What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance at 1080p?

In a published test (Notebookcheck) the GTX 580 averages 83 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 Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance?

By our estimate it gets about 258 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 165 FPS at 1080p High (smooth), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance?

Steam lists DirectX 9.0c compatible video card graphics, 1.8 GHz processor and 1 GB of RAM as the minimum.

Measured FPS benchmarks

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance FPS

2007
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Strategy

Measured · 8 results8 GPUs · Notebookcheckestimate within ±30%: 6/8

Check FPS on your GPU

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance was released in 2007. We list 8 published FPS results for it from Notebookcheck, covering 8 graphics cards. Steam lists DirectX 9.0c compatible video card as the minimum graphics card, about what integrated graphics deliver today. Against those results our estimate landed within ±30% 6 of 8 times.

Frame rate cap: none on record. We have no record of an engine frame limit for Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, 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 83 FPS; the slowest, Intel HD 3000, 5 FPS.

Estimate vs measured

6/8 within ±30% · median -14%

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 8 comparisons

GPU	Setting	Measured	Estimate	Diff.
GTX 580	1080p Ultra	83.4 FPS	≈88 FPS	+6%
GTX 485M	1080p Ultra	59.9 FPS	≈51 FPS	-15%
Radeon HD 6870	1080p Ultra	55 FPS	≈48 FPS	-13%
GTX 580M	1080p Ultra	53.4 FPS	≈42 FPS	-21%
GTX 560M	1080p Ultra	43.3 FPS	≈31 FPS	-28%
GTX 460M	1080p Ultra	37.2 FPS	≈30 FPS	-19%
Radeon HD 6770M	1080p Ultra	27 FPS	≈25 FPS	-7%
Intel HD 3000	1080p Ultra	4.7 FPS	≈9 FPS	+91%

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 3060320224–416
Radeon RX 6600277194–360
GTX 1650165115–215

Cards that run Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance 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≈289 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈306 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈360 FPSAmazon

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Player reports

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Screenshots

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: DirectX 9.0c compatible video card
CPU: 1.8 GHz processor
RAM: 1 GB