14 Oct 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 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.

Here is a quick game performance synopsis for the AAA games played in 2020. In particular we focus on how well the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition runs at Ultra graphics settings and what frames per second it is getting at 1080p, 1440p and 4K monitor resolutions. This graphics hardware can run 454 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

The GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition graphics card is returning a reasonable performance on Phasmophobia at 1080p of 53 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Baldurs Gate 3 which we saw got reasonable frame rates of 47 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Grand Theft Auto VI, which is predicted to get 25 FPS under tests.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We discovered the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition ran Phasmophobia to a playable performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 107 FPS, Medium: 84 FPS, High: 57 FPS and Ultra: 40 FPS. Another game tested was Baldurs Gate 3, L: 94FPS, M: 74FPS, H: 50FPS, U: 35FPS. And then we researched potential graphics card performance on Grand Theft Auto VI, wih estimates revealing L: 50FPS, M: 40FPS, H: 27FPS, U: 19FPS at 1440p. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition, this is a reasonable choice for most modern games at 1440p, but you may encounter some need to adjust graphics settings down from Ultra to High in some cases to improve gaming stability.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 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 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 33% better and can run 824 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 42% better and can run 927 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games.