After the wildly successful Battlefield 6 open beta that ran earlier in August, EA has released the specs your PC will need to play the next installment in the popular multiplayer shooter series.
There aren’t too many surprises on the specs list EA revealed in a blog post Thursday. Players with graphics cards as old as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (released in 2019 and 2020, respectively) with at least 6GB of virtual RAM can play Battlefield 6. That’s reasonably inclusive for gamers running on older PCs, though they’ll need at least 16GB of standard RAM and will only be able to play in 1080p resolution at 30 frames per second.
For 1440p gaming at 60 fps, the publisher recommends players employ the next generation of GPUs: at least an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT with 8GB of VRAM. Players clamoring for frame rates above 80 fps may have to lower their resolution and graphics settings.
For peak settings of either 4K gaming at 60 fps or 1440p gaming at 144 fps, EA recommends at least an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 or AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT with 16GB of VRAM. Gamers at this level will need 32GB of standard RAM and more powerful CPUs, like the Intel Core i9-12900k or AMD Ryzen 7 7900X3D, to avoid bottlenecking.
While not quite as hefty as recent Call of Duty install sizes, Battlefield 6 will require 90GB of storage space at launch — or 55GB if running minimum specs for 1080p gaming.
A reminder for players who didn’t dip into the open beta: To play Battlefield 6, you’ll need to enable Secure Boot on your PC to work with EA’s new generation of Javelin anti-cheat tech. This is not optional and requires changing settings in BIOS. It can be a quick process for gamers with newer motherboards, though those with complex or older setups can run into trouble. When EA started requiring Secure Boot to play Battlefield 2042 and others in the series back in May, some players said they were able to switch easily while others took hours to fix their machines.
EA has posted a guide to enabling Secure Boot, which has a lengthy list of motherboards that players can search among to find their equipment’s brand and step-by-step instructions to make the switch. The r/Battlefield subreddit also posted a Secure Boot megathread to help players turn the feature on.
It doesn’t seem like EA will budge on this requirement, so anyone wanting to play Battlefield 6 on its Oct. 10 launch day should enable Secure Boot to prepare. If that’s a dealbreaker, Battlefield 6 will also be available on PS5 and Xbox Series X and S.
