Portal 2 System Requirements: Can You Run It?

Your gaming PC configuration

Developer:: Valve
Publisher:: Valve
Release date:: 20 April 2011 (12 years old)
Our user score:: 4.7 / 5 (638 votes)

Official Portal 2 system requirements for PC

These are the PC specifications advised by developers to run Portal 2 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:: Video card must be 128 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b (ATI Radeon X800 or higher / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or higher / Intel HD Graphics 2000 or higher).

CPU:: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)

Memory:: 1GB XP / 2GB Vista

File size:: At least 7.6 GB of Space

Operating system:: Windows 7 / Vista / XP

DirectX:: DirectX 9.0c compatible

Recommended requirements

Graphics card:: no data

CPU:: no data

Memory:: no data

File size:: no data

Operating system:: no data

DirectX:: no data

Portal 2 performance on your PC

Portal 2 performance with your GPU

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

RTX 3060

minimum
GeForce 7600 GT

30 fps @ low
1366×768

60 fps @ medium
1920×1080

60 fps @ high
1920×1080

60 fps @ ultra
1920×1080

60 fps @ epic
3840×2160

Projected FPS in various settings and resolutions

Portal 2 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

220−230 FPS

medium settings / 1080p

220−230 FPS

high settings / 1080p

220−230 FPS

ultra settings / 1080p

220−230 FPS

4K / 2160p

140−150 FPS