Can I Run God of War?
Choose the two parts in your machine and this page says whether God of War will run, roughly what frame rate to expect from God of War, and what its developer actually asked for when they published the God of War requirements, with nothing to download and no detection tool to install.
Yes, comfortably
Comfortably. The GeForce RTX 4060 is well past what God of War recommends, so expect roughly 126 fps at 1080p (1920 x 1080) with room to raise settings further.
In God of War 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 God of War
God of War system requirements, as published
Reproduced exactly as the developer of God of War wrote them, so every figure in this table is theirs rather than our reading of what God of War needs.
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Intel i5-2500k (4 core 3.3 GHz) or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 (4 core 3.1 GHz) | Intel i5-6600k (4 core 3.5 GHz) or AMD Ryzen 5 2400 G (4 core 3.6 GHz) |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GTX 960 (4 GB) or AMD R9 290X (4 GB) | NVIDIA GTX 1060 (6 GB) or AMD RX 570 (4 GB) |
| Memory | 8 GB | 8 GB |
The God of War requirements above were retrieved from its own Steam listing, app 1593500, and reproduced unchanged, and because a patch to God of War can change them that listing is the authority if a figure here looks stale. The verdict and the frame rate shown for God of War are ours, modelled from our hardware index rather than measured on a test bench. Steam listing. How we calculate this.
What the God of War requirements actually mean
The two bars God of War sets sit unusually close together: its minimum card resolves to 11.0 on our index and its recommended one to 14.0, only 27% apart, which means anything that runs God of War at all is within reach of the recommended setting and there is little to gain from buying far past the minimum for this one.
Of the 89 graphics cards we track, 88 clear the God of War minimum and 85 clear its recommended spec, so 3 cards land in between: fast enough to start God of War 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 God of War recommends is the GeForce RTX 3050 6GB at 17.0 on our index against the 14.0 God of War asks for, and since everything below it on the current shelf falls under that bar, the GeForce RTX 3050 6GB is where the God of War question stops being about the card.
The oldest card in our database that still gets over the God of War minimum is the GeForce GTX 970 from 2014, which is worth knowing before replacing anything: if what you have is that card or newer, God of War will start, and the question becomes which settings rather than whether.
God of War asks for 8 GB of system memory and names no higher figure, so 8 GB is the whole memory requirement for God of War and anything above it is spare rather than useful.
God of War states 4 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 God of War floor the texture setting is the first control to come down and the one that buys back the most.
For its processor minimum God of War names Intel i5-2500k (4 core 3.3 GHz) or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 (4 core 3.1 GHz), 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 God of War verdict treats the processor as a secondary signal instead.