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Can I run Fortnite with a GeForce RTX 3070?

Ultra in Fortnite is drawn around a GeForce RTX 4070 Super and its 12 GB. The GeForce RTX 3070 has the core for it and not the memory, which is the one shortfall no setting recovers.

The GeForce RTX 3070 arrived 3 years after Fortnite shipped, so the game was never designed with it in mind: 16 of the 47 cards we track stop at the same point in Fortnite. It sits 23 of 47 on our index.

estimated index 22 · 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
VRAM
Confidence
estimated

Tier ladder

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

The weakest link is video memory: this rig brings 8 against the 12 that Fortnite 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 Fortnite: 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 Fortnite the processor beside a GeForce RTX 3070 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

video memory: GeForce RTX 4070 Super

The GeForce RTX 3070 carries 8 GB of video memory and the ultra tier needs 12 GB. Video memory is a hard limit: no amount of core speed substitutes for it.

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. graphics card 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 3070 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 Fortnite, by tier
Requirement minimum recommended high ultra your rig
GPU index 2 11 18 32 22
CPU index 42 55 65 86 0
Video memory 4 GB 8 GB 8 GB 12 GB 8 GB
System memory 8 GB 16 GB 16 GB 32 GB 0 GB
Storage 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB -

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

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GeForce RTX 3070

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Questions

Will a GeForce RTX 3070 run Fortnite?
Ultra in Fortnite is drawn around a GeForce RTX 4070 Super and its 12 GB. The GeForce RTX 3070 has the core for it and not the memory, which is the one shortfall no setting recovers. Above that the video memory is what stops it.
Is 8 GB of video memory enough for Fortnite?
Not for every tier. Fortnite asks for more video memory than the 8 GB on this card at the tier above high, and video memory is a hard limit rather than something extra core speed can cover.

More on this card: what the GeForce RTX 3070 runs across every game we track.