Doom

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700 and AMD Radeon RX 580 pairing occupies a challenging position in the Doom benchmark hierarchy, ranking 1577th out of 1681 tested combinations. This places the combo in the bottom 6% of all systems, a result driven primarily by the graphics card's age rather than the processor's capability. The data reveals a system where the CPU has substantial headroom left unused, while the GPU struggles to maintain playable framerates at higher resolutions.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700 brings eight cores and sixteen threads to the table, operating at a base clock of 3.70 GHz and boosting up to 4.60 GHz. This Zen 3 architecture chip, built on TSMC's 7 nm process, delivers strong synthetic performance that places it in the 84th percentile of all CPUs tested. Its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 20655 demonstrates considerable processing power, while the single-core score of 2916 indicates solid per-thread performance as well.

In Doom, the CPU's role appears largely secondary. The measured framerates show a pattern where performance scales almost entirely with resolution and settings changes, which typically indicates GPU limitation rather than CPU bottlenecking. At 1080p Low settings, the system achieves 102.3 FPS, but even at this least demanding configuration, the processor is unlikely to be the limiting factor. The 3DMark results reinforce this interpretation: the 16-thread score of 6628 and single-thread score of 901 both suggest ample headroom for a game like Doom, which is known for efficient multi-threading but rarely demands maximum CPU throughput.

Comparing to its nearest rivals, the Ryzen 7 5700 sits remarkably close to the Intel Core i9-9900K in average benchmark scores, trailing by only 0.7%. The gap to the Intel Core i7-12700H is similarly narrow at 0.8%, and the AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 is just 1.2% behind. This clustering indicates that the CPU's performance is well within the expected range for a modern eight-core processor, and none of these differences would meaningfully alter Doom's framerate in this configuration.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 580 represents the bottleneck in this pairing. Built on the Polaris 20 chip with GCN 4.0 architecture, this 14 nm part from GlobalFoundries features 2304 shading units and 144 texture mapping units. Its 8 GB of GDDR5 memory runs at 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) across a 256-bit bus, yielding 256.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The GPU's boost clock reaches 1340 MHz, producing 6.175 TFLOPS of FP32 compute.

The RX 580's benchmark percentile tells a sobering story: it sits at just the 53rd percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 13559. Its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (0% delta), GTX 950 (0.1%), and AMD Radeon Pro 455 (1.1%). This positions the RX 580 as a mid-tier card from several generations ago, and Doom's results reflect this reality directly.

At 1080p Ultra settings, the combo manages 63.7 FPS, but this drops to 23.3 FPS at 4K High. The GPU's memory bandwidth of 256.0 GB/s, while respectable for its era, becomes insufficient at higher resolutions where the demand on texture bandwidth grows substantially. The card's 32 ROPs also limit fill-rate-bound scenarios, which explains why Ultra settings at 4K produce just 20 FPS. The RX 580's 185 W TDP and dual-slot design are consistent with its performance class, but the data shows that Doom's demands exceed what this GPU can deliver at higher resolutions.

Resolution Scaling

The resolution scaling pattern clearly identifies the GPU as the limiting component. From 1080p to 1440p at High settings, the framerate drops from 74.4 FPS to 47.6 FPS, a reduction of approximately 36%. Moving from 1440p to 4K at High settings further reduces performance from 47.6 FPS to 23.3 FPS, another 51% decrease. These large proportional drops indicate that the system is heavily GPU-bound, as a CPU-limited scenario would show much smaller differences when resolution increases.

The settings scaling at each resolution reinforces this conclusion. At 1080p, the spread between Low and Ultra is from 102.3 FPS down to 63.7 FPS, a range of 38.6 FPS. At 1440p, the same settings span from 64.2 FPS to 40.8 FPS, a 23.4 FPS range. At 4K, the range narrows further to just 13.6 FPS, from 33.6 FPS at Low down to 20 FPS at Ultra. This compression at higher resolutions is characteristic of a GPU that has hit its absolute throughput ceiling, where even reducing graphical quality cannot fully compensate for the pixel count.

The 4K results are particularly telling. The difference between Low and High at 4K is only 10.3 FPS, and the jump from Medium to Ultra is just 9.9 FPS. This suggests that at 4K, the RX 580 is so overwhelmed by pixel shading demands that settings changes have diminishing returns. The 1080p results, by contrast, show a more typical scaling pattern where each settings tier produces a meaningful framerate shift.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo's rank of 1577 out of 1681 tested combinations places it in the bottom 6.2% of all systems tested in Doom. This is a poor result, but it must be interpreted through the lens of the components involved. The CPU's 84th percentile ranking contrasts sharply with the GPU's 53rd percentile, creating an imbalance where the processor is clearly not the constraint.

The deltaPct values for the CPU's nearest rivals show differences of less than 1.2%, meaning that swapping the Ryzen 7 5700 for any of those alternatives would produce nearly identical Doom results. The GPU's nearest rivals show similarly tight clustering, with deltas of 1.1% or less. This indicates that the system's ranking is primarily determined by the RX 580's absolute performance level rather than any tuning or compatibility issue.

When compared to other combinations, this pairing likely suffers from the age gap between the two components. The CPU, released in 2022, is modern and capable. The GPU, released in 2017, is end-of-life and was mid-range even at launch. This mismatch means that the combo's Doom performance is capped by the RX 580's limits, particularly at higher resolutions where the card's 256-bit memory bus and 32 ROPs become significant constraints.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1080p, the system delivers playable framerates across all settings. Low settings produce 102.3 FPS, Medium yields 87.7 FPS, High achieves 74.4 FPS, and Ultra drops to 63.7 FPS. These numbers are all above the 60 FPS threshold commonly considered smooth for FPS games, though Ultra barely clears it. The 1080p results show the RX 580 operating within its comfort zone, with the CPU providing sufficient headroom.

Moving to 1440p, performance becomes more marginal. Low settings maintain 64.2 FPS, but Medium drops to 58.9 FPS, High falls to 47.6 FPS, and Ultra sinks to 40.8 FPS. Players seeking 60+ FPS at this resolution would need to use Low settings, and even then the margin is thin. The 1440p results indicate that the GPU's fill rate and memory bandwidth are becoming limiting factors.

At 4K, the system struggles to maintain playable framerates. Low settings produce 33.6 FPS, Medium achieves 29.9 FPS, High drops to 23.3 FPS, and Ultra falls to 20 FPS. None of these results approach 30 FPS except at Low settings, and even that is barely above the threshold. The 4K data confirms that this combination is not suitable for ultra-high-resolution gaming in Doom, regardless of quality settings.

The overall pattern across all three resolutions and four settings levels shows a system that can handle 1080p gaming well, including at higher quality presets, but degrades rapidly as resolution increases. For the best experience, players would target 1080p with High or Ultra settings, where the framerate remains above 60 FPS. At 1440p, the system becomes a Low-to-Medium settings proposition, and at 4K it falls below the minimum acceptable framerate for a fast-paced FPS title.