14 Nov 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition graphics card as a serious price to performance entry point. This card will meet and play most demanding AAA games and do so with good graphics setting as standard, and confidently pushing past the recommended game system requirements needed to run today’s games. Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

What FPS performance can the Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition get on latest AAA 2019 games? In particular our game review looks at the FPS achieved running on Ultra graphics settings on the 1080p screen resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. 856 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

A Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition card at 1080p is seeing a reasonable frame rate when running Red Dead Redemption 2 on Ultra - 56 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Planet Zoo which is 52 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Cyberpunk 2077 is predicted to perform on this hardware, which gets a playable 35 FPS.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition by playing Red Dead Redemption 2 which yielded a playable performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 112FPS, M: 88FPS, H: 59FPS, U: 42FPS. Another popular game we tested with this card was Planet Zoo and that was playable. This graphics card delivered 39 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Cyberpunk 2077 which is predicted to get playable results with a 27FPS on Ultra 1440p. 1440p Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition PC gaming is ok at playing most games but might need to have the graphics settings lowered to medium preset in some cases.

How many years will the Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition in your PC? No graphics card upgrade required for 2 to 3 years of meeting top end game system requirements

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 21% better and can run 901 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. Alternatively if you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 27% better and can run 962 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games.