31 Oct 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

One of the more powerful mid range graphics cards, the GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition might struggle sometimes with the more system demanding game requirements. DirectX 12 gaming system requirements will be met by this gpu.

Here is a performance review on how capable the GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition is at running the more popular games of 2019. Specifically looking at this PC hardware’s ability to get suitable frames per second to play on Ultra game settings and what FPS it might get on 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen res. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 288 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

The GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition graphics card is returning a weak performance on Need For Speed Heat at 1080p of 19 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare which we saw got weak frame rates of 13 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Microsoft Flight Simulator, which is predicted to get 0 FPS under tests.

Increasing resolution to 1440p is something a number of PC gamers are doing today. We tested the GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition at 1440p with Need For Speed Heat, which got a weak set of FPS results. These were, Low: 37 FPS, Medium: 29 FPS, High: 20 FPS and Ultra: 14 FPS. We then checked out Call of Duty: Modern Warfare which had a set of graphics results as followed, L: 25FPS, M: 20FPS, H: 13FPS, U: 10FPS. And another popular game was Microsoft Flight Simulator with predictions of L: 0FPS, M: 0FPS, H: 0FPS, U: 0FPS at 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition is unable to perform adequately across modern games at this increased resolution.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB 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 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB 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 103% better and can run 901 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. Alternatively a good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 960 EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ 2GB Edition would be the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB which meets 694 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 52% better performance.