The Technomancer

The Technomancer, a 2016 Action RPG, is handled with considerable ease by the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 combination. The data shows a system that delivers playable frame rates at every measured setting, with 1440p Ultra sustaining an average of 100 FPS and 4K Medium averaging 82 FPS. The only major stumble is 4K Ultra, which drops to 55 FPS. The combo ranks 213th out of 3697 tested configurations, placing it in the upper echelon of tested hardware pairings. The CPU sits in the 95th percentile of all processors, while the GPU sits in the 86th percentile of all graphics cards, suggesting that the central processor is the stronger element of the two. With a low setting at 1080p reaching 298 FPS, the CPU clearly feeds the GPU at high rates, while the 4K numbers show where the GPU’s limits are.

Resolution Scaling

Analyzing the measured frame rates across 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160 reveals a clear pattern of GPU-bound performance. At the Low preset, average FPS falls from 298 at 1080p to 195 at 1440p, then to 107 at 4K. The High preset follows a similar path: 195 FPS at 1080p, 128 at 1440p, and 70 at 4K. The scaled drop aligns with the increased pixel workload; 4K contains four times the pixels of 1080p, yet the frame rate does not drop by a full quarter. This sub-linear decline indicates that apart from the pixel fill, there are other limiting factors, but the GPU remains the dominant bottleneck at the higher resolutions.

The most pronounced degradation occurs between 1440p and 4K. At High settings, the 1440p result of 128 FPS falls to 70 FPS at 2160p — a dramatic 58 FPS difference that sits cleanly within the GPU's domain. At the Ultra preset, the 4K row dips to 55 FPS, which is the only measured preset below the 60 FPS standard that most games target. At 1440p, all presets stay above the 100 FPS mark, including Ultra at 100 FPS exactly. The 1080p results are so high (featuring a 229 FPS Medium and 152 FPS Ultra) that the GPU is clearly bus-bound at that resolution; the improvement from Ultra to Low is a 2x increase (152 vs 298), which is significantly larger than any other resolution jump.

The Medium settings include captured minimum and maximum frame times. At 4K, the Medium preset reports an average of 82 FPS with a minimum of 70 and maximum of 94. The 1440p Medium yields a mean of 149 FPS and stays between 127 and 172. These three values show that even during transient load, the combos remain well fluid.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and RTX 4080 holds a rank of 213th out of 3696 measured combos in The Technomancer. This places it into the top tier of configurations, with only a fraction of tested systems producing higher frame rates across the board. The positive rank is predictable given that both components sit above the average of their partitions: the CPU at the 95th percentile and the GPU at the 86th percentile. The CPU’s percentile is the stronger contributor, likely reflecting its high single-thread performance and extensive core count.

The CPU's official average benchmark score is 75,779 points, which places it 0.1% ahead of the next closest rival, the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 9755 (75,738 points) and 0.1% above the Ryzen 7 PRO 9755X3D (75,716 points). Further down the rival list, the AMD EPYC 8224P has a delta of -0.3% and the Intel Core Ultra 9 285 of -0.4%, indicating that the 9950X3D occupies a tiny performance slice near the top of the CPU wall.

The GPU’s own benchmark puts it in midpoint of the GeForce 40-series family. Its score of 54,247 is a 0.2% delta from the RTX 4080 SUPER (54,209), with the AMD Radeon PRO W5700X at -1.1% and the AMD RX 6750 GRE 12 GB at -2.6%. For this combination, the frames being delivered in a 2016 title are therefore primarily the consequence of the combined headroom of both components rather than an immediate bottleneck on either.

Settings Recommendations

Given the measured strengths and tail-off at 4K Ultra, the recommended experience depends on target resolution.

For 4K displays, the 4K Medium preset provides the best balance of fluidity and detail. It delivers an average of 82 FPS, with a minimum of 70 and a maximum of 94, which is 47 FPS above the 4K Ultra setting. If users want a lighter visual load, the 4K High setting also stays above 65 FPS (70 average), but the Medium already maintains a healthy margin from the 60 FPS line.

On 1440p panels, the Ultra preset is the clear choice. It delivers an average of exactly 100 FPS, with the High at 128 FPS and Medium at 149, so all options are fluid. The Ultra row does not have explicit minimum reporting, but the average 100 FPS puts it in the desired performance region even during heavy scenes.

For 1080p, every preset is extremely smooth. The Low setting yields an astronomical 298 FPS, are all above 120 FPS – the highest being 152 FPS on Ultra. Consequently, for a 1080p monitor, the Ultra preset is still extremely playable and desirable, and users sensitive to motion fluidity can even select High or Medium and still stay well above 200 FPS.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The table below lists all measured performance in The Technian with the paired hardware.

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

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

| 1920x1080 | Low | 298 | – | – |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 229 | 194 | 263 |

| 1920x1080 | High | 195 | – | – |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 152 | – | – |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 195 | – | – |

| 2560x1440 | Medium | 149 | 127 | 172 |

| 2560x1440 | High | 128 | – | – |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra | 100 | – | – |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 107 | – | – |

| 3840x2160 | Medium | 82 | 70 | 94 |

| 3840x2160 | High | 70 | – | – |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra | 55 | – | – |

The Medium rows carry the only min/max figures, and they also demonstrate the FPS variance; the 4K Medium ratio of average to minimum is 82 vs 70, which corresponds to a relative dip of 12 FPS. The 1440p Medium has a similar 22 FPS gap between min and max, indicating a stable, moderately destributed frame time.

GPU Role

The RTX 4080 brings a full set of advanced specifications: 16 GB of GDDR6X on a 256-bit interface yields a bandwidth of 716.8 GB/s, while the memory clock is 1400 MHz (or 22.4 Gbps effective). The chip’s base clock is 2205 MHz, and the boost reaches 2505 MHz. It packs 9,728 shading units, 72 RT cores, 304 TMUs, and 112 ROPs. The F32 compute rating is 48.74 TFLOPS, and the pixel rate is 280.6 GPixel/s.

In The Technomancer, the heavyweight ray are essential. The 16 GB frame buffer is more than ample for this title's asset load, and the high bandwidth is crucial for the 4K frame sets. The measured 4K High at 70 FPS and 4K Medium at 82 FPS shows that the GPU stands strong at the highest resolution when not fed by the Ultra preset’s increased demand. Looking at the benchmark scores for the GPU, its OpenCompute Vulkan score is 214,739 and DirectX 12 (Steel Nomad) gives 6,567. A PassMark G3D score of 34,457 places it squarely in the 86% percentile of all GPUs, which is a reflection of its exceptional performance in synthetics.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is a 16-core, 32-thread processor through 4.30 GHz base and 5.70 GHz boost, with a total L3 cache of 128 MB (split into separate parts on each CCD). The process technology is 4 nm at TSMC, and the chip runs at the AM5 socket with a horsepower rating of 170W TDP. The especially large cache and high boost clock are the key features for feeding data to the GPU in game settings.

Its CPU workload performance is uniformly high: the Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 42,018 and the single-thread of 2,259; the GeekBench multicore stands at 26,736 with a single-core of 3,064. The multi-threaded PassMark test gives a score of 70,255, and the single-thread 4,737; the data compression test hits 908,421 and the encryption 44,536. Such numbers put the chip at 95th percentile CPU.

In the measured 1080p Low preset, the system reaches 298 FPS, which is broad red of the GPU and the CPU is not a limiting component in unusual high-rate scenarios. The 1440p Medium’s low of 127 FPS at the latter resolution further confirms that the CPU is never the bottleneck; rather, the scaling on the processor side is effortless. By contrast, competition for this CPU package includes the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 9750 a 0.1% delta in average score, and the Intel Core Ultra 9 285 at 0.4%, so the 9950X3D is an absolute top-rung can deliver the pitch and IPC capability that matches. In the role of this game, it also provides adequate performance to sustain the highest 4.29 FPS count, even during large fights, which is a critical feature for an action RPG. The 9950X3D is indeed one of the highest-end Zen chips, and the 3% boost from its largest rival is trivial, but the core count ensures no frame hitches on the many threads the engine may use.