What starts in the city is settled in the canyons as Need for Speed Carbon immerses you in the worlds most dangerous and adrenaline-filled form of street racing.
You and your crew must race in an all-out war for the city, risking everything to take over your rivals neighborhoods one block at a time.
As the police turn up the heat, the battle ultimately shifts to Carbon Canyon, where territories and reputations can be lost on every perilous curve.
With online racing and the most advanced graphics and car customization tools ever, Need for Speed Carbon is the ultimate next generation racing game.

Need For Speed: Carbon System Requirements

Recommended Requirements

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz / AMD Athlon XP 2200+
Graphics: AMD Radeon 9200 Series or NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX 440
System Memory: 512 MB RAM
Storage: 5.3 GB Hard drive space
DirectX 9 Compatible Graphics Card

PC System Analysis For Need For Speed: Carbon Requirements

Need For Speed: Carbon will require Radeon 9200 Series graphics card with a Pentium 4 1.7GHz or Athlon XP 2200+ processor to reach the recommended specs, achieving high graphics setting on 1080p. Your graphics card will need to be capable of running DirectX 9. To summarise, Need For Speed: Carbon needs around a 19 year old PC to play at recommended settings.

FPS System Benchmark

200+ FPS

High

Graphics Card

GTX 1060

How well optimised is Need For Speed: Carbon for PC? Need For Speed: Carbon is excellently optimized

9.1

Where does Need For Speed: Carbon rank in the list of the most demanding games?

100+

Genres: Racing, Sim

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Need For Speed: Carbon System Requirements

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RAM

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GD Verdict

Recommended Requirements

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AMD CPU

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AMD Graphics Card

VRAM

RAM

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128 MB

512 MB

DX 9

5.3 GB

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Premium Only FPS

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Premium Only FPS

Need For Speed: Carbon PC Release Date:

8 Jun 2006

Alternative Game Tags: carbon , need for speed , need for speed carbon, nfs, nfs carbon

Need For Speed: Carbon vs Avg. AAA Game System Requirements

Avg. AAA Recommended Requirements

CPU

Core i7-4790 4-Core 3.6GHz

5931%

Graphics Card

Radeon RX 480X 4GB

11204%

RAM

12GB

2244%

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