
FPS estimates
Need for Speed: Payback FPS
- 2017
- 60/100 · 233 ratings
- Racing
- Sport
- Action
- Adventure
Need for Speed: Payback was released in 2017. No published benchmark of Need for Speed: Payback is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 750 Ti or AMD Radeon™ HD 7850 or equivalent DX11 compatible GPU with 2… 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 Need for Speed: Payback, so our estimates assume it runs uncapped. V-Sync, an in-game limiter or your monitor's refresh rate can still hold it lower.
Our estimate on 10 reference GPUs
Estimate ±30%Model figures, not measurements: dashed bars with their ±30% band. How they are made.
- RTX 4090349244–454
- RTX 5070 Ti273191–355
- Radeon RX 9070 XT273191–355
- 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 Need for Speed: Payback at 60+ FPS
1080p High · cheapest firstCurrent 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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SteamSystem requirements
SteamMinimum
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 750 Ti or AMD Radeon™ HD 7850 or equivalent DX11 compatible GPU with 2GB of memory
- CPU
- Intel i3 6300 @ 3.8GHz or AMD FX 8150 @ 3.6GHz with 4 hardware threads
- RAM
- 6 GB
Recommended
- GPU
- AMD Radeon™ RX 480 4GB, NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB or equivalent DX11 compatible GPU with 4GB of memory
- CPU
- Intel i5 4690K @ 3.5GHz or AMD FX 8350 @ 4.0GHz with 4 hardware threads
- RAM
- 8 GB
Need for Speed: Payback FPS questions
- What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Need for Speed: Payback 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 Need for Speed: Payback at that setting is in our data to confirm it.
- Can a GTX 1650 run Need for Speed: Payback?
- 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 Need for Speed: Payback?
- Steam lists NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 750 Ti or AMD Radeon™ HD 7850 or equivalent DX11 compatible GPU with 2GB of memory graphics, Intel i3 6300 @ 3.8GHz or AMD FX 8150 @ 3.6GHz with 4 hardware threads and 6 GB of RAM as the minimum.












