DOOM: The Dark Ages Performance Benchmark

[W1zzard]

DOOM: The Dark Ages is coming soon, offering an amazing first-person shooter experience with fantastic graphics. The game introduces the brand-new id Tech 8 engine, which improves support for ray-tracing. In our performance review, we examine its graphical fidelity, VRAM usage, and how well it runs on a variety of modern GPUs.

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[Caring1]

No Intel GPUs in the recommended settings?

 

[Nighthawk_]

Crazy how they can go from Doom Eternal, which has amazing optimization, straight back to the terrible sloppy optimization so many games come out with now

 

[W1zzard]

No Intel GPUs in the recommended settings?

No 60 FPS unless you use XeSS

 

[Chaitanya]

Interesting upgrades, seems like game either is not optimized(might improve with updates to drivers and game) or its made with next gen GPUs in mind.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

That 9070xt is cranking

 

[BigMack70]

Disappointing to see path tracing was not ready for launch. Wonder how nasty that performance hit will be.

 

[W4llBangdMyself]

No FSR 4 support? AMD be sleepin'?

 

[Ayhamb99]

@W1zzard any chance if you could do a quick test with an RTX 2060 at 1080p to see if the game is playable at all with a 6 GB VRAM card.

Wanna see if I can play this at all lol

 

[GruiaL]

No Intel GPUs in the recommended settings?

None are strong enough as a 4060Ti/RX7700XT.
None can be recommended

 

[_roman_]

- I'm not sure if the 8GB and 16GB Numbers are mixed up in the WHQD and 1080p diagram. Maybe some special super overclocked 5060ti with 8gb was used. Note: I only looked at the numbers - not text

WHQD
5060 ti
8GB = 53.0 FPS
16GB = 50.6 FPS


FAKE 4k
5060 ti
8GB = 13.3 FPS
16GB = 27.6 FPS

 

[Prima.Vera]

Can you please post an unofficial download link for the unofficial nvidia 576.40 drivers pretty please? The current drivers in existence, 576.28, are the worst drivers ever released by nvidia.

 

[NSR]

No FSR 4 support? AMD be sleepin'?

If it's 3.1 it should be upgradable with Optiscaler but don't know if anyone's tried.

Seriously tho, any new game going forward should be supporting FSR 4 as much as DLSS 4 or else it's just a niche feature. AMD needs to start pushing its software as hard as NVIDIA does.

 

[Onasi]

It honestly doesn’t look THAT superior to the previous iteration of idTech to warrant the performance degradation. Might be just Ultra Nightmare though, I remember Eternal scaled incredibly well and you could almost double the performance with little to no visual impact.

 

[dgianstefani]

- I'm not sure if the 8GB and 16GB Numbers are mixed up in the WHQD and 1080p diagram. Maybe some special super overclocked 5060ti with 8gb was used. Note: I only looked at the numbers - not text

WHQD
5060 ti
8GB = 53.0 FPS
16GB = 50.6 FPS


FAKE 4k
5060 ti
8GB = 13.3 FPS
16GB = 27.6 FPS

8 GB is faster unless it runs out of VRAM which it will at 4K. Extra chips use power budget for no performance advantage unless the VRAM is actually needed.

 

[ThomasK]

Crazy how they can go from Doom Eternal, which has amazing optimization, straight back to the terrible sloppy optimization so many games come out with now

"Unlike Unreal Engine 5 titles, there is no shader stutter during gameplay, and yet you're traversing and teleporting around the huge maps—no stutter—very impressive. The game does compile shaders, but it does so when loading the map, which takes only a few seconds, without a special "compiling shaders" screen."

Seems better optimized than anything running on UE5, that's for sure.

 

[Event Horizon]

No FSR 4 support? AMD be sleepin'?

If it's 3.1 it should be upgradable with Optiscaler but don't know if anyone's tried.

Seriously tho, any new game going forward should be supporting FSR 4 as much as DLSS 4 or else it's just a niche feature. AMD needs to start pushing its software as hard as NVIDIA does.

There is no FSR 4 support for Vulkan games at the moment. This game and No Man's Sky would greatly benefit from it. I hope the new SDK gets released soon.

 

[Krit]

That 9070xt is cranking

Considering that RTX 5070 Ti is 21% more expensive and RX 7900 XTX is 23% more expensive that's not bad in deed.

 

[Nostras]

There's some crazy differences in performance between TPU's testing and HUB's testing.
5000 series look very underwhelming in HUB's testing and looks fine in TPU's testing.
8GB cards look typically fine in TPU's testing until like 4K, but break much quicker in HUB's testing.
HUB's testing shows that the XTX and 9070XT are evenly matched, whereas TPU's testing shows the 9070XT clearly ahead.

How very odd.

 

[Krit]

There's some crazy differences in performance between TPU's testing and HUB's testing.

Probably tested in different areas of the game and different settings. That's way it's so different.

 

[Mrgravia]

9070/9070XT continue to look like great values.

 

[Nostras]

Probably tested in different areas of the game. That's way it's so different.

I can see understand some minor divergence or larger linear scaling differences but not this, these results are way off.

 

[Denver]

It’s amazing how the 9070 XT performs better in Australia than in the US, no wonder it’s so expensive there.
In Australia, the 9070 XT performs at the level of a 5080 or faster,
while in the US, it barely reaches 5070 Ti levels.

The Russian and German 9070 XT's comes from the same lineage.

Note: The above may contain sarcasm and might not make complete sense.

 

[dir_d]

9070XT is doing great. if you were one of the lucky ones to get it at $600 you should be smiling from ear to ear.

 

[Onasi]

It’s amazing how the 9070 XT performs better in Australia than in the US, no wonder it’s so expensive there.
In Australia, the 9070 XT performs at the level of a 5080 or faster,
while in the US, it barely reaches 5070 Ti levels.


Note: The above may contain sarcasm and might not make complete sense.

Famously, Germany is just another state of USA.