Rainbow Six Extraction system requirements

(Image credit: Ubisoft)

With Rainbow Six Extraction now just a couple of weeks away, Ubisoft has rolled out the full rundown of the PC hardware you'll need if you want to play. Happily for all, the hardware requirements shouldn't shift your eyebrows much, so any recently updated setup should get you into the action straightaway.

That's at the low end of the visual scale, naturally, but that's still running at 1080p, which isn't bad by any measure. Framerates aren't provided, but my assumption is that 30 fps is the baseline. So here's what you need:

Low (1080p)

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CPU: Intel i5-4460 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 4GB / AMD RX 560 4GB
RAM: 8GB (Dual-channel setup)
OS: Windows 10 64-bit
Storage: 85GB

High (1080p)

CPU: Intel i7-4790 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 6GB / AMD RX 580 8GB
RAM: 16GB (Dual-channel setup)
OS: Windows 10 64-bit
Storage: 85GB

High (1440)

CPU: Intel i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 6GB / AMD RX 5600CT 6GB
RAM: 16GB (Dual-channel setup)
OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit
Storage: 85GB

Ultra (2160p)

CPU: Intel i9-9900K / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 10GB / AMD RX 6800XT 16GB
RAM: 16GB (Dual-channel setup)
OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit
Storage: 85GB (+9GB HD Textures)

The PC version of Rainbow Six Extraction will also support uncapped framerates, multi-monitor and widescreen displays, Nvidia DLSS and Reflex, the Vulkan API, "in-depth customization options," and a built-in benchmarking tool. Crossplay, cross-progression, and cross-save will also be supported across all platforms.

Rainbow Six Extraction system requirements — (Image credit: Ubisoft)

As for what you can expect from the game, Rainbow Six Extraction is essentially a co-op zombie shooter, but a lot less Left 4 Dead-like than you might think: We checked out a pre-release build in June 2021 and found it a "slower, more methodical take" on the genre than we expected. It remains to be seen how that will work out:

"The speed is naturally suited for Siege's close-quarters shootouts, but it feels a bit weird in a zombie game," Morgan wrote in his preview. "Maybe that's why the enemy groupings were so sparse. Normal parasite enemies are about as weak as L4D zombies, but they don't bunch up into hordes. I'd often find one or two in a room standing still, waiting patiently to be shot in the head. It's also seemed like it was possible to completely clear out an area by destroying the parasite-spawning nests scattered around. I was surprised at how often I felt relatively safe in this dangerous environment."

Rainbow Six Extraction comes out on January 20.

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Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters. He began writing videogame news in 2007 for The Escapist and somehow managed to avoid getting fired until 2014, when he joined the storied ranks of PC Gamer. He covers all aspects of the industry, from new game announcements and patch notes to legal disputes, Twitch beefs, esports, and Henry Cavill. Lots of Henry Cavill.