What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Doom: The Dark Ages at 1080p?

In a published test (GameGPU) the RTX 4060 Ti averages 67 FPS at 1080p Ultra: the least powerful card in our data with a 60+ FPS result at 1080p High or Ultra.

Can a GTX 1650 run Doom: The Dark Ages?

By our estimate it gets about 36 FPS at 1080p Low (playable) and 23 FPS at 1080p High (struggles), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Doom: The Dark Ages?

Steam lists NVIDIA or AMD hardware Raytracing-capable GPU with 8GB dedicated VRAM or better (examples: NVIDIA RTX 2060… graphics, AMD Zen 2 or Intel 10th Generation CPU @3.2Ghz with 8 cores / 16 threads or better (examples: AMD Ryzen 7… and 16 GB of RAM as the minimum.

Measured FPS benchmarks

Doom: The Dark Ages FPS

2025
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Measured · 30 results10 GPUs · GameGPUestimate within ±30%: 24/30

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Doom: The Dark Ages was released in 2025. We list 30 published FPS results for it from GameGPU, covering 10 graphics cards. Steam lists NVIDIA or AMD hardware Raytracing-capable GPU with 8GB dedicated VRAM or better (examples… as the minimum graphics card, a high-end card by today's standards. Against those results our estimate landed within ±30% 24 of 30 times.

Frame rate cap: none on record. We have no record of an engine frame limit for Doom: The Dark Ages, so our estimates assume it runs uncapped. V-Sync, an in-game limiter or your monitor's refresh rate can still hold it lower.

Measured results

Published · with sources

60+ FPS 30–59 under 30 lower bound (frame cap, CPU or VRAM limit). Average FPS from published tests.

At 1080p the fastest measured card, RTX 5090, averages 163 FPS; the slowest, RTX 3060, 41 FPS.

Estimate vs measured

24/30 within ±30% · median -14%

Each dot is one published result: how far our model's figure for the same card and setting was from it. The shaded band is ±30%.

All 30 comparisons

GPU	Setting	Measured	Estimate	Diff.
RTX 5090	1080p Ultra	163 FPS	≈130 FPS	-20%
RTX 5090	1440p Ultra	131 FPS	≈94 FPS	-28%
RTX 5090	4K Ultra	82 FPS	≈51 FPS	-38%
RTX 4090	1080p Ultra	145 FPS	≈125 FPS	-14%
RTX 4090	1440p Ultra	109 FPS	≈90 FPS	-17%
RTX 4090	4K Ultra	62 FPS	≈49 FPS	-21%
RTX 5080	1080p Ultra	125 FPS	≈114 FPS	-9%
RTX 5080	1440p Ultra	95 FPS	≈82 FPS	-14%
RTX 5080	4K Ultra	51 FPS	≈44 FPS	-14%
RTX 4080 SUPER	1080p Ultra	123 FPS	≈106 FPS	-14%
RTX 4080 SUPER	1440p Ultra	87 FPS	≈77 FPS	-11%
RTX 4080 SUPER	4K Ultra	44 FPS	≈42 FPS	-5%
RTX 4070 Ti	1080p Ultra	94 FPS	≈94 FPS	0%
RTX 4070 Ti	1440p Ultra	64 FPS	≈67 FPS	+5%
RTX 4070 Ti	4K Ultra	32 FPS	≈37 FPS	+16%
Radeon RX 7900 XTX	1080p Ultra	122 FPS	≈93 FPS	-24%
Radeon RX 7900 XTX	1440p Ultra	86 FPS	≈67 FPS	-22%
Radeon RX 7900 XTX	4K Ultra	49 FPS	≈36 FPS	-27%
RTX 4070	1080p Ultra	79 FPS	≈73 FPS	-8%
RTX 4070	1440p Ultra	53 FPS	≈53 FPS	0%
RTX 4070	4K Ultra	25 FPS	≈29 FPS	+16%
Radeon RX 7800 XT	1080p Ultra	88 FPS	≈63 FPS	-28%
Radeon RX 7800 XT	1440p Ultra	59 FPS	≈45 FPS	-24%
Radeon RX 7800 XT	4K Ultra	31 FPS	≈24 FPS	-23%
RTX 4060 Ti	1080p Ultra	67 FPS	≈56 FPS	-16%
RTX 4060 Ti	1440p Ultra	44 FPS	≈40 FPS	-9%
RTX 4060 Ti	4K Ultra	20 FPS	≈22 FPS	+10%
RTX 3060	1080p Ultra	41 FPS	≈36 FPS	-12%
RTX 3060	1440p Ultra	25 FPS	≈26 FPS	+4%
RTX 3060	4K Ultra	13 FPS	≈14 FPS	+8%

Our estimate on 10 reference GPUs

Estimate ±30%

Model figures, not measurements: dashed bars with their ±30% band. How they are made.

RTX 4090154108–200
RTX 5070 Ti12185–157
Radeon RX 9070 XT12185–157
RTX 40709063–117
Radeon RX 7800 XT7754–100
RTX 4060 Ti6948–90
RTX 40605539–72
RTX 30604431–57
Radeon RX 66003827–49
GTX 16502316–30

Cards that run Doom: The Dark Ages at 60+ FPS

1080p High · cheapest first

Current cards, by launch price. Solid chips are measured results; dashed ones are our estimate (±30%).

RTX 5060launch price $299≈61 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060 Ti 16GBlaunch price $429≈69 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 9070launch price $549≈107 FPSAmazon

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: NVIDIA or AMD hardware Raytracing-capable GPU with 8GB dedicated VRAM or better (examples: NVIDIA RTX 2060 SUPER or better, AMD RX 6600 or better)
CPU: AMD Zen 2 or Intel 10th Generation CPU @3.2Ghz with 8 cores / 16 threads or better (examples: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X or better, or Intel Core i7 10700K or better)
RAM: 16 GB

GPU: NVIDIA or AMD hardware Raytracing-capable GPU with 10GB dedicated VRAM or better (examples: NVIDIA RTX 3080 or better, AMD RX 6800 or better)
CPU: AMD Zen 3 or Intel 12th Generation CPU @3.2Ghz with 8 cores / 16 threads or better (examples: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X or better, or Intel Core i7 12700K or better)
RAM: 32 GB