Activision has released the official system requirements for playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III on PC. The minimum GPU specifications stipulate the need for an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 1650, or AMD Radeon RX 480 for gameplay.
Minimum Specifications:
Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit (latest update)
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600
RAM: 12GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / GeForce GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon RX 480
Video Memory: 3 GB
Storage Space: SSD with 65 GB available space (25 GB with COD HQ downloaded)
Recommended Specifications:
Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64-bit (latest update)
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600
RAM: 16GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 / GeForce RTX 3050 or AMD Radeon RX Vega
Video Memory: 6 GB
Storage Space: SSD with 65 GB available space (25 GB with COD HQ downloaded)
The last 2 MW have been multi-gen releases, so one good thing you can say about COD is that the engine is well optimized. Given MW3 doesn’t look much different than MW2 (not a criticism), I’m assuming a solid launch.