Can I Run Beat Saber?
Beat Saber is an indie game from Beat Games, released in 2019. Beat Games both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign and competitive multiplayer. Metacritic places it at 93. Completionists have 26 achievements to work through. 7 languages are covered by the store listing. With more than 69 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. The game ships for Windows alone. Being 7 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5 Sandy Bridge or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 960 or equivalent |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 0.2 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10/11 (64bit) |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7 Skylake or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 1060 or equivalent |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 0.2 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10/11 (64bit) |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
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Setting and environment
Beat Saber is set in an anime styled world. It is played from a first person view. There are 9 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Beat Saber is demanding
Demand in Beat Saber is ordinary. The publisher has Nvidia GTX 1060 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Beat Saber scales hard with the hardware you give it. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Beat Saber needs only 8 GB of RAM. The install is small at roughly 0 GB. Beat Saber calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Beat Saber?
Beat Saber is light on hardware. Its minimum, Nvidia GTX 960 or equivalent, 4 GB RAM, about 0.2 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.7x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.96x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.43x |
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 well |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 Beat Saber'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
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What are the minimum system requirements for Beat Saber?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5 Sandy Bridge or equivalent; GPU: Nvidia GTX 960 or equivalent; 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10/11 (64bit).
How much storage does Beat Saber need?
Beat Saber needs about 0.2 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Beat Saber?
The RTX 3060 runs Beat Saber comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Beat Saber?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Beat Saber is the GPU.