Can I Run Apex Legends™?
Choose the two parts in your machine and this page says whether Apex Legends™ will run, roughly what frame rate to expect from Apex Legends™, and what its developer actually asked for when they published the Apex Legends™ requirements, with nothing to download and no detection tool to install.
Yes, comfortably
Comfortably. The GeForce RTX 4060 is well past what Apex Legends™ recommends, so expect roughly 126 fps at 1080p (1920 x 1080) with room to raise settings further.
In Apex Legends™ the Ryzen 5 5600 runs out before the GeForce RTX 4060 does, so the processor rather than the card is what sets this figure and a quicker card would not move it.
Check your own parts against Apex Legends™
Apex Legends™ system requirements, as published
Reproduced exactly as the developer of Apex Legends™ wrote them, so every figure in this table is theirs rather than our reading of what Apex Legends™ needs.
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | AMD FX 4350 or Equivalent, Intel Core i3 6300 or Equivalent | Ryzen 5 CPU or Equivalent |
| Graphics | AMD Radeon™ HD 7790 (2 GB), NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 950 | AMD Radeon™ R9 290, NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 970 |
| Memory | 6 GB | 8 GB |
The Apex Legends™ requirements above were retrieved from its own Steam listing, app 1172470, and reproduced unchanged, and because a patch to Apex Legends™ can change them that listing is the authority if a figure here looks stale. The verdict and the frame rate shown for Apex Legends™ are ours, modelled from our hardware index rather than measured on a test bench. Steam listing. How we calculate this.
What the Apex Legends™ requirements actually mean
For Apex Legends™ the minimum card resolves to 6.3 on our index and the recommended one to 13.0, a step of 106%, which is the normal shape of a requirements sheet: the minimum keeps Apex Legends™ running and the recommended figure is the one to aim at if the frame rate is meant to stay steady.
Of the 89 graphics cards we track, 89 clear the Apex Legends™ minimum and 86 clear its recommended spec, so 3 cards land in between: fast enough to start Apex Legends™ and slow enough that the settings menu is where the rest of the work gets done.
The cheapest card still on sale that clears what Apex Legends™ recommends is the GeForce RTX 3050 6GB at 17.0 on our index against the 13.0 Apex Legends™ asks for, and since everything below it on the current shelf falls under that bar, the GeForce RTX 3050 6GB is where the Apex Legends™ question stops being about the card.
The oldest card in our database that still gets over the Apex Legends™ minimum is the GeForce GTX 970 from 2014, which is worth knowing before replacing anything: if what you have is that card or newer, Apex Legends™ will start, and the question becomes which settings rather than whether.
Apex Legends™ asks for 6 GB of system memory as a minimum and 8 GB as its recommendation, a step of 2 GB that matters more than it looks: at 6 GB the Apex Legends™ world streams in from storage rather than from memory, which shows up as a stutter when you turn a corner instead of as a lower average frame rate.
Apex Legends™ states 2 GB of card memory in its own minimum, which is below the roughly 6 GB a 1080p build generally wants and 8 GB for 1440p, so on a card at the Apex Legends™ floor the texture setting is the first control to come down and the one that buys back the most.
For its processor minimum Apex Legends™ names AMD FX 4350 or Equivalent, Intel Core i3 6300 or Equivalent, and we deliberately do not map that onto our index: the parts in that string predate our database, so converting them would mean inventing a number rather than reading one, and the Apex Legends™ verdict treats the processor as a secondary signal instead.