22 Jan 2021 - 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 2021 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 973 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 Genshin Impact is getting a good result of 74 FPS, and then we are seeing Assassins Creed: Valhalla returning a reasonable 50 FPS while another game on our list is the Resident Evil 8 which is predicted to get 74 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 discovered the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme Core 4GB Edition SLI ran Assassins Creed: Valhalla to a playable performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 77 FPS, Medium: 65 FPS, High: 56 FPS and Ultra: 38 FPS. Another game researched was Resident Evil 8 with predictions of L: 149FPS, M: 117FPS, H: 79FPS, U: 56FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Genshin Impact, which returned L: 149FPS, M: 117FPS, H: 79FPS, U: 56FPS 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.