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Can I run Marvel Rivals with a GeForce RTX 2070?

The GeForce RTX 2070 is the card Marvel Rivals names for its recommended tier - it is not near the line, it is the line - and the high tier above it is drawn around a GeForce RTX 3070, 36% further up.

Of the 12 cards that reach this same point in Marvel Rivals, the GeForce RTX 2070 is the slowest - index 14 is the least this game will accept for that tier among the hardware we track.

estimated index 14 · 8 GB · 2018
Ceiling with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 32 GB

Runs well

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

Headroom
exactly on the line on VRAM
Bottleneck
GPU
Confidence
estimated

Tier ladder

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

The weakest link is graphics card: this rig brings 14 against the 22 that Marvel Rivals 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 Marvel Rivals: 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 Marvel Rivals the processor beside a GeForce RTX 2070 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 graphics card
Ryzen 7 9800X3D 95 Runs well graphics card

Cheapest way up one tier

graphics card: GeForce RTX 5060

The GeForce RTX 2070 sits at index 14 and the high tier starts at 22.

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: GeForce RTX 5060 (no store links yet)

Thresholds, against this card

Green means the GeForce RTX 2070 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 Marvel Rivals, by tier
Requirement minimum recommended high ultra your rig
GPU index 6 14 22 38 14
CPU index 42 50 65 86 0
Video memory 6 GB 8 GB 8 GB 12 GB 8 GB
System memory 16 GB 16 GB 16 GB 32 GB 0 GB
Storage 70 GB 70 GB 70 GB 70 GB -

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

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GeForce RTX 2070

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Standing by

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Questions

Will a GeForce RTX 2070 run Marvel Rivals?
The GeForce RTX 2070 is the card Marvel Rivals names for its recommended tier - it is not near the line, it is the line - and the high tier above it is drawn around a GeForce RTX 3070, 36% further up. Above that the graphics card is what stops it.
Is 8 GB of video memory enough for Marvel Rivals?
Yes for the tiers this card can reach anyway - its core speed runs out before its 8 GB of video memory does in Marvel Rivals.

More on this card: what the GeForce RTX 2070 runs across every game we track.