The Ascent System Requirements

An Intel Core i5-3470 CPU is required at a minimum to run The Ascent. However, the developers recommend a CPU greater or equal to an Intel Core i7-6700K to play the game. The minimum memory requirement for The Ascent is 8 GB of RAM installed in your computer. Additionally, the game developers recommend somewhere around 16 GB of RAM in your system. Provided that you have at least an AMD Radeon R9 390X graphics card you can play the game. But, according to the developers the recommended graphics card is an AMD Radeon RX 5700. In terms of game file size, you will need at least 35 GB of free disk space available.

The Ascent will run on PC system with Windows 10 x64 and upwards.

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The Ascent FPS - what frame rate can you expect?

How many FPS will I get on The Ascent? We reference thousands of reports from PCGameBenchmark users running our FPS tracking app to tell you exactly how The Ascent performs across a range of different settings and resolutions on the most popular PC gaming setups. Here’s a selection of our most recent test results.

What frame rate does The Ascent run at?

Here are the typical frame rate samples

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
103	Intel Core i7-10750H	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060	16 GB
77	Intel Core i7-2600K	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970	8 GB
46	Intel Core i7-4700MQ	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M	8 GB

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