10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

The Radeon HD 7970 Club3D royalAce Edition is a very low performing piece of gaming hardware and can probably only run indie system requirements.

This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 11.

Lets look at the Radeon HD 7970 Club3D royalAce Edition game performance guide for some of the biggest games played in 2023. In particular we will see how well this graphics card runs on Ultra settings on 1080p resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 235 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

The 1080p FPS on Ultra for the Radeon HD 7970 Club3D royalAce Edition shows us that Forza Horizon 5 is getting a weak result of 22 FPS, and then we are seeing Resident Evil 8 returning a weak 0 FPS while another game on our list is the Star Citizen which is predicted to get 31 frames per second at Ultra 1080p.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Resident Evil 8 which delivered weak FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 0 FPS, Medium: 0 FPS, High: 0 FPS and Ultra: 0 FPS. Next we have Star Citizen running on Radeon HD 7970 Club3D royalAce Edition which is predicted to get L: 61FPS, M: 48FPS, H: 33FPS, U: 23FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Forza Horizon 5 gets L: 43FPS, M: 34FPS, H: 23FPS, U: 16FPS at 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a Radeon HD 7970 Club3D royalAce Edition is not the best choice to run modern games.

How many years will the Radeon HD 7970 Club3D royalAce Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 7970 Club3D royalAce Edition in your PC? Our current calculations suggest a graphics card upgrade will be required in around 12-18 months

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 7970 Club3D royalAce Edition? Are you looking to upgrade a Radeon HD 7970 Club3D royalAce Edition? Then we would suggest getting a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB, as it can run 716 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 50% increased graphics performance. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5300, which has 20% better performance and can run 300 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.