After some lengthy closed alphas and beta tests, Rare has revealed the final system specs for Sea of Thieves on PC. It's pretty clear Rare has been harvesting all the performance data from PC players during these tests, providing extensive system requirements for Sea of Thieves ahead of its March 20th release date.
Sea of Thieves Below Minimum System Requirements @ 540p/30fps
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit Anniversary Edition
- CPU: Intel Core i7-5775C 3.3GHz or AMD A10-7870K 3.9GHz
- RAM: 4 GB System Memory
- GPU RAM: 1 GB Video Memory
- GPU: Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 or AMD Radeon R7 Integrated
- HDD: 60GB Available Hard Drive Space (5400RPM)
- API: DirectX 11
Sea of Thieves Minimum System Requirements @ 720p/30fps
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit Anniversary Edition
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 2.6 GHz or AMD Phenom II X6 1100T 3.3 GHz
- RAM: 4 GB System Memory
- GPU RAM: 1 GB Video Memory
- GPU: GeForce GTX 650/GeForce GTX 1030 or Radeon HD 7750/Radeon R7 450
- HDD: 60GB Available Hard Drive Space (5400RPM)
- API: DirectX 11
Sea of Thieves System Requirements @ 1080p/30fps
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit Anniversary Edition
- CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7 GHz or AMD FX-6300 3.5 GHz
- RAM: 8 GB System Memory
- GPU RAM: 2 GB Video Memory
- GPU: GeForce GTX 660/GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or Radeon R9 270/Radeon RX 460
- HDD: 60GB Available Hard Drive Space (7200RPM)
- API: DirectX 11
Sea of Thieves Recommended System Requirements @ 1080p/60fps
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit Anniversary Edition
- CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5 GHz or AMD FX-8150 3.6 GHz
- RAM: 8 GB System Memory
- GPU RAM: 4 GB Video Memory
- GPU: GeForce GTX 770/GeForce GTX 1060 or Radeon R9 380X/Radeon RX 470
- HDD: 60GB Available Hard Drive Space (7200RPM)
- API: DirectX 11
Sea of Thieves System Requirements @ 4K/30fps
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit Anniversary Edition
- CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5 GHz or AMD FX-8150 3.6 GHz
- RAM: 16 GB System Memory
- GPU RAM: 8 GB Video Memory
- GPU: GeForce GTX 980 Ti/GeForce GTX 1070 or Radeon RX Vega 56
- HDD: 60GB Available Solid State Storage (SSD)
- API: DirectX 11
Sea of Thieves Ultra System Requirements @ 4K/60fps
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit Anniversary Edition
- CPU: Intel Core i7-4790 4.0 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.6 GHz
- RAM: 16 GB System Memory
- GPU RAM: 8 GB Video Memory
- GPU: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti or Radeon RX Vega 64
- HDD: 60GB Available Solid State Storage (SSD)
- API: DirectX 11
I mean - wow. System requirements don't get more comprehensive than what Rare has provided us with for Sea of Thieves. They've even lived up to their claims that they were hoping to get Sea of Thieves running on integrated graphics chips, and are therefore bringing Sea of Thieves to as wide an audience as humanly possible. They deserve a big thumbs up for that, and they also provide a valuable insight into how the minimum requirements provided for a game often aren't the absolute minimum you'll need to run it. If you're okay with dropping the resolution below 720p, Sea of Thieves will run on a very low-end system.
There's not much to add to the hugely detailed information Rare has already provided for Sea of Thieves. Suffice to say, you should be able to pinpoint roughly where your gaming PC sits in regards to Sea of Thieve's system specs and get a fairly accurate estimate of the final performance.
As ever, remember you can always check out how well your PC can run the Sea of Thieves System Requirements here, where you can check benchmarking and performance from other users. Compare your graphics card to the Sea of Thieves GPU benchmark chart and we also have a Sea of Thieves Frames Per Second system performance chart for you to check.
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It is a Dx11 title so why it doesn't not run on windows 7?
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every company shoould release requirements in this format and with deatils at every resolution and fps like this one.
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WTF? GTX 770 = GTX 1060????
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Gtx 770 is equal to 1050
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Nice and detailed requirements. An interesting thing to point out imo is that after all, Microsoft releases a game exclusively on the Windows store that also runs on DX11 (instead of 12)
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I didn't have a framerate counter going, but at 2560x1080 on max settings it looked like it was between 30 and 45 fps when I played the last beta.
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Anybody know how much it will cost, approximately?
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Just have a look in your local Windows Store for pricing, it's up for pre-order. It comes up as $60 for me. It is available as part of the Xbox Game Pass though, which is normally $10 per month. There's a 2-week trial for the Game Pass so everyone will be able to play Sea of Thieves for free for 2 weeks.
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Dang! Interesting to see a below minimum 540/30fps section. Reminds me of the low spec gamer.