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Can I run Red Dead Redemption 2 with a Radeon RX 7800 XT?

Red Dead Redemption 2 was built to start on a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. The Radeon RX 7800 XT is roughly 14 times that card, and still lands 7% under ultra - this game asks far more at the top than it does at the door.

The Radeon RX 7800 XT arrived 4 years after Red Dead Redemption 2 shipped, so the game was never designed with it in mind: 22 of the 47 cards we track stop at the same point in Red Dead Redemption 2. It sits 16 of 47 on our index.

estimated index 28 · 16 GB · 2023
Ceiling with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 32 GB

Runs at high

Comfortably above the recommended tier, with room for higher settings.

Headroom
73% clear - a wide margin on CPU
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 28 against the 30 that Red Dead Redemption 2 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 Red Dead Redemption 2: 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 Red Dead Redemption 2 the processor beside a Radeon RX 7800 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 at high processor
Ryzen 7 9800X3D 95 Runs at high graphics card

Cheapest way up one tier

graphics card: GeForce RTX 3090

The Radeon RX 7800 XT sits at index 28 and the ultra tier starts at 30.

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 3090 (no store links yet)

Thresholds, against this card

Green means the Radeon RX 7800 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 Red Dead Redemption 2, by tier
Requirement minimum recommended high ultra your rig
GPU index 2 6 14 30 28
CPU index 42 45 55 78 0
Video memory 2 GB 6 GB 8 GB 10 GB 16 GB
System memory 8 GB 12 GB 16 GB 16 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 Radeon RX 7800 XT run Red Dead Redemption 2?
Red Dead Redemption 2 was built to start on a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. The Radeon RX 7800 XT is roughly 14 times that card, and still lands 7% 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 Red Dead Redemption 2?
Yes for the tiers this card can reach anyway - its core speed runs out before its 16 GB of video memory does in Red Dead Redemption 2.

More on this card: what the Radeon RX 7800 XT runs across every game we track.