Black Desert Online System Requirements

An Intel Core i3-530 CPU is required at a minimum to run Black Desert Online. However, the developers recommend a CPU greater or equal to an Intel Core i5-650 to play the game. In terms of Black Desert Online file size, you will need at least 27GB available. The recommended requirements from the developers suggest you have 27GB space in order to install the game. Provided that you have at least an ATI Radeon HD 3870 graphics card you can play the fantasy game. Futhermore, an AMD Radeon RX 480 is recommended in order to run Black Desert Online with the highest settings. The minimum memory requirement for Black Desert Online is 4GB installed in your computer. If possible, make sure your have 8GB in order to run Black Desert Online to its full potential.

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Black Desert Online will run on PC system with Windows 7 or higher (32-bit or 64-bit) and upwards.

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Black Desert Online FPS - what frame rate can you expect?

How many FPS will I get on Black Desert Online? We reference thousands of reports from PCGameBenchmark users running our FPS tracking app to tell you exactly how Black Desert Online performs across a range of different settings and resolutions on the most popular PC gaming setups.

What frame rate does Black Desert Online run at?

Here are the typical frame rate samples

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
95	Intel Core i7-14700F	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060	32 GB
81	Intel Core i5-10400F	AMD Radeon RX 6600	32 GB
50	Intel Core i9-9900K	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti	16 GB
33	Intel Core i7-8750H	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti	16 GB
30	Intel Core i7-4790	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030	8 GB

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