Assassin’s Creed Shadows PC system requirements

The newest, mainline Assassin’s Creed title, Shadows makes its way to the PC, console and Macs on March 20, 2025 after a brief delay. Developed on top of Ubisoft’s in-house AnvilNext game engine, Shadows offers a high level of visual fidelity previously unseen in prior Assassin’s Creed titles.

As such, developer and publisher Ubisoft has released a set of minimum and recommended PC system requirements for folks who wish to play the game on PCs. More on these requirements below.

Official Assassin’s Creed Shadows PC system requirements

AC Shadows PC system requirements

Selective Ray Tracing

Resolution and Frame Rate TargetMinimumRecommendedEnthusiast
Preset1080p@30 FPS – Low1080p@60 FPS – Medium1440@60 FPS/4k@60 FPS – High
CPUIntel i7 8700K/AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel i5 11600K/AMD Ryzen 5 5600XIntel i5 11600K/Intel i7 12700K/ AMD Ryzen 5 5600X/AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
GPUNvidia GeForce GTX 1070/AMD Radeon RX 5700/Intel Arc A580Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti/AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT/ Intel Arc B580 Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060Ti/Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti/AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT/AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Standard Ray Tracing

Resolution and Frame Rate TargetRT MinimumRT Recommended
Preset1080p@30 FPS – High1440p@60 FPS – High
CPUIntel i7 8700K/AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel i5 11600K/AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
GPUNvidia GeForce RTX 2070/AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT/ Intel Arc B580Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super/AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Extended Ray Tracing

Resolution and Frame Rate TargetRT EnthusiastRT Extreme
Preset1080p@30 FPS – High4K@60 FPS – High
CPUIntel i7 13700 K/AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3DIntel i7 13700 K/AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
GPUNvidia GeForce RTX 4080Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090

Overall, these system requirements appear to be quite a fair bit intensive for most PCs. Curiously enough, there is no mention of a preset without ray tracing – even if the listed GTX 1070 is not capable of it (in the minimum section).

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