God of War RTX 3080 ready,official requirements

We’ve known since its announcement that the Nordic epic will feature Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR upscaling technology so you can boost fps, which truly makes use of God of War’s uncapped frame rate. Nvidia Reflex is also no surprise, and should make the game more responsive when you’re stringing combos together. DLSS uses Tensor Cores, so you won’t be able to enjoy it if you’re running anything less than an RTX graphics card, but Reflex is available to anyone using a GeForce 900 series GPU or later, and FSR is ready for everyone – regardless of hardware.

There is also a wealth of PC-specific features designed to lean into the PC’s capabilities, such as higher detail assets and rendering resolutions, enhanced Ground Truth Ambient Occlusion (GTAO), and Screen Space Directional Occlusion (SSDO) effects. Even more impressive, storage requirements are actually 10GB lower than initial estimates, at a lean 70GB.

Your PC will need DirectX 12 support and a 64-bit Windows 10 at version 1809 or above to run God of War. The developers also recommend you store the game on a gaming SSD to make area transitions seamless.

So my laptop can play it somewhere between high and performance

Played this game back in 2018 😎 but may everyone enjoy this version!

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Looks like it will be well optimized.

how about 4k 120fps?rtx 3090 sli?

I'm sure the 2 people in the world still using SLI will be excited for that. If it even has SLI support.

Yup, looks like I can run this. Another 50/50 buy, though I feel more inclined to get this eventually than Uncharted.

Sony seem to be stepping up their PC support. Just today, they've released another patch for HZD to add DLSS.

Shit port confirmed.

I'll probably pick this up. My PC should be good for 4K 30fps at least. looks good.

@madrocketeer: Oh thats a nice surprise. i must get back into HZD. I was quite happy with the TAA with CAS setup in terms of image quality so i'll be interested to see if FSR does one better.

Nice to see they are giving the shader situation another look too. its was still a bit of a mess last time i played. a lot of stuttering on initial loading due to shader compilation. sadly no mention of integrating steams shader distribution system :(.

Totally meet the "Performance" specs (and with my new CPU 5900X) so 1440p/165hz is my prefer settings.

I love stealing the only reason to own a Playstation, and it being substantially better on PC.

You realize that you basically need a PC more powerful than the PRO to play it at PS4 settings. Still need to see if there are actual graphics settings and the actual performance but all of this points to meh-bad optimization.

1060 for 1080p/30? Definitely a sh*t port like HZD. It ran with on a freaking cell phone CPU and a mid range 2010-2011 GPU.

@glez13: 🤷 I didn't even bother looking at 1080p requirements as it doesn't pertain to me.

Need to wait for benchmarks. Could be a 1060 gets like 45-50fps at 1080p. Not quite 60 but much higher than 30 too.

its funny how a game like this which was originally developed for a 2tflop machine, the ps4, then scaled up to work on the 3.8tflop ps4 and then the 9 tflop ps5, can't run on ultra on anything less than a 30tflop card like the 3080. Talk about craptastic developers.

Hermits are mad because their $10 000 NASA computer has a hard time with genre defininting SONY exclusives. Be glad we gave you the game. If it wasn't for us, you'd be playing pre pre pre pre pre alpha of Star Citizen for the next 15 years.

You usually need a beefy GPU to run 4k/60 Ultra, nothing new.

4k over 1080p is a 4x jump in pixels. A jump from 2tflop to 30tflop is 15x. I wonder what they're going to use that extra power for?

@blaznwiipspman1:

Will modders improve it?

If you read the OP you'd know.

"There is also a wealth of PC-specific features designed to lean into the PC’s capabilities, such as higher detail assets and rendering resolutions, enhanced Ground Truth Ambient Occlusion (GTAO), and Screen Space Directional Occlusion (SSDO) effects."

Not sure why you're comparing Tflops either, it's proven to be a shit metric.

this is just sad. How the heck does it take a 30tflop card to render this game that should run at 4k on the ps5 fine. The ps5 hardware is literally off the shelf PC components, which just makes this all the worse. If this game doesn't look 3x better on the pc than it does on the ps5, its a major flop and shows how little talent the pc developers have.

@blaznwiipspman1: "Not sure why you're comparing Tflops either, it's proven to be a shit metric."

RTX 3080 29.77 TFlop

RX 6800 XT 20.74 TFlop

These cards will perform about the same. Tflops are a worthless metric.

LOL. As an astronomy and space exploration enthusiast, it always amuses me when people casually cite NASA as possessing some kind of pinnacle of computational power, considering they went to the Moon on less computational power than a pocket calculator, and went to Pluto with a MIPS CPU that's less than half as fast as the PS1's.

Anyway, just having a quick chuckle. Carry on.

oh right I made a mistake, the 3080 isn't a 30tflop card, its closer to the 20tflop of the radeon 6800xt. I believe 10tflop is dedicated to the AI engine for the dsl technology.

It's ok that you have no clue what you're talking about, plenty of people say silly stuff when they're try hard trolling and failing at it.

Can easily run this in performance mode, not sure I’ll bother to pick it up again though, great game regardless though!

im not trolling though...its been a while but I did read a review at one point saying the AI hardware and dsl technology took up a big chunk of the gpu die. It doesn't even do anything for the raw performance, but solely focused on the AI machine learning.

PS5 is faster than 3080, so who cares.

This is definitely something I plan on picking up - had my eye on it for a long time, and the PC port seems a good kick in the butt to finally get on it

Definitely going to be more fun in co-op. Playing it on heroic solo and it is presenting a good challenge.

So I guess, 1800p ultra maybe.

I have been wanting to play this game again! It was a fantastic looking and fun game on the PS4 Pro. I held off playing again on the PS5 because rumor mill was buzzing about coming to PC. Can't wait to see how it turns out. With the additional features it looks like they spent more dev time on porting this one (I hope).

I will definitely be in the ultra camp. My monitor isn't as demanding as full 4k...3840x1600 @144 (LG 38" ultrawide) but my rig should chew thru it just fine. Custom hard loop on both a 3090 and 10900k. Bring on some Kratos I say!

@lamprey263: ?

Men that's some shitty port right there.

3080 steamrolls 6800xt. The 6800xt has no tensor cores or dlss.

Straight up clueless. DLSS adds huge amounts of performance and image quality gains. There is a reason why nobody buys 6000 series cards for pc gaming.

I'm aware of the 3080's advantages, I own a 3080.

They should include PS4, PS4Pro and PS5 setting presets, then we would know for sure if the requirement are inflated because of bad optimization or because PC setting are much higher overall when compared to what they have on consoles. Looking at how outdated the game looks when rendered in crisp resolution on PC, I'd say we are definitely dealing with another bad port here.

@rmpumper: Outdated 😂

Now that i think of it, hermits never thanked us, cows, for this game. Can you at least thank us for giving you a GOTY title? Have some respect.

One of the top 5 best games of the generation - Hermits enjoy this masterpiece. Also it'll probably look mind blowing on PC with RTX 3080.

The PS5 (PS4P+) version is already better looking than almost any other console game and 99% of PC games.

@rmpumper: God of War is even on PS5 which is a 4 year old PS4 port, is graphically superior to almost anything on PC.

The PC version of GoW is graphics king potential.

@Gatygun: Nah, just has way better graphics than the typical shitty games you're used too. like AssCreed, Far Cry, Tomb Raider and other mediocre looking multiplats that Hermits shill over in 4K/Ultra

Can't recommend Uncharted 4 to anyone but this one is definitely worth it.

Could be that the requirements are overrated which is usually the case. However I just took it as an example. Requirements for any settings level makes no sense at all.

It's cute that GoW 4 fans invented a new genre just because their precious title has the sh*ttiest gameplay wrt to other HnS games.