Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB
We now know that this game likes VRAM capacity, so enter the curious case of the Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB version. It’s a low-end video card, has low-end sub-$200 performance, but it has a whopping 8GB of VRAM on it. For DOOM Eternal, that’s an interesting proposition.
Therefore, we tested every quality setting on the Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB video card as well. Look at the results yourself, and take what you will from it.
1440p
The fact that we can run “Ultra Nightmare” at 1440p on the Radeon RX 5500 XT is only possible here because it has 8GB of VRAM, and it’s actually not that bad? Yep, it can handle every quality setting at 1440p. For us, the playable level of performance at 1440p was more around “High” to “Medium” though because it has a Radeon RX 5500 XT GPU.
1080p
It’s at 1080p that the video card should really pique your interest. Because it has 8GB of VRAM it can run at “Ultra” and “Nightmare” and “Ultra Nightmare” quality settings. What’s more, it actually has the performance in this game to allow “Ultra Nightmare” to be playable.
This puts the 8GB Radeon RX 5500 XT ahead of the Radeon RX 5600 XT, GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and GeForce GTX 1660 Ti in terms of the gameplay experience. The 8GB Radeon RX 5500 XT can run at higher quality settings, the others cannot, simply because of VRAM capacity.