Rockstar Games puts the Grand Theft Auto VI download at up to 212 GB depending on your console, and the PlayStation Store lists 210 GB for the PS5 version. What's actually inside those gigabytes was anyone's guess until PS5 pre-load metadata, reported on November 9 by GameGPU, broke it down: maps, textures, audio, cutscenes and more.
These numbers don't come from Rockstar or Sony, so treat them as unconfirmed. Here's the breakdown, category by category, next to GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2.
GTA 6 file size breakdown vs GTA V and RDR2
| Category (GB) | GTA V | RDR2 | GTA 6 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total size | 96.2 | 119.5 | 210 |
| Audio | 8.5 | 24.2 | 22.1 |
| Maps and levels | n/a | 54.6 | 64.5 |
| Textures | n/a | 6.41 | 53.4 |
| Packs | n/a | 16.55 | 4.1 |
| Animations | n/a | n/a | 3.9 |
| Cutscenes | n/a | 1.94 | 8.2 |
| Game core | n/a | 73.39 | 25.5 |
| Story content | n/a | n/a | 18.3 |
| NPC AI | n/a | n/a | 5.4 |
The GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 figures come from SteamDB, which tracks the files of the PC versions. The GTA 6 figures come from the PS5 file metadata. The three games don't organize their files the same way: some categories don't exist for the older two (n/a), and the same label doesn't necessarily cover the same files from one game to the next. RDR2's categories even overlap, since they add up to more than its 119.5 GB total.
Maps and textures: more than half the game
GTA 6's two biggest chunks are open-world data, 64.5 GB of maps and levels, and high-resolution textures at 53.4 GB. Together they account for more than half of the 210 GB.
On maps, the gap with RDR2 is modest: 64.5 GB against 54.6 GB, roughly 18% more. Textures are another story, at more than eight times the 6.41 GB listed for RDR2. The comparison has limits, since the two games file things differently, but it gives a sense of the level of detail Rockstar is going for.
Audio, cutscenes and story
GTA 6's audio, which covers the soundtrack, music and voice acting, comes in at 22.1 GB. That's slightly less than RDR2's 24.2 GB, but 2.6 times GTA V's 8.5 GB.
Pre-rendered cinematics and story cutscenes take up 8.2 GB, more than four times RDR2's 1.94 GB. Story campaign content gets its own 18.3 GB, a category with no equivalent in the other two games' numbers.
NPC AI, animations and game core
Two categories show up for the first time: non-player character AI at 5.4 GB and animations at 3.9 GB. According to GameGPU, the first holds the navigation meshes that guide pedestrians, vehicles and enemies, and the second covers character physics and animation sets.
The game core weighs 25.5 GB in GTA 6 against 73.39 GB in RDR2, and packs 4.1 GB against 16.55 GB. Those are the two categories where the comparison means the least, because each game stores different files there.
210 GB or 212 GB?
Rockstar's 212 GB is a ceiling that depends on the console: it's the free space you need to start the pre-load. The 210 GB is what the PlayStation Store shows for the PS5 version. No breakdown has leaked for Xbox Series X|S.
The per-category values reflect installation containers and distribution archives. The final size on disk, after decompression and any day-one patch, may differ.
You'll also see other numbers for the same files, like 57 GB of textures or nearly 24 GB of audio. For most categories, the gap is a unit conversion between gigabytes (a billion bytes) and gibibytes (1,073,741,824 bytes), which the table appears to use. The 57.36 GB of textures work out to 53.4 GiB.
What it means for your console
A standard PS5 has about 667 GB of usable space, so GTA 6 takes up nearly a third of it. On an Xbox Series S, with about 364 GB usable, it takes more than half. Leave some room beyond 212 GB: Rockstar hasn't said whether an extra download will be needed on launch day.
Pre-loading opens on Tuesday, November 10, at midnight local time on PS5 and 12 a.m. GMT on Xbox Series X|S. Our pre-load guide has the times and the steps.
At 210 GB, GTA 6 is more than twice the size of GTA V and about 1.8 times Red Dead Redemption 2. It launches November 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
