2 Aug 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA ACX 4GB 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. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA ACX 4GB Edition. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2020. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 371 games in the list.

The GeForce GTX 970 EVGA ACX 4GB Edition graphics card is returning a playable performance on Grounded at 1080p of 44 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Halo Infinite which we predict will get playable frame rates of 27 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Microsoft Flight Simulator, which is predicted to get 51 FPS under tests.

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 ACX 4GB Edition ran Grounded to a playable performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 89 FPS, Medium: 70 FPS, High: 47 FPS and Ultra: 34 FPS. Another game researched was Halo Infinite with predictions of L: 54FPS, M: 43FPS, H: 29FPS, U: 21FPS. And then we researched potential graphics card performance on Microsoft Flight Simulator, wih estimates revealing L: 102FPS, M: 80FPS, H: 54FPS, U: 39FPS at 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 970 EVGA ACX 4GB Edition is a perfectly suitable selection of hardware for theis larger screen size. If a game at 1440p struggles a bit or experiences a frame drop then you can tweak settings in game to help get it stable. This might mean lowering it to medium or low in some specific options.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA ACX 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA ACX 4GB Edition in your PC? This GeForce GTX 970 EVGA ACX 4GB Edition card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA ACX 4GB Edition? A great upgrade graphics card would be a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, which has 40% better performance and can run 853 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the R-500 Series Radeon RX 590 8GB which is 21% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 805 games from the most demanding games today.