What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Sea of Thieves at 1080p?

By our estimate (±30%), the RTX 4060 Ti is the least powerful of our 10 reference cards to reach 60 FPS at 1080p High, at about 72 FPS. No published benchmark of Sea of Thieves at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run Sea of Thieves?

By our estimate it gets about 37 FPS at 1080p Low (playable) and 24 FPS at 1080p High (struggles), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Sea of Thieves?

Steam lists Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon R9 270 graphics, Intel i3 4170 @ 3.7 GHz or AMD FX-6300 @ 3.5 GHz and 8 GB of RAM as the minimum.

FPS estimates

Sea of Thieves FPS

2018
71/100 · 291 ratings

Simulation
Adventure
Action

Estimates only · ±30%

Check FPS on your GPU

Sea of Thieves was released in 2018. No published benchmark of Sea of Thieves is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon R9 270 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 Sea of Thieves, 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 Sea of Thieves 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 4090161113–209
RTX 5070 Ti12588–163
Radeon RX 9070 XT12688–164
RTX 40709466–122
Radeon RX 7800 XT8056–104
RTX 4060 Ti7250–94
RTX 40605740–74
RTX 30604632–60
Radeon RX 66004028–52
GTX 16502417–31

Cards that run Sea of Thieves at 60+ FPS

1080p High · cheapest first

Current cards, by launch price. Solid chips are measured results; dashed ones are our estimate (±30%).

RTX 5060launch price $299≈63 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GBlaunch price $349≈60 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060 Ti 16GBlaunch price $429≈72 FPSAmazon

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon R9 270
CPU: Intel i3 4170 @ 3.7 GHz or AMD FX-6300 @ 3.5 GHz
RAM: 8 GB