20 Feb 2021 - 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 2021. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 196 games in the list.

The GeForce GTX 970 EVGA ACX 4GB Edition graphics card is predicted to return a weak performance on Far Cry 6 at 1080p of 12 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is World of Warcraft: Shadowlands which we saw got weak frame rates of 20 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Valheim, which was getting 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 predict the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA ACX 4GB Edition will run the upcoming game Far Cry 6 to a weak performance level. Predictions across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 23 FPS, Medium: 18 FPS, High: 12 FPS and Ultra: 9 FPS. Another game tested was World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, L: 40FPS, M: 32FPS, H: 21FPS, U: 15FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Valheim, which returned L: 102FPS, M: 80FPS, H: 54FPS, U: 39FPS at 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 970 EVGA ACX 4GB Edition is not the best resolution for this GPU, but if you adjust some graphics settings, perhaps lowering to medium or low at 1440p then this graphics card might be ok.

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? Its time to start researching your next graphics card upgrade as the GeForce GTX 970 EVGA ACX 4GB 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 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 802 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 750 games from the most demanding games today.