Microsoft and Rare’s Sea of Thieves is an absolute blast to play (especially with friends in co-op), having you sail across treacherous seas to steal treasure and swashbuckle your way to victory against hundreds of online opponents. Already, 352,000 gamers spent over 2 million hours pirating and plundering in a recent closed beta, and anticipation for the final version is now growing rapidly ahead of its March 20th release.

Today, Rare has unleashed their system requirements, revealing the hardware they recommend for gaming at 4K (3840x2160), and the more-commonly used 1920x1080, at both 30 FPS and 60 FPS.

Sea of Thieves PC System Requirements

 

720p @ 30fps

1080p @ 30fps

1080p @ 60fps

4K @ 30fps

4K @ 60fps

OS

Windows 10 Anniversary

Windows 10 Anniversary

Windows 10 Anniversary

Windows 10 Anniversary

Windows 10 Anniversary

CPU

Intel Q9450 @2.6GHz or AMD Phenom II X6 @3.3GHz

Intel Q9450 @2.6GHz or AMD Phenom II X6 @3.3GHz

Intel Q9450 @2.6GHz or AMD Phenom II X6 @3.3GHz

Intel Q9450 @2.6GHz or AMD Phenom II X6 @3.3GHz

Intel Q9450 @2.6GHz or AMD Phenom II X6 @3.3GHz

RAM

4GB

8GB

8GB

16GB

16GB

DirectX

11

11

11

11

11

VRAM

1GB

2GB

4GB

8GB

8GB

GPU

GeForce GTX 650

GeForce GTX 660

GeForce GTX 770

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Modern GPU

GeForce GT 1030

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

GeForce GTX 1060

GeForce GTX 1070

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

HDD

60GB 5.4k rpm

60GB 7.2k rpm

60GB 7.2k rpm

60GB SSD

60GB SSD

Graphics

Low ("Common")

Medium ("Rare")

Medium ("Rare")

Ultra ("Mythical")

Ultra ("Mythical")

Sea of Thieves PC System Requirements

As the extensive and fantastically-detailed specs reveal, a GeForce GTX 1060 will enable you to play Sea of Thieves at a solid 60 FPS at 1920x1080, with faster cards enabling hi-res and high framerate gameplay at a variety of different resolutions and graphics presets. However, for the full 4K 60 FPS experience, you’ll need the world’s fastest consumer GPU, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.

If you’re intending to take up the life of a pirate on March 20th, be sure to check GeForce Experience and GeForce.com shortly before that time for our Sea of Thieves Game Ready driver, which will ensure you receive the best experience possible.

Sea of Thieves GeForce GTX Game Ready Key Visual