Mass Effect System Requirements: Can You Run It?

Your gaming PC configuration

Developer:: BioWare
Publisher:: Electronic Arts
Release date:: 28 May 2008 (15 years ago)
User score:: 4.3 / 5 (55 votes)

Official Mass Effect system requirements for PC

These are the PC specifications advised by developers to run Mass Effect 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 6 series(6800GT or better) ATI 1300XT or better (X1550, X1600 Pro and HD2400 are below minimum system requirements)

CPU:: 2.4+GHZ Intel or 2.0+GHZ AMD

Memory:: 1 Gigabyte Ram (XP) 2 Gigabyte Ram (Vista)

File size:: 12 Gigabytes

Operating system:: Windows XP or Vista

DirectX:: no data

Recommended requirements

Graphics card:: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX or higher. ATI X1800 XL series or higher

CPU:: 2.6+GHZ Intel or 2.4+GHZ AMD

Memory:: 2 Gigabyte Ram

File size:: 12 Gigabytes

Operating system:: Windows XP or Vista

DirectX:: no data

Mass Effect performance on your PC

Mass Effect performance on your GPU

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

RTX 3060

minimum
GeForce 615

recommended
GeForce 7900 GTX

30 fps @ low
1366×768

Projected FPS in various settings and resolutions

Mass Effect 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

90−95 FPS