Only a few days after the publication of the recommended system requirements, IO Interactive has revised its copy.
After numerous postponements, the new video game based on the James Bond franchise - the first in over twelve years - has finally been given a firm release date of May 27. As if to confirm that this date will be the right one, the Danish studio in charge of the project published in the middle of last week the first configurations required to run the PC version of the game. " First configurations ", because this information only concerned 1080p image definition.
However, this was enough to set the wheels in motion, as the configurations evoked by studio IO Interactive were worrying to say the least, with, for example, 32 GB of RAM required simply to run the game in 1080p at 60 frames per second! For minimum requirements, we were already talking about 16 GB of RAM and 8 GB of video memory, with at least an Intel Core i5 9500K processor.
The two new configurations presented © IO Interactive
Very quickly, IO Interactive stepped in to explain that the publication of the previous configurations was linked to " an internal misunderstanding that led to the sharing of an old version of the specifications ". Admittedly, we find this a little hard to believe, especially since while changes have indeed been made to the game's hardware requirements, there are still some grey areas.
Minimum system requirements:
- Operating system: Windows 10/11 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-9500 or AMD Ryzen 5 3500
- RAM: 16 GB
- Graphics card: NVIDIA GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon RX 5700 or equivalent Intel graphics card
- Video memory: 6 GB
- Disk space: 80 GB minimum
- Operating system: Windows 10/11 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-13500 or AMD Ryzen 5 7600
- RAM: 16 GB
- Graphics card: NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 6700XT or equivalent Intel graphics card
- Video memory: 8 GB
- Disk space: 80 GB minimum
As you may have noticed, we're now talking "only" about 16 GB of memory for 1080p gaming, and this applies to both configurations. On the other hand, if the "K" of the Intel Core i5-9500 processor disappears, we still see a clear gap between AMD's Raeon RX 5700 and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1660. What's more, this does nothing to resolve the question of what is required to play at a slightly more "2026" definition: 32 GB for 1440p and 64 GB for 2160p?
