F1 25 System Requirements: A real racing car is required for path tracing

F1 25 System Requirements: A Real Race Car Is Required for Pathtracing 80 comments

F1 25 System Requirements: A Real Race Car Is Required for Pathtracing

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The detailed system requirements for F1 25 also include information on VR glasses and pathtracing. According to EA, this requires a real racing car from the computer to break down a meager 1080p.

There’s good news at the lower end of the spectrum. The requirements remain the same as their predecessor. Only a dual-core CPU or a bulldozer AMD is used for the track. Four cores and a GTX 1060 are sufficient to achieve 60 fps at 1080p with the “low” preset. Six cores and an RTX 2070 or Radeon RX 6600 XT are required for high detail settings. Gamers still have to live with Denuvo-DRM.

For VR glasses with 90 fps and 2K resolution, EA already calls for an RTX 3080 Ti or even an RTX 5080, alternatively a Radeon RX 7900 XT. Similar hardware calibers are also required to achieve 1440p at 144 fps. The CPU, in particular, can then be significantly faster; the leap from the Ryzen 5 2600X to the Ryzen 5 7600X is considerable and points to a slight CPU limitation for 2160p at 60 fps; the CPU can again be weaker.

System requirements include path tracing (image: EA)

Summary :

Pathtracer requires (almost) everything

As with the 1440p specifications, a Core i5-12600K or Ryzen 5 7600X is again required for 8K and 60 fps, along with the fastest available graphics card, equivalent to an RTX 4090 or 5090. Path tracing is also available, which is enabled with “ultra max” settings. Each light beam, including multiple reflections, is calculated. Needless to say, the computing power demands considerable power. For 60 fps at 1080p, an RTX 4080 Super, 5080, or Radeon RX 7900 XTX is required.

Many innovations in May

Buyers of the flagship edition for around €80 and EA Play customers can play F1 25, which is released on May 27th from 5 PM for around €60; gamers must wait three more days. EA has promised numerous innovations for the game. The My Team management mode has been revised, as have the breakpoint lanes in LiDAR mode and the breakpoint lanes in Story mode. Additionally, the publisher is promoting improvements to handling and AI.