Doom

The Intel Core i7-14700KF paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER delivers exceptional performance in Doom (2016), a title whose fast-paced action benefits from the very high frame rates this combination produces. Across all tested resolutions and presets, the system never drops below 86.3 frames per second, ensuring fluid gameplay even at the most demanding settings. The measured data indicates that players can prioritize visual fidelity without sacrificing responsiveness, making this hardware pairing well-suited for the game’s intense combat scenarios.

Settings Recommendations

The benchmark results clearly show that the Ultra preset at 2560x1440 is the optimal balance for this hardware, delivering 155.4 frames per second. This resolution provides a significant visual upgrade over 1920x1080 while maintaining frame rates that far exceed the refresh rates of most high-end monitors. At 1920x1080, the Ultra preset achieves 239.7 frames per second, but the jump to 1440p only costs 84.3 frames per second while offering substantially more detail. For users with 4K displays, the High preset at 3840x2160 produces 106.1 frames per second, which remains highly playable and represents the best choice for maximum resolution, as the Ultra preset drops to 86.3 frames per second.

The data suggests that the Medium preset offers diminishing returns when compared to High. At 3840x2160, moving from Medium (119.4 fps) to High (106.1 fps) costs 13.3 frames per second, a modest penalty for the visual improvements. The Low preset provides the highest frame rates—400.2 fps at 1080p and 257.3 fps at 1440p—but these numbers are largely unnecessary given that the High preset already exceeds 290 fps at 1080p. For competitive play where maximum frame rates matter, the Low preset at 1440p offers 257.3 fps, which is 64.9 fps higher than High at the same resolution. However, the practical benefit of such high frame rates diminishes beyond the refresh rate of the display. The Ultra preset at 1440p remains the recommended choice for most users, as it combines high visual quality with frame rates that are more than sufficient for smooth gameplay.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER serves as the primary driver of Doom’s performance, with its 16 GB of GDDR6X memory proving ample for the game’s textures and effects at all tested settings. The GPU’s 736.3 GB/s memory bandwidth ensures that texture streaming and high-resolution assets do not become bottlenecks, even at 3840x2160. The card’s boost clock of 2550 MHz and base clock of 2295 MHz contribute to its consistent frame delivery, while the 10240 shading units handle the game’s rendering workload with ease. The GPU’s 88th percentile ranking among all graphics cards underscores its position as a high-end part, though the nearestRivals data shows it is closely matched with the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, which scores within 0.2 percent.

The performance scaling across presets reveals the GPU’s headroom. At 1080p, the difference between Low (400.2 fps) and Ultra (239.7 fps) is 160.5 frames per second, indicating that CPU limitations begin to emerge at lower resolutions. At 1440p, this gap narrows to 101.9 frames per second (257.3 vs 155.4), and at 4K it further reduces to 52.8 frames per second (139.1 vs 86.3). This pattern demonstrates that the RTX 4080 SUPER becomes increasingly dominant as resolution rises, with the GPU’s compute resources (52.22 TFLOPS FP32) being fully utilized at 4K. The 80 ray tracing cores and 320 tensor cores are present but have limited relevance to Doom’s traditional rendering pipeline, which does not employ ray-traced effects. The GPU’s 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 6600 provides a synthetic reference point, while its Passmark G3D score of 34245 places it well within the top tier of graphics hardware.

FAQ

Q: What is the highest average frame rate this combination achieves at 1920x1080?

A: The Low preset at 1080p produces 400.2 frames per second, which is the highest measured result across all configurations.

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

A: Ultra delivers 155.4 frames per second, which is 37.0 frames per second lower than High’s 192.4 frames per second, but still well above typical display refresh rates.

Q: Is the RTX 4080 SUPER significantly faster than its closest rival in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The RTX 4080 SUPER has an average benchmark score of 53610, which is only 0.2 percent higher than the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT’s 53489, indicating near-parity in general compute performance.

Q: What frame rate can users expect at 4K with the High preset?

A: The High preset at 3840x2160 yields 106.1 frames per second, making it the recommended 4K setting, as Ultra drops to 86.3 frames per second.

Q: Does the CPU or GPU become the limiting factor at 1080p?

A: The data suggests CPU limitations emerge at 1080p, as the frame rate difference between Low (400.2 fps) and Ultra (239.7 fps) is substantial, indicating the GPU cannot fully stretch its legs at lower resolutions.

Q: How does this combo rank among all tested systems for Doom?

A: The combination ranks 96th out of 1681 tested configurations, placing it in the top 5.7 percent of all systems benchmarked for this game.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo rank of 96 out of 1681 tested combinations places this hardware pairing in the upper echelon of systems benchmarked for Doom. This ranking reflects the synergy between the Core i7-14700KF and the RTX 4080 SUPER, which together deliver frame rates that exceed the needs of virtually all displays. The data shows that this configuration outperforms the vast majority of alternatives, as evidenced by its position in the 94th percentile of all tested combos. The rank is particularly impressive given that the GPU’s individual percentile (88th) is lower than the combo’s overall standing, suggesting that the CPU pairing boosts the system’s gaming performance beyond what the GPU alone would suggest.

When examining the components’ individual standings, the CPU ranks in the 96th percentile among all processors, while the GPU sits in the 88th percentile. This combination of a top-tier CPU with a high-end GPU creates a balanced system with no obvious bottleneck in Doom. The measured frame rates at 1440p Ultra (155.4 fps) and 4K High (106.1 fps) demonstrate that the combo delivers playable performance even at demanding settings. The ranking also implies that only 95 other tested configurations achieve higher frame rates, which would likely include systems with newer or more expensive components such as the RTX 5090 or dual-GPU setups. For a game released in 2016, this hardware pairing provides headroom that future titles may also exploit, though the measured data only applies to Doom.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-14700KF contributes meaningfully to the frame rates observed, particularly at lower resolutions where GPU load is reduced. With 20 cores and 28 threads, the CPU provides ample parallelism for Doom’s game logic and physics, while its boost clock of 5.60 GHz ensures strong single-threaded performance where the game’s engine typically scales. The CPU’s 33 MB of shared L3 cache helps reduce memory latency during level streaming, and the 125 W TDP indicates the power envelope within which this performance is delivered. The benchmark data shows the CPU achieving a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 44557 and a single-core score of 6290, with a Passmark single-thread score of 4480, all of which support its 96th percentile ranking.

The nearestRivals data for the CPU reveals that the 14700KF is essentially tied with the 14700K (0 percent delta) and the AMD EPYC 9115 (0.3 percent faster), while trailing the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X by 0.4 percent and the Intel Xeon Platinum 8270 by 1.3 percent. This clustering indicates that the 14700KF sits at the performance frontier for its generation, with differences of less than 1.4 percent separating it from its closest competitors. In Doom, the CPU’s role becomes apparent when examining the frame rate scaling across resolutions. At 1080p, the difference between Low and Ultra is 160.5 frames per second, which suggests the CPU can feed the GPU with over 400 frames per second when settings are lowered. At 4K, the same comparison yields only 52.8 frames per second, confirming that the GPU becomes the primary limiter at higher resolutions. The CPU’s 28 threads and 2 MB L2 cache per core provide sufficient resources for the game’s background tasks, though Doom’s 2016 engine does not heavily utilize multi-threading beyond a few cores. The measured results show no signs of CPU-induced stuttering or frame pacing issues, as the average frame rates remain consistent across repeated runs, with the data being confirmed as measured rather than estimated.