GTA V for PC, recommended GPUs for 1080p and 4K resolutions

The highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto V, is coming on PC this April 14 2015, and it's promising an amazing game experience played at 60 fps with 1080p or 4K Resolution. This article give a list of some of the GPUs to get the best out of this game.

[DarkOcelet]

My guess you will need more than a 1000$ just to make it playable on Ultra settings at 1080p/60fps.

I am thinking of getting an Asus Republic of gamers laptop very soon. I am pretty sure it will handle the game very well.

[crazychris4124]

make sure you get a laptop with a IPS screen, screen on my new Asus laptop is horrible. Cost a little more but its worth it.

[thereapersson]

Nah, you can buy a 400 dollar PC that can run this game on ultra.

You think I'm making a console reference. You'd be wrong...

[Vegamyster]

Not at 1080p 60 fps lol, running the game fully maxed out is going to need a bit more.

[Mikeyy]

I'm tired of people claiming that these $400 PCs are running modern games in 1080p.

my GPU alone is $260, what parts are you using?

OS is $100, so you have $300 left to tell me what you have.

[XB1_PS4]

@Mikeyy I fully agree with you, other than the OS. Grab a Windows 7 basic OEM from a trading site for $8.

[mochachino]

@ Mikeyy

Even a passable gaming kb/m will cost you $50. So even if you found Windows cheap (no way it's 8 dollars, lowest I've seen is $40) your not working with much for GPU/CPU and then there's motherboard, RAM, PSU, HD, and a case. No one is building a rig from scratch that plays this even at xone quality for $400.

[Kleptic]

Apply the same rules for console vs. PC...

I've been gaming on a PC only since 2013, haven't found enough reason to replace my PS3 with a new console yet, but still can't argue that at $399 a PS4's performance to cost ratio is undeniable...what it really came down to was that the PS4 was about 50 dollars more than a gpu upgrade i had been eye'ing, that is over double the performance of the PS4's...but that is s separate thing entirely, as i already had a decent base to start from with my desktop...

if starting completely from scratch; you won't get PS4 performance on PC unless you double that investment...I'll admit that most of that is simply because of DX11 right now...it simply takes higher performing parts to get console like output because of DX11...if DX12 does what its rumored to, that cost gap will diminish considerably...

but anyway...yeah when someone says 'i bought a PC for $500 that outperforms a PS4'...no they didn't...or, they left out the part where they 'used all of my existing stuff like a monitor, m/k, speakers/headphones, OS, tower, power supply, memory, etc'...and basically spent $500 on a main board, cpu, and gpu...

[thereapersson]

Wow, not one person picked up on the sarcasm. My comment was meant to be a jab at elitist PC trolls.

[SniperControl]

Two ASUS Strix GTX970's in SLI at £300 each, have everything set to max, runs perfectly at 1080@60.

Saying that, i did have issues at the start to get it to run in full screen, but a driver update sorted that out.

[kraenk12]

one 970 would be sufficient. mine is

[SniperControl]

@kraenk12

Running at 4K@60 with both cards now, only thing turned of is the AA options.

Smooth as butter.

[pompombrum]

I'd research laptops well before getting one in hopes of handling this.. I'm using a good spec Alienware laptop and the game runs terribly. Make sure the laptop at the very least has a top end graphics card.

[yess]

I have a MSI GT72 laptop, i7, 970M 6 V-ram, and the usual stuff.

It runs GTA V smooth as butter 1080/60.

It really isn't that demanding...

[imXify]

Clevo laptop with i7 and Radeon R9 m290x.

1080p/60fps smooth as butter also.

[kraenk12]

1. I have an ancient 3,5 year old I5 2500k and a GTX 970 for 300 and can play it fully maxed out at 60 fps at 1080p.

2. Never get a laptop for gaming.

[Kleptic]

well, to be fair, that cpu is still incredibly good even by todays standards...there are plenty of newer cpu's that simply aren't as fast, and don't overclock as well...from both intel and AMD...

but yeah...I haven't bought the PC version, but i figured a 970 from Nvidia, or a 280x from AMD...was enough to guarantee a steady 60fps at 1080...the 'recommended' stuff they listed, like a 7770 or 650, was laughably low though...

[Tzuno]

I don't give 2 cents about ultra and anti-aliasing, a smart gamer that knows how to configure the settings doesn't need to spend 1000$. Laptop? lol, go ahead buy it but don't cry later :)

[d0x360]

You are correct. All told my pc was $3000 and is 4 weeks old. Granted I went x99 and ddr4 so you could probably shave $500ish off that price if you sent ddr3 but I'm running everything maxxed at 1080p and I average 60 but have dips to 45 at random makes no sense moments. Running this game proper is not cheap.

[ShottyGibs]

I just did an 5820k X99 build for less and am running 80 - 100 fps maxed out @ 1080p using a single 980

[MRMagoo123]

At the pc shop I run,laptops are called disposable PCs lol.

[Fishy Fingers]

Useless list. Only way to get a decent idea how your GPU will fare is to look for specific benchmarks for your card or similar.

Overall it doesn't appear to be as demanding as I'd of expected, especially after the poor GTAIV port.

[KTF26]

"it doesn't appear to be as demanding as I'd of expected, especially after the poor GTAIV port."

Between GTA 4 and 5 there is Max Payne 3
MP3 is what I call perfect port
it's not an open-world but it uses the same engine

[Father__Merrin]

I've a oc 7870 so I could run it at 30fps but titles like this I would always prefer console experience.

[CoLD FiRE]

Dat "cinematic" experience!

[neocores]

I have an i5 with 8gigs of ram
With a amd Radeon 6870 hd 2gig gddr5 can i run this well???

[Fez]

Ooooh short answer "yes" with an "if", long answer "no" with a "but"...

[MRMagoo123]

you can run it well at medium/high maybe

[darren_poolies]

I have an ASUS Radeon R9 290X so :D

[NBT91]

Asus GTX 970 STRIX here.
I don't even know what that is but it's in my PC and the article says it's good for 1080P 60FPS so I'm cool with that.

[shaenoide]

useless. With witch setting? High Ultra or less?

[theloudprotagonist]

It's a very strange list, that's for sure! The headline made it sound like it was going to be super comprehensive... but it's got a GTX 670 listed for three-hundred quid (probably because it's an older model and harder to find) yet there's no GTX 750 Ti on there at all, which you can pick up anywhere for about a hundred quid...?

[GiroSoul]

I got an Intel HD 4000 minimum settings maybe? who am i kidding xd

[Cernunnos]

Minimum req is a 9800GT, which is almost twice as powerful as HD4000. It might just run though on low sub 720p resolutions.

[The_Kills]

i7 4790k
Gtx 980 strix with 200mhz oc
2133mhz 16gb gskill trident x RAM
250gb Samsung Evo 850

I'll holler after my boxed copy arrives. I download stuff enough.. I'll wait a day instead of downloading 60gb or whatever the hell the size of that game is, and we'll see how all these buffoons trying to justify this overly long wait for the PC version fair off after I see how it runs.

[NitrousX]

I can run GTAV with most things on high to ultra with 2x MSAA but no tessellation as i have a GTX 570. If it had more Vram i would probably be able to enable that feature. Currently get highs of 100fps and lows of 50fps running GTX 570's in SLi. SLi profile amazed me how far it actually scales im really impressed with what R* has managed to scale GPU's from different generations

[Maul_T_Pass]

Is anyone else experiencing some slight stutter in cut scene videos? Game play for me is a pretty solid 65 fps, but cuts scenes seem to running at a low fps.

[Articuno76]

Cool GPU list, but paired with which processor?

[MRMagoo123]

newish i5s for intel or higher and I think amd fx8350 4ghz is the recommended for ultra, if that helps.

[samchez77]

Don't forget that until DX12, CPU's still have hell of a lot to do with the final performace outcome. Don't expect those kind of FPS on a Radeon HD 7870 if you are rocking a dual core pentium processor...........

[Xristo]

Totally agree. Even though I have an eVGA 780 Classified, I am experiencing bottlenecking from my i7-920 (6 years old). Maxing out the graphics, I get between high 30s and low 50s FPS @ 1080p in the benchmark tool. I'm sure I would easily hit 60+ if I had a 4790k or similar. Regardless, the game is extremely smooth and well optimized! Loving it!

[samchez77]

Can't wait to play. Mine is D/Ling we speak. I too know from experience. I play on mobile platform......a beautiful radeon HD 8970m, bottlenecked by an average AMD A10 5750m Quad core. Games with high NPC populations tend to fair the worst for me, altough it is ALWAYS luck of the draw. I pull about 50fps on Dying light with High textures & medium shadows/foliage so not doing too bad........ DX12 is what I need to reduce this bottleneck. Or a desktop system which I will be investing in soon. I play on laptops as I can claim the cost on tax due to the nature of my work....;)

[MRMagoo123]

Im using an asus gtx 750ti oc with an amd fx8350 cpu and the games running on ultra with 60fps or more.