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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King FPS

  • 2003
  • 76/100 · 279 ratings
  • Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
  • Adventure
Estimates only · ±30%
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was released in 2003. No published benchmark of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists Nvidia GeForce 2 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 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 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 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 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.

  1. RTX 4090360model max
  2. RTX 5070 Ti360model max
  3. Radeon RX 9070 XT360model max
  4. RTX 4070360model max
  5. Radeon RX 7800 XT360model max
  6. RTX 4060 Ti360model max
  7. RTX 4060360model max
  8. RTX 3060320224–416
  9. Radeon RX 6600277194–360
  10. GTX 1650165115–215

Cards that run The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King at 60+ FPS

1080p High · cheapest first

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

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System requirements

Steam

Minimum

GPU
Nvidia GeForce 2
CPU
Intel Pentium III 700 MHz

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King FPS questions

What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 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 165 FPS. No published benchmark of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King at that setting is in our data to confirm it.
Can a GTX 1650 run The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King?
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 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King?
Steam lists Nvidia GeForce 2 graphics and Intel Pentium III 700 MHz as the minimum.

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