4 Apr 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 Gainward Phantom Phoenix 4GB Edition graphics card as a serious price to performance entry point. This card will meet and play most demanding AAA games and do so with good graphics setting as standard, and confidently pushing past the recommended game system requirements needed to run today’s games. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

Lets look at the GeForce GTX 970 Gainward Phantom Phoenix 4GB Edition game performance guide for some of the biggest games played in 2021. In particular we will see how well this graphics card runs on Ultra settings on 1080p resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. This graphics hardware can run 339 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

The GeForce GTX 970 Gainward Phantom Phoenix 4GB Edition graphics card is predicted to return a weak performance on Far Cry 6 at 1080p of 16 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time which we saw got reasonable frame rates of 53 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Outriders, which was getting 31 FPS under tests.

Moving screen sizes up to 1440p we researched Far Cry 6 on the GeForce GTX 970 Gainward Phantom Phoenix 4GB Edition and predict it will get a weak set of frame rates. Here are the low to ultra predictions at 1440p - L: 31FPS, M: 25FPS, H: 17FPS, U: 12FPS. Another popular game to test at 1440p with this card was Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time which seemed playable in performance netting an Ultra FPS of 40 FPS. Finally we then took a look at Outriders where its Ultra 1440p Frame rates were weak at 23 FPS. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 970 Gainward Phantom Phoenix 4GB Edition is a reasonable performance fit for this resolution. Some of the more resource intensive games may well need a few graphical tweak to get the most out of the graphics card at this increased resolution.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 Gainward Phantom Phoenix 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Gainward Phantom Phoenix 4GB Edition in your PC? This GeForce GTX 970 Gainward Phantom Phoenix 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 970 Gainward Phantom Phoenix 4GB Edition? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 33% better and can run 789 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. Alternatively we would suggest getting a R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, as it can run 906 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 42% increased graphics performance.