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Can NVIDIA RTX4090 run Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Single-Player Campaign with 60fps at Native 4K/Max Settings?


Activision has made the single-player campaign for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 available to those who have pre-ordered it. The campaign is known to be more graphics-intensive than its multiplayer mode. So, we decided to test it on an NVIDIA RTX4090. Can NVIDIA’s most powerful GPU run it with 60fps at Native 4K with the highest settings, without any upscaling? Time to find out.

For these early 4K benchmarks, we used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB of DDR5 at 6000Mhz, and NVIDIA’s RTX 4090. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, and the GeForce 545.92 driver. Moreover, we’ve disabled the second CCD on our 7950X3D.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 doesn’t come with a built-in tool for the single-player campaign. To figure out how it performs, we ran some tests in the first mission. We’ll probably stick to using this mission for our upcoming analysis. That is unless we find another more demanding area.

As you can see in the following video, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 has no trouble running the game at Native 4K/Max Settings. While recording with NVIDIA Shadowplay, we were getting 90-110fps. Without recording, we saw an additional boost of 5fps. That’s even with NVIDIA DLAA, a more demanding AA solution than the one that the game is using by default. So yeah, NVIDIA’s GPU has no trouble at all in this title.

It’s also worth noting that, for RTX owners, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 supports DLSS 3 at launch. Now while the RTX 4090 does not really need it, owners of less powerful GPUs will be able to further increase their performance by using it. The game also supports AMD FSR 2.1 and Intel XeSS.

Our PC Performance Analysis for COD: MW3’s SP will most likely go live this weekend. It’s a busy week as we are currently busy with RoboCop: Rogue City and EA Sports WRC. Still, we aim to release all these articles in the next couple of days, so stay tuned for more.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Single-Player Campaign - Native 4K/Max Settings - NVIDIA RTX4090