What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Sid Meier's Civilization V at 1080p?

In a published test (Notebookcheck) the GTX 580 averages 70 FPS at 1080p Ultra: the least powerful card in our data with a 60+ FPS result at 1080p High or Ultra.

Can a GTX 1650 run Sid Meier's Civilization V?

By our estimate it gets about 259 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 165 FPS at 1080p High (smooth), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Sid Meier's Civilization V?

Steam lists 256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 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.

Measured FPS benchmarks

Sid Meier's Civilization V FPS

2010
85/100 · 1,168 ratings

Strategy

Measured · 5 results5 GPUs · Notebookcheckestimate within ±30%: 2/5

Check FPS on your GPU

Sid Meier's Civilization V was released in 2010. We list 5 published FPS results for it from Notebookcheck, covering 5 graphics cards. Steam lists 256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better inte… as the minimum graphics card, about what integrated graphics deliver today. Against those results our estimate landed within ±30% 2 of 5 times.

Frame rate cap: none on record. We have no record of an engine frame limit for Sid Meier's Civilization V, so our estimates assume it runs uncapped. V-Sync, an in-game limiter or your monitor's refresh rate can still hold it lower.

Measured results

Published · with sources

60+ FPS 30–59 under 30 lower bound (frame cap, CPU or VRAM limit). Average FPS from published tests.

At 1080p the fastest measured card, GTX 580, averages 70 FPS; the slowest, Intel HD 3000, 5 FPS.

Estimate vs measured

2/5 within ±30% · median +33%

Each dot is one published result: how far our model's figure for the same card and setting was from it. The shaded band is ±30%.

All 5 comparisons

GPU	Setting	Measured	Estimate	Diff.
GTX 580	1080p Ultra	69.5 FPS	≈88 FPS	+27%
GTX 470	1080p Ultra	48.9 FPS	≈65 FPS	+33%
Radeon HD 6870	1080p Ultra	41.5 FPS	≈49 FPS	+18%
GTX 580M	1080p Ultra	20.9 FPS	≈42 FPS	+101%
Intel HD 3000	1080p Ultra	5 FPS	≈9 FPS	+80%

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 4070360model max
Radeon RX 7800 XT360model max
RTX 4060 Ti360model max
RTX 4060360model max
RTX 3060321225–417
Radeon RX 6600278195–361
GTX 1650165115–215

Cards that run Sid Meier's Civilization V 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≈290 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈307 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈360 FPSAmazon

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Screenshots

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: 256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better integrated graphics
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz
RAM: 2 GB