Can I Run Grand Theft Auto: Vice City?
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is an action adventure game from Rockstar Games, released in 2023. Rockstar Games both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. 13 languages are covered by the store listing. With more than 8 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. There are 34 achievements to chase. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5-6600K / AMD FX-6300 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-6600K / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 4GB / AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through one continuous open world. It is played from a third person view. That openness is what costs performance. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. The publisher supplies 5 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is demanding
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is undemanding on the graphics side. Its Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City needs only 4 GB of video memory. The install is small at roughly 10 GB. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Grand Theft Auto: Vice City at the floor and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 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 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City?
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is light on hardware. Its minimum, Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB, 8 GB RAM, about 10 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
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 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'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 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-6600K / AMD FX-6300; GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Grand Theft Auto: Vice City need?
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City needs about 10 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Grand Theft Auto: Vice City?
The RTX 3060 runs Grand Theft Auto: Vice City comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is the GPU.