10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

A mid to low level graphics card, the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 4GB Edition is found in budget machines nowadays, struggling to meet AAA system requirements.

This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

How well will the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 4GB Edition run 2023 games? We will take a look at the biggest releases and frames per second analysis on Ultra graphics settings. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 445 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

Now onto the frame rates achieved at 1080p. We are seeing Days Gone getting 48 FPS with the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 4GB Edition, FIFA 22 getting 83 FPS and Battlefield 2042 getting 15 frames per second. All run on Ultra at 1920x1080 screen res.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We discovered the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 4GB Edition ran Days Gone to a playable performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 96 FPS, Medium: 75 FPS, High: 51 FPS and Ultra: 36 FPS. Another game tested was FIFA 22, L: 167FPS, M: 132FPS, H: 89FPS, U: 63FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Battlefield 2042, which returned L: 29FPS, M: 23FPS, H: 15FPS, U: 11FPS at 1440p. 1440p gaming on the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 4GB Edition 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 GeForce GTX 970 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 4GB Edition in your PC? 12-18 months of top end gaming is still left in this graphics card

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 4GB Edition? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 4GB Edition.