Best settings for Hogwarts Legacy on NVIDIA RTX 3060 + Intel Core i5-13600K

1080p
96 fps estimated
RPG
16 GB RAM

A NVIDIA RTX 3060 paired with a Intel Core i5-13600K lands around 96 fps in Hogwarts Legacy at 1080p with Medium textures, Low shadows and DLSS Performance. 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

96FPS
Smooth
GPU Load70%
CPU Load37%
VRAM (12 GB)6 GB
RAM (16 GB)11 GB
DLSS
FSR
Ray Tracing

Core Settings

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

Hogwarts Legacy — Specific Settings

RT Reflections
Off
Foliage Quality
Low

Your GPU is limiting FPS here

NVIDIA RTX 3060 is holding back your Intel Core i5-13600K at 1080p in Hogwarts Legacy. A better GPU could get you closer to ~115 fps at these settings.

Estimate only — based on a 20% uplift for a moderate GPU bottleneck, not a measured benchmark.

Suggested upgrade

NVIDIA RTX 5060

Entry 1080p card with DLSS 4 frame generation.

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About Hogwarts Legacy on PC

Hogwarts Legacy is remembered less for its frame rate than for its hitching. The castle and Hogsmeade stream a lot of geometry quickly, and on 8 GB cards with high textures the result is a stutter that no amount of GPU power fixes. Getting the texture setting inside your VRAM budget is the whole game here.

Ray-traced reflections are the other trap. They are among the most expensive options in any PC release of their generation and give very little back in a game played mostly in daylight interiors and countryside.

Covers the Unreal Engine 4 PC build. Hogsmeade and the castle interiors are the reference scenes because of their streaming load.