What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Cities: Skylines 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 79 FPS. No published benchmark of Cities: Skylines at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run Cities: Skylines?

By our estimate it gets about 123 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 79 FPS at 1080p High (smooth), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Cities: Skylines?

Steam lists Nvidia® GeForce™ GTS 450 (1 GB) | AMD® R7 250 (2 GB) | Intel Iris Xe G7 (Tiger Lake) graphics, Intel® Core™ I7 930 | AMD® FX 6350 and 8 GB of RAM as the minimum.

FPS estimates

Cities: Skylines FPS

2015
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Simulation
Strategy

Estimates only · ±30%

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Cities: Skylines was released in 2015. No published benchmark of Cities: Skylines is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists Nvidia® GeForce™ GTS 450 (1 GB) | AMD® R7 250 (2 GB) | Intel Iris Xe G7 (Tiger Lake) as the minimum graphics card, about what integrated graphics deliver today.

Frame rate cap: none on record. We have no record of an engine frame limit for Cities: Skylines, 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 Cities: Skylines 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 4090360model max
RTX 5070 Ti360model max
Radeon RX 9070 XT360model max
RTX 4070310217–403
Radeon RX 7800 XT265186–345
RTX 4060 Ti237166–308
RTX 4060189132–246
RTX 3060152106–198
Radeon RX 660013292–172
GTX 16507955–103

Cards that run Cities: Skylines 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≈138 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈146 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈209 FPSAmazon

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTS 450 (1 GB) | AMD® R7 250 (2 GB) | Intel Iris Xe G7 (Tiger Lake)
CPU: Intel® Core™ I7 930 | AMD® FX 6350
RAM: 8 GB