RPCS3 Removes AMD RX 400/500 And NVIDIA GTX 900/1000 Series From Recommended GPU Requirements

The popular PS3 emulator has updated its latest GPU recommendation list to AMD's RDNA and NVIDIA's Turing series.

RPCS3 Announces Updated GPU Requirements for the Emulator; Recommends At Least AMD RX 5000 or NVIDIA RTX 2000 Series

RPCS3 has just announced the new recommended GPU requirements for its popular PS3 emulator, which comes as a result of major GPU manufacturers ending support for some of its older generation GPU series. RPCS3 announced on X that it no longer "recommends" the AMD RX 400 and NVIDIA GTX 900 series GPUs as the recommended GPUs.

We have updated our recommended GPU requirements to reflect the end of driver support from AMD and NVIDIA for old GPUs

AMD: Polaris (RX 400) -> RDNA (RX 5000)
NVIDIA: Maxwell (GTX 900) -> Turing (RTX 2000)

We also clarified that Intel GPUs are not recommended and unsupported pic.twitter.com/ZWedr2KZ1P

— RPCS3 (@rpcs3) October 27, 2025

The newer GPU recommendations now start with AMD RDNA, aka Radeon RX 5000 series, and NVIDIA Turing, aka GeForce RTX 2000 series GPUs. So, it has technically dropped two generations of AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, which include AMD RX 400 (Polaris) and RX 500 (Polaris), and NVIDIA's GTX 900 (Maxwell) and GTX 1000 (Pascal) series. Keep in mind that this isn't an announcement of "dropping" the support for these GPUs, and one can continue using them without any performance impacts.

RPCS3 has clarified that the emulator still has its minimum requirements set to NVIDIA Fermi GPUs, aka GTX 400 series, and there has been no code-side change to indicate that the tool has suddenly become more demanding. It's also important to note that RPCS3 still doesn't "recommend" or "support" Intel GPUs officially; however, the tool has been reported to run with Intel GPUs such as Arc A and B series as well. Still, many others have reported incompatibility.

If you use RPCS3 to play PlayStation 3 games, you shouldn't be worried since there will be no performance impact. The tool is more CPU-intensive, and as RPCS3 stated, as long as you have a modern "Vulkan 1.2 GPU", your CPU will have to take care of the rest.

The drop of RX 400/500 and NVIDIA GTX 900/1000 series from the recommended GPU requirements isn't surprising since both companies have already dropped support for these generations. AMD dropped the support for Polaris GPUs at the end of 2023, while NVIDIA ended the support for both Maxwell and Pascal cards a few months ago.

News Source: RPCS3

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