Fortnite Season 5 is here offering lots more challenges. Fortnite is a co-op sandbox survival game. It was updated with the F2P Fortnite: Battle Royale mode in September 2017, becoming one of the most popular games in the world today.

Fortnite System Requirements

11 Nov 2018 - Specs reviewed

Official Minimum Requirements

Intel HD 4000
Core i3 2.4 Ghz
4 GByte RAM
Windows 7/8/10 64-bit + Mac OSX Sierra (10.12.6+)
Mac computers must support Metal API. Check if your Mac supports Metal

Official Recommended Requirements

Nvidia GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7870 equivalent DX11 GPU
2 GByte VRAM
Core i5 2.8 Ghz
8 GByte RAM
Windows 7/8/10 64-bit + Mac OSX Sierra (10.13.3+)

PC System Analysis For Fortnite Requirements

Fortnite runs on the Unreal Engine game engine. Fortnites requires a Radeon HD 7870 graphics card with a Core i5-760 2.8GHz or FX-8100 processor to reach the recommended system specs, achieving high graphics setting on 1080p in Fortnites battle royal. The system memory required for Fortnite is 8 GB performance memory and the Fortnite minimum RAM requirements are 4 GB system memory. Another thing to consider is the DirectX capability of your GPU. Fortnite needs a GPU capable of running DirectX 11. Based on our comprehensive Fortnite system requirements analysis we recommend around a 6 year old PC to run fortnite smoothly at 60 FPS on high graphics settings. So Fortnite has been developed to be very accessible, even to aging computers and laptops. However, we feel that it is not worth trying to run Fortnite on the official minimum requirements as you will seriously struggle to be able to play Fortnite with that sort of PC hardware. Fortnite recommended requirements are reliable though, just dont try running Fortnite on integrated graphics, so laptops will still want dedicated GPU hardware before considering running Fortnite online.

FPS System Benchmark

162 FPS

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GTX 1060

How well optimised is Fortnite for PC? Fortnite is well optimized

6.4

Where does Fortnite rank in the list of the most demanding games?

100+

Genres: Action, Shooter, Survival

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Core i3-4330TE 2.4GHz

Phenom II X4 805

GeForce GT 520 v2

Intel HD Graphics 4000 Desktop

4 GB

Win 7 64

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20 GB

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Fortnite PC Release Date:

25 Jul 2017

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Fortnite vs Avg. AAA Game System Requirements

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Core i7-4790 4-Core 3.6GHz

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Radeon RX 480X 4GB

165%

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13GB

63%

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