Sneakily becoming one of the biggest commercial hits of 2017, Ghost Recon Wildlands is set to get a grand successor when Ghost Recon Breakpoint arrives on October 4th. For those who want the best version of Ghost Recon Breakpoint, PC is naturally going to be the best place to play. Ubisoft will be providing native 4K resolution support, an uncapped frame rate, ultra-wide and multi-monitor support. The full package then, although taking a look at Ghost Recon Breakpoint's PC specs you're going to need a very powerful gaming PC to take advantage of all of this.
Ghost Recon Breakpoint Minimum System Requirements - 1080p / Low
- OS: Windows 7 64-bit
- CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 3.1 GHz
- RAM: 8 GB System Memory
- GPU RAM: 2GB Video Memory
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 2GB or AMD Radeon R9 280X 2GB
- HDD: TBA Available Hard Drive Storage
- DX: DirectX 11
Ghost Recon Breakpoint Recommended System Requirements 1080p / High
- OS: Windows 7 64-bit
- CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz
- RAM: 8 GB System Memory
- GPU RAM: 6 GB Video Memory
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB or AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB
- HDD: TBA Available Hard Drive Storage
- DX: DirectX 11
Ghost Recon Breakpoint Ultra System Requirements 1080p / Ultra
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0 GHz or AMD Ryzen 7 1700X 3.4 GHz
- RAM: 16 GB System Memory
- GPU RAM: 8 GB Video Memory
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
- HDD: TBA Available Hard Drive Storage
- DX: DirectX 11
Ghost Recon Breakpoint Ultra 2K System Requirements 1440p / Ultra
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0 GHz or AMD Ryzen 7 1700X 3.4 GHz
- RAM: 16 GB System Memory
- GPU RAM: 8 GB Video Memory
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
- HDD: TBA Available Hard Drive Storage
- DX: DirectX 11
Ghost Recon Breakpoint Elite 4K System Requirements 4K / Ultra
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2 GHz or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz
- RAM: 16 GB System Memory
- GPU RAM: 8 GB Video Memory
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 or AMD Radeon VII
- HDD: TBA Available Hard Drive Storage
- DX: DirectX 11
As you can see, Ubisoft has provided a fairly exhaustive list of specs for Ghost Recon Breakpoint, although they've missed one fairly crucial piece of information - target frame rate. If Breakpoint is in the same ballpark as Ghost Recon Wildlands in terms of how demanding it is, these specs could well be aimed at 30 frames per second. The RTX 2080 hits around 38fps @ 4K/Ultra in Wildlands, for example, and we'd assume a sequel two years later would be more demanding rather than less demanding. If this is the case then in GR: Breakpoint we've got ourselves an incredibly demanding open-world shooter, at least if you want to play on higher graphics settings and resolutions.
As for why the Ultra 1080p and 1440p requirements are identical, we have no idea. We can only assume it's actually possible to play 1080p/Ultra with a weaker video card, perhaps along the lines of a GeForce GTX 1070 or a Radeon RX Vega 56, but it's all guesswork at this point.
Fortunately, down at the lower-end we definitely appear to have some wiggle room. Ubisoft claims the minimum spec GPUs for Breakpoint are a GeForce GTX 960 or Radeon RX 280. However, this is for playing at 1080p/Low. If you're willing to drop down to 900p or 720p then this could well open up Ghost Recon Breakpoint to a much wider range of systems.
One thing to bear in mind is Wildlands was both poorly optimised and massively demanding, particularly in terms of CPU usage. If Breakpoint is a similar deal then we expect it'll guzzle up all the CPU firepower you throw at it. It's unusual but a lot of Ghost Recon Breakpoint could well end up CPU-bound.
Remember, you can always check out how well your PC can run the Ghost Recon Breakpoint System Requirements here, where you can check benchmarking and performance from other users. Compare your graphics card to the Ghost Recon Breakpoint benchmark chart.
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25fps maxed 4k for me
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i will still play this game at ultra settings with my 1060 6gb @ 30fps i dont really care xD.
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how the f are you not getting seizures playing at 30fps? also im pretty sure the performance hit from high to ultra is quite hard but not noticable from the visual so why would you set it to ultra?
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yeah i know 30 fps isnt PC masterrace, but still i prefer quality over framerate, but if it drops from 30 i drop some settings to high.
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I loved Future soldier which actually felt like a Clancy game and Wildlands was a different take for sure very repetitive but super fun especially when your half way across the map and start a race with the randoms team mates to get there f
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first sure you have the buggy or picked out the lambo (no helicopters) but i have the Dirtbike and i play NFS AND F1 dude watch me rip right past you ah **** game stutter didnt break on time off road hit a rock died?..Can someone revive me?
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just make sure the final build of the game has those character animations those were brilliant and blew my mind
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1080p Ultra and 1440p have the exact same requirements - Gotta be an error right ?