Can I Run Extinction?
Released in 2015, Extinction is an action indie game built by Circle Five Studios. Publishing duties went to Circle Five Publishing. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Because it hooks into the Steam Workshop, what a player installs on top can matter more for performance than the official figures. With more than 8 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. 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. There are 61 achievements to chase.
Can your PC run it? →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 |
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Setting and environment
Play is built around combat arenas. Play is presented from a first person view. There are 18 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Extinction is demanding
The graphics demand in Extinction is at the top end. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super outscores our RTX 3060 reference, and a machine that clears Extinction comfortably will clear most other things. At only 1 GB of VRAM, memory capacity is not what limits Extinction. The chip itself is. Extinction takes about 12 GB of disk space. Extinction needs only 8 GB of RAM. 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 Extinction?
Extinction 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 Extinction'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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Can my PC run Extinction?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Extinction?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 2.0GHz+ Single-Core CPU; GPU: Dedicated graphics card with 1GB VRAM; 5 GB RAM.
How much storage does Extinction need?
Extinction needs about 12 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Extinction?
The RTX 3060 runs Extinction well, meeting the title's GPU requirement.
What is the bottleneck for Extinction?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Extinction is the GPU.