Ubisoft has released the minimum and recommended PC specifications for Rainbow Six Siege, the online-only multiplayer first-person shooter in the Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six franchise.
In a blog post from Ubisoft, the company has listed hardware requirements for PC players looking to play Rainbow Six Siege next month:
MINIMUM
Supported OS
Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64bit versions required)Processor
Intel Core i3 560 @ 3.3 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 945 @ 3.0 GHzRAM
6GBVideo Card
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD 5870 (DirectX-11 compliant with 1GB of VRAM) [See list of supported video cards down below]DVD ROM Drive
DVD-ROM Dual LayerSound
DirectX® 9.0c compatible sound card with latest driversHard Drive
30GBMultiplayer
Broadband connection with 256kbps upstream or fasterRECOMMENDED
Supported OS
Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64bit versions required)Processor
Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.3 GHz or better or AMD FX-8120 @ 3.1 Ghz or betterRAM
8GBVideo Card
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 (or GTX 760 / GTX 960) or AMD Radeon HD 7970 (or R9 280x [2GB VRAM] / R9 380 / Fury X) [See list of supported video cards down below]DVD ROM Drive
DVD-ROM Dual LayerSound
DirectX® 9.0c compatible sound card 5.1 with latest driversHard Drive
47GBMultiplayer
Broadband connection with 512kbps upstream or faster
Ubisoft also listed all of the graphics cards that will be supported at launch:
NVIDIA
GeForce GTX 460 or better, GTX 560 or better, GTX 650 or better, GTX 750 or better, or any card from the GT900 and Titan SeriesAMD
Radeon HD5870 or better, HD6870 or better, HD7770 or better, R7 260X or better, or any card from the R-300 series and Fury X
The developer notes that the laptop versions of those graphics cards may work, but are not technically supported. Ubisoft says they may add other graphics cards to the list of supported cards after Rainbow Six Siege’s launch, but does not promise anything in that regard.
Last week, Ubisoft detailed its post-launch content plans for Rainbow Six Siege, which launches Dec. 1 on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
Source: Ubisoft