20 Feb 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition graphics card as a serious price to performance entry point. This card will meet and play most demanding AAA games and do so with good graphics setting as standard, and confidently pushing past the recommended game system requirements needed to run today’s games. This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2021 popular games. This short GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. We look at 1000 of the most demanding games available today and this GPU is better than the recommended graphics requirement of more than 398 games in the list.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition is running Assassins Creed: Valhalla and delivering playable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 32 frames per second. Comparing this to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War which is getting reasonable results, where it averages 54 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Valheim, which is running at 48 frames per second.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Assassins Creed: Valhalla to see how the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition dealt with it. It scored up a playable series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 49 FPS, Medium: 42 FPS, High: 36 FPS and Ultra: 25 FPS. Next we looked at Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War which was playable with a 41 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Valheim that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 36. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 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 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 970 Zotac AMP! Extreme 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 Zotac AMP! Extreme 4GB Edition? If you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 31% better and can run 800 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games. An alternative great upgrade graphics card would be a R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, which has 40% better performance and can run 908 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today.