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.
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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