Starfield PC requirements: Minimum & recommended specs

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Starfield is almost here and, as such, Bethesda has revealed the Starfield PC requirements with minimum and recommended specs.

But this raises as many questions as it does answers, as there is still a lot of uncertainty about what sort of performance these specs will net us and if it will be able to run on the Steam Deck or Asus ROG Ally.

Further muddying the field is AMD dancing around whether or not upscaling technologies such as DLSS and XeSS will be featured in the game.

Players are concerned as it is an AMD-sponsored title and their own FSR2 solution is typically regarded as being the weakest of the three temporal upscalers.

DLSS 3 frame generation has been enabling lower-end RTX 4000 series of cards to pull off astonishing feats and would open the door to higher-refresh rates for budget PC gamers — but the jury is out regarding this, too.

To give us a better idea, we’ll look at the equivalent PC specs of the Xbox Series S and X, which have confirmed performance profiles.

Additionally, we will see how scaleable this is down to handheld systems like the Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally. It would be great to play some Starfield when we're on the go with our favourite handheld gaming PCs while wearing the snazzy Starfield watch.

The minimum PC specs for Starfield are as follows:

Annoyingly, this doesn’t say what kind of experience we can expect — whether it be 1080p at 30 frames per second or something else.

The performance profile of the Xbox Series S is 1440p at 30 frames per second with FSR2 upscaling, so we can look at its equivalent PC specs to see if this is what Bethesda has in mind.

The Series S’s CPU is actually more akin to the Ryzen 2700X, which is more powerful than what they’ve listed here. This might be