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Can I run Alan Wake 2 with a Radeon RX 7900 XT?

The Radeon RX 7900 XT lands 3% above what Alan Wake 2 asks at high and 38% below the 63 it would need for ultra.

Ranked 9 of the 47 cards we track, with 4 of them carrying more video memory - and 8 of the 47 cards we track stop at the same point in Alan Wake 2.

estimated index 39 · 20 GB · 2022
Ceiling with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 32 GB

Runs at high

Comfortably above the recommended tier, with room for higher settings.

Headroom
exactly on the line on RAM
Bottleneck
GPU
Confidence
estimated

Tier ladder

  1. minimum cleared
  2. recommended cleared
  3. high cleared
  4. ultra blocked by GPU

The weakest link is graphics card: this rig brings 39 against the 63 that Alan Wake 2 asks for at the ultra tier. Everything else in the rig is already past that line.

That readout is the best this card can do in Alan Wake 2: it assumes nothing else in the machine holds it back. Your own processor and memory can only lower it, never raise it.

The same card with three different processors

In Alan Wake 2 the processor beside a Radeon RX 7900 XT changes the answer, which is why a card-only verdict is not worth much here. Each row assumes 16 GB of system memory.

Processor Index Verdict Bottleneck
Ryzen 5 1600 30 Will not run processor
Ryzen 9 5900X 70 Runs well system memory
Ryzen 7 9800X3D 95 Runs well system memory

Cheapest way up one tier

graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090

The Radeon RX 7900 XT sits at index 39 and the ultra tier starts at 63.

That is the smallest part in our catalogue that clears the ultra tier - not the fastest one, and not a price claim: we hold no price data, so "cheapest" here means "least upgrade that does the job".

Where to look: GeForce RTX 4090 (no store links yet)

Thresholds, against this card

Green means the Radeon RX 7900 XT clears that number, red means it does not. The processor and memory columns are yours to fill in with the checker below.

System requirement thresholds for Alan Wake 2, by tier
Requirement minimum recommended high ultra your rig
GPU index 12 22 38 63 39
CPU index 42 55 78 90 0
Video memory 6 GB 8 GB 12 GB 16 GB 20 GB
System memory 16 GB 16 GB 32 GB 32 GB 0 GB
Storage 90 GB 90 GB 90 GB 90 GB -

The CPU and system memory rows show zero because this page knows the card and nothing else.

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Questions

Will a Radeon RX 7900 XT run Alan Wake 2?
The Radeon RX 7900 XT lands 3% above what Alan Wake 2 asks at high and 38% below the 63 it would need for ultra. Above that the graphics card is what stops it.
Is 20 GB of video memory enough for Alan Wake 2?
Yes for the tiers this card can reach anyway - its core speed runs out before its 20 GB of video memory does in Alan Wake 2.

More on this card: what the Radeon RX 7900 XT runs across every game we track.