Doom

The Intel Core i7-13700K paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER delivers an exceptionally strong performance profile in Doom, with measured frame rates that consistently exceed the requirements for smooth, high-refresh-rate gameplay across all tested configurations. The dataset shows a clear hierarchy where the Ultra preset remains highly playable at every resolution, indicating that users seeking maximum visual fidelity do not have to sacrifice responsiveness. However, the most balanced experience is achieved at the High settings preset, which provides a substantial performance headroom over Ultra while maintaining the bulk of the game’s visual enhancements. At 2560x1440, the High preset achieves an average of 166 FPS, which is more than sufficient for high-refresh monitors, while the Ultra preset still delivers a very solid 135.4 FPS. Given the minimal performance delta between these two presets and the significant frame rate advantage for High, the High preset represents the optimal compromise for most users, offering a 30.6 FPS advantage over Ultra at 1440p while retaining a visually rich experience.

Settings Recommendations

The benchmark data indicates that the High preset is the recommended starting point for this combination, as it consistently outperforms Ultra by a meaningful margin without a correspondingly large drop in visual quality. At 1920x1080, the High preset averages 256.4 FPS, which is 45.4 FPS higher than Ultra’s 211 FPS, yet still comfortably above the 200 FPS threshold for competitive play. The Medium preset offers a further boost to 303.6 FPS, but the jump from High to Medium yields diminishing returns for most users, as the frame rate is already far beyond the refresh rate capabilities of most displays. The Low preset’s 349.1 FPS at 1080p demonstrates the engine’s scalability, but this configuration is only advisable for esports-focused scenarios where every frame matters. For 4K gaming, the High preset’s 91.1 FPS is the only configuration that balances visual quality with a frame rate that remains above the 60 FPS console-standard, while Ultra drops to 71.6 FPS and Medium sits at 105.2 FPS. The data strongly suggests that High is the sweet spot, as it provides a 27% performance uplift over Ultra at 4K while still delivering a premium visual experience.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is the primary driver of the measured performance, with its 12 GB of GDDR6X memory and 192-bit memory bus providing 504.2 GB/s of bandwidth. This memory configuration is more than adequate for Doom at all tested resolutions, as the game’s texture streaming and geometry workloads do not appear to exceed the card’s capacity. The GPU’s boost clock of 2475 MHz, combined with its 7168 shading units and 80 ROPs, enables a pixel rate of 198.0 GPixel/s, which directly correlates with the high frame rates observed. At 4K Ultra, the average FPS drops to 71.6, indicating that the GPU’s compute and fillrate limits are being approached, but the card still delivers a fluid experience. The GPU’s 35.48 TFLOPS of FP32 performance is sufficient to handle the game’s lighting and particle effects, as evidenced by the 91.1 FPS at 4K High. Notably, the RTX 4070 SUPER’s 84th percentile ranking among all GPUs underscores its position as a high-end part, and the measured data confirms that it is not a bottleneck in this pairing, even at 1080p where the CPU is more likely to be the limiting factor.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the database of 1681 tested combinations, this specific pairing of the Intel Core i7-13700K and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER ranks 296th in Doom, placing it in the top 17.6% of all tested systems. This is a strong result that reflects the balance between the CPU’s high single-thread performance and the GPU’s substantial rasterization power. The CPU itself, with a 93rd percentile ranking among all processors, demonstrates a passmark multithread score of 45887 and a single-thread score of 4333, which are critical for maintaining high frame rates in a game like Doom that relies on fast draw-call submission. Compared to its nearest rivals, the i7-13700K shows a negligible deltaPct of -0.1% against the i7-13700KF, indicating that the non-K variant offers essentially identical performance in this context. The AMD EPYC 4364P and Intel Core i9-12900F trail by 0.3% and 0.4% respectively, while the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 5945 leads by a marginal 0.5%. These tiny differences confirm that the CPU is not a differentiator in this combo’s ranking; rather, the GPU’s 84th percentile position, with an average benchmark score of 42576, is the more significant contributor to the overall 296th rank.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data reveals a consistent pattern across all resolutions and settings. At 1920x1080, the frame rates range from a low of 211 FPS on Ultra to a high of 349.1 FPS on Low, with Medium and High falling in between at 303.6 and 256.4 FPS respectively. This scaling is nearly linear, with each step down in settings yielding a proportional increase in performance. At 2560x1440, the same hierarchy is observed, with Ultra at 135.4 FPS, High at 166 FPS, Medium at 197.5 FPS, and Low at 228.9 FPS. The absolute frame rates are lower than 1080p, but the relative differences between settings remain consistent, suggesting that the GPU is the primary limiter as resolution increases. At 3840x2160, the performance envelope tightens significantly, with Ultra averaging 71.6 FPS, High at 91.1 FPS, Medium at 105.2 FPS, and Low at 122.4 FPS. The 4K results show a more pronounced drop from Medium to High (a 13.9 FPS decrease) and from High to Ultra (a 19.5 FPS decrease), indicating that the most demanding settings place a disproportionate load on the GPU’s memory subsystem and shading units.

Resolution Scaling

The transition from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 results in an average performance drop of approximately 35% across all settings, while the move from 1440p to 4K incurs a further 45% reduction. Specifically, the High preset drops from 256.4 FPS at 1080p to 166 FPS at 1440p, a 35.2% decrease, and then to 91.1 FPS at 4K, a 45.1% decrease from 1440p. This scaling pattern is characteristic of a GPU-bound scenario, where the pixel count increases faster than the GPU’s fillrate can compensate. At 1080p, the CPU’s 3.40 GHz base clock and 5.40 GHz boost clock, coupled with its 30 MB of L3 cache, are sufficient to feed the GPU, as evidenced by the 349.1 FPS on Low settings. However, as the resolution increases, the GPU’s 504.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth and 198.0 GPixel/s pixel rate become the dominant constraints. The data shows that the RTX 4070 SUPER maintains a playable frame rate at 4K Ultra (71.6 FPS), but the 39% drop from 1080p Ultra to 4K Ultra highlights the significant cost of rendering at such high pixel counts. The limiting component in this combo shifts from the CPU at 1080p to the GPU at 4K, with the crossover occurring around the 1440p resolution where both components are balanced, as indicated by the 166 FPS High result that leaves ample headroom for either component to be the bottleneck depending on the scene complexity.