The Technomancer

The Technomancer, an Action RPG released on 2016-06-27, is examined here with the Intel Core i7-14700K paired with the AMD Radeon RX 7600. The data is measured (dataIsMeasured true) and covers three resolutions (1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3840x2160) across four quality presets (Low, Medium, High, Ultra). The following analysis uses only the numbers present in the benchmark results.

Settings Recommendations

The measured frame rates show a clear trade-off between visual quality and headroom. At 1920x1080, the Low preset yields an average of 143 FPS, Medium 110 FPS, High 94 FPS, and Ultra 73 FPS. For a display running at 1080p, the High preset offers a well-balanced experience: the average sits above 90 FPS, comfortably beyond typical smoothness thresholds while retaining more visual detail than Low or Medium. The Medium preset (110 FPS) is also viable, but High gives 16 frames per second less than Medium yet far more visual fidelity, which the graph of settings suggests is worth the small setback.

At 2560x1440, High delivers 61 FPS on average, while Medium reaches 72 FPS, Low 93 FPS, and Ultra only 48 FPS. The 61 FPS of High is still fluid for a 144Hz-capable monitor, but the gap between High and Medium (11 FPS) makes Medium the best experience if a 60 Hz target is not mandatory. However, because High's 61 FPS meets a common 60 FPS line, choosing High at 1440p provides the highest quality without dropping below a standard playable frame rate.

At 3840x2160, the scale tips drastically: Low gives 51 FPS, Medium 39 FPS, High 34 FPS, and Ultra 26 FPS. Here, only Low reaches beyond 50 FPS; Ultra sits at 26 FPS, which is not suitable for smooth gameplay. Given that the measured data does not include any frame time information for the High and Ultra settings, the recommendation for 4K is to use Low if you must hit a playable average, while Medium drops to 39 FPS, still acceptable for slower-paced encounters. In practice, the best setting depends on the user's tolerance for 4K texture detail, but the numbers indicate Low is the only preset that stays above 50 FPS at 4K.

Overall, the most balanced recommendation for the full graph is High at 1080p or Medium at 1440p. The latter offers 72 FPS and a higher pixel count. For 4K, Low is the pragmatic choice due to the dramatic decline to 51 FPS average.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 7600 is the graphics component in this build. Its memory configuration is 8 GB of GDDR6 with a 128-bit bus and bandwidth of 288.0 GB/s. The base clock is 1720 MHz, and the boost clock reaches 2655 MHz, with a game clock of 2250 MHz. The GPU's transistor count is 13,300 million in a 204 mm² die. These raw numbers put the card's peak pixel rate at 169.9 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 339.8 GTexel/s. The FP32 performance is 21.75 TFLOPS.

In The Technomancer, the measured frame rates show that the GPU is the probable limiting factor when the resolution climbs. At 1080p Low, the frame rate reaches 143 FPS, but this drops to 51 FPS at 4K Low—a stark reduction that points toward the card's memory bandwidth or raw fillrate being overwhelmed by the 4K render area. The GPU's port of DirectX 12 Ultimate and Vulkan 1.4 support are in line with the game’s period, but the card's 8 GB VRAM may cause issues at ultra quality at higher resolutions; however, the data alone cannot confirm a VRAM usage, only that Ultra at 4K runs at 26 FPS.

The GPU's average benchmark score across the listed tests is 15171, placing it at the 57th percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rival, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM, has an average score of 15199, a deltaPct of -0.2%. The RX 7600 scores slightly above the Radeon Pro 560X (15082, +0.6%) and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti (15063, +0.7). These readings reflect the card's mid-range classification. The measured game results are consistent with that classification: at 1440p High it sustains 61 FPS, which is playable, but at 4K High it only produces 34 FPS.

The GPU's boost clock of 2655 MHz is relatively high, yet the per-frame numbers at 4K suggest that memory bandwidth (288 GB/s) or the 128-bit interface limits the data flow required by the heavy resolution. The frame rates at 1080p are much higher, implying that at lower pixel counts the card has more headroom.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS drops substantially when moving from 1080p to 1440p to 4K. For the Low preset, 1920x1080 yields 143 FPS, 2560x1440 gives 93 FPS, and 3840x2160 drops to 51 FPS. This is a reduction of 92 FPS between 1080p and 4K. For Ultra, the sequence is 73, 48, and 26 FPS respectively. The sharpness of the drop indicates a GPU-bound workload at higher resolutions; the GPU's capabilities are saturated much more quickly when pixel count grows. For instance, the Ultra setting at 1080p (73 FPS) is just 22 FPS higher than the Low setting at 4K (51 FPS), demonstrating the memory‑bandwidth strain.

The data also shows that the relative ordering of presets stays consistent across resolutions: Low > Medium > High > Ultra for average FPS. But the gap between presets expands at higher resolutions. At 1080p, the difference between Low and Ultra is 70 FPS (143-73). At 4K, that gap closes to 25 FPS (51-26). This suggests the GPU's limit is reached sooner at higher pixel counts, so the effect of lowering quality becomes less pronounced. The 1440p Ultra average of 48 FPS is still above the 4K Low average of 51, so even at 1080p Ultra, the GPU can't achieve res at 4K.

Overall, the frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K across all settings shows the RX 7600 is better suited for 1080p and 1440p gaming, with 4K being possible only at the lowest quality preset.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the Low preset delivers an average of 143 FPS. The Medium preset gives 110 FPS, with a minimum of 93 FPS and a maximum of 126 FPS. High averages 94 FPS, and Ultra averages 73 FPS. At 2560x1440, Low = 93 FPS, Medium = 72 (min 61, max 82), High = 61 FPS, Ultra = 48 FPS. At 3840x2160, Low = 51 FPS, Medium = 39 (min 33, max 45), High = 34 FPS, Ultra = 26 FPS.

Among the presets, Medium is the only setting that reports both minimum and maximum values, indicating the variance in frame times during the test. For example, at 1440p Medium, the minimum is 61 FPS and the maximum is 82, a spread of 21 FPS. At 4K Medium, minimum 33 and max 45. These ranges hint that occasional stutters occur in this preset, but the average remains higher than High.

The numbers indicate the card’s best performance at 1080p, but even the highest preset at 1080p falls well above the 60 FPS threshold common for fluid gameplay. At 1440p, Ultra is the only setting below 60 FPS. At 4K, all settings except Low are below 60FPS, and Ultra is only 26 FPS, which is still very low.

Across all cases, the High setting at each resolution offers a compromise between GPU load and visual detail. Without frame pacing data, the average suggests the best experience is 1080p High for a 144Hz display or 1440p Medium for a 60-75Hz monitor.

FAQ

Q: What is the average frame rate at 1920x1080 Ultra preset?

A: The average FPS is 73.

Q: Which resolution gives the highest average FPS for the Low preset?

A: 1920x1080, which reports 143 FPS.

Q: How does the 1440p Medium preset compare to 1440p High in average FPS?

A: Medium averages 72 FPS, while High averages 61 FPS, a difference of 11 FPS in favor of Medium.

Q: Is 3840x2160 playable with this combo?

A: Only the Low preset yields an average of 51 FPS, while every other setting falls below 40 FPS. So a playable threshold depends on the user's tolerance.

Q: What is the ranked position of this CPU+GPU pair among all tested combinations?

A: The combo ranks 2550 out of 3696 distinct combinations.

Q: What is the GPU's average benchmark score across all its tests?

A: The Radeon RX 7600 has an average benchmark score of 15171.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-14700K is a 20-core, 28-thread processor with a base clock of 3.40 GHz and a boost clock of 5.60 GHz. It has 33 MB of shared L3 cache, 2 MB per-core L2, and each core contains 80 KB of L1. The chip is built on an Intel 7 (10 nm) process with a die size of 257 mm². In the benchmarks, its multithreaded performance is shown by a Cinebench R23 multicore score of 33440.5 and a geekbench multicore score of 20767. The single-core results are also strong—Cinebench R23 single-core is 2160, while Cinebench R20 single-core score is 2617. The processor's launch MSRP is $409.

In The Technomancer, the processor's impact is more noticeable at lower resolutions. At 1080p Low, the game reaches an average of 143 FPS, a rate that conventional practice suggests may depend on single-thread power. The i7-14700K’s single-core boost of 5.60 GHz likely helps maintain high frame rates even when the GPU can keep up at 1080p. At higher resolutions, the GPU takes over as the bottleneck, so the CPU load is not visible from the frame graphs.

The i7-14700K ranks at the 94th percentile of all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 69355. Its nearest rivals in overall score are the AMD EPYC 9115 (0.1% deltaPct), AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (-0.2%), AMD Ryzen with 0.7% delta, and the AMD Ryzen 9 9700F (-0.9%). These close deltas mean the CPU sits virtually at the top tier of desktop processors, its performance difference to the second places is within one percent.

For a 2016 title like The Technomancer, the CPU's many cores are underutilized; the 20 cores and 28 threads do not give a dividend in the average FPS data beyond the 1080p low preset. The 143 FPS high value confirms that even with RTs on, the processor does not limit the minimum frame rate found in the measured data.

How This Combo Ranks

This exact pairing of the Intel Core i7-14700K and AMD Radeon RX 7600 holds a composite rank of 2550 among 3696 tested combinations in The Technomancer. That position places it just above the midpoint—since a rank of 1850 would be the exact median, 2550 is below the midpoint, meaning it is in the lower half of the tested set. However, the combination's CPU is exceptionally strong (percentile 94) while the GPU is mid-range (percentile 57), producing a CPU-heavy balance that skimps on display output. The measured FPS at 1080p are high, but at 4K it underperforms, thus the rank reflects the GPU's limitations rather than the CPU’s strength.

The rank of 2550 implies there are many combinations with better overall game performance, likely those pairing higher-end GPUs with the same or weaker CPUs. Conversely, combos with lower-ranking CPUs and stronger GPUs may still pull ahead in this game because the game scales with GPU more strongly at higher resolutions. The i7-14700K's raw floor is rarely the limiting factor, except possibly at 1080p Low, where its clock speed supports the 143 FPS result. Therefore, the combination's position is heavily determined by the RX 7600's 4K performance, which is stressed in our measured bytes.

In summary, the data supports the notion that the i7-14700K and RX 7600 partnership is best targeted at 1440p High gaming, where the average 61 FPS is acceptable, achieving a comfortable balance of FPS and visual detail. At 1080p, it is even more favorable. However, the combination rank confirms that in a benchmark pool full of higher-end GPUs, this pairing is not a top performer, but rather represents a mainstream well-rounded choice.