Elite Dangerous drops you into a 1:1 recreation of our Milky Way, all 400 billion star systems of it, and tells you to make your own way. Trade between stations, mine glittering asteroid belts, fight pirates in white knuckle dogfights, explore worlds no commander has ever seen or fly down to planet surfaces on foot with the Odyssey expansion. It is a space sim of staggering scale, and it has long been a showcase for VR and triple screen cockpit setups, where the sense of sitting inside your ship genuinely takes your breath away. The catch is that those immersive setups ask a lot more of your hardware than a single flat monitor does, which is exactly where a properly balanced build earns its keep.
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for Elite Dangerous
Elite Dangerous is beautifully optimised on a single screen, so a mainstream GPU sails through 1440p, but it leans hard on single thread CPU speed around busy stations and turns GPU and VRAM heavy the moment you add VR or triple screen surround.
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Target Entry1080p
1080p
144+ fps Ultra
Target framerate
Recommended GPU
RTX 5060
Target Sweet Spot1440p
1440p
144+ fps Ultra
Target framerate
Recommended GPU
RTX 5070 / RX 9070
Target Ultra4K
4K / VR
90+ fps High to Ultra
Target framerate
Recommended GPU
RTX 5070 Ti / RX 9070 XT
At a glance
Elite Dangerous Performance
Elite Dangerous is beautifully optimised on a single screen, so a mainstream GPU sails through 1440p, but it leans hard on single thread CPU speed around busy stations and turns GPU and VRAM heavy the moment you add VR or triple screen surround. Pair a fast Ryzen X3D or Core Ultra chip with at least 12GB to 16GB of VRAM for the smoothest VR and high refresh play.
Builds for Elite Dangerous
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midamd
CREATE TRINITY AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6 Core AM5 CPU/Processor & Palit NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti INFINITY 3 16GB Blackwell Graphics Card
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6 Core AM5 CPU/Processor
Palit NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti INFINITY 3 16GB Blackwell Graphics Card
50+ PC Cases Available
Highly Customisable
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midintel
CREATE TRINITY Intel 14 Core Ultra 5 245K Unlocked Desktop CPU/Processor & Palit NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti INFINITY 3 16GB Blackwell Graphics Card
Intel 14 Core Ultra 5 245K Unlocked Desktop CPU/Processor
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50+ PC Cases Available
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highamd
CREATE ORACLE AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8 Core AM5 Zen4 3D V-Cache PCIe 5.0 CPU/Processor & PALIT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GamingPro-S Blackwell Graphics Card
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8 Core AM5 Zen4 3D V-Cache PCIe 5.0 CPU/Processor
PALIT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GamingPro-S Blackwell Graphics Card
50+ PC Cases Available
Highly Customisable
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mid highintel
CREATE NR200P Intel 20 Core Ultra 7 265 Desktop CPU/Processor & PALIT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GamingPro-S Blackwell Graphics Card
Intel 20 Core Ultra 7 265 Desktop CPU/Processor
PALIT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GamingPro-S Blackwell Graphics Card
Compact Mini-ITX Build
Highly Customisable
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highintel
CREATE ORACLE Intel 20 Core Ultra 7 265 Desktop CPU/Processor & PALIT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GamingPro-S Blackwell Graphics Card
Intel 20 Core Ultra 7 265 Desktop CPU/Processor
PALIT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GamingPro-S Blackwell Graphics Card
50+ PC Cases Available
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mid highamd
CREATE NR200P AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8 Core AM5 Zen4 3D V-Cache PCIe 5.0 CPU/Processor & PALIT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GamingPro-S Blackwell Graphics Card
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8 Core AM5 Zen4 3D V-Cache PCIe 5.0 CPU/Processor
PALIT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GamingPro-S Blackwell Graphics Card
Compact Mini-ITX Build
Highly Customisable
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mid highamd
CREATE ZION AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6 Core AM5 CPU/Processor & ASUS ROG STRIX NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti OC Blackwell Graphics Card
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6 Core AM5 CPU/Processor
ASUS ROG STRIX NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti OC Blackwell Graphics Card
50+ PC Cases Available
Highly Customisable
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mid highintel
CREATE ZION Intel 14 Core Ultra 5 245K Unlocked Desktop CPU/Processor & ASUS ROG STRIX NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti OC Blackwell Graphics Card
Intel 14 Core Ultra 5 245K Unlocked Desktop CPU/Processor
ASUS ROG STRIX NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti OC Blackwell Graphics Card
50+ PC Cases Available
Highly Customisable
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Customise£3,594
highintel
CREATE CYPHER Intel 20 Core Ultra 7 265 Desktop CPU/Processor & INNO3D NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 X3 16GB Blackwell Graphics Card
Intel 20 Core Ultra 7 265 Desktop CPU/Processor
INNO3D NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 X3 16GB Blackwell Graphics Card
50+ PC Cases Available
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highamd
CREATE CYPHER AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8 Core AM5 CPU/Processor & INNO3D NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 X3 16GB Blackwell Graphics Card
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8 Core AM5 CPU/Processor
INNO3D NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 X3 16GB Blackwell Graphics Card
50+ PC Cases Available
Highly Customisable
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Everything you need to know
Hardware breakdown, build recommendations, and tuning advice for Elite Dangerous.
Elite Dangerous System Requirements
Minimum
OS: Windows 10 64 bit Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350 (Odyssey minimum) Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 or AMD Radeon R9 280X (2GB VRAM) Memory: 8GB Storage: 60GB available space
Recommended
OS: Windows 10 64 bit Processor: Intel Core i5-8600 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (Odyssey recommended) Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580 (4GB VRAM) Memory: 12GB Storage: 60GB available space (SSD recommended)
Common questions
What GPU do I need for Elite Dangerous at 1440p?
On a single 1440p monitor Elite Dangerous is very kind to your hardware, so an NVIDIA RTX 5060 or RTX 5070, or an AMD RX 9070, will hold a locked 144fps at Ultra with room to spare. We build every CREATE PCs machine to match the GPU to your exact screen, so you are not paying for performance you will never see.
Is Elite Dangerous more CPU or GPU intensive?
On a flat screen it is GPU led and easy going, but it is also a sim, so it leans heavily on single thread CPU speed when stations and instances get busy, which is where frame dips usually come from. That is why we favour fast gaming chips like the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D or an Intel Core Ultra for Elite builds, so the busy moments stay smooth.
How much RAM do I need for Elite Dangerous?
The game itself is happy with 12GB to 16GB, but with Windows, a browser full of trade tools and Discord open we fit 32GB of fast DDR5 as standard. It is inexpensive headroom that keeps everything responsive, and it future proofs the build for the next few years.
Can you build a PC for VR or triple screen Elite Dangerous?
Absolutely, and this is where Elite really shines. VR and triple screen surround multiply the pixels your GPU has to push and eat into VRAM, so we step up to an RTX 5070 Ti or RX 9070 XT (or higher) with 16GB or more, paired with a strong X3D or Core Ultra CPU to feed the headset a steady 90fps. Tell us your headset or monitor setup and we will hand build the right balance, backed by our 5 year warranty.
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