Can I Run Batman: Arkham Knight?
Rocksteady Studios released Batman: Arkham Knight in 2015. It is an action adventure game, published by WB Games. It offers a single player campaign. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Over 109 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. It is localised into 10 languages according to the store listing. Completionists have 113 achievements to work through. At more than a decade old it predates every current graphics architecture, which helps compatibility and limits how well it exploits a modern card. The game ships for Windows alone.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-750, 2.67 GHz | AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.4 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2 GB Memory Minimum) | AMD Radeon HD 7870 (2 GB Memory Minimum) |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 6 GB |
| Storage | 45 GB |
| OS | Win 7 SP1, Win 8.1 (64-bit Operating System Required) |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-3770, 3.4 GHz | AMD FX-8350, 4.0 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 - 3 GB Memory Recommended | AMD Radeon HD 7950 - 3 GB Memory Recommended |
| VRAM | 3 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 55 GB |
| OS | Win 7 SP1, Win 8.1 (64-bit Operating System Required) |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in an investigation, moving through one continuous open world. The publisher supplies 11 storefront screenshots of these environments. It is played from a third person view. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Batman: Arkham Knight has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs.
Why Batman: Arkham Knight is demanding
Batman: Arkham Knight is undemanding on the graphics side. Its NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Batman: Arkham Knight. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 3 GB. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Batman: Arkham Knight takes about 55 GB of disk space.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Batman: Arkham Knight?
Batman: Arkham Knight targets a mainstream modern PC: Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2 GB Memory Minimum) | AMD Radeon HD 7870 (2 GB Memory Minimum) and 6 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 - 3 GB Memory Recommended | AMD Radeon HD 7950 - 3 GB Memory Recommended for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 3.95x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 2.22x |
| 4K | Borderline | 0.99x |
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 | Runs great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| 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 Batman: Arkham Knight'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 Batman: Arkham Knight?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Batman: Arkham Knight?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-750, 2.67 GHz | AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.4 GHz; GPU: Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2 GB Memory Minimum) | AMD Radeon HD 7870 (2 GB Memory Minimum); 6 GB RAM; OS: Win 7 SP1, Win 8.1 (64-bit Operating System Required).
How much storage does Batman: Arkham Knight need?
Batman: Arkham Knight needs about 45 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Batman: Arkham Knight?
The RTX 3060 runs Batman: Arkham Knight comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Batman: Arkham Knight?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Batman: Arkham Knight is the GPU.