Doom: The Dark Ages, 36 GPU Benchmark

Doom: The Dark Ages is the latest first-person shooter developed by id Software, marking the eighth main entry in the franchise and the third installment of the modern series, following 2020's Doom Eternal. As you can imagine, we won't be reviewing the game here but rather, we'll be benchmarking the "hell" out of it, and no doubt a few configurations will be doomed. The Dark Ages is powered by the idTech8 game engine, which features full dynamic lighting with ray-traced global illumination and ray-traced reflections. As a result, a GPU with hardware RT support is required to play the game. Path tracing is also expected, but it will arrive in a post-launch update. That means no FPS-crushing option just yet for all you RTX 5090 owners. For testing, Nvidia provided driver version 576.31, and AMD provided driver version 25.5.1. Both are game-ready drivers optimized for Doom: The Dark Ages. After several hours of gameplay, we selected a section called "Siege Part 1, Chapter 6, Aspiring Sl ... Read full article.