Gaming
Can the Precision 3480 run Borderlands 2?
Minimum requirements
Meets minimum requirements
Meets recommended requirements
The publisher lists Radeon HD 2600 (tier 1); we compare against the highest-class alternative, so the requirement is tier 1. GPU option (unpaired with CPU options) — NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU: PASS. NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU is tier 3; the requirement is tier 1.
How this was judged
Graphics chips are compared by class (an 8-tier rubric), not by benchmark score. The same tier as the requirement is only ever “likely”. Read the tier rubric and its limitations.
- Borderlands 2 system requirements · publisher requirements
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units · secondary source (Wikipedia), spec facts only
- Manufacturer spec page for this configuration · manufacturer
Published requirements
Minimum requirements
- CPU
- 2.4 GHz Dual Core Processor
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce 8500 /ATI Radeon HD 2600
- RAM
- 2 GB
- OS
- Windows XP SP3; macOS: 10.12 (Sierra)
Recommended requirements
- CPU
- 2.3 GHz Quad Core processor
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 / ATI Radeon HD 5850
- RAM
- 2 GB
- OS
- Windows XP SP3/Vista/Win 7; macOS: 10.12 (Sierra)
Sources and limits
How we know this · Report an error
- Valve (Steam) — Borderlands 2 on Steam — System Requirements · retrieved 10/6/2026
The laptop’s figures come from its verified specification page. Requirements are the publisher’s and can change. This compares the laptop with the publisher’s listed native requirements — it does not account for emulation, translation layers or cloud gaming. See how we verify the specs.