Can I run Hogwarts Legacy with a GeForce RTX 5070?
The GeForce RTX 5070 lands 64% above what Hogwarts Legacy asks at high and 5% below the 38 it would need for ultra.
The GeForce RTX 5070 is the fastest card we track that still stops here in Hogwarts Legacy: everything above it on our index reaches further, and 13 slower cards land in the same place.
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 36 against the 38 that Hogwarts Legacy 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 Hogwarts Legacy: 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 Hogwarts Legacy the processor beside a GeForce RTX 5070 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: GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super
The GeForce RTX 5070 sits at index 36 and the ultra tier starts at 38.
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 5070 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 | 15 | 22 | 38 | 36 |
| CPU index | 42 | 52 | 62 | 90 | 0 |
| Video memory | 4 GB | 8 GB | 8 GB | 12 GB | 12 GB |
| System memory | 16 GB | 16 GB | 32 GB | 32 GB | 0 GB |
| Storage | 85 GB | 85 GB | 85 GB | 85 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 5070 run Hogwarts Legacy?
- The GeForce RTX 5070 lands 64% above what Hogwarts Legacy asks at high and 5% below the 38 it would need for ultra. Above that the graphics card is what stops it.
- Is 12 GB of video memory enough for Hogwarts Legacy?
- Yes for the tiers this card can reach anyway - its core speed runs out before its 12 GB of video memory does in Hogwarts Legacy.
More on this card: what the GeForce RTX 5070 runs across every game we track.