Minimum
Official 30 FPS tier.
- CPU
- Intel Core i3-540 or AMD Athlon 200GE
- GPU
- Intel HD 4000 or AMD Radeon R5 220
Official PC specifications
Valorant System Requirements for PC
Compare Valorant's official 30, 60, and 144 FPS PC hardware tiers and check the shared Windows, instruction-set, and memory requirements.
Official requirements
Minimum and recommended PC specs
Source checked July 28, 2026: Riot Games Valorant minimum and recommended PC specs. Values below preserve the source's stated tiers and targets.
Recommended
Official 60 FPS tier.
- CPU
- Intel Core i3-4150 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 or AMD Radeon R7 240
High-end
Official 144 FPS tier; not a 240 or 360 FPS promise.
- CPU
- Intel Core i5-9400F 2.90 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
- GPU
- NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti, AMD Radeon R7 370, or Intel Arc A310
All tiers require 4 GB RAM, DirectX 11 support, and a 64-bit supported Windows installation. A discrete GPU requires at least 1 GB VRAM.
Riot requires SSE 4.2 or AVX support. Windows 11 also requires TPM 2.0 and UEFI Secure Boot. ARM and cloud gaming environments are not supported.
Can my PC run it?
Check the whole requirement, not one part
- Open Windows System Information and note your exact CPU, installed RAM, and OS.
- Open Task Manager or your GPU control panel and note the exact GPU and dedicated VRAM.
- Confirm free storage, required graphics API support, and any platform-specific security requirement.
- Compare every field with one official tier. A stronger GPU does not compensate for an unsupported OS or CPU instruction set.
- After compatibility is confirmed, use the FPS Calculator for a supported GPU-side performance reference.
Read the tiers correctly
Requirements are not an FPS guarantee
Riot's 144 FPS tier is useful context, but real high-refresh performance can still be limited by CPU, memory, thermals, background tasks, and match conditions.
GamePerfHub does not convert Riot's CPU tiers into a bottleneck score. Use the calculator only for its supported GPU-side estimate.