God of War: Ragnarok PC Specs Revealed by PlayStation

PlayStation has revealed the PC requirements for the highly anticipated God of War Ragnarok ahead of its September 19 release date.

A breakdown on the PlayStation Blog revealed God of War: Ragnarok will require a hefty 190GB of SSD storage. The note of SSD and not the option of SSD or HDD is important to note, considering the PC port of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart was recommended but did not require players to install the game on a solid-state drive, but opting to install the game on an HDD, as our sister site Digital Foundry pointed out, resulted in a borderline unplayable experience.

As shown in the image below, the God of War Ragnarok is optimized to run on an array of gaming rigs, with the Minimum specs, which will have the game running at 1080p at 30FPS requiring 8GB of RAM, an Nvidia GTX 1060 or AMD RX 5500 XT as the graphics card, as well as an Intel i5-4670K or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 processor.

However, Jetpack Interactive, the developer behind the PC port of God of War Ragnarok, notes that the Recommended settings are 1080p at an (average) frame rate of 60FPS, which will require 16GB of RAM, an Nvidia RTX 2060 Super or AMD RX 5700 equivalent GPU, an Intel i5-8600 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 equivalent CPU.

The High, Performance, and Ultra settings were also revealed. As shown in the graphic below, the High settings bump the resolution to 1440p if your rig has an Nvidia RTX 3070 or AMD RX 6800 GPU, as well as an Intel i7-7700K and AMD Ryzen 7 2700X CPU. The Performance and Ultra settings will increase the resolution to 4K, with the differences in PC specs on the GPU and CPU front.

As the system requirements layout, all these settings will average around 30 or 60FPS and could fluctuate depending on the graphical presets and hardware in a player’s computer. Fortunately, these graphical setting targets do not factor in supersampling technologies, which Jetpack Interactive confirmed that God of War: Ragnarok’s PC version would support DLSS 3.7 (note any iteration of DLSS 3 requires an RTX 40-series GPU), AMD’s FSR 3.1, and Intel XeSS 1.3, in addition to frame generation for all these supersampling technologies.

A PlayStation Network account will also be required to play the PC port of God of Ragnarok. This trend of requiring a PSN account, even if it is in some capacity, has started to appear in more first-party PlayStation games coming to PC, such as Concord and the Until Dawn remaster. Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut also requires a PSN account, though only for those who wish to utilize the multiplayer features.

In IGN’s 10/10 review of the PlayStation 5 version, we said: “God of War: Ragnarok is an almighty achievement and creates a new high that makes many of its peers look mortal by comparison.”

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.