Baldur's Gate 3: GPU requirements and performance
Moderate GPU demands but a heavy CPU load in the third act, where dense crowds and simulation cost more frame rate than the graphics settings do. A mid-range card is enough for a good experience at 1440p.
What actually limits performance here
The part that generic system requirements never tell you.
- No ray tracing, so comparisons reflect rasterisation performance.
- Act 3 is the real stress test and it is largely CPU-bound; earlier acts are far lighter.
- DLSS and FSR are supported; there is no XeSS path.
- VRAM requirements are modest by current standards.
Published system requirements
The publisher's own figures. They describe a baseline, not the hardware needed for high settings at a high frame rate.
| Tier | Graphics card | Processor | Memory | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / AMD Radeon RX 480 (4 GB or more) | Intel i5-4690 / AMD FX 8350 | 8 GB | Not stated |
| Recommended | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER / AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (8 GB or more) | Intel i7-8700K / AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 16 GB | Not stated |
Technologies supported
Which vendor features this title implements, which decides how much your graphics card's feature set is worth here.
Ray tracing
Not supportedNo ray tracing mode, so results reflect rasterisation only.
DLSS
SupportedNVIDIA cards can render at a lower internal resolution and reconstruct the image.
FSR
SupportedAMD's upscaler is available, and works on other vendors' hardware in its earlier versions.
XeSS
Not supportedNot implemented.
Frame generation
Not supportedNot implemented, so a card's frame generation support is irrelevant here.
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Estimated
Which graphics card do you need for Baldur's Gate 3?
The least expensive in-production cards whose estimated frame rate in this title is centred at or above 60 FPS, at High settings with no upscaling. The range shown for each card is the model's uncertainty band, so the lower bound can fall under 60.
Modelled from the estimated performance index and this title’s demand classification. Not a measured benchmark. How the model works.
1080p
Around 60 FPS, High settings, no upscaling
1440p
Around 60 FPS, High settings, no upscaling
4K
Around 60 FPS, High settings, no upscaling
- RX 9070
$549 MSRP · estimated 75-110 FPS
- RTX 5070
$549 MSRP · estimated 70-95 FPS
- RX 9070 XT
$599 MSRP · estimated 90-125 FPS
Measured
Verified benchmark data
Frame-rate figures transcribed from named third-party measurements.
No verified benchmark data for this game yet
CompareYourGPU only publishes frame-rate figures it can attribute to a named, linkable measurement. None have been transcribed for Baldur's Gate 3 yet, so nothing is shown here rather than numbers that would look authoritative without being verifiable.
Baldur's Gate 3: common questions
What are the recommended system requirements for Baldur's Gate 3?
Does Baldur's Gate 3 support ray tracing?
Does Baldur's Gate 3 support DLSS, FSR or XeSS?
How demanding is Baldur's Gate 3?
Sources
- Steam store pagePublisher-stated system requirements for Baldur's Gate 3
Last reviewed . Demand classifications are CompareYourGPU’s editorial judgement, not measurements.