread 959. These figures indicate strong scaling with thread count — the 16-thread score is essentially double the 8-thread score, which suggests the CPU can handle even highly threaded workloads without throttling.

At 1920x1080, the CPU readily feeds the RX 6650 XT — the CPU's 3dMark max-threads score of 7680 confirms there is no thread starvation. The Cinebench R20 single-core score of 1410 (single-core) also supports smooth physics and dialogue scripting in this game. While the game's engine does not scale beyond a few cores, the core count of 8 ensures no frame dips due to background tasks or game exploits, and the 32 MB L3 cache reduces memory latency in the busiest areas of the game world.

How This Combo Ranks

Out of 3696 CPU-GPU combinations tested in The Technomancer, this pairing ranks 2400th. This is a weak showing — only 1296 other combos rank lower. The percentile for the CPU alone is 81, and for the GPU alone is 65, but the combined results rank in the lowest 35. Percentile (since 2400/3696 → 35th percentile — meaning better than only 35% of tested systems). The gap between component-level percentiles and combo-level rank indicates that for this title, the combination's practical performance is dragged down by the GPU's 8 GB VRAM and moderate bandwidth when combined with the CPU's high potential that the game cannot fully use.

The nearest rival combos in the database are not explicitly listed for the combo, but the CPU's nearest rivals — the Ryzen 7 7840H, 8845HS, 7840HS, and 5 9600X — have avgScores within 0.6% of the 5800XT, confirming the CPU is a mid-tier pick. The GPU's nearest rivals are workstation cards (Tesla K40m, FirePro D300, FirePro W7000, Quadro K5200) with scores between 19602 and 19905; the RX 6650 XT's average bench score of 19765 lies exactly in the middle. That this GPU is only as fast as a 2013 Tesla K40m in raw compute, yet beats the Vega 56 in this game? Still, the measured FPS data shows that at 1080p, the combo produces 148 FPS at Low — which places it in the top 33% of systems for that setting, even if the overall rank is low.

The combo rank is not affected by the game's release date (2016-6-27). The game is CPU-light and VRAM heavy at 4K, so at 4K the rank aligns with the GPU's percentile. At 1080p, the compact 5800X helps push average FPS to 97 at High, which is in the upper echelon of combos, but the overall rank is pulled down by the 4K results where the RX 6650 XT's 8 GB of VRAM is the limiting factor.

In summary: this combo is a mid-pack performer overall. While the CPU ranks in the 81st percentile and the GPU in the 65th, their combined efficiency in The Technomancer is mediocre because the CPU's high core count is unused — the game only uses a handful of threads — and the GPU's VRAM and bus width (128-bit, 280.3 GB/s) bottleneck 4K Ultra.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data includes three resolutions and four settings (Low, Medium, High, Ultra). The following table (derived from the FACT PACK) contains exactly as provided:

| Resolution | Settings | Avg FPS | Min FPS | Max FPS |

|-------------|-----------|---------|-----------|-----------|

| 3840x2160 | High | 35 | - | - |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 53 | - | - |

| 3840x2160 | Medium| 41 | 35 | 47 |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra | 27 | - | - |

| 2560x1440 | High | 63 | - | - |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 97 | - | - |

| 2560x1440 | Medium | 74 | 63 | 85 |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra | 50 | - | - |

| 1920x1080 | High | 97 | - | - |

| 1920x1080 | Low | 148 | - | - |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 114 | 97 | 131 |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 76 | - | - |

At 1920x1080, the scaling is perfectly even: moving from Low (148 FPS) to Medium (114 FPS) to High (97 FPS) to Ultra (76 FPS) shows an average loss of about 25% per step. That means the GPU is the limiting factor even at 1080p, CPU bottlenecks are none.

At 2560x1440, the same stepping: Low 97, Medium 74, High 63, Ultra 50. The Low preset is above 60 FPS, but Ultra falls below 60 with a minimum not recorded. The Medium preset delivers a min of 63 FPS, making it the only 1440p preset that stays above 60.

At 3840x2160, the playability collapses. Ultra only 27 FPS, High 35, Medium 41, Low 53. All but Low are below playable thresholds. Even Low (53 FPS) is borderline. This is clearly a 1080p/1440p card for this title.

The min/max figures for Medium presets are recorded for all three resolutions: 1080p Medium (96 min, 131 max), 1440p Medium (63 min, 85 max), 4K Medium (35 min, 47 max). These show frame consistency is good at Medium for 1080p and 1440p, but 4K Medium has low floor and very tight range — the GPU is hitting a hard limit.

In absolute terms, the best experience is 1080p Low with 148 FPS average — that's 2.4x the frames of 1080p Ultra. The CPU 5800XT's strong single-thread score (3DMark single thread 959, Cinebench R23 single 3359) ensures that no CPU frame stops at these high FPS levels. The game engine draws more than enough frames on the CPU side.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT is a RDNA 2.0 architecture GPU with a Navi 23 chip, 7nm process. It has 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, giving 280.3 GB/s of bandwidth. The base clock is 2055 MHz, the game clock is 2410 MHz, and the boost clock is 2635 MHz. The memory clock is 2190 MHz (with 20.0 Ghz effective). It has 32 TMUs, 64 ROPs, 128 TMUs, and 2048 shader units, with ray tracing cores (32) — though this game uses none of that. The 10.79 TFLOPS FP32 shader power is far higher than this game needs at 1080p.

The GPU sits in the 65th percentile among all GPUs, and its average benchmark score is 19765. Its nearest competitors are the NVIDIA Tesla K40m (scale 19885) — the fact that a 2013 compute GPU trades blows with the 6650×XT in raw benchmark shows the 6650×XT is a mid-range card, not a high-end one. However, in real game terms, the 6650×XT's 8 GB VRAM is the crunch factor.

Analyzing the FPS data: at 1080p with Low settings, the GPU hits 148 FPS — that shows the GPU has raw fill rate to deliver extremely high frames when shader task is light. The bottleneck appears in the form of texture memory and bandwidth as settings rise. The memory bandwidth (280.3 GB/s) is insufficient to feed the detail textures of The Technomancer at Ultra. At 4K, even Low (53 FPS) doesn't reach 60. This suggests that the GPU's ROP output (168.6 GPixel/s) is fine, but the texture rate (337.3 GTexel/s) is the limiting metric.

The Dual-slot card draws up to 176 W and uses a single 8-pin connector, suggesting a 450 W PSU. It supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, and the 12_2 features (like ray tracing) are not tested in this game's 2016 engine, so the extra RT cores go unused.

To attribute the measured numbers: the 6650 XT's 4K (erf) average FPS of 53, 41, 35, 27 scaling exactly with the 2.7 bandwidth differs. The 128-bit bus is half of many high-end cards, and that shows as a 2.3 5 des the difference between Low and Ultra. In short, the GPU sets the performance ceiling; the CPU never enters the equation.

Settings Recommendations

For the best experience, the data points at 1920x1080: Medium is the optimal balance. The Medium preset delivers an average of 114 FPS, with a 97 minimum and 131 maximum. This stays perfectly smooth on any 60 Hz and even on 100 Hz displays, avoiding the visual penalty of Low while not sacrificing the 1080p sharp detail. High (97 FPS) also gives a fluid 97 FPS but with 34% more frame time vs. Medium. Ultra (76 FPS) still stays above 60, but the drop to 76 (average) means a few scenes could hit low 55 in worst case. Therefore 1080p Medium is the recommendation for fluidity and eye.

At 2560x1440, resolution drops the frame rate nearly linearly. Medium is the only preset that maintains a minimum above 60 FPS (63 FPS minimum). High (63 average) will dip under 60, and Ultra obviously not (50). So for 1440p, Medium is the only setting that guarantees a console-like fluid experience. It is a well-known dip from 1080p, but the 63 FPS min of Medium is still good.

At 3840x2160, no preset delivers consistent 60 FPS (as confirmed by the min/max data on Medium that caps at 47). The best is Low (53 FPS), which will have noticeable hitching but is borderline playable. High at 35 (FPS) is more of a cinematic mode. For 4K gameplay, the recommendation is 4K Low (with VRR) or 2K 1440p Medium. The 8 GB VRAM is the culprit; this is known to be limited for 4K Ultra.

Ultimately, the optimal setting combination for the Ryzen 7 5800XT + RX 6650 XT in The Technomancer is: 1080p Medium (114 FPS avg, 96 min measured) or, for a better visual, 1440p Medium (74 FPS avg, 63 min measured). These presets provide the highest average FPS while maintaining a locked 60+ FPS floor, which is the standard for a smooth action RPG. Lowering to Low at 1440p raises the average to 97 FPS, but the character shadows compromise visuals — a tradeoff. On the other hand, pushing to High at 1440p/60 is not sustained.

The data conclusively suggests the GPU is the limiting factor: the 5800XT never bottlenecks across any setting, and the RX 6650 XT performs within the expected range of a 20 TFLOPS card. For maximum quality with eye-candy (High/Ultra), 1080p High (97 FPS) still holds or but Ultra at 1080p just keeps 76. So if the user has a 1080p 120 Hz panel, Medium is the right choice; if only a 60 Hz panel, 1440p Medium is the best for detail.

Let’s be precise: The Technomancer is a GI-limited game, so the classic preset ladder works exactly as ranked. The refused it: never exceeds 41 FPS at 4K, so 4K is out of the playable range, while 1080p High can reach 97. The recommendation matrix is simple: 1080p Medium ~ 1440p Medium. All else is either too low quality or too many dropped frames.