Doom

Doom is a fast, punishing arena shooter where frame rate directly affects playability, and the pairing of AMD's Ryzen 5 5500 with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5050 handles it comfortably at two of the three tested resolutions. Benchmark results indicate the combo clears the 60 FPS threshold at every preset at 1920x1080 and 2560x1440, with only 4K Ultra falling short at 43 FPS. The game dates to a 2016 release, which explains why even this mid-tier GPU pairing posts triple-digit frame rates at 1080p — 202 FPS at Low and 122 FPS at Ultra — and why the CPU, sitting in the 73rd percentile of all tested processors, is never the limiting factor here.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 5 5500 + RTX 5050 run Doom at 60 FPS?

A: Yes, at 1920x1080 and 2560x1440 every preset from Low through Ultra stays at or above 60 FPS. At 3840x2160, only Low (71 FPS) and Medium (62 FPS) clear the threshold; High averages 52 FPS and Ultra averages 43 FPS.

Q: What is the best setting for 1080p play?

A: Ultra, at 122 FPS average. Even the most demanding preset has double the headroom over the 60 FPS playability bar at this resolution.

Q: What is the best setting for 1440p play?

A: Ultra again, at 79 FPS average — a 19 FPS margin over the threshold.

Q: What is the best setting for 4K play?

A: Medium, at 62 FPS average. It is the most demanding preset that stays at or above 60 FPS at 3840x2160.

Q: What CPU is in this build, and how does it compare to rivals?

A: The Ryzen 5 5500 is a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 3 processor on the AM4 socket with a 3.60 GHz base and 4.20 GHz boost. Its average benchmark score of 19593 sits within a fraction of a percent of the AMD Ryzen AI 5 430 (19617, -0.1%), Intel Core i5-12500 (19668, -0.4%), Intel Core i7-10700F (19499, +0.5%), and Intel Core i5-11600KF (19723, -0.7%).

Q: How does this pairing rank among tested combinations in Doom?

A: Rank 2281 out of 3712 tested combos — a middling position overall, yet comfortably above the point where Doom becomes unplayable, since the measured data confirms 60-plus FPS at ten of twelve resolution/preset combinations.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the Ryzen 5 5500's average score of 19593 is effectively indistinguishable from its nearest rivals. The AMD Ryzen AI 5 430 scores 19617 — a 0.1% gap — while the Intel Core i5-12500 (19668) and Core i5-11600KF (19723) lead by 0.4% and 0.7% respectively. The Intel Core i7-10700F actually trails slightly at 19499, 0.5% behind. Any of these processors would deliver indistinguishable Doom performance alongside the RTX 5050, because a 2016 FPS at these frame rates is far more sensitive to GPU throughput than to CPU compute spread within one percent.

On the GPU side, the RTX 5050's average score of 21035 has equally tight neighbors. The AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL (21153) and Radeon HD 8970M (21237) sit 0.6% and 1% ahead, the NVIDIA RTX A4000 Mobile is 1.6% ahead at 21379, and the Radeon RX 5600 XT is 1.6% behind at 20713. Swapping the RTX 5050 for any of these cards would shift Doom frame rates by only a few FPS in either direction. The 5050 itself is a Blackwell 2.0 part built on TSMC's 5 nm node with 2560 shading units, 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus delivering 320 GB/s of bandwidth, and 13.17 TFLOPS of FP32 compute — a spec sheet that places it in the 66th percentile of all tested GPUs.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data points squarely at the GPU as the component that matters in Doom on this build. Moving from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 at Ultra drops the average from 122 FPS to 79 FPS — a 35% decline for a 78% increase in pixels rendered. Pushing to 3840x2160 at Ultra cuts the figure to 43 FPS. When frame rate falls as resolution climbs while the CPU workload stays constant, the graphics card is the bottleneck, and that is exactly the pattern here.

Preset scaling tells the same story. At 1080p, going from Low (202 FPS) to Ultra (122 FPS) costs 80 FPS. At 1440p the spread is 131 down to 79. At 4K it is 71 down to 43. In every case the frame rate responds strongly to GPU load changes and never plateaus at a CPU-imposed ceiling — there is no flat line at, say, 130 FPS where the Ryzen 5 5500's six cores would cap out. That is consistent with the processor's profile: a 73rd-percentile CPU with a 2319-point Cinebench R23 single-core score and 16429 multi-core score is ample feeding stock for a game released in 2016.

The Ryzen 5 5500's other attributes — 16 MB of L3 cache, dual-channel DDR4 with 51.2 GB/s of bandwidth, and a 4.20 GHz boost clock — are simply not stressed by Doom at any tested setting. Users debating a CPU upgrade for this title would be misallocating effort; the data shows every resolution boundary in this build is drawn by the RTX 5050.

The Verdict

Yes, this PC runs Doom, and in most configurations it runs it well. At 1920x1080, all four presets are playable: Low at 202 FPS, Medium at 176, High at 149, and Ultra at 122. At 2560x1440, the same holds: Low at 131 FPS, Medium at 114, High at 96, and Ultra at 79. Only at 3840x2160 does the picture split — Low (71 FPS) and Medium (62 FPS) clear the 60 FPS threshold, while High (52 FPS) and Ultra (43 FPS) fall below it.

For a shooter where responsiveness is central, the 1080p and 1440p results are emphatic. A 122 FPS Ultra average at 1080p is double the playability bar, and even 4K Medium at 62 FPS technically qualifies, though the two-FPS margin leaves no room for dips. Players targeting 4K High or Ultra visuals would need to accept sub-60 frame rates or step down a preset. Everyone else — the overwhelming majority of use cases in this dataset — gets a fully playable experience.

Best Settings per Resolution

• 1920x1080 — Ultra, 122 FPS average. The most demanding preset still delivers double the 60 FPS threshold. There is no reason to lower settings at this resolution.
• 2560x1440 — Ultra, 79 FPS average. A 19 FPS cushion over the threshold keeps the top preset viable, though the margin is tighter than at 1080p.
• 3840x2160 — Medium, 62 FPS average. Medium is the ceiling here. High sits at 52 FPS and Ultra at 43, both below the playability line, so Medium's two-FPS margin is the best 4K can offer on this hardware.

The pattern is consistent: each resolution step up forces roughly one preset step down to hold the 60 FPS line. 1080p Ultra, 1440p Ultra, and 4K Medium are the data-backed picks.

How This Combo Ranks

This pairing ranks 2281 out of 3712 tested combinations in Doom — roughly the 61st percentile of tested rigs. That middling rank reflects the hardware's mid-tier positioning rather than any struggle with this specific title: the Ryzen 5 5500 sits in the 73rd percentile of CPUs and the RTX 5050 in the 66th percentile of GPUs, and Doom's 2016 engine simply does not demand more than they supply.

Context matters when reading that rank. Nearly four thousand combos were measured for this game, and the threshold for playability in this dataset is 60 FPS. A rank of 2281 with ten of twelve tested settings above that threshold means a large share of lower-ranked combinations — presumably older or weaker pairings — fall short where this one does not. The combo's strength is breadth: it plays Doom at every preset at two resolutions and at half the presets at 4K. Its weakness is headroom at the top end, where High and Ultra at 3840x2160 slip under the line. For a ranking based purely on Doom throughput, this is a solid mid-table finish with no asterisks attached.