Doom

FAQ

Q: What average frame rate does this combo achieve in Doom at 1080p with Ultra settings?

A: At 1920x1080 with Ultra settings, the Intel Core i7-12700K paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 delivers an average of 137 FPS. This is the lowest average among the four settings presets at this resolution, with Medium reaching 198 FPS, High reaching 167 FPS, and Low reaching 228 FPS.

Q: How does the combo's performance at 1440p compare to its 1080p results?

A: Moving from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440, the average frame rate drops by roughly 35% at High settings, from 167 FPS down to 108 FPS. At Ultra settings, the drop is about 35%, from 137 FPS to 89 FPS, while at Low settings the fall is approximately 36%, from 228 FPS to 147 FPS.

Q: Does the system maintain playable frame rates at 4K?

A: At 3840x2160, the combo averages 48 FPS on Ultra, 59 FPS on High, 70 FPS on Medium, and 80 FPS on Low. The Medium preset shows a minimum of 59 FPS and a maximum of 80 FPS, indicating that the system stays comfortably within a playable range for most titles, though the Ultra preset dips below the 60 FPS threshold on average.

Q: What is the best settings preset for a smooth 60 FPS experience at 4K?

A: The data indicates that the Medium preset at 3840x2160 yields an average of 70 FPS with a minimum of 59 FPS. This is the only 4K preset that maintains an average above 60 FPS while also reporting a minimum frame rate near that threshold, making it the most suitable choice for consistent smoothness at this resolution.

Q: How does the combo rank among all tested combinations in this game?

A: The Intel Core i7-12700K with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 holds a combo rank of 2001 out of 3712 tested combos in Doom. This places it in the upper-middle portion of the overall distribution, indicating that while it is not a top-tier configuration, it outperforms a majority of tested systems.

Q: What is the frame rate difference between the Low and Ultra presets at 1440p?

A: At 2560x1440, the Low preset averages 147 FPS, while the Ultra preset averages 89 FPS. This represents a 65% increase in performance when dropping from Ultra to Low, a substantial margin that highlights how demanding the Ultra preset is on the GPU.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS data for Doom reveals a clear trade-off between visual fidelity and frame rate across the four presets. For users targeting a 60 FPS baseline, the High preset at 1920x1080 delivers 167 FPS on average, which is far above the threshold. At 2560x1440, the High preset still provides 108 FPS, offering a comfortable margin above 60 FPS while retaining improved visual quality over Medium.

For 4K resolution, the choice becomes more constrained. The Ultra preset averages only 48 FPS, which falls below the 60 FPS target for smooth gameplay. The High preset improves this to 59 FPS, but it still sits just under the threshold. The Medium preset, however, averages 70 FPS with a minimum of 59 FPS, making it the only 4K option that consistently stays at or near 60 FPS. Based on the measured data, the Medium preset at 3840x2160 provides the best balance of visual quality and performance for this resolution.

At 1440p and 1080p, the High preset appears to be the sweet spot. At 2560x1440, High delivers 108 FPS, which is more than sufficient for high-refresh-rate monitors in the 100-144 Hz range. At 1920x1080, High reaches 167 FPS, which suits even 144 Hz displays. The Ultra preset at these resolutions offers 89 FPS and 137 FPS respectively, but the marginal visual gains come at a significant performance cost. The data suggests that Medium or High presets are preferable for most users, with Ultra reserved for those who prioritize image quality over frame rate.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data across resolutions shows how the system scales when pixel count increases. At High settings, the average frame rate drops from 167 FPS at 1920x1080 to 108 FPS at 2560x1440, a 35% reduction. Going from 1440p to 3840x2160, the average drops from 108 FPS to 59 FPS, a 45% reduction. This pattern indicates that the GPU is the primary limiting factor at higher resolutions, as the frame rate falls roughly in proportion to the increase in pixel count.

Looking at the Low preset, the scaling is similar. At 1080p, the system averages 228 FPS, which drops to 147 FPS at 1440p (a 36% reduction) and then to 80 FPS at 4K (a 46% reduction from 1440p). The consistent percentage drops across settings suggest that the CPU is not a bottleneck at lower resolutions, as the frame rates scale nearly linearly with resolution. If the CPU were limiting performance, the 1080p results would show a smaller delta between resolutions or a plateau at higher frame rates.

The Ultra preset shows a similar trend: 137 FPS at 1080p, 89 FPS at 1440p (35% drop), and 48 FPS at 4K (46% drop). The fact that the percentage drop from 1440p to 4K is consistently around 45-46% across all settings points to the GPU being the limiting component at these higher resolutions. The RTX 4060's 8 GB of VRAM and 128-bit memory bus are likely contributors to this scaling behavior, as the higher resolution demands more memory bandwidth and capacity.

How This Combo Ranks

In Doom, the Intel Core i7-12700K combined with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 achieves a combo rank of 2001 out of 3712 tested combinations. This places the system in the 54th percentile overall, meaning it outperforms roughly 54% of all tested combos while being outperformed by the remaining 46%. This mid-pack ranking is consistent with the GPU's position in the broader benchmark landscape.

The RTX 4060 holds a percentile rank of 61 among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 17,639. Its nearest rivals in the database include the AMD Radeon HD 7790, which scores 17,666 with a delta of -0.2%, and the AMD Radeon 780M, which scores 17,588 with a delta of 0.3%. These deltas are minimal, indicating that the RTX 4060's performance is tightly clustered with these competing GPUs in synthetic benchmarks. The combo's rank in Doom, however, is influenced by both the GPU and the CPU, and the i7-12700K's strong showing in CPU benchmarks helps lift the overall position.

The i7-12700K has a percentile rank of 84 among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 35,287. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Core i5-13600T, which scores 35,305 (delta -0.1%), and the Intel Core i7-12700KF, which scores 35,365 (delta -0.2%). The close deltas again show that the i7-12700K is competitive with its immediate peers. When paired together, the combo's rank of 2001 out of 3712 suggests that the GPU is the more limiting factor in Doom, as the CPU's high percentile does not translate into a top-tier combo ranking.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with the AD107 chip, manufactured on a 5 nm process by TSMC. It features 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, providing a bandwidth of 272.0 GB/s. The GPU operates at a base clock of 1830 MHz with a boost clock of 2460 MHz, and its memory runs at 2125 MHz with 17 Gbps effective speed. These specifications position the GPU as a mid-range part, and the measured FPS data in Doom reflects this positioning.

The GPU's VRAM capacity of 8 GB is a notable factor at higher resolutions. At 3840x2160, the Ultra preset averages only 48 FPS, and the High preset averages 59 FPS. The drop from High to Ultra at 4K is 11 FPS, or about 19%, which is larger than the drop from High to Ultra at 1080p (30 FPS, or 18%). This suggests that the Ultra preset at 4K may be pushing against the VRAM or memory bandwidth limits of the 8 GB buffer, as the performance penalty grows with resolution.

The boost clock of 2460 MHz is relatively high for the 40-series, and the FP32 compute rating of 15.11 TFLOPS indicates a capable GPU for modern titles. In Doom, the GPU's performance scales predictably with settings: at 1080p, the average FPS ranges from 137 (Ultra) to 228 (Low). The 66% improvement from Ultra to Low at 1080p demonstrates how much headroom exists in the lower presets. At 4K, the same settings change yields an improvement from 48 FPS to 80 FPS, a 67% gain, showing that the GPU's compute resources are consistently utilized across resolutions.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data provides a complete picture of performance across three resolutions and four settings presets. At 1920x1080, the Low preset achieves the highest average of 228 FPS, followed by Medium at 198 FPS, High at 167 FPS, and Ultra at 137 FPS. The Medium preset reports a minimum of 168 FPS and a maximum of 228 FPS, indicating that frame times are consistent without significant dips.

At 2560x1440, the Low preset averages 147 FPS, Medium averages 128 FPS with a minimum of 109 FPS and a maximum of 148 FPS, High averages 108 FPS, and Ultra averages 89 FPS. The transition from 1080p to 1440p reduces the average FPS by roughly 35-36% across all settings, a consistent scaling factor that points to GPU-bound performance.

At 3840x2160, the Low preset averages 80 FPS, Medium averages 70 FPS with a minimum of 59 FPS and a maximum of 80 FPS, High averages 59 FPS, and Ultra averages 48 FPS. The Medium preset at 4K is notable for its relatively tight range, with only a 21 FPS spread between minimum and maximum. The Ultra preset at 4K is the only configuration that falls below the 60 FPS average threshold, suggesting that this combination of resolution and settings is too demanding for the RTX 4060.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-12700K is a 12-core, 20-thread processor based on the Alder Lake architecture, manufactured on a 10 nm process. It has a base clock of 3.60 GHz and a boost clock of 5.00 GHz, with 25 MB of shared L3 cache. The CPU supports DDR4 and DDR5 memory in a dual-channel configuration and connects via PCIe Gen 4 with 20 lanes. These specifications make it a strong desktop processor, and its benchmark scores reflect that strength.

In synthetic benchmarks, the i7-12700K scores 19,784 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 1,850.5 in single-core, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 15,790 and a single-core score of 2,308. The Passmark multithread score is 34,404, and the single-thread score is 4,013. These results place the CPU in the 84th percentile among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 35,287. The nearest rival, the Intel Core i5-13600T, scores 35,305, a delta of -0.1%, showing that the i7-12700K is essentially tied with its closest competitor.

In Doom, the CPU's role is less prominent than the GPU's, as evidenced by the resolution scaling data. At 1080p, the frame rates are high across all settings, with the Low preset reaching 228 FPS. This suggests that the CPU can feed the GPU at these frame rates without becoming a bottleneck. The consistent percentage drops from 1080p to 1440p to 4K further indicate that the GPU is the limiting factor, as the CPU's performance would need to scale inversely with resolution to see such uniform reductions. The i7-12700K's 20 threads and 5.00 GHz boost clock provide ample headroom for Doom's engine, which is not particularly demanding on multi-core performance compared to the GPU load.