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Dark Souls II FPS

  • 2014
  • 79/100 · 850 ratings
  • Capped at 60 FPS
  • Action
  • Role-playing
Estimates only · ±30%
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Dark Souls II was released in 2014. No published benchmark of Dark Souls II is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600GT, ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 as the minimum graphics card, an entry-level card by today's standards.

Frame rate cap: 60 FPS. Dark Souls II 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 Dark Souls II 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.

  1. RTX 409060game cap
  2. RTX 5070 Ti60game cap
  3. Radeon RX 9070 XT60game cap
  4. RTX 407060game cap
  5. Radeon RX 7800 XT60game cap
  6. RTX 4060 Ti60game cap
  7. RTX 406060game cap
  8. RTX 306060game cap
  9. Radeon RX 660060game cap
  10. GTX 165060game cap

Cards that run Dark Souls II at 60+ FPS

1080p High · cheapest first

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

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Screenshots

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System requirements

Steam

Minimum

GPU
NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600GT, ATI Radeon™ HD 5870
CPU
AMD® Phenom II™ X2 555 3.2Ghz or Intel® Pentium Core ™ 2 Duo E8500 3.17Ghz
RAM
2 GB

Recommended

GPU
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 or ATI Radeon™ HD 6870 or higher
CPU
Intel® CoreTM i3 2100 3.10GHz or AMD® A8 3870K 3.0GHz
RAM
4 GB

Dark Souls II FPS questions

Does Dark Souls II have an FPS cap?
Yes. Dark Souls II 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 Dark Souls II 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 Dark Souls II at that setting is in our data to confirm it.
Can a GTX 1650 run Dark Souls II?
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 Dark Souls II?
Steam lists NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600GT, ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 graphics, AMD® Phenom II™ X2 555 3.2Ghz or Intel® Pentium Core ™ 2 Duo E8500 3.17Ghz and 2 GB of RAM as the minimum.

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