Square Enix has revealed the official PC system requirements for Shadow of the Tomb Raider via its Steam store page. According to the specs, PC gamers will at least need an Intel Core i3-3220 with 8GB of RAM and an Nvidia GTX 660/GTX 1050 or an AMD Radeon HD 7770.
Square Enix recommends an Intel Core i7 4770K or an AMD Ryzen 5 1600 with 16GB of RAM and an Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB or an AMD Radeon RX 480. The game will also require 40GB of free hard-disk space, and will support both DirectX 11 and DirectX 12.
Unfortunately the publisher did not reveal the target framerate and resolution for both the minimum and recommended requirements (though we suspect that the recommended are for gaming at 1080p with 60fps).
Shadow of the Tomb Raider releases on September 14th and you can find its full PC requirements below.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider PC System Requirements
MINIMUM:
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- OS: Windows 7 64 bit
- Processor: i3-3220 INTEL or AMD Equilevant
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 660/GTX 1050 or AMD Radeon HD 7770
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 40 GB available space
RECOMMENDED:
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- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i7 4770K, 3.40 Ghz or AMD Ryzen 5 1600, 3.20 Ghz
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB or AMD Radeon RX 480, 8GB
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 40 GB available space
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Recommended, how about RTX on
Rtx 5080ti 1080p 30fps.
a nuclear reactor.
Recommended = RTX off
Yep, gonna need an i9-9900K to be futureproof. Quad-cores will soon become a bottleneck.
Inflated??? Are you delusional? Quad-cores have had a good run for gaming, but that is near its end. The thing is, you won’t even see it coming with that complacent mindset…and the 4770 is 5 years old. My Core 2 Duo E6600 was obsolete within three.
If you are using a GTX 1080 or lower for today’s titles, you are good with a quad-core. But the GP102 already has noticeably higher CPU usage requiring higher IPC. A 2500K will no doubt reduce performance in upcoming and near-future titles, especially open world games like Cyberpunk 2077, which will need more than four cores to handle all of those on-screen NPCs optimally.
Recommended RTX specifications:
A GPU more powerful than anything presently available on the market, or foreseeably available for the next 5 years.
wow even the 970 can’t handle this game well. What’s next? Recommended gpu is the rtx 2070?
Four year old GPU doesn’t run brand new cutting edge game at high resolutions and maximum settings anymore.
Shocking!
Or not.
Not sure why you would think that. These games are still built to scale for the lowest hw specs on x86 consoles running mobile APUs that are 5+ years old. Only hw marketing makes consumers think this.
You are replying to the wrong person. Amir’s post made out that the GTX970 can’t run the game well. This assumes ‘well’ is expectations of having everything turned up at big resolutions.
I only said it won’t run it at high resolutions and maximum settings, because well duh, it’s a four year old GPU. Of course it won’t on this game, that much is obvious if you knew how demanding the previous Tomb Raider was with Game works.
That doesn’t mean you can’t run it at lower settings and resolutions, in the case of that card better than the original consoles.
The 970 performs within a similar region to the listed 1060 (when VRAM isn’t in contention). So I’d imagine it would be able to play the game in high/mostly 60fps (though textures “might” need dropping down to medium).
“Nvidia GTX 660/GTX 1050 ”
Ha i thought the 750 ti was close to the gtx660, you telling me gtx 1050 is just as weak as the gtx 660?
“Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB”
Just how much more powerful is this card from 1050 that from minimum you got to high/very high? Shouldnt they recommend a 1070 instead?
The GTX 1050 is _much_ better/faster than the GTX 660.
The 750 Ti is about 15% slower than a GTX 660.
they are basically dead even overall in more modern games.
660 AND 1050 get same performance as a 7770? Dat AMD FineWine.
Nope. Minimum and recommended specs don’t mean the cards or CPUs quoted together are all equal in performance.
GTX660 is still far faster than a 7770 to this day for example.
Maybe, but the 7790/260X may get performance on par with a 660 nowadays.
Cards tend not to be tested often on newer games but the benchmarks I have seen the GTX660 is still plenty ahead of the 7850 let alone the 7790
Lol no. The 7850/R9 265 obliterates the 660.
Good joke. On launch the GTX660 was at least = to the 7870GHz.
If you think that it’s now somehow slower than a card a class below then much lolz to you. It’ll be at least as fast as a 7850 in most titles.
1050 is way faster than 660, which in turn is way faster than 7770. The minimum specs smell total bullsh*t.
Really? An i7? With processors being the biggest bottleneck on consoles, what is in the game that demands such a processor for recommended specs?
Just sounds like poor optimization. And I know, I’m not a developer but I hardly ever seen that as a recommended spec.
Gotta inflate the specs to over compensate for Denuvo. Haha, 4770, sure… Whatever you say Square Enix.
Sure, SE. x86 instructed consoles can handle this series with 5+ year old mobile APUs, so I wonder what’s happening under the hood for exponentially more powerful PC versions. Obviously I am not talking about RTX, to clear that up. Hmm… I wonder. Will be curious about other multiplats now that Intel and Nvidia are starting to push inventory – and oddly enough are “partners” with all the AAA publishers pulling this garbage.
Get ready for terrible optimization and no sli support.
What do you get with Win 10 on Recommended over Win 7 Recommended?