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Can I run Baldur's Gate 3 with a GeForce GTX 1080?

A 2016 card against a 2023 game: the GeForce GTX 1080 still clears minimum in Baldur's Gate 3, and recommended stays 21% out of reach at index 14.

The GeForce GTX 1080 shipped in 2016, 7 years before Baldur's Gate 3, and 9 of the 47 cards we track stop at the same point in Baldur's Gate 3. It sits 38 of 47 on our index.

estimated index 11 · 8 GB · 2016
Ceiling with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 32 GB

Runs at minimum

Playable at the lowest supported settings, with nothing in reserve.

Headroom
83% clear - a wide margin on GPU
Bottleneck
GPU
Confidence
estimated

Tier ladder

  1. minimum cleared
  2. recommended blocked by GPU
  3. high blocked by GPU
  4. ultra blocked by GPU + VRAM

The weakest link is graphics card: this rig brings 11 against the 14 that Baldur's Gate 3 asks for at the recommended tier. Everything else in the rig is already past that line.

That readout is the best this card can do in Baldur's Gate 3: it assumes nothing else in the machine holds it back. Your own processor and memory can only lower it, never raise it.

The same card with three different processors

In Baldur's Gate 3 the processor beside a GeForce GTX 1080 changes the answer, which is why a card-only verdict is not worth much here. Each row assumes 16 GB of system memory.

Processor Index Verdict Bottleneck
Ryzen 5 1600 30 Will not run processor
Ryzen 9 5900X 70 Runs at minimum graphics card
Ryzen 7 9800X3D 95 Runs at minimum graphics card

Cheapest way up one tier

graphics card: GeForce RTX 3060 12GB

The GeForce GTX 1080 sits at index 11 and the recommended tier starts at 14.

That is the smallest part in our catalogue that clears the recommended tier - not the fastest one, and not a price claim: we hold no price data, so "cheapest" here means "least upgrade that does the job".

Where to look: GeForce RTX 3060 12GB (no store links yet)

Thresholds, against this card

Green means the GeForce GTX 1080 clears that number, red means it does not. The processor and memory columns are yours to fill in with the checker below.

System requirement thresholds for Baldur's Gate 3, by tier
Requirement minimum recommended high ultra your rig
GPU index 6 14 22 26 11
CPU index 42 52 62 78 0
Video memory 4 GB 8 GB 8 GB 12 GB 8 GB
System memory 8 GB 16 GB 16 GB 32 GB 0 GB
Storage 150 GB 150 GB 150 GB 150 GB -

The CPU and system memory rows show zero because this page knows the card and nothing else.

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GeForce GTX 1080

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Questions

Will a GeForce GTX 1080 run Baldur's Gate 3?
A 2016 card against a 2023 game: the GeForce GTX 1080 still clears minimum in Baldur's Gate 3, and recommended stays 21% out of reach at index 14. Above that the graphics card is what stops it.
Is 8 GB of video memory enough for Baldur's Gate 3?
Yes for the tiers this card can reach anyway - its core speed runs out before its 8 GB of video memory does in Baldur's Gate 3.

More on this card: what the GeForce GTX 1080 runs across every game we track.