4 Apr 2021 - Graphics card reviewedGamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 Asus Strix OC 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.
We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2021 popular games. This short GeForce GTX 970 Asus Strix OC 4GB Edition game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. The GeForce GTX 970 Asus Strix OC 4GB Edition can run the recommended graphics system requirements for 168 games today, of the top 1000 most demanding.
The 1080p FPS on Ultra for the GeForce GTX 970 Asus Strix OC 4GB Edition shows us that Grand Theft Auto VI is predicted to get a weak result of 22 FPS, and then we are seeing Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time returning a reasonable 51 FPS while another game on our list is the Kingdom Hearts III which is getting 28 frames per second at Ultra 1080p.
We move on to 1440p, and tested Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time which delivered playable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 103 FPS, Medium: 81 FPS, High: 54 FPS and Ultra: 39 FPS. Next we have Kingdom Hearts III running on GeForce GTX 970 Asus Strix OC 4GB Edition which gets L: 56FPS, M: 44FPS, H: 30FPS, U: 21FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Grand Theft Auto VI is predicted to get L: 44FPS, M: 35FPS, H: 23FPS, U: 17FPS at 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 970 Asus Strix OC 4GB Edition running at 1440p is a reasonable performance fit for this resolution. Some of the more resource intensive games may well need a few graphical tweak to get the most out of the graphics card at this increased resolution.
How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 Asus Strix OC 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Asus Strix OC 4GB Edition in your PC? We think this GeForce GTX 970 Asus Strix OC 4GB Edition has around 6-12 months until an upgrade should be considered.
Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 Asus Strix OC 4GB Edition? Are you looking to upgrade a GeForce GTX 970 Asus Strix OC 4GB Edition? Then we would suggest getting a 16 Series
GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, as it can run 789 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 38% increased graphics performance. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 970 Asus Strix OC 4GB Edition then a good choice would be R-500 Series
Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB as this is better than 906 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 48% better performance as well.