Best settings for Apex Legends on NVIDIA RTX 3060 + Intel Core i5-12400F

1080p
146 fps estimated
Shooter
16 GB RAM

A NVIDIA RTX 3060 paired with a Intel Core i5-12400F lands around 146 fps in Apex Legends at 1080p with Medium textures, Low shadows and no upscaling. Ray tracing is left off on this pairing. These values come from the same model the interactive optimizer uses, applied to this exact hardware pair rather than a generic preset.

Based on benchmark data and community reports for this hardware combination — treat as an estimate, not a guarantee. How we calculate this.

Recommended settings

Competitive Mode — Optimized for max FPS
146FPS
Competitive
GPU Load46%
CPU Load33%
VRAM (12 GB)4 GB
RAM (16 GB)6 GB

Core Settings

Resolution
1080p
Textures
Medium
Shadows
Low
Anti-Aliasing
Off
Ray Tracing
Off
Upscaling
Off
View Distance
Medium
Effects
Low

Tips & Notes

  • Competitive BR — 144+ FPS recommended for smooth gameplay

About Apex Legends on PC

Apex Legends is comfortable early and difficult late. The final circles, with several squads fighting in a small area and every ability firing at once, are where frame rates fall — and that drop is mostly the CPU rather than the graphics card.

Competitive players usually run low settings not for frames alone but for clarity: fewer particles and less foliage detail makes enemy movement easier to track through a fight.

Covers live matches with full lobbies. End-game circles with many players are the reference workload.