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Measured FPS benchmarks

Call of Duty: Black Ops III FPS

  • 2015
  • 68/100 · 588 ratings
  • Action
  • Adventure
Measured · 2 results1 GPUs · Notebookcheck
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Call of Duty: Black Ops III was released in 2015. We list 2 published FPS results for it from Notebookcheck, covering 1 graphics card. Steam lists NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 470 @ 1GB / ATI® Radeon™ HD 6970 @ 1GB as the minimum graphics card, an entry-level card by today's standards.

Frame rate cap: none on record. We have no record of an engine frame limit for Call of Duty: Black Ops III, so our estimates assume it runs uncapped. V-Sync, an in-game limiter or your monitor's refresh rate can still hold it lower.

Measured results

Published · with sources

60+ FPS 30–59 under 30 lower bound (frame cap, CPU or VRAM limit). Average FPS from published tests.

  1. GTX 1060High99.4Notebookcheck
  2. GTX 1060Ultra85.9Notebookcheck

At 1080p the fastest measured card, GTX 1060, averages 99 FPS; the slowest, GTX 1060, 86 FPS.

Estimate vs measured

2/2 within ±30% · median -8%

Each dot is one published result: how far our model's figure for the same card and setting was from it. The shaded band is ±30%.

×⅓×½−30%exact+30%×2×3
All 2 comparisons
GPUSettingMeasuredEstimateDiff.
GTX 10601080p High99.4 FPS≈94 FPS-5%
GTX 10601080p Ultra85.9 FPS≈76 FPS-12%

Our estimate on 10 reference GPUs

Estimate ±30%

Model figures, not measurements: dashed bars with their ±30% band. How they are made.

  1. RTX 4090360model max
  2. RTX 5070 Ti360model max
  3. Radeon RX 9070 XT360model max
  4. RTX 4070305214–397
  5. Radeon RX 7800 XT260182–338
  6. RTX 4060 Ti233163–303
  7. RTX 4060185130–241
  8. RTX 3060149104–194
  9. Radeon RX 660013091–169
  10. GTX 16507754–100

Cards that run Call of Duty: Black Ops III at 60+ FPS

1080p High · cheapest first

Current cards, by launch price. Solid chips are measured results; dashed ones are our estimate (±30%).

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Player reports

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No player reports for Call of Duty: Black Ops III yet.

Screenshots

Steam

System requirements

Steam

Minimum

GPU
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 470 @ 1GB / ATI® Radeon™ HD 6970 @ 1GB
CPU
Intel® Core™ i3-530 @ 2.93 GHz / AMD Phenom™ II X4 810 @ 2.60 GHz
RAM
6 GB

Call of Duty: Black Ops III FPS questions

What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in Call of Duty: Black Ops III at 1080p?
In a published test (Notebookcheck) the GTX 1060 averages 99 FPS at 1080p High: the least powerful card in our data with a 60+ FPS result at 1080p High or Ultra.
Can a GTX 1650 run Call of Duty: Black Ops III?
By our estimate it gets about 120 FPS at 1080p Low (smooth) and 77 FPS at 1080p High (smooth), each ±30%.
What are the minimum system requirements for Call of Duty: Black Ops III?
Steam lists NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 470 @ 1GB / ATI® Radeon™ HD 6970 @ 1GB graphics, Intel® Core™ i3-530 @ 2.93 GHz / AMD Phenom™ II X4 810 @ 2.60 GHz and 6 GB of RAM as the minimum.

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