Best $1800 PC Build for Ghost of Tsushima (2026)

Even at $1800, Ghost of Tsushima returns 112 FPS on Very High at 1440p — 8 short of 120 Hz. That is what this engine costs: 60 Hz native on the RX 7800 XT, 120 Hz once Level of Detail gives or the upscaler does.

Above the RX 7800 XT sits the RTX 5070 TI, worth 146 FPS in Ghost of Tsushima at 1440p: 34 frames, roughly 30%. That is the card that takes Ghost of Tsushima over 120 Hz, which is the honest reason to want it. Street pricing settles that one. The $850 ceiling is what keeps $1800 balanced rather than a Ghost of Tsushima GPU bolted to a starved platform.

Sucker Punch's engine draws wind-reactive grass as simulated geometry rather than a texture trick, across entire hillsides at once, and the game's whole art direction depends on that plus a permanent volumetric haze — those two passes are where the frames go. Duels and skirmishes involve a handful of combatants, so the CPU is rarely anywhere near its limit. Ghost of Tsushima being GPU-bound is what justifies $850 of a $1800 budget in graphics. The AMD Ryzen 7 7700X is here to stay out of the way; past it, processor money stops showing up on screen.

Measured across resolutions, the RX 7800 XT in Ghost of Tsushima reads — 1080p: 146 FPS, on Very High, asking about 6 GB; 1440p: 112 FPS, on Very High, asking about 8 GB; 4K: 66 FPS, on High, asking about 10 GB. Quoted at 1440p for $1800. The step to the next rung is where Ghost of Tsushima stops being free and Level of Detail becomes the question.

Ghost of Tsushima on Very High at 1440p calls for something like 8 GB of video memory, against 16 GB on the RX 7800 XT — 8 GB spare, enough that Ghost of Tsushima textures are not a decision a $1800 buyer has to make.

Ghost of Tsushima ships DLSS, FSR and XeSS. Even at $1800, DLSS on Quality is what carries Ghost of Tsushima to 120 Hz; Level of Detail is the second resort.