Can I Run Atomic Heart?
Released in 2023, Atomic Heart is an action adventure game built by Mundfish. Publishing duties went to Focus Entertainment. The game supports a single player campaign. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. It carries 82 achievements. Its Metacritic score stands at 76. The game ships for Windows alone. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Its Steam review count passes 37 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. It is localised into 13 languages according to the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 3 1200 or Intel Core i5-2500 |
|---|---|
| GPU | 4 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon R9 380 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 90 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 (20H1 version or newer, 64-bit versions) |
| DirectX | 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 2600X or Intel Core i7-7700K |
|---|---|
| GPU | 8 GB VRAM, AMD RX 6700 XT or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 |
| VRAM | 8 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 90 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 (20H1 version or newer, 64-bit versions) |
| DirectX | 12 |
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Setting and environment
Atomic Heart places its action in a horror setting, and the player works through one continuous open world. The view is from a first person view. That openness is what costs performance. Atomic Heart has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. 27 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Atomic Heart is demanding
Demand in Atomic Heart is ordinary. The publisher has 8 GB VRAM, AMD RX 6700 XT or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. The install is small at roughly 90 GB, on an SSD. Atomic Heart asks for 8 GB of video memory, so VRAM capacity matters here as much as speed. DirectX 12 is named, so Atomic Heart expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Atomic Heart at the floor and Atomic Heart at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Atomic Heart expects 16 GB of system memory. Atomic Heart needs 64 bit Windows.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Atomic Heart?
Older hardware holds up here: Atomic Heart runs on modest graphics, with 4 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon R9 380 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 enough to meet the minimum. Add 8 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. Atomic Heart needs about 90 GB of SSD of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Borderline | 1.03x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.58x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.26x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
Common GPUs
| Graphics card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Atomic Heart's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.
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Can my PC run Atomic Heart?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Atomic Heart?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 1200 or Intel Core i5-2500; GPU: 4 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon R9 380 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 (20H1 version or newer, 64-bit versions).
How much storage does Atomic Heart need?
Atomic Heart needs about 90 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Atomic Heart?
The RTX 3060 runs Atomic Heart comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Atomic Heart?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Atomic Heart is the GPU.