Can I Run Payday 3?
Released in 2023, Payday 3 is an action adventure game built by Starbreeze Studios. Publishing duties went to Starbreeze Entertainment. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. Metacritic places it at 66. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard. 14 languages are covered by the store listing. There are 22 achievements to chase. Its Steam review count passes 48 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-9400F |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 1650 (4 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 580 (4GB) |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 65 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-9700K |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 1080 (8GB) or AMD RX VEGA 56 |
| VRAM | 8 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 65 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 12 |
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Setting and environment
Play is built around combat arenas. The view is from a first person view. The publisher supplies 7 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Payday 3 is demanding
Payday 3 sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting Nvidia GTX 1080 (, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. Disk footprint is light, near 65 GB. The 8 GB VRAM figure quietly excludes a lot of 6 GB hardware that would otherwise cope. DirectX 12 is named, so Payday 3 expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Payday 3 at the floor and Payday 3 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 Payday 3?
Payday 3 is memory-hungry: it wants 16 GB of system RAM, above the 8 GB many machines still ship with. Graphically it is undemanding, Nvidia GTX 1650 (4 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 580 (4GB) clears the minimum, so more RAM, not a new GPU, is the upgrade most players need.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. Payday 3 needs about 65 GB of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Runs well | 1.36x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.77x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.34x |
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 well |
| 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 Payday 3'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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What are the minimum system requirements for Payday 3?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-9400F; GPU: Nvidia GTX 1650 (4 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 580 (4GB); 16 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Payday 3 need?
Payday 3 needs about 65 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Payday 3?
The RTX 3060 runs Payday 3 comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Payday 3?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Payday 3 is the GPU.