Can You Play Red Dead Redemption 2 With The 'Minimum System Requirements' In 2021

Achieving Okay Average Frame Rates but Causing Frame Dips

I've found that achieving okay average frame rates is definitely possible with the 6300, but they often cause frame dips in modern games, which can affect the one and point one percent lows. This isn't always the case, of course, but I'm just speaking from personal experience. For example, I have seen other videos of the 6300 playing Red Dead Redemption just fine and also in pairing with some more powerful graphics cards. However, I'd still recommend the i5 as it does seem to be the stronger and more capable option these days.

Pairing the i5 with the Better of the Two GPUs

If we take the i5 and pair it with the better of the two GPUs, the R9 280, we can expect better results. The R9 280 is a three-gigabyte card, which offers a smoother 1080p experience even at low settings. I was still running at low settings here, but this is probably the best bet with hardware like this. Let's turn things up a bit more and see if we can still maintain a plus 30 fps average. This time around, I switched the textures from low to high, which can be done straight from the game without playing around with the ini file in your documents. I also switched on the fx-a option and turned the taa option up to medium, which removes some of those horrible jaggers and sharpens everything up a bit better.

The CPU Still Causes Dips

Overall, the CPU itself will still cause some dips in busier town areas like Valentine and Sandini. The best minimum specifications config for Red Dead Redemption 2 is a combination of Intel's i5 2500k and AMD's R9 280 GPU.

Other Games: A Comparison

It's time to take a look at how well this setup does in a few other games, because after all building a system for just one title doesn't make too much sense. Cyberpunk demands slightly more in terms of minimum specs and unfortunately, it won't really run very well with less than 30 fps on average at 900p and a whole heap of stutters. The four-core i5 is problematic here and the R9 isn't really up to much either when it comes to tackling Night City's dense streets.

Fortnite Runs Sort of Okay

The result is actually the same whether we have crowd density on high, medium, or low. Fortnite runs sort of okay at 1080p medium. The average is pretty good, but there are some serious frame dips again, likely due to the CPU. In the past, quad-core chips have handled this fine even old i5s like this one. However, over the past couple of months, I've seen some older quad cores start to struggle a bit more than they used to. There will be some spikes to 100 usage on the processor and again overclocking doesn't really help because the limitation is with the core count and not the speed of the chip.

GTA 5 Runs Well

Those who want to enjoy GTA 5 with pretty high settings shouldn't worry, though, as this combo does very well. I was using the very high settings at 1080p but MSAA was disabled because that will severely impact performance. All the game sliders were set to max, so Los Santos is nice and busy and full of pedestrians. The city feels alive and can truly be enjoyed with this setup. Big explosions and stuff will cause the occasional dip below 60, though, so you might want to drop the graphical settings a little bit to counteract this.

Battlefield 5 Runs Poorly

Finally, I tested Battlefield 5, and again, the processor core count is going to be the limiting factor. This sort of goes to show how well the R9 280 is holding up actually, as that has still got some more to give and could be paired with a slightly better CPU.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone and welcome to another video now today we're testing red dead redemption 2 against its minimum system requirements we did this a while back with the recommended specs but i thought why not see how the lower end stuff does we're going to test both the nvidia and amd side of things so rockstar recommend an i5 2500k and gtx 770 for the intel and nvidia system config now the 770 is a two gigabyte card and from previous experience it doesn't hold up too well with red dead though in combination with intel's quad core and eight gigs of dual channel 13 33 megahertz ddr3 it's doing okay at low settings now we're getting a console like frame rate here though visually we are worse off due to the low settings we need to stick to in order to retain this average overclocking the cpu doesn't help here either as the gpu is actually the limiting factor for the time being now red dead redemption 2 may prevent you from actually selecting 1080p in game as you might get a vram limit exceeded warning but this can be overridden by changing the settings yourself in the games folder if we switch to 900p this actually makes for a much more enjoyable experience to be honest and again we are better off sticking to the low graphical options i remember the last time we tested a 770 the game really struggled even at 720p which was odd so maybe it was the specific card i was actually using at the time dropping the game all the way down to 720p doesn't actually improve things all that much perhaps due to the increased cpu load because of this i see no point in running the game at 720p when you're only going to be seeing a few frames more than 900p especially in those busier areas speaking of which we should probably talk about said busier areas because the four cores of the i5 become rather problematic in such instances for example here in valentine the cpu usage ramps up to 100 in some cases causing severe stutter despite this what you're seeing on screen was actually worse than the real world gameplay the high cpu usage played havoc with my recording hardware which it shouldn't have done so that was weird but even so you are going to experience more stutter at this low resolution near busiest settlements this includes valentine strawberry and sandini as well as others speaking of stutter let's switch to the amd am3 plus platform and put the fx 6300 and r9 280 to the test now i didn't test this config for as long or as in depth because i found that right off the bat i was seeing some serious issues these days the fx series chips do tend to struggle maybe not in terms of achieving okay average frame rates but they do often cause frame dips in modern games which will affect the one and point one percent lows this isn't always the case of course but i'm just speaking from personal experience that being said i have seen other videos of the 6300 playing red dead just fine and also in pairing with some more powerful graphics cards but yeah i'd still recommend the i5 as it does seem to be the stronger and more capable option these days what can you expect then if you take the i5 and pair it with the better of the two gpus the r9 280 can the minimum spec intel cpu and minimum spec amd gpu give us better results well it turns out they can the r9 280 is a three gigabyte card and as such offers a smoother 1080p i was still running at low here and this is probably the best bet with hardware like this but let's turn a couple of things up a bit more and see if we can still maintain a plus 30 fps average so this time around i switched the textures from low to high which can be done straight from the game without playing around with the ini file in your documents and i also switched on the fx-a option and turned the taa option up to medium this removes some of those horrible jaggers and sharpens everything up a bit better yet we were still seeing ok numbers average wise though the cpu itself will still cause some dips in busier town areas like valentine and sandini overall the best minimum specifications config for red dead is a combination of intel's i5 2500k and amd's r9 280 gpu if we move on then it's time to take a look at how well this setup does in a few other games because after all building a system for just one title doesn't make too much sense now cyberpunk demands slightly more in terms of minimum specs and unfortunately then cyberpunk won't really run very well with less than 30fps on average at 900p and a whole heap of stutters the four core i5 is problematic here and the r9 isn't really up to much either when it comes to tackling night city's dense streets the result is actually the same whether we have crowd density on high medium or low fortnite runs sort of okay at 1080p medium the average is pretty good but there are some serious frame dips again likely due to the cpu in the past quad core chips have handled this fine even old i5s like this one but over the past couple of months i've seen some older quad cores start to struggle a bit more than they used to there will be some spikes to 100 usage on the processor and again overclocking doesn't really help because the limitation is with the core count and not the speed of the chip those who want to enjoy gta 5 with pretty high settings shouldn't worry though as this combo does very well i was using the very high settings at 1080p though msaa was disabled as that will severely impact performance all the game sliders were set to max so los santos is nice and busy and full of pedestrians the city feels alive and can truly be enjoyed with this setup big explosions and stuff will cause the occasional dip below 60 though so you might want to drop the graphical settings a little bit to counteract this finally then i tested battlefield 5 and again the processor core count is going to be the limiting factor this sort of goes to show how well the r9 280 is holding up actually as that has still got some more to give and could be paired with a slightly better cpu i'm thinking something like an i7 from the same generation perhaps the 2600 or 2600k back to the initial point of this video then and while the 2500k and r9280 two listed minimum spec components for red dead redemption 2 will run the game there will be a few drops when it comes to other games the r9 still has some fight left in it though you are probably best off looking out for an i7 if you want to build a socket 1155 pc in 2021 as the hyper threading will certainly help out quite a bit i remember back when these first chips came out people said that you didn't really need the i7 unless you were doing video editing and the threads didn't really matter for gaming but now it turns out that five or six years later no about 10 years later well they actually do but with all that said i hope you've enjoyed this video a couple of people have been asking me to do a red dead minimum specs test so if you did enjoy this video leave a like on it down below leave a dislike if you didn't subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and hopefully i'll see all of you in the next onehello everyone and welcome to another video now today we're testing red dead redemption 2 against its minimum system requirements we did this a while back with the recommended specs but i thought why not see how the lower end stuff does we're going to test both the nvidia and amd side of things so rockstar recommend an i5 2500k and gtx 770 for the intel and nvidia system config now the 770 is a two gigabyte card and from previous experience it doesn't hold up too well with red dead though in combination with intel's quad core and eight gigs of dual channel 13 33 megahertz ddr3 it's doing okay at low settings now we're getting a console like frame rate here though visually we are worse off due to the low settings we need to stick to in order to retain this average overclocking the cpu doesn't help here either as the gpu is actually the limiting factor for the time being now red dead redemption 2 may prevent you from actually selecting 1080p in game as you might get a vram limit exceeded warning but this can be overridden by changing the settings yourself in the games folder if we switch to 900p this actually makes for a much more enjoyable experience to be honest and again we are better off sticking to the low graphical options i remember the last time we tested a 770 the game really struggled even at 720p which was odd so maybe it was the specific card i was actually using at the time dropping the game all the way down to 720p doesn't actually improve things all that much perhaps due to the increased cpu load because of this i see no point in running the game at 720p when you're only going to be seeing a few frames more than 900p especially in those busier areas speaking of which we should probably talk about said busier areas because the four cores of the i5 become rather problematic in such instances for example here in valentine the cpu usage ramps up to 100 in some cases causing severe stutter despite this what you're seeing on screen was actually worse than the real world gameplay the high cpu usage played havoc with my recording hardware which it shouldn't have done so that was weird but even so you are going to experience more stutter at this low resolution near busiest settlements this includes valentine strawberry and sandini as well as others speaking of stutter let's switch to the amd am3 plus platform and put the fx 6300 and r9 280 to the test now i didn't test this config for as long or as in depth because i found that right off the bat i was seeing some serious issues these days the fx series chips do tend to struggle maybe not in terms of achieving okay average frame rates but they do often cause frame dips in modern games which will affect the one and point one percent lows this isn't always the case of course but i'm just speaking from personal experience that being said i have seen other videos of the 6300 playing red dead just fine and also in pairing with some more powerful graphics cards but yeah i'd still recommend the i5 as it does seem to be the stronger and more capable option these days what can you expect then if you take the i5 and pair it with the better of the two gpus the r9 280 can the minimum spec intel cpu and minimum spec amd gpu give us better results well it turns out they can the r9 280 is a three gigabyte card and as such offers a smoother 1080p i was still running at low here and this is probably the best bet with hardware like this but let's turn a couple of things up a bit more and see if we can still maintain a plus 30 fps average so this time around i switched the textures from low to high which can be done straight from the game without playing around with the ini file in your documents and i also switched on the fx-a option and turned the taa option up to medium this removes some of those horrible jaggers and sharpens everything up a bit better yet we were still seeing ok numbers average wise though the cpu itself will still cause some dips in busier town areas like valentine and sandini overall the best minimum specifications config for red dead is a combination of intel's i5 2500k and amd's r9 280 gpu if we move on then it's time to take a look at how well this setup does in a few other games because after all building a system for just one title doesn't make too much sense now cyberpunk demands slightly more in terms of minimum specs and unfortunately then cyberpunk won't really run very well with less than 30fps on average at 900p and a whole heap of stutters the four core i5 is problematic here and the r9 isn't really up to much either when it comes to tackling night city's dense streets the result is actually the same whether we have crowd density on high medium or low fortnite runs sort of okay at 1080p medium the average is pretty good but there are some serious frame dips again likely due to the cpu in the past quad core chips have handled this fine even old i5s like this one but over the past couple of months i've seen some older quad cores start to struggle a bit more than they used to there will be some spikes to 100 usage on the processor and again overclocking doesn't really help because the limitation is with the core count and not the speed of the chip those who want to enjoy gta 5 with pretty high settings shouldn't worry though as this combo does very well i was using the very high settings at 1080p though msaa was disabled as that will severely impact performance all the game sliders were set to max so los santos is nice and busy and full of pedestrians the city feels alive and can truly be enjoyed with this setup big explosions and stuff will cause the occasional dip below 60 though so you might want to drop the graphical settings a little bit to counteract this finally then i tested battlefield 5 and again the processor core count is going to be the limiting factor this sort of goes to show how well the r9 280 is holding up actually as that has still got some more to give and could be paired with a slightly better cpu i'm thinking something like an i7 from the same generation perhaps the 2600 or 2600k back to the initial point of this video then and while the 2500k and r9280 two listed minimum spec components for red dead redemption 2 will run the game there will be a few drops when it comes to other games the r9 still has some fight left in it though you are probably best off looking out for an i7 if you want to build a socket 1155 pc in 2021 as the hyper threading will certainly help out quite a bit i remember back when these first chips came out people said that you didn't really need the i7 unless you were doing video editing and the threads didn't really matter for gaming but now it turns out that five or six years later no about 10 years later well they actually do but with all that said i hope you've enjoyed this video a couple of people have been asking me to do a red dead minimum specs test so if you did enjoy this video leave a like on it down below leave a dislike if you didn't subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and hopefully i'll see all of you in the next one\n"