Can I Run Portal Knights?
Released in 2017, Portal Knights is an action adventure game built by Keen Games GmbH. Publishing duties went to 505 Games. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Two players can share one screen on a single machine, which is rare enough now to be worth noting. With more than 16 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. Completionists have 40 achievements to work through. 17 languages are covered by the store listing. Its Metacritic score stands at 72. Cloud saves are enabled. Being 9 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Steam Workshop support means community content is part of the picture, and a heavy mod load can push the real requirements past anything the publisher lists.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD Phenom(tm) 8450 Triple-Core Processor (3 CPUs), ~2.1GHz or Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.0 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 470 (1Gb VRAM) / ATI Radeon TM HD 6870 (1Gb VRAM) |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB |
| OS | 64bit Versions of Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-8400, 4.0 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, 4 GB |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 12 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB |
| OS | 64bit Versions of Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Portal Knights places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through hostile territory. 46 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. It is played from a third person view.
Why Portal Knights is demanding
The graphics requirement for Portal Knights is light. Hardware around Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 is enough, so Portal Knights runs on machines never bought for gaming. Disk footprint is light, near 8 GB. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. System memory expectations are modest at 12 GB. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 4 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Portal Knights?
Portal Knights targets a mainstream modern PC: Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 470 (1Gb VRAM) / ATI Radeon TM HD 6870 (1Gb VRAM) and 4 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, 4 GB for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.98x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.11x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.49x |
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 great |
| 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 Portal Knights'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 Portal Knights?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) 8450 Triple-Core Processor (3 CPUs), ~2.1GHz or Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.0 GHz; GPU: Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 470 (1Gb VRAM) / ATI Radeon TM HD 6870 (1Gb VRAM); 4 GB RAM; OS: 64bit Versions of Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10.
How much storage does Portal Knights need?
Portal Knights needs about 8 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Portal Knights?
The RTX 3060 runs Portal Knights comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Portal Knights?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Portal Knights is the GPU.