EA Sports WRC cover art

Can I Run EA Sports WRC?

EA Sports WRC is a racing simulation game from Codemasters, released in 2023. Electronic Arts published it. It offers a single player campaign and competitive multiplayer. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. It is localised into 5 languages according to the store listing. With more than 10 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. There are 26 achievements to chase. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Its Metacritic score stands at 80. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works.

Developer CodemastersPublisher Electronic ArtsRelease 2023Genre Racing, Simulation, Sports
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPUAMD Ryzen 5 2600X Intel i5 9600K
GPUNvidia GTX 1060 Radeon RX Vega 56
RAM8 GB
Storage110 GB SSD
OSWindows 10
DirectX12

Recommended requirements

CPUAMD Ryzen 7 3700X Intel i5 10600K
GPUNvidia RTX 2070 Radeon RX 5700 XT
RAM16 GB
Storage110 GB SSD
OSWindows 10
DirectX12

Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Play is built around circuits and tracks. The publisher supplies 6 storefront screenshots of these environments.

Why EA Sports WRC is demanding

EA Sports WRC sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting Nvidia RTX 2070 Radeon RX 5700 XT, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. EA Sports WRC calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level. EA Sports WRC wants about 110 GB of disk space on an SSD, which is a real consideration on a smaller drive. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so EA Sports WRC at the floor and EA Sports WRC at the recommended tier are not the same experience.

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

Can you run EA Sports WRC?

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

Free up space before installing EA Sports WRC: it needs roughly 110 GB of SSD storage. Once it's on disk the rest is unremarkable, Nvidia GTX 1060 Radeon RX Vega 56 and 8 GB of RAM meet the minimum, so most current PCs handle the compute side.

Bottleneck: GPU

Large install. EA Sports WRC needs about 110 GB of SSD of free storage.

Projected by resolution

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pBorderline1.03x
1440pBelow the bar0.58x
4KBelow the bar0.26x

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 cardVerdict
GTX 1060 6 GBPlayable
GTX 1060 LaptopPlayable
GTX 1650 4 GBBelow minimum
GTX 1650 LaptopBelow minimum
RTX 2060 6 GBRuns well
RTX 2060 LaptopRuns well
RTX 3060 12 GBRuns great
RTX 3060 LaptopRuns well
RTX 4060 8 GBRuns great
RTX 4060 LaptopRuns well
RTX 3070 8 GBRuns great
RTX 3070 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4070 12 GBRuns great
RTX 4070 LaptopRuns great
RX 6600 8 GBRuns great

Each card is compared against EA Sports WRC'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 EA Sports WRC?

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What are the minimum system requirements for EA Sports WRC?

The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Intel i5 9600K; GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060 Radeon RX Vega 56; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.

How much storage does EA Sports WRC need?

EA Sports WRC needs about 110 GB of SSD storage.

Can an RTX 3060 run EA Sports WRC?

The RTX 3060 runs EA Sports WRC comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.

What is the bottleneck for EA Sports WRC?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for EA Sports WRC is the GPU.