Can I Run Gears 5?
The Coalition released Gears 5 in 2019. It is an action adventure game, published by Xbox Game Studios. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. There are 181 achievements to chase. 15 languages are covered by the store listing. Metacritic places it at 82. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Split screen on one PC is supported, a feature most releases have quietly dropped. A pad covers most of the game, though parts of it still expect a keyboard. Its Steam review count passes 20 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. Being 7 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD FX-6000 series | Intel i3 Skylake |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon R9 280 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (Windows 10) | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Windows 7) |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 80 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 SP1 64-bit, Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 3 | Intel i5 Skylake |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon RX 570 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (Windows 10) | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660ti (Windows 7) |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 80 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 12 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a science fiction setting, moving through combat arenas. It is played from a third person view. 9 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Gears 5 is demanding
The graphics requirement for Gears 5 is light. Hardware around AMD Radeon RX 570 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (Windows 10) | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660ti (Windows 7) is enough, so Gears 5 runs on machines never bought for gaming. DirectX 12 is named, so Gears 5 expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. The install is small at roughly 80 GB. Gears 5 needs only 8 GB of RAM. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Gears 5 at the floor and Gears 5 at the recommended tier are not the same experience. A 64 bit version of Windows is required.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Gears 5?
Older hardware holds up here: Gears 5 runs on modest graphics, with AMD Radeon R9 280 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (Windows 10) | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Windows 7) 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
Large install. Gears 5 needs about 80 GB of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 2.07x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.17x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.52x |
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 great |
| 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 Gears 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
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What are the minimum system requirements for Gears 5?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD FX-6000 series | Intel i3 Skylake; GPU: AMD Radeon R9 280 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (Windows 10) | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Windows 7); 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7 SP1 64-bit, Windows 10 64-bit.
How much storage does Gears 5 need?
Gears 5 needs about 80 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Gears 5?
The RTX 3060 runs Gears 5 comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Gears 5?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Gears 5 is the GPU.