The Technomancer

The Technomancer, an Action RPG released June 27, 2016, was measured with the Intel Core i5-10400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060. The dataset includes 14 distinct resolution-and-preset combinations, plus synthetic benchmarks for both components. This pairing produced the following results: the benchmarked combo rank places this setup at 2911 out of 3696 video game systems, and the frame-time data offers a clear profile of its strengths and limits.

Settings Recommendations

At 1920×1080, every preset stays well within playable territory. Low averages 130 FPS, Medium 100, High 85, and Ultra 66. All of these exceed 60 FPS, so the player has complete freedom to pick the highest quality preset, Ultra, and still enjoy a comfortable frame rate. For most players, High at 1080p is the recommended setting because it balances the visual fidelity of High against the 85 FPS average, leaving headroom for a dip from a large battle or a particle-heavy scene.

Moving to 2560×1440, the quality trade becomes sharper. Low shows an average of 85, Medium 65, High 56, and Ultra 43. While 65 FPS from Medium is fluid, High is still above 50, and for a fairly fast-paced Action RPG the minimum listed is 55 for Medium (the only preset with a min/max pair). Since the minimum never appears for High, the choice between Medium and High depends on the need for smooth framerate. The data suggests that Medium at 1440p offers the best balance, with a 65 average and a 55–75 range, avoiding the 56 average of High.

At 3840×2160, the system cannot hold 60 FPS on any preset. Low gives 47, Medium 36, High 31, and Ultra 24. Medium is the only preset with both a minimum and maximum listed – 30 to 41 FPS. Therefore, for 4K, the Low preset (47 FPS) maximizes fluidity, while Medium remains playable around 36 FPS but pushes the minimum to 30. Low is the highest preset with an average above 45, so it is the recommended setting for a stable 4K experience.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 uses the TU106 chip on a 12 nm process with 10,800 million transistors across a 445 mm² die. Its base clock is 1365 MHz, boosting to 1680 MHz, and the memory is 6 GB GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus delivering 336.0 GB/s bandwidth. The GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, Vulkan 1.4, and OpenGL 4.6, with 1920 shading units, 120 texture mapping units, and 48 ROPs. The pixel rate of the 2060 is 80.64 GPixel/s, and the texture rate is 201.6 GTexel/s. A standard 12-pin power connector is used with a TDP of 160 W.

The measured frame times across resolutions illustrate the GPU's workload. At 1080p, this GPU can push High to 85 FPS and Ultra to 66. As resolution climbs, the frame rate decreases, and the 6 GB GDDR6 memory bandwidth begins to appear as a limiting factor. The 680M produces an average FPS of 36 at 4K Medium, and even 4K Low from this GPU cannot reach 50 FPS. The 6 GB of frame buffer and 336.0 GB/s bandwidth go together with the average FPS drop, demonstrating that the VRAM capacity and memory bandwidth are the most important factors (in relation to resolution) when moving beyond 1080p.

How This Combo Ranks

According to the dataset, this particular CPU+GPU combo is in the 78.7th percentile of all measured combos, meaning it performs below the median as it sits at rank 2911 out of 3696. The higher rank numbers indicate worse performance – rank 1 is the best. A rank of 2911 shows that the average FPS of this combo is in the lower quarter of all test results.

Separately, the Intel Core i5-10400F holds a 61st percentile position (68) among all CPUs. Its average CPU benchmark score is 14185. Its nearest architecturally rival is the Intel Xeon 6756E, which scores 14163 with deltaPct 0.2, meaning the i5 is 0.2% faster; and AMD Ryzen 3 7320C, scoring 14277, 0.6% faster. The RTX 2060 has a 52nd percentile (58) placement among GPUs, and its average GPU score is 15290. The closest GPU rival is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 with 15283, a delta of 0, then the AMD Radeon 680M at 15270, and so on. In aggregate, this system is distinctly mid-class: the CPU has percentile 82, the GPU percentile 56.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured frame data covers three resolutions and four quality presets, yielding 12 unique runs. All ``avgFps`` values are representative of the 95th percentile of the data, so these are the numbers to trust for comparison.

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

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

| 1920×1080 | Low | 130 | – | – |

| 1920×1080 | Medium | 100 | 85 | 115 |

| 1920×1080 | High | 85 | – | – |

| 1920×1080 | Ultra | 66 | – | – |

| 2560×1440 | Low | 85 | – | – |

| 2560×1440 | Medium | 65 | 55 | 75 |

| 2560×1440 | High | 56 | – | – |

| 2560×1440 | Ultra | 43 | – | – |

| 3840×2160 | Low | 47 | – | – |

| 3840×2160 | Medium | 36 | 30 | 41 |

| 3840×2160 | High | 31 | – | – |

| 3840×2160 | Ultra | 24 | – | – |

At 1080p, the setup is perfectly game-capable across all settings, and the 130 FPS low setting is a typical for a system of this class. The medium preset shows a 100 average with 110 maximum, indicating acceptable stability. At 1440p, the average FPS remains above 56 for High, but only Medium with 65 has a min specified, so this is the highlighted preset. At 4K, even Low hits 47 FPS, and Medium dips to 36 with a minimum of 30 – thus 4K is limited but still playable with lower graphical demands.

FAQ

Q: What is the average FPS at 1080p with High settings?

A: The average FPS is 85 at 1920×1080 High.

Q: Which preset delivers the highest average frame rate on this system?

A: The highest average is 130 FPS at 1080p Low. This is the absolute peak among the measured data.

Q: What is the lowest minimum FPS recorded across all combinations?

A: The only min values are listed for the Medium settings: 85 at 1080p, 55 at 1440p, and 30 at 4K. The lowest on-disk minimum is 30 FPS, at 4K Medium.

Q: How many CPU cores and threads does the i5-16400F have?

A: The Intel Core i5-12400F has 6 cores and 12 threads.

Q: What is the GPU's boost clock and memory bandwidth?

A: The RTX 2060 has a boost clock of 1680 MHz and a memory bandwidth of 336.0 GB/s over a 192-bit bus.

Q: What is the GPU TDP?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 has a TDP of 160 W.

Q: Which preset at 1440p reaches an average above 60?

A: 1440p Low gives 85 FPS, Medium 65, but High is 56 and Ultra 43. Medium and Low are above 60, so only those two.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-10400F is a 10th generation Comet Lake part with a TDP of 65 W, using the LGA1200 socket. Its base clock of 4.90 GHz boosts to 4.30 GHz, and the cache structure is 64 KB L1 per core, 256 KB L2 per core and a shared 12 MB L3. The memory bus is dual-channel DDR4 with a maximum bandwidth of 42.7 GB/s. In synthetic benchmarks, the CPU achieves a Cinebench R20 multi-core of 4318 (around 8.8% less than the R23 ‌session is unchanged) and single-core 1470 in Cinebench R23. Geekbench 3 indicates 5128 multi, 1188 single.

At 1080p, the CPU has to drive high FPS with the GTX 2060. Given that the game is a 2016 title, but the CPU’s single-thread performance allows it to maintain 66 FPS at ultra when the load is low. From 1080 to 1440p, the frame rate drops more sharply than what would be expected if the CPU were the bottleneck – the raw threading ability of the i5-12400F, as measured in 3DMark multithread (3239) is substantial. The high preset at 1080 (85) and Low at 1440 (85) shows the system's balanced.

The core configuration of 6C/12T is adequate to feed the RTX 2060 at all tested settings, since the frame rate scales with GPU load across resolution changes, not CPU usage.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate differences when moving from 1920×1080 to 3840×2160 are consistent with a being limited by the GPU. For example, at High preset, the average FPS drops from 85 at 1080p to 56 at 1440p, then 31 at 4K. Similar reductions are seen for Ultra: 66, 43, 24. The relative drop from 1080p to 4K High is 85 to 31, a loss of 54 FPS. For Medium, the pattern is 106, 65, 36.

This behavior demonstrates the NVIDIA RTX 310's resources: the RTX 2060, equipped with 6 GB DDR6 and 336.0 GB/s bandwidth, is increasingly stressed as the pixel count rises. The scaling ratio from 1080p to 1440p is about 1.3× resolution (from 2 million to 3.68 million pixels, i.e., 1.85×), but the FPS drop is llego not exactly proportional. The fact that Low preset drops from 130 at 1080 to 85 at 1440 and 47 at 4K shows how the CPU and GPU interplay: the high average of 47 at 4K Low is a typical outcome for a GPU – the CPU is not the limit.

Overall, the data places the RTX 2060 as the main performance cap when the game runs beyond Full HD. The CPU’s augmented 12 threads could still push low-setting 1080p to 130 FPS, but once the GPU must process four times the pixels of 720, the frame rate falls below 60. The conclusion from this scaling is clear: to maintain a 60 FPS experience, the RTX 2060 should be paired with 1080p or 1440p (Medium), which offers 60-plus averages.

From 1080p High (85) to High 1440p (56) is a 41% reduction, and 4K is 81% lower than 1080p. So, the scaling pattern strongly suggests that the GPU's fillrate and bandwidth limit, which are nominal 80.64 GPixel/s and 201.6 GTexel/s, are the binding constraint at 4K. This is typical of a 20-series GPU from that era, as the ALU throughput of 6. TFlops (FP32) is still capable, but it does not translate directly into 4K performance.