

In a blog post on the Call of Duty website, Activision and Treyarch confirm that Black Ops Cold War will support RTX Shadows, Ambient Occlusion, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex. We're sure all seven people who managed to snag an RTX 3080 before they sold out will be looking forward to running this game in its Ultra RTX spec. For this one, you'll obviously need some expensive hardware, including a Core i9-9900K/Ryzen 3700X, 16GB of RAM, and an RTX 3080 GPU. Then we come to the big one: Black Ops Cold War's Ultra RTX spec. The competitive specification, which is defined as "specs to run at a high FPS for use with a high refresh monitor," includes same CPU and RAM requirements as the recommended ray tracing spec, but drops the GPU requirements to a GTX 1080/RTX 3070 or a Radeon RX Vega64 GPU. For that, you'll need an Core i7-8700K/Ryzen 1800X, 16GB of RAM, and a GeForce RTX 3070 (but good luck finding one of those). If you want to meet the recommended spec for ray tracing, the hardware requirements go up considerably.
