Honkai: Star Rail
HoYoverse's turn-based gacha RPG is a looker and a heavy one — its 60 FPS toggle only flagship phones truly sustain, so the graphics menu is where you buy back frames.
- Developer
- HoYoverse
- Publisher
- HoYoverse
- Released
- 2023
- FPS Cap
- 60 FPS
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Your Phone
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 · 8GB · 120Hz refresh
Your Estimated Honkai: Star Rail Performance
40
Minimum
48
Average
53
Maximum
- Preset
- HD
- FPS Cap
- 60 FPS
- Capped?
- No — chipset-limited
- RAM
- OK
Demanding — expect throttling in long sessions without cooling.
FPS values displayed on GamerSpecs are estimates. Actual game performance may vary depending on hardware configuration, drivers, cooling, power limits, background applications, and game updates.
About Honkai: Star Rail
Honkai: Star Rail is HoYoverse's turn-based space-fantasy gacha RPG, and it is one of the most demanding titles on mobile. It ships with graphics presets from Very Low to Very High plus a full custom menu — Render Scale, Shadow Quality, Character and Environment Detail, Bloom, FX Quality and Anti-Aliasing — and a 60 FPS toggle that only flagship SoCs hold steady in busy combat and open-zone exploration. Because turns are deliberate, raw latency matters less than sustained smoothness and avoiding thermal throttling over long sessions; the 'competitive' profile here is really the smoothest custom setup, trading fidelity for a stable frame rate on non-flagship hardware.
Best mobile settings
Three curated profiles — max FPS for competitive, balanced, and HD graphics.
Smooth 60 (Custom Low)
A stripped custom preset that chases a stable 60 FPS on non-flagship phones — Render Scale and Shadows dropped first, the two heaviest costs in HSR.
| Setting | Value | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Quality | Custom (Low base) | — |
| FPS | 60 | Only flagship SoCs hold 60 in combat; mid-range settles around 45–55. |
| Render Scale | 0.8 | The single biggest FPS lever — small drop, large frame-rate gain. |
| Shadow Quality | Off | Shadows are one of the most expensive effects; turn them off first. |
| Environment Detail | Low | — |
| Character Quality | Medium | Keep characters readable without paying the Very High cost. |
| Bloom | Off | — |
| FX Quality | Low | Ultimate and skill animations spike GPU load — Low keeps them cheap. |
| Anti-Aliasing | Off | — |
| Reflections | Off | — |
Balanced
The Medium-ish sweet spot — clean characters and lighting at 60 FPS on upper-mid and flagship phones without the Very High tax.
| Setting | Value | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Quality | Medium (Custom) | — |
| FPS | 60 | — |
| Render Scale | 1.0 | — |
| Shadow Quality | Low | — |
| Environment Detail | Medium | — |
| Character Quality | High | — |
| Bloom | Low | — |
| FX Quality | Medium | — |
| Anti-Aliasing | TAA | — |
| Reflections | Off | — |
Very High Fidelity
Everything maxed for the best-looking HSR — reserved for cool flagship phones, since sustained 60 FPS here is a big ask even for them.
| Setting | Value | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Quality | Very High (Custom max) | — |
| FPS | 60 | Even flagships can dip below 60 in dense combat at these settings. |
| Render Scale | 1.2 | Sharpest image but the heaviest possible GPU cost. |
| Shadow Quality | High | — |
| Environment Detail | Very High | — |
| Character Quality | Very High | — |
| Bloom | High | — |
| FX Quality | High | — |
| Anti-Aliasing | TAA | — |
| Reflections | On | — |
Device requirements
Minimum
- OS
- Android 8.0 / iOS 12
- Chipset
- Snapdragon 730 / Dimensity 900
- RAM
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 8 GB
Recommended
- OS
- Android 11 / iOS 14
- Chipset
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 / Dimensity 9000 / Apple A15
- RAM
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 12 GB
Optimization tips
- 1
Render Scale is the most powerful lever in HSR — drop it to 0.8 before touching anything else for a large FPS gain with a small visual hit.
- 2
Turn Shadow Quality off first when chasing 60 FPS; it is one of the most expensive effects on mobile GPUs.
- 3
Only flagship SoCs sustain the 60 FPS toggle in combat — on mid-range phones, cap at 30 FPS for a more consistent, cooler experience.
- 4
The game runs hot in long sessions; remove the case or use a cooler and keep it off the charger to limit thermal throttling.
- 5
Lower FX Quality if frames tank during Ultimates — skill and burst animations are the biggest in-combat GPU spikes.
- 6
Keep at least a few GB of free storage and close background apps; HSR's large assets and RAM use punish cramped devices with stutter.