About
ToolWools is an independent editorial site for GTA 6 tools, calculators, trackers, and planners. Every number on the site is modelled, benchmarked, and reviewed by named people — and every change is dated in the tool's changelog.
ToolWools is reader-supported but independently operated. Our calculators, tier scores, and verdicts are not sponsored by Rockstar Games, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, or any hardware vendor. We accept no payment, free hardware, or affiliate placement in exchange for scores. Every part is measured against the same public methodology and re-benchmarked when new drivers or engine builds ship.
Worth stating plainly, because the GTA 6 information space is full of pages that blur the line between an estimate and an announcement.
Eleven live tools, grouped by the question they answer rather than by category label.
The pass/fail questions people ask first, before they care about numbers.
Checks a full part list against our estimated minimum, recommended and ultra tiers and returns a plain verdict.
Scores the whole build 0-100 with a letter grade, and names the subsystem holding you back.
Works out the video memory a resolution and texture preset will actually allocate, including ray tracing and upscalers.
Once a build clears the bar, the next question is frame rate and balance.
Estimates average and 1% low frame rates per GPU, CPU, resolution and preset, always as a band.
Compares CPU against GPU at your resolution and frame-rate target and shows which one is the limiter.
Ranks graphics settings by frame cost against visual gain so you cut the expensive ones first.
Upgrade decisions, where a bad choice costs real money.
Every current graphics card ranked S through F, with the bands re-sorting per resolution.
Head-to-head part comparison with the spec deltas that matter for an open-world workload.
Plans install footprint plus working-set and patch headroom across PC and console.
Launch logistics, timing and the world itself.
Converts launch to your local timezone and generates a calendar file for it.
Turns your real sustained connection speed into a preload and launch-day download estimate.
Leonida regions, Vice City districts, size comparison against past GTA maps, and evidence filtering.
Ranks money methods by net payout per hour, plus business ROI and card-value modes.
A short section, because the answer is short — and because you should not have to guess whether a recommendation was bought.
The site is funded by display placement and, in future, optional reader support. Whatever runs alongside the content has no input into it: nobody buying space sees a score before it publishes.
We accept no payment, no loaned or gifted hardware, and no affiliate arrangement in exchange for a tier, a verdict, or a recommendation. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed on this page before it changes anywhere else.
A card placed in S tier and a card placed in D tier earn this site exactly the same amount, which is nothing. The tier formula is published on the methodology page so you can check the placement yourself.
Every tool page links its byline to the person below. Tap a name on any calculator to jump to that bio.
PC performance analysis · Lead author
The Hardware Desk builds and benchmarks reference rigs for every Rockstar and open-world title. The desk has covered GTA V, RDR2 and Cyberpunk 2077 performance since launch and maintains a live database of 60+ GPUs and 30+ CPUs re-tested each driver cycle. All modelling and tier scores for our calculators are authored here.
Technical reviewer · RAGE-engine scaling
External community reviewers with published GTA V, RDR2, and Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark captures cross-check tier deltas, VRAM overheads, and workload multipliers before each release. Reviewers have no financial relationship with ToolWools and are credited when a change is accepted.
Editor · Corrections & accuracy
Editorial verifies every claim, sources every external number, and owns corrections. If a verdict, tier score, or VRAM number on any tool is wrong, mail corrections@toolwools.com and we'll re-run the case on the reference rig, publish the fix in the changelog, and credit the reporter.
Three roles with deliberately separated powers, so no single person can move a published number on their own.
| Role | Can | Cannot |
|---|---|---|
| Author — Hardware Desk | Builds the models, captures benchmarks, proposes every value and every band on the site. | Cannot ship a model change without a reviewer sign-off, and cannot publish a number without a source. |
| Reviewer — independent benchmarkers | Cross-checks proposed deltas against public datasets and blocks anything that fails reproduction. | Cannot author values, and holds no financial relationship with this site. |
| Editor — Editorial | Owns corrections, enforces the sourcing checklist, and dates every change in the tool's changelog. | Cannot overrule a reviewer's technical block or quietly edit a published number. |
The rules each role enforces — sourcing, cross-checks, retest cadence — are published in full under how we verify every claim.
Every model change is dated in the tool's Changelog. If you spot a number that doesn't match your rig, mail corrections@toolwools.com with your setup and the exact reading. We re-run on the reference rig, publish the fix, and credit the reporter.
hello@toolwools.com — general contact
Ownership, independence, data handling and corrections in short form.
A small independent editorial team: a hardware desk that builds and benchmarks the models, a panel of external benchmark reviewers who cross-check them, and an editor who owns sourcing and corrections. All three are described by name and remit on this page, and each tool's byline links back here.
No. Rockstar Games has not published PC system requirements for GTA 6. Every tier, score and frame-rate band on this site is an estimate derived from the announced console targets and from measured behaviour in comparable RAGE-engine titles. Estimates are labelled as estimates on every page that shows one.
Use the corrections address on this page and include the tool, your exact inputs, the value we gave, the value you measured, and how you measured it. We reproduce it on the reference rig first — reproduction is the gate — then ship a dated fix in the tool's changelog and credit you unless you ask us not to.
No. No vendor pays for a tier, a verdict, or a mention, and we do not accept loaned or gifted parts in exchange for coverage. Every card and CPU goes through the same published formula, and the formula itself is on the methodology page so any placement can be checked independently.
No. Calculations run in your browser and your inputs never reach a server. Share links encode inputs in the URL, and any saved results live in your own browser storage. There are no accounts on this site.
The verification workflow — sources, cross-checks, driver retest cadence — lives on the methodology page.
Read the methodology