10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p.

Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

Game performance for the Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition where we look at the bigger games played in 2022. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. In comparison to the game recommended requirements of the 1000 most demanding games played today this PC hardware can run 746.

Running at 1080p this card gets a reasonable frame rate from Days Gone with 56 FPS on Ultra. Then we take a look at Forza Horizon 5 which returns a reasonable 49 FPS. Another title that we looked at is the popular Back 4 Blood which we saw getting a reasonable 49 FPS.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Days Gone and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 112 FPS, Medium: 88 FPS, High: 59 FPS and Ultra: 42 FPS. We then checked the performance on Forza Horizon 5 to see if that runs well. It was playable with a 37 FPS at Ultra 1440p. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition, this is a reasonable performance fit for this resolution. Some of the more resource intensive games may well need a few graphical tweak to get the most out of the graphics card at this increased resolution.

How many years will the Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition in your PC? Upgrade time for this GPU is currently placed at 2 years

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the Radeon HD 7970 Asus ARES II Edition.