Can I Run The Surge?
Released in 2019, The Surge is an action role playing game built by Deck13. Publishing duties went to Focus Entertainment. The game supports a single player campaign. Its Metacritic score stands at 76. Completionists have 57 achievements to work through. 13 languages are covered by the store listing. At 7 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Over 7 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Cloud saves are enabled. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD FX-8320 (3.5 GHz) / Intel i5-4690K (3.5 GHz) |
|---|---|
| GPU | 2 GB, AMD Radeon R9 280 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB |
| OS | Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit) |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD FX-8370 (4.0 GHz) / Intel Core i7-3820 (3.6 GHz) |
|---|---|
| GPU | 6 GB, AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti |
| VRAM | 6 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB |
| OS | Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit) |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a science fiction setting, moving through interlocking areas that reward learning the route. There are 8 official screenshots to judge the look from. Play is presented from a third person view.
Why The Surge is demanding
The Surge sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting 6 GB, AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so The Surge at the floor and The Surge at the recommended tier are not the same experience. The Surge takes about 20 GB of disk space. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. The Surge expects 16 GB of system memory. The Surge names just 6 GB of video memory, so the bottleneck sits in raw GPU throughput rather than VRAM.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run The Surge?
The Surge is light on hardware. Its minimum, 2 GB, AMD Radeon R9 280 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, 8 GB RAM, about 20 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Runs well | 1.48x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.83x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.37x |
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 | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| 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 The Surge'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 The Surge?
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What are the minimum system requirements for The Surge?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD FX-8320 (3.5 GHz) / Intel i5-4690K (3.5 GHz); GPU: 2 GB, AMD Radeon R9 280 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit).
How much storage does The Surge need?
The Surge needs about 20 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run The Surge?
The RTX 3060 runs The Surge comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for The Surge?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Surge is the GPU.