28 Nov 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

One of the more powerful mid range graphics cards, the GeForce GTX 960 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition might struggle sometimes with the more system demanding game requirements. All games with system requirements of DirectX 12 or lower are met by this card.

How well will the GeForce GTX 960 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition run 2019 games? We will take a look at the biggest releases and frames per second analysis on Ultra graphics settings. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 267 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

A GeForce GTX 960 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition card at 1080p is seeing a strong frame rate when running Halo: Reach on Ultra - 92 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on eFootball PES 2020 which is 48 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular The Outer Worlds performs on this hardware, which gets a weak 21 FPS.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Halo: Reach to see how the GeForce GTX 960 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition dealt with it. It scored up a good series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 184 FPS, Medium: 145 FPS, High: 98 FPS and Ultra: 70 FPS. Next we looked at eFootball PES 2020 which was playable with a 37 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at The Outer Worlds that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 16. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the GeForce GTX 960 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition we get the impression that it is a solid choice of hardware for increased screen resolution gaming. We can see this graphics card is capable of delivering reliable frame rates at Ultra and certainly High graphics settings at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 960 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 960 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition in your PC? This GeForce GTX 960 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB 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 Gigabyte G1 Gaming 4GB Edition? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 101% better and can run 897 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB, which has 48% better performance and can run 668 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.