8 Jan 2021 - 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 2021. 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 406 games today, of the top 1000 most demanding.

Running at 1080p this card gets a reasonable frame rate from Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War with 53 FPS on Ultra. Then we take a look at Far Cry 6 which is predicted to return a weak 16 FPS. Another title that we looked at is the popular Grand Theft Auto VI which we predict will get a playable 25 FPS.

Moving screen sizes up to 1440p we ran Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 4GB Edition to see that it got a playable set of frame rates. Here are the low to ultra results at 1440p - L: 107FPS, M: 84FPS, H: 57FPS, U: 40FPS. Another popular game to investigate at 1440p with this card was Far Cry 6 which we predicted will be weak in performance netting an Ultra FPS of 12 FPS. Finally we then took a look at Grand Theft Auto VI where its predicted Ultra 1440p Frame rates were weak at 19 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 not the best resolution for this GPU, but if you adjust some graphics settings, perhaps lowering to medium or low at 1440p then this graphics card might be ok.

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? Our current calculations suggest a graphics card upgrade will be required in around 12-18 months

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 814 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 917 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.