According to Wccftech’s April 28 requirements table, Blood of Dawnwalker PC requirements start at native 1080p, 30 FPS, and the Low preset. The official entry target fits an existing GTX 1070, Vega 56, or RTX 3050-class PC that you can test before buying another GPU.
Prices and availability checked April 28, 2026. A Newegg GIGABYTE WINDFORCE RTX 3050 6GB listing showed $299, shipping from Hong Kong through a marketplace seller. An ASRock Radeon RX 7600 8GB listing showed $279.97 at Newegg and Walmart through Newegg Inc. TechPowerUp’s six-gigabyte Nvidia review says the newer Radeon card delivered about double the performance in its test suite, while Wccftech’s recommended Dawnwalker target still asks for twelve gigabytes of local video memory for native High settings.
This page uses the Steam listing, April 28 Road to Launch coverage, live merchant checks, and named GPU reviews. No reviewer has published a Dawnwalker launch test yet, so every game-specific FPS target below comes from Wccftech, GameSpot, WorthPlaying, or Steam rather than CheapFPS testing.
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The CheapFPS call before launch
Deal score language below uses checked April 28 listing quality, seller quality, review data, and the official target table. Each item includes best for, avoid when, and what would change the call after launch.
- Already-owned GTX 1070, Vega 56, or similar minimum-class card: Score: 7/10 at zero new GPU spend because testing Wccftech’s native 1080p/30 Low target costs nothing and prevents a bad prelaunch upgrade. Best for launch-day testing when the card is already installed. Avoid a new purchase when the goal is Wccftech’s native 1080p/60 High target. What would change the call: launch reviews showing stable Medium settings on GTX 1070 or Vega 56 hardware.
- GIGABYTE WINDFORCE six-gigabyte Nvidia Newegg marketplace listing: Score: 2/10. Best for a slot-power rescue PC with no extra PCIe cable and no room for a full upgrade. Avoid when a normal ATX case and power supply can take a faster Radeon card. What would change the call: a major US retailer listing the card below $170 with a visible return window.
- ASRock Challenger RX 7600 8GB Newegg/Walmart listing: Score: 7/10. Best for broad Full HD gaming outside this one prelaunch target. Avoid when the purchase goal is Wccftech’s native 1080p/60 High Dawnwalker target. What would change the call: final review data proving High settings fit eight gigabytes of local memory.
Wccftech and WorthPlaying both credit Rebel Wolves for the note that DLSS, FSR, and frame generation are excluded from the printed targets, so a buyer should not price imagined upscaling headroom into an April GPU purchase.
What the requirement table says before launch
According to Wccftech’s April 28 table, the entry row is the low-end one: Low preset, 30 FPS, and native Full HD, not the recommended row’s High preset. The listed CPU floor is an Intel Core i7-8700K or Ryzen 7 3700X. The system-memory floor is 16 GB. The storage line is a 60 GB SSD.
The listed graphics floor is RTX 3050 / GTX 1070 / RX Vega 56 / Arc A580 with at least 6 GB of local video memory. According to WorthPlaying, the developer note applies the required memory amount to equivalent GPUs, not just the exact cards named in the table; that note excludes four-gigabyte cards such as GTX 1650 from this advice even if the card looks close on a rough performance chart.
According to the same April 28 coverage, the recommended Full HD target is native 1080p at 60 FPS on the High preset. That row lists an Intel Core i5-13600 or Ryzen 9 7900X. The GPU row moves to RTX 5060 or RX 6800 XT. The video-memory line moves to 12 GB.
Steam is useful for checking the 16 GB system-memory line before install. Steam also lists the 60 GB SSD footprint. Steam does not show the preset and FPS targets that Wccftech, GameSpot, and WorthPlaying printed from the reveal coverage, so a buyer using only Steam can miss that the six-gigabyte graphics floor is attached to Low 30 while the stronger April 28 target is attached to High 60.
The named minimum card is not the card I would chase
According to TechSpot’s 51-game Full HD test, the Radeon RX 6600 averaged 29% faster than the Nvidia card named in the minimum table. That test used a Ryzen 7 5800X3D platform and 1080p/1440p game runs, not Dawnwalker. It still matters for buying because a broad raster-gaming gap weakens the case for paying extra just to match a requirement-table brand name.
TechPowerUp’s review of the six-gigabyte version gives one concrete reason to consider it: 70W slot power. TechPowerUp’s reviewed six-gigabyte card fits old systems that lack a PCIe power cable. The same TechPowerUp review calls gaming performance very low, notes the missing DLSS 3 Frame Generation support, and says AMD’s RX 7600 non-XT delivered about double the performance in that review’s suite.
The checked Newegg marketplace listing gives the buyer an overseas seller path and only matches the official Low-settings entry target for this game. For the checked Newegg marketplace listing, overseas shipping and marketplace return risk erase the slot-power advantage for most buyers.
According to TechSpot’s Arc A580 review, Resizable BAR support is the first Intel check because Arc loses too much consistency on platforms that do not handle it correctly. TechSpot measured Arc A580 system-power load above the competing Radeon and GeForce budget cards. TechSpot’s game-by-game data also showed strong results in some titles and weak results in others, so an old office conversion should not treat Arc as a simple drop-in swap.
What I would do with a cheap PC before September
If you already own one of the named minimum-class cards, keep it until launch review data appears. According to Wccftech’s April 28 table, the official entry target is Low settings at 30 FPS, and spending before release only makes sense if the same PC already fails games you play today.
If you need a budget GPU for other 1080p games today, I would put the ASRock Radeon listing ahead of the live GIGABYTE six-gigabyte Nvidia listing. The ASRock card has stronger broad 1080p performance context from TechSpot-style testing and a better current seller path from Newegg/Walmart. For Wccftech’s Dawnwalker native 1080p/60 High target, the ASRock Radeon listing lacks the local memory printed in WorthPlaying’s recommended table.
If native High settings in this game are the reason for the purchase, wait for launch review data instead of buying the ASRock Radeon listing just because it is the better current 1080p shelf card. WorthPlaying’s April 28 table attaches twelve gigabytes of local memory to the High preset target and names RTX 5060 / RX 6800 XT-class graphics hardware.
Price and source checks for April 28
- Checked today: April 28, 2026 UTC, with Newegg, Walmart, Amazon, and Best Buy search checks kept separate from the Steam and publisher-source checks. Prices and availability checked April 28, 2026.
- Merchants checked: Amazon, Newegg, Walmart, and Best Buy search results for the live GPU purchase check; Steam, Wccftech, GameSpot, WorthPlaying, Bandai Namco, and Rebel Wolves for game-source context.
- Amazon caveat: Amazon did not provide a reliable clean US price during this pass because product/search pages showed bot interstitials, unavailable rows, international pricing snippets, or search pages without stable current prices.
- Usable live rows: Newegg and Walmart showed the ASRock Radeon row at $279.97 through Newegg supply. Newegg showed the GIGABYTE six-gigabyte Nvidia row at $299 through an overseas marketplace seller.
- MSRP and street read: AMD’s official launch note put the Radeon card at a $269 suggested etail price, so today’s checked row is slightly above launch SEP. TechPowerUp’s review placed the six-gigabyte Nvidia card around $180 at review time, so the live marketplace row is far above the price that would make it a budget niche pick.
- Performance references: TechSpot’s Radeon-versus-GeForce 51-game test, TechSpot’s Intel Arc review, and TechPowerUp’s low-power Nvidia review were used for GPU-buying context rather than final Dawnwalker launch data.
- Stock caveat: confirm the exact seller, shipping origin, return window, warranty, and checkout total before buying any card named here. GPU rows can change faster than a requirements article.
- Update trigger: refresh this post when Rebel Wolves changes the table, Steam updates the requirements, launch review data arrives, a clean sub-$170 slot-power Nvidia listing appears, or twelve-gigabyte cards drop close to the checked Radeon price.
