Riot Games · 2009 · MOBA
League of Legends is Riot Games’ long-running MOBA, an intentionally low-spec-friendly title that still runs on hardware from over a decade ago.
Its requirements have barely grown over the game’s lifetime, making it one of the most accessible competitive titles on PC by a wide margin.
| Requirement | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core i3-530 | Intel Core i5-8250 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200 |
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce 400 series / AMD Radeon HD 6570 / Intel HD 4600 | NVIDIA GTX 560 / AMD Radeon HD 6950 |
| RAM | 2 GB | 4 GB |
| Storage | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit | Windows 11 64-bit |
Source: the publisher's own officially listed system requirements (view source). Actual performance still depends on drivers, background load and in-game settings.
Want to know how YOUR specific CPU and GPU actually pair up, not just whether you clear the minimum?
Test Your ConfigurationMOBAs render a fixed, zoomed-out view rather than a full first-person 3D world, so hardware requirements stay modest across the board — almost any PC from the last decade clears the recommended spec, and perceived smoothness is limited more by network/server tick rate than by local hardware.
The jump from 2GB to 4GB of RAM between the minimum and recommended spec is where League of Legends stops paging textures and level data from disk mid-play — below 4GB, that shows up as short stutters and pop-in rather than a flat drop in average framerate. At roughly 16GB, plan storage for League of Legends the same way you would for any modern title: an NVMe SSD keeps load times and texture streaming noticeably smoother than a hard drive at the same free-space total.
2GB is the publisher's stated minimum, meaning League of Legends will start and run, but 4GB (the recommended figure) avoids the stuttering that comes from paging assets off your storage drive mid-session. Use our RAM calculator to check your exact total against everything else you run alongside it.
For League of Legends, the GPU is the more common limiting part at higher resolutions and settings — our PC Bottleneck Calculator breaks this down by your exact CPU and GPU pairing instead of a generic rule of thumb.
Plan for at least 16GB free, not exactly 16GB — day-one patches, DLC and shader/texture caches routinely add several more gigabytes after install. Our Storage Calculator can help you plan an upgrade if you are close to full.