14 Nov 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

A mid level piece of gaming hardware, this GeForce GTX 960 PNY XLR8 4GB Edition graphics card can still meet and run indie system requirements and some of the less demanding AAA games. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

Lets look at the GeForce GTX 960 PNY XLR8 4GB Edition game performance guide for some of the biggest games played in 2019. In particular we will see how well this graphics card runs on Ultra settings on 1080p resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. The GeForce GTX 960 PNY XLR8 4GB Edition can run the recommended graphics system requirements for 211 games today, of the top 1000 most demanding.

A GeForce GTX 960 PNY XLR8 4GB Edition card at 1080p is predicted to see a weak frame rate when running Diablo 4 on Ultra - 0 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare which is 9 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Planet Zoo performs on this hardware, which gets a weak 0 FPS.

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 960 PNY XLR8 4GB Edition will run the upcoming game Diablo 4 to a weak performance level. Predictions across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 0 FPS, Medium: 0 FPS, High: 0 FPS and Ultra: 0 FPS. Another game tested was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, L: 17FPS, M: 13FPS, H: 9FPS, U: 6FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Planet Zoo, which returned L: 0FPS, M: 0FPS, H: 0FPS, U: 0FPS at 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 960 PNY XLR8 4GB Edition is not powerful enough to deal with the increased resolution.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 960 PNY XLR8 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 960 PNY XLR8 4GB Edition in your PC? 12-18 months of top end gaming is still left in this graphics card

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 960 PNY XLR8 4GB Edition? A great upgrade graphics card would be a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, which has 117% better performance and can run 901 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. Alternatively a good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 60% better and can meet 685 of their recommended requirements.