Highest spec game ever

The Witcher 3 is a beautiful game, thanks in part to its wonderful artistry and sophisticated REDengine 3 tech. The action RPG offers a bunch of graphical settings that allow you to enable advanced levels of Nvidia hair physics, ambient occlusion, and depth of field effects. All of this beauty comes at a cost, however.

While the game was able to muster an above 30 FPS average, which is the minimum of what we consider to be playable, it did occasionally stutter, and reached a low of 24 FPS. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is far from the most visually impressive game on this list, but it is currently quite taxing on systems in its early access state. One of the reasons why the Unreal Engine 4 game is so demanding is because it features a large 7x7 mile world and provides vast draw distances with up to simultaneous players.

While our system managed to muster a This means means it runs a bit inconsistently. Because the game is in early access, performance is subject to change with optimization improvements and as the game adds new graphical features. Visually, it features very realistic faces that skirt around the creepy uncanny valley effect really well. The environments are also visually impressive. All of this graphical fidelity does take a toll on performance, however.

Our system mustered a The game also sports sophisticated physics with CPU-taxing destructible environments. Here, our rig achieved a While it was largely playable, it did occasionally dip and reached a low of 28 frames per second. The game uses a modified version of the Disrupt engine, which we saw in the first Watch Dogs, and renders a pretty realistic rendition of San Francisco. With everything maxed out, Watch Dogs 2 offers vast draw distances, vibrant colors, and realistic water effects.

It often dipped into the choppy 20s, however. This makes it the first game in our list to go below the 30 average FPS threshold.

While Andromeda's face models may need improvement, its Frostbite 3 engine allows it to create intricately detailed worlds coupled with gorgeous lighting effects. While you can certainly get Andromeda to run well on modest systems, it can really push high-end PCs to their limits if you crank all the settings up at 4K.

The previous game was no piece of cake when it comes to system requirements, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider continues the tradition. Even at mediocre refresh rates, you won't be able to enjoy this game with anything less than a GTX graphics card combined with the brainpower of something like an i7 K processor. Its performance does scale quite well when pushed to higher resolutions, but you'll still want a 20 or 30 series RTX card from Nvidia to squeeze out as many frames as possible.

This game is benchmarked frequently for a reason. Forza Horizon 5 is one of the most stunning games released in Beautiful lighting, realistic car models, and incredible weather effects all make for one of the best-looking racing games you can find. It also makes for a rather demanding PC title.

And that's just for p resolution running at 60 FPS. Ubisoft's latest Assassin Creed game is, unsurprisingly, the most demanding of the series.

This shouldn't come as a surprise given Valhalla's open-world nature, yet it's when you crank up the resolution that these requirements get extreme.

Related: Best Parkour Games: Ranked. Even then, expect a few frame dips during performance-heavy cutscenes. Now that everyone's favorite western adventure of has been released on PC as well, it's time to talk about its flaws. Despite being an amazing game on console, its PC port was far from stellar. The recommended requirements aren't anything to laugh about either. For Nvidia users, a GTX or above is absolutely crucial for a great experience.

AMD users will need to opt for a Rzen 5 X or above to get such results. Should you meet those requirements, you'll get to experience the most visually impressive Rockstar game to date. Even with those specs, Cyberpunk will struggle to maintain a consistent framerate at times. And if you want to play this game at 4K with 60 FPS, forget it.

Even the best PC specs can't maintain that frame rate consistently. Fortunately, Cyberpunk has quite a few settings you can tweak to maximize your performance. Digital Foundry has an excellent guide on how you can increase this game's performance with minimal visual impact. In we finally got to see Final Fantasy XV on our desktop monitors. But this port came with a price: utilizing top-notch graphics and some of the most stunning graphics and advanced physics GameWorks technology , the game will truly test your system's mettle.

We're still baffled by the required GB free space to play this game in 4K - that's right, you'll need GB of storage space to play this game at its highest settings.

Hands down one of the most stunning autosport games out there, Project CARS 2 improves tremendously on its predecessor. The graphics are completely photo-realistic, and the fact that you need at least 50 GB of free space to even install this game should be a testament to the amount of detail it includes.

With all the DLC, Hitman 2 essentially includes Hitman, and that means a whole other game's worth of textures and other digitally heavy things.

Outfits and such. That makes it one of the meatiest games ever, let alone out of virtual reality titles. Think again. Even without all the extras, this digital combat simulator is big. With them, it's massive.

The mightiest hog. While the base games of all four of these titles aren't all that massive, comparatively anyways, you could certainly make them that way in a flash. All it takes is a mod manager and a trigger finger Jacob earned his first byline writing for his own tech blog from his hometown in Wales in From there, he graduated to professionally breaking things at PCGamesN, where he would later win command of the kit cupboard as hardware editor.

Nowadays, as senior hardware editor at PC Gamer, he spends his days reporting on the latest developments in the technology and gaming industry. When he's not writing about GPUs and CPUs, you'll find him trying to get as far away from the modern world as possible by wild camping. See more. Jacob Ridley. See comments.