The Technomancer

Resolution Scaling

The measured frame rates across the three resolutions reveal a classic GPU-bound scaling pattern, but with some nuance at the lower end. At 1080p, the RTX 4080 SUPER delivers between 153.2 FPS (Ultra) and 254.1 FPS (Low), indicating that the CPU is capable of feeding the GPU well beyond typical high-refresh monitor rates. Moving to 1440p, the average FPS across all settings drops to roughly 73–78% of the 1080p figures, which is a moderate reduction consistent with a title that still allows the CPU to remain relevant at this resolution.

The transition from 1440p to 4K is where the GPU becomes the unambiguous limiting factor. At 4K, the High preset delivers 66.6 FPS, which is 53% of the 1440p High result (124.7 FPS). The Low preset at 4K yields 106.1 FPS, compared to 195.5 FPS at 1440p Low — a 46% reduction. This steep drop off at 4K, regardless of settings, signals that the rendering load per pixel is scaling aggressively, and the RTX 4080 SUPER's compute resources are being saturated. The data shows that the gap between Low and Ultra presets narrows as resolution increases: at 1080p, the spread from Low to Ultra is 100.9 FPS, while at 4K it shrinks to 53.6 FPS. This compression of performance tiers at higher resolutions is a hallmark of pixel-bound rendering where the GPU's shader and ROP throughput, rather than memory bandwidth or CPU scheduling, dictates the final frame rate.

Interestingly, the 1080p Medium preset (229.6 FPS) and 1440p Low preset (195.5 FPS) are nearly identical to the 1080p High preset (195.5 FPS) and 1440p High preset (124.7 FPS) in relative terms, suggesting that the game's graphics options have a predictable cost curve. The largest single-step drop occurs when moving from 1440p Ultra (97.2 FPS) to 4K Ultra (52.5 FPS), a 46% decline that pushes the title below the 60 FPS threshold at the highest settings. This specific combination of resolution and preset is where the hardware's limits are most visible, and any user targeting 4K Ultra on this title would need to accept sub-60 FPS performance or dial back settings.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with a 5 nm process, brings substantial resources to this 2016 Action RPG. The GPU's 16 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit bus provides 736.3 GB/s of bandwidth, which is more than sufficient for a title of this era. The benchmark results indicate that memory capacity is not a constraint — even at 4K Ultra, the game does not appear to exceed the available VRAM, as the performance degradation from High to Ultra at any resolution is consistent with compute load rather than memory spillover.

The clock behavior is notable: the base clock of 2295 MHz and boost clock of 2550 MHz are high for the Ada Lovelace generation, and the memory runs at 1438 MHz with 23 Gbps effective throughput. The data shows that the GPU maintains robust performance across all presets, but the frame rate ceiling at 1080p Low (254.1 FPS) suggests that the card's raw shading power — 52.22 TFLOPS FP32 across 10240 shading units — is not fully utilized at lower resolutions. At 4K, the 112 ROPs and 285.6 GPixel/s pixel rate become the binding constraints, as the pixel fill requirements at 3840x2160 overwhelm the geometry and texture stages.

The GPU's percentile ranking of 88 among all tested GPUs places it in the upper tier, and its nearest rivals — the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (0.2% higher average score) and AMD Radeon Pro W6600M (0.4% higher) — are within noise margins. However, the RTX 4080 SUPER's advantage over the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti (2.9% delta) is more meaningful in this game, as the benchmark results show the card handling the 4K Ultra preset at 52.5 FPS, which is just below the 60 FPS target. The 80 RT cores and 320 Tensor cores are present but largely idle in this title, as The Technomancer's rendering pipeline from 2016 does not leverage ray tracing or DLSS features, making the card's performance purely a function of its traditional rasterization throughput.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT, a Zen 3 (Vermeer) part on the AM4 socket, provides 8 cores and 16 threads with a base clock of 3.80 GHz and boost clock of 4.80 GHz. This CPU's benchmark scores are competitive: its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 23794 and single-core score of 3359 place it in the 86th percentile of all CPUs. The 3DMark results show a strong scaling from 2 threads (1879) to 8 threads (6141) and near-flat scaling beyond that (7680 at max threads), which is typical for a 8-core part where additional threads yield diminishing returns in synthetic workloads.

In this game, the CPU's role is most visible at 1080p, where the frame rates reach 254.1 FPS at Low settings. This indicates that the CPU can sustain high instruction throughput, but the game's engine is not heavily multithreaded — the 16 threads are likely underutilized, as the 3DMark 16-thread score (7683) is nearly identical to the 8-thread score (6141) when normalized per core. The L3 cache of 32 MB and dual-channel DDR4 memory at 51.2 GB/s bandwidth are adequate for the game's data streaming needs, but the benchmark results suggest that single-thread performance is the more critical factor, given the 959 single-thread 3DMark score.

The CPU's nearest rivals — the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5755GE (0.1% higher avg score), AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS (-0.3% lower), AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 (0.3% higher), and AMD Ryzen 7 7840H (-0.3% lower) — are all within a narrow band, confirming that the 5800XT is not a differentiating factor in this title. The fact that the 1080p Low preset (254.1 FPS) and 1440p Low preset (195.5 FPS) differ by only 58.6 FPS, while 1080p Ultra (153.2 FPS) and 1440p Ultra (97.2 FPS) differ by 56 FPS, suggests that the CPU is not the bottleneck at any resolution. Even at 4K, where the GPU is clearly limiting, the CPU maintains enough headroom to avoid introducing frame pacing issues, as evidenced by the smooth scaling from 1080p to 4K across all presets.

How This Combo Ranks

In the database of tested combinations, this pairing of the AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER ranks 118th out of 1656 combos for The Technomancer. This places the combo in the top 7.1% of all tested systems, which is a strong showing given the age of the game and the fact that many newer, more powerful CPUs and GPUs have been benchmarked since. The rank reflects the GPU's high percentile (88) and the CPU's respectable percentile (86), but the combo's position is likely held back by the game's modest thread utilization, which prevents the CPU's 16 threads from fully contributing to the final frame rates.

The data indicates that the combo sits above the majority of systems, but the gap to the top 100 combos is likely driven by CPUs with higher single-thread performance, as the game's engine appears to favor IPC over core count. The combo's measured FPS at 1080p Ultra (153.2 FPS) is more than double the 4K Ultra figure (52.5 FPS), suggesting that the system's ranking would be higher if the game were tested primarily at 1080p. At 4K, the combo's rank would likely drop, as the GPU becomes the sole limiter and CPU differences become irrelevant. The 1656 total combos tested indicate a broad sample, and this specific pairing demonstrates that a high-end GPU from the Ada Lovelace generation can still deliver playable performance in a 2016 title, but the rank reflects the diminishing returns of pairing a mid-high tier CPU with a top-tier GPU at higher resolutions.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The complete set of measured average FPS values is as follows:

1920x1080:

• Low: 254.1 FPS
• Medium: 229.6 FPS
• High: 195.5 FPS
• Ultra: 153.2 FPS

2560x1440:

• Low: 195.5 FPS
• Medium: 147.5 FPS
• High: 124.7 FPS
• Ultra: 97.2 FPS

3840x2160:

• Low: 106.1 FPS
• Medium: 82.5 FPS
• High: 66.6 FPS
• Ultra: 52.5 FPS

At 1080p, the Low preset achieves the highest frame rate of 254.1 FPS, which is 65.9% higher than the Ultra preset (153.2 FPS). The Medium to High step at 1080p represents a 34.1 FPS drop, while the High to Ultra step drops 42.3 FPS, indicating that the Ultra preset carries a disproportionately high rendering cost. At 1440p, the Low preset (195.5 FPS) exactly matches the 1080p High preset (195.5 FPS), reinforcing the idea that resolution scaling and quality scaling have interchangeable costs at these performance levels. The 1440p Ultra figure of 97.2 FPS is the first point where the system drops below 100 FPS, and it remains above the 60 FPS threshold by a comfortable margin.

At 4K, the Low preset (106.1 FPS) barely clears the 100 FPS mark, while the Medium preset (82.5 FPS) and High preset (66.6 FPS) provide diminishing returns as settings increase. The 4K Ultra preset (52.5 FPS) is the only configuration that falls below 60 FPS, making it the sole combination where the system fails to maintain a smooth experience for high-refresh displays. The progression from Low to Ultra at 4K shows a consistent 20–24 FPS drop per preset step, which is more uniform than the 1080p scaling, confirming that the GPU's compute resources are being fully utilized at this resolution. Overall, the data indicates that this combo is best suited for 1440p gaming at Ultra settings (97.2 FPS) or 4K gaming at High settings (66.6 FPS), with the 4K Ultra preset being the only scenario where the hardware's performance ceiling is exceeded.