What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising at 1080p?

In a published test (Notebookcheck) the GTX 580M averages 60 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 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising?

By our estimate it gets about 261 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 167 FPS at 1080p High (smooth), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising?

Steam lists A 128MB Video Card (Shader Model 3) - Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT / ATI X1600, or equivalent graphics, P4 3.2 GHz (single core) or any Dual Core processor and 1 GB of RAM as the minimum.

Measured FPS benchmarks

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising FPS

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Measured · 6 results6 GPUs · Notebookcheckestimate within ±30%: 3/6

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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising was released in 2010. We list 6 published FPS results for it from Notebookcheck, covering 6 graphics cards. Steam lists A 128MB Video Card (Shader Model 3) - Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT / ATI X1600, or equivalent as the minimum graphics card, about what integrated graphics deliver today. Against those results our estimate landed within ±30% 3 of 6 times.

Frame rate cap: none on record. We have no record of an engine frame limit for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising, 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 80 FPS; the slowest, Intel HD 4000, 8 FPS.

Estimate vs measured

3/6 within ±30% · median -8%

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 6 comparisons

GPU	Setting	Measured	Estimate	Diff.
GTX 580	1080p Ultra	80 FPS	≈89 FPS	+11%
GTX 470	1080p Ultra	72.8 FPS	≈65 FPS	-11%
Radeon HD 6870	1080p Ultra	76.4 FPS	≈49 FPS	-36%
GTX 580M	1080p Ultra	60 FPS	≈43 FPS	-28%
Radeon HD 6770M	1080p Ultra	26.5 FPS	≈25 FPS	-6%
Intel HD 4000	1080p Ultra	8.2 FPS	≈11 FPS	+34%

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 3060324227–421
Radeon RX 6600281197–365
GTX 1650167117–217

Cards that run Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising 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≈293 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈310 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈360 FPSAmazon

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: A 128MB Video Card (Shader Model 3) - Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT / ATI X1600, or equivalent
CPU: P4 3.2 GHz (single core) or any Dual Core processor
RAM: 1 GB