Can I Run Nier: Automata?
Nier: Automata is an action role playing game from Square Enix, released in 2017. Square Enix both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. It carries 47 achievements. Being 9 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. The game ships for Windows alone. Steam lists support for 6 languages. Its Steam review count passes 114 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. Its Metacritic score stands at 84.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i3 2100 or AMD A8-6500 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 VRAM 2GB or AMD Radeon R9 270X VRAM 2GB |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 /8.1 /10 64bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5 4670 or AMD A10-7850K |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 VRAM 4GB or AMD Radeon R9 380X VRAM 4GB |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB |
| OS | Windows 8.1 /10 64bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Nier: Automata places its action in an anime styled world, and the player works through one continuous open world. The publisher supplies 10 storefront screenshots of these environments. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Nier: Automata has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs.
Why Nier: Automata is demanding
Demand in Nier: Automata is ordinary. The publisher has NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 VRAM in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. The install is small at roughly 50 GB. Nier: Automata needs 64 bit Windows. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Nier: Automata at the floor and Nier: Automata at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Nier: Automata needs only 8 GB of RAM. Its stated video memory figure is modest at 4 GB, so on Nier: Automata the speed of the graphics chip binds before its memory does.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Nier: Automata?
Older hardware holds up here: Nier: Automata runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 VRAM 2GB or AMD Radeon R9 270X VRAM 2GB enough to meet the minimum. Add 4 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 Nier: Automata'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 Nier: Automata?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Nier: Automata?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3 2100 or AMD A8-6500; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 VRAM 2GB or AMD Radeon R9 270X VRAM 2GB; 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7 /8.1 /10 64bit.
How much storage does Nier: Automata need?
Nier: Automata needs about 50 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Nier: Automata?
The RTX 3060 runs Nier: Automata comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Nier: Automata?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Nier: Automata is the GPU.