The name PowerPC. CyberPowerPC. IO Interactive’s long-awaited Bond origin story, 007: First Light is out now! Just as James Bond needs a good fighting suit and plenty of gadgets, so too do you need a great gaming PC, Let’s take a look at First Light’s system requirements on PC and some builds we recommend for this new Bond Adventure.
Table of Contents
- 007 First Light Gameplay
- 007 First Light PC System Requirements
- Recommended Gaming PCs for 007 First Light
- FAQs
007 First Light Gameplay
007 First Light is a third-person action-adventure game coming from the team behind the awesome Hitman: World of Assassination trilogy.
007 First Light serves as a stand alone James Bond origin story, reimagined origin story. It is not an adaptation of any existing film, but an entirely original narrative developed for the game.
You play as a spry 26-year-old Bond, voiced and motion-captured by Patrick Gibson. Bond is a promising but hotheaded Royal Navy air crewman who finds himself recruited by British intelligence service MI6. Amidst his training he is thrown into the deep end of spycraft, before he’s anywhere close to ready. The story of how he becomes the suave agent we know from the films. Cool and unflappable,
If you have ever played any of the Hitman: World of Assassinastiong trilogy, you know that IO Interactive’s pedigree in stealth-action game design has the chops for what a Bond game has always needed. 007 First Light shows it.
The game blends stealth, aided by gadgets, hand-to-hand combat, and big action set pieces in ways that feel like translating a Bond film into a game.
Like any good Bond adventure, First Light sees you on a globe-trotting adventure, where stakes climb ever higher. Each environment is dense with options on how to approach your goals. Will you climb in through an unlocked window? Use a disguise to blend in with the staff at a party? Or will you bluff your way through a checkpoint with Bond’s signature charm. And of course if things go sideways, you can always execute on that license to kill..
007 First Light is running on an upgraded version of IO Interactive’s proprietary engine, Glacier, the same used in the newer Hitman games. This time around it comes to us with some neat new features including: new global illumination tech, software ray tracing, support for uncapped frame rates, NVIDIA DLSS 4.5, Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, and with support for AMD FSR 3 and Intel XeSS. Coming later this summer, path tracing and DLSS ray reconstruction will become available with a patch.
007 First Light PC System Requirements
IO Interactive created the above PC specification chart. There are a few things worth noting before diving in. First, an SSD is required for this game, but that’s not a problem because our PCs come with SSDs. Second, and notably: performance targets for all of the listed tier levels are based on performance at native resolution, with no DLSS or upscaling factored in. The only caveat is Ultra tier, which assumes DLSS is enabled.
Minimum — 1080p @ 30 FPS | Low Setting Preset
CPU: Intel Core i5-9500 or AMD Ryzen 5 3500
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX or AMD Radeon RX 5700
RAM: 16GB
Recommended — 1080p @ 60 FPS | Medium Setting Preset
CPU: Intel Core i5-13500 or AMD Ryzen 5 7600
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
RAM: 16GB
Enthusiast — 1440p @ 60 FPS | High Setting Preset
CPU: Intel Core i5-13500 or AMD Ryzen 5 7600
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 or AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
RAM: 16GB
Enthusiast — 4K @ 60 FPS | High Setting Preset
CPU: Intel Core i5-13500 or AMD Ryzen 5 7600
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) or AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB)
RAM: 16GB
Ultra — 4K @ 200+ FPS | Ultra Setting Preset*
CPU: Intel Core i5-13600K or AMD Ryzen 7 7700X
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
RAM: 32GB
*DLSS 4.5 enabled
007 First Light RTX 50 Series PC Bundle
Get 007 First Light with gaming PCs featuring select GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards. Mission ready gaming PCs are ready for deployment.
Qualifying graphics cards: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, 5070, 5060 Ti – powered desktops.
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Recommended Gaming PCs for 007 First Light
This is your mission briefing. Here are the PCs we recommend for getting out into the field. Good luck out there, Bond.
Minimum Spec PC
AMD Mainstream Gaming PC
Specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 8400F
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
RAM: 16GB DDR5 / 6000MHz
Storage: 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen 4 SSD
Recommended Spec PC 1
Graduation* (seasonal name subject to change) RTX 5060
CPU: Intel Core Ultra 5 225F
GPU: GeForce RTX 5060
RAM: 16GB DDR5 / 6000MHz
Motherboard: Z890 Motherboard
Storage: 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen 4 SSD
Enthusiast Spec PC
Gaming PC Xtreme XT
CPU: Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
RAM: 32GB DDR5 / 6000MHz
Motherboard: Z890 Motherboard
Storage: 2TB M.2 PCIe Gen 4 SSD
Ultra Spec PC
CPU: Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
RAM: 32GB DDR5 / 6000MHz
Motherboard: Z890 Motherboard
Storage: 2TB M.2 PCIe Gen 4 SSD
FAQs
Where can I buy 007 First Light?
Get 007 First Light on Steam and the Epic Games Store. The Standard Edition is priced at the usual new game price of $69.99. There is a Digital Deluxe Edition that includes the base game plus a Deluxe Content Pack (additional cosmetic items and in-game bonuses).
How does 007 First Light compare to IO Interactive’s Hitman games?
If you liked the Hitman trilogy, you will feel the shared DNA. You have a lot of tools to play around in the systemic stealth system with similar dense sandbox levels, and intelligent enemy AI behavior. First Light is a more narrative driven action game, with those sandbox levels sprinkled in between high octane action.