Need for Speed: Carbon System Requirements: Can You Run It?
Need for Speed: Carbon system requirements - see whether your PC is compatible.
- Developer:
- EA Black Box, EA Canada
- Publisher:
- Electronic Arts
- Release date:
- 31 October 2006 (19 years ago)
- User score:
- 4.2 / 5
- Hardware demand level:
- 1 / 10 - not demanding
- Ray tracing support:
- no data
Official system requirements for PC
To run Need for Speed: Carbon, you'll need at least 512 MB of RAM and 4.7 GB of free disk space. The game requires a minimum graphics card like the Radeon 8500, but for a better experience, the developers recommend using an GeForce 6800. As for your CPU, an Pentium 4 2.4 GHz is the minimum.
Minimum
Minimum- Graphics card:
- A video card with 64 MB memory and one of these chipsets is required: NVIDIA GeForce3 / NVIDIA GeForce4 (Ti series only) / ATI Radeon 8500. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported.
- CPU:
- Pentium 4 or equivalent 1.7 GHz
- Memory:
- 512 MB
- File size:
- 4.7 GB for CD/DVD versions / 11 GB for EA Downloader version (5GB for download, 6GB for install)
- Operating system:
- Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 / Windows XP Service Pack 2 (64-bit versions are not compatible)
- DirectX:
- DirectX 9.0c
Recommended
- Graphics card:
- 128MB DirectX 9.0c compatible video card (NVIDIA Geforce 6800+/ATI Radeon 9800+) Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported.
- CPU:
- Pentium 4 or equivalent 2.4GHz
- Memory:
- 1 GB
- File size:
- 4.7 GB for CD/DVD versions / 11 GB for EA Downloader version (5GB for download, 6GB for install)
- Operating system:
- Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 / Windows XP Service Pack 2 (64-bit versions are not compatible)
- DirectX:
- DirectX 9.0c
Performance on your PC
Performance on your GPU
Performance levels below the bar correspond to the target FPS shown on each marker for that preset/resolution.
GeForce RTX 3060 is 154.4x faster than GeForce 6800. Your graphics card can run the game at recommended settings.
Performance on your CPU
Core i5-12400 is 152.3x faster than Pentium 4 2.4 GHz. Your CPU can run the game at recommended settings.
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