Can My GTX 1060 6GB Run ARC Raiders? FPS Estimate & System Requirements (2026)

The GTX 1060 6GB falls below ARC Raiders's comfort zone: only about 24 FPS at 1080p even on low settings. We would not recommend this pairing without a GPU upgrade.

On a GTX 1060 6GB, aim for below a comfortable 1080p in ARC Raiders. The GTX 1060 6GB falls below ARC Raiders's comfort zone: only about 24 FPS at 1080p even on low settings. We would not recommend this pairing without a GPU upgrade.

Unlike most titles, ARC Raiders leans on the processor more than the GTX 1060 6GB. At 1080p you can already be CPU-limited, so a faster GTX 1060 6GB gives diminishing returns — spend the budget on a stronger CPU or faster RAM. The GTX 1060 6GB has more than enough pixel-pushing power for ARC Raiders.

The GTX 1060 6GB carries only 6 GB of VRAM. ARC Raiders wants more for Ultra textures, so cap texture/texture-streaming quality one step below Ultra to avoid VRAM-spillover stutter. That change is often worth more than any shadow tweak.

The limiting factor for this specific pairing is your CPU. ARC Raiders spends most of its frame budget on the processor (entity counts, physics, draw calls), so the GTX 1060 6GB — a entry-level card at relative index 30/100 — rarely reaches its own limit. Upgrading the CPU yields more FPS than upgrading the GPU here.

ARC Raiders is assigned a hardware-demand tier 8/9 from its published requirements (or release era + genre). Each GPU has a relative-performance index (RTX 4090 = 100, source TechPowerUp). FPS ≈ 60 × (GPU index ÷ required index)^0.85, then scaled ×0.66 for 1440p and ×0.38 for 4K. FPS figures are editorial estimates from a transparent demand-tier model (TechPowerUp relative-performance indices, retrieved 2026-08-29), not benchmarks. Verify with your own hardware.