Can I Run Guardians of the Galaxy?
Eidos-Montréal released Guardians of the Galaxy in 2021. It is an action adventure game, published by Eidos Interactive Corp.. It offers a single player campaign. Its 5 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Its Steam review count passes 34 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. There are 59 achievements to chase. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Its Metacritic score stands at 78. It is localised into 14 languages according to the store listing. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen™ 5 1400 / Intel® Core™ i5-4460 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon™ RX 570 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 80 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows® 10 64 bit Build 1903 |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen™ 5 1600 / Intel® Core™ i7-4790 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 Super / AMD Radeon™ RX 590 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 80 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows® 10 64 bit Build 1903 |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a science fiction setting. Play is structured around spaces built for exploration. 9 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Guardians of the Galaxy has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs.
Why Guardians of the Galaxy is demanding
Demand in Guardians of the Galaxy is ordinary. The publisher has NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super / AMD Radeon RX 590 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Guardians of the Galaxy at the floor and Guardians of the Galaxy at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Disk footprint is light, near 80 GB. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure. Guardians of the Galaxy needs 64 bit Windows. DirectX 12 is named, so Guardians of the Galaxy expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Guardians of the Galaxy?
Older hardware holds up here: Guardians of the Galaxy runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon™ RX 570 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. Guardians of the Galaxy needs about 80 GB of HDD of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.73x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.98x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.43x |
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 well |
| 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 Guardians of the Galaxy'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 Guardians of the Galaxy?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Guardians of the Galaxy?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 5 1400 / Intel® Core™ i5-4460; GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon™ RX 570; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows® 10 64 bit Build 1903.
How much storage does Guardians of the Galaxy need?
Guardians of the Galaxy needs about 80 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Guardians of the Galaxy?
The RTX 3060 runs Guardians of the Galaxy comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Guardians of the Galaxy?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Guardians of the Galaxy is the GPU.