Doom

The pairing of AMD's Ryzen 7 9700X with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4080 makes short work of Doom, the 2016 FPS classic. Benchmark data from this tested combination shows frame rates well above the 60 FPS playable threshold at every resolution and every preset, from 1920x1080 Low through 3840x2160 Ultra. This combo ranks 215th out of 3712 tested configurations in this game, placing it in the top tier of recorded results for a title that, despite its age, still delivers one of the most demanding Vulkan rendering workloads when pushed to maximum settings.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 7 9700X + RTX 4080 run Doom at 4K with Ultra settings?

A: Yes. The measured average at 3840x2160 Ultra is 85 FPS, comfortably above the 60 FPS threshold. Every preset at 4K — Low, Medium, High, and Ultra — clears the threshold.

Q: What is the fastest frame rate recorded for this combo in Doom?

A: 401 FPS at 1920x1080 on the Low preset. At the same resolution, Medium averages 350 FPS and Ultra averages 241 FPS.

Q: What CPU is in this configuration?

A: The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X, a Zen 5 (Granite Ridge) processor with 8 cores and 16 threads, a 5.50 GHz boost clock, and a 65 W TDP on the AM5 socket.

Q: What GPU is in this configuration?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080, an Ada Lovelace card built on the AD103 chip with 16 GB of GDDR6X memory, 9728 shading units, and 76 RT cores.

Q: How does this hardware pairing rank in Doom compared to other tested combos?

A: It ranks 215 out of 3712 tested combinations in this game — a position in the upper region of the database.

Q: Does increasing the resolution dramatically hurt performance?

A: Somewhat, but not enough to matter for playability. Moving from 1080p Ultra to 4K Ultra drops the average from 241 FPS to 85 FPS, yet even that lower figure stays above 60 FPS.

Best Settings per Resolution

At 1920x1080, the most demanding preset that holds at or above 60 FPS is Ultra, delivering an average of 241 FPS. Medium manages 350 FPS, High reaches 295 FPS, and Low pushes all the way to 401 FPS. There is no preset at this resolution that fails the threshold.

At 2560x1440, Ultra again qualifies as the best playable setting, averaging 156 FPS. High sits at 191 FPS, Medium at 226 FPS, and Low at 260 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra at this resolution is 104 FPS, a comparatively modest cost for maximum visual quality.

At 3840x2160, Ultra remains playable with an average of 85 FPS. High delivers 104 FPS, Medium 123 FPS, and Low 141 FPS. Even at four times the pixel count of 1080p, the most demanding preset in the game sustains frame rates well beyond the 60 FPS bar.

In short: Ultra is the recommended setting at every resolution tested. There is no scenario in this dataset where the combo needs to step down a preset to stay playable.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data points firmly to Doom being GPU-bound on this configuration at higher resolutions. Consider the Ultra preset numbers: 241 FPS at 1080p, 156 FPS at 1440p, and 85 FPS at 4K. Frame rates fall as pixel count rises, which is the signature of a graphics-limited pipeline — the RTX 4080 is doing the heavy lifting, and the Ryzen 7 9700X is feeding it without becoming the constraint.

The preset scaling tells a complementary story. At 4K, dropping from Ultra to Low lifts the average from 85 FPS to 141 FPS, a 56 FPS gain from settings alone. At 1080p, the same drop yields a gain of 160 FPS (241 to 401). Settings changes move performance substantially at every resolution, but the sheer headroom at 1080p — where even Ultra runs at 241 FPS — suggests the CPU has bandwidth to spare.

That headroom is consistent with the 9700X's own benchmark profile. Its single-thread results (1280 in 3DMark single thread, 3023 in Geekbench single-core, 346 in Cinebench R15 single-core, 2211 in Cinebench R23 single-core, 4654 in PassMark single thread) place it in the 86th percentile of all CPUs in the database, and Doom's fast-paced FPS gameplay benefits from strong per-core throughput. Still, the data indicates the GPU is the component that sets the performance ceiling here, particularly at 1440p and 4K.

Similar Performance Alternatives

For the CPU side, the 9700X's nearest rivals by average benchmark score are remarkably close. The Intel Core i9-14901E sits just 0.1% behind (average score 37911 versus the 9700X's 37943), and the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is also 0.1% back at 37904. The Intel Core 5 211E trails by 0.3% and the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded P132 by 0.4%. Any of these processors would deliver effectively indistinguishable CPU-side performance in Doom, since the game's frame rates on this combo are GPU-limited anyway.

On the GPU side, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is the nearest match at just 0.1% off the RTX 4080's average score (54209 versus 54247), making it a near-drop-in substitute for Doom performance. The AMD Radeon Pro W5700X scores 1.1% higher, the Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12 GB is 2.6% ahead, and the Radeon 8060S leads by 2.7%. Those three would, if anything, edge slightly past the RTX 4080 in aggregate benchmarks, though the deltas are small enough that Doom results should land within a narrow band of the figures recorded here.

Both the CPU and GPU sit in the 86th percentile against their respective component databases, so the pairing is naturally balanced: substituting any of the listed rivals on either side would produce a system in the same performance neighborhood.

The Verdict

Yes — emphatically. The Ryzen 7 9700X + RTX 4080 combination runs Doom at every resolution and every preset tested, with no exceptions. At 1920x1080, all presets clear 60 FPS, topping out at 241 FPS on Ultra and 401 FPS on Low. At 2560x1440, all presets again clear the threshold, from 156 FPS on Ultra up to 260 FPS on Low. At 3840x2160, the verdict holds: Ultra averages 85 FPS, High 104 FPS, Medium 123 FPS, and Low 141 FPS.

The verdict data confirms that the best settings at each resolution are Ultra across the board — 241 FPS at 1080p, 156 FPS at 1440p, and 85 FPS at 4K. For a fast FPS where high frame rates directly improve responsiveness, this configuration doesn't just meet the playable threshold; it exceeds it by wide margins even at maximum settings on a 4K display. Players can enable everything the game offers and still enjoy fluid motion at any mainstream resolution.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the Doom results database, this pairing ranks 215th out of 3712 tested combinations. That places it among the fastest configurations recorded for the game — a result driven primarily by the RTX 4080, whose 86th-percentile standing among all GPUs and strong Vulkan credentials (a Geekbench Vulkan score of 263779) align well with Doom's Vulkan-based renderer.

The CPU contributes a stable, high-percentile foundation: the 9700X's 86th percentile ranking, 20485 Cinebench R23 multi-core score, and 17906 Geekbench multi-core score mean it never bottlenecks the GPU at the resolutions tested. The combination's rank reflects that balance — a top-tier GPU paired with a processor that keeps it fed at 4K, where the ranking data shows the pairing posting an 85 FPS Ultra average that many configurations cannot match.