What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Baldur's Gate III at 1080p?

In a published test (GameGPU) the Radeon RX 6600 averages 75 FPS at 1080p Ultra: the least powerful card in our data with a 60+ FPS result at 1080p High or Ultra.

Can a GTX 1650 run Baldur's Gate III?

By our estimate it gets about 57 FPS at 1080p Low (playable) and 37 FPS at 1080p High (playable), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Baldur's Gate III?

Steam lists Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 / Intel Arc A380 / Qualcomm Adreno X1 (4GB+ of VRAM) graphics, Intel I5 4690 / AMD FX 8350 / Snapdragon X Elite and 8 GB of RAM as the minimum.

Measured FPS benchmarks

Baldur's Gate III FPS

2023
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Role-playing
Strategy
Turn-based strategy
Adventure

Measured · 24 results8 GPUs · GameGPUestimate within ±30%: 16/24

Check FPS on your GPU

Baldur's Gate III was released in 2023. We list 24 published FPS results for it from GameGPU, covering 8 graphics cards. Steam lists Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 / Intel Arc A380 / Qualcomm Adreno X1 (4GB+ of VRAM) as the minimum graphics card, a mid-range card by today's standards. Against those results our estimate landed within ±30% 16 of 24 times.

Frame rate cap: none on record. We have no record of an engine frame limit for Baldur's Gate III, so our estimates assume it runs uncapped. V-Sync, an in-game limiter or your monitor's refresh rate can still hold it lower.

Measured results

Published · with sources

60+ FPS 30–59 under 30 lower bound (frame cap, CPU or VRAM limit). Average FPS from published tests.

At 1080p the fastest measured card, RTX 4090, averages 271 FPS; the slowest, Radeon RX 6600, 75 FPS.

Estimate vs measured

16/24 within ±30% · median -21%

Each dot is one published result: how far our model's figure for the same card and setting was from it. The shaded band is ±30%.

All 24 comparisons

GPU	Setting	Measured	Estimate	Diff.
RTX 4090	1080p Ultra	271 FPS	≈201 FPS	-26%
RTX 4090	1440p Ultra	207 FPS	≈145 FPS	-30%
RTX 4090	4K Ultra	117 FPS	≈78 FPS	-33%
RTX 4070 Ti	1080p Ultra	179 FPS	≈150 FPS	-16%
RTX 4070 Ti	1440p Ultra	128 FPS	≈108 FPS	-16%
RTX 4070 Ti	4K Ultra	68 FPS	≈59 FPS	-13%
RTX 4070	1080p Ultra	150 FPS	≈117 FPS	-22%
RTX 4070	1440p Ultra	106 FPS	≈84 FPS	-21%
RTX 4070	4K Ultra	52 FPS	≈46 FPS	-12%
RTX 4060 Ti	1080p Ultra	112 FPS	≈90 FPS	-20%
RTX 4060 Ti	1440p Ultra	79 FPS	≈65 FPS	-18%
RTX 4060 Ti	4K Ultra	41 FPS	≈35 FPS	-15%
RTX 3070	1080p Ultra	114 FPS	≈87 FPS	-24%
RTX 3070	1440p Ultra	79 FPS	≈62 FPS	-22%
RTX 3070	4K Ultra	43 FPS	≈34 FPS	-21%
RTX 4060	1080p Ultra	92 FPS	≈71 FPS	-23%
RTX 4060	1440p Ultra	64 FPS	≈51 FPS	-20%
RTX 4060	4K Ultra	34 FPS	≈28 FPS	-18%
RTX 3060	1080p Ultra	78 FPS	≈58 FPS	-26%
RTX 3060	1440p Ultra	53 FPS	≈41 FPS	-23%
RTX 3060	4K Ultra	29 FPS	≈22 FPS	-24%
Radeon RX 6600	1080p Ultra	75 FPS	≈50 FPS	-33%
Radeon RX 6600	1440p Ultra	48 FPS	≈36 FPS	-25%
Radeon RX 6600	4K Ultra	23 FPS	≈19 FPS	-17%

Our estimate on 10 reference GPUs

Estimate ±30%

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

RTX 4090247173–321
RTX 5070 Ti193135–251
Radeon RX 9070 XT193135–251
RTX 4070144101–187
Radeon RX 7800 XT12386–160
RTX 4060 Ti11077–143
RTX 40608862–114
RTX 30607150–92
Radeon RX 66006143–79
GTX 16503726–48

Cards that run Baldur's Gate III 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≈64 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈68 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈97 FPSAmazon

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Player reports

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Screenshots

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 / Intel Arc A380 / Qualcomm Adreno X1 (4GB+ of VRAM)
CPU: Intel I5 4690 / AMD FX 8350 / Snapdragon X Elite
RAM: 8 GB