What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Guild Wars 2 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 85 FPS. No published benchmark of Guild Wars 2 at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run Guild Wars 2?

By our estimate it gets about 79 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 50 FPS at 1080p High (playable), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Guild Wars 2?

Steam lists NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680 / AMD Radeon HD 7970 graphics, Intel® i3 3.4 GHz / AMD Athlon x4 3.8 GHz or better and 8 GB of RAM as the minimum.

Measured FPS benchmarks

Guild Wars 2 FPS

2012
80/100 · 323 ratings

Adventure
Massively Multiplayer
Role-playing
Free To Play

Measured · 1 results1 GPUs · Notebookcheck

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Guild Wars 2 was released in 2012. We list 1 published FPS result for it from Notebookcheck, covering 1 graphics card. Steam lists NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680 / AMD Radeon HD 7970 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 Guild Wars 2, 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.

Radeon Vega 8Ultra12.9Notebookcheck

Estimate vs measured

1/1 within ±30% · median -15%

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 1 comparison

GPU	Setting	Measured	Estimate	Diff.
Radeon Vega 8	1080p Ultra	12.9 FPS	≈11 FPS	-15%

Our estimate on 10 reference GPUs

Estimate ±30%

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

RTX 4090341239–443
RTX 5070 Ti266186–346
Radeon RX 9070 XT267187–347
RTX 4070199139–259
Radeon RX 7800 XT170119–221
RTX 4060 Ti152106–198
RTX 406012185–157
RTX 30609869–127
Radeon RX 66008559–111
GTX 16505035–65

Cards that run Guild Wars 2 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≈88 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈94 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈134 FPSAmazon

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Player reports

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No player reports for Guild Wars 2 yet.

Screenshots

Steam

System requirements

Steam

Minimum

GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680 / AMD Radeon HD 7970
CPU: Intel® i3 3.4 GHz / AMD Athlon x4 3.8 GHz or better
RAM: 8 GB

Guild Wars 2 FPS questions

What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Guild Wars 2 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 85 FPS. No published benchmark of Guild Wars 2 at that setting is in our data to confirm it.
Can a GTX 1650 run Guild Wars 2?: By our estimate it gets about 79 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 50 FPS at 1080p High (playable), each ±30%.
What are the minimum system requirements for Guild Wars 2?: Steam lists NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680 / AMD Radeon HD 7970 graphics, Intel® i3 3.4 GHz / AMD Athlon x4 3.8 GHz or better and 8 GB of RAM as the minimum.