Can I run Apex Legends with a GeForce RTX 4070?
Apex Legends was built to start on a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. The GeForce RTX 4070 is roughly 13 times that card, and still lands 19% under ultra - this game asks far more at the top than it does at the door.
The GeForce RTX 4070 arrived 4 years after Apex Legends shipped, so the game was never designed with it in mind: 16 of the 47 cards we track stop at the same point in Apex Legends. It sits 17 of 47 on our index.
Runs at high
Comfortably above the recommended tier, with room for higher settings.
- Headroom
- 44% clear - a wide margin
- Bottleneck
- GPU
- Confidence
- estimated
Tier ladder
The weakest link is graphics card: this rig brings 26 against the 32 that Apex Legends 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 Apex Legends: 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 Apex Legends the processor beside a GeForce RTX 4070 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 at high | graphics card |
| Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 95 | Runs at high | graphics card |
Cheapest way up one tier
graphics card: GeForce RTX 4070 Super
The GeForce RTX 4070 sits at index 26 and the ultra tier starts at 32.
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".
Thresholds, against this card
Green means the GeForce RTX 4070 clears that number, red means it does not. The processor and memory columns are yours to fill in with the checker below.
| Requirement | minimum | recommended | high | ultra | your rig |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU index | 2 | 6 | 18 | 32 | 26 |
| CPU index | 42 | 45 | 62 | 86 | 0 |
| Video memory | 2 GB | 4 GB | 6 GB | 8 GB | 12 GB |
| System memory | 6 GB | 8 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 0 GB |
| Storage | 75 GB | 75 GB | 75 GB | 75 GB | - |
Check your whole rig
Add your processor and memory for a verdict about your machine rather than about this card.
Standing by
Pick a graphics card and a processor. The verdict appears here, with the exact part that limits it.
Questions
- Will a GeForce RTX 4070 run Apex Legends?
- Apex Legends was built to start on a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. The GeForce RTX 4070 is roughly 13 times that card, and still lands 19% under ultra - this game asks far more at the top than it does at the door. Above that the graphics card is what stops it.
- Is 12 GB of video memory enough for Apex Legends?
- Yes for the tiers this card can reach anyway - its core speed runs out before its 12 GB of video memory does in Apex Legends.
More on this card: what the GeForce RTX 4070 runs across every game we track.