A NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super paired with a Intel Core i5-12400F lands around 25 fps in Baldur's Gate 3 at 4K with Ultra+ textures, Ultra+ 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.
Your CPU is limiting FPS here
Intel Core i5-12400F is holding back your NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super at 4K in Baldur's Gate 3. A faster CPU could get you closer to ~30 fps at these settings.
Estimate only — based on a 20% uplift for a moderate CPU bottleneck, not a measured benchmark.
Suggested upgrade
AMD Ryzen 5 7600
Strong 1080p gaming chip on the long-lived AM5 platform.
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Baldur's Gate 3 is generous with graphics settings and stingy with CPU time. Acts 1 and 2 will run at Ultra on modest hardware and give a completely misleading impression; Act 3's city, with its crowds and scripted NPC routines, is where frame rates fall and where any settings work should actually be done.
If the city runs poorly while the wilderness is smooth, no graphics change will help meaningfully. That gap is the processor, and it is the single most common source of confusion about this game's performance.
Covers the current PC build. Act 3's city is treated as the CPU worst case; earlier acts are not representative.