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Everything you need to know about PC system requirements of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and how it fares against part titles in the series.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows, despite facing multiple delays, is finally on track for its release on March 20, 2025. Ubisoft recently revealed a dedicated “story” trailer for the game, which was followed by pre-orders going live on all platforms. Alongside the game’s pre-order details, Ubisoft also revealed a ton of additional information about the game, particularly about its PC port. With the latest Assassin’s Creed game, Ubisoft once again aims to push the boundaries of real-time graphics. Judging from the game’s new story trailer, as well as the PC system requirements, it seems Ubisoft is on track to do just that. Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the very first title in the series to come with support for ray tracing.
However, with the game’s improved visual fidelity comes significantly increased PC system requirements. Unlike the last few Assassin’s Creed titles (Valhalla and Mirage), Assassin’s Creed Shadows boasts incredibly demanding system requirements. In fact, the game’s recommended GPU is an RTX 4070 equivalent. That said, here’s a look at the official PC system requirements for Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows PC System Requirements
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is built using the same Anvil engine that powered the last few entries in the series. However, instead of relying on baked lighting, which has been the norm for past Assassin’s Creed games, Assassin’s Creed Shadows relies on ray-traced lighting and global illumination. The game also features ray-traced reflections and shadows, which might explain the very high system requirements.
In terms of CPU, the minimum requirement is a Ryzen 5 3600 equivalent, which falls perfectly in line with current-gen consoles. Furthermore, at higher resolutions, the CPU requirement jumps to Ryzen 7 5800x3D and Ryzen 7 7800x3D for 1440p and 4K.
The Assassin’s Creed games have always been heavily CPU-bound due to their open-world nature. However, with Assassin’s Creed Shadows employing ray tracing, the CPU requirements have increased significantly. Also, judging from the system requirements, it seems ray tracing cannot be toggled off either. Thankfully, the game is still quite memory efficient. Regardless of which resolution you plan to play the game on, you only need 16 GB of system memory. That said, here’s a look at the official PC system requirements for Assassin’s Creed Shadows:
Selective Ray Tracing
Minimum
- Resolution/FPS Using Dynamic Resolution and Upscaling: 1080P at 30 FPS
- Visual Settings: Low
- CPU: Intel® Core™ i7 8700k/ AMD Ryzen™ 5 3600
- GPU: Nvidia® GeForce GTX™ 1070 8GB/ AMD Radeon™ RX 5700 8GB/ Intel® Arc™ A580 8GB (REBAR ON)
- RAM: 16 GB
- Storage: SSD (mandatory)
Recommended
- Resolution/FPS Using Dynamic Resolution and Upscaling: 1080P at 60 FPS
- Visual Settings: High
- CPU: Intel® Core™ i5 11600k/ AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600x
- GPU: Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 3060Ti 8GB/ AMD Radeon™ RX 6700 XT 12GB/ Intel® Arc™ B580 12GB (REBAR ON)
- RAM: 16 GB
- Storage: SSD (mandatory)
Enthusiast
- Resolution/FPS Using Dynamic Resolution and Upscaling: 1440P at 60 FPS
- Visual Settings: High
- CPU: Intel® Core™ i5 11600k/ AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600x
- GPU: Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 2070 8GB/ AMD Radeon™ RX 6700 XT 12GB/ Intel® Arc™ B580 12GB (REBAR ON)
- RAM: 16 GB
- Storage: SSD (mandatory)
Enthusiast (4K)
- Resolution/FPS Using Dynamic Resolution and Upscaling: 4K at 60 FPS
- Visual Settings: High
- CPU: Intel® Core™ i7 12700k/ AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800x3D
- GPU: Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 4070 Ti Super 16GB/ AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XT 20GB
- RAM: 16 GB
- Storage: SSD (mandatory)
Standard Ray Tracing
Minimum
- Resolution/FPS Using Dynamic Resolution and Upscaling: 1080P at 30 FPS
- Visual Settings: High
- CPU: Intel® Core™ i7 8700k/ AMD Ryzen™ 5 3600
- GPU: Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 2070 8GB/ Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 2070 8GB/ Intel® Arc™ B580 12GB (REBAR ON)
- RAM: 16 GB
- Storage: SSD (mandatory)
Recommended
- Resolution/FPS Using Dynamic Resolution and Upscaling: 1440P at 60 FPS
- Visual Settings: High
- CPU: Intel® Core™ i5 11600k/ AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600x
- GPU: Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 4070 Super 12GB/ AMD Radeon ™ RX 7800 XT 16GB
- RAM: 16 GB
- Storage: SSD (mandatory)
Extended Ray Tracing
Enthusiast
- Resolution/FPS Using Dynamic Resolution and Upscaling: 1440p at 60 FPS
- Visual Settings: Ultra
- CPU: Intel® Core™ Intel i7 13700k/ AMD Ryzen™ 7 7800x3D
- GPU: Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 4080 16GB
- RAM: 16 GB
- Storage: SSD (mandatory)
Extreme
- Resolution/FPS Using Dynamic Resolution and Upscaling: 4K at 60 FPS
- Visual Settings: Ultra
- CPU: Intel® Core™ Intel i7 13700k/ AMD Ryzen™ 7 7800x3D
- GPU: Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 4090 24GB
- RAM: 16 GB
- Storage: SSD (mandatory)
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