Can I Run NBA 2K25?
Visual Concepts released NBA 2K25 in 2024. It is a simulation sports game, published by 2K. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard. With more than 30 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. 9 languages are covered by the store listing. It carries 46 achievements. The game ships for Windows alone. Cloud saves are enabled. Split screen on one PC is supported, a feature most releases have quietly dropped.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i3-9100 or AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 4 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 570 4 GB or Intel® Arc™ A580 |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 150 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-Bit (latest update) |
| DirectX | 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5-10600 or AMD Ryzen™ 5 3600X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2070 8 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 5700 8 GB or Intel® Arc™ A770 |
| VRAM | 8 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 150 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-Bit (latest update) |
| DirectX | 12 |
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Setting and environment
Play is built around systems the player balances from above. There are 11 official screenshots to judge the look from. The view is in three dimensions. What taxes the PC is the number of things being simulated, which means the requirements describe the start of a game, not the end of one.
Why NBA 2K25 is demanding
The ask NBA 2K25 makes is moderate. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. NBA 2K25 needs 64 bit Windows. The 8 GB VRAM figure quietly excludes a lot of 6 GB hardware that would otherwise cope. DirectX 12 is named, so NBA 2K25 expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. NBA 2K25 expects 16 GB of system memory. Budget around 150 GB of storage for NBA 2K25, and it must be an SSD. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so NBA 2K25 at the floor and NBA 2K25 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 NBA 2K25?
Free up space before installing NBA 2K25: it needs roughly 150 GB of SSD storage. Once it's on disk the rest is unremarkable, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 4 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 570 4 GB or Intel® Arc™ A580 and 8 GB of RAM meet the minimum, so most current PCs handle the compute side.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. NBA 2K25 needs about 150 GB of SSD of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Borderline | 1.1x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.62x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.27x |
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 | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 NBA 2K25'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 NBA 2K25?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i3-9100 or AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200; GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 4 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 570 4 GB or Intel® Arc™ A580; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64-Bit (latest update).
How much storage does NBA 2K25 need?
NBA 2K25 needs about 150 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run NBA 2K25?
The RTX 3060 runs NBA 2K25 comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for NBA 2K25?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for NBA 2K25 is the GPU.