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Can you run Call of Duty: Black Ops III? PC requirements and settings
Call of Duty: Black Ops III, by Treyarch, Aspyr (Mac) (Action, Adventure), came out on Steam on November 5, 2015.
Here are the official specs, and what they mean on the most common graphics cards.
Minimum cardNVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 @ 1GB / ATI Radeon HD 6970 @ 1GB
Recommended RAM6 GB
Estimate per graphics card
No frame-rate estimate for this game
The official page does not name a specific graphics card for both the minimum and the
recommended specs. Rather than an invented number, we give none. ORION does the maths on your
own PC, with your card, processor and screen, then measures the real frame rate while you play.
Official specs
Minimum and recommended requirements
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 7 64-Bit / Windows 8 64-Bit / Windows 8.1 64-Bit
- Processor
- Intel Core i3-530 @ 2.93 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 810 @ 2.60 GHz
- Memory
- 6 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 @ 1GB / ATI Radeon HD 6970 @ 1GB
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Storage
- 100 GB
Source: the
game's Steam page, read on October 7, 2026.
Where to buy
Buy Call of Duty: Black Ops III
The official page first. In ORION, the Store tab compares prices across shops, with the
official stores listed before key resellers.
On your PC
The same estimate with your own hardware, and the settings applied for you
ORION is a free game launcher for Windows. It reads your graphics card, processor and
screen, estimates every game in your library, then measures the real frame rate while you
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Questions
Call of Duty: Black Ops III at a glance
Which graphics card do I need for Call of Duty: Black Ops III at 1080p?
Minimum: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 @ 1GB / ATI Radeon HD 6970 @ 1GB. The official page does not name a specific graphics card for both minimum and recommended specs, so we give no frame-rate estimate for this game. ORION does the maths on your own PC.
How much RAM does Call of Duty: Black Ops III need?
The publisher recommends 6 GB of RAM.
How much storage does Call of Duty: Black Ops III take?
The official page asks for 100 GB of storage.