22 May 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

This graphics card offers upper mid level gaming performance. The Radeon HD 7970 GHz XFX Double D Edition GPU could struggle if it was to try and run the most demanding games available today, but it meets a lot of game system requirements found in today’s games. Radeon HD 7970 GHz XFX Double D Edition is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

This PC hardware performance game review for the Radeon HD 7970 GHz XFX Double D Edition graphics card, when running 2020 more popular games, lets us see what type of FPS this card gets when playing at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions and ultra settings. In comparison to the game recommended requirements of the 1000 most demanding games played today this PC hardware can run 132.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We predict that Mafia: Definitive Edition will get 26 FPS with the Radeon HD 7970 GHz XFX Double D Edition, Crucible getting 36 FPS and Grand Theft Auto VI predicted to get 0 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

We move on to 1440p, and predict that Mafia: Definitive Edition will deliver weak FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 51 FPS, Medium: 40 FPS, High: 27 FPS and Ultra: 19 FPS. Next we have Crucible running on Radeon HD 7970 GHz XFX Double D Edition which gets L: 72FPS, M: 57FPS, H: 38FPS, U: 27FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Grand Theft Auto VI is predicted to get L: 0FPS, M: 0FPS, H: 0FPS, U: 0FPS at 1440p. In summary we feel the Radeon HD 7970 GHz XFX Double D Edition running at 1440p is going to need to lower its graphics settings to medium on modern games.

How many years will the Radeon HD 7970 GHz XFX Double D Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 7970 GHz XFX Double D Edition in your PC? We think this Radeon HD 7970 GHz XFX Double D Edition has around 6-12 months until an upgrade should be considered.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 7970 GHz XFX Double D Edition? Are you looking to upgrade a Radeon HD 7970 GHz XFX Double D Edition? Then we would suggest getting a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, as it can run 866 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today with 86% increased graphics performance. Alternatively a good choice when looking to upgrade the Radeon HD 7970 GHz XFX Double D Edition would be the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB which meets 704 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 46% better performance.