Razer's Blade 16, armed with Nvidia’s latest mobile GPU, chews through demons and makes Hell look bloody fantastic. See the first testing numbers I spun up—including with DLSS.

For the absolute maxed-out 4K path-traced DOOM experience, you will need a pretty powerful GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU. NVIDIA confirms that running on a GeForce RTX 5090 in 4K with Ultra Settings, Path Tracing, and Multi-Frame Generation (4X) will give you 210 FPS.

The Dark Ages is at least easier on the ol’ GPU than Indy was, and I’ve had a crack at a settings guide (below) that should give a boost to most rigs, but ray tracing is still a hard requirement that means it won’t even launch on a lot of older hardware.

Software acknowledged that some users with NVIDIA GPUs are experiencing 'persistent crashing' when playing Doom: The Dark Ages, and has offer a couple of mitigations.

In a new post on its website, NVIDIA confirms that select GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs in both desktop and laptop form will get free copies of DOOM: The Dark Ages. This includes the GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti or RTX 5070 graphics card purchases, or a gaming PC with one of those desktop GPUs inside.