The Technomancer

The Technomancer pairs an Intel Core i3-12100F with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080, and the measured frame rates show a combo that runs this 2016 action RPG far above the typical 60 FPS target at most settings. The data records twelve distinct measurement points across three resolutions and four quality presets, ranging from a 55 FPS average at 4K Ultra to a 247 FPS average at 1080p Low. Neither the 4-core i3-12100F nor the RTX 4080 is a recent flagship, but for a skill-based action game, the results indicate stutter-free play with substantial headroom at every resolution.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data indicates that the strongest balance of picture quality and playable speed lives on the Medium preset at 2560x1440, which delivers a 149 FPS average with reported 1% lows of 127 FPS and peaks at 172 FPS. Because The Technomancer is an action RPG, the kind of game where timing blocks and dodge rolls matters, the gap between the 62 FPS of the 4K Ultra row and the 149 FPS at 1440p Medium is meaningful. At Medium the framerate never dips below the 127 FPS floor, which is still well above the refresh rate of most high-Hz monitors, while the Ultra preset at the same resolution drops the average to 100 FPS and loses none of the visual clarity in the measured data.

For 3840x2160, the best measured profile is High, which holds a 70 FPS average with a 94 FPS maximum in the Medium column as a point of context. Ultra at 4K falls to 55 FPS — a number that is exactly at the very edge of typical 60 Hz display standards, but with no margin. High at 4K keeps 70 FPS, which is a meaningful difference from the Pane to the scan changes. The Low preset at 4K reaches 107 FPS, but that setting would strip the post-processing and lighting detail that this RPG uses to set its mood.

At 1920x1080 the question is not whether the hardware is fast enough, but whether you need all the headroom. The Ultra preset still produces 152 FPS on average, which exceeds all 144 Hz displays and matches many 165 Hz panels. Since the 1080p Medium frame rate jumps to 225 FPS and Low to 247 FPS, you could push for the absolute maximum refresh, but for an action game the extra frames beyond 152 do little if the display is already at 144 Hz. The data supports a simple tier prioritization: if you have a high-refresh 1080p or 1440p monitor, leave the preset at Ultra or High with confidence; if you have a 4K display, run High and accept the 60 FPS class.

FAQ

Q: Is the Core i3-12100F with RTX 4080 enough to hold 60 FPS at 4K Ultra in The Technomancer?

A: No. The measured 4K Ultra average is 55 FPS, which is below 60 FPS. If 60 FPS is the floor you need, drop to the 4K High preset, which hits a 70 FPS average.

Q: What settings give the most consistent frame times at 1440p?

A: The 1440p Medium row is the only 1440p measurement that reports a FPS floor: it shows a 127 FPS minimum versus 149 FPS average and 172 FPS maximum. That indicates the least swing in the tested presets at that resolution. 1440p High shows a 128 FPS average, which is even smoother in general, but the Medium row's FPS is the only guaranteed frame-time floor available in the dataset.

Q: I have a 165 Hz monitor. Can this combo reach 165 FPS?

A: At 1080p, yes—the 1080p Medium preset reports a 225 FPS average and Low hits 247, while the 1080p Ultra stays at 152, just under the 165 Hz ceiling. At 1440p, the fastest row is Low at 195 FPS, which is above 165 Hz, but the Medium preset at 149 FPS is below the 165 FPS target. The data shows no 1440p setting can consistently keep a 165 Hz average with any headroom.

Q: What is the largest frame time gap between resolutions for this combo?

A: The difference between 1080p Low (247 FPS) and 4K Low (107 FPS) is 140 FPS. That 140 FPS delta is the largest measured jump in the dataset. A shrinking average as resolution climbs, from 247 FPS to 195 FPS to 107 FPS for the Low preset, illustrates how GPU-bound the full frame rate is on this combination.

Q: How does the RTX 4080 in this combo compare to the next-best card for raw performance?

A: In the GPU benchmarks, the RTX 4080 itself scores 54,247 points, versus a 54,209 for the RTX 4080 SUPER (a delta of 0.1%) and 54,828 for the Radeon Pro W5700X. Graph between the 4080 SUPER and a W5700X is under 0.5%, so the card in this test is among the fastest of that tier.

Q: Does the CPU bottleneck the GTX at 1080p Low?

A: Not according to the numbers. The PC has 195 FPS at 1440p Low and 247 FPS at 1080p Low. Because the frame increases from 195 to 247 when going from 2560x1440 to 1920x1080, the CPU still has enough headroom to allow the GPU to output over 200 FPS. The 1080p Low row (247 FPS) is the single highest number in the entire test, which implies that at 4K it's the GPU that limits, not the CPU.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS values from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 show a steady GPU-bound scaling pattern typical of a high-end video card paired with a mid-range processor. Going from 1080p to 1440p at High the average DROP is 195 → 144? Actually at High, 1080p 195, 1440p 128, 4K 70. The relative step-down from 1440p to 4K is about half, from 128 to 70. Similarly, the Medium row goes 225 → 149 → 82, a 21.1% drop from 1080p to 1440p and a further 45% drop to 4K.

The Low preset shows the smallest absolute drop: it goes 247 → 195 → 107. That's a -21.1% reduction at 1440p and then -45.1% from 1440p to 4K. This low setting pressures the GPU the least, so the scaling curves of the upper range (70 FPS High vs 107 FPS Low) shows a differential at 4K. In contrast, the Ultra row has the strongest overall scaling, with 152 → 100 → 55, a 39% drop from 1080p to 4K. That 39% drop at 4K Ultra is the result of GPU memory bandwidth and the 16 GB GDDR6X on the 4080, plus the GPU's 716.8 GB/s memory bandwidth, which must handle additional resolution pixels at maximum detail.

The pattern where 1440p-to-4K drops values by roughly 40-45% across all settings is indicative of GPU-limited scaling. The in the Low preset, the 1080p result is at 247 FPS, but the 4K result is 107 FPS, meaning that you lose exactly 140 FPS when you quadruple the pixel count. At the Ultra quality, the gap is 100 FPS (152 vs 55). Also noteworthy: the only 1% low values are reported in the Medium row — 191 FPS at 1080p, 127 FPS at 1440p, and 70 FPS at 4K — all above 60 FPS.

Measured FPS Breakdown

1920x1080 (1080p)

• Low: 247 FPS average
• Medium: 225 FPS average, 191 FPS min, 259 FPS max
• High: 195 FPS average
• Ultra: 152 FPS average

At 1080p Low the combo is limited by the CPU on the setting; each additional quality step reduces the average, with Ultra at only 152, still full 144+ for most displays.

2560x1440 (1440p)

• Low: 195 FPS average
• Medium: 149 FPS average, 127 FPS min, 172 FPS max
• High: 128 FPS average
• Ultra: 100 FPS average

The 1440p results show how the GPU begins to dominate. The Low to Ultra gaps is 95 FPS difference, and the 1% low of 127 on Medium is still above the 144p recommended threshold. Every setting in 1440p exceptthe no setting here falls below 100 FPS.

3840x2160 (4K)

• Low: 107 FPS average
• Medium: 82 FPS average, 70 FPS min, 94 FPS max
• High: 70 FPS average
• Ultra: 55 FPS average

The 4K numbers are the most telling. The Ultra setting breaks 60 Elewith a 55 FPS average; the tip > the High preset will maintain 7- 70 FPS, making 60 FPS a comfortable margin. The min at 70 FPS for Medium also confirms

In total, the dataset has 12 measured rows, each with anSci avg frame, and only the Medium presets give values for the 1% low and 1% high.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the Core i3-12100F and RTX 4080 in The Technomancer is placed at rank 309 out of 3696 tested combos. That means it sits in the top 8.4% of all CPU + GPU pairings in this game's benchmark database. An 8.4% percentile is essentially "best-in-class" territory; without singling out a specific competitor, this is a high-end result. To put it in context, the RTX 4080 is in the 86th percentile of all GPUs (based on its average of 54247), so the 309/3696 rank slightly pulls from GPU alone. The CPU's relative station is 68th percentile among all processors.

The immediate implication: this specific i3 + 4080 combination performs at the quality of setups at the top 10 per percentile most other tested combinations. It is not a lower-tier budget pairing. In the GPU benchmarks, the nearest rivals to the 4080 are the RTX 4080 SUPER (avgScore 1,208, deltaPct 0.1), the Radeon Pro W5700X (54,828, -1.1%), and the RX 6750 GRE 12GB (55,698, 2.6%). This means the GPU is within 0.1% of the SUPER setting and only 1.1% slower than the W5700X, so the game in the frame is close to the top of the GPU stack. The CPU itself — with a passmark multithread score of 5981, not show — has an average 13,94, and rivals like the Core i5-9500 (avg 3,452, +0.3%) and the Core 3 1355 (13,492) are within a fraction, so the i3 is fine but not scoring any CPU bottleneck exists.

This ranking should make clear that 4K Ultra being 55 FPS is a deprecated feature of the game tolerances, than a deficiency of the combo rank.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i3-12100F is a 4-core, 8-thread desktop chip from the Alder Lake family, manufactured on a 10 nm Intel process. Its base clock is 3.30 GHz and boosts to 4.30 GHz on the P-cores. The processor lacks an integrated GPU (the "F" suffix is for no iGPU), but it has 12 MB of shared L3 cache and a TDP of 58 W, which is quite moderate for a desktop CPU. The i3-12100F's memory support is DDR4 and DDR5 dual-channel memory, and it has PCIe Gen 5, 16 lanes.

In the context of The Technomancer, the CPU is not the bottleneck at any resolution above 1080p. The 4K Ultra frame rate is 55 FPS, which is driven by the GPU's 16 GB VRAM even if the processor has only 4 cores. The 3DMark single-thread score is 893, and the 3DMark 2-thread is 1659, which for a 2016-era RPG engine still enough core muscle. Meanwhile, the CPU's 3DMark 8-thread score is 4,026, and the Geekbench single-core score is 1932; those normalize toward the application's threading needs.

At 1080p Low, which goes to 247 FPS, we essentially touch the CPU max manifest range. The that of 1/3 (or 25-ish) a 4-core/8-thread processor, so with the "Low" preset the game is able to generate a frame every 4ms, indicating the cpu can climb up. The ACTGOLATENCY factor is the faster single thread of the 4.30 GHz boost. In contrast, at 1080p Ultra, the GTX reduces frame to 152 FPS or a 38% reduction in the exact same as 1080p — thus the CPU's available in both, but the GPU side has to compute high. Ultimately, the effect of the i3-12100F in The Technomancer is to deliver top-tier 1080p performance while enabling ultra settings at 60p in medium format.

The CPU's total avg benchmark score is 134.94, and the 100% is at the 68th percentile — equivalent to the i5-9500 (which is a 0.3% faster). This explains why the whole component starts: it is not a high-end processor, but it is enough for this game's workload, and with the RTX 4080's 86th-percentile GPU, the results in the rankable 309/3696 are, on a frame-per-FPS basis, far beyond the game's recommended expectations.