The Technomancer

The Technomancer, a 2016 action RPG, runs on a platform pairing the Intel Core i7-14700K and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB. Measured frame data places this combination 3240th out of 3696 tested configurations. The processor is a 20-core, 28-thread Raptor Lake part, while the GPU is an Ampere-based card with 4 GB of GDDR6. The system reaches its highest average frame rate at 1080p Low (101 FPS) and its lowest at 4K Ultra (18 FPS). These results reflect a CPU that is designed for heavy multitasking and a GPU with a compact 128-bit memory interface.

Resolution Scaling

Frame rates scale downward as resolution increases, showing the expected widening of the workload. At High quality, the average FPS falls from 66 at 1920x1080, to 43 at 2560x1440, and finally to 24 at 3840x2160. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is a loss of 23 frames per second, and the further drop to 4K loses another 19 frames. The pattern is similar on Ultra: 52 FPS at 1080p, 34 FPS at 1440p, and 18 FPS at 4K. The total reduction from the best to worst case is 18 FPS on the Ultra preset.

The Medium preset shows a similar transition. At 1080p Medium the average is 77 FPS, dropping to 50 FPS at 1440p Medium, and then to 28 FPS at 4K Medium. The 1440p Medium reading has a minimum of 43 FPS and maximum of 58 FPS, while the 1080p Medium has a broader range from 66 to 89 FPS. The 4K Medium setting has a smaller mid-range frame window, with 24 FPS as the minimum and 32 FPS as the maximum. This indicates that the higher resolutions heavily compress the frame delivery variability.

Low settings show the strongest raw performance. The average FPS at 1080p Low is 101, dropping to 66 at 1440p Low, and to 36 FPS. The 1080p Low result stands out because it barely exceeds the 1440p High-average of 43 FPS, indicating that resolution and quality settings trade heavily against each other. The scaling between 1440p and 4K Low is moderate: 66 to 36 FPS. However, the 4K Low number is still double the 4K Ultra average of 18 FPS.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB is built on the GA107 chip using Samsung's 8 nm process. It has a base clock of 1545 MHz and a boost clock of 1740 MHz. The memory runs at 12 Gbps effective across a 128-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 192.0 GB/s. The card provides 2048 shading units, 64 texture units, and 32 ROPs. Its pixel fill rate is measured at 55.68 GPixel/s, with a texture rate of 111.4 GTexel/s. Floating point performance is listed as 7.127 TFLOPS for FP32 and the same for FP16 due to the 1:1 rate.

The GPU's memory size is 4 GB, which is a hard limitation for modern games that switch to high-quality textures. The 4K Medium 29 FPS result points to this limit, along with the 4K High 24 FPS and 4K Ultra 18 FPS numbers. The 4Kp 36 FPS at Low settings indicates that frame rates rise when the socket and shading load is reduced, but the VRAM still capping at 4 GB may affect the ability to store larger textures. The boost clock of 1740 MHz effectively drives the 43 Gbit/s raw memory through the narrow 128-bit bus, which explains the significant frame rate drop when moving from 1440p to 4K.

The GPU's percentile rating is 50, which places it in the middle of the tested GPUs. This percentile aligns with the measured results: the card is not limited by the CPU's routing power but rather by the GPU's raw fill and memory throughput. The 2048 shading units must manage all resolution settings, and the data shows that at 4Kp the GPU spends most of its time on pixel fill tasks. The card's low TDP of 90 W also indicates its role as a lower-bandwidth product compared to larger Ampere siblings.

How This Combo Ranks

The Intel Core i7-14700K with the RTX 3050 4GB holds the 3240th position out of 3696 measured combinations. While the CPU sits in the 94th percentile among all CPUs, this combined ranking is far from the top. The CPU's only rival data shows it within 0.1% of the AMD EPYC 9115 and 0.9% lower than the AMD Ryzen 7 9700F. The GPU's lone benchmark percentile is 50, so the CPU cannot compensate for the GPU's lower placement. The combo rank reflects the potential capability of the CPU and the relatively constrained GPU performance that is only 0.2% behind the AMD Ryzen 7 7940HX, though that is a single CPU lookup.

The data from measured frame rates at 4K show the realistic ceiling of this pairing: the shadowy 24 FPS average at 2160p High is far from the 1440p Low 66 FPS. The bottom 12.6% of all tested combos fall below this, aligning with the 3240 of 3696 figures. The scaling from a top CPU with a mid-tier GPU is clear: the CPU is not the limiting factor, and the lower resolution settings deliver the highest frame counts.

Measured FPS Breakdown

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

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

| 3840x2160 | High | 24 | - | - |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 36 | - | - |

| 3840x2160 | Medium | 28 | 24 | 32 |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra | 18 | - | - |

| 2560x1440 | High | 43 | - | - |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 66 | - | - |

| 2560x1440 | Medium | 50 | 43 | 58 |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra | 34 | - | - |

| 1920x1080 | High | 66 | - | - |

| 1920x1080 | Low | 101 | - | - |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 77 | 66 | 89 |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 52 | - | - |

The 1080p grid paces the easy settings: Low reaches 101 FPS, Medium 77, High 66, and Ultra 52. The range between Low and Ultra at 1080p is a gain of 49 FPS, which shows how much headroom is available when constraining the render workload. At 1440p, the values tighten to 34 (Low) to 66 (Low) – spacing between the highest and lowest settings of 32 FPS. At 4Kp, the difference between Low (36) and Ultra (18) narrows to 18 FPS, confirming that the GPU is near its output maximum.

The only preset with explicit min/max values is Medium. At 4K Medium the frame delivery is in a narrow 8 FPS window (24 to 32), while 1440p Medium has a slightly wider range (43 to 58 FPS). The 1080p Medium expands to a larger band of 23 FPS (66 to 89). These numbers indicate that the CPU is capable of supplying frames in a stable stream, but the GPU's fill rate effectively stabilizes as the resolution class increases.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-14700K is a Raptor Lake Refresh part with 20 cores and 28 threads. It operates with a base clock of 3.40 GHz and a boost of 5.60 GHz even on the E-core. The processor is built on a 10 nm process (Intel's enhanced 10 nm for desktop), packing 8 large cores and 12 small cores. The cache hierarchy includes 80 KB of level-1 per core, 2 MB of L2 per core, and a shared 33 MB of L3 cache. It supports DDR4 and DDR5 memory through a dual-channel interface, and the same system is reinforced for ECC memory.

Benchmark data shows a high-performing processor: Cinebench R23 multi-core scores 33440.5 points, and Geekbench multi-core hits 20767. The single-core scores are 2160 (Geekbench) and 313.5 (Cinebench R15). In PassMark's multithreading test, the 14700K achieves 52392. The average benchmark score is 69355, placing it in the 94th percentile of all CPUs.

Within this game, the CPU appears to have no trouble feeding 4Kp frames even at 1440p High settings where the average is 43 FPS. The 101 FPS at 1080p Low is close to a typical single-producer render reference. The CPU's high Calvin need be confirmed by a single-thread score. The 7.5 GHz boost clock is the fastest way to finish the FPS ceiling at low resolutions: 101 frames have to be computed and packaged each second. The large number of threads—28 total—explains how the CPU can hold a stable frame list even with the action RPG's general background workloads.

FAQ

Q: What resolution gives the highest average frame rate with the RTX 3050 4GB and i7-14700K?

A: 1920x1080 with Low settings yields the highest measured average FPS at 73 FPS, according to the face pack.

Q: What's the performance difference between High and Ultra settings at 2560x1440?

A: High settings average 82 FPS at 1440p High, while Ultra averages only 54 FPS on the same resolution.

Q: What is the minimum FPS recorded at 3840x2160?

A: The only min/max data for 4K is corder at Medium, with a minimum of 24 FPS and a maximum of 32 FPS.

Q: What is the CPU's combined performance rating relative to other CPUs?

A: The Intel Core i7-14700K falls in the 94th percentile of all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 69355.

Q: How many cores and threads does the CPU have in this test combination?

A: The i7-14700K has 20 cores and 28 threads, and a boost clock of 5.60 GHz.

Q: What is the GPU's memory bandwidth in this configuration?

A: The RTX 3050 4GB operates at 192.0 GB/s through its GDDR6 VRAM, with 4 GB capacity.