Hollow Knight System Requirements

The minimum memory requirement for Hollow Knight is 4 GB of RAM installed in your computer. Additionally, the game developers recommend somewhere around 8 GB of RAM in your system. To play Hollow Knight you will need a minimum CPU equivalent to an Intel Pentium E5200. Whereas, an Intel Core i5-650 is recommended in order to run it. In terms of game file size, you will need at least 9 GB of free disk space available. Provided that you have at least an NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX graphics card you can play the game. But, according to the developers the recommended graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560.

Hollow Knight will run on PC system with Windows 7 and upwards. Additionally it has Mac and Linux versions.

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Hollow Knight FPS - what frame rate can you expect?

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

What frame rate does Hollow Knight run at?

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
304	Intel Core i7-7700	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050	16 GB
250	Intel Core i3-10100F	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER	16 GB
233	Intel Core i5-10400F	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	16 GB
72	Intel Core i5-10210U	Intel UHD	16 GB
46	Intel Core i5-4310U	Intel HD Family	12 GB

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