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hey guys I know you're expecting the GeForce GTX 1080 review coverage any day now but in the meantime I've taken a quick look at the new doom game in particular how performs on PC using the current generation GPUs midway through last month there was an open beta weekend for doom and I did take a quick look at the game back then but didn't provide a benchmark video the reason for this was simple at the time the game was capped at 60 fps and also had limited tunable quality settings thankfully now the game has been officially released those two issues have been sorted and we can now smash demon skulls a high frame rates with ultra quality settings speaking of which any of my younger viewers might want to avoid this video as Jim is a very violent game and I'll be showing some of the goryo scenes in the games such as those animated glory kill clips the doom reboot has been built on the new id tactics game engine which is quite different to pretty much every other modern gaming engine in the sense that he utilizes OpenGL while Vulkan API support will be patched in at a later date for those of you unaware Vulcan is the successor to OpenGL offering an open-source alternative to Microsoft proprietary DirectX API Vulcan is cross-platform Meeny isn't limited to Windows and other Microsoft platforms like DirectX is and will be supported by Google's Android and Valve steam OS dooms a single and multiplayer game but I'll be testing the single-player portion as it really isn't possible to accurately benchmark the multiplayer modes this isn't really an issue anyway is from GPU performance perspective the results should be much the same and more to the point the performance margins between the various AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards will certainly be the same as usual I'll be testing using the high-end in-game quality settings at the three most commonly gained resolutions being 1080p 1440p and 4k this meant enabling the ultra preset while manually turning the shadow quality and virtual texturing page size options to the nightmare setting performance wise there are only a few frames difference between running these two graphical settings on ultra nightmare for those wondering before we jump into the results let's watch the rest of the benchmark pass IT software Peter worked more closely with Nvidia on this title and it's been used to show off the new Nvidia 1080 of press events of late the following results tell the same story at 1080p the GTX 960 was 6% faster than the r9 380 not a huge margin but we're more used to seeing the 380 on top of that battle the big shock here is how poorly the 390 X and 390 compared to the GTX 970 granted the Radeon graphics cards do struggle at 1080p due to the driver overhead but a 27% margin favoring the 970 over the 390 X is massive the fury X can also be seen battling the GTX 980 making a 17 percent slower than the gtx 980ti so some out-of-place results here from the AMD GPUs for sure jump into 1440p all graphics cards tested were able to deliver playable performance though the input lag when using the gtx 960 in r9 380 was quite severe the 319 390x provided playable performance but again it was the GTX 970 that provided the perfect balance of price versus performance now at 4k we find the game as well ideally want more than one GPU as the gtx 980ti and titan next did drop down to 41 FPS on occasion the game was still playable but a 40 FPS does feel noticeably different to 60 FPS as most first-person shooters do 4k is where the next-generation GPU is gonna shine and I expect that tomorrow's launch of the GT X 1080 you will see some very impressive results those of you rocking AMD hardware will no doubt be a bit disappointed with these results which recorded using the latest crimson sixteen point five point two drivers apparently designed to support doom these results seem to imply that it's an Nvidia supporter title although I haven't seen anything official but that would explain why it runs so poorly on AMD hardware some believe though that there could be something more sinister going on here and there's certainly some strong evidence of that using a radiant graphics card forces the game to run an older version of OpenGL version 4.3 Nvidia graphics cards on the other hand use the more up-to-date opengl 4.5 the lead renderer programmer at id Software said this was a mistake that can be seen when using the ultra quality settings however I found that the game would load opengl 4.3 on AMD hardware regardless of quality settings even with the game's low quality preset hopefully this is a genuine mistake but it does seem very shady to say least what I find interesting is that those who benchmark doom during the alpha stage showed very strong performance an AMD Hardware then the open beta dropped and NVIDIA managed to just take the lead now we have the official release and AMD is almost nowhere to be seen in terms of performance opengl 4.3 was released in august of 2012 while version 4.5 came exactly two years later and with it came a number of improvements in efficiency that would account for the performance discrepancies we've seen here so with AMD's performance whereas appearing to be entirely in the hands of id Software I'm hoping to see a game update in the very near future the good news for Radian owners is the despite underperforming the 390 and 390x still provided a very smooth playable experience of 1440p with all the eye candy turned up there were no graphical glitches or crashes of any kind rather we do get a pretty satisfying gaming experience another interesting footnote worth mentioning is the crossfire and SLI don't work in this game and I'm not sure of support we patched in also for the single-player portion of the game the CPU really isn't that important and even lowly dual cores such as the pentium g 4400 deliver excellent performance finally you guys might want to stay tuned because tomorrow night I'll be getting busy with this little lady and you'll be getting the explicit uncut director's edition so if you haven't yet hit subscribe and I'll see you guys tomorrow cannot be allowed to leave this place I'm willing to take full responsibility for the harmful effects of the last 24 hours