15 Sep 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI will blast beyond the majority of games requirements at 1080p, so crank up your screen resolution to 1440p or 4K and let the beautiful AAA game visuals wash over you. This is how gaming is meant to be played but you are likely to have to pay top dollar for the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI privilege. But if you can get this graphics solution, then its happy gaming. All games with system requirements of DirectX 12 or lower are met by this card.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2020 popular games. This short GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI game hardware review looks 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 976 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

The 1080p FPS on Ultra for the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI shows us that Mafia: Definitive Edition is predicted to get a reasonable result of 52 FPS, and then we are seeing Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War predicted to return a good 60 FPS while another game on our list is the Grand Theft Auto VI which is predicted to get 53 frames per second at Ultra 1080p.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We predict the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI will run the upcoming game Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War to a reasonable performance level. Predictions across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 120 FPS, Medium: 94 FPS, High: 64 FPS and Ultra: 45 FPS. Another game researched was Grand Theft Auto VI with predictions of L: 106FPS, M: 83FPS, H: 56FPS, U: 40FPS. And then we researched potential graphics card performance on Mafia: Definitive Edition, wih estimates revealing L: 104FPS, M: 82FPS, H: 55FPS, U: 39FPS at 1440p. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI we get the impression that it is a good choice for running modern games at Ultra in this larger screen resolution.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI in your PC? This gpu has around 2+ years of running AAA recommended system requirements before any upgrades should be considered.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2080 Super 8GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 24% better and can run 996 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games.