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Can I run Unreal Engine 5?

Unreal Engine 5 by Epic Games: the publisher’s own system requirements, checked against your exact laptop.

Minimum requirements

Not yet verified.

Recommended requirements

CPU: Quad-core Intel or AMD, 2.5 GHz or faster
GPU: DirectX 12 compatible graphics card with the latest drivers; 8 GB or more graphics RAM
RAM: 32 GB
OS: Windows 11

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Which laptops can reach 32 GB of RAM?

257 of 317 laptops in our database support at least 32 GB of RAM (the model’s documented maximum). That is capacity, not what ships in the box — check your exact configuration, and see whether your model’s RAM can be upgraded.

Where these requirements come from

Epic Games (Unreal Engine docs) — Hardware and Software Specifications for Unreal Engine (5.8) · retrieved 9/19/2026

recommended: Windows specification for Unreal Engine 5.8; macOS requirements are documented separately by Epic.

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