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Can I run Hogwarts Legacy with a Radeon RX 6950 XT?

Hogwarts Legacy was built to start on a GeForce GTX 1650 4GB. The Radeon RX 6950 XT is roughly 15 times that card, and still lands 24% under ultra - this game asks far more at the top than it does at the door.

Ranked 15 of the 47 cards we track, with 5 of them carrying more video memory - and 14 of the 47 cards we track stop at the same point in Hogwarts Legacy.

estimated index 29 · 16 GB · 2022
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 RAM
Bottleneck
GPU
Confidence
estimated

Tier ladder

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

The weakest link is graphics card: this rig brings 29 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 Radeon RX 6950 XT 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 Radeon RX 6950 XT sits at index 29 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".

Where to look: GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super (no store links yet)

Thresholds, against this card

Green means the Radeon RX 6950 XT 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 Hogwarts Legacy, by tier
Requirement minimum recommended high ultra your rig
GPU index 2 15 22 38 29
CPU index 42 52 62 90 0
Video memory 4 GB 8 GB 8 GB 12 GB 16 GB
System memory 16 GB 16 GB 32 GB 32 GB 0 GB
Storage 85 GB 85 GB 85 GB 85 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 Radeon RX 6950 XT run Hogwarts Legacy?
Hogwarts Legacy was built to start on a GeForce GTX 1650 4GB. The Radeon RX 6950 XT is roughly 15 times that card, and still lands 24% 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 16 GB of video memory enough for Hogwarts Legacy?
Yes for the tiers this card can reach anyway - its core speed runs out before its 16 GB of video memory does in Hogwarts Legacy.

More on this card: what the Radeon RX 6950 XT runs across every game we track.