Watch Dogs: Legion Nvidia Performance Analysis

Peter Donnell / 4 years ago

System Requirements

The game is pretty modest when it comes to minimum requirements, only needed an Intel i5 or Ryzen 1400. Which is to say any modest CPU from the last few years will be more than enough. However, I suspect many high-end chips from years prior to that will still be able to keep up reasonably well too.

As for the graphics card, you’ll want at least an GTX 970 or GTX 1650. That’s much lower than I expected, however, I suspect this is for 1080 @ 30 FPS. The recommended are very limited too, and again likely focus on 1080 @ 60 FPS, which is absolutely fine and that uses the high preset. However, pushing to higher refresh rates and higher resolutions is no doubt going to take exponentially faster hardware. Furthermore, you’ll need an RTX card to enjoy both DLSS and ray tracing. You’ll want at least a 2000 series RTX card to push to 4K with decent settings.

Minimum System Requirements for 1920×1080, Low Preset, DX12

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz, AMD Ryzen 5 1400 3.2 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/GeForce GTX 1650
Video memory: 4GB
RAM: 8GB (Dual-channel setup)
Hard Disk Space: (45GB)
OS: Windows 10 (64 bit only)

Recommended System Requirements for 1920×1080, High Preset, DX12

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790 3.6 GHz, AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060/GeForce GTX 1660 Super
Video memory: 6GB
RAM: 8GB (Dual-channel setup)
Hard Disk Space: (45GB)
OS: Windows 10 (64 bit only)

Recommended System Requirements for 2560×1440, High Preset, DX12

CPU: Intel Core i7-9700 3.0 GHz, AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super
Video memory: 8GB
RAM: 16GB (Dual-channel setup)
Hard Disk Space: (45GB)
OS: Windows 10 (64 bit only)

Ultra-System Requirement – 3840×2160 (4K), Ultra Preset DX12

CPU: Intel Core i7-9700K 3.6 GHz, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti or GeForce RTX 3080
Video memory: 10GB
RAM: 16GB (Dual-channel setup)
Hard Disk Space: 45GB (+20 GB HD Texture Pack)
OS: Windows 10 (64 bit only) (For optimal experience use DX12, also compatible with “DX11”)

Ray Tracing System Requirements

The fantastic RTX 2060 is the entry level for 1080 ray tracing, and you can enable DLSS quality on this setup too. Things ramp up fast for 1440p though, requiring the much newer RTX 3070, although that is about the same performance as the RTX 2080 SUPER and Ti. Finally, you’ll basically want the best of the best for 4K ray tracing and ultra settings. RTX 3080, and the latest AMD or Intel CPUs.

Minimum System Requirements – 1920×1080, High preset, Ray Tracing Medium, DLSS Quality, DX12 only