"Doom: Dark Ages", which will be released next Friday, not only won unanimous high scores from the media, but also the performance test results of the PC platform have been released one after another, showing that this game has extremely high hardware requirements.
The well-known hardware review media Hardware Unboxed used 36 graphics cards to test "Doom: Dark Ages". Under the 4K resolution "Ultra Nightmare" image quality, almost all graphics cards have difficulty reaching an average of 60FPS.Only Nvidia's two flagship cards—RTX 4090 and RTX 5090—are exceptions.
Even AMD's current strongest graphics card, the RX 7900 XT, and the new generation of RX 9070 XT, can only maintain an average of 55FPS, which is at the same level as Nvidia RTX 5080 and 4080 Super.This also indirectly confirms that the full-scene ray tracing technology used in the game is extremely stressful to the GPU.
id Software's latest engines are pretty demanding on GPUs, as ray tracing runs through Doom: Dark Ages.The ray tracing effect is everywhere, greatly improving the visual shock, but it also makes many high-end cards "unbearable".
Fortunately, lowering some settings can greatly improve frame rates and has little impact on visual quality.
In fact, Hardware Unboxed's tests show that the game screen is roughly the same for all preset settings.For those who want to play this game on a lower-configured PC, like DLSS and FSR should be helpful.
It is worth mentioning that even at 1080p resolution, mainstream graphics cards like RTX 3060 will face a tight frame rate.It can be predicted that "Doom: Dark Ages" will become one of the most "hardware-eating" games at present, and players need to prepare for performance tuning before playing.
Test video:
Comparison of picture quality at different levels:
Highest vs lowest
Test configuration:
The highest image quality of 1080P, TAA:
The mainstream graphics card RTX 4060 has an average of 55FPS at 1080P resolution/highest picture quality. The RTX 5060Ti 8GB and 16GB perform consistently, with an average of 70FPS.The RTX 3080 performed well, with an average of 84FPS.
1080P medium image quality, TAA:
2K resolution TAA:
The mainstream graphics card RTX 4060 has performed quite poorly at 2K resolution/highest picture quality, and is already at the end of the list, with an average of only 39FPS. To reach 60FPS, at least RX 6950XT or RTX 4070 graphics card is required.For more than 80 frames, RTX 5070Ti or RTX 4070Ti Super is required.
4K resolution TAA:
At 4K resolution, except for RTX 4090 (24GB) and 5090 (32GB), no graphics card can run 60FPS at the highest image quality. The closest AMD graphics card to 60FPS is the RX 9070XT (16GB), 56FPS, followed by 7900XTX (24GB), 54FPS, which is the same as RTX 5080 (16GB) and RTX 4080Super (16GB).
The RTX 5090 averages 82FPS, leading the RTX 4090 (74FPS) with only 8FPS, which is about 10.8%.
Add a piece of TechPowerup test data, which is also 4K
Comparison of performance of 2K resolution N card and A card: RX 9070XT (16GB)) crushing RTX 5080
Real machine screen:
