Assassin's Creed Odyssey PC System Requirements Revealed

With the release of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey less than a month away, Ubisoft has announced the system requirements for PC gamers on three different resolutions: 720p HD, 1080p full-HD, and 4K Ultra HD. While a seven-year-old 2nd-gen Intel processor and Nvidia’s six-year-old GTX 660 is the bare minimum, it climbs rather quickly to last year’s 7th-gen Intel chip and the two-year-old GTX 1080 8GB if you want to play Odyssey on 4K.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey PC system requirements

Minimum

• OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only)
• CPU: AMD FX 6300 @ 3.8 GHz, Ryzen 3 – 1200, Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.1 GH
• GPU: AMD Radeon R9 285 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0)
• RAM: 8GB
• Resolution: 720p
• Targeted frame-rate: 30fps
• Video Preset: Low

Recommended

• OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only)
• CPU: AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz, Ryzen 5 - 1400, Intel Core i7-3770 @ 3.5 GHz
• GPU: AMD Radeon R9 290 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 (4GB VRAM or more with Shader Model 5.0)
• RAM: 8GB
• Resolution: 1080p
• Targeted frame-rate: 30fps
• Video Preset: High

4K recommended

• OS: Windows 10 (64-bit versions only)
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 1700X @ 3.8 GHz, Intel Core i7-7700 @ 4.2 GHz
• GPU: AMD Vega 64 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 (8GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0)
• RAM: 16GB
• Resolution: 4K
• Targeted frame-rate: 30fps
• Video Preset: High

Common specifications include 46GB free hard drive space, DirectX June 2010 Redistributable, and a DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card with latest drivers.

A list of video cards that will be supported at release has also been provided:

• AMD Radeon R9 285/R9 380/RX 460/RX 560 or better
• AMD Radeon 200/300/Fury X/400/500 series
• AMD Radeon Vega series: RX Vega 56 or better
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 660/760/950/1050 or better
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 600/700/900/10-Series series

Ubisoft reiterated that the PC version of Odyssey is not a port but has been developed by a dedicated team at Ubisoft Kiev working with lead studio Ubisoft Québec. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey on PC will have unique features such as benchmark tools and dynamic resolution for uncapped frame-rate, it added.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is out October 5 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

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