Assassin's Creed Shadows: System requirements
Assassin's Creed Shadows is quite a hardware-demanding game. From this page of the guide you will find out if the game will go smoothly on your computer.
AC Shadows is the latest installment of Ubisoft's popular franchise. It is directed to a rather mainstream audience, which begs the question: will it run on any computer? Below we present a detailed list of requirements that your PC must fulfil in order for you to fully enjoy the gameplay.
- Assassin's Creed: Shadows: Minimum system requirements
- Assassin's Creed: Shadows: Recommended system requirements (medium settings, 60 FPS)
- Assassin's Creed: Shadows: Recommended system requirements for 2K (high settings, 60 FPS)
- Assassin's Creed: Shadows: Recommended system requirements for 4K (high settings, 60 FPS)
- Our experiences with AC Shadows performance
- Steam Deck
Assassin's Creed: Shadows: Minimum system requirements
- Operating system: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz / Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7 GHz
- RAM: 16 GB (Dual-channel)
- Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 5700 (8 GB) / Intel Arc A580 (8 GB, ReBAR) / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8 GB)
- Hard drive: SSD (required)
- DirectX: 12
Assassin's Creed: Shadows: Recommended system requirements (medium settings, 60 FPS)
- Operating system: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz / Intel Core i5-11600K 3.9 GHz
- RAM: 16 GB (Dual-channel)
- Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (12 GB) / Intel Arc B580 (12 GB, ReBAR) / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (8 GB)
- Hard drive: SSD (required)
- DirectX: 12
Assassin's Creed: Shadows: Recommended system requirements for 2K (high settings, 60 FPS)
- Operating system: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz / Intel Core i5-11600K 3.9 GHz
- RAM: 16 GB (Dual-channel)
- Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (16 GB) / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10 GB)
- Hard drive: SSD (required)
- DirectX: 12
Assassin's Creed: Shadows: Recommended system requirements for 4K (high settings, 60 FPS)
- Operating system: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 3.4 GHz / Intel Core i7-12700K 3.6 GHz
- RAM: 16 GB (Dual-channel)
- Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (20 GB) / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super (16 GB)
- Hard drive: SSD (required)
- DirectX: 12
Our experiences with AC Shadows performance
Most of the tests were conducted on a Hyperbook NP5 laptop with the following specifications:
- Intel Core i7-13700HX;
- NVIDIA RTX 4070 Laptop;
- 16 GB DDR5 (4800 MT/s);
- Windows 11.
The laptop was always connected to the power supply. The tests were conducted in FullHD (1080p) resolution.
From our experience, AC Shadows is a fairly well-optimized game. On the high preset, with DLSS turned on at a balanced level, during a walk around crowded Kyoto, we got around 60 FPS. Additional use of DLSS frame generation allowed to increase this result to almost 100 frames per second.
In a similar test on ultra-high settings, the frames fluctuated around 35 - 45 FPS. With DLSS frame generation enabled, this number increases to around 70 FPS. For people who value high image quality, this may be a good alternative.
It's also worth noting that AC Shadows is another game on the market that forces players to use ray tracing. This will be especially felt by owners of graphics cards without hardware for this technology (GTX cards and older Radeons). If you belong to this group, you should immediately go to the settings and reduce the ray tracing settings to a minimum.
Global illumination with ray tracing is required during a visit to the hideout, which is why players may experience significant drops in performance there.
Commented by Mikolaj Laszkiewicz:
Assassin's Creed Shadows is a technical oddball. On one hand, the game is realistically more beautiful than Valhalla, you can see much better made character models, facial expressions, textures, lighting using ray tracing, and animations that are much more enjoyable than before. After Assassin's Creed Mirage, it's like a leap to the next generation. When it comes to optimization, it's pretty standard for the year 2025, although I'm inclined to think that the developers have made an effort. The game runs without major issues on the ASUS ROG Ally X handheld at 30 frames per second on the lowest details and doesn't really drop lower. On a desktop computer with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor and RTX 4080 Super, on ultra settings, I can expect an average of 55 frames per second with DLSS in quality mode. It's not a perfect result, but Assassin's Creed Shadows does a great job with frame generation and that helps. I would even say that Assassin's Creed Shadows is a showcase title for this technology - frame generation works great here, it does not cause a noticeable increase in delays and there is no question of any graphic artifacts or problems. With frame generation enabled on the RTX 4080 Super, I got about 100 frames per second. Interestingly, frame generation also performs well on Ally X, where it goes from 30 fps to around 50-60 fps, making the game playable. Contrary to appearances, the delay is not serious, and the image stability is impressive. If you're not afraid of such experiments, I sincerely recommend you to enable frame generation, you might be pleasantly surprised.
Steam Deck
AC Shadows is Steam Deck verified. During our tests, conducted in a dynamic intro, the game maintained around 35 frames per second. In our opinion, this is a quite satisfactory result. Although at the expense of graphics, many imperfections become difficult to notice on the small screen of the Valve's console.
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