14 Oct 2020 - 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 2020. 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 452 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 reasonable performance on Watch Dogs Legion at 1080p of 47 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Microsoft Flight Simulator which we saw got reasonable frame rates of 53 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular FIFA 21, which was getting 130 FPS under tests.

Moving screen sizes up to 1440p we researched Watch Dogs Legion on the GeForce GTX 970 Gainward Phantom Phoenix 4GB Edition and predict it will get a playable set of frame rates. Here are the low to ultra predictions at 1440p - L: 94FPS, M: 74FPS, H: 50FPS, U: 35FPS. Another popular game to test at 1440p with this card was Microsoft Flight Simulator which seemed playable in performance netting an Ultra FPS of 40 FPS. Finally we then took a look at FIFA 21 where its Ultra 1440p Frame rates were strong at 99 FPS. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 970 Gainward Phantom Phoenix 4GB Edition is a very good hardware option at these screen sizes. Ultra is easily achieved across almost all games at 1440p and we would suggest an increase of screen size up to 4K for this graphics card.

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 825 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 927 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 42% increased graphics performance.