What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Life is Strange: Before the Storm 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 78 FPS. No published benchmark of Life is Strange: Before the Storm at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run Life is Strange: Before the Storm?

By our estimate it gets about 122 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 78 FPS at 1080p High (smooth), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Life is Strange: Before the Storm?

Steam lists AMD Radeon R7 250 or NVIDIA Geforce GTX 650 graphics, Intel Core i3-2100 (3.1GHz) or AMD Phenom X4 945 (3.0GHz) and 3 GB of RAM as the minimum.

FPS estimates

Life is Strange: Before the Storm FPS

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Life is Strange: Before the Storm was released in 2017. No published benchmark of Life is Strange: Before the Storm is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists AMD Radeon R7 250 or NVIDIA Geforce GTX 650 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 Life is Strange: Before the Storm, 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 Life is Strange: Before the Storm 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 4070308216–400
Radeon RX 7800 XT263184–342
RTX 4060 Ti235165–306
RTX 4060187131–243
RTX 3060151106–196
Radeon RX 660013192–170
GTX 16507855–101

Cards that run Life is Strange: Before the Storm 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≈137 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈145 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈207 FPSAmazon

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: AMD Radeon R7 250 or NVIDIA Geforce GTX 650
CPU: Intel Core i3-2100 (3.1GHz) or AMD Phenom X4 945 (3.0GHz)
RAM: 3 GB