Call of Duty: Warzone — Season 03
High Preset / No Ray Tracing
Tested with AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D • DDR5-6000 MHz
Estimated frames per second (FPS)
Tested at Ultra High Settings
Activision and Raven Software's free-to-play battle royale, running on the IW 9.0 engine. Warzone is CPU-heavy by design — 150 players, dense building interiors and Verdansk-scale draw distances pull more from the processor than from the GPU at competitive settings.
How demanding is Call of Duty: Warzone?
Warzone runs on the IW 9.0 engine with NVIDIA DLSS 4, AMD FSR and Intel XeSS upscaling, plus support for DLSS Multi Frame Generation on RTX 50. Ray tracing is supported but rarely worth the frame-pacing cost in a battle royale. CPU single-thread performance and memory bandwidth matter as much as GPU choice once you push 144 Hz and beyond.
What GPU do you need for Call of Duty: Warzone?
Our estimates suggest the RTX 5060 holds above 130 FPS at 1080p; an RTX 5070 or Radeon RX 9070 XT comfortably clears 150 FPS at 1440p. Native 4K above 120 FPS lands on the RTX 5080 or RTX 5090. For competitive 240 Hz play, any EMARQUE gaming PC paired with a fast CPU will saturate the panel — spec around the processor first.
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