What £600 to £800 runs

A budget gaming PC runs every popular game in 2026, and the graphics card decides the settings. An £800 PC with an RTX 5060 runs Fortnite at 91.4 fps at 1080p High and Cyberpunk 2077 at 100 fps at 1080p High in independent tests by Tom's Hardware and TechSpot. A £670 PC with an RTX 3050 handles esports games at 1080p, and a £600 mini PC with Radeon 780M integrated graphics plays Fortnite and Counter-Strike 2 at low to medium settings.

No budget PC runs Grand Theft Auto VI: Rockstar Games lists it for 19 November 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S only. The tables below give the measured frame rate for each tier in eight games, with the PC on Amazon UK that carries each graphics chip at the time of writing (October 2026).

How many fps does a budget gaming PC get?

An RTX 5060 PC averages 88.5 fps at 1080p across Tom's Hardware's 11-game 2026 suite, twice the 44.6 fps of an RTX 3050. Compare Electronic gathered per-game averages from Tom's Hardware (TH) and TechSpot (TS), which publishes Hardware Unboxed's test data, for the four graphics tiers found in UK budget PCs.

Read across a row, not down a column: where a figure comes from an older game build or a different setting, the cell says so. The RTX 3050 figures are for the 8GB desktop card; the 6GB version in the £669 Veno Scorp Titan 4 is slower. The Radeon 780M figures come from AMD's desktop Ryzen 7 8700G, which runs the same graphics faster than most mini PCs.

Which games run at 60 fps on a budget PC?

At 1080p, the RTX 5060 and RTX 4060 tiers clear 60 fps in every game in the table at high settings. The RTX 3050 clears it in esports games and needs low settings in Cyberpunk 2077. The Radeon 780M clears it in Fortnite, Counter-Strike 2 and Call of Duty at low settings only. Compare Electronic's matrix summarises the measured figures above.

What can an £800 RTX 5060 gaming PC run?

An £800 RTX 5060 gaming PC runs every current game at 1080p high settings and most at 1440p. The Computek Ryzen 5 5500 RTX 5060 tower costs £797.99 on Amazon UK at the time of writing (October 2026). Tom's Hardware measured the RTX 5060 at 65.5 fps in Fortnite and 80.3 fps in Marvel Rivals at 1440p High, and TechSpot measured 66 fps in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty at 1440p High without upscaling.

The RTX 5060 also supports DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation, which multiplies frame rates in supported games at some cost to responsiveness. Its limit is 8GB of video memory: the heaviest 2026 games need texture settings lowered at 1440p. The full £800 shortlist is in Best gaming PC under £800 UK.

What can an RTX 4060 or RX 7600 gaming PC run?

An RTX 4060 or Radeon RX 7600 PC runs every current game at 1080p high settings, about 20% slower than an RTX 5060. Tom's Hardware averages the RTX 4060 at 71.5 fps and the RX 7600 at 69.9 fps at 1080p across its 2026 suite. TechSpot measured 70 and 67 fps in Battlefield 6 at 1080p High, and 78 and 81 fps in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty at 1080p High.

The ASC Ryzen 5 5500 RTX 4060 tower costs £799 and the GTR Ryzen 5 5500 RX 7600 tower £799.99 on Amazon UK at the time of writing (October 2026), within £2 of the RTX 5060 PC. At the same price, the RTX 5060 is the better buy. The RX 7600 is weakest in ray tracing: Tom's Hardware's 1080p ray tracing average is 16.0 fps for the RX 7600 against 40.9 fps for the RTX 5060.

What can an RTX 3050 gaming PC run?

An RTX 3050 gaming PC runs esports games well and new AAA games at low settings. TechSpot measured the 8GB RTX 3050 at 210 fps in Counter-Strike 2 at 1080p Medium and 76 fps in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty at its lowest preset. Tom's Hardware averages it at 44.6 fps at 1080p across the high-to-ultra 2026 suite, half the RTX 5060.

The Veno Scorp Titan 4 (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3050 6GB) costs £669 on Amazon UK at the time of writing (October 2026). Its 6GB RTX 3050 has a narrower memory bus and fewer cores than the 8GB card in the tests, so expect lower figures. For £20.99 more, the STGsivir RTX 2060 Super PC at £689.99 has the faster card: Tom's Hardware's 2022 to 2024 hierarchy put the RTX 2060 Super at 65.5 fps at 1080p Ultra against 51.9 fps for the RTX 3050. Both are ranked in Best gaming PC under £700 UK.

Can a £600 mini PC with no graphics card play games?

Yes, at low to medium settings, if it has AMD's Radeon 780M integrated graphics. The Reatan A8 Mini PC (Ryzen 7 8745HS) costs £599.99 on Amazon UK at the time of writing (October 2026) with a Radeon 780M, 16GB of DDR5 and a 1TB SSD. In a desktop Ryzen 7 8700G, TechSpot measured the Radeon 780M at 132 fps in Fortnite at 1080p Low, 119 fps in Counter-Strike 2 at 1080p Medium and 74 fps in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III at the Basic preset.

Mini PCs run the 780M at lower power than the desktop 8700G, and TechSpot found slower DDR5 alone cost about 15% in Fortnite, so the Reatan A8 lands somewhat below those figures. New AAA games are the limit: the 780M managed 41 fps in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p Low. The rest of the £600 shortlist is in Best gaming PC under £600 UK.

Can a gaming PC run GTA 6?

No, because GTA 6 is not on PC. Rockstar Games lists Grand Theft Auto VI for 19 November 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and has announced no PC version or PC requirements. GTA V reached PC in April 2015, 19 months after its September 2013 console launch.

Buyers who want GTA 6 at launch need a console, compared in Best console for GTA 6 UK. On a budget PC, GTA V Enhanced runs at 93.3 fps on an RTX 5060 at 1080p with maximum ray tracing, according to Tom's Hardware.

Can a budget PC run Minecraft, Roblox and Valorant?

Yes. All three are light games that every PC in this guide runs above its developer's recommended specification:

• Minecraft Java Edition: Mojang raised the requirements in July 2026 ahead of Vulkan support. The minimum is 8GB of RAM with a graphics card or 12GB with integrated graphics, a 4-core processor and a Vulkan 1.3 GPU with 2GB of video memory; the recommendation is 16GB and a 6GB graphics card for 1080p at 60 fps. More detail is in Minecraft PC requirements 2026.
• Roblox: runs on 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 with DirectX 10 graphics and 1GB of RAM, according to Roblox.
• Valorant:Riot Games' 144 fps tier asks for an Intel Core i5-9400F and a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. Every PC here with a graphics card exceeds it; the Radeon 780M clears the 60 fps tier, which asks for a GeForce GT 730.

How should you read these fps figures?

Treat them as a ceiling, because both outlets test graphics cards with a fast processor. Tom's Hardware's 2026 test PC uses an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D; budget PCs pair the same cards with a Ryzen 5 5500 or 5600, which costs frame rate in processor-heavy games such as Counter-Strike 2 and Battlefield 6. Expect lower figures in those games and near-identical ones in graphics-heavy games such as Cyberpunk 2077.

The figures are averages without upscaling unless stated. DLSS and AMD FSR raise them by rendering at a lower resolution and scaling up. How to put a full setup together around these PCs is covered in Gaming PC setup checklist UK.

Verdict

The Computek RTX 5060 tower at £797.99 is the budget gaming PC that runs everything: every current game at 1080p high settings and most at 1440p, with an 88.5 fps average across Tom's Hardware's 2026 suite. The Veno Scorp Titan 4 RTX 3050 at £669 suits esports players, and the Reatan A8 at £599.99 suits Fortnite, Counter-Strike 2 and Minecraft at low to medium settings. No PC runs GTA 6 at launch. For every budget below £1,000, see Best budget gaming PC UK 2026.