Can I Run Carnage?

Circle Five Studios released Carnage in 2015. It is an action indie game, published by Circle Five Publishing. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Its Steam review count passes 8 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. It carries 61 achievements. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Because it hooks into the Steam Workshop, what a player installs on top can matter more for performance than the official figures. It is old enough that no current GPU generation existed when it shipped, so modern hardware tends to be far past what it can use.

Developer Circle Five StudiosPublisher Circle Five PublishingRelease 2015Genre Action, Indie

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	2.0GHz+ Single-Core CPU
GPU	Dedicated graphics card with 1GB VRAM
VRAM	1 GB
RAM	5 GB
Storage	12 GB HDD
DirectX	Version 9.0c

Recommended requirements

CPU	3.0GHz+ Multi-Core CPU
GPU	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super
RAM	8 GB
Storage	12 GB HDD
OS	Windows 10
DirectX	Version 9.0c

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Carnage structures its play around combat arenas. The publisher supplies 18 storefront screenshots of these environments. Play is presented from a first person view.

Why Carnage is demanding

Carnage is a heavy title. Its NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super target scores above the RTX 3060 we measure against, so anything meaningfully slower is making compromises rather than running Carnage properly. Disk footprint is light, near 12 GB. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. Carnage names just 1 GB of video memory, so the bottleneck sits in raw GPU throughput rather than VRAM. The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 9.0.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run Carnage?

95%

Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the graphics card is the tightest fit.

Carnage targets a mainstream modern PC: Dedicated graphics card with 1GB VRAM and 5 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super 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	Below the bar	0.86x
1440p	Below the bar	0.48x
4K	Below the bar	0.21x

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	Below minimum
GTX 1650 4 GB	Below minimum
GTX 1650 Laptop	Below minimum
RTX 2060 6 GB	Runs well
RTX 2060 Laptop	Playable
RTX 3060 12 GB	Runs well
RTX 3060 Laptop	Playable
RTX 4060 8 GB	Runs great
RTX 4060 Laptop	Runs well
RTX 3070 8 GB	Runs great
RTX 3070 Laptop	Runs well
RTX 4070 12 GB	Runs great
RTX 4070 Laptop	Runs great
RX 6600 8 GB	Runs well

Each card is compared against Carnage'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.