14 Oct 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers 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 2020 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 310 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 Assassins Creed: Valhalla is predicted to get a playable result of 30 FPS, and then we are seeing Microsoft Flight Simulator returning a reasonable 51 FPS while another game on our list is the Grand Theft Auto VI which is predicted to get 22 frames per second at Ultra 1080p.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Microsoft Flight Simulator 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 Grand Theft Auto VI running on GeForce GTX 970 Asus Strix OC 4GB Edition which is predicted to get L: 44FPS, M: 35FPS, H: 23FPS, U: 17FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Assassins Creed: Valhalla is predicted to get L: 46FPS, M: 39FPS, H: 34FPS, U: 23FPS 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? 12-18 months of top end gaming is still left in this graphics card

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 825 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 927 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 48% better performance as well.