2 Aug 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB 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. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

Lets look at the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition game performance guide for some of the biggest games played in 2020. In particular we will see how well this graphics card runs on Ultra settings on 1080p resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. The GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition can run the recommended graphics system requirements for 518 games today, of the top 1000 most demanding.

Running at 1080p this card gets a strong frame rate from Valorant with 505 FPS on Ultra. Then we take a look at Grounded which returns a reasonable 47 FPS. Another title that we looked at is the popular Assassins Creed: Valhalla which we predict will get a weak 21 FPS.

Moving screen sizes up to 1440p we ran Valorant on the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition to see that it got a strong set of frame rates. Here are the low to ultra results at 1440p - L: 1017FPS, M: 801FPS, H: 539FPS, U: 385FPS. Another popular game to test at 1440p with this card was Grounded which seemed playable in performance netting an Ultra FPS of 35 FPS. Finally we then took a look at Assassins Creed: Valhalla where its predicted Ultra 1440p Frame rates were weak at 16 FPS. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition, this is a very strong choice of graphics cards at higher resolution gaming. 4K gaming with this graphics card is certainly something that can be achieved across a number of the latest games and still achieve good graphics settings at those resolutions. Ultra 1440p is also a regular occurrence with this gpu.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition in your PC? No graphics card upgrade required for around 2 years

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition? Upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB which is 33% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 853 games from the most demanding games today. Alternatively a suitable upgrade choice for the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition is the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, which is 42% more powerful and can run 945 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.