Cities: Skylines is the next title from the Cities in Motion creators Colossal Order. Inviting you to create the city of your dreams, Cities: Skylines gives you total control over a huge landscape, allowing you to sculpt your own sprawling metropolis. Developed entirely around sandbox play, in Cities: skylines you can control every single aspect of your city, from political policies, taxation, road building, zoning, public transport, utility services, everything is under your total control of Cities: Skylines.

Cities: Skylines System Requirements

26 Nov 2015 - Specs reviewed

Minimum Requirements

OS: Win Xp 64
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E7600 3.06GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6400+
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5670 1GB DDR3 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
VRAM: 512MB
System Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 4 GB Hard drive space
DirectX 9 Compatible Graphics Card

Recommended Requirements

OS: Win 7 64
Processor: Intel Core i5-3470T 2.8GHz / AMD FX-6300
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7870 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
VRAM: 2GB
System Memory: 6 GB RAM
Storage: 4 GB Hard drive space

PC System Analysis For Cities: Skylines Requirements

Cities: Skylines requires at least a Radeon HD 7870 or GeForce GTX 660 to meet recommended requirements running on high graphics setting, with 1080p resolution. This hardware should achieve 60FPS. 6 GB will also be needed to achieve the Cities: Skylines rec specs and get 60FPS. Cities: Skylines needs a graphics card thats at least as powerful as a GeForce GTX 260/Radeon HD 5670 1GB DDR3 paired with Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6400+/Core 2 Duo E7600 3.06GHz CPU to match the min specs. This PC setup will deliver 25-35 Frame Per Second at Low graphics setting on 720p resolution. Make sure your GPU can run DirectX 11 or Cities: Skylines won’t run. We suggest a 9 year old PC to play smoothly.

FPS System Benchmark

162 FPS

High

Graphics Card

GTX 1060

How well optimised is Cities: Skylines for PC? Cities: Skylines is well optimized

6.3

Where does Cities: Skylines rank in the list of the most demanding games?

100+

Genres: Management, Sandbox, Strategy, Realism

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System Requirements Report for Cities: Skylines

Graphics Settings: High

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Processor

Core i7-10875H 8-Core 2.30GHz

Graphics [1920 x 1080]

GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q

RAM

16GB

This system has no obvious bottleneck for this game

Performance Report

Processor

Intel

Core 2 Duo E7600 3.06GHz

AMD

Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6400+

Graphics

Nvidia

GeForce GTX 260

AMD

Radeon HD 5670 1GB DDR3

RAM

4GB

Processor

Intel

Core 2 Quad Q6400 2.13GHz

AMD

Phenom 9500 Quad-Core

Graphics

Nvidia

GeForce GTS 450

AMD

Radeon HD 4850

RAM

4GB

Processor

Intel

Core i5-3470T 2.8GHz

AMD

FX-6300

Graphics

Nvidia

GeForce GTX 660

AMD

Radeon HD 7870

RAM

6GB

Max Playable Resolutions at 30 FPS
Graphics Setting	Low	Medium	High	Ultra
Resolution	3840 x 2160	3840 x 2160	3840 x 2160	3840 x 2160

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CPU

Core i7-10875H 8-Core 2.30GHz

Our recommended setting for playing Cities: Skylines: <strong>High</strong>

GFX

GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q [1920 x 1080]

RAM

16GB

Low Setting

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GD Verdict

Minimum Requirements

Intel CPU

AMD CPU

Nvidia Graphics Card

AMD Graphics Card

VRAM

RAM

Direct X

HDD Space

GD Verdict

Core 2 Duo E7600 3.06GHz

Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6400+

GeForce GTX 260

Radeon HD 5670 1GB DDR3

896 MB

4 GB

Win Xp 64

DX 9

4 GB

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AMD CPU

Nvidia Graphics Card

AMD Graphics Card

VRAM

RAM

Direct X

HDD Space

GD Verdict

Core 2 Quad Q6400 2.13GHz

Phenom 9500 Quad-Core

GeForce GTS 450

Radeon HD 4850

512 MB

4 GB

Win 7 64

DX 11

4 GB

FPS

Recommended Requirements

Intel CPU

AMD CPU

Nvidia Graphics Card

AMD Graphics Card

VRAM

RAM

Direct X

HDD Space

GD Verdict

Core i5-3470T 2.8GHz

FX-6300

GeForce GTX 660

Radeon HD 7870

2 GB

6 GB

Win 7 64

DX 11

4 GB

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Average Frames Per Second

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Premium Only FPS

Medium Setting

Premium Only FPS

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Ultra Setting

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Cities: Skylines PC Release Date:

10 Mar 2015

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Cities: Skylines vs Avg. AAA Game System Requirements

Avg. AAA Recommended Requirements

CPU

Core I7-5775R 4-Core 3.3GHz

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Graphics Card

Radeon RX 480X 4GB

165%

RAM

13GB

117%

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