GSPro: cost, computer requirements and compatible launch monitors

What GSPro is and what you can play

GSPro takes the ball and club data your launch monitor sends for each shot and simulates the ball’s flight on a 3D course shown on your projector or TV. You play each hole from the tee to the green, then putt.

Golfers have built more than 2,500 courses with community course design tools and share them free through the Simulator Golf Tour (SGT) course server. GSPro adds its own set of official courses, a driving range and a practice facility. Up to 8 players can play together in the same room or online, in stroke, scramble, stableford, match play, best ball and alternate shot.

How much GSPro costs

GSPro costs $250 a year. The subscription covers one type of launch monitor and includes every update while it runs. GSPro stopped selling its lifetime add-on, and golfers who bought one keep it.

Your launch monitor can add to GSPro's yearly price, because some makers send shots to outside programs only with a paid membership of their own. With a Garmin R10, GSPro is the whole cost, $250 a year. The Bushnell Launch Pro uses Foresight's memberships, and GSPro needs the top one, the Foresight+ Gold membership, which adds $599 a year to GSPro's $250; Bushnell and Foresight owners buy GSPro through Bushnell or Foresight. If you want a launch monitor that needs no membership of its own, see our best launch monitors without a subscription.

Which launch monitors work with GSPro

Most launch monitors on GSPro's officially supported list need only the GSPro subscription: 15 of the 26 launch monitors on the list. Bushnell and Foresight units add the Foresight+ Gold membership (Bushnell Launch Pro vs Foresight GC3 compares a Bushnell unit with a Foresight unit), the Rapsodo MLM2PRO adds Rapsodo Premium (Garmin R10 vs Rapsodo MLM2PRO sets it beside a unit that needs only GSPro), and Uneekor units add Uneekor Pro.

The GolfIn IDRA II and NVISAGE N1 are outside GSPro's supported list and connect through GSPro's OpenAPI, the published interface that lets a launch monitor GSPro hasn't added to its list send shots to GSPro; GSPro sells a separate OpenAPI license for them.

The SkyTrak+ and SkyTrak ST MAX are off GSPro's officially supported list, and owners connect them through unofficial connectors from third parties, small programs on the PC that pass each shot to GSPro (Garmin R10 vs SkyTrak+ covers the SkyTrak+). The Trackman 4 and Trackman iO are also off the list, and Trackman's own course software for them is Trackman Virtual Golf.

To choose a launch monitor to play GSPro with, see our best golf launch monitors, or, on a budget, our best golf launch monitors under $1,000.

What computer GSPro needs

Plan for a Windows 10 or 11 PC with an Nvidia RTX 5060 graphics card or faster, 16 GB of memory and 20 GB of free storage for a 1080p projector or TV (full HD, 1920 by 1080 pixels). For 4K (3840 by 2160 pixels), plan for an RTX 5070 or faster and 32 GB of memory. Those cards match or beat the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 that GSPro recommends, cards from Nvidia's earlier RTX 30 series.

The graphics card matters most because GSPro draws the course, the grass and the ball flight in 3D, the way a video game does. On a slower card, you turn down GSPro's graphics detail, or the picture stutters. In average frame rates across games at ultra settings, every RTX 50 card from the RTX 5060 to the RTX 5080 runs at least as fast as the RTX 3070 at 1080p, and the RTX 5070, RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5080 run faster than the RTX 3080 at 4K.

The PC also needs a steady internet connection, and an Ethernet port or Bluetooth, depending on how your launch monitor connects.

Computers that meet GSPro's recommendation

Each of these desktops has a graphics card that matches or beats the RTX 3070 GSPro recommends for 1080p.

Can GSPro run on a laptop?

Yes. For 1080p, plan for a laptop with an RTX 5070 Laptop graphics chip or faster and ${tiers.recommended.ram_gb} GB of memory. A laptop's graphics chip runs slower than the desktop card with the same name, because a laptop has less power and cooling to give it. In 3DMark Time Spy, a common graphics benchmark, the RTX 5070 Laptop scores above the desktop RTX 3070 that GSPro recommends, and the RTX 5060 Laptop scores below it.

Does GSPro work on a Mac or iPad?

GSPro runs only on Windows PCs. To play GSPro, a Mac or iPad owner adds a Windows PC to the setup. Other simulator programs run on Apple devices: E6 Connect runs on an iPad, and Awesome Golf runs on an iPad and on a Mac with Apple silicon.

For the launch monitors that play courses on a phone, an iPad or their own screen, see Do you need a PC for a golf simulator?