What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Battlefield 3 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 152 FPS. No published benchmark of Battlefield 3 at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run Battlefield 3?

By our estimate it gets about 237 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 152 FPS at 1080p High (smooth), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Battlefield 3?

Steam lists Graphics card (AMD): DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI Radeon 3000, 4000, 5000 or 6000 series… graphics, 2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz) and 2 GB of RAM as the minimum.

Measured FPS benchmarks

Battlefield 3 FPS

2011
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Measured · 10 results10 GPUs · Notebookcheckestimate within ±30%: 0/10

Check FPS on your GPU

Battlefield 3 was released in 2011. We list 10 published FPS results for it from Notebookcheck, covering 10 graphics cards. Steam lists Graphics card (AMD): DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI Radeon 3000, 4000, 5000 … as the minimum graphics card, about what integrated graphics deliver today. Against those results our estimate landed within ±30% 0 of 10 times.

Frame rate cap: none on record. We have no record of an engine frame limit for Battlefield 3, 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.

GTX 580Ultra45Notebookcheck
GTX 470Ultra30Notebookcheck
Radeon HD 6870Ultra28Notebookcheck
GTX 580MUltra24Notebookcheck
Radeon HD 6970MUltra19Notebookcheck
GTX 570MUltra18Notebookcheck
GTX 560MUltra17Notebookcheck
GT 555MUltra9.8Notebookcheck
Mobility Radeon HD 5650Ultra5.9Notebookcheck
Intel HD 4000Ultra5Notebookcheck

At 1080p the fastest measured card, GTX 580, averages 45 FPS; the slowest, Intel HD 4000, 5 FPS.

Estimate vs measured

0/10 within ±30% · median +90%

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 10 comparisons

GPU	Setting	Measured	Estimate	Diff.
GTX 580	1080p Ultra	45 FPS	≈81 FPS	+80%
GTX 470	1080p Ultra	30 FPS	≈60 FPS	+100%
Radeon HD 6970M	1080p Ultra	19 FPS	≈46 FPS	+142%
Radeon HD 6870	1080p Ultra	28 FPS	≈45 FPS	+61%
GTX 570M	1080p Ultra	18 FPS	≈39 FPS	+117%
GTX 580M	1080p Ultra	24 FPS	≈39 FPS	+63%
GTX 560M	1080p Ultra	17 FPS	≈29 FPS	+71%
GT 555M	1080p Ultra	9.8 FPS	≈17 FPS	+73%
Mobility Radeon HD 5650	1080p Ultra	5.9 FPS	≈12 FPS	+103%
Intel HD 4000	1080p Ultra	5 FPS	≈10 FPS	+100%

Our estimate on 10 reference GPUs

Estimate ±30%

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

RTX 4090360model max
RTX 5070 Ti360model max
Radeon RX 9070 XT360model max
RTX 4070360model max
Radeon RX 7800 XT360model max
RTX 4060 Ti360model max
RTX 4060360model max
RTX 3060295207–384
Radeon RX 6600256179–333
GTX 1650152106–198

Cards that run Battlefield 3 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≈266 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈282 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈360 FPSAmazon

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Player reports

0 reports

No player reports for Battlefield 3 yet.

Screenshots

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System requirements

Steam

Minimum

GPU: Graphics card (AMD): DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI Radeon 3000, 4000, 5000 or 6000 series, with ATI Radeon 3870 or higher performance) Graphics card (NVIDIA): DirectX 10.0 compatible with 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 or 500 series with NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or higher performance)
CPU: 2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz)
RAM: 2 GB