Assassin's Creed Shadows PC system requirements
Including Minimum and Recommended PC specs, and Mac system requirements.
Assassin's Creed Shadows takes us back to feudal Japan, and this time we get dual protagonists Naoe and Yasuke to play as.
How pretty Japan looks in Assassin's Creed Shadows all depends on what PC specs you have, and what graphics setting you choose to run it at, which includes your Ray Tracing options.
To help you prepare your PC and make those cherry blossoms and Torii gates as beautiful as they can be, we've detailed the PC system requirements for Assassin's Creed Shadows below. Including the Minimum, Recommended, Enthusiast, Extreme, and even the Minimum Mac system requirements.
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Minimum system requirements for Assassin's Creed Shadows
Depending on what your Ray Tracing wants are, here's the Minimum system requirements for Assassin's Creed Shadows:
Selective Ray Tracing
- Operating system: Windows 10, Windows 11 (64-bit versions)
- 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)
- Hard drive: SSD required
Standard Ray Tracing
- Operating system: Windows 10, Windows 11 (64-bit versions)
- 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/ AMD Radeon™ RX 6700 XT 12GB/ Intel® Arc™ B580 12GB (REBAR ON)
- Hard drive: SSD required
Recommended system requirements for Assassin's Creed Shadows
Depending on what your Ray Tracing wants are, here's the Recommended system requirements for Assassin's Creed Shadows:
Selective Ray Tracing
- Operating system: Windows 10, Windows 11 (64-bit versions)
- 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)
- Hard drive: SSD required
Standard Ray Tracing
- Operating system: Windows 10, Windows 11 (64-bit versions)
- 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
- Hard drive: SSD required
Enthusiast system requirements for Assassin's Creed Shadows
Depending on what your Ray Tracing wants are, here's the Enthusiast system requirements for Assassin's Creed Shadows:
Selective Ray Tracing
- Operating system: Windows 10, Windows 11 (64-bit versions)
- 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™ 3080 10GB/ AMD Radeon™ RX 6800 XT 16GB/ Intel® Arc™ B580 12GB (REBAR ON)
- 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
- Hard drive: SSD required
Extended Ray Tracing
- Operating system: Windows 10, Windows 11 (64-bit versions)
- 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
Extreme system requirements for Assassin's Creed Shadows
Here's the Extreme system requirements for Assassin's Creed Shadows:
Extended Ray Tracing
- Operating system: Windows 10, Windows 11 (64-bit versions)
- 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
- Hard drive: SSD required
Mac system requirements for Assassin's Creed Shadows
Finally, at the 'Low' graphics preset, here's the Minimum Mac system requirements for Assassin's Creed Shadows:
- Operating system: macOS Sequoia 15.0, or higher
- Processor: M1 MAX chip, or higher
- RAM: 16 GB
- Video card: M1 MAX chip, or higher
- Hard drive: 130 GB available storage
Hope you enjoy Assassin's Creed Shadows!