What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Borderlands 3 at 1080p?

By our estimate (±30%), the Radeon RX 6600 is the least powerful of our 10 reference cards to reach 60 FPS at 1080p High, at about 80 FPS. No published benchmark of Borderlands 3 at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run Borderlands 3?

By our estimate it gets about 74 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 47 FPS at 1080p High (playable), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Borderlands 3?

Steam lists AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2 GB graphics, AMD FX-8350 or Intel i5-3570 and 6 GB of RAM as the minimum.

FPS estimates

Borderlands 3 FPS

2019
76/100 · 592 ratings

Action
Role-playing

Estimates only · ±30%

Check FPS on your GPU

Borderlands 3 was released in 2019. No published benchmark of Borderlands 3 is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2 GB as the minimum graphics card, an entry-level card by today's standards.

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

No measured data yet. We have not found a published benchmark of Borderlands 3 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 4090321225–417
RTX 5070 Ti250175–325
Radeon RX 9070 XT251176–326
RTX 4070187131–243
Radeon RX 7800 XT160112–208
RTX 4060 Ti143100–186
RTX 406011480–148
RTX 30609264–120
Radeon RX 66008056–104
GTX 16504733–61

Cards that run Borderlands 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≈83 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈88 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈126 FPSAmazon

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Player reports

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No player reports for Borderlands 3 yet.

Screenshots

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2 GB
CPU: AMD FX-8350 or Intel i5-3570
RAM: 6 GB