25 Mar 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte XTREME 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.

Here is a performance review on how capable the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition is at running the more popular games of 2020. 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 611.

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 Halo: The Master Chief Collection and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 103 FPS, Medium: 81 FPS, High: 55 FPS and Ultra: 39 FPS. We proceeded to look at Grand Theft Auto VI to see how that compared and predict that it will return a weak 13 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 Halo: The Master Chief Collection, which got a playable set of FPS results. These were, Low: 79 FPS, Medium: 62 FPS, High: 42 FPS and Ultra: 30 FPS. We then checked out Grand Theft Auto VI which we predict would have a set of graphics results as followed, L: 25FPS, M: 20FPS, H: 13FPS, U: 10FPS. And another popular game was Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord that returned L: 105FPS, M: 82FPS, H: 56FPS, U: 40FPS at 1440p. 1440p gaming on the GeForce GTX 970 Gigabyte XTREME 4GB Edition is ok at playing most games but might need to have the graphics settings lowered to medium preset in some cases.

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 871 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 949 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games.