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Can you run Portal 2? PC requirements and settings

Portal 2, by Valve (Action, Adventure), came out on Steam on April 18, 2011. Here are the official specs, and what they mean on the most common graphics cards.

Minimum cardVideo card must be 128 MB or more and with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b (ATI Radeon X800 or higher / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or higher / Intel HD Graphics 2000 or higher).
Recommended RAM2 GB

Estimate per graphics card

No frame-rate estimate for this game

The official page does not name a specific graphics card for both the minimum and the recommended specs. Rather than an invented number, we give none. ORION does the maths on your own PC, with your card, processor and screen, then measures the real frame rate while you play.

Official specs

Minimum and recommended requirements

Minimum

OS
Windows 7 / Vista / XP
Processor
3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
Memory
2 GB RAM
Graphics
Video card must be 128 MB or more and with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b (ATI Radeon X800 or higher / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or higher / Intel HD Graphics 2000 or higher).
DirectX
Version 9.0c
Storage
8 GB

Source: the game's Steam page, read on October 7, 2026.

Where to buy

Buy Portal 2

The official page first. In ORION, the Store tab compares prices across shops, with the official stores listed before key resellers.

On your PC

The same estimate with your own hardware, and the settings applied for you

ORION is a free game launcher for Windows. It reads your graphics card, processor and screen, estimates every game in your library, then measures the real frame rate while you play and sets the game up with its "Recommended" profile. No account, no ads.

Questions

Portal 2 at a glance

Which graphics card do I need for Portal 2 at 1080p?

Minimum: Video card must be 128 MB or more and with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b (ATI Radeon X800 or higher / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or higher / Intel HD Graphics 2000 or higher). The official page does not name a specific graphics card for both minimum and recommended specs, so we give no frame-rate estimate for this game. ORION does the maths on your own PC.

How much RAM does Portal 2 need?

The publisher recommends 2 GB of RAM.

How much storage does Portal 2 take?

The official page asks for 8 GB of storage.

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