Does Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain have an FPS cap?

Yes. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain 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 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain 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 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain?

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 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain?

Steam lists NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (2GB) or better (DirectX 11 card Required) graphics, Intel Core i5-4460 (3.40 GHz) or better; Quad-core or better and 4 GB of RAM as the minimum.

Measured FPS benchmarks

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain FPS

2015
85/100 · 1,181 ratings
Capped at 60 FPS

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Measured · 7 results4 GPUs · Notebookcheckestimate within ±30%: 5/7

Check FPS on your GPU

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was released in 2015. We list 7 published FPS results for it from Notebookcheck, covering 4 graphics cards. Steam lists NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (2GB) or better (DirectX 11 card Required) as the minimum graphics card, about what integrated graphics deliver today. Against those results our estimate landed within ±30% 5 of 7 times.

Frame rate cap: 60 FPS. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain limits the frame rate to 60 FPS by default, so no graphics card shows more than that. Our estimates stop at 60 FPS too.

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 8 (Ryzen 4000 / 5000)High40.4Notebookcheck
Radeon Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000 / 5000)Ultra29.7Notebookcheck
Radeon Vega 8High26Notebookcheck
Radeon Vega 8Ultra18Notebookcheck
Intel UHD Graphics 630High13.4Notebookcheck
Intel UHD Graphics 620High12.1Notebookcheck
Intel UHD Graphics 620Ultra8.2Notebookcheck

At 1080p the fastest measured card, Radeon Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000 / 5000), averages 40 FPS; the slowest, Intel UHD Graphics 620, 8 FPS.

Estimate vs measured

5/7 within ±30% · median -6%

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 7 comparisons

GPU	Setting	Measured	Estimate	Diff.
Radeon Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000 / 5000)	1080p High	40.4 FPS	≈29 FPS	-28%
Radeon Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000 / 5000)	1080p Ultra	29.7 FPS	≈24 FPS	-19%
Radeon Vega 8	1080p High	26 FPS	≈21 FPS	-19%
Radeon Vega 8	1080p Ultra	18 FPS	≈17 FPS	-6%
Intel UHD Graphics 630	1080p High	13.4 FPS	≈17 FPS	+27%
Intel UHD Graphics 620	1080p High	12.1 FPS	≈15 FPS	+24%
Intel UHD Graphics 620	1080p Ultra	8.2 FPS	≈12 FPS	+46%

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 165060game cap

Cards that run Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain 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 650 (2GB) or better (DirectX 11 card Required)
CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 (3.40 GHz) or better; Quad-core or better
RAM: 4 GB