Want to max out Far Cry 3 in all its glory? It appears that you’ll need an ample amount of hardware grunt to do so, as outed in the official PC requirements released by Ubisoft today. Recommended is the latest quad core CPU, a GTX680, and a whopping 8GB RAM to fully crank up all settings. Additionally, the specs reveal that it’ll leverage DX11.

The good news is that Far Cry 3 will scale to lesser setups as well, including those with DX9 graphics cards. More or less expected since it’s a port of a console game, but still welcomed. Without further ado, here’s the full list of required specs:

Minimum Specs
DirectX9c graphics card with 512MB Video RAM
Dual core CPU
4GB Memory

Example minimum 1 (NVidia/Intel)
NVidia GTX8800
Intel Core2 Duo E6700

Example minimum 2 (AMD)
AMD Radeon HD2900
AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+

Recommended Specs
DirectX11 graphics card with 1024MB Video RAM
Quad core CPU
4GB Memory

Example recommended 1 (NVidia/Intel)
NVidia GTX480
Intel Core i3-530
Example recommended 2 (AMD)
AMD Radeon HD5770
AMD Phenom II X2 565

Hi-Performance Specs
Latest DirectX11 graphics card
Latest quad core CPU
8GB Memory

Example hi-performance (NVidia/Intel)
NVidia GTX680
Intel Core i7-2600K

Example hi-performance (AMD)
AMD Radeon HD7970
AMD Bulldozer FX4150

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