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Barely two weeks before the release postponed to March 20, 2020, Bethesda announced the official system requirements for Doom Eternal. The first person shooter developed by id Software therefore requires approximately the hardware that was recommended for the predecessor Doom (test) in 2016.
Minimal is recommended in four years
The publisher’s official specifications include an AMD Radeon R9 290 or an Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 as a minimum specification – both graphics cards were found in the predecessor’s system requirements as recommended graphics accelerators. As newer counterparts, Bethesda also names a Radeon RX 470 or a GTX 1060. The minimum amount of graphics memory required is therefore 4 GB, the RAM is 8 GB.
The processor details are less precise: Doom Eternal requires minimally an AMD Ryzen 3 with a clock of at least 3.1 GHz or an Intel Core i5 with a minimum of 3.3 GHz. Examples would be the Ryzen 3 1200 from the first ZEN generation or the Core i5-4690K from 2014.
On the other hand, a Ryzen 7 1800X from the first ZEN generation or a Core i7-6700K from the Skylake generation are specifically recommended, and with 16 GB twice the amount of RAM. The system requirements call a graphics processor a Radeon RX Vega 56 or a GeForce GTX 1080, which serves as a newer counterpart of an RTX 2060. However, the specification of the graphics memory is striking: Bethesda recommends 8 GB, but the classic RTX 2060 only has 6 GB VRAM. So it makes sense that the RTX 2060 Super is actually meant. A navigation counterpart to AMD’s Vega GPU would be the Radeon RX 5600 XT.
For the time being without ray tracing
There will be no real-time ray tracing at the start of the game, as id Software announced at the end of January 2020. The developers communicated the reason that the development time was not sufficient for a qualitative implementation despite the postponement. Although the function that can currently only be used exclusively with Nvidia’s RTX graphics cards is to be delivered, there is as yet no date for this.
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