14 Nov 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

A mid level piece of gaming hardware, this GeForce GTX 960 Galax 2GB Edition graphics card can still meet and run indie system requirements and some of the less demanding AAA games. All games with system requirements of DirectX 12 or lower are met by this card.

Here is a performance review on how capable the GeForce GTX 960 Galax 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. This graphics hardware can run 211 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing Red Dead Redemption 2 getting 15 FPS with the GeForce GTX 960 Galax 2GB Edition, Need For Speed Heat getting 15 FPS and Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order getting 0 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

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 Galax 2GB Edition performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Red Dead Redemption 2 and saw it deliver weak frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 29 FPS, Medium: 23 FPS, High: 15 FPS and Ultra: 11 FPS. We then checked the performance on Need For Speed Heat to see if that runs well. It was weak with a 11 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 960 Galax 2GB Edition is going to struggle at this higher gaming resolution.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 960 Galax 2GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 960 Galax 2GB Edition in your PC? This GeForce GTX 960 Galax 2GB 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 960 Galax 2GB Edition? A good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 960 Galax 2GB Edition would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB which meets 901 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 117% better performance. Alternatively a suitable upgrade choice for the GeForce GTX 960 Galax 2GB Edition is the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB, which is 60% more powerful and can run 685 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.