After a lengthy delay involving a trip back to the drawing board, Marathon is finally headed for release on March 5. Shortly after the release date was announced, Marathon’s minimum and recommended PC hardware specifications appeared on the game’s Steam store page, revealing an impressively low barrier to entry. There’s no word about whether gamers will need to enable TPM 2.0 or Secure Boot for anti-cheat compatibility reasons, but the minimum specifications call for low-end GPUs dating back to nearly a decade ago.
At minimum, those looking to play Marathon will need an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB, AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT, or Intel Arc A580, the latter of which requires ReBar to be enabled. This needs to be paired with 8 GB of RAM and an Intel Core i5-6600 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600. Meanwhile, the recommended specifications call for an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB, AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB, or an Intel Arc A770 16 GB, again with the latter calling for ReBar. The CPU required to meet the recommended specifications is an Intel Core i5-10400 or AMD Ryzen 5 3500 paired with 16 GB of RAM. There are no target frame rates or resolutions mentioned in the minimum and recommended specifications tables, but it’s generally assumed that minimum specifications should get you somewhere around 60 FPS at low quality settings. This also means that gamers on handhelds like the ASUS ROG Ally and others with similarly powerful iGPUs should be able to get playable frame rates at slightly lower resolutions.
