Currently in paid Beta - Take a ship and 100 credits to make money legally or illegally - trade, bounty-hunt, pirate, assassinate your way across the galaxy. Elite: Dangerous is the latest installment of a long series of epic space games, starting with "Elite" - one of the most successful games of the 1980s.

Elite: Dangerous System Requirements

17 Dec 2015 - Specs reviewed

Minimum Requirements

OS: Win 7 64
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz / AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4870 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
VRAM: 512MB
System Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 7 GB Hard drive space
DirectX 11 Compatible Graphics Card

Recommended Requirements

OS: Win 7 64
Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K 4-Core 3.5GHz / AMD FX-4350
Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 280X or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
VRAM: 1GB
System Memory: 8 GB RAM
Storage: 7 GB Hard drive space

PC System Analysis For Elite: Dangerous Requirements

Elite: Dangerous requires a Radeon R9 280X graphics card with a Core i7-3770K 4-Core 3.5GHz or FX-4350 processor to reach the recommended specs, achieving high graphics setting on 1080p. 8 GB will also be needed to achieve the Elite: Dangerous rec specs and get 60FPS. Elite: Dangerous needs a graphics card thats at least as powerful as a GeForce GTX 260/Radeon HD 4870 paired with Phenom 9850 Quad-Core/Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz CPU to match the min specs. This PC setup will deliver 25-35 Frame Per Second at Low graphics setting on 720p resolution. Minimum RAM requirements are 4 GB system memory. Your GPU is expected to be able to deliver DirectX 11. We suggest a 8 year old PC to play smoothly.

FPS System Benchmark

107 FPS

High

Graphics Card

GTX 1060

How well optimised is Elite: Dangerous for PC? Elite: Dangerous is excellently optimized

8.4

Where does Elite: Dangerous rank in the list of the most demanding games?

100+

Genres: Action, Arcade, Management, Sim, Sci fi

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Elite: Dangerous System Requirements

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GD Verdict

Minimum Requirements

Intel CPU

AMD CPU

Nvidia Graphics Card

AMD Graphics Card

VRAM

RAM

Direct X

HDD Space

GD Verdict

Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz

Phenom 9850 Quad-Core

GeForce GTX 260

Radeon HD 4870

512 MB

4 GB

Win 7 64

DX 11

7 GB

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GD Adjusted Requirements

Intel CPU

AMD CPU

Nvidia Graphics Card

AMD Graphics Card

VRAM

RAM

Direct X

HDD Space

GD Verdict

Core 2 Quad Q6400 2.13GHz

Phenom 9600 Quad-Core

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Radeon HD 7870

2 GB

6 GB

Win 7 64

DX 11

7 GB

FPS

Recommended Requirements

Intel CPU

AMD CPU

Nvidia Graphics Card

AMD Graphics Card

VRAM

RAM

Direct X

HDD Space

GD Verdict

Core i7-3770K 4-Core 3.5GHz

FX-4350

GeForce GTX 770

Radeon R9 280X

2 GB

8 GB

Win 7 64

DX 11

7 GB

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Elite: Dangerous PC Release Date:

16 Dec 2014

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