Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will need a GeForce RTX 4090 for 4K 60FPS ray tracing

Bethesda and Machine Games have released the PC hardware specs and requirements for the highly anticipated Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which is set to launch on December 9. If you plan on picking this up or jumping in via PC Game Pass, fair warning: you'll need a pretty powerful PC to don the iconic fedora of one of cinema's greatest heroes.

2

On PC, the game will feature a 'Full Ray Tracing Mode' (which looks to be arriving in a post-launch update), ala Alan Wake II, Black Myth: Wukonh, Cyberpunk 2077, and NVIDIA's own Portal with RTX. According to the PC specs for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, you'll need a GeForce RTX 4090 with DLSS 3 and Frame Generation enabled to enjoy the game's 'Full Ray Tracing' or path tracing mode at 4K 60 FPS.

But what about no ray tracing? You're still looking at a game that will be very demanding. The recommended GPU for 1440p 60 FPS without RT is a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti or a Radeon RX 7700 XT. To play the game at 1080p with 'Low' settings, you'll need a GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER.

It's pretty hefty, but it's not hard to see why - the game's latest 'Launch Trailer' visuals look fantastic. We can only imagine what the 'Full Ray Tracing' version looks like. Path tracing is so hardware intensive because it utilizes ray tracing for all lighting effects you see on screen, from shadows to reflections to global illumination. The minimum GPU requirement for 1080p ray tracing, with DLSS 3, in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a GeForce RTX 4070 GPU.

Here's a breakdown of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's PC requirements.

Here's a breakdown of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's 'Full Ray Tracing' PC requirements.

Yeah, it looks like we need the GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090. We wouldn't be surprised if this game's 'Full Ray Tracing' mode debuts at CES 2025 as part of NVIDIA's big GeForce RTX 50 Series 'Blackwell' unveiling.