Can my PC comfortably run Unreal Engine?

[WizLeMonke]

I’m thinking of getting into Unreal Engine as a first time programmer, but I’ve heard it’s pretty resource heavy.
Will these specs work or do I need to upgrade anything?
RAM:32 GB
GPU: RTX 4060
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
SSD:2TB
Thanks in advance!

[ClockworkOcean]

Hardware and Software Specifications

[Everynone]

How it runs depends on what you’re making it do. The recommenced specs would produce 1-2 fps here or simply refuse to run and crash But you could still make simple scene / game on a PC. The scalability of the engine is not bad, providing you know what you’re doing.

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You’ll get quite decent overall performance most of the time apart from vRAM heavy scenarios - assuming that 4060 is the 8GB version.

[Frenetic]

Overall, when you build/compile and/or work with large assets, system-RAM would typically be your bottleneck.

But generally, as already noted, it’s what you throw at it. Make a simple tap-game, or board-game type thing vs a whole open-world Elden Ring clone is a different affair.

[slam.js]

Hello, created RUSLICSTAN INVADES using this pc:
ryzen 3600x
rx 5700xt
16gb RAM
ssd

If don’t have enough RAM for a project, you should use DataLayers, and load only the layers that is needed at the moment

Packaging of a project was a problem until 5.2 release
Until 5.2 I needed to close everything except Unreal and still sometimes it wouldnt package
With 5.2 I was able to package even with chrome and jet brains rider opened

[FrostyJas]

Greetings @WizLeMonke

With performance everyone tends to have their own expectation for how they want things to perform. It’s a combination of components when you’re looking into loads times, shader compiling, FPS in game, etc. That being said, I’ve saw people with systems much less than what you have run Unreal Engine 5 and have no problems at all. You have a pretty good rig! I’m sure it’ll do fine. If you get into some REALLY heavy content, maybe you can bulk up your RAM further, if you needed it. But, I think overall you’ll be fine in terms of being able to operate and design in most environments. I hope this OPINION helps!