Can I Run Path of Exile?
Released in 2024, Path of Exile is an action adventure game built by Grinding Gear Games. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. The game ships for Windows alone. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Its Steam review count passes 165 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. It is localised into 9 languages according to the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i7-7700 or AMD™ Ryzen 5 2500x |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 (3GB), Intel® Arc™ A380, or ATI Radeon™ RX 470 |
| VRAM | 3 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 100 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5-10500 or AMD™ Ryzen 5 3700X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2060, Intel® Arc™ A770, or ATI Radeon™ RX 5600XT |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 100 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 12 |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a bleak fantasy world. Play is structured around interlocking areas that reward learning the route. It is played from an isometric view. There are 24 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Path of Exile is demanding
Path of Exile sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, Intel Arc A770, or ATI Radeon RX 5600XT, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. Its stated video memory figure is modest at 3 GB, so on Path of Exile the speed of the graphics chip binds before its memory does. DirectX 12 is named, so Path of Exile expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Path of Exile at the floor and Path of Exile at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Path of Exile expects 16 GB of system memory. Budget around 100 GB of storage for Path of Exile, and it must be an SSD.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Path of Exile?
Free up space before installing Path of Exile: it needs roughly 100 GB of SSD storage. Once it's on disk the rest is unremarkable, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 (3GB), Intel® Arc™ A380, or ATI Radeon™ RX 470 and 8 GB of RAM meet the minimum, so most current PCs handle the compute side.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. Path of Exile needs about 100 GB of SSD of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Runs well | 1.26x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.71x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.31x |
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 well |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 Path of Exile'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 Path of Exile?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Path of Exile?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-7700 or AMD™ Ryzen 5 2500x; GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 (3GB), Intel® Arc™ A380, or ATI Radeon™ RX 470; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Path of Exile need?
Path of Exile needs about 100 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Path of Exile?
The RTX 3060 runs Path of Exile comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Path of Exile?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Path of Exile is the GPU.