Does Middle-earth: Shadow of War have an FPS cap?

Yes. Middle-earth: Shadow of War caps the frame rate at 240 FPS by default, so a faster graphics card will not show more than 240 FPS.

What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Middle-earth: Shadow of War 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 87 FPS. No published benchmark of Middle-earth: Shadow of War at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run Middle-earth: Shadow of War?

By our estimate it gets about 81 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 52 FPS at 1080p High (playable), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Middle-earth: Shadow of War?

Steam lists AMD HD 7870, 2 GB / NVIDIA GTX 660, 2 GB graphics, AMD FX-4350, 4.2 GHz / Intel Core i5-2300, 2.80 GHz and 6 GB of RAM as the minimum.

FPS estimates

Middle-earth: Shadow of War FPS

2017
79/100 · 479 ratings
Capped at 240 FPS

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Estimates only · ±30%

Check FPS on your GPU

Middle-earth: Shadow of War was released in 2017. No published benchmark of Middle-earth: Shadow of War is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists AMD HD 7870, 2 GB / NVIDIA GTX 660, 2 GB as the minimum graphics card, an entry-level card by today's standards.

Frame rate cap: 240 FPS. Middle-earth: Shadow of War limits the frame rate to 240 FPS by default, so no graphics card shows more than that. Our estimates stop at 240 FPS too.

No measured data yet. We have not found a published benchmark of Middle-earth: Shadow of War 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 4090240game cap
RTX 5070 Ti240game cap
Radeon RX 9070 XT240game cap
RTX 4070204143–265
Radeon RX 7800 XT174122–226
RTX 4060 Ti156109–203
RTX 406012487–161
RTX 306010070–130
Radeon RX 66008761–113
GTX 16505236–68

Cards that run Middle-earth: Shadow of War 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≈90 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈96 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈137 FPSAmazon

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: AMD HD 7870, 2 GB / NVIDIA GTX 660, 2 GB
CPU: AMD FX-4350, 4.2 GHz / Intel Core i5-2300, 2.80 GHz
RAM: 6 GB