Elden Ring was one of the most exciting games released in 2022, bringing a new round of FromSoftware’s classic hack and roll combat with brutal difficulty and a high skill ceiling. It has an expansive open world to explore, iconic bosses to slay, and a variety of weapons and skills to master in a gruelling and dreary world.
If you haven’t played it yet but can’t decide on beating Elden Ring just once or getting so good you can play it through while using a Guitar Hero controller, you need to have a PC that can run the game. Better yet, you need a PC that can run it well, so that your frame rates are high enough to give you a responsive gameplay experience, and enjoy the ultra smooth combat animations to their fullest.
Unlike a lot of the big game launches this year though, Elden Ring isn’t a super taxing game. That means that if your gaming PC is within a few years old, you’ll probably be able to run it without too much difficulty. Although like most games, Elden Ring takes some serious hardware to run at 4K with all its options turned up to the maximum.
If you’re looking to find out what kind of PC you need to run Elden Ring, here are a few suggestions.
Elden Ring Minimum Requirements
- CPU: Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 3 3300X
- RAM: 12GB
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB or AMD Radeon RX 580 4GB
- Operating System: Windows 10
- Storage: 60GB
These specifications are a modest upgrade on the minimum requirements for the previous FromSoftware title Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and should be enough to run Elden Ring at low settings, 1080p resolution, with a frame rate at a relatively steady 60 FPS.
With a threshold of a five-year-old mid-range processor and mid-range graphics card from almost seven years ago, any gaming PC bought in the past four to five years should have no trouble getting Elden Ring up and running.
If you don’t have a gaming PC, though, or have a system that just doesn’t quite reach these specs, then you’ll need to buy something new. Fortunately, just about any new gaming PC will easily eclipse these specifications and Chillblast has a number of excellent, affordable options.
Elden Ring Recommended Requirements
- CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
- RAM: 16GB
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1070 8GB or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB
- Operating System: Windows 10
- Storage: 60GB
The Recommended Specifications for Elden Ring up the ante on the processors quite significantly, due to the need for additional cores and thread support. But while that would mean buying a significantly more high-end processor years ago, today with higher core counts across the board and simultaneous multi-threading on all modern CPUs, that’s not such a high demand.
Those extra threads enable higher frame rates at higher detail settings and will let you play the game at almost full settings at 1080p without much difficulty. Still, if you want to ensure those frame rates stay high even when the action picks up, or you want to dally with 1440p resolution instead, then Chillblast has the gaming PC for you.
The Best PC For Elden Ring at 1440p
FromSoftware hasn’t provided any higher-end requirements for its recent games, so we don’t have an official line to base more capable system requirements on, for anyone wanting to play at higher resolutions than 1080p.
What we do have though, are years of third party testing for Sekiro and other FromSoftware games at higher settings like 1440p and 4K, to give us an idea of what you can expect with Elden Ring if you want to play around at those more demanding resolutions and settings.
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
- RAM: 16GB
- Graphics: Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB
- Storage: 500GB Seagate Firecuda 510 M.2 PCIe SSD
- Operating System: Windows 11
Ray Tracing Capabilities For Future Patches
The real star of this build, however, is the Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti. With 8GB of GDDR6 memory and a high-speed Ampere GPU, it is a super-powered graphics card with more than enough performance to play Elden Ring at maximum settings, high frame rates, at 1080p or 1440p resolution.
As an Ampere GPU, with Nvidia’s RT Core ray tracing accelerators, the RTX 3060 Ti also has the ability to deliver ray tracing in supporting games, too. Although Elden Ring did not support ray tracing at launch, it will be added in a post-launch patch coming very soon.
That will likely take major leaps in enhancing the visual fidelity of the game – something that all Elden Ring players will appreciate. To truly appreciate it, though, you’ll need a GPU that can handle it, and the RTX 3060 Ti in this gaming PC is up to the task.
Alongside the major performance-driving components in this system, it also enjoys 16GB of high-speed DDR4 memory, providing plenty of coverage for background tasks not to interfere with gaming performance, and will make sure that the Ryzen CPU can operate at peak performance at all times.
It also has a terabyte of NVMe SSD space, which is more than enough to install Windows 11, Elden Ring, and a number of your other favourite games.
