Can I Run Call of Duty: Black Ops 6?
Released in 2024, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is an action game built by Treyarch. Publishing duties went to Activision. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Its Steam review count passes 13 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. It carries 44 achievements. It is localised into 14 languages according to the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen™ 5 1400 or Intel® Core™ i5-6600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon™ RX 470, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 or Intel® Arc™ A580 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| OS | Windows® 10 64 Bit (latest update) |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen™ 5 1600X or Intel® Core™ i7-6700K |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon™ RX 6600XT or NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080Ti / RTX 3060 |
| RAM | 12 GB |
| OS | Windows® 10 64 Bit (latest update) or Windows® 11 64 Bit (latest update) |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a military setting, moving through combat arenas. It is played from a first person view. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is demanding
Demand in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is ordinary. The publisher has AMD Radeon RX 6600XT or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Ti / RTX 3060 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 at the floor and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 at the recommended tier are not the same experience. System memory expectations are modest at 12 GB. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. DirectX 12 is named, so Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 names an SSD outright.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Call of Duty: Black Ops 6?
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is light on hardware. Its minimum, AMD Radeon™ RX 470, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 or Intel® Arc™ A580, 8 GB RAM, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Borderline | 1x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.56x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.25x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
Common GPUs
| Graphics card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.
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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run Call of Duty: Black Ops 6?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 5 1400 or Intel® Core™ i5-6600; GPU: AMD Radeon™ RX 470, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 or Intel® Arc™ A580; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows® 10 64 Bit (latest update).
Can an RTX 3060 run Call of Duty: Black Ops 6?
The RTX 3060 runs Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is the GPU.