Doom

The Intel Core i5-10400F paired with the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT delivers a robust 1080p and 1440p experience in Doom, but the data shows a clear ceiling at 4K. The benchmark results indicate that the optimal balance of visual fidelity and frame rate is found at Medium settings, which provides a substantial performance uplift over High while maintaining a smooth experience. At 1080p, the Medium preset yields 172.1 FPS, which is 23 FPS higher than High and only 28.9 FPS below the Low preset’s maximum. Moving to 1440p, Medium still holds strong at 116.1 FPS, comfortably above the 60 FPS threshold. The Ultra preset, while visually demanding, drops performance to 119 FPS at 1080p and 76.2 FPS at 1440p, which is playable but represents a significant cost in frame rate for the extra detail. For users prioritizing maximum smoothness on high-refresh monitors, the Low preset at 1080p delivers 201 FPS, but the data suggests that Medium offers the best compromise, losing only 14% performance versus Low while providing a much richer visual experience.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is the primary driver of frame rates in Doom, and its specifications align well with the measured results. The GPU features a boost clock of 2755 MHz and a game clock of 2470 MHz, which are relatively high frequencies that contribute to its strong rasterization performance. The card’s 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus provides a bandwidth of 288.0 GB/s, which is ample for the texture streaming demands of this title. The data shows that the GPU’s performance is not a bottleneck at lower resolutions; at 1080p, the frame rates scale impressively from 119 FPS at Ultra to 201 FPS at Low, indicating that the GPU has headroom. However, the situation changes at 4K, where the GPU becomes the limiting factor. The average FPS at 4K Ultra drops to 40, which is a 66% reduction from the 1080p Ultra score. This steep decline highlights that while the RX 7600 XT is capable of high refresh rates at mainstream resolutions, its 22.57 TFLOPS of FP32 compute is insufficient to maintain playable frame rates at 4K with maximum settings. The GPU’s performance percentile of 63 places it in the mid-range tier, and its nearest rivals, such as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER, are within a 1.9% delta in average benchmark scores, confirming its position as a solid 1080p and 1440p card.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals a clear pattern of performance scaling across resolutions. From 1080p to 1440p, the average frame rate drops by roughly 35-36% across all settings. For example, at High settings, the frame rate falls from 149.2 FPS at 1080p to 95.4 FPS at 1440p, a 36% reduction. This scaling is typical for a GPU-bound scenario where the increased pixel count directly impacts the rendering load. The drop from 1440p to 4K is even more severe, with the High preset falling from 95.4 FPS to 48.6 FPS, a 49% reduction. This disproportionate decline at 4K indicates that the Radeon RX 7600 XT is hitting its memory bandwidth and compute limits. The 4K results are telling: even at Low settings, the card only manages 70.7 FPS, which is below the 1440p High result. This suggests that the GPU is the sole bottleneck at 4K, as the CPU’s role diminishes with the increased pixel workload. The data shows that users seeking 4K gameplay would need to significantly reduce settings to Low, but even then, the frame rates are not consistently smooth, with the Medium preset at 59.9 FPS barely hitting the 60 FPS target. The scaling analysis confirms that this combo is optimized for 1080p and 1440p, where it delivers excellent performance, but 4K remains a stretch.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the benchmark database, this specific combination of the Intel Core i5-10400F and AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT ranks 1102 out of 1681 tested combos for Doom. This places it in the 65th percentile of all tested systems, indicating that it outperforms a majority of configurations but is far from the top tier. The ranking suggests that while the combo is competent, it does not offer top-tier performance in this game. The CPU component, the i5-10400F, has a percentile rank of 73 against all CPUs, which is higher than the combo’s overall rank, implying that the GPU is the limiting factor in this pairing. The GPU’s percentile rank of 63 is lower than the CPU’s, which further reinforces this conclusion. The benchmark results indicate that the combo is well-balanced for its intended market segment, but it sits below systems that pair higher-end GPUs with comparable or better CPUs. The data shows that the RX 7600 XT’s average benchmark score of 20146 is nearly identical to its nearest rival, the AMD Radeon RX 7600, which has a score of 20258, a delta of -0.6%. This close proximity in scores suggests that the two AMD cards perform similarly in Doom, and the i5-10400F’s 6 cores and 12 threads are sufficient to keep up with the GPU at most resolutions.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-10400F plays a supporting role in Doom, and its specifications are more than adequate for this title. With 6 cores and 12 threads, running at a base clock of 2.90 GHz and a boost clock of 4.30 GHz, the CPU provides solid single-threaded and multi-threaded performance. The benchmark data shows a single-thread score of 688 in 3DMark and a multi-thread score of 4748 in the 16-thread test, which are respectable figures for a mid-range processor. In Doom, which is not highly CPU-intensive, the i5-10400F does not appear to bottleneck the GPU at 1080p or 1440p. The evidence for this is the consistent frame rate scaling with resolution; if the CPU were a limiting factor, the frame rates would stagnate as resolution increases. Instead, the FPS drops proportionally with pixel count, indicating a GPU-bound scenario. The CPU’s 12 MB of shared L3 cache and dual-channel DDR4 memory support with 42.7 GB/s bandwidth are sufficient for the game’s data streaming needs. The data shows that at 4K, the CPU’s role diminishes further, as the GPU’s compute limits dominate the performance. The i5-10400F’s nearest rivals, such as the AMD Ryzen 3 7320C and Intel Core i5-8500, have average scores within a 1.1% delta, confirming that this CPU delivers expected performance for its class. In summary, the CPU provides a stable foundation, but the data clearly indicates that the Radeon RX 7600 XT is the component that dictates the overall gaming experience in Doom.