FPSGAUGE

About

FPSGauge is built and run by one independent developer. It answers one question before you spend money on a game or a graphics card: what frame rate will I get?

Why it exists

Most "can I run it" tools turn system requirements into a yes or a no, or into a number with no evidence behind it. FPSGauge puts published benchmarks first, each linked to its source, then shows a model estimate only where no measurement exists, with the error band that model really has. The methodology page lists the sources and the error figures.

What it does not do

  • No ads and no paid placement. Results and estimates are the same whoever sells the card.
  • No accounts and no newsletter.
  • No generated prose: page text is built from the data with fixed sentences.

Affiliate links

Some pages link to Amazon to check the price of a graphics card: the buy box on a GPU page, the upgrade picks and the "60+ FPS" cards on a game page, the "Card falls short?" cards under a launch article's FPS table, the price buttons on a GPU comparison, and one row on the home page. They are marked as Amazon links. As an Amazon Associate, FPSGauge earns from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Which cards are shown depends only on the FPS data (the cheapest current cards that reach 60 FPS), never on commission. We show launch prices (MSRP) only; current prices are on the store.

Game pages (under the GPU verdict) and launch articles (next to the summary) also link to Instant Gaming, a store for PC game keys: a search for the game on their site, marked as an Instant Gaming link, next to the Steam price for comparison when Steam has one. FPSGauge earns a commission on purchases made through it, at no extra cost to you. The link is the same on every paid game and changes nothing in the FPS data.

Contact

Corrections, missing benchmarks, or a source we should add: [email protected]

Privacy

The site uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are read, and Microsoft Clarity to see how pages are used (clicks, scrolling and anonymised session replays; text you type is masked). In the EU, the UK and Switzerland they set no analytics cookies until you accept them in the banner; elsewhere you can reject them there. Your choice is stored in your browser (localStorage) and nowhere else. Clicks on Amazon and Instant Gaming links are counted as an Analytics event (which block, which card or game, which store), under the same consent. Your graphics card, if you set one, is stored only in your browser. The pick tool sends what you type to our own server to search games and graphics cards; nothing is stored. To send you to your local Amazon store, the site asks our server for your country (from your IP address, not stored). Amazon and Instant Gaming set their own cookies once you are on their sites.