Call of Duty: Black Ops System Requirements: Can You Run It?

Call of Duty: Black Ops
Developer:
Treyarch
Publisher:
Activision
Release date:
9 November 2010 (13 years old)
User score:
4.3 / 5 (211 votes)

Official Call of Duty: Black Ops system requirements for PC

These are the PC specifications advised by developers to run Call of Duty: Black Ops at minimal and recommended settings. Although these requirements are usually approximate, they can still be used to determine the indicative hardware tier needed to play the game.

PassMinimum requirements

Pass Graphics card:
Shader 3.0 or better 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600GT / ATI Radeon® X1950Pro or better
Pass CPU:
Intel® Core™2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom™ X3 8750 or better
Pass Memory:
2GB
File size:
12GB
Operating system:
Windows® Vista / XP / 7
DirectX:
DirectX 9.0c

Recommended requirements

Graphics card:
no data
CPU:
no data
Memory:
no data
File size:
no data
Operating system:
no data
DirectX:
no data

Call of Duty: Black Ops performance on your PC

Call of Duty: Black Ops performance with your GPU

GeForce RTX 3060's performance compared to the game's official system requirements.

RTX 3060
minimum
Any
30 fps @ low
800×600
60 fps @ medium
1024×768
60 fps @ high
1360×768
60 fps @ ultra
1920×1080

Projected FPS in various settings and resolutions

Call of Duty: Black Ops FPS calculator: average frames per second on GeForce RTX 3060 (according to our approximations). FPS may vary depending on your operating system and other factors.

low settings / 600p
160−170 FPS
medium settings / 768p
130−140 FPS
high settings / 768p
120−130 FPS
ultra settings / 1080p
90−95 FPS

Call of Duty: Black Ops performance with your CPU

Core i5-12400's performance compared to the game's official system requirements.

i5-12400

User Ratings

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4.3 211 votes

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