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hi and welcome back to hardware unboxed I'm your host Matt and today I'm gonna be taking a look at how the current generation AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards tackle the 12th installment in the Call of Duty series black ops 3 2015 wouldn't be complete without a new Call of Duty title last year was advanced warfare this year it's the third installment in the black ops series visually advanced warfare was a big step forward from previous Call of Duty titles and PC gamers were rewarded with a superior looking game despite using the same iw game engine as black ops 2 we found black ops 3 to be a significant step forward and I should point out that the game engine has been heavily modified developer Treyarch recommends gamers armed themselves with at least a 2nd generation Core i5 processor or a quad core FX processor for graphics firepower a GTX 760 or r9 270x is recommended we assume that's four playable 1080p performance but those of you considering upgrading to a current generation mid-range to high-end graphics card for black ops 3 we've run some benchmarks to show you what kind of performance you can expect the minimum and average frame rate was recorded using fraps at the popular 1080p resolution as well as 1440p and 4k the maximum in-game qualities things were used at each resolution and we selected the fast approximate anti-aliasing mode otherwise known as FXAA benchmarking takes place at the start of the life mission then runs for about 90 seconds these are according to the benchmark path please note that we actually found the single-player campaign to be more demanding than the multiplayer portion of the game those interested in multiplayer performance can expect to see a 20 to 30 percent increase in frame rates of formants over the following results all this can see when using it caused by one man the man we are we believe he's headed for the headquarters of the Colossus corporation yes this is a terrorist attack the full support of you and your men before this gets much much worse still in there I'm still me mind is made up you never left me behind I'm not leaving you what does it want why is it doing this right now I think it's a panic it's diffused scared all it wants us to ensure its own survival index represents an opportunity we're coming it's watching our every move first up we see that the GeForce GTX 970 managed a very playable 72 FPS average at 1080p never dipped below 63 FPS the Radeon r9 390 was slightly better with a minimum of 65 fps an average of 74 fps beyond that the performance continues to slowly increase as we get to the more expensive graphics cards before arriving in a hundred and two frames with the gtx 980ti increasing the resolution to 1440p till the 970 and 390 dropped below 60fps on average while the minimum was just above 40 fps there was surprisingly little difference between the gtx 970 and gtx 980 and the jump from the GTX 980 to the fury it was quite noticeable that 16% increase in minimum frame rate really made a big difference as is often the case we find the 4k work why more than one GPU to deliver perfectly smooth gameplay with all the eye candy turned up here a single 980ti was good for just 36 FPS while the framerate did drop as low as 29 FPS we found the call of duty black ops 3 is one of those games that really requires at least an average of 60 frames per second and in fact if you can keep the minimum frame rate above 60 frames then the gameplay is very well once the average frame rate drops to around 40 fps you really start to notice the frame rate lag that said at 1080p we were able to achieve exceptional performance with the GTX 970 and r9 390 it's both rendered more than the 60 frames per second minimum jumping to 1440p so all graphics cards tested suffer a pretty drastic frame rate here the 970 and 390 for example dropped to a 40 frame minimum with around 50 yes at this Raz the AMD Perry graphics cards all the 980ti really required for perfectly smooth gameplay finally at 4k the game looked amazing but was extremely demanding on the GPU the geforce gtx 980ti for example dip below 30 FPS at times and only managed now average of 36 frames per second this isn't unplayable but it certainly wouldn't be acceptable in competitive multiplayer scenarios for those of you wondering I briefly looked at CPU performance and found that the core i7 Sandy Bridge through the skylight processes deliver the best results while the core i5s and quad core AMD FX ranges are far behind the AMD FX 8350 for example saw over 70% utilization across all eight threads while the core i7 6 to 700 K only saw around 45% utilization as always we'll be posting these graphs and a text summary up to our forum a hardwarian box comm if you've got any questions at all then please let me know in the comments and for more videos like this hit like hit subscribe and I'll see you guys next time you