Doom

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER delivers a remarkably consistent scaling curve in Doom, one that clearly identifies the graphics card as the primary performance governor from 1080p upward. At 1920x1080 with Low settings, the combination produces an average of 371 FPS, which drops to 240 FPS at 2560x1440, and further to 130 FPS at 3840x2160. The scaling from Low 1080p to Low 4K represents a 64.9% reduction in frame rate, a steep decline that strongly suggests the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is nearing its fill-rate and shading limits when pixel count quadruples. In contrast, the CPU’s headroom remains largely untapped in this title, as even the 4K Ultra preset, which produces 78 FPS, does not display symptoms of processor bottlenecking. The measured ranges confirm this: at Medium settings, the minimum FPS values move from 275 at 1080p to 178 at 1440p, then down to 96 at 2160p, tracking the resolution scaling in a manner typical of GPU-bound workloads. The data indicates that this pairing is balanced, but the limiting component at all resolutions above 1080p is clearly the GPU, not the 8-core, 16-thread Zen 5 processor.

Benchmark results show that the delta between preset quality levels expands as resolution rises. At 1080p, the difference between Low and Ultra is 148 FPS (371 vs 223), while at 4K the same preset gap shrinks to 52 FPS (130 vs 78). This is a typical sign of a fixed GPU pipeline: at lower resolutions the CPU can feed frames faster than the GPU can render them, magnifying the impact of graphics settings. However, as resolution increases to 4K, the GPU compute units and memory subsystem saturate, and the relative performance loss from more demanding settings compresses. Specifically, the scaling from 1080p Medium (323 FPS) to 4K Medium (113 FPS) represents a 65% reduction, while the same progression from 1080p Ultra (223) to 4K Ultra (78) is also exactly 65%, indicating that the GPU headroom is proportionally utilized across the entire resolution range. The 4K High setting of 96 FPS lands between 4K Medium and 4K Ultra, showing that shader complexity does not flip the limiting factor; the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER remains the primary constraint throughout.

GPU Role — VRAM, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and packed with 8448 shading units, 264 texture mapping units, and 96 ROPs. Its memory subsystem is substantial: 16 GB of GDDR6X on a 256-bit bus delivers 672.3 GB/s of bandwidth, with a memory clock of 1313 MHz (21 Gbps effective). At its base clock of 2340 MHz and boost up to 2610 MHz, the GPU sustains a pixel rate of 250.6 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 689.0 GTexel/s, which in direct terms explains its 4K UHD capabilities. The role of VRAM in Doom is not generally a risk of exhaustion, as the game is from 2016, but it’s worth remembering the 16 GB capacity provides ample allowance for high-resolution textures. The measured FPS at 4K High (96 FPS) and 4K Ultra (78 FPS) fit within the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER’s abilities, and the 130 FPS Low at 4K shows that even with low-complexity pixel shaders, the shading units keep their load. The GPU boost clock of 2610 MHz is the likely driver for the high frame rates at 1440p Medium (209 FPS) and High (177 FPS), where the core clock can maintain high utilization without memory bandwidth limits. The GPU’s performance percentile against all GPUs is 76, and its average benchmark score of 31087, putting it just off-camera in the rankings, but with the nearest rival being the NVIDIA Quadro M5000 at avg score 31206, a deltaPct of -0.4, so they are effectively performance equals by that metric. The lack of memory over-60 GHz support means the 4070 Ti SUPER is still a top contender for this title’s settings.

FAQ

Q: At what resolution and settings does the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER start to hit a barrier?

A: The data shows diminishing returns between 2560x1440 and 1920x1080. At 1080p Low, the combo achieves 371 FPS, but at 2560p Low it drops to 240 FPS, a 35. 3% reduction. The 4K Low setting falls to 130 FPS, indicating a sharp drop once the pixel count exceeds 8.3 million. The GPU’s raw compute is high, but the entrance of higher resolutions increasingly demands on the memory subsystem, which explains the 33rd percentile FPS on 4K UHD.

Q: What is the highest average FPS recorded for this combination in Doom?

A: The highest average FPS measured is 371 at 1920x1080 with Low settings. The second is 323 at 1080p Medium, followed by 273 at 1080p High. These numbers place the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER well beyond a 165Hz display at 1080p, even with Ultra settings yielding 223 FPS.

Q: Does the 4Kp setting deliver playable frame rates?

A: Yes, all 4K presets produce playable averages. The average is 78 FPS for Ultra, 96 for High, 113 for Medium, and 130 for Low projectiles. Minimum FPS at 3840x2160 is only recorded for Medium at 96 FPS, which is still fluid. The suggested PSU is 600 W, and the GPU TDP is 285 W, with no indication of power limitations under load.

Q: Is there any CPU bottleneck visible in the results?

A: The benchmark indicates that this title is largely unaffected by the CPU. The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, with an average CPU score of 39768 and a percentile of 87, sits near the high end. At 1080p Low, the 371 FPS still stands, so the processor’s 8 cores and 16 threads, boosting to 5.20 GHz, keep up without limiting the GPU’s output. The CPU’s nearest rival, the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS, scores 39603 at -0.4% deltaPct, which the gap is minuscule. No data points reveal a CPU-first stall.

Q: How does the combination perform at 1440p versus 4Kp?

A: The 2560x1440 resolution is the best balance in this pack. Medium brings 209 FPS (min 178), High 177, and Ultra 144, all above 140 FPS. The 4K resolutions average no higher than 130 FPS. Thus, a 1440p display can be fully utilized; 4K requires accepting the Ultra 78 FPS or using lower preset to hit 100+ FPS.

Q: What preset is best for competitive play at 1080p?

A: Low at 1080p provides the highest average of 371 FPS. Medium still averages 323 FPS, and High 273. This data suggests that even in high-action scenes, a 240Hz panel can be populated with headroom at Medium, though Low maximizes the frame rate gap.

Measured FPS Breakdown — resolution by resolution, settings by settings, exact numbers

The measured data is tampered down with all combinations. At 1920x1080, the average FPS ranges from 223 (Ultra) to 371 (Low). The Medium preset records a minimum of 275 and maximum of 372, presenting the highest low-frame robustness in the dataset. At 2560x1440, on the other hand, the progression is: Low at 240, Medium at 209 min 218, High at 177, Ultra at 144. The 1440p Medium shows a min of 178 and max of 240, which is consistent a 62 FPS spread. The 4K UHD results: 1300 Low, 113 Medium (min 90, max 130), High 96, and Ultra 78. When scaling from 1080p to 4K at the same preset, the Medium drops from 323 to 113, a 65% decrease; the Ultra drops from 223 to 78, a 65% decrease; High drops from 273 to 96, a 64. 8% decrease; Low drops from 371 to 130, a 64.9% decrease. The low deviation in percentages across all settings confirms that the GPU’s memory subsystem transfers its load proportionally. The average FPS at every setting and resolution is within measureable distance of the GPU’s theoretical compute and then. No thrown frames or stalls are indicated by the min/max data that shows for the Medium presets, which are the only ones to include the bounds in all three resolutions. For all other settings, only the average is given.

CPU Role — cores, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a 8-core, 16-thread part from the 9000 series, based on the Zen 5 architecture in Granite Ridge. It clocked a base 4.70 GHz and boost up to 5.20 GHz, while the L3 cache is 96 MB shared and the L2 is 1 MB per core. The processor combines a TDP of 120 W within a socket of AMD AM5. Its multi-threaded is strong, with Cinebench R23 multicore scoring 23230, and single-core scoring 2080. These translate to what we see in Doom: at 1080p Low, the game is purely GPU bound, as the 371 FPS average would require a CPU capable of handling nearly 6.2k frame ticks per second, and the 9800X3D’s single-thread performance is high enough to avoid injecting a processor limit.

In the higher resolution, the CPU headroom is even more obvious. At 4Kp with all presets, the CPU load is nearly constant but the FPS moves with GPU settings, so the processor’s role is to maintain the render thread. The 9800X3D’s pointer geometry: in passmark_multithread it scores 40009, and in 3dmark_max_threads 10067, which reveals that its 16 threads are well-utilized, but a game like Doom does not appearances. The nearest rivals eig—AMD Ryzen 7 7700 at 40081 avgScore, AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 at 40048—show that the 9800X3D has no those peers, but the difference is under 1% in most cases. The single-core score of 1212 in 3dmark puts it far above the need, and the 89.6 GB/s memory bandwidth, though not a broad DDR5 bandwidth, is sufficient for this game’s requirements. In the plethora of 1920x1080 resolution, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER already hits 371 FPS with a CPU, meaning the processor can gauge. No data suggests that lowering the resolution further would yield FPS higher than 371 because the CPU would become the wall, but that is beyond the scope of the measured rows.

Settings Recommendations — which preset gives the best experience per the measured rows

Based on the measured FPS, the Living run preset at 2560x1440 is the sweet spot for this hardware. It averages 209 FPS with a recorded minimum of 178 and maximum of 240, which ensures no drop below 178 FPS in any segment. That is a texture where the GPU is saturated but the CPU is not held hostage. At 1080p, Medium achieves 323 FPS on average (min 275, max 372), which is superior to High (median 273) and Ultra (223), with a far higher floor than High’s unspecified low. The Ultraesfor Ultra at 1440p, bringing an average of 144 FPS, is also playable, but 209 FPS offers double the headroom for a high refresh display.

At 4K, the preset choice is more constrained. The 4K Medium delivers 113 average FPS with a min of 96 and a max of 130, a solid balance between visual quality and stutter-free performance for 60-100Hz panels. The High preset drops to 96 with no floor, and Ultra goes down 78, which is still smooth but for a 120Hz screen it would not reach the her much. The Low at 4K average 130, but the visual tradeoff is severe in an FPS. Given the data, the best overall experience for a 1440p monitor is Medium, which exceeds 144Hz. For 1080p, Medium still provides the highest low-frame rate, surpassing Ultra by 100 FPS (275 vs blank). The setting of High or Ultra is visually richer, but the measured min/max on Medium are the strongest, suggesting frame gateway constraints. The recommendation is to choose Medium unless the display is limited to 78 FPS, in which case Ultra is acceptable.

How This Combo Ranks — use comboRankInGame vs other tested combos

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER holds the rank 409 out of 3712 tested combos in the comprehensive database. That places it in just the top 11% of all documented systems. The data is measured, which means the scores have been generated under consistent testing. This rank is high, but not a top-1% outlier, reflecting that this game does not disproportionately reward the highest or super high, given older engine port constraints. Instead, the real in front of way all average FPS and low variance.

When viewing the GPU’s nearest rivals, this ranks become more clear: the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER has an average benchmark score of 31087, with the nearest rivals separating by a small amount — the Quadro M5000 at 31206 (-0.4) and the RTX TITAN (31220). The CPU is also tightly grouped. The 9800X3D’s avg 39763 sits between the AMD Ryzen 7 7700 at 40081 (-0.86) and the older 8840, Nd, no one beats the other by more than 1% so. The rank 409 indicates; hence, this pairing is more than sufficient for Doom, but the high FPS counts do not lead to a super-exclusivity in ranking because the game itself is not too demanding on the latest hardware. For reference, the combo that outperform it often have better GPUs, but the play clock at 4K MD is already above 60 FPS, and rank doesn’t account for Multi-object performance. The measured results — always exceeding 78 FPS at any setting and resolution — reassure that this system will never be a limiting platform.