EA Sports WRC: Console Performance & PC Specs

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With just a few days remaining until players can access EA Sports WRC for the first time, an important question has been answered. Here’s everything you need to know about EA Sports WRC‘s Console performance, plus its PC specs.

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Most of the promotion and info for EA Sports WRC focused on its PC version ahead of its release. However, as the game is also launching on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, console racers were anxiously awaiting info on these versions. Would there be any decrease in performance? What about fps?

EA’s Community Manager PJ Tierney took to the EA Sports WRC forum on Reddit to answer these questions. Find the info on EA Sports WRC console performance below!

EA Sports WRC Console Performance​

PlayStation 5​

  • Resolution: 4k
  • Framerate: 60 fps
  • Graphics: equal to High setting on PC

Xbox Series X​

  • Resolution: 4k
  • Framerate: 60 fps
  • Graphics: equal to High setting on PC

Xbox Series S​

  • Resolution: 1440p
  • Framerate: 60 fps
  • Graphics: some elements equal to medium or low PC settings to increase performance

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EA Sports WRC PC Specs​

Of course, EA Sports WRC‘s performance can be fine-tuned on PC to match players’ preferences and hardware builds. Here are the minimum and recommended specs to play EA Sports WRC.

EA Sports WRC Minimum Specs​

  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel i5 9600k
  • Memory: 8GB
  • Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060, Radeon RX Vega 56
  • Broadband internet: required
  • DirectX: 12
  • Disk space: 95GB
  • Sound card: DirectX compatible

EA Sports WRC Recommended Specs​

  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, Intel i5 10600k
  • Memory: 16GB
  • Graphics: Nvidia RTX 2070, Radeon RX 5700 XT
  • Broadband internet: required
  • DirectX: 12
  • Disk space: 95GB
  • Sound card: DirectX compatible

Note that the internet requirement does not mean that EA Sports WRC is an always online title. This simply refers to downloading the game, as well as playing its online modes.

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EA Sports WRC launches on November 3rd. Those who preoreded can hit the dirt three days earlier already on October 31st. Want to find out more about the game? Check our EA Sports WRC news here!

Are you looking forward to EA Sports WRC? Let us know on Twitter @OverTake_gg or in the comments below!
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Large Style
Recommended Specs for what settings? Same as PS5 / Series X of 4K @ High, or maxed out? I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I thought devs were learning now to explain / detail targets for spec lists so you we actually know what those specs mean.
 
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Large Style said:
Recommended Specs for what settings? Same as PS5 / Series X of 4K @ High, or maxed out? I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I thought devs were learning now to explain / detail targets for spec lists so you we actually know what those specs mean.
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Recommended specs are on 1080p without AA
But expect fps drops even on cards that cost 1000€+
 
David Mann
fatal said:
Recommended specs are on 1080p without AA
But expect fps drops even on cards that cost 1000€+
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My PC is roughly equivalent to the Recommended specs with AMD hardware. I was surprised to see that, because I assume you'd need high-end hardware to run at the highest settings. Running at 1080p without AA makes sense, because that's about how I run most of my modern games. I hope I can get a decent experience in VR once that comes out.
 
Peter Kerényi
David Mann said:
My PC is roughly equivalent to the Recommended specs with AMD hardware. I was surprised to see that, because I assume you'd need high-end hardware to run at the highest settings. Running at 1080p without AA makes sense, because that's about how I run most of my modern games. I hope I can get a decent experience in VR once that comes out.
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But then the console performance doesn't make sense. Console specs are only marginally more powerful than PC recommended specs. So either consoles have heavy reconstruction, PC has bad optimization, or that information is baseless. Is there any source for that @fatal? Frame drops are due to CPU or GPU bottleneck? (My UE experience in games says CPU)
 
Patrik Marek
wondering if this will be good , havent' played rallye in a while, although I suppose the last one I bought I hardly touched, so perhaps no point for me :(
 
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eg01st said:
With this "Broadband internet: required" stuff they only will encourage pirated versions.
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How? Please explain.
To my experience, not many cared to download the pirated DR2.0 because there was no access to career without internet. The rest of the game is playable but pointless without career really. At least to me.
Why download a pirated version that has no access to the WRC championship and the builder thingy? Just to play custom championship? Boring.
If the game had a COMPLETE roster of rally cars of different eras (which would mean hundreds of cars), then it'd be worth it.
 
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David Mann said:
My PC is roughly equivalent to the Recommended specs with AMD hardware. I was surprised to see that, because I assume you'd need high-end hardware to run at the highest settings. Running at 1080p without AA makes sense, because that's about how I run most of my modern games. I hope I can get a decent experience in VR once that comes out.
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I haven't seen a single developer recommending a super-computer for the game to be playable. But nowadays most of them do need one. Hell, in some cases i've seen developers updating the recommended specs because they were too low.
That being said, we've seen how it looks and it's nothing special, so the described specs might be enough.
 
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Peter Kerényi said:
But then the console performance doesn't make sense. Console specs are only marginally more powerful than PC recommended specs. So either consoles have heavy reconstruction, PC has bad optimization, or that information is baseless.
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Bad optimization on PC is a given. Always is for all modern games. As for consoles, they will probably have reduced overall quality in order to get steady 60fps. As usual. But it's also possible that these specs are BS. Many companies nowadays are simply not aware of how their game really performs on a computer that's being used daily.
 
eg01st
Lino Carreira said:
Its quite the opposite most of the time, the few games that are a bit harder to pirate are exactly the ones always connected ...
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Exactly, "a bit". So it may take a week longer to crack. I personally don't care for career modes, I tried Dirt 2.0 pirated version. I liked it, so I bought it later.
 
fatal
Peter Kerényi said:
But then the console performance doesn't make sense. Console specs are only marginally more powerful than PC recommended specs. So either consoles have heavy reconstruction, PC has bad optimization, or that information is baseless. Is there any source for that @fatal? Frame drops are due to CPU or GPU bottleneck? (My UE experience in games says CPU)
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Recommended specs are always for 1080p resolution without AA
We will encounter fps drops in wrc for sure especially in some places full of houses trees etc
 
Peter Kerényi
fatal said:
Recommended specs are always for 1080p resolution without AA
We will encounter fps drops in wrc for sure especially in some places full of houses trees etc
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I have never seen or heard such a rule for recommended specs, but all right. Optimal would be if they specified resolution, frame rate, and main settings, some developers do that nowadays. We'll see soon enough anyway...
 

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