Can your PC run Palworld? (2026)
Pocketpair's creature-collecting survival game, now out of Early Access (Steam lists 9 July 2026). The official GPU ask is modest: a 6 GB GTX 1660 minimum and an RTX 3060 Ti or RX 6700 XT recommended. The bigger surprise is system memory, at 32 GB recommended, because Pocketpair warns performance varies with how many Pals are active.
The short answer
Palworld needs a bare minimum of 6 GB of VRAM to launch. For a good experience you want 8 GB and a RTX 3060 Ti / RX 6700 XT at 1080p. VRAM is the hard wall — fall under it and you get stutter and texture pop-in no matter how fast the card is.
What Palworld asks for
| Resolution | VRAM floor | Recommended GPU |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | 8 GB | RTX 3060 Ti / RX 6700 XTOfficial recommended (Steam). Pocketpair states no resolution or frame-rate target; shown at 1080p here. VRAM derived from the smallest listed card. 32 GB RAM and an SSD recommended. No 1440p or 4K tier published. |
| 1440p | No official 1440ptier published by the developer — we don't invent one. | |
| 4K | No official 4Ktier published by the developer — we don't invent one. | |
Will your graphics card cope?
A green/amber/red read on VRAM only — enough memory to hold Palworld's textures at that resolution without thrashing. It doesn't promise a frame rate (that's the recommended-GPU column above); it tells you whether a card clears the memory wall.
| GPU | VRAM | 1080p | 1440p | 4K |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 5090NVIDIA | 32 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RTX 4090NVIDIA | 24 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RX 7900 XTXAMD | 24 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RTX 3090NVIDIA | 24 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RX 7900 XTAMD | 20 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RTX 5060 Ti 16GBNVIDIA | 16 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RTX 5070 TiNVIDIA | 16 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RTX 5080NVIDIA | 16 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RX 9060 XT 16GBAMD | 16 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RX 9070 XTAMD | 16 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RTX 4070 Ti SuperNVIDIA | 16 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RX 7600 XTAMD | 16 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16GBNVIDIA | 16 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RX 7800 XTAMD | 16 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RTX 4080NVIDIA | 16 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RTX 5070NVIDIA | 12 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| Arc B580Intel | 12 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RTX 4070NVIDIA | 12 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RTX 3060 12GBNVIDIA | 12 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RX 6700 XTAMD | 12 GB | Comfortable | — | — |
| RTX 3080 10GBNVIDIA | 10 GB | Enough | — | — |
| RTX 5060NVIDIA | 8 GB | Enough | — | — |
| RTX 4060NVIDIA | 8 GB | Enough | — | — |
| RTX 4060 Ti 8GBNVIDIA | 8 GB | Enough | — | — |
| RX 7600AMD | 8 GB | Enough | — | — |
| RTX 3060 TiNVIDIA | 8 GB | Enough | — | — |
| RTX 3070NVIDIA | 8 GB | Enough | — | — |
| GTX 1660 SuperNVIDIA | 6 GB | Short | — | — |
| RTX 2060NVIDIA | 6 GB | Short | — | — |
How this is worked out — and its limit
The requirement tiers come from Steam store page (official PC requirements) — the publisher's own stated specs.
The green/amber/red verdict is computed from each card's real, fixed VRAM against that floor. VRAM is a genuine hard limit — under it, textures spill to system memory and the game stutters regardless of raw speed.
What it is not: a frame-rate promise. Two cards with the same VRAM can play very differently, and upscaling (DLSS / FSR) shifts the maths. We don't publish an FPS number because we don't run our own game benchmarks (editorial policy). Use the recommended-GPU column for the speed question, this table for the memory one.
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