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Can I run Counter-Strike 2 with a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti?

Counter-Strike 2 was built to start on a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is roughly 9 times that card, and still lands 44% under ultra - this game asks far more at the top than it does at the door.

Of the 16 cards that reach this same point in Counter-Strike 2, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is the slowest - index 18 is the least this game will accept for that tier among the hardware we track.

estimated index 18 · 8 GB · 2020
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 VRAM
Bottleneck
GPU
Confidence
estimated

Tier ladder

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

The weakest link is graphics card: this rig brings 18 against the 32 that Counter-Strike 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 Counter-Strike 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 Counter-Strike 2 the processor beside a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 system memory
Ryzen 7 9800X3D 95 Runs at high system memory

Cheapest way up one tier

graphics card: GeForce RTX 4070 Super

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti sits at index 18 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".

This part alone will not get you there. video memory also falls short of that tier.

Where to look: GeForce RTX 4070 Super (no store links yet)

Thresholds, against this card

Green means the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 Counter-Strike 2, by tier
Requirement minimum recommended high ultra your rig
GPU index 2 9 18 32 18
CPU index 42 50 65 86 0
Video memory 4 GB 6 GB 8 GB 12 GB 8 GB
System memory 8 GB 16 GB 16 GB 32 GB 0 GB
Storage 85 GB 85 GB 85 GB 85 GB -

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

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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Questions

Will a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti run Counter-Strike 2?
Counter-Strike 2 was built to start on a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is roughly 9 times that card, and still lands 44% 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 8 GB of video memory enough for Counter-Strike 2?
Yes for the tiers this card can reach anyway - its core speed runs out before its 8 GB of video memory does in Counter-Strike 2.

More on this card: what the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti runs across every game we track.