Can I Run CarX Drift Racing Online?
CarX Technologies, LLC released CarX Drift Racing Online in 2017. It is an action casual game, self published by the studio. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Completionists have 36 achievements to work through. Cloud saves are enabled. It is localised into 12 languages according to the store listing. Workshop content is supported, so the published requirements describe the unmodded game only. Its 9 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard. Its Steam review count passes 82 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5-6400 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 960 4GB / AMD RX 470 4 GB |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 or higher |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ I5-9400F or AMD Ryzen 5 2600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 1060 3 Gb / AMD RX 580 4GB |
| VRAM | 3 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 or higher |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
CarX Drift Racing Online places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through circuits and tracks. Play is presented from a first person view. 12 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why CarX Drift Racing Online is demanding
The graphics requirement for CarX Drift Racing Online is light. Hardware around GeForce GTX 1060 is enough, so CarX Drift Racing Online runs on machines never bought for gaming. CarX Drift Racing Online needs only 3 GB of video memory. Disk footprint is light, near 8 GB. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means CarX Drift Racing Online scales hard with the hardware you give it. CarX Drift Racing Online expects 16 GB of system memory.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run CarX Drift Racing Online?
CarX Drift Racing Online is light on hardware. Its minimum, GeForce GTX 960 4GB / AMD RX 470 4 GB, 8 GB RAM, about 8 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 | 1.89x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.06x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.47x |
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 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 CarX Drift Racing Online'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 CarX Drift Racing Online?
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What are the minimum system requirements for CarX Drift Racing Online?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-6400 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600; GPU: GeForce GTX 960 4GB / AMD RX 470 4 GB; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 or higher.
How much storage does CarX Drift Racing Online need?
CarX Drift Racing Online needs about 8 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run CarX Drift Racing Online?
The RTX 3060 runs CarX Drift Racing Online comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for CarX Drift Racing Online?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for CarX Drift Racing Online is the GPU.