Fortnite Fandom: Best Gaming PCs for Winning Strategies

A Fortnite PC to Dominate the Game

But what should drive that high refresh rate monitor? Fortnite has surprisingly low minimum requirements, it is after all a game released in 2017, but if you want to see everything the game can offer from its Epic Quality settings, you need to aim higher.

Starting out with the CPU, any current Intel Core i5 or Ryzen 5 from AMD will get the job done for 100+ FPS gaming in Fortnite. However, if you want to stream the game, will be running other software alongside your game, or just want to have some real futureproofing, then stepping up to a Ryzen 7 or Core i7 will give you plenty of processing power to cover everything you need.

For many years, 8GB of Ram was ‘enough’, and 16GB nice to have, but today, consider 16GB the minimum, and look for 32GB RAM to really give you breathing room, especially if you are going to be recording or streaming your game sessions.

Then we move onto the graphics card. In modern gaming, this is really the major influence on your frame rate and the great graphics options that are now on offer. The choice here depends on what kind of game experience you want. For 100+ fps gaming in Fortnite, a Radeon 6800 or RTX 3060ti are easily enough, and will take the next step to higher resolutions too. But Fortnite has now had Ray Tracing technology added, which looks great, but does add workload, so lowers your frame rates.

So, if you want to enjoy ray tracing in Fortnite and maintain those high refresh rates, you need a graphics card with a little more power. Switching to a 3080 or 4070 will give you all the graphical goodness you can want, while maintaining 200+ FPS at 1080p, and decent framerates at higher resolutions too.

For the rest of the gaming PC, Fortnite doesn’t really require anything too demanding. It needs 26GB of drive space, and that should be an SSD of some kind, with an M.2 drive being the best choice.