Can I Run Far Cry 5?
Far Cry 5 is an action adventure game from Ubisoft Montreal, released in 2018. Ubisoft published it. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. Its Steam review count passes 171 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. The game ships for Windows alone. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. 15 languages are covered by the store listing. Being 8 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Completionists have 72 achievements to work through.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.1 GHz or AMD FX-6300 @ 3.5 GHz or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 or AMD R9 270 (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better) |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 40 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 (64-bit versions only) |
| DirectX | 9 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.2 GHz or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD R9 290X (4GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better) |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 40 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 (64-bit versions only) |
| DirectX | 9 |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in natural landscapes. Play is structured around one continuous open world. That openness is what costs performance. Far Cry 5 has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. 16 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. It is played from a first person view.
Why Far Cry 5 is demanding
The graphics requirement for Far Cry 5 is light. Hardware around NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD R9 290X ( is enough, so Far Cry 5 runs on machines never bought for gaming. Far Cry 5 takes about 40 GB of disk space. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Far Cry 5 at the floor and Far Cry 5 at the recommended tier are not the same experience. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 4 GB. It targets DirectX 9, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Far Cry 5?
Older hardware holds up here: Far Cry 5 runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 or AMD R9 270 (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better) enough to meet the minimum. Add 8 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.98x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.11x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.49x |
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 Far Cry 5'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 Far Cry 5?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Far Cry 5?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.1 GHz or AMD FX-6300 @ 3.5 GHz or equivalent; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 or AMD R9 270 (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better); 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 (64-bit versions only).
How much storage does Far Cry 5 need?
Far Cry 5 needs about 40 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Far Cry 5?
The RTX 3060 runs Far Cry 5 comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Far Cry 5?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Far Cry 5 is the GPU.