Does Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag have an FPS cap?

Yes. Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag caps the frame rate at 60 FPS by default, so a faster graphics card will not show more than 60 FPS.

What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag at 1080p?

By our estimate (±30%), the GTX 1650 is the least powerful of our 10 reference cards to reach 60 FPS at 1080p High, at about 60 FPS. No published benchmark of Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag?

By our estimate it gets about 60 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 60 FPS at 1080p High (smooth), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag?

Steam lists Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 or AMD Radeon HD 4870 (512MB VRAM with shader Model 4.0 or higher) graphics, Intel Core2Quad Q8400 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon II X4 620 @ 2.6 GHz and 2 GB of RAM as the minimum.

FPS estimates

Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag FPS

2013
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Capped at 60 FPS

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Estimates only · ±30%

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Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag was released in 2013. No published benchmark of Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 or AMD Radeon HD 4870 (512MB VRAM with shader Model 4.0 or higher) as the minimum graphics card, about what integrated graphics deliver today.

Frame rate cap: 60 FPS. Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag limits the frame rate to 60 FPS by default, so no graphics card shows more than that. Our estimates stop at 60 FPS too.

No measured data yet. We have not found a published benchmark of Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag with a source we can link. The figures below come from our model and carry a ±30% band. How the estimate works.

Our estimate on 10 reference GPUs

Estimate ±30%

Model figures, not measurements: dashed bars with their ±30% band. How they are made.

RTX 409060game cap
RTX 5070 Ti60game cap
Radeon RX 9070 XT60game cap
RTX 407060game cap
Radeon RX 7800 XT60game cap
RTX 4060 Ti60game cap
RTX 406060game cap
RTX 306060game cap
Radeon RX 660060game cap
GTX 165060game cap

Cards that run Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag at 60+ FPS

1080p High · cheapest first

Current cards, by launch price. Solid chips are measured results; dashed ones are our estimate (±30%).

Intel Arc B580launch price $249≈60 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈60 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈60 FPSAmazon

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 or AMD Radeon HD 4870 (512MB VRAM with shader Model 4.0 or higher)
CPU: Intel Core2Quad Q8400 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon II X4 620 @ 2.6 GHz
RAM: 2 GB