Can I Run Baldur's Gate 3?
Released in 2023, Baldur's Gate 3 is an adventure role playing game built by Larian Studios. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Completionists have 54 achievements to work through. It is not Windows only, with macOS covered too. With more than 748 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. It is localised into 15 languages according to the store listing. Its Metacritic score stands at 96. Cloud saves are enabled. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel I5 4690 / AMD FX 8350 / Snapdragon X Elite |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 / Intel Arc A380 / Qualcomm Adreno X1 (4GB+ of VRAM) |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 150 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel i7 8700K / AMD r5 3600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia 2060 Super / RX 5700 XT / Intel Arc A580 (8GB+ of VRAM) |
| VRAM | 8 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 150 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
The game takes place in a fantasy world. The publisher supplies 19 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Baldur's Gate 3 is demanding
Demand in Baldur's Gate 3 is ordinary. The publisher has Nvidia 2060 Super / RX 5700 XT / Intel Arc A580 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Baldur's Gate 3 scales hard with the hardware you give it. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Budget around 150 GB of storage for Baldur's Gate 3, and it must be an SSD. Baldur's Gate 3 expects 16 GB of system memory. The 8 GB VRAM figure quietly excludes a lot of 6 GB hardware that would otherwise cope.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Baldur's Gate 3?
Free up space before installing Baldur's Gate 3: it needs roughly 150 GB of SSD storage. Once it's on disk the rest is unremarkable, Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 / Intel Arc A380 / Qualcomm Adreno X1 (4GB+ of VRAM) and 8 GB of RAM meet the minimum, so most current PCs handle the compute side.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. Baldur's Gate 3 needs about 150 GB of SSD of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Runs well | 1.17x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.66x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.29x |
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 | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| 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 Baldur's Gate 3'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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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run Baldur's Gate 3?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Baldur's Gate 3?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel I5 4690 / AMD FX 8350 / Snapdragon X Elite; GPU: Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 / Intel Arc A380 / Qualcomm Adreno X1 (4GB+ of VRAM); 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64-bit.
How much storage does Baldur's Gate 3 need?
Baldur's Gate 3 needs about 150 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Baldur's Gate 3?
The RTX 3060 runs Baldur's Gate 3 comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Baldur's Gate 3?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Baldur's Gate 3 is the GPU.