The Technomancer

The Technomancer paired with an Intel Core i7-13700K and an AMD Radeon RX 6600 produces a measured frame-rate table spanning multiple resolution and preset combinations. The highest average is 128.1 FPS at 1920x1080 Low, and the lowest is 25.5 FPS at 3840x2160 Ultra. This combo ranks 1347 out of 1656 tested combinations, placing it in the lower portion of the game’s benchmark hierarchy despite the CPU’s strong synthetic standing.

Resolution Scaling

The measured rows show a consistent frame-rate penalty as resolution increases. At High settings, 1920x1080 averages 84.6 FPS, 2560x1440 averages 57.9 FPS, and 3840x2160 averages 31.5 FPS. The Low preset follows the same pattern: 128.1, 85.1, and 45.6 FPS. Medium produces 98.5, 62.4, and 38.0 FPS, while Ultra produces 66.4, 46.8, and 25.5 FPS.

Because the reduction appears even on Low, which removes much of the GPU’s shading workload, the limiting component at higher resolutions is the GPU rather than the CPU. A CPU-limited system would not show this steep a decline when the same CPU runs the same preset at different pixel counts. At 4K, the GPU’s throughput is the binding constraint: the best 4K row is Low at 45.6 FPS, while the 4K Ultra row is 25.5 FPS. The data therefore identify resolution scaling as the primary variable controlling frame rate for this pairing.

The 1080p rows also demonstrate how much preset headroom remains at lower pixel counts. Low at 1080p reaches 128.1 FPS, Medium 98.5 FPS, High 84.6 FPS, and Ultra 66.4 FPS. No 4K preset approaches even the 1080p Ultra result, which shows that the resolution transition matters more than the Low-to-Ultra transition within a single resolution.

CPU Role

The i7-13700K is a Raptor Lake-S processor with 16 cores, 24 threads, a 3.40 GHz base clock, a 5.40 GHz boost clock, and 30 MB of shared L3 cache. Its synthetic profile is strong: it ranks in the 93rd percentile of all CPUs and carries an average benchmark score of 47282. The nearest-rival data reinforce that position. The i7-13700KF scores 47334 with a delta of -0.1, the AMD EPYC 4364P scores 47131 with a delta of 0.3, the Intel Core i9-12900F scores 47081 with a delta of 0.4, and the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 5945 scores 47527 with a delta of -0.5. The nearest-rival deltas stay within 0.5, so no listed processor moves far from the i7-13700K’s average score.

The CPU’s thread-count scaling is visible in 3DMark: 2 threads score 2262, 4 threads 4469, 8 threads 8193, 16 threads 10717, and max threads 12412. Single-thread 3DMark is 1136. Cinebench R23 results are 39000 multi-core and 5505 single-core. Geekbench results are 17731 multi-core and 2850 single-core. PassMark multi-thread is 45887 and single-thread is 4333. These figures describe a processor with substantial single-thread throughput and even larger multi-thread capacity.

In The Technomancer, the 1080p Low result is the cleanest evidence of CPU capability: 128.1 FPS is the best frame rate in the entire measured set. Since the same CPU produces 45.6 FPS at 4K Low, the processor is not the factor responsible for the 4K frame-rate collapse. The measured data indicate that the i7-13700K has enough headroom to drive the RX 6600 to its highest recorded average in this game, and the GPU becomes the active limit as pixel count rises.

GPU Role

The RX 6600 is built around the Navi 23 die, an RDNA 2.0 part on TSMC’s 7 nm process, with 11,060 million transistors. It has 1792 shading units, 112 TMUs, and 64 ROPs. Memory capacity is 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit interface, with 224.0 GB/s bandwidth. The base clock is 1626 MHz, the game clock is 2044 MHz, and the boost clock is 2491 MHz. Pixel rate is 159.4 GPixel/s, texture rate is 279.0 GTexel/s, and FP32 throughput is 8.928 TFLOPS.

Its average benchmark score is 25235, placing it in the 69th percentile of all GPUs. The nearest-rival list places it in a tight cluster: the AMD Radeon 890M scores 25246 with delta 0, the AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP scores 25287 with delta -0.2, the AMD Radeon RX 6700M scores 25180 with delta 0.2, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti scores 25120 with delta 0.5. The RX 6600 is therefore not separated from its immediate competitors by a large aggregate-score gap.

In-game results make the GPU’s role clear. At 1080p, the card averages 128.1 FPS on Low and 66.4 FPS on Ultra. At 4K, it averages 45.6 FPS on Low and 25.5 FPS on Ultra. The 4K Ultra result is the lowest measured value in the table, and the card’s 64 ROPs and 128-bit memory bus align with a part that is increasingly asked to fill a pixel count it cannot sustain at high preset levels. The data show the GPU is the component that determines whether a preset is practical at a given resolution.

FAQ

Q: What is the fastest measured average FPS for this combination?

A: The fastest measured row is 1920x1080 Low, with an average of 128.1 FPS. The same resolution on Medium averages 98.5 FPS, on High 84.6 FPS, and on Ultra 66.4 FPS.

Q: How does the RX 6600’s average GPU benchmark score compare with the RTX 3060 Ti in the nearest-rival data?

A: The RX 6600 has an average benchmark score of 25235. The RTX 3060 Ti is listed with a score of 25120 and a deltaPct of 0.5, indicating a very small aggregate-score separation. The two cards sit in the same performance class according to the nearest-rival table.

Q: At 1440p, what average FPS does each preset produce?

A: Low averages 85.1 FPS, Medium averages 62.4 FPS, High averages 57.9 FPS, and Ultra averages 46.8 FPS. The 1440p Medium result is the highest preset row that keeps the average above the 1440p High result.

Q: Is the CPU the main bottleneck at 4K?

A: No. The i7-13700K has an average benchmark score of 47282 and ranks in the 93rd CPU percentile. The 1080p Low result reaches 128.1 FPS, but 4K Low drops to 45.6 FPS with the same CPU. That FPS decline tracks the GPU’s workload, so the data indicate the RX 6600 is the limiting component at 4K.

Q: What is the lowest measured FPS in the table?

A: The lowest measured average is 25.5 FPS, at 3840x2160 Ultra. For comparison, 4K High averages 31.5 FPS, 4K Medium averages 38.0 FPS, and 4K Low averages 45.6 FPS.

Settings Recommendations

At 1920x1080, the measured data show a quality ladder: Low 128.1, Medium 98.5, High 84.6, Ultra 66.4. All of these rows are above every 4K row and above all but one 1440p row. For users who want the highest preset level without leaving 1080p, Ultra is the strongest measured option because it still averages 66.4 FPS. If additional frame-rate headroom over Ultra is preferred, High at 84.6 is the next step down in quality while maintaining a large margin over the 1440p High result of 57.9.

At 2560x1440, the best measured balance is Medium. It averages 62.4 FPS, above High’s 57.9, while delivering better visual quality than Low’s 85.1. Ultra at 1440p is 46.8 FPS, which is well below Medium and is the only 1440p row that drops into the same range as the 4K Medium result. For a 1440p display, Medium avoids both the visual compromise of Low and the frame-rate penalty of High and Ultra.

At 3840x2160, Low is the recommended preset. It is the only 4K row with an average above 38.0 FPS, and the 4K Medium value is exactly 38.0. High and Ultra fall to 31.5 and 25.5 respectively. Therefore, if 4K resolution is required for this pairing, the measured data support Low settings as the only preset with a meaningful frame-rate advantage over the rest of the 4K table.