What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth 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 83 FPS. No published benchmark of Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth?

By our estimate it gets about 130 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 83 FPS at 1080p High (smooth), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth?

Steam lists 256 MB ATI HD3650 or better, 256 MB nVidia 8800 GT or better, or Intel HD 3000 or better integrated graphics graphics, Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz and 2 GB of RAM as the minimum.

FPS estimates

Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth FPS

2014
70/100 · 107 ratings

Strategy

Estimates only · ±30%

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Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth was released in 2014. No published benchmark of Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists 256 MB ATI HD3650 or better, 256 MB nVidia 8800 GT or better, or Intel HD 3000 or better i… 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 Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth, 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 Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth 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
RTX 4070328230–426
Radeon RX 7800 XT280196–364
RTX 4060 Ti251176–326
RTX 4060200140–260
RTX 3060161113–209
Radeon RX 660014098–182
GTX 16508358–108

Cards that run Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth 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≈146 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈154 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈221 FPSAmazon

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: 256 MB ATI HD3650 or better, 256 MB nVidia 8800 GT or better, or Intel HD 3000 or better integrated graphics
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz
RAM: 2 GB