Can I run Grand Theft Auto V?
A decade of PC patches later it still leans on one thread far harder than the rest, which is why a modern eight-core machine does not run it anything like eight times better than an old quad-core one did.
The published minimum and recommended tiers name hardware older than anything in our catalogue - a 9800 GT and a GTX 660 - so the reference parts here are the slowest we track, and the real floor is lower than these rows suggest. The high and ultra rows are ours.
Check your PC against Grand Theft Auto V
Standing by
Pick a graphics card and a processor. The verdict appears here, with the exact part that limits it.
What Grand Theft Auto V asks for
Thresholds are positions on our 1-100 index, not vendor part numbers, so any card or processor can be compared against them. The minimum and recommended rows follow the requirements the publisher published; the mapping onto the index is ours.
| Requirement | minimum | recommended | high | ultra |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU index | 2 | 6 | 12 | 18 |
| CPU index | 42 | 45 | 50 | 62 |
| Video memory | 1 GB | 2 GB | 6 GB | 8 GB |
| System memory | 4 GB | 8 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Storage | 125 GB | 125 GB | 125 GB | 125 GB |
Every card we track against Grand Theft Auto V
47 of the 47 cards in our catalogue (100%) clear the minimum tier of Grand Theft Auto V on their own. This column judges the graphics card alone - the processor beside it can still pull the verdict down.
| Card | Index | VRAM | Reaches | Then limited by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce RTX 5090 | 100 | 32 GB | ultra | nothing |
| GeForce RTX 4090 | 63 | 24 GB | ultra | nothing |
| GeForce RTX 5080 | 61 | 16 GB | ultra | nothing |
| Radeon RX 9070 XT | 50 | 16 GB | ultra | nothing |
| GeForce RTX 5070 Ti | 48 | 16 GB | ultra | nothing |
| Radeon RX 7900 XTX | 47 | 24 GB | ultra | nothing |
| GeForce RTX 4080 Super | 45 | 16 GB | ultra | nothing |
| Radeon RX 9070 | 43 | 16 GB | ultra | nothing |
| Radeon RX 7900 XT | 39 | 20 GB | ultra | nothing |
| GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super | 38 | 16 GB | ultra | nothing |
| GeForce RTX 5070 | 36 | 12 GB | ultra | nothing |
| GeForce RTX 3090 | 35 | 24 GB | ultra | nothing |
| GeForce RTX 4070 Super | 32 | 12 GB | ultra | nothing |
| GeForce RTX 3080 10GB | 30 | 10 GB | ultra | nothing |
| Radeon RX 6950 XT | 29 | 16 GB | ultra | nothing |
| Radeon RX 7800 XT | 28 | 16 GB | ultra | nothing |
| GeForce RTX 4070 | 26 | 12 GB | ultra | nothing |
| Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB | 26 | 16 GB | ultra | nothing |
| GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB | 25 | 16 GB | ultra | nothing |
| Radeon RX 6800 XT | 25 | 16 GB | ultra | nothing |
| GeForce RTX 2080 Ti | 24 | 11 GB | ultra | nothing |
| Radeon RX 7700 XT | 23 | 12 GB | ultra | nothing |
| GeForce RTX 3070 | 22 | 8 GB | ultra | nothing |
| GeForce RTX 5060 | 22 | 8 GB | ultra | nothing |
| Arc B580 | 21 | 12 GB | ultra | nothing |
| Arc A770 16GB | 20 | 16 GB | ultra | nothing |
| GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB | 20 | 8 GB | ultra | nothing |
| Arc A750 | 18 | 8 GB | ultra | nothing |
| GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | 18 | 8 GB | ultra | nothing |
| Radeon RX 6700 XT | 17 | 12 GB | high | core speed |
| GeForce RTX 4060 | 16 | 8 GB | high | core speed |
| Radeon RX 7600 | 16 | 8 GB | high | core speed |
| GeForce GTX 1080 Ti | 15 | 11 GB | high | core speed |
| GeForce RTX 2070 | 14 | 8 GB | high | core speed |
| GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | 14 | 12 GB | high | core speed |
| Radeon RX 5700 XT | 14 | 8 GB | high | core speed |
| GeForce RTX 2060 6GB | 12 | 6 GB | high | core speed |
| GeForce GTX 1080 | 11 | 8 GB | recommended | core speed |
| Radeon RX 6600 | 10 | 8 GB | recommended | core speed |
| GeForce GTX 1070 | 9 | 8 GB | recommended | core speed |
| GeForce GTX 1660 Super | 9 | 6 GB | recommended | core speed |
| GeForce RTX 3050 8GB | 9 | 8 GB | recommended | core speed |
| Radeon RX 580 8GB | 7 | 8 GB | recommended | core speed |
| GeForce GTX 1060 6GB | 6 | 6 GB | recommended | core speed |
| Radeon RX 570 4GB | 6 | 4 GB | recommended | core speed |
| GeForce GTX 1050 Ti | 2 | 4 GB | minimum | core speed |
| GeForce GTX 1650 4GB | 2 | 4 GB | minimum | core speed |
Questions
- What are the minimum requirements for Grand Theft Auto V?
- On our scale Grand Theft Auto V needs a graphics card at index 2 with 1 GB of video memory, a processor at index 42, 4 GB of system memory and 125 GB of storage. These map the publisher-published requirements onto our index.
- Is Grand Theft Auto V more demanding on the graphics card or the processor?
- A decade of PC patches later it still leans on one thread far harder than the rest, which is why a modern eight-core machine does not run it anything like eight times better than an old quad-core one did.
- How reliable are these numbers?
- The index positions are estimates until a human checks them against a published benchmark, and any verdict built on one is labelled estimated. The methodology page explains the scale and lists what has been verified so far.