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These cards should be on par with the console version graphically or even a bit higher. MEDIUM: These cards should be around solid medium settings give or take a little depending on the resolution. Some of these cards are showing their age but should still be more then sufficient for Skyrim. MEDIUM/HIGH: These cards should be around medium/high settings give or take a little depending on the exact resolution. HIGH: These cards should run Skyrim at high setings, give or take a little depending on the resolution.

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GeForce GTX 580 1536MB – GeForce GTX 460 2Win 2GBĮXTREME: These cards SHOULD max the game at full 1080p, without any problems. This list is repeated verbatim, they’re obviously geared towards Windows/PC users so there are plenty of GPU’s that won’t be relevant to us in the list: We’re listing video cards that are beyond what would ship with Macs because some of you may have upgraded yourself or you may be running a Hackintosh, or maybe you’re just curious for your household PC.

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Super Huge Skryim Video Card Listīelow is the humungous list from the Bethesda Software forums of compatible video cards grouped by their expected performance.

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Still don’t see a match? It probably won’t run, this includes most of the Intel chipsets, sorry! Go for the Xbox or PS3 versions instead.

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Remember, this list is intended for PC users and not Mac users, and sometimes the GPU is listed or named slightly different. If you’re in doubt, don’t risk wasting the money and just play the console version that is guaranteed to work well.ĭon’t see a match? Try searching for a variation of the chipset (320M vs GeForce 320) to see if that’s how it’s listed instead. If you’re barely on the edge, you may want to reconsider. Come back to this web page and hit Command+F in your browser window, then paste in that numerical value and hit return to search the giant video card list belowįind a result? Congrats, you can probably run Skyrim, scroll up to see where the assumed graphics settings will be.There’s really one one step here, it’s using that chipset info to see if you can find a match from the huge list of video cards below: Check out the value next to “VRAM (Total)” as well, highlighted in blue in the screenshot, the higher this is the better, with lower values greatly reducing the texture and resolution quality you can run the game.

Look next to “Chipset Model” (see the red square in screenshot) and copy the numerical value of the chipset into your clipboard.

Now in System Profiler, look under the “Hardware” list and click on “Graphics/Displays”.

Hold down the Option key and click on the  Apple menu in the upper left corner, select the top result which is “System Information”.

What we’re going to do is retrieve the graphics card info from your Mac and then search a giant list of compatible GPU’s to see if and where it appears on a giant list below, this will let you know if your Mac can handle running Skyrim. The first thing to notice is that in terms of RAM and CPU, nearly all modern Macs meet or exceed those specs, so what you really want to focus on is the graphics card chipset and video RAM (VRAM).

Direct X 9 compliant video card with 512 MB of RAMīoth cases you’ll need a DirectX compatible sound card but all Macs have those so that isn’t an issue.

Minimum Specs – (For running Skyrim on “Low” settings at 1920×1080 resolution)

DirectX 9 compatible NVIDIA or AMD ATI video card with 1GB of RAM (Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 or higher ATI Radeon 4890 or higher).

Recommended Specs – (For running Skyrim on “High” settings at 1920×1080 resolution)

First up, here are the general Skyrim system specs for those who are savvy enough to take this information and make a decision on that alone: