Doom

The pairing of AMD's Ryzen 5 3600 with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060 is a combination born three and a half years apart, a 2019 Zen 2 six-core sitting 71st percentile among all CPUs in the database alongside an Ada Lovelace card in the 61st percentile of all GPUs. Against Doom, a fast-paced 2016 FPS built on Vulkan-era engine technology, this duo lands at rank 1995 out of 3712 tested combinations in the database for this game. That places it almost exactly at the midpoint of the field, and the measured frame rates show why: comfortably fast at 1080p and 1440p, but constrained once 4K is on the table.

How This Combo Ranks

Rank 1995 of 3712 puts this pairing in the top half of tested combinations, though only barely, sitting at the point where the distribution flips from stronger to weaker setups. The composition explains that position. The Ryzen 5 3600 carries an average benchmark score of 17035 across its recorded tests, with individual results including 4603 in 3DMark max threads, 15045 in Cinebench R23 multi-core, 2124 in Cinebench R23 single-core, and 17700 in PassMark multithread. The RTX 4060 posts an average score of 17639, anchored by a PassMark G3D result of 19545 and a Geekbench OpenCL score of 95057.

Both components sit within a fraction of a percent of their respective rivals in the database. The CPU is statistically indistinguishable from the Intel Core i7-1260P (0.2 percent gap), the Intel Core i5-11400 (0.2 percent gap), and even the server-class AMD EPYC 7742 and EPYC 7573X. The GPU's nearest neighbors are more modest hardware: the AMD Radeon 780M integrated graphics trail it by 0.3 percent, the Radeon Pro 560 by 0.5 percent, and the Radeon Pro 460 by 0.7 percent. None of these comparisons change the game-specific outcome, which is decided by the measured frame rates below, but they frame the combo as a genuinely mid-pack pairing rather than a lopsided one.

Similar Performance Alternatives

Because the Ryzen 5 3600 sits within 0.2 percent of several CPUs in aggregate benchmark score, a build with the Intel Core i5-11400 or Intel Core i7-1260P should behave very similarly as a Doom pairing with this GPU. The two EPYC parts listed as rivals also match in average score, though they belong to a different hardware class entirely and are not practical desktop substitutes. On the graphics side, the recorded rival set is unusual: the RTX 4060's aggregate score lands within 0.7 percent of the AMD Radeon 780M, Radeon Pro 560, Radeon Pro 460, and Radeon HD 7790 by the database's composite metric, even though the 4060 is a far newer design on a 5 nm process with 3072 shading units, 24 RT cores, and 96 tensor cores. The lesson here is that aggregate percentile rankings blur across generations, so game-specific measurements matter more than composite scores. For Doom specifically, the measured data for this exact combo is the reliable reference point.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data makes the division of labor clear. At 1920x1080, frame rates run from 229.4 on Low to 134.7 on Ultra. At 2560x1440, the same presets deliver 146 down to 90.1. At 3840x2160, the range compresses to 78.8 on Low and 50.3 on Ultra. Moving from 1080p to 1440p costs roughly 25 to 33 percent of the frame rate depending on preset, while the jump from 1440p to 4K costs roughly 40 to 46 percent. That steepening loss curve with resolution is the classic signature of GPU limitation: each additional pixel pushes more work onto the RTX 4060's 3072 shading units and its 272 GB/s of memory bandwidth, while the Ryzen 5 3600's contribution stays roughly constant.

The preset scaling tells the complementary story. At 1080p, dropping from Ultra to Low buys 94.7 additional frames per second, from 134.7 to 229.4. At 4K, the same drop buys only 28.5 frames, from 50.3 to 78.8. When settings changes stop buying frames at high resolution, the GPU is saturated. At lower resolutions the large headroom suggests the CPU still has room to feed faster graphics hardware, meaning a GPU upgrade would scale well at 1080p. Doom, as an FPS, rewards high and stable frame rates, and at 1080p this pairing delivers exactly that.

The Verdict

Yes, this PC runs Doom, with one qualification. At 1920x1080, every preset clears the 60 FPS playability threshold, with Ultra averaging 134.7. At 2560x1440, again every preset clears it, with Ultra averaging 90.1. At 3840x2160, the verdict splits: Low at 78.8 and Medium at 67.9 are playable, while High at 58.6 and Ultra at 50.3 fall short of the threshold. So the practical answer is full settings freedom up to 1440p, and a Medium ceiling at 4K.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 5 3600 and RTX 4060 run Doom at 4K?

A: Yes, with limits. Low averages 78.8 FPS and Medium averages 67.9 FPS, both above the 60 FPS threshold. High (58.6) and Ultra (50.3) fall below it.

Q: What is the best setting for maximum frame rate at 1080p without going to minimum quality?

A: Medium averages 200.5 FPS at 1920x1080, a strong middle ground between Low's 229.4 and High's 166.6.

Q: How does this combo rank against other tested pairings for Doom?

A: It ranks 1995 out of 3712 combinations, placing it just inside the top half of the database.

Q: Is the CPU or the GPU the bottleneck?

A: The data indicates GPU limitation at higher resolutions. Frame rates drop sharply as resolution climbs while preset changes buy progressively fewer frames, pointing at the RTX 4060 rather than the Ryzen 5 3600.

Q: Which CPUs would perform similarly to the Ryzen 5 3600 in this pairing?

A: The Intel Core i5-11400 and Intel Core i7-1260P sit within 0.2 percent of its average benchmark score of 17035.

Q: Does the RTX 4060 support the APIs Doom needs?

A: Yes. The card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, Vulkan 1.4, and OpenGL 4.6.

Best Settings per Resolution

• 1920x1080: Ultra, averaging 134.7 FPS. Every preset clears 60 FPS, so there is no reason to compromise.
• 2560x1440: Ultra, averaging 90.1 FPS. All four presets are playable, and even the most demanding one holds a 30 FPS cushion over the threshold.
• 3840x2160: Medium, averaging 67.9 FPS. High misses the cutoff at 58.6, so Medium is the most demanding preset that stays at or above 60 FPS.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the pairing is untouchable for a game of this type. Low averages 229.4 FPS, Medium averages 200.5, High averages 166.6, and Ultra averages 134.7. Even the heaviest preset more than doubles the playability threshold, and the 94.7 FPS spread between Low and Ultra shows how much rendering headroom exists at this resolution.

At 2560x1440, the numbers step down in an orderly fashion: 146 on Low, 128.1 on Medium, 110.7 on High, and 90.1 on Ultra. The gap between Low and Ultra narrows to 55.9 FPS, reflecting the growing load on the GPU, but every preset remains comfortably playable for a fast shooter where responsiveness matters.

At 3840x2160, the constraint arrives. Low averages 78.8 FPS, Medium 67.9, High 58.6, and Ultra 50.3. The Low-to-Ultra spread compresses to 28.5 FPS, confirming that the RTX 4060's 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus is being pushed hard at this pixel count. Minimum and maximum frame rates were not recorded for these runs, so the averages are the sole reference, but the pattern is unambiguous: 4K demands quality concessions, while 1080p and 1440p are open ground for this pairing.