Can I Run Red Dead Online?
Released in 2020, Red Dead Online is an action adventure game built by Rockstar Games. It offers cooperative play. The game ships for Windows alone. Over 59 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. At 6 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. A pad covers most of the game, though parts of it still expect a keyboard. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. 13 languages are covered by the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5-2500K / AMD FX-6300 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 150 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 - 64-bit |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i7-4770K / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB |
| RAM | 12 GB |
| Storage | 150 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 - April 2018 Update (v1803) |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in the old west, moving through one continuous open world. The view is from a first person view. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and Red Dead Online can never assume the player will stop and let it load. The publisher supplies 5 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Red Dead Online is demanding
The graphics requirement for Red Dead Online is light. Hardware around Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 is enough, so Red Dead Online runs on machines never bought for gaming. Red Dead Online wants about 150 GB of disk space, which is a real consideration on a smaller drive. System memory expectations are modest at 12 GB. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Red Dead Online at the floor and Red Dead Online 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 Red Dead Online?
Free up space before installing Red Dead Online: it needs roughly 150 GB of HDD storage. Once it's on disk the rest is unremarkable, Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB and 8 GB of RAM meet the minimum, so most current PCs handle the compute side.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. Red Dead Online needs about 150 GB of HDD of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.93x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.09x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.48x |
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 Red Dead Online'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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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run Red Dead Online?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Red Dead Online?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-2500K / AMD FX-6300; GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 - 64-bit.
How much storage does Red Dead Online need?
Red Dead Online needs about 150 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Red Dead Online?
The RTX 3060 runs Red Dead Online comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Red Dead Online?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Red Dead Online is the GPU.