The 007 First Light system requirements

Updated 007 First Light system requirements are here, and while initial specs looked quite demanding, the latest specs are much more sensible. For what looks to be a cinematic experience that could rival the likes of L.A. Noire and Mafia: The Old Country, IO Interactive's latest won't take a colossal toll on your rig. Running the game at a setting that meets the minimum requirements isn't going to look amazing, but it'll be something the vast majority of gaming PCs can manage, and if your machine can hit the recommended specs, you'll get to enjoy the snow-covered Slovakian mountains and gilded halls of Kensington at a smooth 60fps, at 1080p.

While it's always nice to have the best graphics card that money can buy, you don't really need it for 007 First Light. The minimum specs require a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon RX 5700, which is very modest by modern standards - there's no forced ray tracing here. In terms of the recommended specs, you'll need an RTX 3060 Ti or RX 6700 XT, which puts this game almost on par with the likes of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and Black Ops 7, so if your system can manage those titles, it should run this one too.

Here are the 007 First Light system requirements for PC:

All things considered, the minimum requirements are very accessible. I did, however, spot a few frame rate drops in the gameplay deep dive of the Kensington mission (especially as things started exploding), which doesn't bode particularly well for how consistently you'll hit 30fps or more.

Also, a requirement of 16GB of RAM is on the high side, and with RAM prices now such a problem, upgrading from 8GB to 16GB right now could be a problem. However, for most PC gamers, you should be able to fire this game up without issue - a few stutters from not having enough RAM aren't the end of the world when trying to run a modern triple-A game on entry-level hardware that's well over five years old.

The minimum requirements that IO Interactive first released stipulated a graphics card with 8GB of VRAM, which was on the high side for an entry-level spec. However, newly updated requirements have dropped this to a more sensible 6GB, making many more graphics cards a viable choice.

On the recommended specs, there was a similar issue with both RAM and VRAM, with initial RAM requirements being 32GB, which is very high for even a modern game running at just 1080p, 60fps. Meanwhile, the VRAM was set to 12GB, which would put even the likes of the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB out of contention. However, the latest specs have dropped RAM to a more sensible 16GB, while VRAM is now 8GB.

As such, the recommended specs are now pretty much in line with what you'd expect of a modern title, with the RTX 3060 being a reasonably recent mid-range, ray tracing-capable GPU that even top the charts as the most popular card on the December 2025 Steam Hardware Survey. The 6700 XT, meanwhile, is a popular AMD alternative. The CPU options are again decently accessible.

The 007 First Light download size is 80GB, which is mid-range for a modern title - well below the 120GB+ of some, but still a sizeable download. The game's system requirements make no mention of needing an SSD, but we generally recommend upgrading to an SSD rather than relying on an old hard drive for loading games. You can find our current top recommendations in our best SSD guide.

With the 007 First Light release date getting shunted into May, you've got plenty of time to upgrade your rig if you're desperate to step into Bond's very snazzy shoes.