14 Nov 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

A mid level piece of gaming hardware, this GeForce GTX 960 MSI OC 2GB Edition graphics card can still meet and run indie system requirements and some of the less demanding AAA games. DirectX 12 gaming system requirements will be met by this gpu.

Game performance for the GeForce GTX 960 MSI OC 2GB Edition where we look at the bigger games played in 2019. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 234 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 960 MSI OC 2GB Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Need For Speed Heat and saw it deliver weak frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 42 FPS, Medium: 33 FPS, High: 22 FPS and Ultra: 16 FPS. We proceeded to look at Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order to see how that compared and saw that it returned a weak 0 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the GeForce GTX 960 MSI OC 2GB Edition performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Need For Speed Heat and saw it deliver weak frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 32 FPS, Medium: 25 FPS, High: 17 FPS and Ultra: 12 FPS. We then checked the performance on Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order to see if that runs well. It was weak with a 0 FPS at Ultra 1440p. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 960 MSI OC 2GB Edition, this is unable to perform adequately across modern games at this increased resolution.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 960 MSI OC 2GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 960 MSI OC 2GB 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 960 MSI OC 2GB Edition? A great upgrade graphics card would be a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, which has 109% better performance and can run 897 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB which is 57% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 685 games from the most demanding games today.