What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Serious Sam: The First Encounter 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 232 FPS. No published benchmark of Serious Sam: The First Encounter at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run Serious Sam: The First Encounter?

By our estimate it gets about 360 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 232 FPS at 1080p High (smooth), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Serious Sam: The First Encounter?

Steam lists full OpenGL compliant 3D accelerator graphics, AMD K6-3 400MHz, Pentium II or Celeron-A 300MHz and 1 GB of RAM as the minimum.

FPS estimates

Serious Sam: The First Encounter FPS

2001
79/100 · 269 ratings

Shooter
Indie
Action

Estimates only · ±30%

Check FPS on your GPU

Serious Sam: The First Encounter was released in 2001. No published benchmark of Serious Sam: The First Encounter is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists full OpenGL compliant 3D accelerator as the minimum graphics card, about what integrated graphics deliver today.

Frame rate cap: none on record. We have no record of an engine frame limit for Serious Sam: The First Encounter, 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 Serious Sam: The First Encounter 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 4090360model max
RTX 5070 Ti360model max
Radeon RX 9070 XT360model max
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RTX 4060 Ti360model max
RTX 4060360model max
RTX 3060360model max
Radeon RX 6600360model max
GTX 1650232162–302

Cards that run Serious Sam: The First Encounter 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≈360 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈360 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈360 FPSAmazon

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: full OpenGL compliant 3D accelerator
CPU: AMD K6-3 400MHz, Pentium II or Celeron-A 300MHz
RAM: 1 GB