World of Warcraft System Requirements: Can You Run It?
- 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.
Minimum requirements
- Graphics card:
- NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 2 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 560 2 GB or Intel® UHD Graphics 630
- CPU:
- Intel® Core™ i5-3450 or AMD FX™ 8300
- 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
Recommended requirements
- Graphics card:
- NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 8 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX Vega 64 8 GB or better
- CPU:
- Intel® Core™ i7-6700K or AMD Ryzen™ 7 2700X
- 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.
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.
World of Warcraft performance on your CPU
Core i5-12400's performance compared to the game's official system requirements.
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