28 Nov 2019 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition is a high performing piece of gaming hardware, still confidently featuring in PC gamer computers. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

Here is a performance review on how capable the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition is at running the more popular games of 2019. Specifically looking at this PC hardware’s ability to get suitable frames per second to play on Ultra game settings and what FPS it might get on 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen res. In comparison to the game recommended requirements of the 1000 most demanding games played today this PC hardware can run 687.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title eFootball PES 2020 and saw it deliver good frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 191 FPS, Medium: 151 FPS, High: 102 FPS and Ultra: 73 FPS. We proceeded to look at Microsoft Flight Simulator to see how that compared and predict that it will return a playable 32 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

Increasing resolution to 1440p is something a number of PC gamers are doing today. We tested the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition at 1440p with eFootball PES 2020, which got a reasonable set of FPS results. These were, Low: 146 FPS, Medium: 115 FPS, High: 77 FPS and Ultra: 55 FPS. We then checked out Microsoft Flight Simulator which we predict would have a set of graphics results as followed, L: 63FPS, M: 50FPS, H: 34FPS, U: 24FPS. And another popular game was Halo: Reach that returned L: 276FPS, M: 217FPS, H: 146FPS, U: 104FPS at 1440p. 1440p gaming on the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition is probably one of the better high resolution gaming options on the graphics card market. You can consider pushing most games up to 4K with this gpu and Ultra 1440p is going to be a regular occurrence for gaming today.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition in your PC? There is still 2 years of top end gaming left in this GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 34% better and can meet 900 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively if you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 41% better and can run 961 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games.