Developer Avalanche Games and publisher Warner Bros. announced official PC system requirements for Hogwarts Legacy, with PC users required to have either at least an Intel i5-8400 or an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 in order to play the game without any issues.
Warner Bros. Interactive recommended using either an Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 with 16GB of RAM, and either an NVIDIA GeForce 1080 Ti or AMD RX 5700 XT graphics card to play Hogwarts Legacy. It looks like you are going to need at least an Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600, along with 8GB of RAM, paired with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 or an AMD RX Vega 56 to meet the minimum requirements.
Notably, developer Avalanche says that to meet minimum requirements, and to run the game at 60 frames per second on 1080p on Low settings, you need a minimum of 85GB of hard drive space, 8GB of RAM, and an Nvidia GTX 1070 graphics card. As you can see, you are going to need a relatively modern gaming rig to be able to play Hogwarts Legacy; Hogwarts Legacy is going to need a GTX1070 graphics card in order to run at 1080p at 60fps on low-quality settings. Based on the system requirements provided, the Avalanche Softwares PC version of Hogwarts Legacy will run on low-quality preset, running at 1080p and 60fps, with minimum system specifications.
To enjoy Hogwarts Legacy on a PC, you are going to want to get a decent one with at least a GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card and an i5-8400 CPU. We would guess that a minimum graphics card for running the game would be the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, however, the recommended would be an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060. The lower requirements are probably due to AMD’s FSR features, however, and of course, for higher resolutions, you are just going to look at higher-end, current cards like an RTX 3080, although this is not confirmed just yet.
We still do not know whether this is going to be an AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), an NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS), or perhaps some other upscaling technique created by the dev team just for this game. The minimum requirements are higher than Nintendos Switch hardware and performance, on which the game is expected to launch. Meanwhile, the SSD is preferred for minimum system specs but is required for recommended system specs.
System requirements can sometimes be a little misleading, since players have been able to run games on moderate settings at a steady FPS over the years, despite highly demanding system requirements on paper. However, others noted that Hogwarts Legacy system requirements are all but guaranteed to mean the Switch version of Hogwarts Legacy is going to be a cloud-based title.
