Sea Of Thieves doesn't have a built-in benchmark, so my performance testing is based off live gameplay in the game's Adventure mode. However, if you do find your PC's struggling to run Sea Of Thieves smoothly, then you'll find everything you need to know about how to get the best performance below, including which settings you can turn off (or tone down) to help improve your frame rate. From experience, though, I've found that the GTX 1080 Ti is more or less on par with Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2070 or RTX 2070 Super these days, while a Vega 64 gives you pretty identical performance to AMD's Radeon RX 5700 XT, so anyone with one of these cards should be able to bump their resolution up to 4K no problem. Meanwhile, the extreme 4K spec doesn't have a modern equivalent just yet as the recommended cards are only a couple of years old.

For the minimum specs, you're looking at an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1030 or AMD Radeon R7 450, while the recommended specs effectively equate to an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 470. To help us even further, Rare have provided modern equivalents for their rather aged GPU requirements over on their official Sea Of Thieves PC Requirements page. GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti / AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 / AMD Radeon R9 380XĮxtreme PC requirements: (4K, Ultra, 60fps)ĬPU: Intel Core i7-4790 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Recommended PC requirements: (1080p, Medium, 60fps) GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 / AMD Radeon 7750 Here they are in full: Minimum PC requirements: (720p, Low, 30fps)ĬPU: Intel Q9450 2.6GHz / AMD Phenom II X6 3.3GHz Even Rare's recommended specs for playing the game at 60fps at 1920x1080 on Medium or 'Rare' settings aren't that demanding, so you should be able to get Sea Of Thieves running reasonably well even if you haven't upgraded your PC for a number of years. The good news is that Sea Of Thieves' PC requirements are pretty manageable. After all, as one of the best pirate games on PC, not to mention one of the best PC games to play in ultrawide, it would be a shame not to see this game at its very best. After years of roaming the secluded waters of Xbox Game Pass and the Microsoft Windows Store, Sea Of Thieves has finally sailed onto Steam, and to help you make sure your PC is in ship shape condition, I've put together this handy guide on how to get the best performance from Rare's pirate adventure so you're not left lurching from one frame to the next as you plunder the high seas.īelow, you'll find everything you need to get started with Sea Of Thieves, including the game's PC requirements and which settings you can turn off to help keep that frame rate hoisted nice and high.

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