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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6: GPU requirements and performance

A high-frame-rate multiplayer shooter with a scalable engine. Competitive players chase 144 Hz and above at reduced settings, which shifts the buying question away from raw GPU power and towards consistent frame pacing and enough VRAM for high-resolution textures.

What actually limits performance here

The part that generic system requirements never tell you.

  • Multiplayer maps are far lighter than the campaign; a card that struggles in the campaign can still hold a high multiplayer frame rate.
  • The high-resolution texture packs push VRAM use well past 8 GB at 1440p and above.
  • All three vendor upscalers and frame generation are supported.
  • CompareYourGPU has not yet recorded the publisher's official system requirements for this title.

Published system requirements

The publisher's own figures. They describe a baseline, not the hardware needed for high settings at a high frame rate.

System requirements not yet recorded

CompareYourGPU has not verified the publisher’s system requirements for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 yet, so none are shown. The performance guidance below is based on the engine and the title’s known behaviour rather than on requirements CompareYourGPU cannot cite.

Technologies supported

Which vendor features this title implements, which decides how much your graphics card's feature set is worth here.

Ray tracing

Supported

CompareYourGPU classifies the ray tracing load as heavy.

DLSS

Supported

NVIDIA cards can render at a lower internal resolution and reconstruct the image.

FSR

Supported

AMD's upscaler is available, and works on other vendors' hardware in its earlier versions.

XeSS

Supported

Intel's upscaler is available, with dedicated hardware acceleration on Arc cards.

Frame generation

Supported

Available on hardware that supports it. It raises the displayed frame rate without improving responsiveness.

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Estimated

Which graphics card do you need for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6?

The least expensive in-production cards whose estimated frame rate in this title is centred at or above 60 FPS, at High settings with no upscaling. The range shown for each card is the model's uncertainty band, so the lower bound can fall under 60.

CompareYourGPU estimate

Modelled from the estimated performance index and this title’s demand classification. Not a measured benchmark. How the model works.

1080p

Around 60 FPS, High settings, no upscaling

  • Arc B570

    $219 MSRP · estimated 95-135 FPS

  • Arc B580

    $249 MSRP · estimated 110-160 FPS

  • RTX 5050

    $249 MSRP · estimated 95-140 FPS

1440p

Around 60 FPS, High settings, no upscaling

  • Arc B570

    $219 MSRP · estimated 60-85 FPS

  • Arc B580

    $249 MSRP · estimated 75-105 FPS

  • RTX 5050

    $249 MSRP · estimated 60-85 FPS

4K

Around 60 FPS, High settings, no upscaling

Measured

Verified benchmark data

Frame-rate figures transcribed from named third-party measurements.

No verified benchmark data for this game yet

CompareYourGPU only publishes frame-rate figures it can attribute to a named, linkable measurement. None have been transcribed for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 yet, so nothing is shown here rather than numbers that would look authoritative without being verifiable.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6: common questions

Does Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 support ray tracing?
Yes. CompareYourGPU classifies its ray tracing load as heavy relative to other titles here.
Does Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 support DLSS, FSR or XeSS?
It supports DLSS, FSR, XeSS. Frame generation is also available on hardware that supports it.
How demanding is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6?
CompareYourGPU classifies it as moderate on rasterisation and heavy with ray tracing enabled. Multiplayer maps are far lighter than the campaign; a card that struggles in the campaign can still hold a high multiplayer frame rate.

Sources

Last reviewed . Demand classifications are CompareYourGPU’s editorial judgement, not measurements.

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