Can I Run God of War?
Released in 2022, God of War is an action adventure game built by Santa Monica Studio. Publishing duties went to PlayStation Publishing LLC. The game supports a single player campaign. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Metacritic places it at 93. 18 languages are covered by the store listing. Cloud saves are enabled. Completionists have 37 achievements to work through. Over 128 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel i5-2500k (4 core 3.3 GHz) or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 (4 core 3.1 GHz) |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 960 (4 GB) or AMD R9 290X (4 GB) |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 70 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel i5-6600k (4 core 3.5 GHz) or AMD Ryzen 5 2400 G (4 core 3.6 GHz) |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 1060 (6 GB) or AMD RX 570 (4 GB) |
| VRAM | 6 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 70 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a mythological world. Play is structured around one continuous open world. That openness is what costs performance. God of War has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. The publisher supplies 10 storefront screenshots of these environments. The view is from a third person view.
Why God of War is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by God of War. NVIDIA GTX 1060 scores low against the RTX 3060, putting God of War within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means God of War scales hard with the hardware you give it. At 6 GB, VRAM is a non issue for God of War. God of War takes about 70 GB of disk space. God of War needs only 8 GB of RAM.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run God of War?
Older hardware holds up here: God of War runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GTX 960 (4 GB) or AMD R9 290X (4 GB) 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. God of War needs about 70 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 | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| 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 God of War'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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What are the minimum system requirements for God of War?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel i5-2500k (4 core 3.3 GHz) or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 (4 core 3.1 GHz); GPU: NVIDIA GTX 960 (4 GB) or AMD R9 290X (4 GB); 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does God of War need?
God of War needs about 70 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run God of War?
The RTX 3060 runs God of War comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for God of War?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for God of War is the GPU.