Ninja Gaiden 4 system requirements

The Ninja Gaiden 4 system requirements are a little confusing when it comes to the notes on performance and upscaling, possibly due to a translation issue, but we can see that the technology has indeed been used, and it is a slight mark against what are otherwise fairly straightforward specs.

While you won't need any of the best graphics card picks from our buying guide to run Ninja Gaiden 4, it's hard to say exactly which cards you'll need to run the game at the native resolution of your gaming monitor, given that upscaling has been used to determine the current specs. Upscaling in system requirements is a topic I've touched on before, and don't agree with, but at least we know exactly which technology is being used here, and the level of upscaling that has been applied.

Here are the Ninja Gaiden 4 system requirements for PC:

The Ninja Gaiden 4 minimum requirements demand an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 590 GPU alongside an Intel Core i5 8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 3400G CPU. You'll also need 16GB of RAM.

With these specs, you can expect to achieve 30fps at 1080p on the low graphics settings, but this is with the use of AMD FSR upscaling using the quality setting.

As for the Ninja Gaiden 4 recommended specs, you'll need an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU paired with an Intel Core i5 10400 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU. The RAM requirement stays the same at 16GB.

If you can meet these demands, you can expect 60fps at 1080p while using the "middle," which we assume means medium, graphics preset, while still using AMD FSR on the quality setting.

Not only is it disappointing to see upscaling being used in game system requirements, but the use of just "FSR" as the choice of upscaling is not particularly useful either. If it's indicating using FSR 1 type upscaling, well, this results in very poor image quality, but if it actually means FSR 2 or FSR 3, this would mean much better image quality, but we simply don't know from the specs provided.

Finally, the Ninja Gaiden 4 download size comes in at a chunky 100GB, and you're going to need to have this space on an SSD, too, instead of a hard drive, as both the minimum and recommended tiers have this as a requirement. If this means you're in need of an SSD upgrade, you can check out our best gaming SSD guide to find a model that suits your needs.

If you're keen to know more about this collaboration between Koei Tecmo, Team Ninja, and Platinum Games, you can read our Ninja Gaiden 4 preview to read more about our early impressions.

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