Bandai Namco has unveiled the full Tekken 8 PC system requirements and overall, they’re pretty manageable—but, just like fellow fighting game Mortal Kombat 1 earlier this year, it’s going to suck up an awful lot of your PC’s storage space.
At the low end, you can get away with a Core i5 or Ryzen 5 1600 CPU, a GTX 1050 Ti, and “over 8GB” RAM, although the Steam page says 8GB will do you fine. But there’s no overlooking that install footprint: SSDs are bigger and cheaper than ever, but 100GB’s not nothing. That’s especially true if you’re a committed fighting game fan and want to have Street Fighter 6, Mortal Kombat 1, and Tekken 8 all installed at once, which would collectively eat up a whopping 260GB of space. Yowzah.
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Okay, back to the matter at hand—let’s talk numbers. Here’s what you’re going to need to play Tekken 8, and what you can expect your rig to deliver:
Minimum (HD)—Resolution 1920×1080, rendering quality preset Low
OS: Windows 10 64-bitProcessor: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 or Intel Core i5-6600KMemory: Over 8GBVRAM: Over 4GGraphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti or AMD Radeon R9 380XDirectX: Version 12 Network: Broadband Internet connectionStorage: 100GB AvailableSound card: DirectX compatible soundcard or onboard chipset
Recommended (HD)—Resolution 1920×1080, rendering quality preset Middle
OS: Windows 10 64-bitProcessor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 or Intel Core i7-7700KMemory: Over 16GB VRAM: Over 8GBGraphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 2070 or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XTDirectX: Version 12 Network: Broadband Internet connectionStorage: 100GB Available (SSD Recommended)Sound card: DirectX compatible soundcard or onboard chipset
Minimum (4K)—Resolution 3840×2160, rendering quality preset Low
OS: Windows 10 64-bitProcessor: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 or Intel Core i5-6600KMemory: Over 8GB VRAM: Over 4GBGraphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 or AMD Radeon RX 6500 XTDirectX: Version 12 Network: Broadband Internet connectionStorage: 100GB AvailableSound card: DirectX compatible soundcard or onboard chipset
Recommended (4K)—Resolution 3840×2160, rendering quality preset High
(This is where your PC gets to show its power, much like Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada threatening to drop the hammer on some poor streamer who was just minding his own business in the closed network test.)
OS: Windows 10 64-bitProcessor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 or Intel Core i7-7700KMemory: Over 16GBVRAM: Over 8GBGraphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 6700 XTDirectX: Version 12Network: Broadband Internet connectionStorage: 100 GB available space (SSD recommended)Sound card: DirectX compatible soundcard or onboard chipset
Tekken 8 is set to launch on January 25, 2024, and is available for pre-purchase now on Steam.
