Portal System Requirements: Can You Run It?

Your gaming PC configuration

Developer:: Valve
Publisher:: Valve
Release date:: 9 October 2007 (16 years old)
User score:: 4.6 / 5 (191 vote)

Official Portal system requirements for PC

These are the PC specifications advised by developers to run Portal 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:: DirectX® 8 level Graphics Card

CPU:: 1.7 GHz Processor

Memory:: 512MB RAM

File size:: no data

Operating system:: Windows® Vista/XP/2000

DirectX:: DirectX® 8

Recommended requirements

Graphics card:: DirectX® 9 level Graphics Card

CPU:: Pentium 4 processor (3.0GHz, or better)

Memory:: 1GB RAM

File size:: no data

Operating system:: Windows® Vista/XP/2000

DirectX:: DirectX® 9

Portal performance on your PC

Portal performance with your GPU

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

RTX 3060

minimum
Any

recommended
Any

30 fps @ low
1366×768

60 fps @ medium
1920×1080

60 fps @ ultra
1920×1080

Projected FPS in various settings and resolutions

Portal 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

300−310 FPS

medium settings / 1080p

270−280 FPS

ultra settings / 1080p

270−280 FPS