What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in XCOM: Enemy Within 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 XCOM: Enemy Within at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run XCOM: Enemy Within?

By our estimate it gets about 130 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 83 FPS at 1080p High (smooth), each ±30%.

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

Steam lists 256 MB Video Memory NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT or greater graphics, 2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Athlon X2 2.7 GHz) CPU and 2 GB of RAM as the minimum.

FPS estimates

XCOM: Enemy Within FPS

2013
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Strategy

Estimates only · ±30%

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XCOM: Enemy Within was released in 2013. No published benchmark of XCOM: Enemy Within is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists 256 MB Video Memory 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 Within, 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 Within 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 4070329230–428
Radeon RX 7800 XT281197–365
RTX 4060 Ti252176–328
RTX 4060200140–260
RTX 3060162113–211
Radeon RX 660014098–182
GTX 16508358–108

Cards that run XCOM: Enemy Within 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≈146 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈155 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈221 FPSAmazon

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: 256 MB Video Memory NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT or greater
CPU: 2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Athlon X2 2.7 GHz) CPU
RAM: 2 GB