VALORANT PC System Requirements & Benchmarks

This game is so brutally lightweight that practically any dedicated gaming GPU released since 2020 can run it without breaking a sweat. You can even get away with playing it on an everyday laptop with integrated graphics. Because the barrier to entry is practically non-existent, the first thing you need to lock down is your target framerate.

Just a heads-up on the estimated FPS metrics on this page: they are calculated by purely scaling raw GPU power against the official system requirements. Because of this, you'll see some high-end GPUs theoretically projecting thousands of frames per second. In the real world, no CPU has the horsepower to actually feed those frames. Your actual framerate is going to hard cap somewhere between a few hundred and 1,000 fps.

But don't fall into the trap of thinking, "It's lightweight, so any potato PC will push high frames." That's where this game gets tricky. Given how unforgiving the gunplay is, boosting your 1% lows to eliminate micro-stutters is absolutely non-negotiable. You could have a massive GPU pumping out a 200fps average, but if your CPU is tapped out, it's completely normal to see those 1% lows tank into the 40s.

The bottom line is that while you obviously need GPU power to push frames, your CPU is the real heavy lifter here. Factor in Riot's Vanguard anti-cheat aggressively eating up CPU cycles in the background, and the build strategy becomes obvious. Start your build by picking a CPU that absolutely refuses to bottleneck the rest of your system, and locking in a stable, sky-high framerate will be a breeze.