Can I Run New World: Aeternum?
Released in 2021, New World: Aeternum is an action adventure game built by Amazon Game Studios. It offers cooperative play. Its Steam review count passes 253 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard. 8 languages are covered by the store listing. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. There are 133 achievements to chase. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core i5-10500 @ 3.10GHz / AMD Ryzen 3 3300X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 1060 3 GB / AMD Radeon RX 590 |
| VRAM | 3 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 100 GB |
| OS | Windows 10/11 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-10700K @ 3.80Ghz / AMD Ryzen 5 3600X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2060 / AMD Radeon RX 6600 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 100 GB |
| OS | Windows 10/11 64-bit |
| DirectX | 12 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a fantasy world, moving through one continuous open world. There are 5 official screenshots to judge the look from. That openness is what costs performance. New World: Aeternum has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. It is played from a third person view.
Why New World: Aeternum is demanding
Demand in New World: Aeternum is ordinary. The publisher has NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2060 / AMD Radeon RX 6600 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so New World: Aeternum at the floor and New World: Aeternum at the recommended tier are not the same experience. New World: Aeternum calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure. At only 3 GB of VRAM, memory capacity is not what limits New World: Aeternum. The chip itself is. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. New World: Aeternum wants about 100 GB of disk space, which is a real consideration on a smaller drive.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run New World: Aeternum?
Free up space before installing New World: Aeternum: it needs roughly 100 GB. Once it's on disk the rest is unremarkable, NVIDIA GTX 1060 3 GB / AMD Radeon RX 590 and 8 GB of RAM meet the minimum, so most current PCs handle the compute side.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. New World: Aeternum needs about 100 GB 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 great |
| 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 New World: Aeternum'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 World: Aeternum?
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What are the minimum system requirements for New World: Aeternum?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core i5-10500 @ 3.10GHz / AMD Ryzen 3 3300X; GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1060 3 GB / AMD Radeon RX 590; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit.
How much storage does New World: Aeternum need?
New World: Aeternum needs about 100 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run New World: Aeternum?
The RTX 3060 runs New World: Aeternum comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for New World: Aeternum?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for New World: Aeternum is the GPU.