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Doom: The Dark Ages (2025)

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So how does the new Doom the Dark Ages path tracing patch perform? Let's find out! Note that this video focuses on performance testing. I recommend videos like this one from Digital Foundry for a deeper look at the visual changes in the path tracing mode:    • Doom: The Dark Ages - PC Path Tracing Upgr...  

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Chapters:
0:00 Has performance changed on this patch and driver?
1:45 Launch patch/driver 5070 Ti Ultra Nightmare Native 4K
2:10 Current patch/driver 5070 Ti Ultra Nightmare Native 4K
3:13 Thoughts on the differences, confirming settings
4:03 Second run to confirm results
4:39 Launch patch/driver 5070 Ti Ultra Nightmare 4K DLSS Performance
5:27 Current patch/driver 5070 Ti Ultra Nightmare 4K DLSS Performance
6:42 Launch patch/driver 5070 Ti Medium 4K Native
7:12 Current patch/driver 5070 Ti Medium 4K Native
7:56 Seems like the game just runs worse than it did on launch build/driver
8:40 Looking at path tracing settings
9:52 A note regarding ray reconstruction
10:34 5070 Ti 4K Path Tracing Max DLSS Performance
11:33 Testing Nvidia Real-time Denoiser vs Ray Reconstruction
13:03 Turn off path traced shadows to check for performance gain
14:23 Turn off path traced water reflections to check performance gain
15:22 Turn off path traced transparencies to check performance gain
16:33 Thoughts on 5070 Ti for 4K path tracing
16:55 5070 Ti 1440p Path Tracing DLSS Balanced
17:52 Thoughts on 5070 Ti for 1440p path tracing
18:33 5070 Ti 16GB 1080p path tracing DLSS Quality
19:40 5070 Ti 16GB 1080p path tracing DLAA (native resolution)
20:40 5060 Ti 16GB 1080p path tracing DLSS Quality
21:58 5060 Ti 16GB 1080p path tracing DLSS Balanced
22:54 5060 Ti 16GB 1080p path tracing DLSS Balanced x2 frame generation
23:57 5060 Ti 16GB 1440p path tracing DLSS Balanced
25:00 5060 Ti 16GB 1440p path tracing DLSS Performance
25:48 5060 Ti 16GB 1440p path tracing DLSS Performance x2 frame generation
26:49 This is broken 5060 Ti 8GB 1080p path tracing DLSS Quality
28:26 Can frame generation fix the 8GB card?!?!?!?
30:50 Can AMD use the path tracing mode?
32:11 9070 XT 1080p Path Tracing FSR3 Quality
32:58 9070 XT 1080p Path Tracing XeSS Quality
34:29 9070 XT 1440p path tracing XeSS Quality
35:11 9070 XT 1440p path tracing XeSS performance
36:18 9070 XT with path tracing turned off is the way to go
37:00 Final thoughts on this path tracing update