Can I Run Hogwarts Legacy?
Hogwarts Legacy is an action adventure game from Avalanche Software, released in 2023. Warner Bros. Games published it. The game supports a single player campaign. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. With more than 272 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. The game ships for Windows alone. Steam lists support for 14 languages. Its Metacritic score stands at 83. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Completionists have 45 achievements to work through.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-6600 (3.3Ghz) or AMD Ryzen 5 1400 (3.2Ghz) |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 85 GB SSD |
| OS | 64-bit Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-8700 (3.2Ghz) or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (3.6 Ghz) |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce 1080 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT or INTEL Arc A770 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 85 GB SSD |
| OS | 64-bit Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 12 |
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Setting and environment
Hogwarts Legacy places its action in a fantasy world, and the player works through one continuous open world. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and Hogwarts Legacy can never assume the player will stop and let it load. The publisher supplies 5 storefront screenshots of these environments. The view is from a third person view.
Why Hogwarts Legacy is demanding
Demand in Hogwarts Legacy is ordinary. The publisher has NVIDIA GeForce 1080 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT or INTEL Arc A770 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. Hogwarts Legacy expects 16 GB of system memory. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Hogwarts Legacy scales hard with the hardware you give it. The install is small at roughly 85 GB, on an SSD. Its stated video memory figure is modest at 4 GB, so on Hogwarts Legacy the speed of the graphics chip binds before its memory does. DirectX 12 is named, so Hogwarts Legacy expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. 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 Hogwarts Legacy?
Hogwarts Legacy is memory-hungry: it wants 16 GB of system RAM, above the 8 GB many machines still ship with. Graphically it is undemanding, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB clears the minimum, so more RAM, not a new GPU, is the upgrade most players need.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. Hogwarts Legacy needs about 85 GB of SSD of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Borderline | 0.97x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.55x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.24x |
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 | Playable |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs well |
Each card is compared against Hogwarts Legacy'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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Can my PC run Hogwarts Legacy?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Hogwarts Legacy?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 (3.3Ghz) or AMD Ryzen 5 1400 (3.2Ghz); GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB; 16 GB RAM; OS: 64-bit Windows 10.
How much storage does Hogwarts Legacy need?
Hogwarts Legacy needs about 85 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Hogwarts Legacy?
The RTX 3060 runs Hogwarts Legacy comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Hogwarts Legacy?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Hogwarts Legacy is the GPU.