Doom

Measured Doom performance for the Intel Core i7-12700K paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is documented in the measured FPS table, with averages recorded at 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160 across Low, Medium, High, and Ultra settings. The combination ranks 12th out of 1681 tested combos in this game. The source data is flagged as measured, and every row reports average FPS while min and max fields remain unset.

Settings Recommendations

Across every resolution in the measured set, the settings order is the same: Low produces the highest average FPS, followed by Medium, then High, then Ultra. At 1920x1080, Low averages 420.8 FPS, Medium 400.7 FPS, High 339.5 FPS, and Ultra 276.8 FPS. At 2560x1440, Low averages 296.3 FPS, Medium 258.4 FPS, High 221.6 FPS, and Ultra 177.1 FPS. At 3840x2160, Low averages 161.4 FPS, Medium 141.4 FPS, High 116.4 FPS, and Ultra 95 FPS.

The measured rows place High as the recommended preset for a balanced experience. High is a higher settings tier than Medium, and it remains ahead of Ultra at every resolution: 339.5 versus 276.8 at 1080p, 221.6 versus 177.1 at 1440p, and 116.4 versus 95 at 4K. If the goal is simply the maximum average frame rate, the 1080p Low row is the fastest measured result at 420.8 FPS. The 4K Ultra row is the slowest measured result at 95 FPS. Since the game is an FPS, the high average FPS values across all settings mean the hardware is not struggling to maintain playable rates in any measured row, though the data set does not include frame time consistency metrics.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is a Blackwell 2.0 GPU using the GB202 chip, built on a 5 nm process at TSMC. The die contains 92,200 million transistors on a 750 mm² package. The GPU has 32 GB of GDDR7 VRAM on a 512-bit bus, with memory bandwidth rated at 1.79 TB/s. Its base clock is 2017 MHz and its boost clock is 2407 MHz, while the memory clock is listed as 1750 MHz, or 28 Gbps effective.

The GPU’s synthetic standing supports its role in this configuration. Its average benchmark score is 84306, which places it at the 94th percentile of all GPUs. The nearest rivals by average score are the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D at 84241 with deltaPct 0.1, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile at 84171 with deltaPct 0.2, the AMD Radeon PRO W6600 at 83209 with deltaPct 1.3, and the NVIDIA CMP 40HX at 85637 with deltaPct -1.6. The GPU also records a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 14411 and a PassMark G3D score of 39650.

In Doom, the GPU’s effect is visible in the settings spread at 4K. The Low preset averages 161.4 FPS, Medium 141.4 FPS, High 116.4 FPS, and Ultra 95 FPS. The 32 GB frame buffer is the memory pool used for these measurements, and the 1.79 TB/s figure describes the bandwidth available to the renderer. The pixel rate of 423.6 GPixel/s, texture rate of 1,636.8 GTexel/s, and FP32 throughput of 104.8 TFLOPS are the compute resources behind those measured FPS values. The GPU also has 21,760 shading units, 680 TMUs, 176 ROPs, 170 RT cores, and 680 tensor cores, all of which form part of the rendering configuration for this benchmark run.

How This Combo Ranks

The i7-12700K and RTX 5090 combination ranks 12th out of 1681 tested combos in Doom. That position places this pairing in the upper tier of the measured field. The CPU’s average benchmark score is 35684, with a percentile ranking of 89 against all CPUs. The GPU’s average benchmark score is 84306, with a percentile ranking of 94 against all GPUs. The CPU’s nearest rivals by average score are the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5845 at 35802 with deltaPct -0.3, the Intel Core i7-13700T at 35468 with deltaPct 0.6, the Intel Core i5-14500HX at 35940 with deltaPct -0.7, and the Intel Core i7-13800H at 35416 with deltaPct 0.8. The GPU’s nearest rivals are listed in the GPU section. The game rank of 12 is consistent with a CPU sitting near the 89th percentile and a GPU sitting near the 94th percentile; both components are positioned well above the median of the tested database, and the in-game result follows that pattern.

Measured FPS Breakdown

| Resolution | Settings | Average FPS |

|---|---:|---:|

| 3840x2160 | High | 116.4 |

| 3840x2160 | Low | 161.4 |

| 3840x2160 | Medium | 141.4 |

| 3840x2160 | Ultra | 95 |

| 2560x1440 | High | 221.6 |

| 2560x1440 | Low | 296.3 |

| 2560x1440 | Medium | 258.4 |

| 2560x1440 | Ultra | 177.1 |

| 1920x1080 | High | 339.5 |

| 1920x1080 | Low | 420.8 |

| 1920x1080 | Medium | 400.7 |

| 1920x1080 | Ultra | 276.8 |

The table lists every measured row in the data set. The 1080p rows are the fastest group, with the Low preset reaching 420.8 FPS and the Ultra preset reaching 276.8 FPS. The 1440p rows sit below the 1080p group but above the 4K group, with Low at 296.3 FPS and Ultra at 177.1 FPS. The 4K rows are the slowest group, with Low at 161.4 FPS and Ultra at 95 FPS. All values are average FPS; no minimum or maximum FPS values are present in the source data.

Resolution Scaling

The measured data shows a consistent relationship between resolution and average FPS. At Low settings, the average drops from 420.8 FPS at 1080p to 296.3 FPS at 1440p and then to 161.4 FPS at 4K. At Medium settings, it drops from 400.7 FPS to 258.4 FPS to 141.4 FPS. At High settings, it drops from 339.5 FPS to 221.6 FPS to 116.4 FPS. At Ultra settings, it drops from 276.8 FPS to 177.1 FPS to 95 FPS.

Resolution has a large effect on every preset. The 1080p Low row is more than two and a half times the 4K Low row in terms of measured average FPS, while the 1080p Ultra row is nearly three times the 4K Ultra row. These observations describe how much pixel count changes the frame rate. Since the CPU and memory configuration are fixed across all rows, the resolution-dependent movement in FPS points to the GPU as the component carrying the increased workload when moving from 1080p to 4K. The pattern is consistent at all four settings levels, so the limiting component shifts toward the GPU as resolution climbs.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-12700K is an Alder Lake-S desktop processor for the Intel Socket 1700 platform, built on Intel’s 10 nm process. It has 12 cores and 20 threads, with a base clock of 3.60 GHz and a boost clock of 5.00 GHz. Its cache layout includes 80 KB of L1 per core, 1.25 MB of L2 per core, and 25 MB of shared L3 cache. The CPU supports DDR4 and DDR5 memory through a dual-channel memory bus and provides PCIe Gen 4 with 20 lanes from the CPU. It also includes UHD Graphics 770 as integrated graphics.

Synthetic CPU results place this part in a strong position. The Cinebench R23 multicore score is 29241 and the singlecore score is 4128. Geekbench reports 13892 multicore and 2561 singlecore. PassMark reports 34404 multithread and 4013 single thread. The average synthetic benchmark score is 35684, and the CPU sits at the 89th percentile of all CPUs. The nearest rivals by average score are the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5845 at 35802, the Intel Core i7-13700T at 35468, the Intel Core i5-14500HX at 35940, and the Intel Core i7-13800H at 35416, each with deltaPct values between -0.7 and 0.8.

In Doom, the CPU’s contribution is visible in the 1080p results. The 1080p Low row reaches 420.8 FPS, the highest measured average in the data set, and the 1080p Ultra row still reaches 276.8 FPS. These numbers indicate that the processor can support very high frame rates when the GPU workload is relatively light. At 4K, the same settings drop to 161.4 FPS and 95 FPS respectively, which shows the resolution change placing more demand on the GPU side of the combination. The CPU has enough core and thread resources, along with a 5.00 GHz boost clock, to keep the measured frame rates near the top of the combo ranking.