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Dial in these competitive settings on your PC while playing NBA 2K26 at 1440p with GPUs with up to 12GB VRAM and beyond.
Gaming at 1440p offers a great balance of visuals and performance. NBA 2K26 isn’t a particularly well-optimized game. It has some performance issues with PC hardware. Below are a few settings that we have tuned to help you maintain a stable 60+ FPS most of the time.
NBA 2K26 – Best Settings for 1440p
We recommend at least an RX 6750 XT level of GPU power for 1440p. If you have GPUs such as the Intel Arc B580, it should work fine. Unfortunately, GPUs such as the RTX 3070 and RTX 3070 Ti have the horsepower to play this game at 1440p, but their 8GB VRAM becomes a limitation with our settings. Lowering textures, shadows, and other values to keep VRAM usage under 8GB is another way to enjoy this game on a competent GPU such as the 3070 or 3070 Ti from the past.
That said, over on AMD GPUs, you have two options: either use FSR for an inferior image quality, but higher performance, or use XeSS for better image quality, with performance tradeoffs. XeSS is fun, but it’s recently been updated to use AI-based upscaling, and it functions more or less the same way DLSS does. Xess has a performance penalty, which requires the use of an aggressive upscaling profile to compensate.
Over on Nvidia, you have the DLSS 4 transformer model as an upscaler, which you can dial in and enjoy higher visuals. The new updates have also reduced VRAM usage, which is a win for the 8GB cards.
Best Settings Explored
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 2560 x 1440 |
| Resolution Scaling Method | AMD FSR / XeSS / DLSS |
| Resolution Scaling Quality | (Preference) |
| Resolution Scaling Sharpness | (Preference) |
| Vertical Sync | Off |
| HDR | (Optional) |
| Ray-Traced Reflections | OFF / Situational |
| Texture Detail Level | Medium |
| Shader Detail Level | High |
| Shadow Detail Level | Low |
| Player Detail Level | High |
| Cloth Simulation | On |
| Crowd Detail Level | High |
| NPC Density | Low |
| Volumetric Effects | Low |
| Reflections | Medium |
| Era Filters | Low |
| Global Illumination | Medium |
| Ambient Occlusion | On |
| Temporal Anti-Aliasing | Off |
| Motion Blur | (Preference) |
| Depth Of Field | (Preference) |
| Bloom | (Preference) |
| Half-Rate Online Matches | Off |
| Spectators In Online Matches | On |
| Max Anisotropy | 16 |
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