Horizon Forbidden West requires GeForce GTX 1650 or Radeon RX 5500 XT at minimum
The PC requirements for Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition for PC have been revealed. The game is now scheduled to be released on March 21st.
According to the post from Nixxes and Guerilla on the Sony PlayStation website, the PC version of Horizon Forbidden West will have varying requirements, depending on the gaming resolution and features. There are four tiers ranging from 720p/30 FPS, to 4K/60 FPS experience.
The minimum requirements list GeForce GTX 1650 or Radeon RX 5500 XT both equipped with 4GB to enable 720p at 30 FPS experience. For those who want to experience game at 1080p and 60 FPS, should equipped their systems with RTX 3060 or RX 5700 GPU.
For high settings that will enable 1440p at 60 FPS or 4K at 30 FPS, users should have a system equipped with at least RTX 3070 or Radeon RX 6800 graphics. Finally, the 4K at 60 FPS will require at least RTX 4080 and RX 7900 XT GPU.
| Horizon Forbidden West PC Requirements | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Recommended | High | Very High | |
| Preset | Very Low | Medium | High | Very High |
| AVG Performance | 720P @ 30 FPS | 1080P @ 60 FPS | 1440P @ 60fps / 4K @ 30 FPS | 4K @ 60 FPS |
| Processor | Intel Core i3-8100 or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X | Intel Core i5-8600 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | Intel Core i7-9700 or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X | Intel Core i7-11700 or AMD Ryzen 7 5700X |
| Memory | 16GB RAM | 16GB RAM | 16GB RAM | 16GB RAM |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 5500XT 4GB | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or AMD Radeon RX 5700 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 or AMD Radeon RX 6800 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 or AMD Radeon RX 7900XT |
| Storage | 150GB SSD space | 150GB SSD space | 150GB SSD space | 150GB SSD space |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit (version 1909 or higher) | Windows 10 64-bit (version 1909 or higher) | Windows 10 64-bit (version 1909 or higher) | Windows 10 64-bit (version 1909 or higher) |
Horizon Forbidden West PC, Source: Nixxes
The developer confirms that the game will support various graphics settings for texture quality, shadow, water and terrain level details, as well as adjustment for field of view or option to disable motion blur or film grain. There will also be toggles to adjust radial blur, lens flare or boom/vignette effects.
The game is already confirmed by NVIDIA to support DLSS3 at launch as well as FSR and XeSS, but the developer did not confirm which versions.
Horizon Forbidden West PC, Source: Nixxes
Source: Sony