What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Microsoft Flight Simulator 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 75 FPS. No published benchmark of Microsoft Flight Simulator at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run Microsoft Flight Simulator?

By our estimate it gets about 69 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 44 FPS at 1080p High (playable), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Microsoft Flight Simulator?

Steam lists NVIDIA GTX 770 | AMD Radeon RX 570 graphics, Intel i5-4460 | AMD Ryzen 3 1200 and 8 GB of RAM as the minimum.

FPS estimates

Microsoft Flight Simulator FPS

2020
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Estimates only · ±30%

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Microsoft Flight Simulator was released in 2020. No published benchmark of Microsoft Flight Simulator is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists NVIDIA GTX 770 | AMD Radeon RX 570 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 Microsoft Flight Simulator, 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 Microsoft Flight Simulator 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 4090300210–390
RTX 5070 Ti234164–304
Radeon RX 9070 XT235165–306
RTX 4070175122–228
Radeon RX 7800 XT150105–195
RTX 4060 Ti13494–174
RTX 406010775–139
RTX 30608660–112
Radeon RX 66007553–98
GTX 16504431–57

Cards that run Microsoft Flight Simulator 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≈78 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈82 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈118 FPSAmazon

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: NVIDIA GTX 770 | AMD Radeon RX 570
CPU: Intel i5-4460 | AMD Ryzen 3 1200
RAM: 8 GB