God of War is set to launch for PC on January 14th, 2022. You can pre-purchase the game right now on Steam or the Epic Game Store. And with that hype, comes a lot of PC gamers rushing to try and prepare their battle stations for the new adventures of Kratos.
if you’re just trying to barely meet the God of War PC system requirements, there are options for you. You won’t be able to run this game without a relatively modern rig, though, as the GPU requirements far outpace the likes of the AMD 500-series or Nvidia 600-series. These two ancient low-end GPUs just won’t be able to run the game. You need to step it up to something like a 960 or better to even have a passable experience.
Minimum PC Specs
To run God of War on your PC at the minimum, you will need the following specs:
- Graphic Settings: Low
- GPU: Nvidia GTX 960 (4 GB)/AMD R9 290X (4 GB)
- CPU: Intel i5-2500k (4 core 3.3 GHz)/AMD Ryzen 3 1200 (4 core 3.1 GHz)
- RAM: 8 GB DDR
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit (Version 1809)
- Storage: 70 GB HDD (SSD Recommended)
Recommended PC Specs
To run God of War on your PC at with the recommended hardware, you will need the following specs:
- Graphic Settings: Original
- GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060 (6 GB)/AMD RX 570 (4 GB)
- CPU: Intel i5-6600k (4 core 3.5 GHz)/AMD Ryzen 5 2400 (4 core 3.6 GHz)
- RAM: 8 GB DDR
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit (Version 1809)
- Storage: 70 GB SSD
High PC Specs
To run God of War on your PC with high-level graphics, you will need the following specs:
- Graphic Settings: Original
- GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 (8 GB)/AMD RX 5600 XT (6 GB)
- CPU: Intel i7-4770k (4 core 3.5 GHz)/AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8 core 3.2 GHz)
- RAM: 8 GB DDR
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit (Version 1809)
- Storage: 70 GB SSD
Performance PC Specs
So with an SSD being all-but required, things are definitely getting more advanced in PC gaming. The difference between Performance and High is interesting. The jump for both the GPU and CPU requirements in these God of War PC system requirements is huge. The jump from 10-series to 20-series is a massive one. Players will find a pretty big quality improvement on Performance-compliant rigs.
To run God of War on your PC with performance level graphics, you will need the following specs:
- Graphic Settings: High
- GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070 (8 GB)/AMD RX 5700 XT (6 GB)
- CPU: Intel i7-7700k (4 core 4.2 GHz)/AMD Ryzen 7 3700 (8 core 3.6 GHz)
- RAM: 16 GB DDR
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit (Version 1809)
- Storage: 70 GB SSD
Ultra PC Specs
To run God of War on your PC with the best possible graphics, you will need the following specs:
- Graphic Settings: Ultra
- GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080 (10 GB)/AMD Ryzen RX 6800 XT (6 GB)
- CPU: Intel i9-9900k (8 core 3.6 GHz)/AMD Ryzen 9 3950X (16 core 3.5 GHz)
- RAM: 16 GB DDR
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit (Version 1809)
- Storage: 70 GB SSD
