Cities: Skylines System Requirements: Can You Run It?

Your gaming PC configuration

Developer:: Colossal Order
Publisher:: Paradox Interactive
Release date:: 10 March 2015 (9 years ago)
User score:: 4.4 / 5 (704 votes)

Official Cities: Skylines system requirements for PC

These are the PC specifications advised by developers to run Cities: Skylines at minimal and recommended settings. Although these requirements are usually approximate, they can still be used to determine the indicative hardware tier needed to play the game.

Minimum requirements

Graphics card:: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 5670, 512 MB

CPU:: Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+, 3.2GHz

Memory:: 4 GB RAM

File size:: 4 GB available space

Operating system:: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 (64-bit)

DirectX:: Version 9.0c

Recommended requirements

Graphics card:: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB

CPU:: Intel Core i5-3470, 3.20GHz or AMD FX-6300, 3.5Ghz

Memory:: 6 GB RAM

File size:: 4 GB available space

Operating system:: Microsoft Windows 7/8 (64-bit)

DirectX:: Version 11

Cities: Skylines performance on your PC

Cities: Skylines performance on your GPU

GeForce RTX 3060's performance compared to the game's official system requirements.

RTX 3060

minimum
Radeon HD 5670

recommended
GeForce GTX 660

30 fps @ low
1366×768

60 fps @ medium
1920×1080

60 fps @ high
1920×1080

60 fps @ ultra
1920×1080

Projected FPS in various settings and resolutions

Cities: Skylines FPS calculator: average frames per second on GeForce RTX 3060 (according to our approximations). FPS may vary depending on your operating system and other factors.

low settings / 768p

65−70 FPS

medium settings / 1080p

65−70 FPS

high settings / 1080p

65−70 FPS

ultra settings / 1080p

65−70 FPS