Doom Eternal PC: System Requirements and Unlock Times Revealed

Doom Eternal PC: System Requirements and Unlock Times Revealed
Just a day ago, we saw some system requirements for Doom Eternal that were much higher than expected. But they were killed almost immediately, which suggests they weren't quite right, and it turns out they weren't. The official system requirements for Doom Eternal have now been revealed on the Bethesda blog, and they're much more reasonable than the brief requirements that surfaced earlier. This previous post suggested that you would need at least an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060, as well as 8GB of RAM and an Intel Core i5 processor. But luckily, you can get away with much more modest equipment. If you just want to run the game at 1080p and 60fps, you can get away with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or an AMD Radeon RX 470, a much more affordable level of hardware. We've listed the full Doom Eternal system requirements below, but it's a relief to know that more people can go to hell (if they want to). The only thing we really care about is the CPU requirements. For the recommended parameters and ``Ultra-Nightmare'', Bethesda and id software provide target-specific processors, which we'll dig into below, but at the very least, only target one clock speed. This may not be very useful for people looking to see if their processor meets the minimum requirements or not, because "Intel Core i5 3.3 GHz" could theoretically go back to the Intel Core i5 2500K, it's a nice little overclock. Either way, if you want to download the game early, you're in luck. You can pre-load the game up to 48 hours before launching the game on PC, and it will unlock at 12:00 pm in your local time zone. Minimum specs (1080p / 60 fps / low quality settings)

Recommended Specifications (1440p / 60fps / High Quality Settings) Ultra-Nightmare Specifications (4K / 60fps / Ultra-Nightmare setting)

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What kind of PC do you need to run Doom Eternal?

Doom Eternal system requirements are everywhere, and it's hard to find the perfect system to play. Now, of course, we didn't have our hand to test performance like we did with Red Dead Redemption 2 or Halo: Reach, for now, but we can get a pretty good idea of ​​the right type of hardware to run the game on. Since the game requires at least a 5 GHz or 3 GHz Intel Core i3.5 or AMD Ryzen 3.1, respectively, we can safely assume that the game is not heavy. For example, the AMD Ryzen 3 1300X has a base clock of 3.5 GHz and only 4 single-core cores. This means that even old quad-core champions, like the Intel Core i5-3570K, should in theory be fine. But then again, IPC (instruction clock) performance has come a long way since one of these processors was released, so you can't be 100% sure. Things get a bit more confusing when you switch to the Ultra-Nightmare spec. It requires either an Intel Core i9-9900K or an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, which may be 8-core, 16-thread processors, but they work very differently. The Intel processor has better single-core performance, thanks to its high 5GHz boost clock, while the Zen 3700-based 2X smokes it in heavily threaded workloads (at a cheaper price).

(Image credit: Future) The confusion persists when you also look at the GPU requirements for this tier, as it requires either an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti or an AMD Radeon VII, two GPUs that are certainly not on a level playing field. At the end of the day, we won't really know how Doom Eternal will perform until we can run it ourselves, but for now we can help you make sure your system is up to date, using currently available PC components. If you just want to play at 1080p on high settings, this is the system we recommend: However, if you really want to take advantage of all this game has to offer, soaking up the high-fidelity graphics, we recommend the following hardware: You may notice that we recommend the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super over the RTX 2080 Ti, but it all comes down to the fact that Bethesda recommends the Radeon VII for the same level of performance. Because the RTX 2080 Ti is so much more expensive, it's hard to recommend whether you can achieve a similar level of performance with a card that costs almost half as much. Again, it's entirely possible that Doom Eternal is a huge VRAM drain, requiring 11GB of GDDR6 on the RTX 2080 Ti or 16GB of HBM2 on the Radeon VII, but we seriously doubt it. If you need to upgrade your hardware to play Doom Eternal when you hit the streets, we've gone ahead and included some helpful price comparison widgets below so you can find the best price on expensive PC hardware. Via PC Gamer AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 4 Cores ... Intel Core i5-9400F Desktop ... AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8 Cores, ... Intel Core i7-9700K Desktop ... Sapphire 11295-05-20G Radeon ... ASUS GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB ... EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Super ... Kingston HyperX Fury 16 GB ... Kingston HyperX FURY Black ... Kingston HyperX FURY Memory ... Kingston HyperX FURY Black ... Solid State Drive Samsung 860 EVO 250 Go -... SAMSUNG 860 EVO-Series 2.5 "... Samsung - 860 EVO 500 Go ... "Samsung SSD ...

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