Doom Eternal<\/a> benchmarking has again underlined that AMD’s old graphics cards really do age like a fine wine when compared to Nvidia’s GPUs from the same time.<\/p>\n A YouTube video from Hardware Unboxed measured the performance of old (and somewhat newer) GPUs in a modern shooter, going back to Nvidia’s 600 series which was released in 2012, with the GeForce GTX 680 battling against AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 at the time (which launched just before it).<\/p>\n Back then, Nvidia’s GTX 680 just about edged out the 7970 – and certainly won the battle on the power-efficiency front – although the graphics cards were on a pretty equal footing overall in terms of gaming performance. Today, eight years on, it’s a very different story…<\/p>\n Running Doom Eternal at 1080p on low quality, the GTX 680 (4GB) managed a pretty poor average frame rate of 35 fps. Whereas the Radeon HD 7970 (GHz Edition, with 3GB of video RAM) managed 65 fps, almost double the performance, and above the typically observed level for pleasantly smooth gaming (60 fps).<\/p>\n\n