What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Star Wars: The Old Republic 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 166 FPS. No published benchmark of Star Wars: The Old Republic at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run Star Wars: The Old Republic?

By our estimate it gets about 259 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 166 FPS at 1080p High (smooth), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Star Wars: The Old Republic?

Steam lists Star Wars: The Old Republic requires a video card that has a minimum of 1 GB of on-board RAM as well as… graphics, AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+ or better / Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz or better and 6 GB of RAM as the minimum.

Measured FPS benchmarks

Star Wars: The Old Republic FPS

2011
76/100 · 245 ratings

Massively Multiplayer
Role-playing
Free To Play

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

Check FPS on your GPU

Star Wars: The Old Republic was released in 2011. We list 5 published FPS results for it from Notebookcheck, covering 5 graphics cards. Steam lists Star Wars: The Old Republic requires a video card that has a minimum of 1 GB of on-board R… as the minimum graphics card, about what integrated graphics deliver today. Against those results our estimate landed within ±30% 5 of 5 times.

Frame rate cap: none on record. We have no record of an engine frame limit for Star Wars: The Old Republic, 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.

GTX 580MUltra49.4Notebookcheck
Radeon HD 6970MUltra43.5Notebookcheck
GTX 560MUltra32Notebookcheck
GT 555MUltra21.1Notebookcheck
Mobility Radeon HD 5650Ultra16.5Notebookcheck

At 1080p the fastest measured card, GTX 580M, averages 49 FPS; the slowest, Mobility Radeon HD 5650, 17 FPS.

Estimate vs measured

5/5 within ±30% · median -15%

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.
Radeon HD 6970M	1080p Ultra	43.5 FPS	≈50 FPS	+15%
GTX 580M	1080p Ultra	49.4 FPS	≈42 FPS	-15%
GTX 560M	1080p Ultra	32 FPS	≈31 FPS	-3%
GT 555M	1080p Ultra	21.1 FPS	≈18 FPS	-15%
Mobility Radeon HD 5650	1080p Ultra	16.5 FPS	≈13 FPS	-21%

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 6600279195–363
GTX 1650166116–216

Cards that run Star Wars: The Old Republic 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≈308 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈360 FPSAmazon

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Player reports

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No player reports for Star Wars: The Old Republic yet.

Screenshots

Steam

System requirements

Steam

Minimum

GPU: Star Wars: The Old Republic requires a video card that has a minimum of 1 GB of on-board RAM as well as support for Shader 3.0 or better. Examples include: Intel HD 3000 or better/AMD Radeon HD 7450/Nvidia GeForce 610
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+ or better / Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz or better
RAM: 6 GB

Star Wars: The Old Republic FPS questions

What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Star Wars: The Old Republic 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 166 FPS. No published benchmark of Star Wars: The Old Republic at that setting is in our data to confirm it.
Can a GTX 1650 run Star Wars: The Old Republic?: By our estimate it gets about 259 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 166 FPS at 1080p High (smooth), each ±30%.
What are the minimum system requirements for Star Wars: The Old Republic?: Steam lists Star Wars: The Old Republic requires a video card that has a minimum of 1 GB of on-board RAM as well as… graphics, AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+ or better / Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz or better and 6 GB of RAM as the minimum.