Doom

The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER delivers a high-refresh-rate experience across all tested configurations in Doom, with the data showing a clear preference for the Medium preset as the most balanced option for maximizing frame rates while maintaining visual fidelity. This combination ranks 176th out of 1681 tested combos, placing it comfortably in the top 11% of all system configurations for this title.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS data provides a clear hierarchy across the four available presets, with each step in quality producing a consistent and significant impact on performance. At 2560x1440, the most common high-refresh gaming resolution, the Medium preset delivers 206.5 FPS, which represents a 29% improvement over the High preset's 174.9 FPS while only sacrificing moderate visual enhancements. The Ultra preset drops to 146.8 FPS, a 29% reduction from Medium, making it less suitable for competitive play on high-refresh displays.

The Low preset at 2560x1440 produces 238.2 FPS, which is 15% faster than Medium, but this comes at the cost of substantially reduced visual quality that diminishes the game's atmospheric presentation. For users with 144Hz monitors, the Medium preset is the optimal choice—it provides a 43% headroom above the refresh ceiling, ensuring consistent frame delivery without the visual degradation of Low or the performance penalty of High and Ultra.

At 1920x1080, the Medium preset's 323.7 FPS offers similar advantages, providing ample headroom for 240Hz displays while maintaining better visual quality than Low. The High preset at 272.9 FPS still exceeds 240Hz requirements, but the gap between Medium and High narrows to 19%, making Medium the more efficient choice. The Ultra preset at 224.7 FPS remains playable for 144Hz users but falls short of 240Hz capabilities.

At 3840x2160, the Medium preset's 112.5 FPS represents the sweet spot for 4K gaming, exceeding 60Hz refresh rates by 88% while keeping visual quality above the Low preset's 129.9 FPS. The High preset at 97.9 FPS still provides a smooth experience for 60Hz displays, but the 15% improvement from Medium to High may not justify the visual downgrade from Medium to High for users prioritizing frame stability.

FAQ

Q: What is the best settings preset for competitive play at 1920x1080?

A: The Low preset delivers the highest measured average FPS at 370.5, providing a 14% advantage over Medium's 323.7 FPS. This headroom ensures maximum frame consistency for high-refresh competitive monitors.

Q: How does the Ultra preset compare to High at 2560x1440?

A: The Ultra preset produces 146.8 FPS, which is 16% lower than High's 174.9 FPS. This 28.1 FPS difference represents the performance cost of enabling the highest visual fidelity settings.

Q: Can this combination handle 4K gaming with high refresh rates?

A: At 3840x2160, the High preset achieves 97.9 FPS, which exceeds standard 60Hz displays but falls below 120Hz capabilities. The Low preset reaches 129.9 FPS, enabling 120Hz operation at reduced visual quality.

Q: What is the frame rate difference between Medium and Ultra at 1920x1080?

A: The Medium preset records 323.7 FPS while Ultra drops to 224.7 FPS, a 44% reduction. This 99 FPS gap demonstrates the significant performance cost of Ultra settings even at lower resolutions.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the limiting factor at 3840x2160?

A: The data shows a 25% FPS increase when moving from High to Low at 4K, indicating the GPU is the primary bottleneck at this resolution. The CPU's high single-thread performance becomes less relevant as resolution increases.

Q: How does the 2560x1440 Medium preset compare to the 1920x1080 Ultra preset?

A: The 1440p Medium setting achieves 206.5 FPS, which is 8% lower than 1080p Ultra's 224.7 FPS. This suggests that the performance gain from reducing resolution is partially offset by the visual quality benefits of Medium over Ultra.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS data across the three tested resolutions reveals a progressive GPU bottleneck as resolution increases. At 1920x1080, the Low preset achieves 370.5 FPS, while dropping to 2560x1440 reduces this to 238.2 FPS—a 36% decrease. Moving to 3840x2160 further reduces Low preset performance to 129.9 FPS, representing a 45% drop from 1440p and a 65% drop from 1080p.

The High preset follows a similar trajectory: 272.9 FPS at 1080p, 174.9 FPS at 1440p (a 36% decrease), and 97.9 FPS at 4K (a 44% decrease from 1440p and 64% from 1080p). The consistent ~36% penalty for each resolution step suggests the GPU is the dominant limiting factor, as the CPU's performance headroom becomes less relevant at higher pixel counts.

The scaling pattern between presets remains consistent across resolutions. At 1080p, the gap between Low and Ultra is 145.8 FPS (39%), widening to 91.4 FPS (38%) at 1440p and 49.6 FPS (38%) at 4K. This proportional consistency indicates that the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER's rendering capabilities scale predictably with resolution, with no unexpected bottlenecks emerging at any tested configuration.

The minimum FPS data is not recorded, but the average FPS patterns suggest that the system maintains stable performance across all settings. The 4K Ultra result of 80.3 FPS represents the lowest measured average, still exceeding 60 FPS by 34%, ensuring a smooth experience even at the most demanding settings.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 3840x2160, the measured average FPS values are: Low at 129.9, Medium at 112.5, High at 97.9, and Ultra at 80.3. The step between each preset is consistent, with Medium being 13% slower than Low, High being 13% slower than Medium, and Ultra being 18% slower than High. This creates a total range of 49.6 FPS between the lowest and highest quality settings.

The 2560x1440 results show: Low at 238.2, Medium at 206.5, High at 174.9, and Ultra at 146.8. The relative differences are similar to 4K, with Medium being 13% slower than Low, High being 15% slower than Medium, and Ultra being 16% slower than High. The total spread is 91.4 FPS, representing a 38% performance range across presets.

At 1920x1080, the data shows: Low at 370.5, Medium at 323.7, High at 272.9, and Ultra at 224.7. Medium is 13% slower than Low, High is 16% slower than Medium, and Ultra is 18% slower than High. The total range is 145.8 FPS, a 39% spread that mirrors the proportional scaling seen at other resolutions.

Comparing across resolutions, the Low preset shows the largest absolute FPS gains at 1080p, while the Ultra preset maintains the smallest absolute values at all resolutions. The Medium preset consistently represents the midpoint between performance and quality, with its 206.5 FPS at 1440p being the most balanced result in the dataset.

How This Combo Ranks

The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER combination ranks 176th out of 1681 tested combos in Doom, placing it in the 90th percentile of all configurations. This rank reflects the system's ability to deliver high frame rates across all tested settings while maintaining consistent performance scaling.

The GPU's percentile ranking of 86 indicates it outperforms 86% of all tested GPUs, while the CPU's percentile of 94 shows it exceeds 94% of all CPUs in general benchmarks. The combination of these two high-performing components results in a system that sits well above the median for this game, though the exact FPS numbers show that the GPU is the more significant contributor to the final results.

The CPU's average benchmark score of 54450 places it in a tight competition with its nearest rivals. The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D scores 54681, a 0.4% advantage, while the Intel Core i7-14700F trails by 0.7% at 54097. The Intel Core Ultra 5 245K and 245KF lead by 1.5% and 1.8% respectively, but these differences are minimal in practical gaming scenarios.

The GPU's average score of 48704 positions it close to the NVIDIA CMP 50HX at 49071 (a 0.7% deficit) and ahead of the NVIDIA RTX A2000 at 47915 (a 1.6% advantage). These small deltas suggest that the GPU's performance is well-established, with no significant outliers in its benchmark results.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X features 12 cores and 24 threads based on the Zen 5 architecture, with a base clock of 4.40 GHz and a boost clock of 5.60 GHz. This configuration provides substantial multi-threaded capability, as evidenced by its Cinebench R23 multicore score of 46438, while maintaining strong single-thread performance with a score of 6555.

In Doom, the CPU's role is primarily to feed the GPU with sufficient frame data, especially at lower resolutions where the GPU is less burdened. The 1080p Low preset's 370.5 FPS demonstrates that the CPU can sustain extremely high frame rates without becoming a bottleneck, as the 12-core configuration provides ample headroom for the game's engine.

The CPU's 64 MB of shared L3 cache and 89.6 GB/s memory bandwidth support efficient data delivery, while the 4 nm process node and 120 W TDP indicate a balanced power profile. The 3DMark scores show strong scaling from 2 threads at 2519 to 16 threads at 12552, confirming that the CPU maintains efficiency across varying thread counts.

At 4K resolution, the CPU's contribution diminishes as the GPU becomes the limiting factor, with the 25% FPS difference between Low and High presets at 3840x2160 contrasting with the 39% difference at 1080p. This indicates that the CPU's high single-thread performance is sufficient to avoid introducing frame rate limitations even at the highest settings, allowing the GPU to operate at its full potential.