Assassin’s Creed Shadows PC Requirements Revealed – RTX 4090 for 4K@60 with Max Ray Tracing

Jan 23, 2025 at 01:00pm EST
Assassin's Creed Shadows

Ubisoft has just opened the pre-orders for Assassin's Creed Shadows, and in doing so, they also revealed the official PC system requirements. We already knew the game would be rather heavy, which the specs below have certainly confirmed. All of them require 16GB RAM, Windows 10/11 with DirectX 12, and an SSD.

SELECTIVE RAY TRACING STANDARD RAY TRACING EXTENDED RAY TRACING
MINIMUM RECOMMENDED ENTHUSIAST RT MINIMUM RT RECOMMENDED RT ENTHUSIAST RT EXTREME
RESOLUTION / FPS USING DYNAMIC RESOLUTION AND UPSCALING 1080P AT 30 FPS 1080P AT 60 FPS 1440P AT 60 PPS 4K AT 60 FPS 1080P AT 30 FPS 1440P AT 60 FPS 1440P AT 60 FPS 4K AT 60 FPS
VISUAL SETTINGS LOW MEDIUM HIGH HIGH ULTRA
CPU INTEL CORE i7 8700K INTEL CORE i5 11600K INTEL CORE i5 11600K INTEL CORE i7 12700K INTEL CORE i7 8700K INTEL CORE i5 11600K INTEL CORE i7 13700K INTEL CORE i7 13700K
AMD RYZEN 5 3600 AMD RYZEN 5 5600X AMD RYZEN 5 5600X AMD RYZEN 7 5800X3D AMD RYZEN 5 3600 AMD RYZEN 5 5600X AMD RYZEN 7 7800X3D AMD RYZEN 7 7800X3D
NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1070 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3060TI 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080 10GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4070 TI SUPER 16GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2070 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4070 SUPER 12GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4080 16G8 NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4090 24G8
GPU AMD RADEON RX 5700 8GB AMD RADEON RX 6700 XT 12GB AMD RADEON RX 6800XT16G8 AMD RADEON RX 7900 XT 20GB AMO RADEON RX 6700XT12GB AMD RADEON RX 7800 XT 16GB
INTEL ARC A580 8GB (REBAR ON) INTEL ARC B580 12GB (REBAR ON) INTEL ARC B580 12GB (REBAR ON)

Assassin's Creed Shadows will support the following features on PC:

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Going back to the pre-orders, customers can choose from the Standard Edition (available for $69.99 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC), the Digital Deluxe Edition (priced at $89.99), and the Collector's Edition (which costs $229.99).

The Digital Deluxe Edition will include the base game, the “Sekiryu Dual Pack” with gear and weapons for both Naoe and Yasuke, the “Sekiryu Hideout Pack” (hideout cosmetics), and “Mastery Points”. The Collector's Edition will include the base game, the “Sekiryu Dual Pack”, the “Sekiryu Hideout Pack”, “Mastery Points”, and physical content. The physical content will be a Steelbook, the World map, Naoe & Yasuke figurine, Naoe's life-sized Katana Tsuba, a Wall Creed Scroll, a 76-paged collector's artbook, and 2 sumi-e lithographs.

All pre-orders for Assassin's Creed Shadows will include the previously leaked Claws of Awaji expansion, which will launch this year. Claws of Awaji will add a new open world region with more than 10 hours of additional content, as well as new skills, equipment, abilities and a new weapon for Naoe, the Bō. In this new adventure, the main characters will travel to the mysterious island of Awaji where they will be relentlessly pursued by the Sanzoku Ippa, a dangerous new faction threatening the region.

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