Hogwarts Legacy: GPU requirements and performance
One of the clearest examples of why VRAM capacity became a buying criterion. Hogwarts Legacy is memory-hungry at high texture settings, and cards with 8 GB show stutter and texture pop-in that faster cards with more memory avoid.
What actually limits performance here
The part that generic system requirements never tell you.
- Memory use rises sharply with Ultra textures and again with ray tracing enabled.
- 8 GB cards can hit an acceptable average frame rate while still stuttering, which averages alone will not show. 1% low figures matter more than usual here.
- Ray-traced reflections and shadows are expensive relative to their visual impact.
- DLSS, FSR and XeSS are all supported, along with frame generation on capable hardware.
Published system requirements
The publisher's own figures. They describe a baseline, not the hardware needed for high settings at a high frame rate.
| Tier | Graphics card | Processor | Memory | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB / AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB | Intel Core i5-6600 / AMD Ryzen 5 1400 | 16 GB | 720p, Low preset |
| Recommended | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT | Intel Core i7-8700 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 16 GB | 1080p, High preset |
Technologies supported
Which vendor features this title implements, which decides how much your graphics card's feature set is worth here.
Ray tracing
SupportedCompareYourGPU classifies the ray tracing load as heavy.
DLSS
SupportedNVIDIA cards can render at a lower internal resolution and reconstruct the image.
FSR
SupportedAMD's upscaler is available, and works on other vendors' hardware in its earlier versions.
XeSS
SupportedIntel's upscaler is available, with dedicated hardware acceleration on Arc cards.
Frame generation
SupportedAvailable on hardware that supports it. It raises the displayed frame rate without improving responsiveness.
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Estimated
Which graphics card do you need for Hogwarts Legacy?
The least expensive in-production cards whose estimated frame rate in this title is centred at or above 60 FPS, at High settings with no upscaling. The range shown for each card is the model's uncertainty band, so the lower bound can fall under 60.
Modelled from the estimated performance index and this title’s demand classification. Not a measured benchmark. How the model works.
1080p
Around 60 FPS, High settings, no upscaling
1440p
Around 60 FPS, High settings, no upscaling
- Arc B580
$249 MSRP · estimated 50-70 FPS
- RX 9060 XT 8GB
$299 MSRP · estimated 55-80 FPS
- RTX 5060
$299 MSRP · estimated 50-75 FPS
4K
Around 60 FPS, High settings, no upscaling
- RX 9070
$549 MSRP · estimated 50-70 FPS
- RX 9070 XT
$599 MSRP · estimated 60-85 FPS
- RTX 5070 Ti
$749 MSRP · estimated 60-90 FPS
Measured
Verified benchmark data
Frame-rate figures transcribed from named third-party measurements.
No verified benchmark data for this game yet
CompareYourGPU only publishes frame-rate figures it can attribute to a named, linkable measurement. None have been transcribed for Hogwarts Legacy yet, so nothing is shown here rather than numbers that would look authoritative without being verifiable.
Hogwarts Legacy: common questions
What are the recommended system requirements for Hogwarts Legacy?
Does Hogwarts Legacy support ray tracing?
Does Hogwarts Legacy support DLSS, FSR or XeSS?
How demanding is Hogwarts Legacy?
Sources
- Steam store pagePublisher-stated system requirements for Hogwarts Legacy
Last reviewed . Demand classifications are CompareYourGPU’s editorial judgement, not measurements.