Valve and Nvidia have announced a December release date for the graphically enhanced puzzler Portal RTX.

The free update will be available on December 8, and will be an entirely free download to existing owners of Portal as official DLC.

There’ll be a tonne of modern graphical features in this update to the 2007 game, bringing its looks bang up to date and given a 2022 polish for Nvidia card owners.

These include – full ray tracing, remade hi-res textures and models and DLSS 2 on support video cards. In fact, those with an RTX 40 card will be able to play the game in full 4K.

To go with the announcement, Nvidia has released some system requirements, which you can see down below.

Portal RTX System Requirements

Portal RTX Minimum System Requirements

  • Resolution – 1080p, 30 FPSGraphics Preset – HighGPU – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 w/DLSS 2Video Memory – 8GBCPU – Intel i7-6700, AMD Ryzen 5 3600Memory – 16GBOS – 64-bit Windows 10/Windows 11Hard-Drive Space – 25GB SSD
  • Resolution – 1080p, 60 FPSGraphics Preset – HighGPU – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 w/DLSS 2Video Memory – 8GBCPU – Intel i7-9700K, AMD Ryzen 5 3600Memory – 16GBOS – 64-bit Windows 10/Windows 11Hard-Drive Space – 25GB SSD

Portal RTX Ultra System Requirements

  • Resolution – 2160p, 60 FPSGraphics Preset – UltraGPU – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 w/DLSS 3Video Memory – 16GBCPU – Intel i7-12700K, AMD Ryzen 9 5900Memory – 32GBOS – 64-bit Windows 10/Windows 11Hard-Drive Space – 25GB SSD

Portal RTX will be available as a free official download for all existing owners of Portal on PC from December 8.