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Battlefield 6 PC Performance: FPS by GPU and CPU

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How Battlefield 6 runs on PC hardware, pulled together from published benchmarks and what players report on Steam, Reddit and the EA forums. Every number links to where it came from. Most lab testing was done at launch in October 2025, so later patches and drivers may have moved things.

Battlefield 6 key art
Battlefield 6. Official Steam store art, copyright Electronic Arts.

> Battlefield 6: what you need for 60 fps

Short answers from the sources below. Lab figures are TechPowerUp's, Overkill preset, native resolution, no upscaling.

1080p
RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 4060 Ti or RTX 5060 class or faster. [4]
1440p
RTX 4070 or RTX 5070 class or faster. [4]
Ultrawide 3440x1440
No lab data. Measured by us: our RTX 4070 SUPER averaged 109.5 fps (1% low 70.1) on the Auto (Balanced) preset in a live match.

Settings that cost the most fps

  • The preset: Low runs about 70% faster than Overkill, and High looks almost the same as Overkill. Most people should play on High. [5]
  • Overkill on 8GB cards: very poor 1% lows in long sessions. Use High or lower on 8GB cards. [5]
  • Weapon depth of field: one player's 1% lows rose from about 30 to 110 to 120 fps after adding GstRender.WeaponDOF 0 to user.cfg, and others reported the same fix (Steam, Oct 22, 2025). [12]

> Battlefield 6 PC verdict

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  • It is a well optimized game. There is no ray tracing, and reviewers saw no shader stutter once in a match, only a short shader build on first launch. [4]
  • For 60 fps at 1080p on the top Overkill preset without upscaling, TechPowerUp says you need an RTX 3060 Ti, 4060 Ti or 5060 class card or faster. At 1440p it is an RTX 4070 or 5070 class card. [4]
  • High looks almost the same as Overkill, and Low runs about 70% faster than Overkill while still looking decent. Most people should play on High. [5]
  • 8GB cards are fine on High or lower with upscaling. On Overkill, in long campaign sessions, 8GB cards fell apart in TechSpot's testing. TechPowerUp saw no big 8GB penalty in its shorter runs. [5][6][4]
  • The CPU matters a lot in big multiplayer fights. In TechSpot's 1080p test with an RTX 5090, a Ryzen 7 9800X3D averaged 192 fps, a 5800X3D 124 fps and a plain 5800X just over 100 fps. [6]
  • Frame generation adds input lag. PCGamesN measured 40 ms with 4x multi frame gen in multiplayer versus 27 ms with DLSS Quality alone, and many players switch it off for gunfights. [8][14]

Overall Steam user reviews were Mixed: 65% positive of 157,788 English reviews, and 43% positive of 5,540 in the last 30 days, as recorded Oct 31, 2026. These reviews cover the whole game, not just performance. [16]

> Battlefield 6 system requirements

MinimumRecommended
Target (EA)1080p, 30 fps, Low, native1440p 60 fps High, or 1080p 80+ fps Low, native
Nvidia GPURTX 2060RTX 3060 Ti
AMD GPURadeon RX 5600 XT 6GBRadeon RX 6700 XT
Intel GPUArc A380Arc B580
VRAM6GB8GB
AMD CPURyzen 5 2600Ryzen 7 3700X
Intel CPUCore i5-8400Core i7-10700
RAM16GB (dual channel 2133)16GB (dual channel 3200)
OSWindows 10Windows 11
Storage55GB HDD80GB SSD (EA news post says 90GB)
RequiredTPM 2.0, Secure Boot, HVCI and VBS capableSame

EA says Secure Boot must be enabled because its Javelin anti-cheat depends on it. Source: [1][2]

> Battlefield 6 FPS by graphics card generation

Lab figures below are TechPowerUp's average fps on the Overkill preset at native resolution (TAA, no upscaling), HD texture pack installed, in a single player campaign scene, on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D test PC. Multiplayer usually runs differently and is often CPU limited, so use these to compare cards, not to predict your exact frame rate. Tested Oct 10, 2025. [3]

Send us your experience playing this game with your hardware to [email protected]

What we could not find yet:

  • No lab benchmark of RTX 20 cards (TechPowerUp, TechSpot / Hardware Unboxed, ComputerBase and overclocking.com did not test one)
  • No lab data at 3440x1440 ultrawide

Nvidia RTX 20 series (Turing, 2018 to 2019)

What reviewers and players report:

  • The RTX 2060 is EA's minimum card, rated for 1080p, 30 fps, Low. [1]
  • DLSS upscaling works, but DLSS frame generation needs an RTX 40 or 50 card, and the game will not mix DLSS upscaling with AMD's FSR frame generation. [4]
  • A player with an RTX 2060 and Ryzen 7 3700X reported 80 to 100 fps on Low (Steam, Oct 11, 2025). [11]
  • A player with a laptop RTX 2070 (8GB, i7-10750H, 32GB) reported 50 to 60 fps at 1080p High with no DLSS, and said the laptop CPU throttling to about 3 GHz was the main problem (Steam, Oct 23, 2025). [10]
  • Other RTX 2070 owners reported 20 to 40 fps even on Low (Steam, Oct 11, 2025; Reddit). Replies in those threads pointed at the CPU, RAM setup or drivers rather than the card itself, so results on these cards vary a lot. [11][15]

Nvidia RTX 30 series (Ampere, 2020 to 2022)

Card1080p avg fps1440p avg fps
RTX 3090 Ti 24GB110.683.2
RTX 3090 24GB101.674.4
RTX 3080 Ti 12GB98.472.5
RTX 3080 10GB88.064.2
RTX 3070 Ti 8GB79.055.7
RTX 3070 8GB74.451.8
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB63.844.5
RTX 3060 12GB45.431.9
RTX 3050 8GB31.720.8

What reviewers and players report:

  • No Nvidia frame generation on RTX 30 cards, and the game will not let you mix DLSS upscaling with AMD's FSR frame generation. [4]
  • TechSpot says an RTX 3060 runs smoothly at 1080p on Medium. [5]
  • A player with an RTX 3070 said the game used the full 8GB of VRAM (Steam, Oct 10, 2025). [10]

Nvidia RTX 40 series (Ada, 2022 to 2024)

Card1080p avg fps1440p avg fps
RTX 4090 24GB166.9121.7
RTX 4080 Super 16GB134.999.6
RTX 4080 16GB133.499.5
RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB118.785.3
RTX 4070 Ti 12GB109.479.2
RTX 4070 Super 12GB104.073.3
RTX 4070 12GB90.562.5
RTX 4060 Ti 8GB68.246.3
RTX 4060 Ti 16GB67.146.2
RTX 4060 8GB55.437.7

What reviewers and players report:

  • DLSS frame generation (2x) is available. TechSpot found the 4060 Ti 8GB 36% slower than the 16GB version at 1440p High in its longer campaign run, even though TechPowerUp's shorter run shows them level. [5][3]
  • TechSpot says an RTX 4060 averages around 70 fps at 1080p High, and an RTX 4070 tops 130 fps there. [5]
  • One player on an RTX 4090 and Ryzen 9 7950X reported 1% lows stuck near 30 fps until adding GstRender.WeaponDOF 0 to user.cfg, after which the lows rose to 110 to 120 fps. Others in the thread reported the same fix working, through July 2026 (Steam, Oct 22, 2025). [12]

Nvidia RTX 50 series (Blackwell, 2025)

Card1080p avg fps1440p avg fps
RTX 5090 32GB209.5160.4
RTX 5080 16GB150.0108.8
RTX 5070 Ti 16GB134.496.3
RTX 5070 12GB112.278.4
RTX 5060 Ti 16GB76.853.5
RTX 5060 Ti 8GB78.653.4
RTX 5060 8GB72.749.1

What reviewers and players report:

  • Multi frame generation (up to 4x) is supported. PCGamesN, on an RTX 5070 at 1440p High in Conquest, measured 77 fps native (31 ms latency), 95 fps with DLSS Quality (27 ms) and 330 fps with DLSS Quality plus 4x frame gen (40 ms). In a heavy campaign scene, 4x frame gen pushed latency to 84 ms and the delay was noticeable (Oct 10, 2025). [8]
  • Players on r/Battlefield6 advise turning frame gen and future frame rendering off for gunfights because of the added input lag. [14]
  • TechSpot found the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB had very poor 1% lows on Overkill even when its average looked fine. Use High or lower on 8GB cards. [5]

AMD Radeon (for comparison)

Card1080p avg fps1440p avg fps
RX 7900 XTX 24GB124.893.5
RX 9070 XT 16GB119.785.2
RX 7900 XT 20GB111.181.0
RX 9070 16GB109.379.7
RX 7800 XT 16GB82.461.1
RX 9060 XT 16GB65.245.1
RX 6700 XT 12GB56.739.6
RX 7600 8GB50.334.4

What reviewers and players report:

  • TechPowerUp tested before AMD's game ready driver was out. ComputerBase later tested AMD's Battlefield 6 driver (25.10.1) and saw no difference, and its multiplayer tests showed AMD cards doing relatively better than in the campaign. [4][7]
  • At 1080p High, TechSpot saw the RX 9070 XT top out at 179 fps while the RTX 5070 Ti passed 200, and suspected a driver or overhead limit. [5]
  • overclocking.com reported crashes and display losses on its Radeon cards at launch, and no problems on Nvidia (Oct 17, 2025). [9]

Highlighted rows are cards we own. See "Our machines" below.

> Is Battlefield 6 CPU bound? Ryzen results

TechSpot / Hardware Unboxed tested 33 CPUs in a repeatable bot match on the Empire State map (one of the most CPU heavy), at 1080p with an RTX 5090 so the graphics card is not the limit. Average fps, Overkill preset unless noted. Published Oct 16, 2025. [6]

CPUGenerationAvg fps, Overkill
Ryzen 7 9800X3DZen 5, X3D192
Ryzen 7 7800X3DZen 4, X3DNot tested. Reviewer estimate: at least 170
Ryzen 5 7600X3DZen 4, X3D151
Ryzen 9 9950XZen 5Slightly under 151
Ryzen 7 9700XZen 5Just over 140
Ryzen 7 7700XZen 4About 140
Ryzen 5 9600X / 7600XZen 5 / Zen 4About 130 to 139
Ryzen 7 5800X3DZen 3, X3D124 (about the same as a Ryzen 5 7500F)
Ryzen 7 5800XZen 3Just over 100 (level with Intel's Core i5-12400F)
Ryzen 5 3600Zen 2Below the 5800X (matched Intel's Core i5-10600K); exact figure is in the charts only
Ryzen 5 2600 / 7 2700XZen+Bottom of the chart
  • How CPU bound is it? Very, in big multiplayer fights. On Overkill the 9800X3D was 34% faster than Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K, and still 27% faster on Low. TechSpot calls it one of the most CPU hungry shooters around. [6]
  • You do not need an X3D chip to play well. A Ryzen 5 7500F averaged 141 fps on High, and on Low ten modern CPUs landed within 3% of each other at 158 to 163 fps. [6]
  • Ryzen 5000 vs 7000 vs 9000: the jump from AM4 to AM5 is the big one. The 5800X3D only roughly matched a budget Ryzen 5 7500F, and the plain 5800X fell to just over 100 fps. Within AM5, X3D chips lead, and the 9800X3D is generally about 10% ahead of the 7800X3D by the reviewer's estimate. [6]
  • Older or slower CPUs gain the most from dropping to Low: a Core i3-12100F gained 36% average fps and 49% in 1% lows. [6]
  • The popular user.cfg thread count tweak gave no measurable gain on the 9800X3D in TechSpot's test, though players still recommend it for older CPUs. [6][13]
  • Player reports match the lab: a player with a Ryzen 7 5800X and an RTX 5070 reported 85 to 100% CPU use with the GPU at only 40 to 50% (EA Forums, exact date not shown). [13]

> Battlefield 6 on our two PCs

Our two PCs: an RTX 2070 Max-Q laptop, which gets a spec check against the official requirements, and an RTX 4070 SUPER desktop, which we measured ourselves.

Lenovo laptop (Lenovo 81UH)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 with Max-Q, 8GB

Spec comparison, not measured: Below minimum

Why this rating

Below minimum on paper. Deciding component: the GPU. The RTX 2070 Max-Q scores 11,400 on PassMark G3D vs 14,070 for the desktop RTX 2060 that EA lists as minimum (about 81%). The CPU (PassMark 10,533) clears the minimum Core i5-8400 (9,236) but is about 66% of the recommended Core i7-10700 (15,963). 8GB VRAM meets the recommended 8GB. 32GB RAM is dual channel at 2667 MT/s: above the 2133 minimum, below the 3200 recommended. Windows 11 is installed; Secure Boot being enabled has not been checked yet. [21][2][17][18]

CPU
Intel Core i7-9750H, 6 cores / 12 threads (45 W laptop part)
RAM
32GB DDR4, 2 x 16GB, running at 2667 MT/s
Driver version
NVIDIA 621.01
OS
Windows 11 Home 26H2

What the published data suggests: The Max-Q 2070 is a power limited laptop chip: 885 to 1185 MHz vs 1410 to 1620 MHz on the desktop RTX 2070, and 80 to 90 W vs 115 W for the full laptop RTX 2070. The closest public player report is a full power laptop RTX 2070 at 50 to 60 fps, 1080p High, limited by CPU throttling (Steam, Oct 23, 2025), so expect less on Max-Q. [19][20][10]

MSI Aegis (RTX 4070 SUPER 12GB)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, 12GB

Spec comparison: Exceeds recommended

Why this rating

Exceeds recommended on paper. Every component clears EA's recommended spec by a wide margin; the closest is the GPU, which scores 29,938 on PassMark G3D vs 20,208 for the recommended RTX 3060 Ti (about 148%). The Ryzen 9 7900X (PassMark 51,206) is about 229% of the recommended Ryzen 7 3700X (22,374). 12GB VRAM beats the recommended 8GB, and 32GB of dual channel DDR5-4800 beats the recommended 16GB at 3200. Windows 11 on an SSD. Secure Boot being enabled has not been checked yet. [21][2][17][22][23]

[Measured by us] Our own frame time capture, Nov 9, 2026

CPU
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X, 12 cores / 24 threads
RAM
32GB DDR5, 2 x 16GB, running at 4800 MT/s
Driver version
NVIDIA 616.92
OS
Windows 11 Home 26H2
Resolution
3440x1440 (ultrawide)
Preset
Auto (Balanced)
Upscaler and mode
Not stated
Frame generation
Off
VSync
On
Map and mode
Live multiplayer match (map not recorded)
Average fps
109.5
1% low fps
70.1
0.1% low fps
41.7
Frames over 50 ms
1 (longest frame 83.0 ms)
Frames sampled
13,139 over 120 s
Date tested
Nov 9, 2026
Notes
PresentMon 2.6.0, Windows power plan Balanced, RAM kit rated DDR5-5600, running at 4800, NVIDIA 616.92
How we measured

How we measured: a 120 second PresentMon capture during a real multiplayer match, not a repeatable benchmark pass, so a different match or map will give different numbers. Our 3440x1440 ultrawide has about 34% more pixels than 2560x1440, so this is not directly comparable to the TechPowerUp 1440p figure below. VSync was on, so the average may be capped by the monitor's refresh rate. The RAM kit is rated DDR5-5600, running at 4800, which may cost some CPU limited performance.

[Lab data, not our measurement] Lab reference for this GPU: TechPowerUp measured 104.0 fps at 1080p and 73.3 fps at 1440p on the Overkill preset, native resolution, with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D test PC (Oct 10, 2025). [3]

> Where to buy Battlefield 6

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The game (PC)

  • Steam: Standard Edition (PC), $69.99 (price checked Nov 10, 2026; official store)
  • EA app (ea.com): Standard Edition (PC); Game of the Year Edition also listed, $69.99 (price checked Nov 10, 2026; official store)

Not available at Humble Store, Fanatical or Green Man Gaming as of Nov 10, 2026. Battlefield 6 for PC is not sold at these key stores right now; a search of each store found no listing.

Hardware

Hardware links open an Amazon search so you can compare current listings; we do not quote hardware prices because they move daily. Links checked Nov 10, 2026.

> More from our machines

The same two PCs, the same method, other games:

  • Hell Let Loose: Vietnam: measured by us at 71.8 fps average at 3440x1440 with TSR at 100%, plus ComputerBase's GPU results.
  • Elite Dangerous: measured by us at 63.8 fps average at 3440x1440 on Ultra, plus Odyssey specs and player reports.

> Sources

  1. Battlefield 6 System Requirements for PC, Electronic Arts. Official. No publish date shown.
  2. Get Ready for Battlefield 6: Launch Times, Secure Boot and PC Specs, Electronic Arts. Official. No publish date shown.
  3. Battlefield 6 Performance Benchmark Review, 40+ GPUs Tested: Performance, TechPowerUp (W1zzard). Benchmark. Published Oct 10, 2025.
  4. Battlefield 6 Performance Benchmark Review: Conclusion, TechPowerUp (W1zzard). Benchmark. Published Oct 10, 2025.
  5. Battlefield 6 Benchmark: 43 GPUs Tested, TechSpot / Hardware Unboxed (Steven Walton). Benchmark. Published Oct 10, 2025. [video]
  6. Battlefield 6 Benchmark: 33 CPUs Tested in Multiplayer, TechSpot / Hardware Unboxed (Steven Walton). Benchmark. Published Oct 16, 2025. [video]
  7. Battlefield 6 im Test: 21 Grafikkarten im Benchmark (German), ComputerBase (Wolfgang Andermahr). Benchmark. Published Oct 9, 2025. Updated Oct 13 and 14, 2025.
  8. I tested Battlefield 6 with Nvidia DLSS 4, and it's a mixed bag, PCGamesN (Niall Walsh). Benchmark. Published Oct 10, 2025.
  9. Test: Performance of 10 GPUs under Battlefield 6, overclocking.com. Benchmark. Published Oct 17, 2025.
  10. Experiance with RTX 2070 mobile (thread), Steam Community, Battlefield 6 discussions. Players. Published Oct 10, 2025. Replies to Oct 23, 2025.
  11. BF6 running HORRIBLY with RTX 2070 (thread), Steam Community, Battlefield 6 discussions. Players. Published Oct 11, 2025.
  12. Possible performance fix for low 1% fps (thread), Steam Community, Battlefield 6 discussions. Players. Published Oct 22, 2025. Replies to Jul 2026.
  13. BF6 Hitting 100% CPU Usage Causing Lag/Stutter/Latency/Slo-Mo Issues (thread), EA Forums. Players. Forum shows the post as about 1 year old on Nov 9, 2026; exact date not shown. No publish date shown.
  14. PC: Turn off frame gen/future rendering, it makes it harder to aim and costs you lives, Reddit r/Battlefield6. Players. Reddit shows the post as about 1 year old on Nov 9, 2026; exact date not shown. No publish date shown.
  15. 30 FPS on RTX 2070, Reddit r/Battlefield6. Players. Reddit shows the post as about 1 year old on Nov 9, 2026; exact date not shown. No publish date shown.
  16. Battlefield 6 on Steam: user reviews, Steam. Players. Published Oct 31, 2026. Date recorded.
  17. PassMark Videocard Benchmarks: GPU list (G3D Mark), PassMark Software. Relative performance. Scores as listed Nov 9, 2026. No publish date shown.
  18. Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz benchmark, PassMark Software. Relative performance. Scores as listed Nov 9, 2026. No publish date shown.
  19. NVIDIA TU106 GPU Specs, TechPowerUp GPU Database. Specs. Checked Nov 9, 2026. No publish date shown.
  20. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q, Notebookcheck. Specs. Checked Nov 9, 2026. No publish date shown.
  21. Battlefield 6 on Steam: system requirements, Steam. Official. Published Nov 9, 2026. Date checked.
  22. AMD Ryzen 9 7900X benchmark, PassMark Software. Relative performance. Scores as listed Nov 9, 2026. No publish date shown.
  23. PassMark CPU Benchmarks: high end CPU chart, PassMark Software. Relative performance. Scores as listed Nov 9, 2026. No publish date shown.

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