14 Oct 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Mini-ITX 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. GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Mini-ITX OC 4GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Mini-ITX OC 4GB Edition. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2020. The GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Mini-ITX OC 4GB Edition can run the recommended graphics system requirements for 312 games today, of the top 1000 most demanding.

Running at 1080p this card gets a reasonable frame rate from Baldurs Gate 3 with 45 FPS on Ultra. Then we take a look at Watch Dogs Legion which is predicted to return a reasonable 45 FPS. Another title that we looked at is the popular Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War which we predict will get a playable 42 FPS.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Mini-ITX OC 4GB Edition by playing Baldurs Gate 3 which yielded a playable performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 91FPS, M: 71FPS, H: 48FPS, U: 34FPS. Another popular game we researched with this card was Watch Dogs Legion and that was playable. This graphics card is predicted to deliver 34 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War which is predicted to get playable results with a 32FPS on Ultra 1440p. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Mini-ITX OC 4GB Edition we get the impression that it is a suitable graphics card for this larger screen res. In some cases we might expect some graphics option tweaks down from Ultra to High to help improve FPS stability when gaming at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Mini-ITX OC 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Mini-ITX OC 4GB Edition in your PC? This GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Mini-ITX OC 4GB Edition card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Mini-ITX OC 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 37% better and can run 825 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. Alternatively if you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte Mini-ITX 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 47% better performance as well.