The Ascent System Requirements

The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an AMD Radeon R9 390X. Furthermore, an AMD Radeon RX 5700 is recommended in order to run The Ascent with the highest settings. The minimum memory requirement for The Ascent is 8 GB of RAM installed in your computer. If possible, make sure your have 16 GB of RAM in order to run The Ascent to its full potential. An Intel Core i5-3470 CPU is required at a minimum to run The Ascent. However, the developers recommend a CPU greater or equal to an Intel Core i7-6700K to play the game. In terms of game file size, you will need at least 35 GB of free disk space available.

The Ascent will run on PC system with Windows 10 x64 and upwards.

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The Ascent FPS - what frame rate can you expect?

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

What frame rate does The Ascent run at?

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
77	Intel Core i7-2600K	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970	8 GB

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