Indiana Jones and the Great Circle PC specs reveal you'll need RTX 4090 for 4K/60 FPS at max settings

Published: 10:22, 04 December 2024
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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle PC specs reveal you'll need RTX 4090 for 4K/60 FPS at max settings
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is one demanding beast when looking at the official PC specs

Key Points from the Article

  • To achieve 4K/60 FPS with max settings, the Nvidia RTX 4090 is required, which is currently priced at over $2000.
  • To maintain 60 FPS at 4K/Ultra, DLSS 3 must be set to Performance and Frame Generation must be enabled.
  • Without path tracing, an RTX 4080 is needed to hit 60 FPS at 4K native and Ultra settings.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is one demanding beast when looking at the official PC specs

Machine Games' highly anticipated action-adventure Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is one demanding beast. 

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is set to launch on Friday for the owners of the Premium Edition and today, Machine Games and Bethesda finally shared the official minimum and recommended system requirements for all PC players who are eagerly anticipating this action adventure. 

As you may have heard before, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle features full ray-tracing also known as path-tracing, which means it will require a very beefy hardware and that's exactly what we're seeing in the official PC specs sheet below.

To play Indiana Jones and the Great Circle at 4K/60 FPS and max settings, you'll need the world's most powerful graphics card - Nvidia RTX 4090, which costs over $2000 at the moment.

But it gets worse. The notes at the bottom of the sheet mention that in order to achieve 60 FPS at 4K/Ultra, you'll need to set DLSS 3 to Performance and turn on Frame Generation. 

If this is indeed necessary to run the game at 60 FPS, then Indiana Jones and The Great Circle is probably unplayable without upscalers at high resolutions and ray-tracing.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle PC specs

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle PC specs sheet
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle PC specs sheet is highly detailed with separate specs for path-tracing
Obviously, path tracing is very demanding and I can't really recall a game that runs great when you turn on this tech. Games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Black Myth Wukong which both have path tracing will use every bit of GPU power you have to reach 60 FPS so turning on this feature is usually not recommended, even if you have a top-of-the-line PC.

If you thought that turning off path tracing will make Indiana Jones and the Great Circle playable at higher frame rates across various GPUs, well, you're wrong.

Without path tracing, you'll need Nvidia RTX 4080 to hit 60 FPS at 4K native and Ultra settings. Keep in mind that this preset still has some form of ray-tracing hence such a high GPU requirement.

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle screenshot showing ancient egypt pyramids
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a gorgeous game but does it really justify the requirement for RTX 4090?
Under Minimum settings, Machine Games recommend a ray-tracing capable GPU like Nvidia RTX 2060 Super or AMD RX 6600 to run the game at 1080p, low settings. 

Interestingly, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle seems to be very CPU demanding too so Machine Games recommend you at least have a Ryzen 7700 or Intel i7 12700k or better. For higher resolutions and settings, the team state you'll need CPUs like Ryzen 9 7900X, a 12-core beast from AMD.

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