The Technomancer

FAQ

Q: What is the expected frame rate for The Technomancer at 1920x1080 with High settings using this hardware combination?

A: The measured average frame rate is 98.4 FPS at 1920x1080 with High settings. This represents a solidly playable experience for a 2016 action RPG, indicating the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X and AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT combination has no trouble maintaining high refresh rates at this resolution.

Q: How does the Radeon RX 7600 XT compare to its closest GPU rival in overall benchmark scores?

A: The Radeon RX 7600 XT has an average benchmark score of 20,146, which is 0.3% higher than the AMD Radeon RX 460 (20,088) and 1.9% higher than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER (19,774). It trails the AMD Radeon RX 7600 by 0.6% (20,258) and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile by 1.9% (20,534).

Q: What is the frame rate difference between Low and Ultra settings at 2560x1440?

A: At 2560x1440, Low settings produce an average of 94 FPS, while Ultra settings drop to 51.1 FPS. This represents a substantial 42.9 FPS gap, showing that the GPU workload increases significantly with each settings tier.

Q: At which resolution and settings does the system fail to maintain 30 FPS?

A: The only configuration that falls below 30 FPS is 3840x2160 with Ultra settings, where the average frame rate is 27.4 FPS. All other tested combinations, including 4K High at 36 FPS, remain above this threshold.

Q: How does the Ryzen 9 7900X perform in multithreaded workloads relative to its closest rivals?

A: The Ryzen 9 7900X has an average benchmark score of 50,556, which is 0.1% behind the Intel Core Ultra 5 235 (50,598), 0.4% behind the AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT (50,738), 0.5% behind the Intel Core i7-13850HX (50,827), and 0.8% behind the Intel Core i9-13980HX (50,944). These are all extremely close margins.

Q: What is the GPU's percentile ranking among all GPUs, and what does that indicate?

A: The Radeon RX 7600 XT sits in the 63rd percentile among all GPUs. This places it in the upper-middle tier of the performance spectrum, consistent with its measured average benchmark score of 20,146.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is built on the RDNA 3.0 architecture with the Navi 33 chip, fabricated on a 6 nm process at TSMC. Its role in The Technomancer is defined by its memory configuration and clock speeds. The GPU carries 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, delivering 288.0 GB/s of bandwidth. This is a substantial memory pool for a game released in 2016, and the measured frame rates suggest the card has ample headroom for texture-heavy scenes.

The clock behavior shows a base clock of 1980 MHz, a game clock of 2470 MHz, and a boost clock of 2755 MHz. The boost clock is particularly relevant for sustained gaming loads, as it represents the maximum frequency the card can reach under favorable thermal and power conditions. The memory operates at 2250 MHz with 18 Gbps effective throughput. These specifications translate to a pixel rate of 176.3 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 352.6 GTexel/s. The FP32 compute throughput is rated at 22.57 TFLOPS, which is substantial for a card in the 63rd percentile of all GPUs.

In the context of The Technomancer, the GPU demonstrates clear scaling with settings. At 1920x1080, the difference between Low (150.2 FPS) and Ultra (75 FPS) is nearly twofold, indicating the renderer responds strongly to graphical preset changes. The card's 2048 shading units and 64 ROPs handle the game's geometry and post-processing effects competently, but the frame rate drop at 4K Ultra (27.4 FPS) reveals the limits of its 128-bit memory bus when pushed to higher pixel counts.

The GPU's nearest rival, the AMD Radeon RX 7600, scores 20,258, a 0.6% advantage, while the Radeon RX 460 scores 20,088, a 0.3% deficit. This tight clustering suggests the RX 7600 XT's performance profile is well understood and predictable within its class.

Resolution Scaling

The measured data reveals a clear trend in how the hardware combination scales across resolutions. Starting from 1920x1080, the system delivers 150.2 FPS at Low settings, which is a strong baseline. Moving to 2560x1440 at the same settings drops performance to 94 FPS, a reduction of 56.2 FPS. At 3840x2160 Low, the frame rate falls further to 51.9 FPS. This progression shows a roughly 3x reduction in frame rate from 1080p to 4K at Low settings, which aligns with the 4x increase in pixel count when accounting for some efficiency gains.

At High settings, the scaling is similar but the absolute numbers are lower: 98.4 FPS at 1080p, 61.2 FPS at 1440p, and 36 FPS at 4K. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is 37.2 FPS, while the drop from 1440p to 4K is 25.2 FPS. This pattern indicates that the GPU becomes the limiting factor as resolution increases. The Ryzen 9 7900X, with its 12 cores and 24 threads, is unlikely to bottleneck at any of these resolutions in a game from 2016.

The Ultra preset shows the most dramatic scaling: 75 FPS at 1080p, 51.1 FPS at 1440p, and 27.4 FPS at 4K. The 4K Ultra result falls below the 30 FPS playability threshold, suggesting that the RX 7600 XT's memory bandwidth of 288.0 GB/s is insufficient for the combination of high resolution and maximum settings. The data indicates that 1440p is the sweet spot for this hardware, as even High settings maintain 61.2 FPS, and Medium delivers 73.5 FPS.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system achieves its highest frame rates. Low settings produce an average of 150.2 FPS, Medium drops to 113.6 FPS, High yields 98.4 FPS, and Ultra settles at 75 FPS. All of these are comfortably above 60 FPS, making 1080p a resolution where the GPU has clear headroom.

At 2560x1440, the performance remains strong but begins to show the GPU's workload. Low settings maintain 94 FPS, Medium delivers 73.5 FPS, High produces 61.2 FPS, and Ultra drops to 51.1 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra at this resolution is 42.9 FPS, which is the largest absolute spread across all tested resolutions. This suggests that the settings tier has a more pronounced effect at 1440p than at 1080p, where the difference is 75.2 FPS.

At 3840x2160, the GPU struggles with higher settings. Low settings yield 51.9 FPS, Medium drops to 43.4 FPS, High falls to 36 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 27.4 FPS. The 4K results show a compressed range, with only a 24.5 FPS difference between Low and Ultra, indicating that the GPU is hitting performance limits regardless of settings. The data shows that 4K gaming is only viable at Low settings, where the frame rate remains above 50 FPS.

The frame rate deltas between settings tiers are consistent across resolutions. Going from Low to Medium at 1080p reduces performance by 36.6 FPS, while the same change at 4K reduces it by 8.5 FPS. This pattern reinforces that at higher resolutions, the GPU's compute and memory resources are saturated, reducing the relative impact of settings changes.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 9 7900X provides the processing foundation for this configuration. It features 12 cores and 24 threads, based on the Zen 4 architecture with the Raphael codename, manufactured on TSMC's 5 nm process. The base clock is 4.70 GHz with a boost clock of 5.60 GHz. These clocks are significant for The Technomancer, as the game's engine benefits from high single-thread performance in many scenarios.

The CPU's cache hierarchy includes 64 KB of L1 per core, 1 MB of L2 per core, and 64 MB of shared L3 cache. This large L3 cache helps with data locality, which can be beneficial for game logic and physics calculations. Memory support is DDR5 with dual-channel configuration, providing 83.2 GB/s of bandwidth. The CPU's PCIe Gen 5 interface with 24 lanes ensures the GPU has a fast connection path, though the RX 7600 XT uses a PCIe 4.0 x8 interface.

Benchmark results show the CPU's strengths: a Cinebench R23 multicore score of 43,695 and a singlecore score of 6,168. The Geekbench multicore score is 17,830, and the singlecore score is 2,952. The 3DMark tests reveal scaling from 1,093 (single thread) to 12,536 (max threads), demonstrating the benefit of the full 12-core configuration. The Passmark multithread score is 51,406, with a single-thread score of 4,238.

The CPU sits in the 93rd percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 50,556. Its nearest rivals are all within 0.8% of its score: the Intel Core Ultra 5 235 (50,598, -0.1%), AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT (50,738, -0.4%), Intel Core i7-13850HX (50,827, -0.5%), and Intel Core i9-13980HX (50,944, -0.8%). This tight grouping indicates that the Ryzen 9 7900X is a top-tier processor with no significant performance deficit to its closest competitors.

For The Technomancer, the CPU's role is primarily to avoid bottlenecking the GPU. With 12 cores and 24 threads, the CPU can handle any background tasks and game engine threads without issue. The high boost clock of 5.60 GHz ensures that single-threaded game logic executes swiftly. The measured frame rates, particularly at 1080p where the GPU is less stressed, show that the CPU is not the limiting factor — the GPU's performance scales predictably with resolution and settings, which is characteristic of a GPU-bound scenario.