Assassin’s Creed Shadows: PC Specs Revealed, Pre-Orders Open

Lucy O’Brien

Hi everyone,

Assassin's Creed Shadows is launching March 20, inviting you to experience the intertwined stories of Naoe, an adept shinobi Assassin, and Yasuke, a powerful African samurai. Today, you can preorder the game on console and PC, and read up on Shadows' upcoming expansion, Claws of Awaji, which brings 10 hours of additional content free with your preorder.

For those of you playing on PC, we've got all of Assassin's Creed Shadows' recommended PC specs further down this article. Assassin's Creed Shadows will support raytraced global illumination and reflections, and will feature an in-game benchmark tool for performance analysis, ultra-wide resolutions, an uncapped framerate, and more.

Check out all the specs below.

[ACS] Assassin’s Creed Shadows: PC Specs Revealed, Pre-Orders Open - PC specs

SELECTIVE RAY TRACING

MINIMUM
Resolution/FPS Using Dynamic Resolution and Upscaling: 1080P at 30 FPS
Visual Settings: Low
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7 8700k/ AMD Ryzen™ 5 3600
GPU: Nvidia® GeForce GTX™ 1070 8GB/ AMD Radeon™ RX 5700 8GB/ Intel® Arc™ A580 8GB (REBAR ON)

RECOMMENDED
Resolution/FPS Using Dynamic Resolution and Upscaling: 1080P at 60 FPS
Visual Settings: High
CPU: Intel® Core™ i5 11600k/ AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600x
GPU: Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 3060Ti 8GB/ AMD Radeon™ RX 6700 XT 12GB/ Intel® Arc™ B580 12GB (REBAR ON)

ENTHUSIAST
Resolution/FPS Using Dynamic Resolution and Upscaling: 1440P at 60 FPS
Visual Settings: High
CPU: Intel® Core™ i5 11600k/ AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600x
GPU: Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 2070 8GB/ AMD Radeon™ RX 6700 XT 12GB/ Intel® Arc™ B580 12GB (REBAR ON)
Resolution/FPS Using Dynamic Resolution and Upscaling: 4K at 60 FPS
Visual Settings: High
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7 12700k/ AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800x3D
__GPU:__Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 4070 Ti Super 16GB/ AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XT 20GB

STANDARD RAY TRACING

__MINIMUM __
Resolution/FPS Using Dynamic Resolution and Upscaling: 1080P at 30 FPS
Visual Settings: High
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7 8700k/ AMD Ryzen™ 5 3600
GPU: Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 2070 8GB/ Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 2070 8GB/ Intel® Arc™ B580 12GB (REBAR ON)

RECOMMENDED
Resolution/FPS Using Dynamic Resolution and Upscaling: 1440P at 60 FPS
Visual Settings: High
CPU: Intel® Core™ i5 11600k/ AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600x
GPU: Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 4070 Super 12GB/ AMD Radeon ™ RX 7800 XT 16GB

EXTENDED RAY TRACING

ENTHUSIAST
Resolution/FPS Using Dynamic Resolution and Upscaling: 1440p at 60 FPS
Visual Settings: Ultra
CPU: Intel® Core™ Intel i7 13700k/ AMD Ryzen™ 7 7800x3D
GPU: Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 4080 16GB

EXTREME
Resolution/FPS Using Dynamic Resolution and Upscaling: 4K at 60 FPS
Visual Settings: Ultra
CPU: Intel® Core™ Intel i7 13700k/ AMD Ryzen™ 7 7800x3D
GPU: Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 4090 24GB

On PC, Assassin's Creed Shadows will feature:

Raytraced Global Illumination and Reflections
In-Game Benchmark Tool for Performance Analysis
Ultra-Wide Resolution Support
Upscaler and Frame Generation: Intel® XeSS 2, NVIDIA® DLSS 3.7, AMD FSR 3.1
Uncapped Framerate
In-Depth Customization Options
Dynamic Resolution Support
HDR Support
AMD Eyefinity and NVIDIA® Surround Compatible

Of course, you'll be able to customize many aspects of your experience: configuration, controller layouts, keyboard and mouse configuration, a large variety of language options and more.

We know you have been patiently waiting, and we're grateful you're still on this journey with us. We can't wait for you to get your hands on Assassin's Creed Shadows when it launches March 20 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, Ubisoft+, Amazon Luna, Macs with Apple silicon via the MacApp Store as well as Windows PC through the Ubisoft Store, Steam and the Epic Games Store.