Can I run Destiny 2 with a GeForce RTX 3060 12GB?
Destiny 2 was built to start on a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. The GeForce RTX 3060 12GB is roughly 7 times that card, and still lands 36% under ultra - this game asks far more at the top than it does at the door.
Of the 12 cards that reach this same point in Destiny 2, the GeForce RTX 3060 12GB is the slowest - index 14 is the least this game will accept for that tier among the hardware we track.
Runs at high
Comfortably above the recommended tier, with room for higher settings.
- Headroom
- exactly on the line
- Bottleneck
- GPU
- Confidence
- estimated
Tier ladder
The weakest link is graphics card: this rig brings 14 against the 22 that Destiny 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 Destiny 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 Destiny 2 the processor beside a GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 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: Radeon RX 7700 XT
The GeForce RTX 3060 12GB sits at index 14 and the ultra tier starts at 22.
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 3060 12GB 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 | 14 | 22 | 14 |
| CPU index | 42 | 42 | 55 | 65 | 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 | 105 GB | 105 GB | 105 GB | 105 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 3060 12GB run Destiny 2?
- Destiny 2 was built to start on a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. The GeForce RTX 3060 12GB is roughly 7 times that card, and still lands 36% 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 Destiny 2?
- Yes for the tiers this card can reach anyway - its core speed runs out before its 12 GB of video memory does in Destiny 2.
More on this card: what the GeForce RTX 3060 12GB runs across every game we track.