FPS Calculator: Can your PC run the game?

Choose a game, CPU, graphics card and RAM. The FPS calculator compares each component with the developer's minimum and recommended requirements and rates your PC as below minimum, meeting minimum, meeting recommended or well above recommended. Meeting the minimum requirements means the game will start and usually run at low to medium settings; meeting the recommended requirements generally makes high settings at Full HD realistic. This type of check is known as “Can I run it?”

The calculator estimates an FPS range for the Low, Medium, High and Ultra graphics presets at 1080p, 1440p or 4K, and identifies the highest preset that meets your target FPS. For example, with AMD Ryzen 5 5600, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB and 16 GB of RAM, it rates your PC as “Minimum requirements met” for Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p and estimates approx. 60 FPS on the Medium preset.

Each component has its own performance index: a rounded estimate of typical gaming performance based on public tests. By “recommended,” developers usually mean Full HD, high settings and around 60 FPS. The model therefore assigns a game's recommended graphics card 60 FPS at 1080p on High. Higher resolutions and presets demand more GPU performance, the CPU imposes its own limit, and insufficient RAM lowers the estimate. The lower limit determines the result and is shown alongside it. The bottleneck calculator uses the same performance index. Everything runs in your browser, with no uploads or sign-up.

It's a rule of thumb, not a benchmark. Expect results to vary by around 30 percent in either direction, which is why the calculator shows a range. Drivers, cooling, background programs, mods and the in-game scene affect actual performance. Estimates tend to be too high for older games with low recommended requirements. The catalog covers desktop components; laptop results are only rough estimates because laptop chips are slower than desktop models with the same name.

60 FPS feels smooth in most games; below 30 FPS, gameplay looks choppy. In building and survival games, 40 to 60 FPS is often enough. In fast-paced shooters, 100 to 144 FPS or more is worthwhile if your monitor supports 144 Hz or higher, as motion looks smoother and inputs feel more responsive. Choose a target between 30 and 240 FPS in the calculator, and it will suggest a suitable preset.

No. Hertz (Hz) is your monitor's refresh rate; FPS is the number of frames your PC renders per second. A 120 Hz monitor can display up to 120 frames per second, but only if your PC delivers 120 FPS. Use the monitor test to check your screen's refresh rate.

Only up to the developer's recommended amount. If your RAM is below the minimum, the calculator rates your PC as below the minimum requirements. Between the minimum and recommended amounts, it reduces the estimated FPS. More RAM than recommended won't add FPS. If the game runs poorly despite a suitable rating, also check whether two RAM sticks are running in dual-channel mode.

Enable upscaling such as DLSS, FSR or XeSS, lower shadows and volumetric effects first, and adjust render scaling. If the CPU is the bottleneck, reducing view distance and object density can help. Also keep your graphics driver up to date, close background programs and set Windows to High performance. The calculator shows the most relevant tips first, depending on whether your CPU or graphics card is the limiting factor.

Currently 32 games: many titles you can rent a Game Server for from us, such as Rust, DayZ, Palworld, ARK: Survival Ascended, Enshrouded and FiveM, plus major titles like Battlefield 6, Cyberpunk 2077, Call of Duty: Warzone and Apex Legends. We only include games for which the developer specifies exact processors and graphics cards for both minimum and recommended requirements. Valheim lists its processor only as “Quad Core,” and Counter-Strike 2 has no recommended requirements, so neither is included.