World of Warcraft System Requirements: Can You Run It?

World of Warcraft
Developer:
Blizzard Entertainment
Publisher:
Blizzard Entertainment
Release date:
23 November 2004 (19 years ago)
User score:
4.6 / 5 (561 vote)
Hardware demand level:
(4/10)

Official World of Warcraft system requirements for PC

These are the PC specifications advised by developers to run World of Warcraft 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.

PassMinimum requirements

Pass Graphics card:
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 2 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 560 2 GB or Intel® UHD Graphics 630
Pass CPU:
Intel® Core™ i5-3450 or AMD FX™ 8300
Pass Memory:
4 GB RAM
File size:
Solid State Drive (SSD) 100 GB available space Or Hard Disk Drive (HDD) 100 GB available space (depending on the performance of the drive, player experience may be impacted on HDD)
Operating system:
Windows® 7 64-bit
DirectX:
DirectX® 9.0c (included) and latest video drivers

PassRecommended requirements

Pass Graphics card:
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 8 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX Vega 64 8 GB or better
Pass CPU:
Intel® Core™ i7-6700K or AMD Ryzen™ 7 2700X
Pass Memory:
8 GB RAM
File size:
Solid State Drive (SSD) 100 GB available space
Operating system:
Windows® 10 64-bit
DirectX:
DirectX® 9.0c (included) and latest video drivers

World of Warcraft performance on your PC


World of Warcraft performance on your GPU

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

RTX 3060
30 fps @ low
800×600
60 fps @ medium
1024×768
60 fps @ high
1280×1024
60 fps @ ultra
1920×1080

Projected FPS in various settings and resolutions

World of Warcraft 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 / 600p
350−400 FPS
medium settings / 768p
210−220 FPS
high settings / 1024p
140−150 FPS
ultra settings / 1080p
85−90 FPS

World of Warcraft performance on your CPU

Core i5-12400's performance compared to the game's official system requirements.

i5-12400
recommended
Core i7-6700K

User Ratings

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