27 Jul 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 970 4GB SLI will blast beyond the majority of games requirements at 1080p, so crank up your screen resolution to 1440p or 4K and let the beautiful AAA game visuals wash over you. This is how gaming is meant to be played but you are likely to have to pay top dollar for the GeForce GTX 970 4GB SLI privilege. But if you can get this graphics solution, then its happy gaming. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

Here is a quick game performance synopsis for the AAA games played in 2021. In particular we focus on how well the GeForce GTX 970 4GB SLI runs at Ultra graphics settings and what frames per second it is getting at 1080p, 1440p and 4K monitor resolutions. Of the 1000 most demanding recommended specs found in game requirements today, this gpu is more powerful than the graphics requirement of 899 games in todays list.

The 1080p FPS on Ultra for the GeForce GTX 970 4GB SLI shows us that FIFA 22 is predicted to get a strong result of 189 FPS, and then we are seeing Battlefield 6 predicted to return a good 62 FPS while another game on our list is the Dying Light 2 which is predicted to get 48 frames per second at Ultra 1080p.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we researched the upcoming Battlefield 6 to predict how the GeForce GTX 970 4GB SLI would deal with it. Our research revealed a reasonable series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 87 FPS, Medium: 67 FPS, High: 59 FPS and Ultra: 48 FPS. Next we looked at Dying Light 2 which we predict will be playable with a 37 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at FIFA 22 that we predict will get an Ultra 1440p FPS of 144. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the GeForce GTX 970 4GB SLI we get the impression that it is a very good hardware option at these screen sizes. Ultra is easily achieved across almost all games at 1440p and we would suggest an increase of screen size up to 4K for this graphics card.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 4GB SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 4GB SLI in your PC? No graphics card upgrade required for 2 to 3 years of meeting top end game system requirements

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 4GB SLI? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 970 4GB SLI then a good choice would be 20 Series GeForce RTX 2070 Super 8GB as this is better than 987 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 25% better performance as well. Alternatively a good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 970 4GB SLI would be the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5800 XT which meets 984 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 22% better performance.