Can My PC Run Path of Exile?

Game details

Developer

Grinding Gear Games

Publisher

Grinding Gear Games

Released

23 October 2013

About Path of Exile

Path of Exile is notorious for late-game performance spikes caused by dense particle effects rather than by baseline scene complexity. It supports DirectX 11, DirectX 12 and Vulkan renderers.

Common questions about running Path of Exile

Each link runs a real comparison against the published specification.

• Can a Radeon HD 7870 run Path of Exile?
• Can a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti run Path of Exile?
• Can a Radeon RX 570 run Path of Exile?
• What else runs on 8 GB of RAM?
• Estimate Path of Exile performance at your resolution

What PC do I need for Path of Exile?

For a comfortable experience, the publisher's recommended specification asks for the following. This is their figure, not our estimate.

Graphics card

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 570

Processor

x64 quad core 3.2 GHz

Memory

16 GB RAM

Storage

40 GB

Operating system

Windows 10 64-bit

Not sure how your parts compare? Run the check above or read what these tiers mean.

Can my laptop run Path of Exile?

The same check applies — enter the parts your laptop actually contains. Be aware that a laptop graphics chip is usually slower than the desktop card it shares a name with, because the manufacturer sets a lower power limit. A laptop advertising the NVIDIA GeF named here may therefore fall somewhat short of it in practice, and sustained performance drops further as the machine heats up. Treat a borderline laptop result as optimistic rather than assured.

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