5 Jun 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

This graphics card offers upper mid level gaming performance. The Radeon HD 7970 PCS+ VORTEXII 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 PCS+ VORTEXII Edition is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

What FPS performance can the Radeon HD 7970 PCS+ VORTEXII Edition get on latest AAA 2020 games? In particular our game review looks at the FPS achieved running on Ultra graphics settings on the 1080p screen resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. The Radeon HD 7970 PCS+ VORTEXII Edition can run the recommended graphics system requirements for 112 games today, of the top 1000 most demanding.

A Radeon HD 7970 PCS+ VORTEXII Edition card at 1080p is predicted to see a weak frame rate when running Cyberpunk 2077 on Ultra - 0 FPS. Lets look at the predicted performance it will get on Assassins Creed: Valhalla which is 0 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Valorant performs on this hardware, which gets a strong 358 FPS.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we researched the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 to predict how the Radeon HD 7970 PCS+ VORTEXII Edition would deal with it. Our research revealed a weak series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 0 FPS, Medium: 0 FPS, High: 0 FPS and Ultra: 0 FPS. Next we looked at Assassins Creed: Valhalla which we predict will be weak with a 0 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Valorant that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 273. Gaming at 1440p with the Radeon HD 7970 PCS+ VORTEXII Edition is a solid performer with higher resolution modern gaming. This graphics card can also bump up to 4K gaming regularly with the latest games still being capable of high or ultra graphics settings at this level.

How many years will the Radeon HD 7970 PCS+ VORTEXII Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 7970 PCS+ VORTEXII Edition in your PC? Its time to start researching your next graphics card upgrade as the Radeon HD 7970 PCS+ VORTEXII Edition is failing to meet modern day gaming system requirements. A gpu AAA lifespan of around 6-12 months.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 7970 PCS+ VORTEXII Edition? A great upgrade graphics card would be a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, which has 91% better performance and can run 866 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB which is 50% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 703 games from the most demanding games today.