What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in The Last of Us Part I at 1080p?

In a published test (GameGPU) the RTX 3060 averages 63 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 The Last of Us Part I?

By our estimate it gets about 43 FPS at 1080p Low (playable) and 27 FPS at 1080p High (struggles), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for The Last of Us Part I?

Steam lists AMD Radeon RX 470 (4 GB), AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT (4 GB), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4 GB), NVIDIA GeForce GTX… graphics, AMD Ryzen 5 1500X, Intel Core i7-4770K and 16 GB of RAM as the minimum.

Measured FPS benchmarks

The Last of Us Part I FPS

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Measured · 21 results7 GPUs · GameGPUestimate within ±30%: 13/19

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The Last of Us Part I was released in 2022. We list 21 published FPS results for it from GameGPU, covering 7 graphics cards. 2 of them hit a frame cap, CPU limit or VRAM limit in the source and count as lower bounds. Steam lists AMD Radeon RX 470 (4 GB), AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT (4 GB), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4 GB), NVI… as the minimum graphics card, a mid-range card by today's standards. Against those results our estimate landed within ±30% 13 of 19 times.

Frame rate cap: none on record. We have no record of an engine frame limit for The Last of Us Part I, 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, RTX 4090, averages 172 FPS; the slowest, Radeon RX 6600, 38 FPS.

Estimate vs measured

13/19 within ±30% · median -19%

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 19 comparisons

GPU	Setting	Measured	Estimate	Diff.
RTX 4090	1080p Ultra	172 FPS	≈150 FPS	-13%
RTX 4090	1440p Ultra	147 FPS	≈108 FPS	-27%
RTX 4090	4K Ultra	87 FPS	≈59 FPS	-32%
RTX 4070 Ti	1080p Ultra	129 FPS	≈112 FPS	-13%
RTX 4070 Ti	1440p Ultra	98 FPS	≈81 FPS	-17%
RTX 4070 Ti	4K Ultra	53 FPS	≈44 FPS	-17%
Radeon RX 7900 XTX	1080p Ultra	137 FPS	≈111 FPS	-19%
Radeon RX 7900 XTX	1440p Ultra	106 FPS	≈80 FPS	-25%
Radeon RX 7900 XTX	4K Ultra	65 FPS	≈43 FPS	-34%
RTX 4070	1080p Ultra	108 FPS	≈88 FPS	-19%
RTX 4070	1440p Ultra	81 FPS	≈63 FPS	-22%
RTX 4070	4K Ultra	41 FPS	≈34 FPS	-17%
RTX 3070	1080p Ultra	75 FPS	≈65 FPS	-13%
RTX 3060	1080p Ultra	63 FPS	≈43 FPS	-32%
RTX 3060	1440p Ultra	42 FPS	≈31 FPS	-26%
RTX 3060	4K Ultra	22 FPS	≈17 FPS	-23%
Radeon RX 6600	1080p Ultra	38 FPS	≈37 FPS	-3%
Radeon RX 6600	1440p Ultra	26 FPS	≈27 FPS	+4%
Radeon RX 6600	4K Ultra	13 FPS	≈15 FPS	+15%

Our estimate on 10 reference GPUs

Estimate ±30%

Model figures, not measurements: dashed bars with their ±30% band. How they are made.

RTX 4090185130–241
RTX 5070 Ti145102–189
Radeon RX 9070 XT145102–189
RTX 407010876–140
Radeon RX 7800 XT9264–120
RTX 4060 Ti8358–108
RTX 40606646–86
RTX 30605337–69
Radeon RX 66004632–60
GTX 16502719–35

Cards that run The Last of Us Part I at 60+ FPS

1080p High · cheapest first

Current cards, by launch price. Solid chips are measured results; dashed ones are our estimate (±30%).

RTX 5060launch price $299≈73 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GBlaunch price $349≈69 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060 Ti 16GBlaunch price $429≈83 FPSAmazon

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Player reports

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Screenshots

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 470 (4 GB), AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT (4 GB), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4 GB), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4 GB)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1500X, Intel Core i7-4770K
RAM: 16 GB