Can I Run New Tales from the Borderlands?
New Tales from the Borderlands is an adventure game from Gearbox Software, released in 2022. 2K published it. The game supports a single player campaign. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. Its Steam review count passes 1 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. There are 26 achievements to chase. It is localised into 6 languages according to the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-4690K or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 30 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-4770 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB or AMD Radeon RX 590 8GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 30 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in space and the vessels that cross it, moving through scenes presented as illustrated text. 9 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why New Tales from the Borderlands is demanding
The ask New Tales from the Borderlands makes is moderate. Nvidia GTX 1060 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. New Tales from the Borderlands needs only 8 GB of RAM. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means New Tales from the Borderlands scales hard with the hardware you give it. Disk footprint is light, near 30 GB. New Tales from the Borderlands calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run New Tales from the Borderlands?
Older hardware holds up here: New Tales from the Borderlands runs on modest graphics, with Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB 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
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 New Tales from the Borderlands'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 New Tales from the Borderlands?
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What are the minimum system requirements for New Tales from the Borderlands?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X; GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does New Tales from the Borderlands need?
New Tales from the Borderlands needs about 30 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run New Tales from the Borderlands?
The RTX 3060 runs New Tales from the Borderlands comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for New Tales from the Borderlands?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for New Tales from the Borderlands is the GPU.