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Can your PC run Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4? (2026)

Infinity Ward's new Modern Warfare, out 22 October 2026 on PC (per Steam). Activision's official minimum is a 3 GB card as old as a GTX 970, so most gaming PCs can launch it. The jump is ray tracing: the official RT tier asks for a 16 GB RTX 5070 Ti or RX 9070 XT. TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot are required, and the install needs a 115 GB SSD.

The short answer

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 needs a bare minimum of 3 GB of VRAM to launch. For a good experience you want 8 GB and a RTX 3060 Ti / RX 6600 XT / Arc B580 at 1080p, 16 GB and a RTX 5070 Ti / RX 9070 XT at 4K. VRAM is the hard wall — fall under it and you get stutter and texture pop-in no matter how fast the card is.

What Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 asks for

ResolutionVRAM floorRecommended GPU
1080p8 GBRTX 3060 Ti / RX 6600 XT / Arc B580Official recommended: 90 FPS in multiplayer on High. Activision states no resolution for this tier; shown at 1080p here. Minimum is 3 GB (GTX 970 / GTX 1060 / RX 470 / Arc A580).
4K16 GBRTX 5070 Ti / RX 9070 XTOfficial ray-tracing tier: High quality ray tracing at 4K upscaled. No official 1440p tier published.
1440pNo official 1440ptier published by the developer — we don't invent one.

Will your graphics card cope?

A green/amber/red read on VRAM only — enough memory to hold Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's textures at that resolution without thrashing. It doesn't promise a frame rate (that's the recommended-GPU column above); it tells you whether a card clears the memory wall.

GPUVRAM1080p1440p4K
RTX 5090NVIDIA32 GBComfortable—Comfortable
RTX 4090NVIDIA24 GBComfortable—Comfortable
RX 7900 XTXAMD24 GBComfortable—Comfortable
RTX 3090NVIDIA24 GBComfortable—Comfortable
RX 7900 XTAMD20 GBComfortable—Comfortable
RTX 5060 Ti 16GBNVIDIA16 GBComfortable—Enough
RTX 5070 TiNVIDIA16 GBComfortable—Enough
RTX 5080NVIDIA16 GBComfortable—Enough
RX 9060 XT 16GBAMD16 GBComfortable—Enough
RX 9070 XTAMD16 GBComfortable—Enough
RTX 4070 Ti SuperNVIDIA16 GBComfortable—Enough
RX 7600 XTAMD16 GBComfortable—Enough
RTX 4060 Ti 16GBNVIDIA16 GBComfortable—Enough
RX 7800 XTAMD16 GBComfortable—Enough
RTX 4080NVIDIA16 GBComfortable—Enough
RTX 5070NVIDIA12 GBComfortable—Short
Arc B580Intel12 GBComfortable—Short
RTX 4070NVIDIA12 GBComfortable—Short
RTX 3060 12GBNVIDIA12 GBComfortable—Short
RX 6700 XTAMD12 GBComfortable—Short
RTX 3080 10GBNVIDIA10 GBEnough—Short
RTX 5060NVIDIA8 GBEnough—Short
RTX 4060NVIDIA8 GBEnough—Short
RTX 4060 Ti 8GBNVIDIA8 GBEnough—Short
RX 7600AMD8 GBEnough—Short
RTX 3060 TiNVIDIA8 GBEnough—Short
RTX 3070NVIDIA8 GBEnough—Short
GTX 1660 SuperNVIDIA6 GBShort—Short
RTX 2060NVIDIA6 GBShort—Short
Comfortable — headroom to spareEnough — meets the floor, little marginShort on VRAM — expect stutter / lower textures

How this is worked out — and its limit

The requirement tiers come from Activision Support (official PC requirements) — the publisher's own stated specs.

The green/amber/red verdict is computed from each card's real, fixed VRAM against that floor. VRAM is a genuine hard limit — under it, textures spill to system memory and the game stutters regardless of raw speed.

What it is not: a frame-rate promise. Two cards with the same VRAM can play very differently, and upscaling (DLSS / FSR) shifts the maths. We don't publish an FPS number because we don't run our own game benchmarks (editorial policy). Use the recommended-GPU column for the speed question, this table for the memory one.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4: common questions

How much VRAM do you need for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4?
3 GB is the absolute minimum to launch. In practice you want 8 GB for 1080p, and 16 GB for 4K at high settings. Ray tracing and higher-resolution textures push the number up; upscaling like DLSS or FSR pulls it back down a little.
Is 8 GB of VRAM enough for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4?
For Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, 8 GB clears the 1080p floor. It's fine at 1080p high with quality upscaling; 1440p is workable but leaves little headroom. In 2026, 8 GB is the floor, not the futureproof pick.
Can an RTX 3060 run Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4?
On VRAM, yes — its 12 GB clears the 1080p (8 GB) floor comfortably. The 3060 is a 1080p card in raw power, so treat that as its home resolution and lean on upscaling for anything heavier.
Can an RTX 4060 or RX 7600 run Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4?
These are 8 GB cards. They meet the 1080p VRAM floor, so 1080p high with quality DLSS/FSR is the sweet spot; 1440p will ask you to manage texture settings. For real longevity at 1440p and up, 12-16 GB is the safer buy.

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