14 Oct 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked 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 EVGA Superclocked 4GB Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

What FPS performance can the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked 4GB Edition get on latest AAA 2020 games? In particular our game review looks at the FPS achieved running on Ultra graphics settings on the 1080p screen resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. Of the 1000 most demanding recommended specs found in game requirements today, this gpu is more powerful than the graphics requirement of 406 games in todays list.

A GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked 4GB Edition card at 1080p is seeing a reasonable frame rate when running Microsoft Flight Simulator on Ultra - 53 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on FIFA 21 which is 130 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Baldurs Gate 3 performs on this hardware, which gets a reasonable 46 FPS.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked 4GB Edition performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Microsoft Flight Simulator and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 106 FPS, Medium: 83 FPS, High: 56 FPS and Ultra: 40 FPS. We then checked the performance on FIFA 21 to see if that runs well. It was strong with a 99 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked 4GB Edition is probably one of the better high resolution gaming options on the graphics card market. You can consider pushing most games up to 4K with this gpu and Ultra 1440p is going to be a regular occurrence for gaming today.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked 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 4GB Edition? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 34% better and can meet 825 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB which is 44% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 927 games from the most demanding games today.