14 Nov 2019 - 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 2019 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 654 games in todays list.

A GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked 4GB Edition card at 1080p is predicted to see a playable frame rate when running Diablo 4 on Ultra - 30 FPS. Lets look at the predicted performance it will get on Death Stranding which is 30 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Need For Speed Heat 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 Diablo 4 and predict it will deliver weak frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 60 FPS, Medium: 48 FPS, High: 32 FPS and Ultra: 23 FPS. We then checked the performance on Death Stranding to predict if that will run well. It is predicted to be weak with a 23 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 970 EVGA Superclocked 4GB Edition is ok at playing most games but might need to have the graphics settings lowered to medium preset in some cases.

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? No graphics card upgrade required for around 2 years

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 Ti 6GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 37% better and can meet 901 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 962 games from the most demanding games today.