Does Dark Souls III have an FPS cap?

Yes. Dark Souls III 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 III 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 60 FPS. No published benchmark of Dark Souls III at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run Dark Souls III?

By our estimate it gets about 60 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 46 FPS at 1080p High (playable), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Dark Souls III?

Steam lists NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 750 Ti / ATI Radeon HD 7950 graphics, Intel Core i3-2100 / AMD® FX-6300 and 4 GB of RAM as the minimum.

FPS estimates

Dark Souls III FPS

2016
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Capped at 60 FPS

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Estimates only · ±30%

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Dark Souls III was released in 2016. No published benchmark of Dark Souls III is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 750 Ti / ATI Radeon HD 7950 as the minimum graphics card, an entry-level card by today's standards.

Frame rate cap: 60 FPS. Dark Souls III 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 III 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 409060game cap
RTX 5070 Ti60game cap
Radeon RX 9070 XT60game cap
RTX 407060game cap
Radeon RX 7800 XT60game cap
RTX 4060 Ti60game cap
RTX 406060game cap
RTX 306060game cap
Radeon RX 660060game cap
GTX 16504632–60

Cards that run Dark Souls 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≈60 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈60 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈60 FPSAmazon

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 750 Ti / ATI Radeon HD 7950
CPU: Intel Core i3-2100 / AMD® FX-6300
RAM: 4 GB