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Can I run Grand Theft Auto VI with a GeForce RTX 3090?

A 2020 card against a 2026 game: the GeForce RTX 3090 still clears recommended in Grand Theft Auto VI, and high stays 22% out of reach at index 45.

The GeForce RTX 3090 shipped in 2020, 6 years before Grand Theft Auto VI, and 10 of the 47 cards we track stop at the same point in Grand Theft Auto VI. It sits 12 of 47 on our index.

estimated index 35 · 24 GB · 2020
Ceiling with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 32 GB

Runs well

Clears the recommended tier, which is the target the publisher designs against.

Headroom
35% clear on GPU
Bottleneck
GPU
Confidence
estimated

Tier ladder

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

The weakest link is graphics card: this rig brings 35 against the 45 that Grand Theft Auto VI asks for at the high tier. Everything else in the rig is already past that line.

That readout is the best this card can do in Grand Theft Auto VI: 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 Grand Theft Auto VI the processor beside a GeForce RTX 3090 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 well system memory
Ryzen 7 9800X3D 95 Runs well system memory

Cheapest way up one tier

graphics card: Radeon RX 7900 XTX

The GeForce RTX 3090 sits at index 35 and the high tier starts at 45.

That is the smallest part in our catalogue that clears the high 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".

Where to look: Radeon RX 7900 XTX (no store links yet)

Thresholds, against this card

Green means the GeForce RTX 3090 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 Grand Theft Auto VI, by tier
Requirement minimum recommended high ultra your rig
GPU index 14 26 45 63 35
CPU index 50 65 86 92 0
Video memory 8 GB 12 GB 16 GB 16 GB 24 GB
System memory 16 GB 16 GB 32 GB 32 GB 0 GB
Storage 150 GB 150 GB 150 GB 150 GB -

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

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Questions

Will a GeForce RTX 3090 run Grand Theft Auto VI?
A 2020 card against a 2026 game: the GeForce RTX 3090 still clears recommended in Grand Theft Auto VI, and high stays 22% out of reach at index 45. Above that the graphics card is what stops it.
Is 24 GB of video memory enough for Grand Theft Auto VI?
Yes for the tiers this card can reach anyway - its core speed runs out before its 24 GB of video memory does in Grand Theft Auto VI.

More on this card: what the GeForce RTX 3090 runs across every game we track.