What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in XCOM: Enemy Unknown 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 84 FPS. No published benchmark of XCOM: Enemy Unknown at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run XCOM: Enemy Unknown?

By our estimate it gets about 131 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 84 FPS at 1080p High (smooth), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for XCOM: Enemy Unknown?

Steam lists NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT or greater graphics, 2 GHz Dual Core and 2 GB of RAM as the minimum.

FPS estimates

XCOM: Enemy Unknown FPS

2012
83/100 · 560 ratings

Strategy

Estimates only · ±30%

Check FPS on your GPU

XCOM: Enemy Unknown was released in 2012. No published benchmark of XCOM: Enemy Unknown is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT or greater 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 XCOM: Enemy Unknown, 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 XCOM: Enemy Unknown 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 4070330231–429
Radeon RX 7800 XT282197–367
RTX 4060 Ti252176–328
RTX 4060201141–261
RTX 3060162113–211
Radeon RX 660014199–183
GTX 16508459–109

Cards that run XCOM: Enemy Unknown 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≈147 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈155 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈222 FPSAmazon

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT or greater
CPU: 2 GHz Dual Core
RAM: 2 GB