Will you need to sell your house to play in 4K with Returnal?

Look you’re a fishbowl, but there are times when you want to wrap the blanket around your head and stop complicating your life. Why am I going to update my computer to try to take advantage of a title like Return in 4K and 60 frames per second if I have a PlayStation 5 on the market that already does it for an extraordinarily lower price? Given the demands that Sony’s game demands on the PC, do you think you’ll have to do something like this?

Requirements and release date

We have known for a few weeks that Return This was going to be the last Sony exclusive

walking the p ath between the PlayStation ecosystem and computers. Now, unlike almost everything we’ve had so far (God of the war

, Horizon Zero Dawn, Uncharted 4etc.) is next to Spider-Man Miles Morales the only one that made it from the PS5 and next-gen shore, so we wanted to check what hardware we were going to need to enjoy a console-like 4K/60fps spectacle.

And the answer was not long in coming because Sony has made public two important data around the launch of Return on PC: on the one hand, the release date, which has been set for February 15, and on the other hand, the technical prerequisites to enjoy it at different resolutions. From the most basic 720p (Steam Deck, for example), to the highest 4K and 1080p in different medium and high quality alternatives.

Anyway, here are the things in terms of PC technical requirements:

HD resolution (720p) at 60fps

Graphics Settings: Bajo
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 580 (8 GB)
Processor: Intel Core i5-6400 (4 cores 2.7 GHz) or AMD Ryzen 5 1500X (4 cores 3.5 GHz)
RAM memory: 16 GB DDR4
Disk space: 60 GB hard drive (SSD recommended)

FullHD (1080p) resolution at 60fps

Graphics Settings: Medium
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (6 GB)
Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 (6 cores 2.8 GHz) or AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (6 cores 3.4 GHz)
RAM memory: 16 GB DDR4
Disk space: 60 GB SSD

FullHD (1080p) resolution at 60fps

Graphics Settings: Alto
Graphics card: NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super (8 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (12 GB)

Processor: Intel i7-8700 (6 cores 3.7 GHz) or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X (8 cores 3.7 GHz)
RAM memory: 16 GB DDR4
Disk space: 60 GB SSD

Return.

Performance mode at 60 fps

Graphics settings: Epico
Graphics card: NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti (12 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT (16 GB)
Processor: Intel i9-11900K (8 cores 3.5 GHz) or AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (12 cores 3.7 GHz)
RAM memory: 32 GB DDR4
Disk space: 60 GB SSD

4K resolution (2160p) at 60fps

Graphics settings: Epico
Graphics card: NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti (12 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (16 GB)
Processor: Intel i7-9700K (8 cores 3.7 GHz) or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (8 cores 3.6 GHz)
RAM memory: 32 GB DDR4
Disk space: 60 GB SSD

As you can see, play with Return in 4K you won’t need to change your house because the GPU doesn’t even need an NVIDIA 40XX series or its AMD equivalent, so you can breathe easy. Things haven’t gotten too out of control and with very little you invest in the PC, you can still consider gaming in 4K. Not?