What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in The Darkness II 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 The Darkness II at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run The Darkness II?

By our estimate it gets about 129 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 83 FPS at 1080p High (smooth), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for The Darkness II?

Steam lists DirectX 9.0c compatible video card graphics, Intel Core 2 @ 2GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ and 1 GB of RAM as the minimum.

FPS estimates

The Darkness II FPS

2012
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Estimates only · ±30%

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The Darkness II was released in 2012. No published benchmark of The Darkness II is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists DirectX 9.0c compatible video card 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 The Darkness II, 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 The Darkness II 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 4070327229–425
Radeon RX 7800 XT279195–363
RTX 4060 Ti250175–325
RTX 4060199139–259
RTX 3060160112–208
Radeon RX 660013997–181
GTX 16508358–108

Cards that run The Darkness II 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≈145 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈154 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈220 FPSAmazon

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: DirectX 9.0c compatible video card
CPU: Intel Core 2 @ 2GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
RAM: 1 GB