Guys, a benchmark is a benchmark! It is a way to compare one system/GPU from another.
It has to be hard in order to show the development of the available hardware.
I bet that in 12 months from now, new GPUs will show very high fps numbers on this benchmark.
Black Death is also a good way to show you how limited our current GPUs are.
In IL2: we run the Black Death to measure our systems and see the bottlenecks. One of the most dramatic experiences I had was when we realised that the sound explosion (of the IL2 crashing into the ground after being hit by the AAA of that armored column) was causing a 1sec stutter because of the sound card limitations. This was the time when most of us bought Audigy2 sound cards and the 1sec stutter vanished
So, do not take the Black Death as a proof on whether you can play CoD or not but, as a reference point in order to understand how strong your current rig performs compared to others.
Why it was named Black Death? Because a lot of us asked for it (ten years flying IL2 die hard) and we were emotionaly tied to this name
~S~